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Aquarium Playlist, 6/6/23
EPISODE #541: DRAG SHOW The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Tommy James & the Shondells — “Draggin’ the Line” The Magnetic Fields — “Andrew in Drag”Princess Reason — “Drag + Blur”Sid King & the Five Strings — ”Sag, Drag, and Fall” Space Daze — “Drag” Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift — “Love Is a Drag”The Cars […]
Movie Review: You Hurt My Feelings
3.5 stars out of 5I’m feeling a bit self-conscious. This whole movie is about hurt feelings; what if writer/director Nicole Holofcener (“Who I’ve had drinks with,” said in my best Jon Lovitz voice) googles this review and finds out I didn’t think it was perfect, and then feels all sad? Alas, like Lee Nails, I […]
Aquarium Playlist, 5/30/23
EPISODE #540: -OUT SUFFIX The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Los Straitjackets — “Blowout!” Yo La Tengo — “Fallout”Air Waves — “Knockout”Nick Lowe — ”Checkout Time” Me in Capris — “Cookout Time” The New Pornographers — “Whiteout Conditions”Jackie Wilson — “Baby Workout”Cheap Trick — “Lookout”Kid Gulliver — “Beauty School Dropout” Freezing Hands — ”Good Morning Takeout” […]
Movie Review: It Ain’t Over
3 stars out of 5I didn’t want to see it. But I had 8 hours to kill between checking out of the Berkeley Hotel and doors opening at the House of Independents for the rock and roll hootenanny. Eating only lasts so long. But movies, movies are good. You go in at one time, and […]
Movie Review: Evil Dead Rise
4 stars out of 5I came late to the Evil Dead series. I was 14 when the original film was released, and my slightly twisted buddy Rob Mosley was obsessed with it. And yet a few decades passed before I finally gave it a chance (dear reader, I must admit I didn’t even “get” the […]
Aquarium Playlist, 5/23/23
EPISODE #539: PRIVACY The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The B-52’s — “Private Idaho” Delta 5 — “Mind Your Own Business”Warren Zevon — “Splendid Isolation”Helen McCookerybook — ”Big Brother” Skateboard Kyle — “Private Browsing” Rockwell — “Somebody’s Watching Me”Michael Jackson — “Leave Me Alone”Neil Finn — “Recluse”Oingo Boingo — “Private Life” New York Dolls — ”Private […]
Aquarium Playlist, 5/16/23
EPISODE #538: WEIRD The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Male Bonding — “Weird Feelings” The National feat. Bon Iver — “Weird Goodbyes”Pete Yorn — “She Was Weird”Ex Cops — ”Weird With You” Radiator Hospital — “Weird Little Idea” The Special Pillow — “Sleeping Weird”Grass Jaw — “Weird Hell”Oingo Boingo — “Weird Science”Art Brut — “Weird Science” […]
Movie Review: Beau Is Afraid
4 stars out of 5I described Ari Aster’s 2018 film Hereditary as “seriously f’ed.” And in 2019, I said his film Midsommar was “100% f’ed up.” But not until writing this review did I realize that those two movies and new release Beau Is Afraid (pretty messed up in its own right) were written and […]
Aquarium Playlist, 5/9/23
EPISODE #537: LINES The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Pailhead — “Don’t Stand in Line” Kiwi Jr. — “Waiting in Line”The Bangles — “I’m in Line”They Might Be Giants — ”I Can Help the Next in Line” The Kinks — “Who’ll Be the Next in Line” Dew Claw — “The Line”Cait Brennan — “Lines”Architrave — “Yellow […]
Movie Review: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
3.5 stars out of 5Full disclosure, I never read this book, nor have I ever been an 11-year-old girl. I think I read Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing, does that count? At any rate, in hopes of gaining slightly better understanding of all the former 11-year-old girls in my life — and to support […]
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