June 29th
Bob Crane, DJ Shadow, Colin Hay, Katherine Hepburn, Colin Jost, Richard Lewis, Jayne Mansfield, Lily Rabe, Carl Reiner
Good Morning - Hello! It is Sunday, June 29th. Welcome to Exit/Enter, your daily newsletter of the day ahead of you. There is lots of shit happening and Exit/Enter wants to help you plan for it. But first, you should probably catch up on all the news this morning and check out your sports scores. Also, see what the weather is going to be like wherever you are. Thanks for reading and/or subscribing. To see the complete updated Exit/Enter for today and yesterdays - visit the website. Be awesome today and try not to be a shitass.
BORN (HAPPY BIRTHDAY): Roger Allers, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jeff Baena, Gary Busey, Zoe Cassavetes, Charlemagne da God, Disasterpeace, DJ Shadow, Don Dokken, Bob Fass, Robert Forester, Matthew Good, Colin Hay, Colin Jost, Kawhi Leonard, Richard Lewis, Bret McKenzie, Oliver Tree, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Lily Rabe, Gillian Robespierre, Nicole Scherzinger, Riley Stearns
DEAD (R.I.P.): Ted Allan, Fatty Arbuckle, Alan Arkin, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Tim Buckley, Primo Carnera, Allan Carr, Rosemary Clooney, Bob Crane, Don S. Davis, Eric Dolphy, Vittorio Gassman, Lowell George, Stepa J. Groggs, Katherine Hepburn, William Hickey, Paul Horn, Jim Kelly, Henry King, Héctor Lavoe, Shorty Long, Richard Loving, Jayne Mansfield, Benny Mardones, Kazuo Mori, François Périer, Carl Reiner, Joel Siegel, Lana Turner, Edward Yang - Rebekah Del Rio (6/23/2025)
DEEP THOUGHTS: I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us.
EAT ME: Almond Buttercrunch, Waffle Iron Day - Katherine Hepburn’s Brownies
HOLIDAY: Camera Day, Mud Day
HOROSCOPE: The sudden rise in mood swings, wild food cravings, and rapid head-to-toe hair-growth can only mean one thing: It's that time of the lunar cycle again!
HOW-TO: Have a Transatlantic Accent, Make Mud, Take Better Photographs, Use a Waffle Maker
JOKE: Weekend Update - Joke Swaps (Complete Collection)
PLAYLIST (ALBUMS OF THE DAY): Tim Buckley: Lorca/Starsailor (1970), Eric Dolphy: Outward Bound (1960), Alejandro Escovedo: Street Songs of Love (6/29/2010), Robert Forester: Songs to Play (2015), The Go-Betweens: Oceans Apart (2005), Héctor Lavoe: La Voz (1975), Little Feat: The Last Record Album (1975), Men at Work: Two Hearts (1985)
Captain Beefheart: Safe as Milk (6/29/1967), The Cure: The Cure (6/29/2004), Jim James: Uniform Distortion (6/29/2018), Pink Floyd: A Saucer Full of Secrets (6/29/1969), John Waite: Ignition (6/29/1982)
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Tim Buckley, Rosemary Clooney, DJ Shadow, Eric Dolphy, Flight of the Conchords, Héctor Lavoe, Little Feat, Men at Work
Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Station, Check out the Big Beat with Rascal PHX Chill Station
Check out the Sunday Morning Jazz Playlist, Check out the Sunday Brunch with the Beatles Playlist
SHITASS: Donald Rumsfeld
STREAM (STREAMS OF THE DAY): Catch-22 (Hoopla/Kanopy), Day Out of Days (Hoopla/Peacock), Horse Girl (Netflix), My Mom Jayne (HBO Max), Summertime (Criterion/Kanopy/HBO Max), Taipei Story (Criterion), Yi Yi (Criterion)
The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century (The New York Times): This week the New York Times compiled The Best Movies of the 21st Century (thus far). It was a pretty solid list. I agree with much of it and of course disagree with some selections. Here is the Exit/Enter Top 10 without overthinking it too much. 1. Parasite (2019), 2. There Will Be Blood (2007), 3. Children of Men (2006), 4. City of God (2002), 5. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - Honorable Mentions: Almost Famous (2000), Amelie (2001), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Frances Ha (2013), In the Mood for Love (2001)
Carl Reiner Film Festival - The Jerk, All of Me, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, The Man with Two Brains, Oh God!, Summer School, Summer Rental, The One and Only, Where’s Poppa?
Edward Yang Film Festival - A Brighter Summer Day, Taipei Story, Yi Yi, A Confician Confusion, Mahjong
TRAVEL: 7430 E. Chaparral Road #132A, Scottsdale, AZ
WELLNESS: “The Bear” gets it — we’re all burned out now
WORD: Structural Racism - When minorities are rejected from obtaining loans they cannot build wealth for future generations. When they are refused home loans to move into white neighborhoods, they remain in poor neighborhoods with depressed infrastructure, their kids go to underfunded overcrowded schools, drop out and with no job prospects, many end up in jail. Upon release they cannot get decent paying jobs, they remain in poor areas, their kids go to underfunded overcrowded schools, the cycle of poverty continues generation after generation. That is the reality of racism.
WTF?!: This Week in Stupid
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2023 - In a 6–3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that race can no longer be considered a factor in university admissions, effectively ending affirmative action in higher learning. Hey Everybody! Racism is over!! 2022 - R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking and racketeering. 2021 - Donald Rumsfeld died at 88. Killer of over 400,000 people, he died peacefully. 2012 – A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power. 2007 - The Apple iPhone went on sale for the first time. 2003 - Actress Katharine Hepburn died at age 96. 1978 - Actor Bob Crane was bludgeoned and strangled to death in his bed at the Winfield Apartments (7430 E. Chaparral Road #132A) in Scottsdale, Arizona. His murder has never been solved. 1975 - Musician Tim Buckley died at the age of 28 from a heroin overdose - his son Jeff Buckley died by drowning in the Mississippi river at the age of 30. 1971 – Prior to re-entry (following a record-setting stay aboard the Soviet Union’s Salyut 1 space station), the crew capsule of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft depressurizes, killing the three cosmonauts on board. They were the first humans to die in space. 1969 - The Harlem Cultural Festival kicked off in Harlem, Manhattan which celebrated African American music and culture, and promoted the continued politics of Black pride. It became known informally as Black Woodstock. 1967 - Actress Jayne Mansfield, 34, and two male companions died when their car struck a trailer truck east of New Orleans. 1956 – The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System. 1905 - The New York Baseball Giants were the visiting team against the Brooklyn Superbas at Washington Park. At the conclusion of the eighth inning, Moonlight Graham replaced right fielder George Browne. In the top of the ninth inning, Graham was on deck when Claude Elliott flied out, resulting in the third and final out. Graham played the bottom of the ninth in right field, never having the ball hit in his direction. That game turned out to be his only appearance in the major leagues.
“We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.” Thomas Henry Huxley
