By Jack Silbert on October 17, 2018
This Friday, the movie we’ve all been waiting 3.5 years for, Can You Ever Forgive Me? based on the memoir by Lee Israel, will finally be released. Lee herself had been waiting even longer, and died before the contractual t’s were dotted and eyes were crossed as it were. But back in the 2012, she […]
Posted in Lee Israel, personal history | Tagged Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Mitt Romney, New York Public Library, New York Yankees, U.S. Postal Service
By Jack Silbert on November 6, 2012
EPISODE #49: ELECTION DAY The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Arcadia — “Election Day” Gorillaz — “November Has Come” The National — “Mr. November” Palomar — “Hooray for Tuesday” The Chris Stamey Experience — “V.O.T.E. PSA” The Human Hearts — “Never Tell Your Lover (How You Voted)” The Ventures — “Hawaii Five-0” Sufjan Stevens — […]
Posted in internet radio playlists | Tagged Arcadia, Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen, Chris Stamey, Duran Duran, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Black, Franklin Bruno, Jay-Z, Mansion Music, Mitt Romney, Palomar, politicians, President Obama, Sufjan Stevens, The Gazetteers, The Human Hearts, The Lucksmiths, The National, The Ventures, unpopular music
By Jack Silbert on September 1, 2012
I didn’t watch the Republican National Convention on Thursday. I didn’t watch it on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday either. I’m a registered Democrat and a card-carrying liberal and though I like to think of myself as very open-minded, I’m fairly set in my ways politically speaking. But as I got home from a concert Thursday […]
Posted in opinion | Tagged Barack Obama, chair, Clint Eastwood, Democratic Party, Mitt Romney, Republican National Convention, Republican Party
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