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Aquarium Playlist, 12/20/22
EPISODE #517: HOLIDAY SPECIAL 2022 Darlene Love — “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home” [ALTERNATE THEME]The Minus 5 — “Festival of Lights (Hanukkah Song)”Colleen Green — “Christmas Is for Everyone”Mighty Sparrow — “Postcard to Sparrow”The Everly Brothers — “Put My Little Shoes Away” Charles Brown — “Please Come Home for Christmas” gobbinjr — “Xmas Without You […]
Aquarium Playlist, 12/13/22
EPISODE #516: BEST NEW-TO-ME 2022 PT. 1 The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Oceanator — “Heartbeat”Last Minet — “Don’t Hold Back”Jug & the Bugs — “Car Starts To Shake”Shinner — “Cowabunga Peppermill” Sleepers Union — “Come On” Chatham Rabbits — “Come Home”Beams — “A Flower Blossomed”Myriam Gendron — “La Jeune Fille en Pleurs”Pussy Gillette — “Cabron” […]
What I’ve Been Watching: Edition XXIII
Not nearly as many new shows on the list this edition. Is it possible that I watched less TV?!? Perish the thought! Still, I’m not quite sure of the reason. Was I busier watching additional seasons of previous favorites? Or tuning in to more movies, specials, and one-off documentaries? Or just fewer compelling new series? […]
Aquarium Playlist, 12/6/22
EPISODE #515: 11TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL (RADIO X) The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Velvet Underground — “Rock & Roll”Laura Cantrell — “Radio for Heartache”Caroline No — “Anna’s on the Radio”Matt Rendon of the Resonars — Radio Free Bakersfield adSqualls — “Elephant Radio” (live)Hall & Oates — “Portable Radio”Screaming Females — “On My Radio”Spoon — “On the […]
Aquarium Playlist, 11/29/22
EPISODE #514: TROUBLE The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Frankie Rose — “Trouble”Elliott Smith — “Trouble”Bruce Springsteen — “Trouble River”Tallies — “Trouble” Duke Hunter — “Nose Trouble”The Buff Medways — “Troubled Mind”Aretha Franklin — “Trouble in Mind”Lindsey Buckingham — “Trouble”R.E.M. — “Tired of Singing Trouble” Loretta Lynn — ”Trouble in Paradise”The Bats — “Trouble in This […]
Movie Review: The Fabelmans
5 stars out of 5At some point in the near future I’ll likely dig into what’s real/what’s made up in this movie, but at the moment I honestly don’t care because I’ve just seen a basically perfect film and I want everybody to know! Based loosely on his own life, Steven Spielberg puts his all […]
Movie Review: The Menu
3 stars out of 5I’m loyal. I watch a lot of Seth Meyers, and one of his writers co-wrote The Menu. So I dutifully watched the trailer, which seemed darkly funny. Plus Anya Taylor-Joy-’sGot-Nuts-Mounds-Don’t was in it, and I’m a fan (despite not being impressed with Anya in her pre-Gambit gambit Thoroughbreds). All good enough […]
Aquarium Playlist, 11/22/22
EPISODE #513: THANKSGIVING 2022 (FRIENDS II) Ray Davies — “Thanksgiving Day” [ALTERNATE THEME]Jennifer O’Connor — “Another Day (My Friend)”Boyracer — “Friend”Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers — “The Friendship Song”Pete Townshend — “A Friend Is a Friend” Eels — “You’re My Friend”Amy Allison — “No-Frills Friend”Louis Jordan & his Tympani Five — “Friendship”gobbinjr — […]
Movie Review: The Banshees of Inisherin
4.5 stars out of 5Despite enjoying their previous work together In Bruges, I didn’t rush out to see this film. From the trailer, it seemed a little “diddlydee” as my Irish friend Patrick says. And with two old pals — Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson — comedically feuding, the whole thing looked like it might […]
Movie Review: Decision to Leave
4 stars out of 5In the mid-aughts, I really meant to see Oldboy. Then in 2013, I missed Spike Lee’s remake of Oldboy. So, Decision to Leave is my first experience with the work of Korean writer/director Park Chan-wook. It took a while into this film but, I’m impressed. The first big chunk of the […]
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