April 7th
Jackie Chan, Francis Ford Coppola, Russell Crowe, Billie Holiday, Janis Ian, John Oates, John Prine
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BORN (ENTER): Michael Almereyda, Bobby Bare, Bill Bellamy, Lino Brocka, Jerry Brown, Jackie Chan, Francis Ford Coppola, Russell Crowe, Randy Diderrich, Tony Dorsett, Carol Douglas, Karin Dreijer, Daniel Ellsberg, James Garner, Julia Hart, Billie Holiday, Freddie Hubbard, Janis Ian, Ted Kotocheff, Pete La Roca, Jennifer Lynch, Anne-Marie Rose Nicholson, John Oates, Alan J. Pakula, Paul Raci, MacKenzie Scott, Ravi Shankar, Shinichirou Ueda, Eric Wareheim, Ricky Watters, Howard Ziehm
DEAD (EXIT): Victor Argo, Dave Arneson, Phineas Taylor Barnum, Anne Beatts, Les Blank, Seymour Cassel, George Dureau, El Greco, Chester Erskine, Henry Ford, Stan Freberg, Peaches Geldof, David Graf, David Greene, Heinz, Clarence “Frogman” Henry, Walter Huston, Andy Johns, Kit Lambert, Geoffrey Lewis, Dick Lundy, Barry Nelson, George Nissen, John Prine, Mickey Rose, Herb Stenpel, Beatrice Straight, Norman Taurog, Jim Thompson, Mike Wallace, Hal Willner, Jack Wrangler - Dave Allen (4/5/2025), Al Barlie (4/6/2025)
DEEP THOUGHTS: I think this would be a good time for a beer.
EAT ME: National Beer Day, Coffee Cake - Coppola Wine
GAMER: Dungeons and Dragons, Trampolines
HOLIDAY: National Beer Day, World Health Day - NCAA Championship Game (2025)
HOROSCOPE: Avoid making any important decisions this week. And, come to think of it, next week as well. In fact, assume this is always the case unless the stars tell you otherwise.
HOW-TO: Brew Beer
JOKE: Why did the farmer start a punk band? He was tired of haulin’ oats.
PLAYLIST (ALBUMS OF THE DAY): Carol Douglas: The Carol Douglas Album (1975), Hall and Oates: Darryl Hall and John Oates (1975), Billie Holiday: Music for Torching (1955), Janis Ian: Between the Lines (1975), John Prine: Common Sense (1975), Sunday Runners: Sunday Runners (2005)
The Band: The Last Waltz (4/7/1978), Band of Skulls: Baby Darling Doll Face Honey (4/7/2009), The Chemical Brothers: Dig Your Own Hole (4/7/1997), Leonard Cohen: Songs from a Room (4/7/1969), Father John Misty: Pure Comedy (4/7/2017), Joe Jackson: Look Sharp! (4/7/1979), Rick James: Street Songs (4/7/1981), The New Pornographers: Whiteout Conditions (4/7/2017), Prince: For You (4/7/1978), Nina Simone “Why? (The King of Love is Dead)” (4/7/1968), Wednesday: Rat Saw God (4/7/2023)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Hall and Oates, Billie Holiday, John Prine
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX station on Apple Music
READ: Jim Thompson: After Dark, My Sweet (1955) - The Atlantic, The Bulwark: The American Age is Over
SHITASS: Jace Alexander, P.T. Barnum, Henry Ford
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Dow futures fall 700 points, S&P 500 eyes bear market on Trump tariff market collapse
SPORT: Florida vs. Houston - NCAA National Championship Game (I picked Houston to win it all, so far so good)
STREAM (FILMS OF THE DAY): And Then There Were None (Hoopla/Kanopy/Prime), The Exorcism (AMC/Shudder), Experimenter (Hoopla/Kanopy/Max), Janis Ian: Breaking Silence (in theaters), Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Lonesome Jim (AMC), Manila in the Claws of Light (Criterion), Master of None (Netflix), NCAA Championship Game (CBS), Police Story (Criterion/Max)
In Heaven There Is No Beer? (1984), King Kong (4/7/1933), Saturday Night Live: 1975-2020 (Peacock)
Les Blank Film Festival - Burden of Dreams, Ry Cooder and The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have a Ball, I went to the Dance, The Blues According to Lightnin’ Hopkins, Always for Pleasure, A Well Spent Life, Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers, Chulas Fronteras, Spend It All, Yum Yum Yum: A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking, Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, Gap-Toothed Women, All in This Tea, A Poem is a Naked Person, In Heaven There Is No Beer?, The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists, Sprout Wings and Fly, Mr. Charlie Your Rollin’ Mill is Burnin’ Down, The Sun’s Gonna Shine, Hot Pepper, Dizzy Gillespie, Dry Wood, Sworn to the Drum: A Tribute to Francisco Aguabella, God Respects Us When We Work But Loves Us When We Dance - Documentaries of Les Blank (Criterion)
Lino Brocka Double Feature - Insiang, Manila in the Claws of Light
Francis Ford Coppola Film Festival - The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Rainmaker, Rumble Fish, The Outsiders, Tucker: the Man and His Dream, The Rain People, Tetro, The Cotton Club, One From the Heart, Peggy Sue Got Married, New York Stories: Life Without Zoe, Gardens of Stone, Finian’s Rainbow, Youth Without Youth, You’re a Big Boy Now, Jack, Dementia 13, Twixt, Megalopolis, Tonight For Sure, The Bellboy and the Playgirls - Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
Chester Erskine - Androcles and the Lion
Alan J. Pakula - All the President’s Men, Sophie’s Choice, Klute, The Parallax View, Presumed Innocent, The Pelican Brief, The Sterile Cuckoo, Love and Pain and Whole Damn Thing, Orphans, Starting Over, Comes a Horseman, The Devil’s Own, See You in the Morning, Consenting Adults, Rollover, Dream Lover - Alan Pakula: Going for Truth (Max)
TRAVEL: Geyserville, California, Will Rogers Memorial Park
TRUMPLAND: The Day Trump Decided to Let Hundreds of Thousands of Americans Die to Gain Political Advantage.
WTF!?: Trump’s tariff plan appears to have been generated by an AI chatbot. While the White House claimed it used a unique formula to set new tariffs, the numbers match a simple calculation used by ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok when asked for a quick way to fix trade deficits. The method divides the U.S. trade deficit with a country by that country’s exports to the U.S., then cuts the result in half. Despite the chatbots warning that the math ignores how trade actually works, Trump pushed ahead anyway. Economist James Surowiecki called the approach “extraordinary nonsense.”
WWW: ACLU, Adbusters, Apple Music, Banned Book Club, The Brigid Alliance, Clown Crack, Democracy Now!, Everytown, EXO Film Festival, How to Do Everything, Just Watch, Kanopy, John Lurie, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, No Mercy/No Malice, NPR, The Onion, PETA, Positive Legacy, Reasons to be Cheerful, Right to Music, Southern Poverty Law Center, Starship Casual, The Straight Dope, Strummerville, Substack, TeachRock, Trader Joes, Wilco, World Central Kitchen, Zinn Education Project - Exit/Enter on Blue Sky
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2022 - Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first black female justice. 2021 - Fully vaccinated! 2010 - George Peter Nissen died. He was an American gymnast and inventor who developed the modern trampoline and made trampolining a worldwide sport and recreation. 1998 - George Michael was arrested in a public restroom in Will Rogers Memorial Park in Beverly Hills for lewd conduct. He was sentenced to community service for the incident. 1994 - Courtney Love was arrested on drugs and theft charges after a reported overdose. At this time, Love was unaware that her husband Kurt Cobain was dead at their home. 1994 – Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda. 1988 - During a European tour, Alice Cooper accidentally hung himself in a rehearsal when a safety rope snapped; he dangled for several seconds before a roadie saved him. 1985 - Larry quit drinking. Pabst almost went out of business. 1969 – The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1. 1963 - At the age of 23, Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win the Green Jacket at the Masters Tournament. 1948 – The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations. 1933 - The Cullen–Harrison Act, named for its sponsors, Senator Pat Harrison and Representative Thomas H. Cullen, enacted by the United States Congress March 21, 1933 and signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt the following day, legalized the sale in the United States of beer with an alcohol content of 3.2% (by weight) and wine of similarly low alcohol content, thought to be too low to be intoxicating, effective April 7, 1933. Upon signing the legislation, Roosevelt made his famous remark, "I think this would be a good time for a beer."
“Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.” Jim Thompson
