March 7th
Bryan Cranston, Divine, Stanley Kubrick, Peter Saarsgaard, Sarah Sherman, Townes Van Zandt, Rachel Weisz
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BORN (ENTER): Kôbô Abe, John Aboud, Kenny Aronoff, William Boyd, Michael Chow, Bryan Cranston, Taylor Dane, Jay Duplass, Bret Easton Ellis, Mona Fastvold, Jenna Fischer, Matthew Fisher, Xavier Giannali, Amanda Gorman, Andrew Haigh, Robert Harris, Perry Henzell, Brandon T. Jackson, E.L. James, Freedy Johnston, Krizz Kaliko, Shaka King, Arthur Lee, Greta Lee, Rik Mayall, Tammy Faye Messner, Bel Powley, Laura Prepon, Piers Paul Read, Haley Lu Richardson, Peter Sarsgaard, Jules Shear, Sarah Sherman, Lynn Swann, Wanda Sykes, Townes Van Zandt, Matthew Vaughan, Rachel Weisz, Peter Wolf
DEAD (EXIT): Ben Blue, Jimmy Boyd, Emanuel Bronner, Gary Burden, Mart Crowley, Divine, Sidney Gottlieb, Charles Gray, Claude King, Pee Wee King, Stanley Kubrick, Steve Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Tullio Pinelli, Red Pollard, Big Walter Price, Waldo Salt, Norman Saunders, Edward Sedgwick, Alice B. Toklas, Ronnie Wells, Paul Winfield
DEEP THOUGHTS: When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.
EAT ME: Cereal, Crown Roast of Pork, Flapjacks, Plant Based - Alice B. Toklas’ Hash Brownies
FOODIE: Fast food chain hiring Chief Tasting Officer for six-figure role
HOLIDAY: Be Heard Day
HOROSCOPE: A neighbor will approach you under the guise of borrowing a cup of sugar. Provide him or her with sugar, but be prepared for more to be revealed in the fullness of time.
HOW TO: Eat a Bowl of Cereal
JOKE: Why do the ASU Sun Devils eat cereal straight from the box? They choke whenever they get near a bowl.
PLAYLIST: Adam Ant: Wonderful (3/7/1995), Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works Volume II (3/7/1994), Bananarama: Deep Sea Skiving (3/7/1983), David Bowie: Young Americans (3/7/1975), Jason Isbell: Foxes in the Snow (3/7/2025), Kaiser Chiefs: Employment (3/7/2005), R.E.M.: Collapse into Now (3/7/2011), Tears for Fears: The Hurting (3/7/1983), USA for Africa “We Are the World” (3/7/1985) - Townes Van Zandt: Delta Momma Blues (1971)
Check out The Big Beat Playlist: March Edition - Townes Van Zandt
Check out the New Music Playlist: Twenty26
QUESTION: What did Alice B. Toklas have to do with Alice B. Toklas brownies?
READ: Andrew Aydin, John Lewis and Nate Powell: March (2013-2016), Jean-Dominique Bauby: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (3/7/1997) - The Borowitz Report: Trump Boasts That International Criminal Court in The Hague Has Invited Him to Receive Award, The Hard Times: MAGA Releases Anti-Woke Mad Libs With All Pronouns Replaced by Racial Slurs, McSweeney’s: Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz, The Onion: Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead
RELIGULOUS: Trump Stages Bizarre Oval Office Prayer Circle After Warning About Religious Fanatics in Iran - These people are fucking crazy.
SCIENCE!: Today’s Moon Phase
SHAMELESS PLUG: The ExitEnter Store - Consumption will fill the void
SHITASS: Markwayne Mullin
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: The US economy lost 92,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate rose to 4.4%
SPORT: Both Siblings Quietly Pray They Get On Kiss Cam
STREAM: City Lights (3/7/1931), Coal Miner’s Daughter (3/7/19809), Desert Hearts (3/7/1985), Saturday Night Live: 2021-2026 (Peacock) - The Baltimorons (AMC), Sarah Squirm: Live + In the Flesh (HBO Max), Vladimir (Netflix) - The Bride! (in theaters)
TOP 13: Stanley Kubrick Films - 1. The Shining, 2. Paths of Glory (Kanopy), 3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (HBO Max), 4. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 5. Full Metal Jacket, 6. A Clockwork Orange, 7. Barry Lyndon, 8. Spartacus, 9. The Killing, 10. Eyes Wide Shut (PPV), 11. Lolita, 12. Killer’s Kiss (Kanopy/Prime), 13. Fear and Desire (Hoopla/Kanopy)
TRAVEL: Selma
UNFUCK THE WORLD: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes - Yesterday Once More
WELLNESS: “Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It’s like the difference between being broke and being poor.” Townes Van Zandt
WORD: Libertine
WTF?!: We live in a country where an alcoholic from Fox News runs the military, a former heroin addict is in charge of our health, and they both report to a convicted felon and pedophile.
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 2024 - Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie Rust, the first time someone has been found guilty for causing a death on a movie set. 2022 - Aidan lost some wisdoms. 1996 - Three U.S. servicemen were convicted in the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawa girl and sentenced by a Japanese court to up to seven years in prison. 1987 - The Beastie Boys became the first rap act to have a No.1 album with their debut album, Licensed To Ill. The group originally wanted to title the album Don’t Be a Faggot, but Columbia Records refused to release the album under that title. 1965 – Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 peaceful civil rights marchers were brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
“The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as the greenness of a leaf; but as they grow older, the awareness of death and decay begins to impinge on their consciousness and subtly erode their joie de vivre, their idealism – and their assumption of immortality. As a child matures, he sees death and pain everywhere about him, and begins to lose faith in the ultimate goodness of man. But, if he’s reasonably strong – and lucky – he can emerge from this twilight of the soul into a rebirth of life’s elan. Both because of and in spite of his awareness of the meaninglessness of life, he can forge a fresh sense of purpose and affirmation. He may not recapture the same pure sense of wonder he was born with, but he can shape something far more enduring and sustaining. The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death – however mutable man may be able to make them – our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” Stanley Kubrick
