July 15th
Ari Aster, Anton Chekov, Alain Guiraudie, Martin Landau, Damian Lillard, D.A. Pennebaker, Linda Ronstadt, Gianni Versace, Forrest Whitaker
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Willie Aames, Olly Alexander, Ari Aster, James Balog, Jason Bonham, Alicia Bridges, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Liza Colón-Zayas, Ian Curtis, Lolita Davidovich, Michaël Dudok de Wit, William Dieterle, Roky Erickson, Anne Fontaine, Brian Austin Green, Eddie Griffin, Alain Guiraudie, Trevor Horn, Arianna Huffington, Gabriel Iglesias, Celia Imrie, Millie Jackson, Irène Jacob, Jim Jones, Diane Kruger, Damian Lillard, Iris Murdoch, Brigitte Nielsen, David Pack, D.A. Pennebaker, Marky Ramone, Jim Rash, Rodd Rathjen, Rembrandt, Linda Ronstadt, Joe Satriani, Adam Savage, Alex Scally, Johnny Thunders, Jesse Ventura, Forrest Whitaker, Satsuo Yamamoto
DEAD (R.I.P.): Ted Berman, Anton Chekov, Tsilla Chelton, Christine Chubbuck, Hank Cochrane, Walter Donaldson, Nesuhi Ertegun, Celeste Holm, Bill Justis, Martin Landau, Julia Lennon, Susan Lydon, Paul Ryder, Gianni Versace, Googie Withers, Paul Young
DEEP THOUGHTS: Imagine how our culture, how our lives, will change when we begin valuing go-givers as much as we value go-getters.
EAT ME: Blackcurrants, Gummi Worms, Tapioca Pudding - Albóndigas de la Familia Ronstadt
HOLIDAY: Give Something Away Day - MLB All-Star Game (2025)
HOROSCOPE: Try to break your habit of turning to anonymous sources for general advice on your problems.
HOW-TO: Give it Away
JOKE: As I was driving to work one day, I noticed a sign on the side of the road. It said “Republican puppies for sale”. At the time I thought nothing of it. But, a couple weeks later, I was driving by and it said “Democrat puppies for sale” so I stopped and spoke to the boy that had the puppies. I asked him why the sign said Republican puppies two weeks ago, but Democrat puppies now. “Well, sir, they have their eyes open now.”
THE ONION: DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website
PLAYLIST (ALBUMS OF THE DAY): Beach House: Depression Cherry/Thank Your Lucky Stars (2015), Joy Division: Closer (1980), Ramones: End of the Century (1980), Linda Ronstadt: Prisoner in Disguise (1975) - Open Mike Eagle: Neighborhood Gods Unlimited
Big Country: The Crossing (7/15/1983), The Damned: Phantasmagoria (7/15/1985), The Dandy Warhols: The Dandy Warhols Come Down (7/15/1997), Neil Diamond: Moods (7/15/1972), Grand Funk Railroad: We’re an American Band (7/15/1973), Interpol: The Other Side of Make-Believe (7/15/2022), Donnie Iris: Back on the Streets (7/15/1980), Sarah McLachlan: Surfacing (7/15/1997), The Yardbirds: Roger the Engineer (7/15/1966), Dwight Yoakam: Under the Covers (7/15/1997)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Joy Division, Linda Ronstadt
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READ: Common Dreams: On Manic Racism and Kindness As Kryptonite, Thom Hartmann: America on the Brink: Trump’s Roadmap to Recession, Fascism, and World War III, Chris Hedges: Trump, Epstein and the Deep State
New Book Releases: Jennifer Dasal: The Club, Haley Cohen Gilliland: A Flower Traveled in My Blood, Laurie Gwen Shapiro: The Aviator and the Showman, Tim Weiner: The Mission - The C.I.A. in the 21st Century
RELIGULOUS: “Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you. The religious right wants to tell people how to live.” Jesse Ventura
SCIENCE!: Earth Melting (ASMR)
SHITASS: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, John Christie, Peter Navarro
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Trump Admin Announces $200 Million Contract for Musk's AI After Grok Hitler Incident
STREAM: D.A. Pennebaker’s Eye on the Century (Criterion), Misericordia (Criterion), The Shrouds (Criterion)
New Blu-Ray Releases: The Actor, The Adventures of Antoine Doinel (Criterion Collection), Blur: To the End
Ari Aster Film Festival - Hereditary, Midsommar, Beau is Afraid, Eddington
Alain Guiraudie Film Festival - Stranger by the Lake, Misericordia, Sunshine for the Poor, That Old Dream That Moves, Nobody’s Hero, The King of Escape, No Rest for the Brave, Staying Vertical
D.A. Pennebaker Film Festival - Jimi Plays Monterey, Shake! Otis at Monterey, Original Cast Album: Company, Depeche Mode: 101, Don’t Look Back, Monterey Pop, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, The War Room, Down from the Mountain, Town Bloody Hall, Unlocking the Cage, Kings of Pastry, Only the Strong Survive
TRUMPED: Yesterday in one sentence: The Supreme Court allowed Trump to move forward with dismantling the Education Department and laying off nearly half its staff; a group of 24 states and Washington, D.C., sued the Trump administration for withholding $6.8 billion in education funding; House Democrats are attempting to force a House vote to make Attorney General Pam Bondi release all records related to Jeffrey Epstein; Attorney General Pam Bondi fired the Justice Department’s top ethics lawyer without explanation on the same day she dismissed at least 20 other DOJ staffers tied to former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into Trump; Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended FEMA’s response to the Texas floods, calling it “the best response we’ve seen”; and Trump said the U.S. would send new weapons to Ukraine, including Patriot missiles, through a NATO plan funded by European countries.
WELLNESS: The Underground Economy Your Neighbors Are Already Building
WORD: Malaise - a general feeling of discomfort, illness, or uneasiness whose exact cause is difficult to identify.
WTF?!: Another 800 kids to be tested for disease linked to alleged childcare abuser
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2024 - Trump’s RNC Convention began in Milwaukee. It’s the worst thing to happen to Milwaukee since Jeffrey Dahmer. 2010 - British Petroleum stopped the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico after 85 days using a 75-ton cap lowered onto the well. 2006 – Twitter launched, becoming one of the largest social media platforms in the world. Too many tweets however, make you a twat. 2005 - Writer Susan Lydon died at the age of 61. 1997 - Fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot to death outside his home in Miami; gunman Andrew Phillip Cunanan was found dead eight days later. 1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gave his malaise speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation" but in which he never uses the word malaise. 1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer. 1904 - The first Buddhist temple in the U.S. was established in Los Angeles. 1888 - "Printers’ Ink" was first sold. 1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage. 1799 – The Rosetta Stone was found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
“As you know, there is a growing disrespect for government and for churches and for schools, the news media, and other institutions. This is not a message of happiness or reassurance, but it is the truth and it is a warning... It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our Nation... too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption... We always believed that we were part of a great movement of humanity itself called democracy, involved in the search for freedom... We are at a turning point in our history. There are two paths to choose. One is a path I've warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest. Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others. That path would be one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility. It is a certain route to failure.” Jimmy Carter
