August 6th
John Hughes, Rick James, M. Night Shyamalan, Elliott Smith, Preston Sturges, Andy Warhol, Michelle Yeoh
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Lucille Ball, Paul Bartel, Mike Budenholzer, Charles Crichton, Ezra Edelman, Vera Farmiga, Soleil Moon Frye, Mike Greenberg, Geri Halliwell, Catherine Hicks, Max Kellerman, Brian Levant, Pat MacDonald, Robert Mitchum, Leslie Odom Jr., Carole Pope, David Robinson, Rory Scoval, M. Night Shyamalan, Elliott Smith, Vinnie Vincent, Andy Warhol, Tanya Wexler, Michelle Yeoh
DEAD (R.I.P.): Jorge Amado, Gene Ammons, Bix Beiderbecke, Jack Brickhouse, Catfish Collins, Willy DeVille, Emilio Fernández, Ibrahim Ferrer, Wayne Fontana, Pete Fountain, Marvin Hamlisch, Anne Hathaway, John Hughes, Rick James, Memphis Minnie, Klaus Nomi, Warner Oland, Harry Reasoner, Anthony Russo, Preston Sturges, Delbert Ward - Terry Reid (8/4/2025)
DEEP THOUGHTS: Obsessed with Yesterday. Worried about Tomorrow. Waste of Today.
EAT ME: Root Beer Floats
FOODIE: R.I.P. Sizzler
HOLIDAY: Hiroshima Memorial Day
HOROSCOPE: Doctors will diagnose you with a new strain of tuberculosis this week, or "Poor Unsuspecting Bastard's Disease" as it'll come to be known.
HOW-TO: Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Stop Terrorism
JOKE: A man survives Hiroshima and wakes up in the hospital. Man: What happened and why am I here? Nurse: Hiroshima was hit by a bomb and despite all odds you survived. Right now you are at the hospital getting treated but you have no risk of dying so no worries. Man: Thank god. But how about my family? Are they ok? Nurse: Don’t worry, they all evacuated safely and are waiting in the reception room. Man: That is great news. So where am I? Nurse: Nagasaki
PLAYLIST: The Beatles: Help! (8/6/1965), Sheryl Crow: Tuesday Night Music Club (8/6/1993), Modest Mouse: Interstate 8 (8/6/1996), Kate Nash: Made of Bricks (8/6/2007), Romeo Void: Benefactor (8/6/1982), Say Hi: Discosadness (8/6/2002), Ty Segall: Harmonizer (8/6/2021), Barry White: Can’t Get Enough (8/6/1974) - Gene Ammons: Boss Tenor (1960), Rick James: Garden of Love (1980), Mink DeVille: Sportin’ Life (1985), Elliott Smith: Elliott Smith (1995) - Heatmiser: Mic City Sons (30th Anniversary)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Gene Ammons, Bix Beiderbecke, John Hughes, Ibrahim Ferrer, Rick James, Elliott Smith
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
READ: Andy Warhol: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (A to B and Back) (1975) - JoJoFromJerz: Fighting Fire with Fire, Paul Krugman: The Paranoid Style in American Economics, Mother Jones
RELIGULOUS: You cannot treat people like garbage and worship God at the same time.
SHITASS: Charles Ingram, Jordan Van Der Sloot
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: 80 Years Ago Today - 150,000-246,000 people died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. We’re the only country in the world who has attacked with a nuclear bomb and we did it twice. Perhaps the world should stop us from having a nuclear program.
STREAM: The Sixth Sense (8/6/1999) - The Breakfast Club (Starz), The Pickup (Prime), Platonic: Season 2 (Apple), Unbreakable (Disney/Hulu), Wednesday: Season 2 (Netflix), Weird Science (Netflix) - Pivot
John Hughes Film Festival - The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, She’s Having a Baby, Curly Sue - Home Alone, Mr. Mom, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful
M. Night Shyamalan Film Festival - The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, Split, Glass, The Visit, Knock at the Cabin, Trap, Old, Wide Awake
Preston Sturges Film Festival - Sullivan's Travels, The Lady Eve, Hail the Conquering Hero, The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, The Palm Beach Story, Unfaithfully Yours, Christmas in July, The Great McGinty, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, The Great Moment, The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, Vendetta, The French They Are a Funny Race
TRAVEL: Hiroshima
TRUMPED: Yesterday in one sentence: The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Justice Department for all unredacted records related to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell; Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal judge to block the Justice Department from unsealing grand jury transcripts in her sex trafficking case, saying the release would “severely and irrevocably” damage her Supreme Court appeal; Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered a grand jury investigation into Obama-era officials, reviving long-debunked claims that they faked intelligence to tie Trump to Russian election interference; Texas Sen. John Cornyn asked the FBI to help locate and arrest Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to block a Republican redistricting plan that could give the Republicans five more U.S. House seats; Trump claimed JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America refused to accept over $1 billion in deposits from him after his presidency; Trump said he would “probably not” run for a third term, even though the Constitution doesn’t allow it; and a man convicted of interstate prostitution is seeking a pardon from a man found liable for sexual abuse.
WELLNESS: 50 Things I Know
WORD: Skulduggery - trickery or misrepresentation intended to take advantage of someone. Your government in action.
WTF?!: Attack on former DOGE staffer known as ‘Big Balls’ prompts Trump to threaten to federalize DC - Ha!
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2009 - Filmmaker John Hughes was taking a walk close to his hotel on West 55th Street in Manhattan when he suffered a heart attack. He was rushed to Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at age 59. 2004 - Musician Rick James was found dead in his Los Angeles apartment. He had died from pulmonary failure and cardiac failure, associated with his various health conditions of diabetes, a stroke, pacemaker, and heart attack. His autopsy found alprazolam, diazepam, bupropion, citalopram, hydrocodone, digoxin, chlorpheniramine, methamphetamine, and cocaine in his blood. 2002 - Bjorn married CJ. 2001 - The "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US" was a President's Daily Brief prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency and given to U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday, August 6, 2001. The brief warned of terrorism threats from Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, including "patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for a hijacking" of U.S. aircraft. Bush and his minions did nothing. 36 days later were the September 11 attacks. 2001 – Erwadi fire incident: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu. 1996 – The Ramones played their farewell concert at The Palace in Los Angeles. 1995 - Tweedy married Susan. 1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the Internet. 1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. Which means that technically this country is only 60 years old today if you buy into the “all men are created equal - life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” bullshit. 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning. America is the O.G. of terrorism. 1890 - The electric chair was used for the first time, to execute a convicted murderer in New York. This country loves to kill people.
“Art is anything you can get away with.” Andy Warhol
