#music lessons kansas city

[musichouse]

Music House School of Music in Overland Park

Music House is more than just a music school - it's a community founded and operated by professional musicians and music educators. The school offers group classes, rock & jazz bands, summer camps, private lessons, and more. Music House aims to foster lifelong relationships with music by connecting students to something greater than themselves. The school strives to be an inclusive educational community where people of all ages, whether hobbyists, professionals, or music enthusiasts, are encouraged to explore, learn, and appreciate music at their own pace.

[ifelllikeastar]

William ‘Count’ Basie was born to Lillian and Harvey Lee Basie in Red Bank, New Jersey. His father worked as a coachman and caretaker for a wealthy judge. After automobiles replaced horses, his father became a groundskeeper and handyman for several wealthy families in the area. Both of his parents had some type of musical background. His father played the mellophone, and his mother played the piano; in fact, she gave Basie his first piano lessons. She took in laundry and baked cakes for sale for a living. She paid 25 cents a lesson for Basie's piano instruction.

The best student in school, Basie dreamed of a traveling life, inspired by touring carnivals which came to town. He finished junior high school but spent much of his time at the Palace Theater in Red Bank, where doing occasional chores gained him free admission to performances. He quickly learned to improvise music appropriate to the acts and the silent movies. Though a natural at the piano, Basie preferred drums. Discouraged by the obvious talents of Sonny Greer, who also lived in Red Bank and became Duke Ellington's drummer in 1919, Basie switched to piano exclusively at age 15.

Basie played the vaudevillian circuit for a time until he got stuck in Kansas City, Missouri in the mid-1920s after his performance group disbanded. He went on to join Walter Page's Blue Devils in 1928, which he would see as a pivotal moment in his career, being introduced to the big-band sound for the first time. He later worked for a few years with a band led by Bennie Moten, who died in 1935. Basie then formed the Barons of Rhythm with some of his bandmates from Moten's group.

During a radio broadcast of the band's performance, the announcer wanted to give Basie's name some pizazz, keeping in mind the existence of other bandleaders like Duke Ellington and Earl Hines. So he called the pianist "Count," with Basie not realizing just how much the name would catch on as a form of recognition and respect in the music world.

Over a sixty-plus year career, William “Count” Basie helped to establish jazz as a serious art form played not just in clubs but in theaters and concert halls. He established swing as one of jazz’s predominant styles, and solidified the link between jazz and the blues.

Born William James Basie on August 21, 1904 in Red Bank, New Jersey and died on April 26, 1984 in Hollywood, Florida at the age of 79.

[queenlua]

this dude’s wikipedia entry is the most buckwild nonsense i’ve seen all week

ok, you know you’re in for a good time when this

and this

are the first two things you see, right?

tl;dr, John R. Brinkley was the early 1900s version of quack-doctor-meets-Rush-Limbaugh; his big thing was these goofy surgeries to restore male verility by implanting them with goat testicles.  which is extremely funny except for the part where people died!

normally THAT would be the craziest shit a dude had going on, and yet—

well, okay, first, let’s hear about the dude’s dad:

Brinkley senior's first marriage was annulled because he was underage.[3] After he reached adulthood, he married four more times, and outlived each of his young wives. 

five marriages!  holy shit.  was the dad poisoning these women or...

anyway, Brinkley himself has a similarly messy love life.  for instance, here’s one way to handle a divorce:

Sally filed for divorce and child support, but after two months of payments, Brinkley kidnapped his daughter and fled with her to Canada. Sally Brinkley, unable to obtain an extradition order from Canada, dismissed her suit for alimony and child support, allowing Brinkley to return to Chicago with the child. 

In Memphis, Brinkley met 21-year-old Minerva Telitha "Minnie" Jones, a friend of Crawford's and the daughter of a local physician. On August 23, 1913, after a four-day courtship,[14] Brinkley and Jones married at the Peabody Hotel, even though he was still married to Sally Brinkley. Minnie and John Brinkley honeymooned in Kansas City, Denver, Pocatello and Knoxville. Brinkley was arrested in Knoxville and extradited to Greenville where he was put in jail for practicing medicine without a license and for writing bad checks.[13] Brinkley told the sheriff that it was all Crawford's fault, and gave investigators enough information that they were able to arrest Crawford in Pocatello. The two former partners met again in jail.[13]

imagine your OTP...

in addition to all the goat gland transplants Brinkley was doing, he started concurrently running a radio show, which sounds like such a DELIGHTFULLY mixed bag of material:

Brinkley spoke for hours on end each day on the radio, primarily promoting his goat gland treatments. He variously cajoled, shamed and appealed to men's (and women's) egos, and to their desire to be more sexually active. In between Brinkley's own advertisements, his new station featured a variety of entertainment including military bands, French lessons, astrological forecasts, storytelling and exotica such as native Hawaiian songs, and American roots music including old-time string band, gospel and early country.[32]

life before podcasts...

also, it’s kind of interesting to see an early predecessor of the whole “truth is paywalled but the lies are free” phenomenon here:

Fishbein's interest in putting Brinkley out of business grew and he wrote more articles featuring stories about people who had grown sick or died after seeing Brinkley. But the [American Medical Association] journal's readership was mostly restricted to other doctors, while Brinkley's radio station poured directly into peoples' homes every day.

eventually, Brinkley’s empire of lies collapses, and good riddance, but also i gotta admire his absolute determination to keep going anyway:

Brinkley reacted to losing his medical and broadcast licenses by launching a bid to become the Governor of Kansas, a political position that would enable him to appoint his own members to the medical board and thus regain his right to practice medicine in the state.

“i would simply become the government,” said he

and he goddamn near succeeded, too, if it weren’t for a rude twist of fate:

Three days before the election, the Kansas attorney general (who had prosecuted Brinkley before the medical board) announced that the rules surrounding write-in candidates had changed, and that the doctor's name could only be written in one specific way for the vote to count (as J. R. Brinkley). As a write-in candidate, he received more than 180,000 votes (29.5 percent of the vote) and lost to Harry Hines Woodring, later Secretary of War in the cabinet of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.[42] An article published at the time in The Des Moines Register estimated that between 30,000 and 50,000 ballots were disqualified in this manner. Woodring later admitted that had those votes counted, Brinkley would have won.[43][44]

anyway, he gets so big mad after all this that he moves to the Mexican border, where the Mexican government is VERY eager to help him build the Most Enormous Fuck-You Radio Station In History:

The Mexican government, eager to get even with its northern neighbors for dividing up North America's radio frequencies without giving any to Mexico, granted Brinkley a 50,000-watt radio license and construction began on XER, his new "border blaster" across the bridge from Del Rio in Villa Acuña, Coahuila (since renamed Ciudad Acuña).[16] As construction got underway, Fishbein and the U.S. State Department desperately searched for a way to shut Brinkley down. [...]

Though Brinkley's American radio license had been revoked, XER's signal was so strong that it could still be heard in Kansas.[49] In 1932, the Mexican government allowed Brinkley to increase his wattage to 150,000 watts. Several months later, Brinkley was allowed to increase to one million watts, "making XER far and away the most powerful radio station on the planet" that, on a clear night, could be heard as far away as Canada. According to accounts of the time, the signal was so strong that it turned on car headlights, made bedsprings hum, and caused broadcasts to bleed into telephone conversations.[50] Local residents claimed to not need a radio to hear Brinkley's station; with ranchers claiming that they received it through their metal fences and in their dental appliances.[51]

jfc, USA, maybe you should’ve fuckin been nicer to Mexico is all i’m sayin

anyway he’s big rich for a while but then he dies penniless with a bunch of counts of mail fraud against him, so.  about what you’d expect.

(big thanks to this rando blog post for alerting me to this dude’s existence, lol)

[dejadoodles-101]

Julia Elizabeth Randall

This portrait of her was taken in 1957

I wanna take the time and introduce you guys to one of my OCs!

Julia Randall was born on April 29, 1924 in her home during a storm in Dodge City, Kansas. She was the 3rd child of Arthur Randall and Constance (neé Bennett). She was the younger sister of Edward and Wallace and the older sister of Margaret. Julia grew up in Dodge City on a farm with her family while her father was a part of the military and fought in war. The farm they grew up in had crop fields and raised cows, horses, chickens, pigs and a rooster. Her mother was a teacher at a nearby school for all white primary school aged students and they had people take care of the farm while the family worked and did school. Julia would always help around the house by cleaning, taking care of the farm animals, help her mother cook and bake, gardening and other chores.

During The Great Depression, the farm went through a crisis with a lack of crops. They also struggled during the dust bowl storms and other issues. Julia started taking interest in music and singing at a young age between 6 and 7 years old and her mother took her to lessons like playing the piano for instance. She did very well in her school years and was an intelligent student. She took her studies seriously. At some point during her educational years, she took interest in drama and choreography and also took lessons.

At the age of 17 in the year 1941, her father passed away during WWII from being severely injured and wounded. After graduation, Randall went to California to study drama and did a modeling job.

A Hollywood director named Frank Haynes saw her modeling work and took interest in her and asked if she would be a part of a movie which would be her first film. Julia agreed and starred in her first film: “The Lady in the Lingerie”, a 1946 film. During the making of the film, she was forced to sleep with Haynes because he thought she was super attractive and was madly in love and obsessed with her. He also made her wear a push-up bra to expose her cleavage more to make her even more seductive. He gave her nicknames on the set such as “Babydoll”, “Tootsie” and “Sweet Thing”. Julia later revealed the truth in an interview and said she was “traumatized and manipulated” by him. She never liked him. Frank was 28 years older than her.

She did several other films including her most famous “Hephaestus” (1953) and “Miss Montgomery” (1957). Julia also had albums for her songs. Her most top hit was “Red Lips, Curvy Hips” which released in 1956. She also started appearing in television shows during the 1960s-90s. Julia also got married to an actor named Harold Donahue in 1948 and had 4 children named Cheryl (1951), Linda (1953), Carl (1956) and Deborah (1959) who were all born during the 50s.

When Julia decided to quit acting at some point during the early 90s, she took a job for teaching drama and choreography classes and taught for only 9 years. During that time, she would get calls for coming to late night shows and daytime shows for interviews and did that until the early 2000s. In 2004 (4 years before her death), she wrote a book about her life “My Life as Julia Randall and an American Actress” and sold over a million copies. She was 80 years old then.

Julia ended up developing breast cancer in 2007 and became very ill in late 2008. On the morning of December 13, 2008 in San Diego, California, Julia passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by her loving family at the age of 84. Her funeral was held in January of 2009 and was buried in a cemetery in the same city she passed away in. Julia was known to be one of the greatest American actresses, singers and dancers during the 20th century and was also known to be a “sex symbol” and was known as “Tall, Wise and Seductive”. She worked with several other famous celebrities during her career.

That’s all I’m gonna put for now. I’ll do facts about her another time and will be posting more of her. Hope you guys like her! 🩷🥰 Julia belongs to me!

[justforbooks]

As the leader of the New York band Television, Tom Verlaine, who has died aged 73, was a key figure in the coterie of musicians – Blondie, Talking Heads, the Ramones, the Patti Smith Group – who made downtown Manhattan a laboratory of new sounds and new styles in the mid-1970s. Although each of those groups pursued a very different musical path, together their impact would shape what became known as the punk movement, while Television’s debut LP, Marquee Moon, released in 1977, would secure a place among the most admired and enduringly influential albums of its era.

In Smith’s recent publication, A Book of Days, she chooses a photograph from 1974 in which she and Verlaine, then lovers and occasional collaborators, are holding hands in a tableau of sweetly defiant thrift-store chic: a flimsy child-bride’s gown for her, a patchwork leather jerkin for him. But among the artfully distressed apparel, defiant haircuts and painfully skinny silhouettes of their milieu, none of those serving apprenticeships in CBGBs, Max’s Kansas City and other New York clubs showed more concern for the music itself than Verlaine.

“Attitude,” he once said, “will only take you so far, which for me is never far enough.” Instead the career of the visionary singer, songwriter and guitarist, including solo albums and appearances as well as various Television reunions, seemed to represent a constant quest for the perfect blend of musical eloquence and some form of spiritual elevation.

Fittingly for a man who appropriated his stage name from a great French symbolist poet, Verlaine wrote striking lyrics, such as the opening lines of Marquee Moon: “I remember how the darkness doubled / I recall lightning struck itself.” In another early song, Venus, he sang of how “Broadway looked so medieval” – a description both improbable and indelibly perceptive.

But it was his exploratory guitar solos that spoke of his early interest in, and deep knowledge of, the avant-garde jazz of the 1960s. Somehow he managed to find a language midway between the speaking-in-tongues improvisations of the saxophonists John Coltrane and Albert Ayler and the more functional styles of such rock’n’roll, R&B and surf-rock guitarists as James Burton, Steve Cropper and Dick Dale, as well as the expansive psychedelic guitar improvisations of Jerry Garcia and John Cipollina, and to make the result match his own era.

Verlaine’s tightly wound stage presence was compelling, but his personality – his cool reserve, fugitive manner and inherent suspicion of others’ motives – made him a figure of mystery, and worked against his chances of the mainstream success to which, in any case, he never seemed committed.

The son of Lillian and Victor Miller, he was born in Morriston, New Jersey, into a middle-class family who moved to Wilmington, Delaware, when he was six years old. After classical piano lessons, he switched to saxophone upon discovering jazz and then took up the guitar. At Sanford, a private school in Hockassin, Delaware, where he was a day pupil, he met a boarder from Kentucky named Richard Meyers, with whom he bonded over a love of poetry and a mutual desire to escape the confines of the establishment in which they found themselves. The first attempt ended with both being brought back after being arrested in Alabama for setting a building on fire.

They had made their separate ways to New York by 1971, where they teamed up again on the Lower East Side, changed their names to Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell, scuffled for work and wrote poetry together under the nom-de-plume “Theresa Stern”. But Verlaine, working as a clerk at the Strand bookstore in the East Village, was determined to form a band. He taught Hell the rudiments of playing the bass guitar and together with the drummer Billy Ficca they performed as the Neon Boys before adding another guitarist, Richard Lloyd, and changing their name to Television in 1974.

Verlaine’s songs, the compositions of Hell (including the anthemic Blank Generation) and the soaring interplay between the two lead guitarists quickly earned them a following among New York’s scene makers. Endorsements came from David Bowie and Nicholas Ray, the director of Rebel Without a Cause, whose crisp epithet – “Four cats with a passion” – appeared on their promotional material. Smith, then beginning her rise to prominence, was another early supporter, and Verlaine played on her first single, a version of Hey Joe, in 1974.

Richard Hell, whose spiky hair and ripped T-shirts would inspire Malcolm McLaren’s styling of the Sex Pistols, had already been sacked by Verlaine on the grounds of heroin-induced unreliability by the time Television made their first single. A Verlaine song called Little Johnny Jewel, it was released in 1975 on a label created by their patron, Terry Ork. The following year they signed a deal with Elektra Records and began work on Marquee Moon. The album was co-produced by the studio engineer Andy Johns, who had worked with the Rolling Stones, Free and Led Zeppelin, and who helped Verlaine achieve the clarity of sound for which he was searching.

If the album’s sales were disappointing by the standards of the biggest rock bands of the time, their music was warmly received by the rock press in the US and Europe, and by audiences on their first tour of the UK, with Blondie as their support act. A second album, Adventure, made less impact and the band dissolved in 1978 after disagreements between Verlaine and Lloyd.

Verlaine’s eponymous first solo album was released in 1979, followed two years later by Dreamtime and then by several others, including Cover, completed in 1984 while he was briefly living in London. Two albums of instrumental pieces, Warm and Cool (1992) and Around (2006), showed his gift for creating tone poems inspired by film noir. In 1995 he appeared as a guest with Smith’s band on a US tour with Bob Dylan.

Television briefly reformed in 1992 to release a new self-titled album of the highest quality and toured occasionally both before and after the second departure of Lloyd, who was replaced from 2007 by Jimmy Rip. Their last appearances came in 2013.

🔔 Tom Verlaine (Thomas Miller), guitarist, singer and songwriter, born 13 December 1949; died 28 January 2023

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[aroundtheworldiej]

Ernest Hemingway's childhood

By Mathis Alloul

In 1960, Ernest Hemingway's first posthumous autobiographical account, "The Dangerous Summer", was published. This story looks back on the life and career of a great 20th century journalist. We will focus on his childhood.

Credits : TonyJCastro

A childhood that forges its future Ernest Hemingway was an American journalist, writer and war reporter born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. He was the son of Clarence Hemingway, a physician, and Grace Hall, a musician whose father was a wealthy cutlery wholesaler. He was therefore born into a wealthy family. He was the second of six children: Marceline born in 1898, himself (Ernest), Ursula born in 1902, Madeleine in 1904, Carol in 1911 and finally Leicester Clarence in 1915. The siblings grew up in a fairly conservative environment.  It is fair to assume that Ernest had a major influence on his younger brother, Leicester Clarence. Indeed, he also became a successful writer.

Ernest Hemingway was named after his maternal grandfather, a man who helped the family greatly when the parents married, in 1896. Hemingway said he disliked his first name, which he associated with the naive, even mad, hero of Oscar Wilde's play : “The Importance Of Being Earnest” written in 1895. Hemingway, as an adult, claimed to hate his mother. His mother, a musician, insisted on teaching him to play cello, which became a source of conflict, but he later admitted that the music lessons were useful for his writing.

The family had a summer home on the shores of Walloon Lake, near Detroit, Michigan. This area is inhabited by the Ojibwe Indians.

It was here that Hemingway learned to hunt, fishing and camp in the woods with his father. In 1909, his father gave him his first shotgun for his tenth birthday. His early experiences in the wilderness gave him a passion for outdoor adventure and life in remote areas. It was this passion for adventure that led him to become a war reporter.

Studies cut short

From 1913, Ernest studied at Oak Park High School. There, he discovered Shakespeare, Dickens and Stevenson, and took an active part in the school's sporting and cultural life. In 1916, his first stories and poems appeared in the school's literary magazines. After graduating in 1917, Hemingway gave up higher education to become a journalist for the Kansas City Star, under the benevolent influence of his paternal uncle, Alfred Tyler Hemingway. 1917 marked the entry of the United States into the war in which Hemingway became fully involved.

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 6.21

Holidays

Alzheimer’s Awareness Day

Atheist Solidarity Day

Baby Boomer Recognition Day

Banjo Lesson Day

Bank Employee Day (Guatemala)

Bill Murray Day

Child Tax Credit Awareness Day

Create a New National Day Day

Day of Private Reflection

Day of the Martyrs (Togo)

e621 Day

Father’s Day (Egypt, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Syria, UAE)

Ferris Wheel Day

Flag Day (Greenland)

Flag Burning Day

Global MND / ALS Awareness Day

Go Skateboarding Day

Het Meetjesland Day (Belgium)

International Aniridia Day

International Climate Change Day

International Flower Day

International Anirida Day

International Music Day (f.k.a. World Music Day)

International Stereoscopy Day

International T-Shirt Day

International Yoga Day (UN)

LP Day

Martyrs' Day (Togo)

Migraine Solidarity Day

Naked Hiking Day

National Aboriginal Day (a.k.a. First Nations Day or Indigenous Peoples Day; Canada)

National Arizona Day

National ASK (Asking Saves Kids) Day

National Create a New National Holiday Day

National Day of the Gong

National Dog Party Day

National eGiving Day

National Heroes’ Day (Bermuda)

National Indigenous Peoples Day (Northwest Territories, Yukon; Canada)

National Jimmy Day

National Professional Medical Coder Day

National River Tubing Day

National Seashell Day

National Selfie Day

National Wedding Day

National Yard Games Day

Obscenity Day

Onion Day (French Republic)

Optimism Day

Reaping Machine Day

Reserves Day (UK)

Seafarers’ Day (South Korea)

Shades for Migraine Day

Shetland Flag Day (Scotland)

Short Story Day (Africa)

Show Your Stripes Day

Stock Up On Antiperspirant Day

Suffolk Day (UK)

Suve Algus / Suvine Pööripäev (Estonia)

SYNGAP1 International Awareness Day

Take Your Dog to Work Day

33-1/3 Day

T-Shirt Day

Turner Syndrome Awareness Day (UK)

Ulloortuneq (Greenland)

World Day Against ELA (Spain)

World Giraffe Day

World Handshake Day

World Hydrography Day

World Kamasutra Day (India)

World Motorcycle Day

World Music Day (Paris, France)

Food & Drink Celebrations

French Gastronomy Day

Fried Shrimp Day (Japan)

Gin & Tonic Season begins

International Lambrusco Day

Johnnie Walker Day

National Cookie Dough Day

National Smoothie Day

National Wagyu Day

Peaches and Cream Day

Red Apple Day (Australia)

World Lambrusco Day

Independence & Related Days

Greenland (Assumed Self-Rule; 2009)

New Hampshire Statehood Day (#9; 1788)

Pagadian City Day (Philippines)

Principality of Aigues-Mortes (Declared; 2011) [unrecognized]

Zululand (Annexed by UK; 1887)

New Year’s Days

Andean New Year (Bolivia)

3rd Friday in June

Casual Day [Friday before Summer Solstice]

Dollars Against Diabetes Days begin [3rd Friday]

Duct Tape Festival begins (Avon, Ohio) [3rd Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement Officers [3rd Friday]

National Flip Flop Day [3rd Friday]

National Take Back the Lunch Break Day [3rd Friday]

QuadWitch Day [3rd Friday]

Stop Cyberbullying Day [3rd Friday]

Take a Road Trip Day [3rd Friday]

Ugliest Dog Day [3rd Friday]

Vikingespil Frederikssund (Viking Festival; Denmark) [Begins 2nd-to-Last Friday]

Work at Home Father's Day [Friday before Father's Day]

Festivals Beginning June 21, 2024

Alpine Mountain Days (Alpine, Wyoming) [thru 6.23]

Art Film Fest (Košice, Slovakia) [thru 6.28]

Big BBQ Bash (Maryville, Tennessee) [thru 6.22]

Cheese Curd Festival (Ellsworth, Wisconsin) [thru 6.22]

Fire on the Lake Chili Cook-off (Lake Wales, Florida) [thru 6.23]

Frederikssund Viking Games (Frederikssund, Denmark) [thru 7.14]

Gorge Blues & Brews Festival (Stevenson, Washington) [thru 6.22]

The Great Lenexa Barbeque Battle (Lenexa, Kansas) [thru 6.22]

Hurricane Festival (Scheessel, Germany) [thru 6.23]

Irvine Greek Fest (Irvine, California) [thru 6.23]

Knysna Oyster Festival (Knysna, South Africa) [thru 6.30]

Long Grove Strawberry Festival (Long Grove, Illinois) [thru 6.23]

Lewis and Clark Festival (Great Falls, Montana) [thru 6.22]

Ottawa Jazz Festival (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) [thru 6.30]

Panhandle Watermelon Festival (Chipley, Florida) [thru 6.22]

Pinkpop Festival (Landgraaf, Netherlands) [thru 6.23]

Rochester International Jazz Festival (Rochester, New York) [thru 6.29]

Sibiu International Theatre Festival (Sibiu, Romania) [thru 6.30]

Stonewall Peach JAMboree and Rodeo (Stonewall, Texas) [thru 6.22]

Strawberry Days Festival (Glenwood Springs, Colorado) [thru 6.23]

Summer Fest (Stratford, Connecticut) [thru 6.22]

Taipei Film Festival (Taipei, Taiwan) [thru 7.6]

Taste of Joliet (Joliet, Illinois) [thru 6.23]

Watermelon Jubilee (Stockdale, Texas) [thru 6.23]

Feast Days

Aaron of Brittany (Christian; Saint)

Alban Heruin (a.k.a. Light of the Shore; Celtic Book of Days)

Alban of Mainz (Christian; Saint)

Al Hirschfeld (Artology)

Aloysius Gonzaga (Christian; Saint)

Berkeley Breathed (Artology)

Day of the Crab (Pagan)

Engelmund of Velsen (Christian; Saint)

Enrico Coleman (Artology)

Eusebius of Samosata (Christian; Saint)

Festival of the Oak King (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Giuseppe De Sanctis (Artology)

St. Henry (Positivist; Saint)

Henry Ossawa Tanner (Artology)

Ian McEwan (Writerism)

Jean-Paul Sartre (Writerism)

Julio Ruelas (Artology)

Leufredus (a.k.a. Leufroy or Keufroi; Christian; Saint)

Martin of Tongres (Christian; Saint)

Meen (a.k.a. Mevenus or Melanus; Christian; Saint)

Natalia Goncharova (Artology)

Onesimos Nesib (Lutheran)

Oscar Florianus Bluemner (Artology)

Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet (Artology)

Ralph (Christian; Saint)

Rockwell Kent (Artology)

Sam Kinison Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Skateboarding Day (Pastafarian)

Sub-Human Cannonball (Muppetism)

Tiger-Get-By’s Third Birthday (Shamanism)

World Humanist Day (Pastafarian)

Lunar Calendar Holidays

Full Moon [6th of the Year] (a.k.a. ... 

Blooming Moon (Traditional)

Cold Moon (South Africa)

Dyad Moon (England, Wicca)

Festival of Goodwill, Festival of Christ & Humanity [Full Moon between 5.20-6.20] 

Green Corn Moon (Cherokee)

Hatching Moon (Traditional)

Honey Moon (Traditional)

Horse Moon (Celtic)

Hot Moon (Alternate)

Johan Jongkind (Artology)

Lotus Moon (China)

Mead Moon (Traditional)

Planting Moon (Neo-Pagan)

Poson Full Moon Poya Day (Sri Lanka)

Rose Moon (Alternate, Colonial, North America)

Ryan Moran Day [1st FM in June]

Southern Hemisphere: Cold, Long Night’s, Oak

Strawberry Moon (Amer. Indian, Traditional)

Windy Moon (Choctaw)

World Invocation Day (a.k.a. Gemini Full Moon Festival)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 29 of 60)

Premieres

Ain’t She Sweet (WB LT Cartoon; 1952)

Alpocalypse, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 2011)

Anna (Film; 2019)

The Bling Ring (Film; 2013)

The Blue Umbrella (Pixar Cartoon; 2013)

Bon Ives, by Bon Iver (Album; 2011)

Chinatown (Film; 1974)

Cocoon (Film; 1985)

Creepin on ah Come Up, by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (EP; 1994)

The Deep, by Peter Benchley (Novel; 1976

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1868)

Donald and the Wheel (Disney Cartoon; 1961)

Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, by Elton John and Kiki Dee (Song; 1976)

Evita, by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice (UK Musical; 1978)

Exodus, by Leon Uris (Novel; 1958)

Frolicking Fish (Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1930)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Animated Disney Film; 1996)

Impact is Imminent, by Exodus (Album; 1990)

Lifeforce (Film; 1985)

Lilo & Stitch (Animated Disney Film; 2002)

The Litterbug (Disney Cartoon; 1961)

Mastersingers of Nuremberg, by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1868)

Minority Report (Film; 2002)

Mr. Tambourine Man, by The Byrds (Album; 1965)

Monsters University (Animated Pixar Film; 2013)

Moral Man and Immoral Society, by Reinhold Niebuhr (Book; 1932)

Moves Like Jagger, by Maroon 5 (Song; 2011)

Nell’s Yells (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1939)

The Parent Trap (Film; 1961)

The Promise of Joy, by Allen Drury (Novel; 1975)

Return to Oz (Film; 1985)

The Rocketeer (Film; 1991)

Smoking: The Choice is Yours (Disney Educational Cartoon; 1981)

Spree Lunch (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1957)

Sweet Child o’ Mine, by Guns n’ Roses (Song; 1988)

The Te of Piglet, by Benjamin Hoff (Spiritual Book; 1993)

Toy Story 4 (Animated Pixar Film; 2019)

Tree for Two (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1943)

A Walk on the Wild Side, by Nelson Algren (Novel; 1956)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Film; 1966)

World War Z (Film; 2013)

Today’s Name Days

Adalbert, Florentina (Austria)

Margareta, Naum (Croatia)

Květa (Czech Republic)

Sylverius (Denmark)

Kaari, Karlotte, Karola, Karoliine, Karolin, Lota (Estonia)

Into (Finland)

Silvère (France)

Adalbert, Florentina, Margot (Germany)

Methodios (Greece)

Rafael (Hungary)

Ettore, Silverio (Italy)

Imula, Maira, Rasa, Rasma (Latvia)

Silverijus, Žadvainas, Žintautė (Lithuania)

Salve, Sølve, Sølvi (Norway)

Bogna, Bogumiła, Bożena, Florentyna, Franciszek, Michał, Rafaela, Rafał, Sylwery (Poland)

Metodie (România)

Maria, Valeria (Russia)

Valéria (Slovakia)

Florentina, Silverio (Spain)

Flora, Linda (Sweden)

Earl, Earline, Errol, Fatima, Ofelia, Omar, Omarion, Ophelia (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 173 of 2024; 193 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 25 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 13 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Geng-Wu), Day 16 (Bing-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 15 Sivan 5784

Islamic: 14 Dhu al-Hijjah 1445

J Cal: 23 Blue; Twosday [23 of 30]

Julian: 8 June 2024

Moon: 100%: Full Moon

Positivist: 4 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Henry]

Runic Half Month: Dag (Day) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 2 of 94)

Week: 3rd Full Week of June)

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 1 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Cancer (The Crab) begins [Zodiac Sign 4; thru 7.21]

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Holidays 6.21

Holidays

Alzheimer’s Awareness Day

Atheist Solidarity Day

Baby Boomer Recognition Day

Banjo Lesson Day

Bank Employee Day (Guatemala)

Bill Murray Day

Child Tax Credit Awareness Day

Create a New National Day Day

Day of Private Reflection

Day of the Martyrs (Togo)

e621 Day

Father’s Day (Egypt, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Syria, UAE)

Ferris Wheel Day

Flag Day (Greenland)

Flag Burning Day

Global MND / ALS Awareness Day

Go Skateboarding Day

Het Meetjesland Day (Belgium)

International Aniridia Day

International Climate Change Day

International Flower Day

International Anirida Day

International Music Day (f.k.a. World Music Day)

International Stereoscopy Day

International T-Shirt Day

International Yoga Day (UN)

LP Day

Martyrs' Day (Togo)

Migraine Solidarity Day

Naked Hiking Day

National Aboriginal Day (a.k.a. First Nations Day or Indigenous Peoples Day; Canada)

National Arizona Day

National ASK (Asking Saves Kids) Day

National Create a New National Holiday Day

National Day of the Gong

National Dog Party Day

National eGiving Day

National Heroes’ Day (Bermuda)

National Indigenous Peoples Day (Northwest Territories, Yukon; Canada)

National Jimmy Day

National Professional Medical Coder Day

National River Tubing Day

National Seashell Day

National Selfie Day

National Wedding Day

National Yard Games Day

Obscenity Day

Onion Day (French Republic)

Optimism Day

Reaping Machine Day

Reserves Day (UK)

Seafarers’ Day (South Korea)

Shades for Migraine Day

Shetland Flag Day (Scotland)

Short Story Day (Africa)

Show Your Stripes Day

Stock Up On Antiperspirant Day

Suffolk Day (UK)

Suve Algus / Suvine Pööripäev (Estonia)

SYNGAP1 International Awareness Day

Take Your Dog to Work Day

33-1/3 Day

T-Shirt Day

Turner Syndrome Awareness Day (UK)

Ulloortuneq (Greenland)

World Day Against ELA (Spain)

World Giraffe Day

World Handshake Day

World Hydrography Day

World Kamasutra Day (India)

World Motorcycle Day

World Music Day (Paris, France)

Food & Drink Celebrations

French Gastronomy Day

Fried Shrimp Day (Japan)

Gin & Tonic Season begins

International Lambrusco Day

Johnnie Walker Day

National Cookie Dough Day

National Smoothie Day

National Wagyu Day

Peaches and Cream Day

Red Apple Day (Australia)

World Lambrusco Day

Independence & Related Days

Greenland (Assumed Self-Rule; 2009)

New Hampshire Statehood Day (#9; 1788)

Pagadian City Day (Philippines)

Principality of Aigues-Mortes (Declared; 2011) [unrecognized]

Zululand (Annexed by UK; 1887)

New Year’s Days

Andean New Year (Bolivia)

3rd Friday in June

Casual Day [Friday before Summer Solstice]

Dollars Against Diabetes Days begin [3rd Friday]

Duct Tape Festival begins (Avon, Ohio) [3rd Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement Officers [3rd Friday]

National Flip Flop Day [3rd Friday]

National Take Back the Lunch Break Day [3rd Friday]

QuadWitch Day [3rd Friday]

Stop Cyberbullying Day [3rd Friday]

Take a Road Trip Day [3rd Friday]

Ugliest Dog Day [3rd Friday]

Vikingespil Frederikssund (Viking Festival; Denmark) [Begins 2nd-to-Last Friday]

Work at Home Father's Day [Friday before Father's Day]

Festivals Beginning June 21, 2024

Alpine Mountain Days (Alpine, Wyoming) [thru 6.23]

Art Film Fest (Košice, Slovakia) [thru 6.28]

Big BBQ Bash (Maryville, Tennessee) [thru 6.22]

Cheese Curd Festival (Ellsworth, Wisconsin) [thru 6.22]

Fire on the Lake Chili Cook-off (Lake Wales, Florida) [thru 6.23]

Frederikssund Viking Games (Frederikssund, Denmark) [thru 7.14]

Gorge Blues & Brews Festival (Stevenson, Washington) [thru 6.22]

The Great Lenexa Barbeque Battle (Lenexa, Kansas) [thru 6.22]

Hurricane Festival (Scheessel, Germany) [thru 6.23]

Irvine Greek Fest (Irvine, California) [thru 6.23]

Knysna Oyster Festival (Knysna, South Africa) [thru 6.30]

Long Grove Strawberry Festival (Long Grove, Illinois) [thru 6.23]

Lewis and Clark Festival (Great Falls, Montana) [thru 6.22]

Ottawa Jazz Festival (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) [thru 6.30]

Panhandle Watermelon Festival (Chipley, Florida) [thru 6.22]

Pinkpop Festival (Landgraaf, Netherlands) [thru 6.23]

Rochester International Jazz Festival (Rochester, New York) [thru 6.29]

Sibiu International Theatre Festival (Sibiu, Romania) [thru 6.30]

Stonewall Peach JAMboree and Rodeo (Stonewall, Texas) [thru 6.22]

Strawberry Days Festival (Glenwood Springs, Colorado) [thru 6.23]

Summer Fest (Stratford, Connecticut) [thru 6.22]

Taipei Film Festival (Taipei, Taiwan) [thru 7.6]

Taste of Joliet (Joliet, Illinois) [thru 6.23]

Watermelon Jubilee (Stockdale, Texas) [thru 6.23]

Feast Days

Aaron of Brittany (Christian; Saint)

Alban Heruin (a.k.a. Light of the Shore; Celtic Book of Days)

Alban of Mainz (Christian; Saint)

Al Hirschfeld (Artology)

Aloysius Gonzaga (Christian; Saint)

Berkeley Breathed (Artology)

Day of the Crab (Pagan)

Engelmund of Velsen (Christian; Saint)

Enrico Coleman (Artology)

Eusebius of Samosata (Christian; Saint)

Festival of the Oak King (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Giuseppe De Sanctis (Artology)

St. Henry (Positivist; Saint)

Henry Ossawa Tanner (Artology)

Ian McEwan (Writerism)

Jean-Paul Sartre (Writerism)

Julio Ruelas (Artology)

Leufredus (a.k.a. Leufroy or Keufroi; Christian; Saint)

Martin of Tongres (Christian; Saint)

Meen (a.k.a. Mevenus or Melanus; Christian; Saint)

Natalia Goncharova (Artology)

Onesimos Nesib (Lutheran)

Oscar Florianus Bluemner (Artology)

Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet (Artology)

Ralph (Christian; Saint)

Rockwell Kent (Artology)

Sam Kinison Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Skateboarding Day (Pastafarian)

Sub-Human Cannonball (Muppetism)

Tiger-Get-By’s Third Birthday (Shamanism)

World Humanist Day (Pastafarian)

Lunar Calendar Holidays

Full Moon [6th of the Year] (a.k.a. ... 

Blooming Moon (Traditional)

Cold Moon (South Africa)

Dyad Moon (England, Wicca)

Festival of Goodwill, Festival of Christ & Humanity [Full Moon between 5.20-6.20] 

Green Corn Moon (Cherokee)

Hatching Moon (Traditional)

Honey Moon (Traditional)

Horse Moon (Celtic)

Hot Moon (Alternate)

Johan Jongkind (Artology)

Lotus Moon (China)

Mead Moon (Traditional)

Planting Moon (Neo-Pagan)

Poson Full Moon Poya Day (Sri Lanka)

Rose Moon (Alternate, Colonial, North America)

Ryan Moran Day [1st FM in June]

Southern Hemisphere: Cold, Long Night’s, Oak

Strawberry Moon (Amer. Indian, Traditional)

Windy Moon (Choctaw)

World Invocation Day (a.k.a. Gemini Full Moon Festival)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 29 of 60)

Premieres

Ain’t She Sweet (WB LT Cartoon; 1952)

Alpocalypse, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 2011)

Anna (Film; 2019)

The Bling Ring (Film; 2013)

The Blue Umbrella (Pixar Cartoon; 2013)

Bon Ives, by Bon Iver (Album; 2011)

Chinatown (Film; 1974)

Cocoon (Film; 1985)

Creepin on ah Come Up, by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (EP; 1994)

The Deep, by Peter Benchley (Novel; 1976

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1868)

Donald and the Wheel (Disney Cartoon; 1961)

Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, by Elton John and Kiki Dee (Song; 1976)

Evita, by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice (UK Musical; 1978)

Exodus, by Leon Uris (Novel; 1958)

Frolicking Fish (Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1930)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Animated Disney Film; 1996)

Impact is Imminent, by Exodus (Album; 1990)

Lifeforce (Film; 1985)

Lilo & Stitch (Animated Disney Film; 2002)

The Litterbug (Disney Cartoon; 1961)

Mastersingers of Nuremberg, by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1868)

Minority Report (Film; 2002)

Mr. Tambourine Man, by The Byrds (Album; 1965)

Monsters University (Animated Pixar Film; 2013)

Moral Man and Immoral Society, by Reinhold Niebuhr (Book; 1932)

Moves Like Jagger, by Maroon 5 (Song; 2011)

Nell’s Yells (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1939)

The Parent Trap (Film; 1961)

The Promise of Joy, by Allen Drury (Novel; 1975)

Return to Oz (Film; 1985)

The Rocketeer (Film; 1991)

Smoking: The Choice is Yours (Disney Educational Cartoon; 1981)

Spree Lunch (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1957)

Sweet Child o’ Mine, by Guns n’ Roses (Song; 1988)

The Te of Piglet, by Benjamin Hoff (Spiritual Book; 1993)

Toy Story 4 (Animated Pixar Film; 2019)

Tree for Two (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1943)

A Walk on the Wild Side, by Nelson Algren (Novel; 1956)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Film; 1966)

World War Z (Film; 2013)

Today’s Name Days

Adalbert, Florentina (Austria)

Margareta, Naum (Croatia)

Květa (Czech Republic)

Sylverius (Denmark)

Kaari, Karlotte, Karola, Karoliine, Karolin, Lota (Estonia)

Into (Finland)

Silvère (France)

Adalbert, Florentina, Margot (Germany)

Methodios (Greece)

Rafael (Hungary)

Ettore, Silverio (Italy)

Imula, Maira, Rasa, Rasma (Latvia)

Silverijus, Žadvainas, Žintautė (Lithuania)

Salve, Sølve, Sølvi (Norway)

Bogna, Bogumiła, Bożena, Florentyna, Franciszek, Michał, Rafaela, Rafał, Sylwery (Poland)

Metodie (România)

Maria, Valeria (Russia)

Valéria (Slovakia)

Florentina, Silverio (Spain)

Flora, Linda (Sweden)

Earl, Earline, Errol, Fatima, Ofelia, Omar, Omarion, Ophelia (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 173 of 2024; 193 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 25 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 13 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Geng-Wu), Day 16 (Bing-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 15 Sivan 5784

Islamic: 14 Dhu al-Hijjah 1445

J Cal: 23 Blue; Twosday [23 of 30]

Julian: 8 June 2024

Moon: 100%: Full Moon

Positivist: 4 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Henry]

Runic Half Month: Dag (Day) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 2 of 94)

Week: 3rd Full Week of June)

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 1 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Cancer (The Crab) begins [Zodiac Sign 4; thru 7.21]

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Day 61

Jazz legend Ornette Coleman told me to do it.

Every 4th of July, I listen to this record. It always reminds me of that time that I met Ornette Coleman after a concert in 2005.

I met up with a guy, Joe, who drove up from Kansas City to Minneapolis to see the show. We'd made our acquaintance on one of the online jazz bulletin boards in the late 90s, and we were both stoked to be there.

The show itself was fantastic, with some familiar themes and fiery improv. I'd been listening to his music for a decade at that point, so seeing the band in person was really something else.

Joe and I agreed to try to meet Ornette backstage, so we found our way through some winding passageways, Spinal Tap style. One of the bass players was the first to emerge from the green room, and then the legend himself, the titan of free jazz, followed shortly.

He was nearly a foot shorter than me, which is always a surprise. (I have this strange thing where I assume all famous people are as tall as I am – at my height of 6'3" it's rarely accurate.) I got a better look at his suit of fine blue brocade. A sartorial inspiration and a musical genius.

We shook hands, and he asked, with our hands still together, “Do you play an instrument?”

I said, “Well, mostly I just play records, but I’m trying to learn the guitar.”

He looked at me and paused, and then, as if peering into my soul he said, “You can do both.” He said it again, “YOU CAN DO BOTH.”

I started taking guitar lessons right after that.

The phrase, "You can do both," has stuck with me ever since, in so many situations. Ornette was one of those artists that never stood still, was always in forward motion. New bands, new compositions, new commissions, new records. He could've played those tunes from the late 50s/early 60s in a time-arrested way and made bank on the festival circuit.

I feel like he gave me permission to tackle artistic pursuits that were once out of reach. Ornette Coleman told me to do both, so I did.

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SIX

I think it was during the lock down when Talaura sent me a link to a soundtrack and told me to listen. It was the soundtrack for the musical Six and that soundtrack made its way into my daily listening playlist. It got played so often that the Cabbage discovered it in our shared Amazon music account and they started listening to it. So when Six was on the touring list for Kansas City this year, I bought tickets for the two of us. My first instinct is to tell you that this musical is like Spice Girls as the wives of Henry the Eighth, but that is a true simplification of the underlying fuck the patriarchy story that this musical tells.

It all starts out as a competition to decide which one of Henry’s wives had it the worst. Of the six, there were two divorces, two beheadings, one natural death and one survivor and history has not been kind when telling the stories for these six women. Because history is generally unkind when it comes to telling a woman’s story. I’ve heard a number of historical recounting in which at least three of Henry’s wives are described as manipulative and conniving. For sure, it was all of their own faults for whatever fate befell them. Even history lessons tell us that woman are asking for it, it’s the victim’s fault.

While The Cabbage and I sat waiting for the show to start, I overheard the two older ladies behind us discussing these women.

Isn’t one of them Anne Boleyn?

Yeah, well she angled for him for a while before he finally went for it.

What is not so funny about what I over heard is that it sounds very similar to an article I read with historian Hayley Nolan, author of Anne Boleyn: 500 Years of Lies. Anne Boleyn left court for at least a year to avoid Henry the Eight’s advances. Yet he still pursued her with written love letters.

The historians who do acknowledge this say it was a calculated tactic and sexual blackmail — the ultimate example of ‘when a girl says no, she really means yes. - Hayley Nolan

There’s a word we use now to describe his behavior. It’s HARASSMENT.

History has highlighted the so called faults of these six women. Temptress. Tease. Unable to produce a male heir. Didn’t look like their portrait. Conniving. Manipulative. Let me remind you. These women were Queens. Anne Boleyn was influential in passing the Poor Law which would require local officials to find work for the unemployed. Not to mention she birthed a daughter who would become one of the most powerful and longest reigning Queens in history. Catherine Parr, Henry’s last wife, was well educated and pushed forward education reform for women. Which one of them had it the worst and was asking for it?

The answer is none of them. None of those women truly wanted to marry Henry the Eighth. He treated his wive so badly that he made sure history would too. Henry the Eighth was the original Harvey Wienstein, except he was worse. Not only did he ruin reputations but he was a murderer of women. He’s the historical figure that should be forgotten. The patriarchy wants to pit us women against each other because it distracts us from the injustices they are doing to us.

You want to burn down the patriarchy? Stop falling for their bullshit distractions.

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I Like to Watch | Babylon (2022)

by Don Hall

It's rare to meet a genius.

The term is overused like hero or trauma or dangerous. To meet a bona fide groundbreaker, a genius in his own right, someone who created something that history has dictated is important scientifically or culturally, is rare.

David Shepherd was one such genius in the world of theater. He co-founded The Compass Players back in the fifties which helped launch a movement that expanded into America's comedy culture unlike anything before it. He was a big thinker and contributed to the comedy scene that dominated decades of theater, television, and film.

In 1997, as someone who co-founded a tiny, ambitious, and adamantly contrarian theater in Chicago (home of The Compass Players and its offshoot The Second City), wandering into a bar after an improvisational comedy show I'd performed in and discovering none other than David freaking Shepherd drinking gin & tonics alone was astounding.

"Excuse me. I don't want to interrupt your night but you're David Shepherd, right?"

He looked up from his drink. His white hair was Einstein-esque in its huge mop. His beard was likewise white and unkempt. Behind his Harry Carey style glasses, his eyes were bright and filled with thought. "Yeah. Who are you?"

"I'm Don. I'm an improviser. I went to Second City. I... uh... I'm a big fan of your work."

"Improviser, huh? OK. Sit down. Join me for a drink. Tell me what you do."

I sat. Ordered a beer. He ordered another G&T. I told him about the weird Off Loop theater I had co-founded. I told him about my four years performing games with ComedySportz. I told him that I had worked for Second City as a producer of some of the stranger projects including a musical performance detailing the story of Fatty Arbuckle and his downfall from the debauchery of early Hollywood that eventually lead to the entire industry cleaning house before the talkies took over.

He told me about his early days with the Compass Players, his philosophies for egalitarian theater in general, his disdain for what Second City had become. We kept ordering drinks and he kept talking. I was enthralled by the time with an authentic artistic legend and tried to ask good questions and then sit back and soak in the wisdom.

At some point, perhaps 90-minutes in, he started to get sort of off the tracks. He had some ideas he wanted to share with me that I might be in a position to help him finance and produce. One of them involved getting hardcore Zionists and radicalized Palestinians to do improvised battles onstage. Another involved homeless people taking LSD and performing for unsuspecting audience members. A third would use actually shock treatment on performers just before they hopped up onstage to see how it affected their improvising.

He went on and on. He continued to order drinks for both of us. Four hours later, he drunkenly begged off, asked to borrow $20 for cab fare, and scratched his name but no contact info on a business card from a local dry cleaners. He handed it to me like it was payment or a relic or just something he found in his jacket and split.

He also left me a $200 tab.

They say that moments are memories and people are lessons. The lesson I learned from David Shepherd was that sometimes genius is just a stone's throw away from bugshit crazy. That meeting a legendary artist can sometimes result in paying for a meandering, long-winded bunch of pseudo intellectual bullshit by someone who has gone completely nuts.

Since coming to Kansas, my mom and I try to see a movie in the theater at least once a week. One of our games is to watch each preview and immediately give a thumbs up (meaning we're definitely going to see it in the theater), a sideways thumb (streaming), or a thumbs down (no chance). My sister comes with us once in awhile and she expressed that I'm an idiot—I go thumbs up for everything. She's not wrong. I am an idiot and I like to watch movies.

Mom and I were both excited to give our thumbs up for Damien Chazelle's epic Babylon. The trailer looked extravagant, funny, and dealt with that same early Hollywood I loved reading about. Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, drugs, sex, and moviemaking? C'mon! Once it hit the screen, mom read about a lot of elephant shit and perverse sexuality and decided it wasn't for her. Undaunted, when Joe Janes came for Christmas, he and I excitedly went on a Monday afternoon. We both knew it clocked in at 189 minutes but, hell, Endgame was that long and I had three birthdays watching Avatar: The Way of Water and I loved both without even peeing mid-movie (an incredible restraint for a man in his mid-fifties).

Sure enough, there was elephant shit. Right out of the gate. The gag would've been funny but Chazelle let the joke of an elephant dumping shit on the head of a guy trying to push a truck up a hill for a crazy party that included a live elephant run on too long and the joke became just sort of disgusting. Yes, there was a lovely shot of a Fatty Arbuckle type getting pissed on by a starlet and the obligatory shots of a giant sex party (like Caligula with party favors). Anyone bothered by all of that doesn't really want to see a movie about early Hollywood unless it's Singing in the Rain, right?

Except that this film seems to have been conceived when Chazelle was watching the Gene Kelly/Debbie Reynolds classic, accidentally hit the remote and switched to Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream and he leapt from his chair and said "That's it! What if Gene Kelly was a drunken maniac and Jean Hagen is oversexed, self destructive, and basically a horrible human being? In fact, let's make every character a horrible person, leaving the audience with absolutely no one to connect with? For three hours and nine minutes with no real story but extended scenes that feel like torture. I'm a GENIUS!"

This is a film about Hollywood and the people who made it what it was. The protagonist/observer/narrator is Manny (Diego Calva), who rises from the transporter of the diarrheic elephant to that of a studio executive, and whose only character motivation is an obsession with Nellie LaRoy (Robbie). Nellie claims she is a star despite having no experience and an insatiable lust for mountains of cocaine and fighting a rattlesnake. Manny becomes a personal assistant to the reigning box office idol, Jack Conrad (Brad Pitt), while Nellie gets discovered at the party in the first reel. There are other characters, each sounding exactly one note and then disposed of in a strange, unsatisfying montage of Hollywood types rather than characters designed to forward any sort of action.

About two hours in, I did that thing I almost never do, and checked the time. How much longer is this train wreck? I did mental math and wondered if it was going to get any more interesting and, if not, could I exit and take a fucking nap until Joe was done watching it?

The film is not without some flashes of brilliance. A sequence involving Nellie trying to adapt to filming with sound for the first time (a dark, hostile version of Jean Hagen's "I can't STAN him!" moment), while quite long, is amazing to watch. Conrad, after watching the audience laugh at his Gene Kelly "I love you. I love you. I love you." moment, deciding, instead of a song and dance number, a pistol in his mouth is the appropriate gesture.

There may have been more but Chazelle decided to underscore almost every scene with some version of music from La-La Land. Joe didn't really notice it but once I did, I could hear nothing else (including the dialogue in a few scenes). After an hour of being beaten in the nuts with the same theme from a movie I barely liked, the black trumpet player who has quit the movies because he had to wear blackface so he wouldn’t look lighter skinned under the lights, goes back to jazz in a bar. He announces “I’m going play a song I used to play way back when,” and launches into the same goddamned theme from La-La Land and I had to restrain myself from jumping up and moaning the James Earl Jones/Darth Vader “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” from Revenge of the Sith.

The reactions to Babylon seem to be those like me, who would rather get punched in the face than sit through it, and those desperately trying to justify the genius if only to reconcile the time spent being bludgeoned by elephant shit.

When the lights came up, I looked at Joe and flatly stated "I hated that in every way." Joe nodded in agreement and all I wanted to do was to find the cutest, sweetest child in the cineplex and drop kick it into a wall.

At least Chazelle didn't want cab fare.

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Hauk, Minnie (1851–1929)

American dramatic soprano, the first international opera superstar to emerge from the U.S., who was particularly celebrated for her Carmen. Name variations: Minnie Hauck. Born Amalia Mignon Hauck in New York City, on November 16, 1851; died at Villa Tribschen, Switzerland, on February 6, 1929; daughter of James Hauck; married Baron Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg.

The first full-fledged, internationally acclaimed operatic prima donna to be produced by the United States, Minnie Hauk was born Amalia Mignon Hauck (she later chose to drop the c) in New York City during 1851. She was the only child of a German-born father, a carpenter who had fled Germany after the failure of the 1848 revolution, and his American wife. The Hauck family moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where at the age of five, Minnie attended her first theatrical performance while seated on her mother's lap. She later reminisced about this experience, recalling that after returning home she did not even look at her dolls, "sitting in a row near my bed. I had seen at the theatre much larger, much finer ones." Stagestruck, the young girl became obsessed by Jenny Lind , "the Swedish Nightingale." She owned many pictures of the singer, read a biography of Lind "at least once a week," and named her dogs and cats Jenny.

In the late 1850s, the Hauck family moved again, this time to the frontier town of Sumner City, north of Kansas City and situated on the Missouri River. With her father working as a boatbuilder and her mother running a boarding house, Minnie was often on her own. She took advantage of her freedom to stroll across the prairies, often winding up in a nearby Native American camp. As she recalled, "The Indians would call me their 'Prairie flower'; they would give me fruit, carry me in their arms, and take me for a ride on their little ponies. Their children would show me how to string a bow and shoot an arrow, would dance or have a sham battle or a pony race for my amusement, and, towards evening, they would accompany me a good distance on my homeward way." Alarmed by their wandering daughter, the Haucks sent her off to a girl's seminary in nearby Leavenworth. Here, her irrepressible spirits quickly got her expelled.

After a fierce flood on the Missouri River virtually destroyed Sumner City, the Haucks again decided to move on. James Hauck built a boat, loaded it with his small family and all their worldly possessions, and they set sail for New Orleans where life would be easier. Just south of St. Louis, however, their houseboat was rammed by a steamboat and demolished. As Minnie and her parents floated in the water, clutching debris from their vessel, they watched everything they owned sink into the mighty Mississippi. The steamboat's captain rescued the shaken family and took them free of charge to their destination. By the time the Haucks arrived in New Orleans, the Civil War had begun, the city found itself blockaded, and economic life was at a virtual standstill. Soon, however, Minnie's parents were able to find employment and a modest lifestyle was enjoyed by the family. Minnie attended the Belleville School and took singing lessons from a European basso, Gregorio Curto.

Before long, she was facing an audience, singing in the city's grand opera house at a charity concert to raise money for wounded soldiers.

Convinced of her talent, Minnie's parents again relocated. In late 1862, with the Civil War still raging, they sailed from New Orleans to the Florida Keys, and from there to New York City. In Manhattan, Minnie soon became a musical sensation, regularly singing in the homes of the social elite, including Naval Commodore Ritchie, August and Caroline Perry Belmont , and racetrack entrepreneur Leonard Jerome, father of Jennie Jerome (Churchill) . After a brief but intensive course of study with Achille Errani, who had gained fame as a teacher of a number of successful American sopranos, Minnie made her operatic debut, singing in La Sonnambula at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on October 13,1866. A month later, she made her Manhattan debut at the Winter Garden, singing the role of Prascovia in Giacomo Meyerbeer's L'Étoile du Nord. The New York Times' assessment of her performance was highly enthusiastic, noting that she was "an artist who in time will rank among the foremost. Her power is quite equal to her brilliancy, and experience will beyond a doubt develop in her an artist quite equal, if not superior, to any we have yet heard."

Youthful and supremely confident, Minnie Hauk quickly emerged as a prima donna, adding major roles to her repertoire at a dizzying pace. The only component left to secure her career was a trip to Europe, and funds for this undertaking were provided by the music publisher Gustav Schirmer, whose confidence in Hauk's talents was repaid quite literally with interest soon after her first engagements on the Continent. Traveling with her mother—who would serve as Hauk's best friend, constant companion and closest adviser—the young soprano's first stop was London. Although no engagements materialized in the British capital, Hauk attended the opera, made a number of important connections, and carefully studied the singing techniques of several of the city's reigning singing stars including Adelina Patti and Christine Nilsson . In Paris, however, she secured an engagement in the role of Amina in La Sonnambula. Hauk became the instant darling of the French public not only because of her vocal and dramatic talents, but also because her colorful American frontier background provided great copy for the local newspapers, which described her in fantastic terms as a half-civilized Pocahontas figure who in the wilds of the New World was accustomed to riding a mustang bareback.

Within months of her Paris debut, Hauk was singing in the major opera houses of London, The Hague, and Russia. In Russia, she appeared in both Moscow and St. Petersburg's imperial opera houses, and it was during these Russian engagements that she began to earn a reputation for displaying a fiery stage temperament. A simmering artistic jealousy between Hauk and Désirée Artôt , then one of the leading sopranos on the Russian operatic scene, came to a head during a performance of Don Giovanni. Artôt's husband, Mariano Padilla, jerked Hauk's hand at the end of their duet in Act I. Convinced that Padilla was intentionally trying to cause her to break a high note, Hauk slapped him in the face. The audience, entranced by the events, gave both singers such an ovation that the entire duet had to be repeated.

Hauk's Russian successes made her an internationally recognized singing sensation. For the next decade, she would sing mostly in Vienna and Berlin, making her Viennese debut in May 1870. She quickly mastered the German language both to meet the requirements of daily living and because the non-German operatic repertory was customarily sung in German. At the time of her first appearance in Vienna in the role of Marguerite in Gounod's Faust, Hauk had not yet completely mastered the complexities of German. A slip-up she made in performance served to endear her to Vienna's music enthusiasts: responding to Faust, she told him she intended to go home ungekleidet (undressed) instead of the correct word, unbegleitet (unaccompanied). The sophisticated Viennese audience was delighted by the imperfect German of the American girl from the Wild West, and she became an immediate star. She enjoyed a comparable success at the Berlin Opera, where she starred in, among other popular operas of the day, Goetz's Taming of the Shrew.

Despite her late and rather sketchy vocal training, Minnie Hauk was a quick study and mastered not only the German language, adding dozens of roles to her repertory in a brief period, but also learned roles in exotic languages. In Budapest, for example, she sang the role of Maria in Ferenc Erkel's Hunyadi László in the original Magyar, even though she never learned a sentence of conversational Hungarian and learned the words, as she would later note, "like a parrot." Now a world-class artist, Hauk met many of the composers of operas she starred in including Richard Wagner whom she met after a Budapest performance of Der fliegende Holländer. On that occasion, she told him that she always made an effort to "act in accordance with the symphonic indications of the orchestra." A grateful Wagner replied, "That is right, that is right! Thank goodness! Here is an artist who knows how to act and sing according to my intentions."

Always willing to sing in contemporary operas that were fresh to the ear and even controversial, Hauk was glad for the opportunity to sing in Bizet's Carmen. In May 1878, when that opera was only three years old, she sang in the starring role at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels. Her performance was a huge hit, at least in part because in order to totally master her role she had immersed herself in the French language, read the Prosper Mérimée short story the opera was based on, and took dancing lessons from the Monnaie's ballet master. On June 22, 1879, Hauk performed Carmen in London, singing it in Italian, the operatic language favored by British audiences of the day. Here, too, it was an immense success. Although she married the wealthy Austrian journalist and globetrotter Baron Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg in 1881, Hauk had no intentions of abandoning her immensely successful singing career, which by the 1880s had made her name as well-known in the United States as it had become in Europe during the previous decade. She toured constantly in the United States and Canada, and was invited by President Chester A. Arthur to perform at the White House.

Fearing that her success as Carmen might doom her to being seen as a one-role artist, Hauk was constantly searching for, and mastering, new roles, which included Hector Berlioz' rarely performed La Damnation de Faust. Among other novelties, Hauk introduced Massenet's Manon to the United States in December 1885. She sang at New York's Metropolitan Opera during the 1890–91 season, and her appearance in Carmen on April 2, 1891, marked her final New York performance. As a last hurrah for her fans, she founded the Minnie Hauk Grand Opera Company in mid-1891 to make an American tour. During this tour in Chicago on September 30, 1891, she appeared in Mascagni's sensational new opera Cavalleria Rusticana, in what was one of its earliest American performances. With the death of her mother in 1896, Minnie Hauk retired from the hectic but stimulating life of an operatic prima donna. She and her husband retired to their Swiss villa outside of Lucerne, the same Tribschen that Richard Wagner had occupied at the time he composed his masterpieces Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the mighty Ring cycle of music dramas. Here, she and her husband lived an idyllic existence until World War I destroyed their Austrian investments. After her husband died in 1918, Hauk became virtually destitute, a situation she attempted to remedy by dictating her memoirs, even though she was enfeebled and blind. Fortunately, operatic star Geraldine Farrar and the Music Lovers Foundation raised sufficient funds to make Hauk's final years financially comfortable. Minnie Hauk died at Villa Tribschen on February 6, 1929.

On the photo she is seen as Marguerite in Gounod's "Faust".

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