September 5th
Werner Herzog, Michael Keaton, Barbara Loden, Freddie Mercury, Mother Teresa, Loudon Wainwright III
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BORN (ENTER): John Cage, Paddy Considine, William Devane, Dennis Dugan, Tracy Edwards, Ezra Furman, Chris Gore, Cathay Guisewite, Werner Herzog, Michael Keaton, George Lazenby, Sondre Lerche, Sergey Loznitsa, Liam Lynch, Achero Manas, Rose McGowan, Freddie Mercury, Buddy Miles, Christopher Morris, Bob Newhart, Noel, Fons Rademakers, Tom Vaughan, Loudon Wainwright III, Racquel Welch, Brad Wilk, Dweezil Zappa
DEAD (EXIT): Douglas Bader, Crazy Horse, Holger Czukay, Joe Fagin, Francis Ford, Gert Frobe, Allen Funt, Santiago Genoves, Setsuko Hara, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Barbara Loden, Sérgio Mendes, Jiří Menzel, Joe South, Leo Penn, Claude Renoir, Georg Solti, Al Stewart, Mother Teresa, Justin Wilson, Zuo Zongtang - Giorgio Armani (9/4/2025)
DEEP THOUGHTS: I detest modern country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like modern country music, denigrate means ‘put down’.
FOODIE: Cheese Pizza, Samosas - Chianti (2025), Food Bank Day (2025), General Tso Chicken, Waffle House (9/5/1955)
HOLIDAY: Charity Day
HOROSCOPE: Remember: God means something different to everyone, but only you, and those who agree with you, are right.
HOW-TO: Give Back, Start a Charity
JOKE: A charity worker stopped me in the street and asked if I fancied taking part in a marathon. I was going to decline but he told me it was for disabled kids and children with severe learning difficulties. I thought, fuck me, I might win this.
PLAYLIST: Ryan Adams: Heartbreaker (9/5/2000), Camper Van Beethoven: Key Lime Pie (9/5/1989), Gary Numan: Telekon (9/5/1980), Siouxsie and the Banshees: Peepshow (9/5/1988), Soundgarden: Louder Than Love (9/5/1989) - Can: Landed (1975), Ezra Furman: Goodbye Small Head (2025), Sérgio Mendes: The Great Arrival (1965), Queen: A Night at the Opera (1975), Loudon Wainwright III: Unrequited (1975)
New Music Releases: Big Thief: Double Infinity, David Byrne: Who Is the Sky?, Cut Copy: Moments, Lucrecia Dalt: A Danger to Ourselves, Brian Dunne: Clams Casino, Flur: Plunge, Ivy: Traces of You, James K: Friend, La Dispute: No One Was Driving the Car, Joni Mitchell: Joni’s Jazz, Saint Etienne: International, Shame: Cutthroat, Suede: Antidepressants, Rob Thomas: All Night Days, Titanic: Hagen, Various Artists: I Will Swim to You - A Tribute to Jason Molina
Check out the Daily Playlist… Dig it! - Can, Queen, Rage Against the Machine, Loudon Wainwright III
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PODCAST: History on Fire: Crazy Horse
READ: Jack Kerouac: On the Road (9/5/1957) - Anne Applebaum, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Jo Carducci, Mr. Fish, Thom Hartmann, Chris Hedges, Paul Krugman, John Pavlovitz, Robert Reich, Steve Schmidt: J.B. Pritzker has opted out of pretending, Jeff Tiedrich, Jessica Wildfire: Waiting for The Death of a Dictator, Abby Zimet: The Real Deal: Susan Collins Is Very Concerned - The Atlantic, Common Dreams, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vice, Wired, Wonkette
RELIGULOUS: America’s "Nones" aren’t as godless as you think
SHITASS: Phyllis Schlafly
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS: Trump’s military deployment in Los Angeles has cost nearly $120 million so far
STREAM: Citizen Kane (9/5/1941), Munich (9/5/1972), September 5 (9/5/1972) - Grizzly Man (Hoopla/Kanopy/Prime), Highest 2 Lowest (Apple), Mrs. America (Hulu), My Joy (Kanopy), September 5 (MGM/Prime), Spotlight (Kanopy), The Wild Blue Yonder (Hoopla/Prime)
STREAM (CRITERION): Jiří Menzel - Burden of Dreams, I Am Wanda, Wanda, Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
New Film Releases: The Baltimorons, The Conjuring: Last Rites, The Cut, Everything to Me, Hamilton, The Legend of Hei 2, Light of the World, Love Brooklyn, Pools, Preparation for the Next Life, Riefenstahl, A Savage Art: The Life and Cartoons of Pat Oliphant, The Threesome, Twinless
Werner Herzog Film Festival - Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre the Wrath of God, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Land of Silence and Darkness, Grizzly Man, My Best Fiend, Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, Encounters at the End of the World, Stroszek, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, The White Diamond, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, The Dark Glow of the Mountains, Into the Abyss, Theatre of Thought, Bells from the Deep: Faith and Superstition in Russia, Rescue Dawn, Meeting Gorbachev, Into the Inferno, Ballad of the Little Soldier, Wheel of Time, Echoes From a Somber Empire, Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, Woyzeck, Signs of Life, Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds, Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin, Cobra Verde, Where the Green Ants Dream, Heart of Glass, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Family Romance LLC, Fata Morgana, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Invincible, Scream of Stone, My Son My Son What Have Ye Done, The Wild Blue Yonder, Queen of the Desert, Salt and Fire - Burden of Dreams, Julien Donkey-Boy, Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
TRAVEL: ‘The White Lotus’ May Have Found Its Next Location
TRUMPED: Yesterday in one sentence: Senators from both parties confronted Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his firing CDC Director Susan Monarez, his overhaul of the CDC, and replacing the agency’s vaccine advisory panel with vaccine skeptics; fired CDC director Susan Monarez said she was removed after refusing a directive to “preapprove the recommendations of a vaccine advisory panel newly filled with people who have publicly expressed antivaccine rhetoric”; the Trump administration blocked the release of a government-funded study that linked moderate drinking to higher risks of cancer, liver disease, and early death; the Justice Department opened a mortgage fraud probe into Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, issuing subpoenas tied to properties in Michigan and Georgia after Trump-appointed housing chief Bill Pulte accused her of lying on loan applications; Trump’s nominee to the Federal Reserve said he would take “unpaid leave” from the White House rather than resign if confirmed; Trump asked the Supreme Court to overturn a federal appeals court ruling that his tariffs were illegal and that he had no authority to impose them under emergency powers; a dozen federal judges criticized the Supreme Court for using emergency rulings to overturn lower-court decisions in Trump-related cases; and even Mitch McConnell is concerned that Trump’s second presidency is “the most dangerous period since before World War Two.”
WELLNESS: Using Your Phone on Toilet May Give You Hemorrhoids
WORD: Skibidi
WTF?!: Doctor Who Cut Off His Legs for Sexual Gratification Is Jailed
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: 1997 - Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa died in Calcutta, India, at age 87. 1975 - President Gerald R. Ford escaped an attempt on his life in Sacramento by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson. 1972 – Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine die the following day. 1968 - Working at Abbey Road studios in London, The Beatles recorded overdubs onto the new George Harrison song 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'. Eric Clapton added the guitar solo (and became the first famous outside musician to play on a Beatles recording) and George recorded his lead vocal. 1939 - The United States proclaimed its neutrality in World War II. 1930 - Charles Creighton and James Hargis completed the drive from New York City to Los Angeles and back to New York City all in reverse gear. The trip took 42 days in their 1929 Ford Model A. 1921 – A Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community. 1885 - Zuo Zongtang died. Sometimes referred to as General Tso, was a Chinese statesman and military leader of the late Qing dynasty. The dish General Tso's chicken in American Chinese cuisine was named after Zuo, though there is no recorded connection between him and the meal. 1698 - Emperor Peter I of Russia instituted a beard tax to bring Russian society in line with Western European models. To enforce the ban on beards, the tsar empowered police to forcibly and publicly shave those who refused to pay the tax.
"Werner Herzog has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." Roger Ebert
“If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.” Bob Hope
“We don't do charity in Germany. We pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities.” Henning Wehn
