December 5th
Robert Aldrich, Dave Brubeck, Walt Disney, Pietro Germi, Nelson Mandela, Monet, Mozart, Lynne Ramsay, Jim Stewart
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BORN (ENTER): Brian Backer, James Lee Burke, J.J. Cale, José Carreras, Margaret Cho, Gabriel Clarke, Debbie, Joan Didion, Walt Disney, Neil Druckmann, Eddie the Eagle, Shlomi Elkabetz, Morgan J. Freeman, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Conan Gray, Keri Hilson, Luc Jacquet, Andy Kim, Keisuke Kinoshita, Sachiko Kobayashi, Hanif Kureishi, Fritz Lang, Lydia Leonard, Little Richard, Lisa Marie, Jim Messina, Michel’le, Frankie Muniz, Nivek Ogre, Richard Paro, Paula Patton, Otto Preminger, Emeric Pressburger, Lynne Ramsay, John Rzeznik, Angela Shelton, Nick Stahl, William Utermohlen
DEAD (EXIT): Robert Aldrich, Kirstie Alley, Charles Barton, Dave Brubeck, Bob Dole, Kenny Dorham, Alexandre Dumas, Nina Foch, Günther Förg, Pietro Germi, Johnny Hallyday, Doug Hopkins, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Fat Larry James, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Denny Laine, Norman Lear, Arthur Leipzig, Vachel Lindsay, Nelson Mandela, Edward Masry, Don Meredith, Claude Monet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jim Stewart, Colin Wilson
DEEP THOUGHTS: Everything is going to be fine in the end, and if it’s not fine, it’s the end.
EAT ME: Comfort Food Day, Sacher Torte
FOODIE: I bought a pizza oven and opened a portal to hell - not me.
HOLIDAY: Krampusnacht, Day of the Ninja, Repeal Day, Soil Day, Volunteer Day - Bartender Day (2025)
HOROSCOPE: You’ll find yourself curiously unfulfilled, if not a little frightened, when you finally learn the answer to the question of who watches the birdwatchers.
HOW TO: Be a Ninja, Compost, Volunteer - Tend Bar
JOKE: What’s the difference between a bartender and a gorilla? Gorillas don’t steal.
PLAYLIST: Accept: Balls to the Wall (12/5/1983), Black Flag: Damaged (12/5/1981), Buffalo Springfield: Buffalo Springfield (12/5/1966), Paul McCartney and Wings: Band on the Run (12/5/1973), The Stone Roses: Second Coming (12/5/1994) - Kenny Dorham: Afro-Cuban (1955)
New Music Releases: Zac Brown Band: Love and Fear, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Live God, Depeche Mode: Memento Mori - Mexico City, Melody’s Echo Chamber: Unclouded, Tom Smith: There Is Nothing In The Dark Which Isn’t There In The Light, Various Artists: Passages - Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers, Isobel Waller-Bridge: Objects
Check out The Big Beat Playlist: December Edition, Check out the Holiday Mixer -Dave Brubeck, Kenny Dorham, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Mozart, Stax Records
PODCAST: The Margaret Cho
QUESTION/QUOTE: How the Hell Did We Get Here?
READ: Steve Schmidt: The coming majority must assert its power, Jeff Tiedrich: panicked Republicans to Dozy Donny: ‘it’s the economy, fuckwit’, Vice, Wired, Wonkette: Shocker: Trump’s Still A Racist, Abby Zimet: Fog Of Bullshit: Racist Clowns, Liars and Psycopaths
RELIGULOUS: ‘Happy Holidays’ isn’t an Insult to Jesus. Christians Who Weaponize Christmas are.
SCIENCE!: Today’s Moon Phase
SHAMELESS PLUG: Mill: Food Recycler - I love it.
SHITASS: Richard Speck
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is 15 years old this year, which explains why republicans are trying to fuck it.
SPORT: LeBron held to 8 as double-digit points streak ends in Lakers’ win - His streak of 1,297 consecutive regular-season games with double-digit points ended Thursday night, The run started in 2007.
STREAM: Amadeus, Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (Criterion), Eddie the Eagle, Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You, Searching for Angela Shelton, Stax: Soulville USA, This is 40 - Antarctica: Ice and Sky (Kanopy/Prime), Documentaries by Kazuo Hara and Sachiko Kobayashi (Criterion), Erin Brockovich (Peacock), I Know Where I’m Going! (Criterion), Jay Kelly (Netflix), The New Yorker at 100 (Netflix), She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (Criterion) - Die My Love (in theaters)
New Film Releases: The Chronology of Water, Dust Bunny, Fackham Hall, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, Happy Holidays, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, La Grazia, Merrily We Roll Along, 100 Nights of Hero, Peaches Goes Bananas, WTO/99
Lynne Ramsay Film Festival - Ratcatcher, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Swimmer, Gasman, Morvern Callar, You Were Never Really Here, Small Deaths, Die My Love, Kill the Day
UNFUCK THE WORLD: Yesterday in one sentence: The Supreme Court allowed Texas to use its new congressional map for the 2026 elections, blocking a lower court ruling that found the plan was likely a racial gerrymander; federal agents arrested the man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the RNC and DNC offices the night before Jan. 6 Capitol attack; the Government Accountability Office opened an investigation into Bill Pulte after Senate Democrats accused the Federal Housing Finance Agency director of abusing his position to target Trump’s perceived political enemies with criminal referrals; the Trump administration renamed the U.S. Institute of Peace to the “Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace”; 98% of more than 2,100 Foreign Service employees reported lower morale this year; 46% of Americans say the cost of living in the U.S. is worst than than they can ever remember; and U.S. economic confidence fell to negative 30 in November – its lowest level since July 2024.
WELLNESS: “I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave’s a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that’s what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.” Joan Didion
WORD: Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life. It is the source from which self-respect springs.
WTF?!: Tarantino really hates Paul Dano
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HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2019 - George Laurer died at the age of 94. He was an American engineer for IBM. He published 20 bulletins, held 28 patents and developed the Universal Product Code (UPC) in the early 1970s. 2008 - O.J. Simpson was sentenced to 33 years in prison for kidnapping and armed robbery. He was released in October 2017 after serving nine years. He’s still looking for Nicole’s killer. 1987 - Fat Larry James, drummer, singer and leader of Fat Larry’s Band died of a heart attack aged 38 probably because he was too fat. 1987 - The Jesus And Mary Chain were banned from appearing on a TV show after complaints of blasphemy when the group’s name was flashed across the screen. The CBS show asked the band to be called JANC but the group didn’t agree. 1955 – E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 1933 – Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment. Cheers! 1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein was granted an American visa. 1848 - President James K. Polk triggered the Gold Rush of ‘49 by confirming that gold had been discovered in California. 1766 – In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
“When people think the world of you, be careful with them.” Margaret Cho
“Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.” Joan Didion
“If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which he has inflicted on men, he would kill himself.” Alexandre Dumas
“Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don’t collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don’t really mean anything.” Norman Lear
“There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” Nelson Mandela
Who watches the birdwatchers haha