December 14th
Shirley Jackson, Anna Karina, Myrna Loy, John Lurie, Peter O’Toole, Mike Scott, Dinah Washington, George Washington
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BORN (ENTER): Lester Bangs, Jane Birkin, Douglas Brinkley,Christian E. Christiansen, Miranda Hart, Vanessa Hudgens, Shirley Jackson, Spike Jones, Jeremy Kagen, Abbe Lane, John Lurie, Lucrecia Martel, Natasha McElhone, Offset, Beth Orton, Numa Perrier, Ted Raimi, Lee Remick, Charlie Rich, Dilma Rousseff, Mike Scott, Kyle Shanahan, Erik Skjoldbjærg, Humberto Solás, Spider Stacy, Dino Stamatopoulos, Lynne Marie Stewart, KaDee Strickland, Dee Wallace, Michaela Watkins, Celia Weston, Cliff Williams
DEAD (EXIT): Chuy Bravo, Jeanne Crain, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Ahmet Ertegun, Mike Evans, Norman Fell, George Gipp, Anna Karina, John Harvey Kellogg, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Walter Lippmann, Myrna Loy, Roger Maris, Peter O’Toole, George Rodrigue, Evald Schorm, Joe Simon, Marion Stokes, Arthur Treacher, Lupe Vélez, Dinah Washington, George Washington, George Whitman - Wolfgang Becker (12/13/2024)
DEEP THOUGHTS: The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
FOODIE: Biscuits and Gravy, Bouillabaisse, Chestnuts - Monkey Bread, Potato!
HOLIDAY: Monkey Day
HOROSCOPE: You’ll soon learn that, while the truth can sometimes set you free, other times it can send you to prison for murdering your parents.
JOKE: What’s invisible and smells like bananas? Monkey farts.
PLAYLIST: AC/DC: Highway to Hell (1979), Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out (12/14/1959), The Clash: London Calling (12/14/1979), Jobriath: Creatures of the Street (1974), Beth Orton: Central Reservation (1999), The Pogues: Red Roses for Me (1984), Marvin Pontiac: The Legendary Marvin Pontiac (1999), The Waterboys: A Pagan Place (1984), Dinah Washington: After Hours with Miss D. (1954)
Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out (12/14/1959), The Clash: London Calling (12/14/1979), Dinosaur Jr.: You’re Living All Over Me (12/14/1987), Nirvana: Incesticide (12/14/1992)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it!, Check out the New Music Playlist for 2024!
SHITASS: James Comey, Frank Sheeran, Vlad III the Impaler
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Bezos and Zuckerberg donate millions to Trump’s inaugural fund - Still on Facebook and Instagram? Still using Prime? You just helped give Trump millions. We need to cut the cords.
SPACED: Shortly after the very bright moon clears the rooftops in the east after dusk on Saturday, Dec. 14, the brilliant planet Jupiter will rise to join it. The duo will make a lovely photo opportunity when composed with some nice foreground scenery. As the moon and Jupiter climb the eastern sky, the bright winter stars will surround them, including yellowish Capella on their upper left and reddish Aldebaran to their right, both part of the huge winter hexagon asterism. The bright pair will culminate due south towards midnight and set in the west before dawn. By then the diurnal rotation of the sky will lift the moon, now full, above Jupiter.
STREAM: Becket (Hoopla/Kanopy/Peacock), The Edge of Democracy (Netflix), Fishing with John (Criterion), Painting with John (Max), Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (Kanopy/Kino), The Road to Wellville (Hoopla/Kanopy/Peacock), Stranger Than Paradise (Criterion/Max)
The Eight Mountains (12/14/2022) (Criterion)
Anna Karina Film Festival - Alphaville, Band of Outsiders, Cleo from 5 to 7, La ronde, Le petit soldat, Les fiancés du pont Macdonald, Made in U.S.A., Pierrot le fou, Vivre sa vie, A Woman is a Woman
Myrna Loy Film Festival (in order)- The Thin Man, After the Thin Man, Another Thin Man, Shadow of the Thin Man, The Thin Man Goes Home, Song of the Thin Man - The Best Years of Our Lives
John Lurie Film Festival - Down by Law, Fishing with John, The Last Temptation of Christ, Mystery Train, Painting with John, Paris Texas, Permanent Vacation, Stranger Than Paradise
Lucrecia Martel Film Festival - The Headless Woman, The Holy Girl, La Ciénega, Terminal Norte, Zama
Peter O’Toole Film Festival - Becket, Goodbye Mr. Chips, The Last Emperor, Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter, My Favorite Year, The Ruling Class, The Stunt Man, Venus
Evald Schorm Double Feature - Courage for Every Day, Pearls of the Deep: Dum Radosti, Return of the Prodigal Son
Erik Skjoldbjærg - Insomnia
Humberto Solás - Lucía
TRAVEL: Alabama, Brusson, Valle d'Aosta, Italy
Oh, Alabama The devil fools with the best laid plan Swing low, Alabama You got the spare change You got to feel strange And now the moment is all that it meant Alabama, you got the weight on your shoulders That's breaking your back Your Cadillac has got a wheel in the ditch And a wheel on the track Oh, Alabama Banjos playing through the broken glass Windows down in Alabama See the old folks tied in white ropes Hear the banjo Don't it take you down home? Alabama, you got the weight on your shoulders That's breaking your back Your Cadillac has got a wheel in the ditch And a wheel on the track Oh, Alabama Can I see you and shake your hand Make friends down in Alabama I'm from a new land I come to you and see all this ruin What are you doing Alabama? You got the rest of the union to help you along What's going wrong? - Southern man, better keep your head. Don't forget what your good book said. Southern change gonna come at last. Now your crosses are burning fast. Southern man. I saw cotton and I saw black. Tall white mansions and little shacks. Southern man, when will you pay them back? I heard screamin' and bullwhips cracking. How long? How long? Southern man, better keep your head. Don't forget what your good book said. Southern change gonna come at last. Now your crosses are burning fast. Southern man. Lily Belle, your hair is golden brown. I've seen your black man comin' round. Swear by God, I'm gonna cut him down! I heard screamin' and bullwhips cracking. How long? How long?
VOX: What really mattered in 2024
WORD: Adabaeewa - Absurd in an optimistic way.
WTF: Time’s Person of the Year - Hitler, Putin, Stalin - Trump
WWW: ACLU, Adbusters, Apple Music, ASPCA, Banned Book Club, The Brigid Alliance, Clown Crack, Cost Plus Drugs, Democracy Now!, Everytown, EXO Film Festival, How to Do Everything, Just Watch, Kanopy, John Lurie, The New York Times, No Mercy/No Malice, Positive Legacy, Reasons to be Cheerful, Right to Music, Starship Casual, The Straight Dope, Strummerville, TeachRock, Trader Joes, Wilco, World Central Kitchen, Zinn Education Project - Blue Sky
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2012 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, were killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. 20 of the 28 were fucking children ages 6 and 7. America did nothing and still hasn’t and remains one of the worst things we’ve ever done as a society. This country sucks and should be ashamed. 2008 - An Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at President George W. Bush during a news conference in Baghdad; Unfortunately, he missed… twice. 1979 - The Clash released London Calling. My favorite all time album. 1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission. 1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: Over 200 of East Pakistan's intellectuals are executed by the Pakistan Army and their local allies. 1911 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole. 1819 - Alabama became the 22nd state.
“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” George Washington
