Jack Silbert
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 […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/25/19
EPISODE #336: CASEY KASEM TRIBUTE 2019 “The New Scooby-Doo Movies” [ALTERNATE THEME]Joan Jett & the Blackhearts — “I Love Rock n’ Roll” [Billboard No. 1, 3/20/82 – 5/1/82]Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney — “Ebony and Ivory” [No. 1, 5/15/82 – 6/26/82]The Human League — “Don’t You Want Me” [No. 1, 7/3/82 – 7/17/82]John Cougar Mellencamp — […]
Movie Review: The Dead Don’t Die
4.5 stars out of 5 Yes, I respond very positively to movies that are well-made and entertaining. But when a film also appeals to your own bizarro subset of sensibilities, that’s a rare and special thing, and that’s what The Dead Don’t Die is to me. Either independent movies used to be quirkier or I […]
Album Review: ‘Omnidirectional’ by the Schramms
I’ve been a fan of the Schramms since moving to Hoboken back in 1994. I’m thrilled that they’ve released their first studio album in nearly 20 years, and was quite honored to write a review for hMAG.
Jack Silbert, curator