Jack Silbert
Album Review: ‘Now’ by Speed The Plough
4 stars out of 5 Click to purchase on 180-gram vinyl (with download code) A silhouette of a baying coyote in a bathtub. I first saw that compelling logo during my junior year in high school, on the Full Time Men record sleeve. I bought that EP at the Princeton Record Exchange because Peter Buck […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 1/5/16
EPISODE #214: PLANS The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Palomar — “Let’s Talk Plans” The Wedding Present — “Let’s Make Some Plans” Saturday Looks Good to Me — “Make a Plan” XTC — “Making Plans for Nigel” Hüsker Dü — “Plans I Make” Dinosaur Jr. — “Plans” Built to Spill — “The Plan” Mission of […]
My Highly Subjective List of the Best Movies of 2015
Eh, keep yer IMAX 3D Ultra Panavision 70 Dine-While-You-Watch Reserved Seating hoo-ha; I don’t need gimmicks to get excited about the movies. (Plus, I feel like a real jagoff if I spend $23 for a ticket and it’s still crummy.) Here are the films from last year that I thought were the best. Of the […]
New Year’s Resolutions 2016
1. Get one step closer to the Almighty. 2. Get one degree closer to Kevin Bacon. 3. Remove plastic before eating processed cheese slices. 4K resolution. 5. Cut down on my cocaine use when I go to whorehouses with Lamar Odom. 6. Convince Europeans that 9/11 didn’t happen in November. 7. Demand that networks stop […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 12/29/15
EPISODE #213: LIVE HIGHLIGHTS 2015 The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Motörhead — “Ace of Spades” [R.I.P. Lemmy] The Flamin’ Groovies — “You Tore Me Down” Spain — “You and I” Nicole Atkins — “You Were the Devil” The Mekons — “The Olde Trip to Jerusalem” Louise Distras — “Shades of Hate” Colleen Green — […]
Movie Review: The Hateful Eight (Special Roadshow Engagement)
3.5 stars out of 5 If you’re going to shoot in Ultra Panavision 70 — the first movie in nearly 50 years to do so — maybe, just maybe, don’t set the great majority of the 3 hour, 7 minute film in ONE ROOM? But hey, I’m not the filmmaker here. Quentin Tarantino is. And […]
Movie Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
4 stars out of 5 I was 8 years old when the original Star Wars came out and like everybody else I knew, I was all in. Poster on my bedroom wall, action figures, comic books. I loved trying to draw R2-D2. My dad took me into San Francisco one day to meet Darth Vader, […]
Movie Review: Carol
3.5 stars out of 5 You ever read about something being the “best movie of the year” so you go and see it, and then you think, ‘well that was good but by no means the best movie of the year’? That’s me and Carol. I must admit to not being that up on the […]
Movie Review: Creed
3.5 stars out of 5 So, there’s this new installment in a long-running movie series, started in the ’70s, good vs. evil, iconic music. But people are especially psyched for this one because it consciously connects back to the “classic era.” Of course, I am referring to Creed, the latest chapter in the Rocky saga. […]
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