On this day in 1941: Charlie Watts was born in London.
Today’s soundtrack: Charlie’s backbeat.
Today’s awesome fact: Charlie has been married to his wife for 48 years.
Today’s quote: “Don’t ever call me your drummer again. You’re my fucking singer!” —Charlie to Mick, after punching him in the face for referring to him as “my drummer.”
On this day in 1926: Marilyn Monroe was born in Los Angeles County Hospital
Today’s screening: “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” “Seven Year Itch,” “Some Like it Hot,” and “The Misfits.”
Today’s quote: “Ever notice how ‘What the hell’ is always the right answer?”
Today’s ill-advised tattoo: http://tinyurl.com/co7gxha, http://tinyurl.com/2fgq7g2, http://tinyurl.com/dyvpbcp
On this day in 1966: Stephen Malkmus is born in Santa Monica.
Today’s soundtrack: Pavement and the Jicks
Today’s screening: “Slow Century”
Today’s quote: “This Malkmus idiot is a complete songwriting genius.” — Gary Young
Today’s photo: Live action “Date With Ikea”
Today’s school photo: http://tinyurl.com/7l6ltw2
Today’s ill-advised tattoo: http://tinyurl.com/6m5xrsu
On this day in 1946: Mick Ronson was born in Hull.
Today’s soundtrack: “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,” “Alladin Sane,” “Pin-Ups,” and Ronson’s solo album, “Slaughter On 10th Avenue”
Today’s screening: D.A. Pennebaker’s live concert footage of Ziggy and the Spiders
Today’s quote: “Mick was the perfect foil for the Ziggy character. He was very much a salt-of-the-earth type, the blunt northerner with a defiantly masculine personality, so that what you got was the old-fashioned Yin and Yang thing. As a rock duo, I thought we were every bit as good as Mick and Keith or Axl and Slash. Ziggy and Mick were the personification of that rock n roll dualism.” — Bowie, 1994
Today’s ill-advised temporary tattoos put out by the record label to promote Ziggy and the Spiders: http://tinyurl.com/6uueq2a
On this day in 1941: Bob Dylan was born in Duluth, MN.
Today’s soundtrack: “Highway 61 Revisited” and “Blonde on Blonde”
Today’s screening: “No Direction Home”
Today’s moment of weirdness: http://tinyurl.com/ydjb4hv (Bob, Peter Himmelman, and Harry Dean Stanton singing “Hava Nagila.”)
Today’s quote: “I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.”
Today’s ill-advised tattoo: http://tinyurl.com/d84xbjv
Happy 71st birthday to Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham!
On this day in 1934: Dr. Robert Moog was born in Flushing, Queens.
Today’s soundtrack: “Switched on Bach”
Today’s project I always wished I built (or knew how to build): The Big Briar theremin kit.
Today’s quote: “I’m an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers… They use my tools.”
Today’s ill-advised tattoo: http://tinyurl.com/d52tb3n
On this day in 1910: Scatman Crothers was born in Indiana.
Today’s mandatory viewing: Scatman on “Sanford and Son” playing uke and dueting with Redd Foxx: http://tinyurl.com/cuesla3
Today’s screening: “The Shining,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” and “Chico and the Man.”
On this day in 1959: Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Lancashire, England.
Today’s soundtrack: The Smiths, all day.
Today’s quote: “Age shouldn’t affect you. It’s just like the size of your shoes - they don’t determine how you live your life! You’re either marvelous or you’re boring, regardless of your age.”
Today’s ill-advised tattoo: http://tinyurl.com/cp3bdg6
On this day in 1930: Harvey Milk was born in Woodmere, New York.
Today’s screening: “The Times of Harvey Milk”
Today’s quote: “I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. I have a lot more to drink. For that reason, the political numbers game will be played. I know the rules of their game now and how to play it.” — Harvey Milk
Today’s ill-advised tattoo: http://tinyurl.com/d6mvkz8
On this day in 1963: Kevin Shields from My Bloody Valentine was born in Queens, NY.
Today’s soundtrack: “Isn’t Anything” and “Loveless”
Today’s volume: foundation shaking
Today’s quote: “I only make up titles when I have to.”
Today’s ill-advised tattoos: http://tinyurl.com/d6pgthc, http://tinyurl.com/brmskdt
