Tom Waits
Aquarium Playlist, 8/15/23
EPISODE #551: DOG DAYS OF SUMMER VIII The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Bob Dylan & The Band — “Kickin’ My Dog Around” Frankie Cosmos — “If I Had a Dog”The Specials — “Do the Dog”Flatt & Scruggs — ”Old Salty Dog Blues” Eels — “Dog’s Life” Syd Straw — “Howl”Morrissey — “I Am Not a […]
Aquarium Playlist, 7/25/23
EPISODE #548: SOMEWHERE The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Tom Waits — “Somewhere” The Cucumbers — “Gotta Start Somewhere”Jon Brion — “Gotta Start Somewhere”Bo Diddley — ”Somewhere” Laura Cantrell — “Somewhere, Some Night” Steve Earle — “Somewhere Out There”Lydia Loveless — “Somewhere Else”American Music Club — “Somewhere”Tom Petty — “Somewhere Under Heaven” The Goon Sax — […]
Movie Review: Licorice Pizza
4 stars out of 5In the ongoing battle of the Andersons, Wes served first this year with The French Dispatch, but Paul Thomas has returned serve strongly with Licorice Pizza. Interestingly, both films are actually more collections of scenes rather than cohesive plot-driven narratives. And where Wes’s was studied and precise, P.T. throws it all […]
Aquarium Playlist, 7/27/21
EPISODE #445: 2020 SUMMER OLYMPICS (JAPAN) delayed until 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemicLeo Arnaud — “Bugler’s Dream” [ALTERNATE THEME]Tom Waits — “Big in Japan”Green — “Big in Japan”All About Chad — “Japanese Couple in Reverse”Ween — “Japanese Cowboy”Maita — “Japanese Waitress”Elvis Costello & the Attractions — “Tokyo Storm Warning”Graham Parker — “Discovering Japan”The Spinto […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/9/21
EPISODE #425: BREAKFAST The Who — “Happy Jack” [acoustic; ALTERNATE THEME]Orange Juice — “Breakfast Time”Art Brut — “Awkward Breakfast”The Incredible Casuals — “Love Gets Breakfast”Tom Waits — “Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac With Susan Michelson)”The Magnetic Fields — “The Best Cup of Coffee in Tennessee”High Waisted — “Cereal”They Might Be Giants featuring Elma Mayer […]
Aquarium Playlist, 9/22/20
EPISODE #401: AUTUMN 2020The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Manhattan Love Suicides — “Autumn Fades In”Joe Pernice — “Here Comes September”The Clientele — “Lyra in October”Overlake — “Unnamed November”Karyn Kuhl Band — “November Leaves”Tripod Jimmie — “Autumn Leaves”Teenage Fanclub — “Fallen Leaves”Bob Dylan — “Autumn Leaves”Tom Waits — “Last Leaf”Ron Sexsmith — “Autumn Light”Robyn Hitchcock & […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/17/20
EPISODE #374: ST. PATRICK’S DAY DAY 2020 (GREEN)The Who — “Happy Jack” [live, ALTERNATE THEME]Booker T. & the MG’s — “Green Onions”Chris Stamey — “14 Shades of Green”Amy Rigby — “Apple Green”The Reivers — “On Green Dolphin Street”The Garment District — “Soon We See Green”Dolly Mixture — “Grass Is Greener”Colleen Green — “Green My Eyes”The […]
Aquarium Playlist, 10/8/19
EPISODE #351: WANNA The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Soft Boys — “I Wanna Destroy You”The Ramones — “I Wanna Be Sedated”Colleen Green — “I Wanna Be Degraded”Prince — “I Wanna Be Your Lover”Tom Waits — “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up”Best Coast — “I Wanna Know”Papercuts — “Do You Really Wanna Know”The Raspberries — “I […]
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 […]
Jack Silbert, curator