The Long Blondes ("Once And Never Again")...
...and Happy 50th birthday (ye gods!) to Mojo Nixon ("619-239-KING" - was that Kris Kristofferson? Some topical '80s references thrown in and spoofed accordingly, and Michael Jackson beat you to it on Lisa Marie - bleaugh!).
...a couple I forgot earlier; Ahmet Ertegun, the founder of Atlantic Records, would have been 84 yesterday (here's Booker T. and the M.G.'s performing "Time Is Tight" from 1970 on the Stax label, which was part of Ertegun's empire, and I know the video is beat up a bit; I'll have to catch the "American Masters" program about Stax that recently aired at another time - also, drummer Stu Cook and John Fogerty of Credence Clearwater Revival were looking on)...
...and Happy 75th Birthday to actor Peter O'Toole, shown in this clip which is a trailer for the movie "Lawrence of Arabia" from 1962 (possibly my favorite film; it's right up there on the list - would that Dubya had bothered to watch it and pay attention before he invaded Iraq, especially Lawrence's speech about "a little people, a silly people" concerning Arab tribes, though he probably would not have understood the meaning anyway).
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