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Aquarium Playlist, 3/22/22
EPISODE #479: SPRING 2022 The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]k.d. Lang — “I Dream of Spring”Adult Mom — “First Day of Spring”Spit-Take — “Boulder of Spring”Frank Sinatra — “Spring Is Here”La Luz — “Sure as Spring” Magnetic Fields — “Love Comes Home to Paris in the Spring”Bill Callahan — “Spring”Willie Nile — “Rite of Spring”The […]
Movie Review: 2022 Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films
Robin Robin (United Kingdom)3 stars out of 5This is the mainstream nominee, from Aardman Studios (Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run) with voices by Gillian Anderson and Richard E. Grant. And though it’s cute — a bird growing up in a mouse family! Oh and it’s Christmastime! — this is real kid-oriented and nothing particularly special. […]
Movie Review: 2022 Oscar Nominated Documentary Short Films
Audible (USA)4.5 stars out of 5 No, this isn’t a documentary about the audio book company. If you’re a fan of Friday Night Lights, fire up your Netflix and watch this 38-minute doc. (The similarities are no coincidence: Lights’ Peter Berg is a producer here.) Audible focuses on the high school football team at the […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/15/22
EPISODE #478: ST. PATRICK’S DAY EPISODE 2022 (SNAKES) The Pogues — “Streams of Whiskey” [ALTERNATE THEME] in memory of Al LandesM. Ward — “He Asked Me To Be a Snake & Live Underground”Brother JT — “Snakebit”Half Japanese — “Snakeline”Duran Duran — “Union of the Snake”Lithics — “Snake Tattoo”Bush Tetras — “Snakes Crawl”John Lee Hooker — […]
Movie Review: 2022 Oscar Nominated Live-Action Short Films
On My Mind (Denmark) 3.5 stars out of 5 Man walks into a bar. But it’s not the set-up for a joke, it’s an Oscar-nominated short. He downs a stiff drink and, on his way out, notices the karaoke stage. Can he please sing a song? Gruff owner is dismissive — it’s morning, he’s working […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/8/22
EPISODE #477: WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH 2022 Palmyra Delran & the Doppel Gang (w/ Kim Shattuck) — “Walk Away” [ALTERNATE THEME]Stephanie Seymour — “There Was a Time”Kait Eldridge — “Father Callahan”Rosanne Cash — “The Wheel”Smile Machine — “Pretty Today”Hank Thompson & his Brazos Valley Boys — “The Wild Side of Life”Kitty Wells — “It Wasn’t God […]
Movie Review: The Worst Person in the World
4 stars out of 5As I already boldly announced that Drive My Car was the best film of 2021, I guess I have to also vote for it as the best International Feature at the Oscars. But Norway’s entry, The Worst Person in the World, is really good too. I was quickly charmed by Renate […]
Aquarium Playlist, 2/22/22
EPISODE #475: SATELLITES The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The High Water Marks — “Satellite”Spoon — “Satellite”Elvis Costello — “Satellite”Elliott Smith — “Satellite”Phoebe Bridgers — “Chinese Satellite”The Replacements — “Satellite”Orange Juice — “Satellite City” The Hooters — “Satellite” Wilco — “You Satellite” The Bats — “Satellites” Yo La Tengo — “Satellite” Velvet Underground — “Satellite of […]
Movie Review: Jackass Forever
3.5 stars out of 5 It’s not that I was opposed to Jackass; I just never tuned in. I certainly noticed the show’s influence on my young friend [TRIGGER WARNING: obscure name-dropping], then-aspiring filmmaker Van Neistat. I dug the Minutemen song they used as theme music. Names seeped into my awareness: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Wee […]
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