Laurie Anderson: 80s pioneering, music and video performance artist

The Gemini sense of innovation and individuality can be seen in this early 80s video for Sharkey’s Day, a vid that has more visual ideas in it than on the entire playlist of all the video channels on present-day Sat TV.

People say humanity is gradually dumbing down. The June 5 birthday list may just be proof positive of this. Starting from Socrates we enter on a steady downhill projectory to the present day with such luminaries as Kenny G and Suze Orman, who seem like intellectual giants compared to the last entry on the list “alternative” “musician” Pete Wentz.

Other June 5 Birthday Twins:

Socrates, Philosopher: 469 BC
Adam Smith, Economist: 1723
Pancho Villa, Mexican Revolutionary: 1878
John Maynard Keynes, Economist: 1883
Federico Garcia Lorca, Poet: 1898
Richard Scarry, Children’s Author and Illustrator, 1919
Bill Moyers, Journalist: 1934
Spalding Gray, Actor and Writer: 1941
Ken Follett, Novelist: 1949
Suze Orman, Financial Advisor: 1951
Kenny G, Saxophonist: 1956
Brian McKnight, Singer: 1969
Mark Wahlberg, Actor: 1971
Pete Wentz, “Musician”: 1979

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