August 2nd
James Baldwin, William S. Burroughs, Raymond Carver, Charli XCX, Lily Gladstone, Fela Kuti, Kevin Smith
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): James Baldwin, Robert Bilott, Kansas Bowling, Joanna Cassidy, Charli XCX, Wes Craven, Marina de Van, Edward Furlong, Lily Gladstone, Graham Hancock, Kathryn Harrold, Garth Hudson, Apollonio Kotero, Uli Latukefu, Myrna Loy, Lee Mavers, Ben Nichols, Mojo Nixon, Peter O’Toole, Mary Louise Parker, Butch Patrick, Giulio Ricciarelli, Kevin Smith, Joe Lynn Turner, Butch Vig, David Yow, Nathan Zellner
DEAD (R.I.P.): Al Adamson, Alexander Graham Bell, William S. Burroughs, Enrico Caruso, Raymond Carver, Paul Goodman, Warren G. Harding, Wild Bill Hickok, David Huddleston, Jimmy Jones, Fela Kuti, Fritz Lang, Shari Lewis, Jean-Pierre Melville, Billy Lee Riley, Vin Scully - Jeannie Seely (8/1/2025)
DEEP THOUGHTS: Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own fucking business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a measles virus has.
EAT ME: Ice Cream Sandwiches - Mustard Day (2025)
FOODIE: 30 Things I Learned at European Cooking School That Changed the Way I Cook Forever
HOLIDAY: Coloring Book Day - International Blues Music Day (2025), Sunflower Day (2025)
HOROSCOPE: Love can make a person do all sorts of weird and crazy things, but in your case, it'll mostly involve showering.
HOW-TO: Color
JOKE: JD Vance got lost on one of his campaign trips and wound up at a country crossroads where there was a little old country store. It was hot and dusty, so JD got out of the car and went inside the store to buy a Dew. He noticed on the way in that there was an old boy sitting on the porch in an old rocker. Since there was an empty rocker beside the old boy, JD asked if he could sit down, and the old boy nodded his head toward the empty rocker. They sat on the porch, passing the time in silence. After a bit, JD noticed that an old blue tick hound was in the dirt by the steps to the porch licking his genitals. JD cleared his throat and said to the old boy in his best imitation of an old boy sitting in a rocker on the porch of a country store, “I’d like to do that.” The old boy turned and looked at JD with a shocked look on his face and said, “That dog’ud biiiite chew.”
PLAYLIST: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs (8/2/2010), Boston: Don’t Look Back (8/2/1978), The Bronx: Mariachi el Bronx II (8/2/2011), Jackson Browne: Lawyers in Love (8/2/1983), Love Spit Love: Love Spit Love (8/2/1994), Poison: Look What the Cat Dragged In (8/2/1986), The Sugarhill Gang: Rapper’s Delight (8/2/1979), X: Smoke and Fiction (8/2/2024), Dwight Yoakam: Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room (8/2/1988) - The Band: Northern Lights - Southern Cross (1975), Fela Kuti: Expensive Shit (1975), The La’s: The La’s (1990), Lucero: All a Man Should Do (2015), Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper: Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper (1985)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Charli XCX, Fela Kuti, Lucero, Butch Vig - The Blues
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
READ: James Baldwin: Notes of a Native Son (1955), Paul Goodman: Growing Up Absurd (1960) - McSweeney’s: You Don’t Eat Enough Protein and It Sickens Me, The Onion: Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles
RELIGULOUS: Christianity Ruined My Dad’s Life - And many other people’s in the exact same way
SHAMELESS PLUG: House of Blues
SHITASS: Roy Cohn, James Charles Kopp, Daniel Pelosi, JD Vance
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Criminalizing homelessness in a country where the minimum wage is $7.25 and apartments start at $1,100 is just evil.
SPORT: Disney buys RedZone
STREAM: Sing Sing (8/2/2024) - Bob le Flambeur (Kanopy), Charli XCX: Alone Together (Mubi), Jazzy (Hulu), Sasquatch Sunset (Hoopla/Kanopy), The Wedding Banquet (PPV) - Pivot
Fritz Lang Film Festival - Metropolis, M, The Big Heat, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Fury, Scarlet Street, Then Woman in the Window, Ministry of Fear, Clash by Night, Rancho Notorious - Contempt
Jean-Pierre Melville Film Festival - Army of Shadows, Le Samouraï, Le Cercle Rouge, Le Deuxième Souffle, Le Doulos, Bob Le Flambeur, Le Silence De La Mer, Léon Morin Priest, Un Flic, Les Enfants Terribles, Two Men in Manhattan, When You Read This Letter, Magnet of Doom
Kevin Smith Film Festival - Clerks, Dogma, Chasing Amy, Mallrats
WELLNESS: The 5-hour rule: How to turn a wasted day into a successful one
WORD: Old Liver Lee - My Blues Name
WTF?!: Professional Cornhole - gimme a fucking break.
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2018 – Apple Inc. became the first U.S. company to be valued at over $1 trillion. 1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War. 1962 - Robert Allen Zimmerman legally became Bob Dylan. 1939 - Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging creation of an atomic weapons research program. 1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal. 1934 - German President Paul von Hindenburg died, paving the way for Adolf Hitler's complete takeover. 1876 - Frontiersman "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon in Deadwood in present-day South Dakota. 1790 – The first United States Census is conducted. No one opened their doors to the census takers in fear of being deported because they were all immigrants. 1776 – The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
“You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended.” Raymond Carver
“Hey, you ever get the feeling That America is turning into some kinda sitcom? Lowest common denominator…” Mojo Nixon
