Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan
Edit: A "bump" from a year ago.
Might as well bump it, I'm sure not adding much original content.
From Wiki:
Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his guitar. His best-known song is "This Land Is Your Land", which is regularly sung in American and Canadian schools. Many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress.
Guthrie traveled with migrant workers from Oklahoma to California and learned traditional folk and blues songs. Many of his songs are about his experiences in the Dust Bowl era during the Great Depression, earning him the nickname the "Dust Bowl Troubadour". Throughout his life Guthrie was associated with United States communist groups, though he was never an actual member of any.
The article has a short paragraph about Guthrie's time in Pampa:
Eventually, Guthrie's father sent for his son to come to Texas where little would change for the now-aspiring musician. Guthrie, then 18, was reluctant to attend high school classes in Pampa and spent much time learning songs by busking on the streets and reading in the library at Pampa's city hall. He was growing as a musician, gaining practice by regularly playing at dances for his father's half-brother Jeff Guthrie, a fiddle player. At the library, he wrote a manuscript summarizing everything he had read on the basics of psychology. A librarian in Pampa shelved this manuscript under Guthrie's name, but it was later lost in a library reorganization.
This Land is Your Land
(with some of one of the only two surviving pieces of video of him)
The trailer from "Bound for Glory" with David Carradine in the role of Guthrie
Your Birthday Predicts You're Sensitive |
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Listening to the radio just now, I learned it was the birthday of both Anita Bryant and Elton John.
I once read that if you polled at random any 25 people, odds are you'd find that two would share the same birthday. That's statistics I suppose, but Elton John and Anita Bryant sharing a birthday couldn't be anything but ironic.
Today is Christina Ricci's birthday, one of my favorite actresses. Even though she's not yet 30, Ms. Ricci has had a long career in movies, some of which are Mermaids, both Addams Family movies, Casper, Sleepy Hollow, Prozac Nation and Monster. She has taken on some very oddball movie roles.
She has an unusual beauty some would say, but I think she's gorgeous.
Wiki entry on Christina Ricci
I noticed it was also Arsenio Hall's birthday, but who cares about him? Not me, and apparently not many others. (well, I bet his momma does, but...)
Reminds me of a joke:
Knock knock!
Who's there?
Arsenio
Arsenio who?
That's show biz!
Just noticed today is the birthday of
Beatrice "Bebe" Neuwirth.
Probably known best for her role as Lilith in Cheers, I've always thought her a talented performer and lovely woman.
Bebe Neuwirth IMDB listing
Today is the birthday (1945) of former Monkee and teen idol Davy Jones.
Then:
And now (2006)
Jones was recently selected as the top teen idol of all time in a Yahoo survey.
Official website
The diminutive Jones (5'3") wasn't my favorite of the group; that honor fell to Michael Nesmith (shown below, far right), a "Mike" like me, a native Texan like me...and, like me, preferred wearing sock caps to keep his unruly hair in place.
Peter Tork, second from right, was the goofy one and I guess I could identify with him because of that. Mickey Dolenz, at back and in red, was the designated smartass of the four, but I preferred Nesmith's sarcastic wit.
A couple bits of trivia: Nesmith's mother invented Liquid Paper and he also won the first Grammy (1981) given for Video of the Year.
Here's the opening from their zany 60's television show. I never missed it if I could help it.
It's Kate Winslet's birthday.
I remember the first time I ever saw her; it was also the last time I went to the movies. I watched Titanic and enjoyed the movie, but came away totally in love with Kate Winslet.
I'm gonna have to write a post about the dozen or so actresses/entertainers that have made me have a schoolboy crush on. Some of 'em I WAS a schoolboy at the time, so I can't be faulted for them.
No, Alice and Clint aren't my next-door neighbors.
"Alice & Clint" as in Cooper (born 1948) and Black (1962).
Two of my favorite performers having the same b-day, how cool is that?
I think they should do a duet together.
I can see the titles now:
"Put Yourself in My Coffin", "A Better Ghoul" and "When I Said I'd Kill You".
Alice Cooper could bite the head off of a chicken while Clint played the harmonica.
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow born 1972
Actress Mira Sorvino born 1967
Actress Janeane Garofalo born 1964
Actress Brigitte Bardot born 1934
Actor Marcello Mastroianni born 1924
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