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We must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

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In Death Becomes Her, Helen Sharp claims that she took the eternal youth potion on October 26, 1985. This was the same exact date that Marty McFly traveled into the past in Back to the Future. Both films were, of course, directed by Robert Zemeckis.

Gaucho skewers contemporary American society not by pointing to the suffering of the marginalized, but instead reveals the fulfilled American dream as entailing a sort of interminable soul death. Populated by affluent losers, it is both one of the funniest and darkest albums of all time.

The Beatles final album as a group, Abbey Road was released in the UK on this date in 1969, released six days later in the US. The album sold 4 million copies worldwide within 6 weeks of its release, and another million by the end of 1969, making it the best-selling LP of the year.

“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays a while, like an old friend that you have missed.” - Stephen King (Salem’s Lot)