August 19th
Bill Clinton, Chuck Close, John Deacon, Dick Gregory, Molly Jong-Fast, Pablo Larraín, Grouch Marx, Tony Scott
Good Morning - Hello! It is Tuesday, August 19th. Welcome to ExitEnter, your daily newsletter of the day ahead of you. There is lots of shit happening and ExitEnter wants to help you plan for it. But first, you should probably catch up on all the news this morning and check out your sports scores. Also, see what the weather is going to be like wherever you are. ExitEnter is propaganda about the things I love in hopes of making life a little better. Thanks for reading and/or subscribing.
BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Adam Arkin, Eugene Ashe, Jim Carter, Régine Chassagne, Erika Christensen, Bill Clinton, John Crowley, Ethan Cutkosky, John Deacon, Kevin Dillon, Martin Donovan, Fat Joe, Jonathan Frakes, Peter Gallagher, Ian Gillian, Tipper Gore, Rashaad Ernesto Green, Marcello Hernández, Manny Jacinto, Molly Jong-Fast, Tim Kasher, Buzz Kilman, Billy J. Kramer, Pablo Larraín, Deana Martin, Mary Matalin, Frank McCourt, Gerald McRaney, Maria de Medeiros, Romeo Miller, Mike Moh, Nanni Moretti, Ogden Nash, Christina Perri, Matthew Perry, Gene Roddenberry, Raúl Ruiz, Gustavo Santaolalla, Hans-Christian Schmid, Kyra Sedgwick, Tabiatha Soren, John Stamos, Simon Stone, Joey Tempest, Elizabeth Wolfgramm, Lee Ann Womack
DEAD (R.I.P.): Brian Aldiss, Vasili Arkhipov, Michael Been, Dorsey Burnette, Chuck Close, Serge Diaghilev, Betty Everett, James Foley, Otto Frank, Dick Gregory, John Wesley Hardin, Don Hewitt, Donna Hightower, Ron Cephas Jones, James W. Loewen, Federico Garcia Lorca, Groucho Marx, Blind Willie McTell, Mary Millington, LeRoi Moore, Blaise Pascal, John Proctor, Tony Scott, Cedar Walton, Donald Woods - Ronnie Rondell Jr. (8/12/2025)
DEEP THOUGHTS: If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democrat.
EAT ME: National Potato Day, Soft-Serve Ice Cream - Bitches Brew
FOODIE: Strawberry milk, now $1,000 a bottle - Fuck off.
HOLIDAY: Day 231/365 - Aviation Day, Humanitarian Day, Photography Day
HOROSCOPE: The little voices inside your head will continue to disagree over what to set fire to first.
HOW-TO: Be a Human, Fly an Airplane, Take Erotic Photos of Yourself
JOKE: How will history remember Bill Clinton? The President after Bush.
PLAYLIST: Arctic Monkeys: Humbug (8/19/2009), Benjamin Booker: Benjamin Booker (8/19/2014), Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: So Far (8/19/1974), Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (8/19-21/1969), Lady Gaga: The Fame (8/19/2008), The Mountain Goats: Bleed Out (8/19/2022), Harry Nilsson: Pussy Cats (8/19/1974), Sneaker Pimps: Becoming X (8/19/1996) - Arcade Fire: Pink Elephant (2025), The Call: Red Moon (1990), Deep Purple: Deep Purple in Rock (1970), Queen: A Night at the Opera (1975) - Devo
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Arcade Fire, Queen, Gustavo Santaolalla
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
QUESTION: Can Zelensky Trust Trump? No. We can’t trust Trump.
READ: Molly Jong-Fast: How to Lose Your Mother - A Daughter's Memoir (2025), James W. Loewen: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (1995) - Common Dreams, Thom Hartmann: The Great American Betrayal: Trump’s War on Ordinary People, Chris Hedges
RELIGULOUS: The Quiet Grooming of America’s Young Men
SHAMELESS PLUG: JoinIceToday.com
SHITASS: Bill Clinton, Kirk Cousins, Tipper Gore, George Papadopoulos, Lou Perlman
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Why Munich 1938 concessions to Nazi Germany haunt Washington 2025 talks
STREAM: The War Room (1993) - A Boy and His Dog (Hoopla/Kanopy/Night Flight), The Club (Hoopla/Kanopy), Crimson Tide (MGM), Devo (Netflix), Mia Madre (Hoopla/Kanopy), Maria (Netflix), A Night at the Opera (Kanopy), Sylvie’s Love (Prime)
New Blu-Ray Releases: A Confician Confusion (Criterion Collection), Familiar Touch, Mahjong (Criterion Collection), Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, Shoeshine (Criterion Collection)
Pablo Larraín Film Festival - No, The Club (Hoopla/Kanopy), Neruda (Kanopy), Tony Manero (Kanopy), Ema (Hoopla/Kanopy/Mubi), Jackie (HBO Max), Spencer (Netflix), Post Mortem (Kanopy), Maria (Netflix), El Conde (Netflix), Fuga, Lisey’s Story (Apple)
Marx Brothers Film Festival - A Night at the Opera, Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, A Day at the Races, Monkey Business, Animal Crackers, A Night in Casablanca, The Cocoanuts, At the Circus, Go West, Room Service, The Big Store, Love Happy
TRUMPED: Yesterday in one sentence: Trump paused a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders to call Putin and “began the arrangements for a meeting, at a location to be determined” between the two leaders; Trump pledged to sign an executive order to “get rid of mail-in ballots" and voting machines before the 2026 midterm elections; Texas Democrats ended a two-week walkout, returning to the Capitol and giving Republicans the quorum needed to advance a rare mid-decade redistricting plan backed by Trump to add five House seats before the 2026 midterms; Republican governors pledged to send up to 750 National Guard troops to Washington, joining the 800 already deployed under Trump’s emergency order and takeover of the city’s police; the Justice Department said it would begin providing Jeffrey Epstein investigation records to the House Oversight Committee on Friday – three days after the panel’s Aug. 19 subpoena deadline; Newsmax agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $67 million to settle a defamation lawsuit over false claims that Dominion rigged the 2020 election; the State Department stopped issuing all visitor visas for people from Gaza after far-right activist Laura Loomer posted misleading videos of wounded Palestinian children arriving in the U.S. for treatment and called them “Islamic invaders from an Islamic terror hot zone”; and Trump’s approval rating fell to 38% – down from 41% in June.
WELLNESS: How to Fall in Love
WORD: Rental Culture
WTF?!: Trump jokes about cancelling election - It ain’t a joke, it’s gonna happen.
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2010 - Musician Michael Been died in Belgium of a heart attack while at the Pukkelpop 2010 music festival where he was on-tour as a sound man for his sons band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. 1995 - I went to H.O.R.D.E. Fest in Milwaukee. Saw Morphine and Wilco on a tiny stage and smoked a joint with Ziggy Marley. Awesome. 1991 – Crown Heights riot begins. 1977 - Comedian Groucho Marx died at age 86. 1969 - Miles Davis began three days of recording sessions that yielded the album "Bitches Brew." 1934 - A plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler as Fuhrer. 1692 – Salem witch trials: In Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft. 1612 – The "Samlesbury witches", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused of practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in British history.
“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.” Brian Aldiss
“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.” Blaise Pascal
