On this day in 1926: Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, NJ.
Today’s book club: “Howl”
Today’s screening: Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” video
Today’s quote: “Poets are Damned… but See with the Eyes of Angels.”
Today’s instrument: Aside from the one in his hand in the photo, finger cymbals
Today’s ill-advised tattoos: http://tinyurl.com/7sbddzk, http://tinyurl.com/8ab4aye, http://tinyurl.com/7jdfmx2, http://tinyurl.com/7k6tcy3
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 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
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 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 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
On this day in 1952: Mr. T was born in Chicago, IL.
Today’s screening: “The A-Team,” “Rocky III,” and “DC Cab.”
Today’s fool: pitied.
Today’s quote: “First name: Mister; middle name: period; last name T.”
Today’s ill-advised tattoo CAVALCADE: http://tinyurl.com/82brddx, http://tinyurl.com/8ymrea4, http://tinyurl.com/7ta3kgy, http://tinyurl.com/7pu8j6n, http://tinyurl.com/6pgmd6u, http://tinyurl.com/d4sp5sf
Today’s photo: Executive Mr. T, in charge of halting jibber-jabber.
Happy 60th birthday, T!
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
