Extras Menu
Escape to New York -
A gallery of photos from an October 2005 trip to New York.
"Soda
and Pie" - A classic line from the Beastie Boys' "Fight for Your Right (to Party)" video inspired the title of the Fistful of Soundtracks station's hour-long '80s lunchtime block, which focuses on movie and TV themes from the decade of decadence. Also on the "Soda and Pie" page, check out "Cool Things Ignored by Those Never-Ending VH1 Shows About the '80s" and "The Super Bowl Shuffle" translated into Portuguese and then back into English.
You So Fine I Wanna Smack Myself: Jimmy Aquino's Hot 13 - In December 2006, my colleagues at the North Bay Bohemian asked readers to pick 13 of their favorite sexy songs and burn them onto a mix CD for a contest called "the Hot 13 Challenge." Bohemian editor Gretchen Giles invited me to submit my Hot 13, which I've listed on my site.
A Fistful of Soundtracks
Episode Transcripts - Some Fistful
eps have been transcribed for your reading pleasure:
"Superman:
The Movie." The March 18, 2000 edition of Fistful spotlighted Rhino
Records' expanded reissue of John Williams' Superman: The Movie
soundtrack and featured an interview with the reissue's producer, film
restoration expert Michael Matessino (the Star Wars Trilogy Special
Edition soundtracks, Star Trek: The Motion Picture—The Director's Edition).
"A
Tribute to New York."
The November 11, 2001 edition of Fistful featured music from films
and TV shows set in New York City.
"Brilliant Mistake." Featured on this episode from
the week of September 8-14, 2003 were selections from great scores to
movies that must have been exciting to work on—and the end result
is far from a disaster—but the public didn't give two sh**s about
these movies when they were released. It wasn't until after their release
that these box-office disappointments became better appreciated (The
Right Stuff, Out of Sight, Election). The ep was named
after Elvis Costello's 1986 song "Brilliant Mistake." (Production code:
WEB23)
Live365
Rater Hating - The ratings
Live365 users have been stamping on some songs from the "Assorted Fistful"
playlist are ridiculous! Take a look.
Jim
Aquino's Favorites of 2000 - If
you asked me what the best film of 2000 was, I'd tell you, "Freaks
and Geeks."
Jim
Aquino's Favorites of 2001 - Buffy
comes back but it turns out she's in hell/Chris Walken dances while waiting
in a hotel/Mulholland Drive's love scenes made me say schwing/These
are a few of my favorite things...
Film
Reviews - Reviews I wrote for
the Metro. Some of my opinions have changed since I wrote the reviews:
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Jim.Aquino.com's
Mock Movie Posters - Posters
for movies that would never see the light of day. A discontinued section
of the site.
Intro
- Thoughts of the month, listener
mail and Fistful episode previews. Another discontinued section
of the site.
"One
on One with Jimmy Aquino" - I
interviewed myself for a bizarre UC Santa Cruz Oral History class assignment.
© 2008 Jimmy Aquino
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About a Pinoy
5 FAVORITE TV
PROGRAMS
1. The Wire
2. 30 Rock
3. Flight of the Conchords
4. The Soup
5. The Shield
I WISH THE FOLLOWING WERE AVAILABLE ON DVD
1. Vengeance Unlimited (one of several great but doomed shows created by John McNamara)
2. Eyes (damn, can't John McNamara ever catch a break?)
3. Ralph Bakshi's Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures
4. Cupid (starred Jeremy Piven and was created by Veronica Mars
showrunner Rob
Thomas)
5. Thieves (starred John Stamos and Melissa George)
6. USA's Touching Evil (the complete series—only one episode has been released on DVD)
7. Black Tie Affair
8. Andy Richter Controls the Universe
9. Ed (the TV series about the bowling alley-owning lawyer, not the lame Matt LeBlanc movie about the baseball-playing monkey)
10. Karen Sisco
5 FAVORITE ONE-HIT
WONDER SONGS
1. Dexy's Midnight Runners,
"Come on Eileen"
2. Magazine 60, "Don Quichotte"
3. The Creation, "Making Time"
4. El Chicano, "Viva Tirado (Part 1)"
5. U.T.F.O., "Roxanne, Roxanne"
FAVORITE COMIC
BOOKS
Brian K. Vaughan can do no wrong. Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina and even Runaways, a superhero team title I thought I'd hate because I'm not much of a fan of superhero comics, have been my favorite books.
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