Anthony Henslee,
Benny Ibarra,
Bradley Cain,
Chris Cutrone,
Huw Jenkins,
Latrell Fontaine Sprewell,
Lightfield Lewis,
Margot Brabants, birthplace unspecified, Belgian actress
Motoko Kumai,
Neko Case,
Robbie Pethick,
Rosearik Rikki Simons,
Stacy Porter,
Wendy Brouwer,
With all due respect to the two certifiably successful musicians born today – as well as the property master for the movie Grand Theft Parsons, which has me wondering whether Johnny Knoxville or any of the other folks who worked on that odd misfire of a film were ever tempted to steal the Gram Parsons prop corpse for a funny goof between takes – there can be only one winner today.
If I were a singer/songwriter myself, I’d compose an album’s worth of songs about this man. He has more in common with the subject of a borderlands cowboy revenge ballad than just about anybody born this year that I can think of. A mythic figure.
Partial lyrics taking shape in my mind:
Lead with your chin
Be where you’ve been
Keep your options overblown
Then tell me
How to feed my family
How to feed my family
Last best offer
Blink, twitch, cough, purr
I love this man unabashedly, really I do. The fact that he’s forty and will never see a basketball court again fills me with a bittersweet mixture of sadness and delight. Sadness for the lack of his electrifying presence, and delight that due to his own cussed nature, he resigned from the game before we had the chance to see his skills slip away. That and the fact that he’s probably drinking beers on a houseboat with strippers in
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