March 5th
John Belushi, Patsy Cline, John Frusciante, Albert Maysles, Pier Paolo Pasolini, William Powell, Amanda Shires
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BORN (ENTER): Madison Beer, Sonya Cassidy, John Fawcett, Julian French, John Frusciante, Eddy Grant, Rex Harrison, Murray Head, Michael Irvin, Penn Jillette, Jennifer Kent, Per Lindberg, Riki Lindhome, Matt Lucas, Rosa Luxemburg, Aasif Mandvi, Teena Marie, Eva Mendes, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Charlie Reid, Craig Reid, Emma Selihman, Amanda Shires, Mark E. Smith, Dean Stockwell, David Tibet, Mike Veeck, Fred Williamson, Karolina Wydra
DEAD (EXIT): Mischa Auer, John Belushi, Hugo Chavez, Patsy Cline, Cyril Collard, Morris Engel, Alberto Grandado, Scott Kalvert, Nikolai Leskov, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Albert Maysles, William Cameron Menzies, George Miller, William Powell, Sergei Prokofiev, Sara Romweber, Gary Rossington, Sally Schmitt, Robert B. Sherman, Michael Stanley, Nathaniel Woods - Lou Holtz (3/4/2026)
DEEP THOUGHTS: Nearing 59, I look back at my 30-year-old self and regret that I wasted time. Then I regret wasting my current time regretting regrets about regrets. This is pretty sophisticated regretting I’m doing. That’s the sole advantage of ageing: I can now effortlessly consolidate my regrets into one manageable block of misery. Otherwise, by the age of 64, I’d need complex database software just to keep track of precisely how many things I’m regretting at once.
EAT ME: Absinthe, Cheese Doodles - The French Laundry, Lentil Soup
FOODIE: The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again.
HOLIDAY: Cinco de Marcho
Note: Cinco de Marcho is the official holiday that marks the beginning of the 12-day season where you begin training your liver for St. Patrick’s Day. It is properly celebrated by combining the rich traditions of both St. Patrick’s Day and Cinco de Mayo.
HOROSCOPE: Just when it seems that all hope is gone, you’ll discover a deep untapped reservoir of hope within you which will soon be gone too.
HOW TO: Increase Alcohol Tolerance, Lose Your Virginity
HOW TO: Start a Revolution - 12. Skywriting and Earthwriting
JOKE: What do you call a 13 year old girl from Kentucky who can run faster than her six brothers? A virgin.
PLAYLIST: Against Me!: Against Me! Is Reinventing Axl Rose (3/5/2002), Arcade Fire: Neon Bible (3/5/2007), Andrew Bird: Break it Yourself (3/5/2012), Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Beat the Devil’s Tattoo (3/5/2010), The Cinematics: A Strange Education (3/5/2007), Connie Converse: How Sad, How Lovely (3/5/2004), Steve Earle: Guitar Town (3/5/1986), Steve Earle: I Feel Alright (3/5/1996), David Gilmour: About Face (3/5/1984), Howard Jones: Human Lib (3/5/1984), Ben Kweller: Sha Sha (3/5/2002), The Kinks: Kinda Kinks (3/5/1965), Yngwie Malmsteen: Rising Force (3/5/1984), Frank Sinatra: Songs for Swingin’ Lovers (3/5/1956), The Stooges: The Weirdness (3/5/2007) - The Blues Brothers: The Lost Recordings (2026), Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991), Amanda Shires: Nobody’s Girl (2025) - Rockie Rode: Rockie
Check out The Big Beat Playlist: March Edition - Patsy Cline, John Frusciante, Prokofiev, Amanda Shires
Check out the New Music Playlist: Twenty26
PODCAST: Penn’s Sunday School
READ: The New Republic, John Pavlovitz: He is Not Worth This, America, Reasons to be Cheerful: How to Make Parenting Fun Again, Robert Reich: The Moral Basis of Civilization
RELIGULOUS: The Republican-Evangelical Armageddon Death Pact to Kill the Earth and Bring Back Jesus
SCIENCE!: Today’s Moon Phase
SHAMELESS PLUG: The ExitEnter Store - Consumption will fill the void
SHITASS: Bertrand Cantet, Joe Exotic, William Heirens, Richard Kuklinski, Joel Osteen, Josef Stalin
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: 21 — That’s the percentage of students vaccinated against measles at Global Academy, one of two schools in Spartanburg County, S.C., where measles had been detected. The county is ground zero for the largest measles outbreak since 2000.
SPORT: St. Louis Cardinals unveil new perk where fans can eat all they want at games for $29
STREAM: Belushi, The Death of Stalin, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, The Saint of Second Chances, Saturday Night Live: 1975-1979 (Peacock), Sweet Dreams, While the City Sleeps - The Hawks and the Sparrows (Criterion), Lady Macbeth (Hoopla/Kanopy), My Man Godfrey (Hoopla/Kanopy), This City is Ours: A Crime Family Saga (AMC), Vladimir (Netflix)
TOP 5: Facts about The French Laundry - 1. With just 60 seats and dinner service only, scoring a table requires dedication. Reservations open one month in advance at 10:00 AM Pacific, via Tock. Keep in mind, they take the month of January off, since they are open 7 days a week. 2. The menu changes daily. 3. The base price is $425 per person, prepaid. No tipping is required—A service charge is included. Luxury upgrades like truffles or Wagyu are extra, as are wine pairings. 4. With over 16,000 bottles and a 90+ page wine list, the cellar is one of the most impressive in Napa Valley. Trust the somm—whether you’re a connoisseur or not. There is exclusive space in this building for private parties. 5. The late Anthony Bourdain once said The French Laundry was “the best sit-down, multi-course, white-tablecloth meal of my life.” Enough said.
TRAVEL: Chateau Marmont (Bungalow #3)
UNFUCK THE WORLD: Yesterday In One Sentence: The Republican-led House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi for a closed-door deposition about the Justice Department’s handling of records tied to Jeffrey Epstein ¶ Senate Republicans rejected a war powers resolution to block Trump from ordering more strikes on Iran ¶ Trump is “actively considering and discussing” America’s role in Iran after the war with his advisers and national security team ¶ Texas state Rep. James Talarico won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Texas ¶ Republicans Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton advanced to a May 26 Republican runoff ¶ the Office of Congressional Conduct said it had “substantial reason to believe” Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Texas Republican, had a sexual relationship with a subordinate who later died by suicide ¶ and 54% of voters disapproved of Trump’s handling of Iran, and 52% said the U.S. shouldn’t have taken military action - Yesterday Once More
WORD: Deem
WTF?!: Almost a third of Gen Z men agree a wife should obey her husband
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2004 - Martha Stewart was convicted of obstructing justice and lying to the government about why she’d unloaded stock just before the price plummeted. If she worked for Wall Street nothing would have happened. 1982 - John Belushi died of a drug overdose in Bungalow #3 at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood. On the last day of his life he stopped by the Guitar Center and picked up a guitar that had been custom-made for Les Paul. After that, he went drinking at On the Rox club and then visited the Rainbow Bar and Grill and had a bowl on lentil soup. He then returned to the hotel, Bungalow 3 and had a woman he was staying with inject him with a speedball - a combination of cocaine and heroin. It killed him. 1982 - My virginity was taken. 1975 – First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club. 1973 - Donald DeFreeze escaped from Soledad State Prison by walking away while on work duty in a boiler room located outside the perimeter fence. This beginning the Symbionese Liberation Army. 1963 - Patsy Cline died in a private plane accident in Tennessee while returning from doing a benefit show in Kansas City. Musicians Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins and her manager (who was also the pilot) encountered bad weather and crashed in a remote wooded area. All four people were killed. 1960 – Cuban photographer Alberto Korda took his iconic photograph Guerrillero Heroico of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara. 1953 - Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died at age 73 after nearly three decades in power. 1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later.
“Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.” Rosa Luxemburg
