July 22nd
Albert Brooks, George Clinton, Willem Dafoe, Selena Gomez, Don Henley, Ozzy Osbourne, Rufus Wainwright
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BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Steve Albini, Jason Becker, Albert Brooks, William Calhoun, George Clinton, Willem Dafoe, Rick Davies, Al Di Meola, Danny Glover, Selena Gomez, Don Henley, S.E. Hinton, Rhys Ifan, John Leguizamo, Laura Palmer, Franka Potente, Tom Robbins, Emily Saliers, Paul Schrader, Bobby Sherman, David Spade, Keith Sweat, Terrence Stamp, Rufus Wainwright, James Whale
DEAD (R.I.P.): James Boggs, Burger Records, Rob Collins, John Dillinger, Dennis Farina, Estelle Getty, Illinois Jacquet, Duane Jones, Laszlo Kovacs, John Mayall, Wayne McLaren, Ulrich Muhe, Art Neville, Frank Pierson, Manuel Puig, Juan Restrepo, Carl Sandburg, Claude Sautet, Sonny Stitt, David Wojnarowicz, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. - Malcolm-Jamal Warner (7/20/2025)
DEEP THOUGHTS: As you get older, you realize the stuff you think is important isn’t important, and the stuff you thought wasn’t important actually is.
EAT ME: Bacon Lettuce and Tomato, Mangos, Penuche Fudge - Pie, Rat, Ratatouille
FOODIE: Selena Gomez Oreos
HOLIDAY: Hammock Day, Leo, Pi Approximation Day, Ratcatcher’s Day
Leo (7/22-8/21) - Exudes warmth and creativity. A little bit vain. Really big personality. Wants to stand out. Interested in luxury. - Element: Fire - Modality: Fixed - Ruling Planet: The Sun - Symbol: The Lion
HOROSCOPE: Skunks are known to spray whenever they feel cornered, though why you decided to approach them with your latest screenplay idea is anyone's guess.
HOW-TO: Calculate Pi, Get Rid of Rats, Grow a Mango Tree, Have Dirty Hot Sex In a Hammock
JOKE: The teacher knew Little Johnny had a potty mouth, but she wanted to try this exercise anyway. She explained to the kindergarten class that she would be naming each letter of the alphabet and they would raise their hand and when called on, say a word that starts with that letter. "A" she said. Plenty of hands went into the air. Little Johnny's hand was the most obvious to be seen, as he was waving it around. She knew if she called on him, he would just say a naughty word. So she ignored him and called on another student. "Becky." "A is for Apple" she said. "Very good. Ok next letter. 'B'" Hands went up. Little Johnny's again was being waved to no end. She could see he knew a great word to say. She also knew it would be a naughty word. She ignored him and again called another student. This continued throughout the alphabet until she got the the letter "R." By this point, Little Johnny was jumping up and down to answer. She couldn't think of a bad word that started with an "R" so she decided to take a chance and call on him. Maybe he genuinely wants to participate. "Ok, Little Johnny, your turn" Little Johnny answers, "Rats. BIG FUCKING RATS!"
PLAYLIST: Alvvays: Alvvays (7/22/2014), The Avett Brothers: The Second Gleam (7/22/2008), Commodores: Machine Gun (7/22/1974), Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus (7/22/1997), Elvis Costello: My Aim is True (7/22/1977), John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers: Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton (7/22/1966), She and Him: Melt Away - A Tribute to Brian Wilson (7/22/2022), Jack White: Entering Heaven Alive (7/22/2022), Stevie Wonder: Fulfillingness’ First Finale (7/22/1974) - Eagles: One of These Nights (1975), Indigo Girls: Nomads Indians Saints (1990), Parliament: Mothership Connection (1975), Supertramp: Crisis? What Crisis? (1975), Rufus Wainwright: Dream Requiem (2025) - Jonathan Richman: Only Frozen Sky Anyway
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Burger Records, Eagles, Don Henley, Indigo Girls, John Mayall, The Meters, The Neville Brothers, Parliament/Funkadelic, Sonny Stitt, Supertramp, Rufus Wainwright
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
READ: Albert Brooks: 2030 - The Real Story of What Happens to America (2010), S.E. Hinton: Rumble Fish (1975), Tom Robbins: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980) - Common Dreams, Thom Hartmann: Death Rattle of a Cult - Trump, Epstein, and the Long Knives of the Right, Chris Hedges: The Persecution of Francesca Albanese
RELIGULOUS: The Christian Left’s battle for the Bible — and the country
SCIENCE!: Scientists predict today will be (slightly) shorter than normal
SHITASS: Qusay Hussein, Uday Hussein, Timothy Mellon
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: NPR and PBS received $85 Million Dollars last year. Trump’s golf trips will cost taxpayers over $100 Million Dollars this year.
STREAM: The Daily Show, Oh, Canada (Kanopy), Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All (Netflix), Twin Peaks (Mubi), Wojnarowicz: Fuck You Faggot Fucker (Hoopla/Kanopy)
New Release Blu-Rays: All We Imagine as Light (Criterion/Criterion Collection), Carnal Knowledge (Criterion Collection), Final Destination: Bloodlines, Sinners (HBO Max), You Can Count on Me (Criterion Collection/Hoopla/Kanopy)
Albert Brooks Film Festival - Lost in America, Defending Your Life, Modern Romance, Real Life, Mother, The Muse, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World - Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
Paul Schrader Film Festival - Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Blue Collar, First Reformed, Hardcore, Affliction, Light Sleeper, Auto Focus, American Gigolo, The Comfort of Strangers, Patty Hearst, The Card Counter, Cat People, Master Gardener, Dark, Oh Canada, Light of Day - Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Yakuza, Bringing Out the Dead, Rolling Thunder, City Hall - Paul Scrader: Man in a Room
TRAVEL: Cleveland
TRUMPED: Yesterday in one sentence: Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” will add $3.4 trillion to the national deficit over 10 years and leave 10 million more people uninsured by 2034; Affordable Care Act insurers proposed a median premium increase of 15% for 2026; the White House removed the Wall Street Journal from the press pool for Trump’s trip to Scotland after it published a story about a sexually suggestive letter he allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein; a former Jeffrey Epstein employee told the FBI in 1996 and again in 2006 to investigate Trump’s ties to Epstein; House Speaker Mike Johnson said the House will not vote on a resolution to release Jeffrey Epstein-related documents before the August recess; Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a report accusing Obama-era officials of staging a “treasonous conspiracy” during the 2016 election; Trump posted a fake video showing Obama being handcuffed and arrested in the Oval Office, as “Y.M.C.A.” plays and Trump smiles in the background; the Trump administration released over 230,000 pages of FBI and CIA files related to the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from King’s family and civil rights groups and Trump threatened to block a stadium deal in Washington unless the NFL team now called the Commanders changes its name back to Redskins – a name long criticized as a racial slur against Native Americans.
WELLNESS: Do You Need to Drink Electrolytes?
WORD: Relaxation - the absence of worry.
WTF?!: Stacy is fucking crazy.
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2011 – Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya. The attacks claimed a total of 77 lives. 1991 - Police in Milwaukee arrested serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to murdering 17 men and boys. 1971 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent the second day filming the Imagine promotional film at their home in England. 1934 – Outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, John Dillinger was killed by FBI agents. He went to see the Clark Gable crime film Manhattan Melodrama. He was killed behind the theater. And do you know who tipped them off? His fucking girlfriend. All he wanted to do was go to the movies. 1796 - Cleveland, Ohio was founded. 1376 - Rat Catcher’s Day. The Pied Piper got rid of all the rats in the German town of Hamelin. When the townspeople refused to pay, the Pied Piper led all the town’s children away. Ha! That is some evil shit right there.
“I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I’m fine." Albert Brooks
“Latin’s for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.” John Leguizamo
“There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.” Tom Robbins
"I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way." Carl Sandburg
“I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down/I'm going to a place that has already been disgraced/I'm gonna see some folks who have already been let down/I'm so tired of America.” Rufus Wainwright
