Jack Silbert
Movie Review: Marianne & Leonard — Words of Love
4 stars out of 5 I’ll never hear the song “So Long, Marianne” quite the same way again. What a sweet and sad love story this documentary is! I’ve been a Leonard Cohen fan since my mid-20s — “Bird on a Wire” was the first that really got me — but I never knew too […]
Movie Review: Midsommar
4 stars out of 5 This might sound a little weird, but Midsommar made me miss Woody Allen. I was the only one in an Asbury Park theater watching this thoroughly f’ed up story unfold against a gorgeous sunny Swedish backdrop. And I flashed back to Woody’s summer releases. Every year there seemed to be […]
Aquarium Playlist, 7/16/19
EPISODE #339: MOON LANDING 50TH ANNIVERSARY (MOON III) The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Allo Darlin’ — “Neil Armstrong”The Stray Cats — “Blast Off”Frank Sinatra — “Fly Me to the Moon”Sheryl Crow — “Straight to the Moon”R.E.M. — “Man on the Moon”Sugar — “Man on the Moon”Grinderman — “Man in the Moon”Beulah — “If We Can […]
No Feet? No Parking
Remarkably, it took me a full year to get a reserved disabled parking space in Hoboken. Have I mentioned that I don’t have feet? I wrote the whole ugly story for hMAG.
Movie Review: Spider-Man — Far From Home
3.5 stars out of 5 The final 45 minutes of this movie is pretty terrific superhero stuff. Go get ‘im, Spidey! Unfortunately, there are about 90 minutes prior to this that are Far From Great. We begin by seeing a high-school Powerpoint presentation, and it’s teens doing it, so they use Comic Sans. No they […]
Adventures in Cured Meat
I had received a box of meat in the mail. The note within indicated it was from my prodigal roommate Joe in North Carolina, and the gesture was not out of character for either of us. It was an assortment of vacuum-packed cured country ham in different shapes and sizes, from different providers. Joe wrote […]
Aquarium Playlist, 7/9/19
EPISODE #338: SUBWAYS AND TRAINS dedicated to my friend Leo The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Ella Fitzgerald — “Take the A Train”New York Dolls — “Subway Train”adult mom — “J Station”Tom Waits — “Downtown Train”the marshmallows — “Hoboken”The Jam — “Down in the Tube Station at Midnight”The Bats — “In the Subway”Art Brut — “The […]
Aquarium Playlist, 7/2/19
EPISODE #337: 4TH OF JULY 2019 The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band — “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)” [live]Vic Chesnutt — “Independence Day”Elliott Smith — “Independence Day”Neil Finn — “Independence Day”Beach Boys — “Spirit of America”The I Don’t Cares — “King of America”Elvis Costello — “Brilliant Mistake”The Chills […]
Movie Review: The Last Black Man in San Francisco
4 stars out of 5 We hope for a different kind of movie but usually get same-y ones, yet every now and again something fresh comes along. The Last Black Man in San Francisco is such a film and it made me smile. Not that they reinvented the form or anything; I was frequently reminded […]
What I’ve Been Watching: Edition XVII
I may need to rethink my classic DVR strategy. Famously, I’ve burned through shows that I don’t really like first, saving the good ones for “dessert.” But there are simply too many shows, arrgh!!, and I have ended up stockpiling entire seasons of shows I want to watch, and yet am totally caught up on […]
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