February 22nd
Luis Buñuel, Jonathan Demme, Mark Lanegan, Kyle MacLachlan, Andy Warhol, George Washington
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BORN (ENTER): David Axelrod, Laura Ballance, Drew Barrymore, Luca Bercovici, James Blunt, Luis Buñuel, Jonathan Demme, Rachel Dratch, Julius Erving, Ellen Greene, Pirjo Honkasalo, Thomas Jane, JR, Dichen Lachman, Paul Liberstein, Kyle MacLachlan, Giulietta Masina, John Mills, Bradley Nowell, Nicholas Pileggi, Nigel Planer, Sébastien Tellier, Hannah Pearl Utt, Julie Walters, George Washington
DEAD (EXIT): Bitto Albertini, Peter Arno, Florence Ballard, Elizabeth Bowen, Raymond Cauchetier, Marie Colvin, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Nanette Fabray, John Fahey, Bill Fay, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Sonny James, Chuck Jones, Mark Lanegan, Mike Melvoin, Dudley Murphy, Christoph Probst, Fons Rademakers, Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Simone Simon, Brody Stevens, Jonathan Szeles, David Vetter, Andy Warhol - Willie Colón (2/21/2026) - Essentials
DEEP THOUGHTS: If you’re too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
EAT ME: Margaritas, Sweet Potatoes
FOODIE: Keke Palmer’s Sweet Potato Pancakes
HOLIDAY: World Thinking Day, 2Twenty2 Day
HOROSCOPE: When all’s said and done, you should probably have just let those pandas succeed or fail on their own merits.
HOW TO: Think Better
JOKE: Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Gödel, and Noam Chomsky walk into a bar. Heisenberg turns to the other two and says, “Clearly this is a joke, but how can we figure out if it’s funny or not?” Gödel replies, “We can’t know that because we’re inside the joke.” Chomsky says, “Of course it’s funny. You’re just telling it wrong.”
PLAYLIST: The Auteurs: New Wave (2/22/1993), The Chills: Submarine Bells (2/22/1980), Gary Clark Jr.: This Land (2/22/2019), David Crosby: If I Could Only Remember My Name (2/22/1971), The Grays: Ro Sham Bo (2/22/1994), Ben Lee: Awake is the New Sleep (2/22/2005), Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark: Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark (2/22/1980), Radiohead: Pablo Honey (2/22/1993) - Mark Lanegan: Ballad of the Broken Seas (2006), Superchunk: Songs in thew Key of Yikes (2025)
Check out The Big Beat Playlist: February Edition - John Fahey, Bill Fay, Mark Lanegan, Merge Records, Superchunk
Check out the New Music Playlist: Twenty26, Check out the Sunday Big Beat Chill Playlist
READ: Adbusters, Clown Crack - The Great “Classics in a Year” Reading List - Go!
RELIGULOUS: “Thank God I’m an atheist!” Luis Buñuel
SCIENCE!: Today’s Moon Phase
SHAMELESS PLUG: 2Twenty2 Tavern
SHITASS: Samuel Byck, Charles Cullen, Hugh Hewitt, Mike Hughes
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: $1,700 per household - Now!
SPORT: Team USA and Canada compete for Olympic men’s hockey this morning. The puck is set to drop at 8:10 am ET tomorrow, marking the US men’s hockey team’s first gold medal game since 2010. Canada beat the US in that game to win its eighth of nine gold medals in men’s hockey. Go Canada! - Woke Bitches Win Gold. MAGA Losers? Still Losers
STREAM: The Andy Warhol Diaries (Netflix), The Bear (FX/Hulu), It Happened One Night (2/22/19434), Miracle (Disney/Hulu), Saturday Night Live: 1999-2006 (Peacock) - Blue Velvet (Hoopla/Kanopy/Mubi), Cora Bora (Netflix), Something Wild (Hoopla/Prime)
Luis Buñuel Film Festival - The Young and the Damned, The Exterminating Angel, Viridiana, El, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise, That Obscure Object of Desire, Simon of the Desert, The Phantom of Liberty, Nazarin, Belle de Jour, Un Chien Andalou, The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz, Tristana, Diary of a Chambermaid, The Young One, The Milky Way, L’Âge d’Or, Robinson Crusoe
TRAVEL: 36 Hours in Mexico City
UNFUCK THE WORLD: Yesterday Once More
WORD: Foray
WTF?!: The Week in Stupid
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2022 - Michael Berzatto shot himself in the head on the State Street Bridge in Chicago. 2022 - Musician Mark Lanegan died at the age of 57. 2021 - French electronic music duo Daft Punk announce their split after 28 years. 2019 - R. Kelly, who had for decades been accused of sexual misconduct and abuse of young girls, was charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in Chicago. 1997 - Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut and colleagues announced that an adult sheep had been successfully cloned. Dolly was actually born on July 5, 1996. Dolly was the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell. 1987 - Artist Andy Warhol died in Manhattan at 6:32 a.m. at age 58. According to news reports, he had been making a good recovery from gallbladder surgery at New York Hospital before dying in his sleep from a sudden postoperative irregular heartbeat. 1983 – The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opened and closed on the same night at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre. 1974 – Samuel Byck attempts to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate Richard Nixon, but is killed by police. 1943 – World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany. 1935 - It became illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House. 1920 - The first dog race track to use an imitation rabbit opened in California. 1907 – Robert Baden-Powell made the first scouting camp in Brownsea, England. 1819 – Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars. If we can find the receipt, can we return it?
“Andy Warhol is the only genius I’ve ever known with an IQ of 60.” Gore Vidal
“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” Andy Warhol
