April 5th
Sterling K. Brown, Kurt Cobain, Allen Ginsberg, Charlton Heston, Miho Hatori, Howard Hughes, Layne Staley
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BORN (ENTER): Andrea Arnold, Josh Boone, Sterling K. Brown, Peter Case, Daniel Caesar, Allan Clarke, Paula Cole, Roger Corman, Bette Davis, Harry Elfont, Agnetha Faltskog, Elena Ferrante, Greg Fitzsimmons, Peter Greenaway, Arthur Hailey, Miho Hatori, Anthony Horowitz, Lily James, Mike McCready, Marissa Nadler, Gregory Peck, R.E.M., Stan Ridgway, T.V. Smith, Tom Tomorrow, Spencer Tracy, Stanley Turrentine, Pharrell Williams
DEAD (EXIT): Dave Allen, Saul Bellow, Honor Blackman, Earl Derr Biggers, Honor Blackman, Bill Butler, Kurt Cobain, Cynthia Dall, Monika Dannemann, Georges Danton, Peter Llewelyn Davis, Allen Ginsberg, Wayne Henderson, Charlton Heston, Bob Hite, Howard Hughes, Jim Marshall, Peter Matthiessen, Dale Messick, John Pinette, Gene Pitney, Cozy Powell, Marlon Riggs, Bobby Rydell, Layne Staley, Isao Takahata, Cecil Taylor, Sam Walton, Karel Zeman
DEEP THOUGHTS: I don’t do up. Sit-ups. Push-ups. Pull-ups. I do downs. Sit down. Lay down. Blackjack, I’ll double down. Give me a cheeseburger, I’ll wolf it down. Put on a little music, I’ll boogie down.
EAT ME: Caramel, Deep Dish Pizza, Raisin and Spice Bars - Easter (2026)
FOODIE: The Original Deep Dish: Make Chicago’s Most Famous Pizza At Home
HOLIDAY: International Day of Conscience - Easter (2026), NCAA Women’s National Championship (2026), Qingming Festival (2026)
HOROSCOPE: Remember: Sometimes in life you just have to roll the dice, move your wheelbarrow to St. James Place, and pay the $70 dollars in total rent.
HOW-TO: Get a Conscience
JOKE: Republicans have a very clean conscience. Because they never use it! - Trump walks into a bar and Is surprised to see the bartender is a genie. The genie says “what’ll you have?” Trump says “give me something I’ll regret in the morning” The genie gives him a conscience, empathy, and humility.
PLAYLIST: Bikini Kill: Reject All American (4/5/1996), The Black Keys: Ohio Players (4/5/2024), David Bowie: Black Tie White Noise (4/5/1993), Tracy Chapman: Tracy Chapman (4/5/1988), Crash Test Dummies: The Ghosts That Haunt Me (4/5/1991), Milla Jovovich: The Divine Comedy (4/5/1994), Khruangbin: A la Sala (4/5/2024), Priests: The Seduction of Kansas (4/5/2019), Sade: Stronger Than Pride (4/5/1988), Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us (4/5/2024) - ABBA: Arrival (1976), Butter 08: Butter (1998), Peter Case: Peter Case (1986), Cibo Matto: Viva! La Woman! (1996), Nirvana: Nevermind (1991), Pearl Jam: No Code (1996), The Plimsouls: The Plimsouls (1981), R.E.M.: Life’s Rich Pageant (1986), Stan Ridgway: The Big Heat (1986)
Happy Birthday R.E.M. (4/5/1980-2011) (Exit/Enter’s Best to Worst): Murmur, Life’s Rich Pageant, Document, Fable of the Reconstruction, Reckoning, Automatic for the People, New Adventures in Hi-fI, Monster, Out of Time, Chronic Town, Green, Accelerate, Collapse into Now, Reveal, Up, Around the Sun
Check out The Big Beat Playlist: April Edition - Alice in Chains, Nirvana, R.E.M. - Twenty26
PODCAST: The Daily, Today Explained
READ: Allen Ginsberg: Howl and Other Poems (1956), Stephen King: Carrie (4/5/1974), Tom Tomorrow: Hell in a Handbasket (2006) - Adbusters, Clown Crack
RELIGULOUS: White House deletes video footage from Easter event where Trump was compared to Jesus - Trump admits he’s easily ‘seduced’ by bad people
SCIENCE!: Today’s Moon Phase
SHAMELESS PLUG: The ExitEnter Store
SHITASS: Katherine Harris, Charlton Heston
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: 10 Things That Are No Longer Worth Your Money
SPORT: Tonight - South Carolina vs. UCLA - Tomorrow - Michigan State vs. UCONN
STREAM: The Aviator, Carrie, Danton, Defending Your Life (4/5/1991), Finding Neverland, Howl, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, Melvin and Howard, Piece by Piece, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price - American Honey (Netflix), Ethnic Notions (Kanopy), Life of Brian (Kanopy/Peacock), Only Yesterday (HBO Max), The Pillow Book (Hoopla)
TOP 5: Zombie Movies - 1. Night of the Living Dead/Dawn of the Dead/Day of the Dead, 2. 28 Days/Years/Weeks Later, 3. Shaun of the Dead, 4. Train to Busan, 5. One Cut of the Dead
TRAVEL: 36 Hours in Sedona, Arizona
UNFUCK THE WORLD: Thom Hartmann: The Weekend Report, Robert Reich: Sunday Thought, Timothy Snyder: The Next Coup Attempt
WELLNESS: Yoga and the Brain: What Neuroscience Is Starting to Discover
WIRECUTTER: How to Clean a Yoga Mat
WORD: Verdant
WTF?!: The Week in Stupid
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: Yesterday Once More
2026 - Happy Easter. It’s also International Day of Conscience. This must be a pretty heavy day for republicans. 2025 - Over 5 million people marched to protest Trump across the United States. 2010 – Twenty-nine coal miners were killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia. Six years later - Don Blankenship, the murderous coal baron, got one year in jail, or about twelve-and-a-half days for each of the 29 miners his greed and neglect killed and then he had the balls to run for that state’s politics - he is a massive piece of shit. 2008 - NRA terrorist and actor Charlton Heston died at age 84. Finally things could be taken from his cold dead hands. 1994 - Kurt Cobain killed himself at the age of 27. He was found three days later. 1992 – Peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić were killed on the Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo, becoming the first casualties of the Bosnian War. 1982 - At the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee Andy Kaufman finally wrestles Jerry Lawler and Lawler pile-drives Andy into the hospital, seriously injuring his cervical vertebrae. 1980 - In Athens, Georgia, R.E.M. played their first show when they appeared at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church. 1976 - Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes died at age 72. 1969 - Tricia married Ted. 1951 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for conspiring to commit espionage for the Soviet Union. 1944 - Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp wearing an SS uniform provided by SS-Rottenführer Viktor Pestek. Because of his Catholic faith and infatuation with Renée Neumann, a Jewish prisoner, Pestek opposed the Holocaust. He accompanied Lederer out of the camp, and the two men traveled together to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to obtain false documents for Neumann and her mother. 1792 – President George Washington exercised his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
“Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!” Allen Ginsberg
