July 21st
Tony Bennett, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Erling Haaland, Norman Jewison, Cat Stevens, Béla Tarr, Juno Temple, Robin Williams
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BORN (ENTER): Justin Bartha, Basil, Eric Bazilian, Greg Behrendt, Steve Byrne, Lee Camp, Sonny Clark, Jim Clyburn, Michael Connelly, Rory Culkin, Mel Damski, David Dastmalchian, Michael Fitzpatrick, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Betty Gilpin, Erling Haaland, Emerson Hart, Josh Hartnett, Jalmari Helander, Ernest Hemingway, Edward Herrmann, Yusuf Islam, Norman Jewison, Richard Ladkani, Jon Lovitz, Lucy Malsch, Damian Marley, Ross McElwee, Karel Reisz, Taco, Béla Tarr, Juno Temple, Garry Trudeau, Valentyn Vasyanovych, George Wallace, Robin Williams
DEAD (EXIT): Don Arden, Tony Bennett, Burt Britton, Robert Burns, E.L. Doctorow, Gus Dudgeon, Dave Garroway, Gidget, Jonathan Gold, Jerry Goldsmith, John Heard, Rex Ingram, Herbie Kalin, Paul Krassner, Neal Langford, Little Miss Nobody, Mako, Basil Rathbone, Marc Reisner, Annie Ross, Alan Shepard, Davis Tutt, Claus Von Stauffenberg, Robert Young - Denise Oliver-Velez (7/2026)
DEEP THOUGHTS: The worst thing in life is not to end up all alone. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
EAT ME: Junk Food Day, Lamington Cake
FOODIE: The Best Sparkling Waters At The Grocery Store, According To Water Sommeliers
HOLIDAY: Hand Job Day
HOROSCOPE: Twins are often able to sense when the other is in danger, but you’ll continue punching yours in the face long after he’s dead.
HOW-TO: Moonwalk
JOKE: Just after Neil Armstrong walks on the moon, and said the famous quote “one small step... Before he re-entered the lander to come back to Earth, he made an remark that no one really understood at the time --- “Good luck Mr. Gorsky.” Many people though perhaps Gorsky might have been an old friend or mentor from either the Russian or American space programs, but no records of that name were found and Neil never revealed who he was. Years later after Neil found out that Mr. Gorsky had died, he felt he could finally answer the question. When he was a kid, Neil was playing baseball with a friend in the backyard. His friend hit a ball which landed in front of his neighbor’s bedroom window. His neighbors were Mr. and Mrs. Gorksy. As he leaned down to pick it up, young Armstrong heard Mrs. Gorsky shouting at Mr. Gorsky. “Oral sex! You want oral sex?! You’ll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!”
PLAYLIST: Black Sabbath: Master of Reality (7/21/1971), Cut Worms: Cut Worms (7/21/2023), Guns N’ Roses: Appetite for Destruction (7/21/1987), House of Pain: House of Pain (7/21/1992), Elliott Smith: Elliot Smith (7/21/1995), Sonic Youth: Dirty (7/21/1992), T. Rex: The Slider (7/21/1972) - Charlotte Gainsbourg: 5:55 (2006), The Shins: Oh, Inverted World (2001), Cat Stevens: Teaser and the Firecat (1971)
Check out The Big Beat Playlist: July Edition - Tony Bennett, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Annie Ross, Cat Stevens
PODCAST: The Prof G Pod, The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
QUESTION: Who’s to Blame? Ask the Far Right—They Have a List
READ: Marc Reisner: Cadillac Desert (1986), J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (7/21/2007) - The Atlantic: Why Widow’s Bay Is the Show of the Summer, Heather Cox Richardson: Yesterday Once More
New Book Releases: Justine Larbalestier and Scott Westerfeld: The Mortons, Stacey McEwan: A Forsaken Prophecy, Kim Phillips-Fein: Country of Lords, Claire Vaye Watkins: Yellow Pine, Colson Whitehead: Cool Machine, Ben Wikler: This Is The Plan - How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy
REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL: Grandmother, 82, wins law change so she can enjoy Happy Hour at care home
RELIGULOUS: Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
RIDICULOUSNESS: Trump wants Tehran to ‘pay the price’ for killing US soldiers - We’ve killed between 3,500 and 7,600, Iranians since the war began according to various human rights groups and independent faction trackers. So Trump can kill whoever he wants and you can’t fight back.
SCIENCE!: Today’s Moon Phase
SHAMELESS PLUG: The ExitEnter Store - Resist and Unsubscribe
SHITASS: John Barrasso, Sam Bass, Mick Mulvaney
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Trump ‘Raising Prices on Americans Again’ With 50% Tariff on Canadian Imports because Canadian smoke is drifting into America - UK’s Andy Burnham becomes the country’s seventh prime minister in a decade after his official meeting with King Charles III - The war with Iran has pushed the national average price of gasoline back above $4 a gallon.
SPORT: WNBA Power Rankings
STREAM: Barbie (7/21/2023), Do the Right Thing (7/21/1989), Oppenheimer (7/21/2023), When Harry Met Sally (7/21/1989) - Check out the ExitEnter Films of the Day - Blue Heron (Criterion), Widow’s Bay: Our History (Apple) - The Daily Show
New Blu-Ray/Streaming Releases: Cruel Story of Youth (Criterion Collection), The Love That Remains (Criterion Collection) - Disclosure Day (PPV), Meandering Scars (PPV)
UNFUCK THE WORLD: Scott Galloway, Thom Hartmann: Trump and The Odyssey: The Ancient Curse He Just Unleashed on America, Chris Hedges: Becoming the Stranger, The Independent Ink - ‘Fascism Is Here’: Rubio, Miller Say More Terrorist Designations Coming for ‘Far-Left’ Groups
WIRECUTTER: The Best Personal Lubricants
WORD: Diaper - Diaper backward spells repaid.
WTF?!: The Dark Forest Hypothesis explains why the universe seems empty: it’s like a dark forest at night. Every advanced civilization is an armed hunter staying perfectly silent because revealing yourself risks instant destruction by a stronger or more paranoid one. Better to hide than to say hello.
YOUTUBED: Holy Shit! Man Walks On Fucking Moon - Remake
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2024 - Holy Shit! President Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential election. 2023 - Barbenheimer. 2023 - Singer Tony Bennett died at the age of 96. 1989 - Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing was released in theaters. The nearest place to see it for me was in Milwaukee at the Grand Theater downtown, about an hour from where I lived. It was a gigantic theater with at least a thousand or more seats in it. I sat on the aisle in the middle of the theater. By the time Radio Raheem was killed at the end (sorry for spoiler), the audience was growing restless and started yelling at the screen. I remember looking around and realizing that I may be the only white person in the theater. Credits rolled, I bolted. 1969 - Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon and then blasted off from the moon aboard the lunar module. In the years following this day, Neil Armstong would tell bad jokes about walking on the moon. When he would get no laughs with these jokes he would say, “Well, I guess you had to be there.” That’s funny. 1959 – Elijah Jerry “Pumpsie” Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100. 1865 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.” Ernest Hemingway
