On this day in 1997: Jeff Buckley disappeared after talking a swim in the Mississippi River.
Today’s soundtrack: “Grace,” “My Sweetheart the Drunk,” and all his work with Mr. Gary Lucas
Today’s snack: Cool Ranch Doritos
Today’s jukebox sign: “Don’t be a fuck, no Jeff Buckley after midnight.” — Lucky Dog Saloon, Brooklyn — http://tinyurl.com/7ax4ee5
Today’s ill-advised tattoo: http://tinyurl.com/778cepn
Very sorry to hear about the passing of Robin Gibb, at the age of 62, from pneumonia and complications from cancer.
Today’s soundtrack: Those 60s Bee Gees hits, “New York Mining Disaster 1941,” “To Love Somebody,” “Massachusetts,” and that damn “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack
Today’s screening: The aforementioned “Saturday Night Fever” and YouTube clips of the brothers in the 60s.
Today’s ill-advised tattoo: http://tinyurl.com/79gad8r
Today’s awesome lunchbox: http://tinyurl.com/8yqxgqd
On this day in 1989: Sweet Gilda Radner died from cancer, she was 42.
Today’s screening: “Saturday Night Live,” “Gilda Live,” and “Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video”
Today’s book club: “Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live”
Today’s quote: “I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.”
Today’s ill-advised tattoo: http://tinyurl.com/7oelz6s
Sad, sad day. I loved Gilda and always thought she was one of the most talented of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players. RIP.
On this day in 1980: After watching Hertzog’s “Stroszek” and listening to Iggy Pop’s “The Idiot,” Ian Curtis hanged himself. He was 23.
Today’s soundtrack: “Unknown Pleasures”
Today’s screening: “Contact” and “24 Hour Party People”
Today’s book club: “Touching from a Distance” by Deborah Curtis
Today’s quote: “I think all of us made the mistake of not thinking his suicide was going to happen… We all completely underestimated the danger. We didn’t take it seriously. That’s how stupid we were.” — Tony Wilson
Today’s ill-advised tattoos: http://tinyurl.com/c77ut4t (foot), http://tinyurl.com/coxjtcm (foot), http://tinyurl.com/crflssj (back)
Very sorry to hear of the passing of Donna Summer at the age of 63.
Today’s soundtrack: “Love to Love You Baby,” “On the Radio,” “Hot Suff,” “She Works Hard for the Money,” “Last Dance,” and “I Feel Love”
Today’s screening: “Thank God It’s Friday”
On this day in 1990: Mr. Sammy Davis, Jr. passed away of complications from throat cancer.
Today’s soundtrack: “Sammy Davis, Jr. at the Cocoanut Grove”
Today’s screening: “Porgy and Bess,” “Oceans 11,” “The Cannonball Run,” and of course, “Batman,” “All in the Family,” “I Dream of Jeannie,” and “Charlie’s Angels.”
Today’s best TV commercial in the history of TV commercials: Sammy for Suntory whiskey: http://tinyurl.com/ygzvr34
Today’s book club: “Yes, I Can,” written with Jane and Burt Boyar
Today’s trick: Sammy gun spinning: http://tinyurl.com/cfqh3dw
Today’s quote: “I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.”
Today’s ill-advised tattoo: http://tinyurl.com/bwdgnda
RIP to the only triple threat of the Rat Pack. He could sing, he could dance, he could act.
On this day in 1984: Andy Kaufman allegedly died of complications from cancer at the age of 35. Or did he? Maybe he faked it?
Today’s screening: “Taxi,” “SNL,” “Man on the Moon,” and “Andy’s Funhouse”
Today’s quote: “While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.”
Today’s ill-advised tattoo: http://tinyurl.com/cy7gj3s
On this day in 2003: Miss June Carter Cash passed away at the age of 73.
Today’s soundtrack: “Press On” and “Wildwood Flower”
Today’s screening: “The Apostle”
Today’s book club: June’s “Among My Klediments”
Today’s quote: “One morning, about four o’clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I’m falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.”
Today’s really ill-advised tattoo: http://tinyurl.com/7dqst4b
On this day in 1998: Frank Sinatra died at the age of 82.
Today’s soundtrack: Today I feel like a little bossa nova, so I’ll go with “Francis Albert Sinarta & Antonio Carlos Jobim”
Today’s screening: “The Man with the Golden Arm,” “Oceans 11,” “The Manchurian Candidate.” “Guys and Dolls,” “Sergeants 3,” and “Pal Joey”
Today’s mandatory reading: “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” by Gay Talese
Today’s quote:
Me: “So it’s Sinatra’s ‘Duets’ CD, but he does a song with Steve and Eydie, doesn’t that make it a trio?”
Barber: “If Francis Albert says Steve and Eydie are one person, then it’s a fuckin’ duet.”
Today’s ill-advised tattoo: http://tinyurl.com/8xr8opq
Very sorry to hear about the passing of Duck Dunn at the age of 70.
Today’s soundtrack: Booker T & the MGs, Blues Brothers, Muddy Waters, Freddie King, Albert King, Neil Young, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, CCR, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Otis Redding, and the list goes on and on and on.
Today’s screening: “The Blues Brothers”
Today’s quote: “We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline!” — Duck in “The Blues Brothers”
