August 20th
Amy Adams, Andrew Garfield, John Hiatt, KRS-One, Elmore Leonard, Jerry Lewis, Robert Plant, David O. Russell
Good Morning - Hello! It is Wednesday, August 20th. 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): Miquel Albaladejo, Amy Adams, Eric Ambel, Laura Bispuri, Mark Borchardt, Connie Chung, Jamie Cullum, Fred Durst, Billy Gardell, Andrew Garfield, Lea Glob, Isaac Hayes, John Hiatt, Peter Horton, Ralf Hutter, Andrei Konchalovsky, KRS-One, Demi Lovato, H.P. Lovecraft, Phil Lynott, Mark Meier, Vaune Moore, Mikio Naruse, Robert Plant, Monique Powell, Ke Huy Quan, Jim Reeves, Al Roker, Patricia Rosema, David O. Russell, David Walliams, Ray Wise
DEAD (R.I.P.): George Adamson, William Booth, Jonathan Daniels, Phyllis Diller, H.B. Halicki, Tom T. Hall, Robert Hoffman, B.K.S. Iyengar, Thad Jones, Elmore Leonard, Jerry Lewis, Marian McPartland, Jose Menendez, Kitty Menendez, Ted Post, Joe Rosenthal, Bobby Sheehan, Sid Silvers, Kim Stanley
DEEP THOUGHTS: I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and records and the rest I wasted.
EAT ME: Bacon Lovers Day, Chocolate Pecan Pie, Lemonade
FOODIE: FDA Warns Public Not to Eat Potentially Radioactive Walmart Shrimp
HOLIDAY: Mosquito Day, Radio Day
HOROSCOPE: There truly is more than one way to skin a cat, but the limited market for cat skins makes learning more than three methods impractical.
HOW-TO: Get Rid of a Mosquito Bite, Make a Radio Show, Start a Successful Lemonade Stand
JOKE: What's the worst thing about Fred Durst's herpes? His music.
PLAYLIST: Bob Dylan: Slow Train Coming (8/20/1979), Interpol: Turn On the Bright Lights (8/20/2002), Shannon and the Clams: Year of the Spider (8/20/2021), Yaz: Upstairs at Eric’s (8/20/1979) - Eric Ambel: Loud and Lonesome (1995), John Hiatt: Stolen Moments (1990), Kraftwerk: Radio-Activity (1975), Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti (1975), Robert Plant: Shaken ‘n’ Stirred (1985), Sly Fox: Let’s Go All the Way (1985), Thin Lizzy: Chinatown (1980)
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READ: Elmore Leonard: Get Shorty (1990) - JoJoFromJerz, Paul Krugman, Mother Jones
RELIGULOUS: Bible Verses condemning trans people: 0 - Bible Verses about welcoming migrants: 33 - Bible Verses about advocating for peace: 429 - Bible Verses about loving God and others: 714 - Bible Verses about taking care of the poor: 2000+
SCIENCE!: A Rare ‘Black Moon’ Is Rising This Week
SHAMELESS PLUG: A24
SHITASS: Louis Beam, Fred Durst, Leona Helmsley, Don King, Larry Kudlow, Jose and Kitty Menendez, Ron Paul
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Ex-Israel military intelligence chief said 50,000 Gaza deaths 'necessary'
STREAM: Becoming Led Zeppelin (Netflix), Get Shorty (HBO Max), The Menendez Brothers (Netflix), Nightbitch (Hulu), Runaway Train (MGM) - Pivot
STREAM (CRITERION): Clouds of Sils Maria (8/20/2014), Directed by Mikio Naruse
A24 Film Festival - After Yang, Aftersun, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, American Honey, Architection, Babygirl, Beau is Afraid, Beef, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Bring Her Back, The Brutalist, C’mon C’mon, Causeway, Civil War, Close, Death of a Unicorn, Dicks: The Musical, A Different Man, The Disaster Artist, Dream Scenario, Earth Mama, Eddington, Eighth Grade, The End of the Tour, The Eternal Daughter, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Ex Machina, The Farewell, First Cow, First Reformed, The Florida Project, Friendship, The Front Room, Funny Pages, A Ghost Story, God’s Creatures, Good Time, The Green Knight, Green Room, Hereditary, Heretic, The Humans, I Saw the TV Glow, The Inspection, Instinct, Irma Vep, The Iron Claw, Janet Planet, Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Krisha, Lady Bird, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, The Last of the Sea Women, Lean on Pete, The Legend of Ochi, The Lighthouse, The Lobster, Look into My Eyes, Love Lies Bleeding, The Lovers, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Materialists, MaXXXine, Medusa Deluxe, Men, Mid90s, Midsommar, Minari, Moonlight, My Mercury, Occupied City, On Becoming a Guiena Fowl, Open Wide, Opus, Parthenope, Past Lives, Pearl, Priscilla, Problemista, Queer, Red Rocket, Room, Saint Maud, Sharper, Showing Up, Sing Sing, The Sixth, Slow West, Sorry Baby, The Souvenir, Stars at Noon, Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in 2 Pieces, Stop Making Sense, Swiss Army Man, Talk to Me, This Place Rules, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Tuesday, 20th Century Women, Uncut Gems, Under the Skin, Warfare, Waves, We Live in Time, The Whale, When You Finish Saving the World, While We’re Young, White Noise, The Witch, X, You Hurt My Feelings, Y2K, Zola, The Zone of Interest
Mikio Naruse Film Festival - When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Yearning, Scattered Clouds, Sound of the Mountain, Floating Clouds, Repast, Mother, Flowing, Late Chrysanthemums, Apart From You, Every-Night Dreams, Wife, Ginza Cosmetics, Street Without End, No Blood Relation, Flunky Work Hard
David O. Russell Film Festival - The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, Three Kings, Flirting with Disaster, Joy, I Heart Huckabees, Spanking the Monkey, Amsterdam
TRAVEL: 722 North Elm Drive, Beverly Hills, 610 S. Arroyo Parkway, Pasadena, Sils-Maria, Tucson, Arizona
TRUMPED: Yesterday in one sentence: The Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into whether D.C. police falsified crime data, even as city police data showed violent crime was down 27% this year and federal prosecutors had reported a 25% drop in Trump’s first 100 days; National Guard troops from Republican-led states began arriving in Washington to support Trump’s law enforcement takeover of the capital; Trump revoked the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials; Trump said Tuesday he ordered lawyers to review Smithsonian museums for “woke” content; the Trump administration ordered U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to require immigrants seeking citizenship to prove “positive contributions” beyond avoiding crimes; Trump ruled out sending American troops to Ukraine; and Trump told “Fox & Friends” that his reason for trying to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is because “I want to try and get to heaven, if possible."
WELLNESS: Millions of women are 'under-muscled.' These foods help build strength
WORD: Nerd
WTF?!: Freediver Shatters World Record by Holding Breath for 29 Minutes
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2020 - Anti-Elitist Steve Bannon got arrested on a $28 million dollar yacht in Connecticut for allegedly scamming the hayseeds that wanna build a wall. 2012 - The independent entertainment company A24 was founded in Manhattan. 1989 - Lyle and Erik Menendez murdered their parents, Jose and Kitty, in the den of the family’s home in Beverly Hills after a day of shark fishing. Jose and Kitty were watching The Spy Who Loved Me when Jose was shot point-blank in the back of the head with a shotgun. Kitty, awakened by the shots, got up from the couch and ran for the hallway but was shot in the leg. She slipped in her own blood and fell and was then shot several times in the arm, chest, and face, leaving her unrecognizable. Both brothers were convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. 1972 – Wattstax was a benefit concert organized by Stax Records to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1965 riots in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles. 1967 - Trader Joe’s opened their first store in Pasadena, California. While Exit/Enter can’t nail down an exact date for this - that Pasadena store celebrated it’s 50th anniversary in 2017 on 8/19 and 8/20. That’s close enough for me until an exact date surfaces. 1966 - A young man was flying a kite on the Morro do Vintém (Vintém Hill) in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when he came upon the bodies of two deceased males and reported them to the authorities. The Morro do Vintém had difficult terrain, and the police were unable to reach the bodies until the next day. When a small team of police and firefighters arrived, they encountered an odd scene: the bodies rested next to each other, partly covered by grass. Each one wore a formal suit, a lead eye mask, and a waterproof coat. There were no signs of trauma or any evidence of a struggle. Next to the corpses, police found an empty water bottle and a packet containing two wet towels. A small notebook was also identified, on which were written the cryptic instructions, "16:30 estar no local determinado. 18:30 ingerir cápsulas, após efeito proteger metais aguardar sinal máscara" ('16:30 be at the specified location. 18:30 ingest capsules, after the effect protect metals await signal mask'). The two men were identified as Manoel Pereira da Cruz and Miguel José Viana, two electronic technicians from Campos dos Goytacazes, a town several kilometers to the northeast of Rio de Janeiro. Following an investigation, police reconstructed a plausible narrative of the men's last days. On August 17, Cruz and Viana left Campos dos Goytacazes with the stated intent that they needed to purchase some materials for work. The two men then boarded a bus to Niterói, and arrived at 2:30 pm. Evidence shows that the waterproof coats were purchased at a shop there, and one bottle of water from a local bar. Upon being interviewed, the waitress from the bar described Miguel as "very nervous," and noticed he frequently checked his watch. That is the last time they were known to have been seen alive; it is presumed they went directly from the bar to the spot at which they were discovered. No obvious injuries were discovered at the scene, nor later at the autopsy. A search for toxic substances did not occur. The coroner's office was very busy at the time and, when the autopsy was finally conducted, the internal organs of the two victims were too badly decomposed for reliable testing. 1940 – In Mexico City, Mexico exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He died the next day. 1920 – The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Association in Canton, Ohio. 1909 – Pluto was photographed for the first time at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, 21 years before it was officially discovered by Clyde Tombaugh. 1775 - Tucson, Arizona was founded.
"We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up." Phyllis Diller
