Jack Silbert
Aquarium Playlist, 4/27/21
EPISODE #432: WASTEThe Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Jon Langford’s Four Lost Souls — “Waste”The Lodger — “Wasting My Time With You”Marshall Crenshaw — “You’re My Favorite Waste of Time”Freedy Johnston — “Waste Your Time”Jarvis Cocker — “Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time”Best Coast — “Wasted Time”The Libertines — “What a Waster”Black Flag — “Wasted”Dum Dum […]
Aquarium Playlist, 4/20/21
EPISODE #431: DRUGSPeter Tosh — “Legalize It” [ALTERNATE THEME]Wavves — “Weed Demon”Temples — “You’re Either on Something”The Clean — “Are You Really on Drugs”A Giant Dog — “Get With You and Get High”Karl Hendricks Trio — “Naked and High on Drugs”The Magnetic Fields — “Take Ecstasy With Me”East River Pipe — “When You Were Doing […]
Movie Review: Godzilla vs. Kong
3.5 stars out of 5Of the pandemic-era theatrical releases I’ve attended, Godzilla vs. Kong is the first one that really needs to be seen on a big screen. Too bad, then, that it’s not a better movie. Which is not to say it’s awful. The vaguely intertwined Godzilla and Kong films from 2014 on have […]
Aquarium Playlist, 4/13/21
EPISODE #430: RAINBOWSThe Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Kermit the Frog — “Rainbow Connection”The Rolling Stones — “She’s a Rainbow”James Lindsey featuring Cicily Bullard — “Rainbows”Ernest Tubb — “Rainbow at Midnight”World Party — “When the Rainbow Comes”Calvin Johnson — “Bubbles, Clouds, and Rainbows”Luna — “Rainbow Babe”Built to Spill — “Bloody Rainbow”Talulah Gosh — “Looking for a […]
Aquarium Playlist, 4/6/21
EPISODE #429: #STOPASIANHATEThe Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Blue Hearts (Japan) — “Linda Linda”Say Sue Me (South Korea) — “Old Town”Versus (Filipino-American Richard X. Baluyut) — “Eskimo”Dirty Beaches (Taiwanese-Canadian Alex Zhang Hungtai) — “True Blue”Thao (Vietnamese American) — “Beat (Health, Life, and Fire)”Hiperson (China) — “Strawberries”Bitch Magnet (South Korean-American Sooyoung Park) — “Joyless Street”Drinking Boys […]
Movie Review: Nobody
3 stars out of 5I’m trying to support the open movie theaters. The only problem is, there are no damn movies! So a while back, when I read that Godzilla vs. Kong would be released on March 26, I thought to myself, “There’s something I’d enjoy doing on my second pandemic birthday weekend.” Except it […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/30/21
EPISODE #428: GUESS The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Temples — “The Guesser”Dany Laj & the Looks — “Don’t Keep Me Guessin’” [radio mix]R.E.M. — “Second Guessing”Martha Reeves & the Vandellas — “Love, Guess Who”Superchunk — “I Guess I Remembered It Wrong”Johnny Cash — “I Guess Things Happen That Way”Glen Campbell — “Guess I’m Dumb”Steve Goodman […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/23/21
EPISODE #427: 52 The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]John Doe — “Take #52”Radiohead — “House of Cards”Robert Plant — “House of Cards”Patsy Cline — “Turn the Cards Slowly”The Clash — “The Card Cheat”Elvis Presley — “From a Jack to a King”Ben Carruthers & the Deep — “Jack o’ Diamonds”The Daily Flash — “Jack of Diamonds”Bob […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/16/21
EPISODE #426: ST. PATRICK’S DAY 2021 another salute to Joe Hurley’s All-Star Irish Rock Revue Jackie Wilson — “Danny Boy” [ALTERNATE THEME]Aideen O’Brien and the Five Fifths — “She Moved Through the Fair”Thin Lizzy — “The Boys Are Back in Town”The Undertones — “My Perfect Cousin”Van Morrison — “Domino”Sinéad O’Connor — “Black Boys on Moped”The […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/9/21
EPISODE #425: BREAKFAST The Who — “Happy Jack” [acoustic; ALTERNATE THEME]Orange Juice — “Breakfast Time”Art Brut — “Awkward Breakfast”The Incredible Casuals — “Love Gets Breakfast”Tom Waits — “Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac With Susan Michelson)”The Magnetic Fields — “The Best Cup of Coffee in Tennessee”High Waisted — “Cereal”They Might Be Giants featuring Elma Mayer […]
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