January 7th
Michael Apted, Nicolas Cage, Ira Kaplan, Kenny Loggins, Neil Peart, Jeremy Renner, Nikola Tesla
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BORN (ENTER): Charles Addams, Aloe Blacc, Børns, Cindy Brasic, Nicolas Cage, Ivy Blue Carter, David Caruso, Katie Couric, Doug E. Doug, Ben Fong-Torres, Vincent Gardenia, Tom Harper, Sammo Hung, Lamar Jackson, Ira Kaplan, E.L. Katz, Robert Longo, Kenny Loggins, Clint Mansell, Darnell Martin, Antonio Méndez Esparza, Tomm Moore, Sofi Oksanen, Mike Pantoja, Jeremy Renner, Kathy Valentine, Jann Wenner, Martin Zandvilet
DEAD (EXIT): Michael Apted, Monty Banks, Owen Bradley, James Carr, Cyril Davies, P.D. Eastman, David R. Ellis, France Gall, David Goodis, Trevor Howard, Kitty Kalen, Tommy Lasorda, Thomas Lawrence, Andrew Marton, Neil Peart, Adam Rich, Bimal Roy, Avery Schrieber, Troy Shondell, Brian Sicknick, Nikola Tesla, Ingrid Thulion, Larry Williams, Elizabeth Wurtzel - Roger Pratt (12/2024)
DEEP THOUGHTS: What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.
HOLIDAY: Bobblehead Day
HOROSCOPE: Stop worrying about what people think of you, especially since it's so complicated you probably wouldn't be able to understand it.
JOKE: The producer of a low budget film is trying to convince the newly hired director of the quality of the work by telling him the big names they've gotten for the cast. "First of all," he tells him, "We've got Clooney in the lead." The director is surprised, "You got George Clooney?" "Well, no," the Producer responds, "we got Marvin Clooney, he's a distant cousin who lives in Queens, but he's very up and coming. And besides, we've also got Redford." "You got Robert Redford?" the director asks. "No, we got Jeremy Redford, but he's very talented and has lots of acting experience from years of dinner theater. But," he says enthusiastically, " we've got Streisand and in a singing role." "Barbara Streisand?" he asks. "No, Elizabeth Streisand." The Producer responds. "But she's got a great voice. AND we've got Cage." "You got Nicolas Cage?" the director asks. "Yeah," the producer replies glumly, "we got Nicolas Cage."
PLAYLIST: Loggins and Messina: So Fine (1975), Rush: Power Windows (1985), Yo La Tengo: Electr-O-Pura (1995)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Rush, Yo La Tengo
QUESTION: How are you Feeling?
READ: Thom Hartmann: Trump’s Monsters’ Playbook - Lies, Fear, and the Cult of Dehumanization, Chris Hedges: Genocide - The New Normal, JoJoFromHerz: Donnie Dissatisfied
New Book Releases: Dino Buzzati: The Bewitched Bourgeois, Kari Ferrell: You’ll Never Believe Me, Adam Haslett: Mothers and Sons, Adam Ross: Playworld, Bernhard Schlink: The Granddaughter, Sue Lynn Tan: Immortal
SHITASS: Tim Donaghy, Five for Fighting, Ivan L. Moody, Rand Paul, John Thune, Jann Wenner
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: First Person Dies Of Bird Flu In U.S. - Don’t worry Trump and RFK, Jr., they got this.
SPACED: On early January evenings, the constellation of Auriga, the Charioteer is positioned high in the eastern sky. The constellation is dominated by the very bright (magnitude 0.05), yellow, sun-like star Capella, nick-named the Goat Star. Look several finger widths to the right (or 4 degrees to the celestial south) of Capella for a narrow, sideways triangle of three fainter stars known as the Kids –Almaaz, and Hoedus I, and Hoedus II (or Epsilon, Zeta, and Eta Aurigae). The main stars of Auriga form an ellipse, although the medium-bright star Elnath at its right-hand (or southern) end is actually the northern horn-tip star of Taurus, the Bull - Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day (1/7/1610)
STREAM: Almost Famous (Criterion), Brief Encounter (Criterion/Max), Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action (Netflix), Leaving Las Vegas (Max), Like a Rolling Stone: The Life and Times of Ben Fong-Torres (Netflix), Longlegs (PPV), Shoot the Piano Player (Criterion/Max), Tesla (AMC/Mubi), The Town (Hulu), Wolfwalkers (Apple) - The Daily Show
Magnolia (1/7/2000) (Paramount)
New Blu-Ray Releases: Carville: Winning is Everything, Stupid (Max), Flow (PPV), Saturday Night, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (PPV), Things Will Be Different, Yojimbo/Sanjuro: Two Samurai Films by Akira Kurosawa (Criterion/Criterion Collection)
Michael Apted Film Festival - Amazing Grace, Blink, Coal Miners Daughter, Continental Divide, Enigma, Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story, Me and Isaac Newton, Thunderheart, The Up Documentaries
Sammo Hung - Eastern Condors
TYRANNY (COUNTDOWN TO JANUARY 20TH): Lesson 7 - Be Reflective If You Must Be Armed
VOX: Justin Trudeau is resigning. Here’s what comes next.
WORD: Ayahuasca
WTF!?: 'Racist' and 'Classless' Husband of GOP Senator Won't Shake Kamala Harris' Hand - Somebody should go visit Nebraska and take this motherfuckers hand because he doesn’t know how to us it.
WWW: ACLU, Adbusters, Apple Music, Banned Book Club, The Brigid Alliance, Clown Crack, 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, Southern Poverty Law Center, Starship Casual, Steve McGarry, The Straight Dope, Strummerville, TeachRock, Trader Joes, Wilco, World Central Kitchen, Zinn Education Project - Exit/Enter on Blue Sky
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2023 - Tyre Nichols was beaten to death by 5 police officers in Memphis. He will officially die in three days. 2023 - Dipshit Kevin McCarthy is elected speaker of the United States House of Representatives after fifteen rounds of voting, the most since 1860. 2022 - The three defendants convicted in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery are sentenced to life in prison. Travis and Greg McMichael are sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, while William Bryan is sentenced to life with the possibility of parole. Byeeee. 2015 – A mass shooting at the newspaper offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, killed twelve people and injured another eleven. 1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO. 1939 – French physicist Marguerite Perey identified francium, the last element to be discovered in nature rather than by synthesis. 1901 - Alfred Packer was released from prison. He served 18 years for cannibalism after being stranded in the Rocky Mountains. (Actually he was convicted of murder, since cannibalism was not against the law). Wait. What?! 1797 – The Italian tricolour was first adopted as an official flag by the government of the Cispadane Republic.
“There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.” Nikola Tesla