It's his 100th birthday today.
It's his 100th birthday today.
Also he refuses to sit and moves around all the time, venturing outside every day from their apartment four floors above ground without a lift.
Interestingly his own father didn't make it to his 60s, so there's certainly a lifestyle component to this.
He also remembers having giant bags of toys dumped on the floor of the hotel rooms.
Dick Van Dyke came from the tail end of Vaudeville, where performers had to have a whole variety of skills.
Remember: Every one of these folks that hits the limelight, beat out thousands of others.
We think our vocation is competitive? Showbiz says "Hold my beer."
And he’s great with a lasso!
I love his albums with Edie Brickell, he’s good with Steep Canyon Rangers, and more recently have heard him shine with Alison Brown (banjo), Sierra Hull (mandolin), and others in his latest tour.
If you’re looking for the top banjo players technically, you might check out Béla Fleck, Jens Kruger, Noam Pikelny, Tony Trischka, Bill Keith, Don Reno, and Earl Scruggs. I’ve personally heard superhuman performances by Jens Kruger in-person and I grew up on Scruggs.
but he did do a bunch for America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Hartman#Discography
And of course, there's Sir Doctor Brian May.
Many of the early electronic musicians were basically engineers (you had to be, to use some of those old synthesizers).
Terrible cockney accent, though...
> In my 30’s, I exercised to look good. In my 50’s, to stay fit. In my 70’s, to stay ambulatory. In my 80’s, to avoid assisted living. Now in my 90’s, I’m just doing it out of pure defiance
Now, that's not to say that healthy living is pointless. Their quality of life from late 60s on was not great: alcoholism, poverty, multiple heart attacks, emphasima, a stroke here and there, from which they eventually, sort of, not really recovered. They were deeply unhappy people who never really seemed to have time or care for their families. I definitely don't want to live like that. So treat yourself right, but not because you're trying to reach a certain age.
So true. I'm fortunate that both my parents have long-life family histories. Both families were old-fashioned Southern Baptists who didn't drink, smoke, dance or, apparently, believe in having fun of any kind :-). But that just kept them from messing up their good genetic luck. I'm an old-fashioned atheist but have chosen to never drink, smoke or do drugs just because I never saw a compelling reason to. Now I'm pushing 60 and have so far had zero serious health issues. Hoping to keep a good thing going.
I am 17 and I am the same here (atheist) and similar and yeah I see no reason to do these things either and I actively see the negative harmful effects it can have so I am not gonna do these things at all ever in my life too.
Have a nice day :)
> they're delicious.
I was already raised in a vegan household because of my parents religion, I am not completely an atheist but maybe agnostic and I can recommend books like sapiens to know more about the history of religion too but that's another tangent.
To me eating fatty foods isnt that big of a deal because the vegan food is surprisingly delicious too and is very diverse.
I also recommend watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gqwpfEcBjI&t=25s (earthling's documentary) simply because I just feel like delicious doesnt deserve the animals being killed in pain, It just doesn't make sense when you realize that vegan food is really delicious too.
> drugs (they're a lot of fun)
Nope, There is no everything in moderation regarding this because I just feel like these can trigger parts of my brain designed for stimulus and get addicted. No drug addicts wants to become an addict, they think they will do in moderation and also I doubt its fun, I have heard it / read it as just chasing the high and the high creates the lows too, they're fun in short term but they fuck you up after they get over and then you cahse them again and again like a rat/rabbit...
> Life is for living, too
Listen sir, I understand that you feel like I am not living or living a monotonous life but the drugs and fatty foods are vices in my opinion and honestly I live a fun life without these things too!
If you wish to ask me, I feel like the 24x7 hustle culture or the work culture and similars might be the thing which actively kills the living part, not the fact that they are vegan or that they do not drugs, I just do not understand this take.
Personally I wish to be a good father. I just feel like drugs no matter how you might say moderation, just wouldn't work with that end goal. Whats even the point of doing drugs? Literally none long term. and I just feel like its really harmful which it is.
Personally if you ask me, I am having fun and maybe the only reasons I or many others do not have fun is because of this constant social media (which I sort of left) and also the fact that we have to study for school to get college -> to then get job -> to then get promotions -> (???)
Its just that I am preparing for college and stressing a lot because of an exam but this is me being completely honest, that when I wasnt stressing about these exams, life was genuinely good and still is even when I stress a little haha...
I understand where you are coming from but I doubt that these can be healthy long term from what I understand in my opinion mentally. I feel like a lot of it is how our parents raise us and how we interpret it too and there can be differing view points but I do believe that drugs cause a lot of harm. I can understand about the vegan part because of culture/tradition but please do not do drugs as I feel like it can be easy to slip up from what you say moderation and I just feel like there are actively reasons to not do it.
TLDR: Do not do drugs. (I feel like this is non negotiable for me and I hope you understand that I am not changing this fact because of "fun" when its not fun at all imo, its shit from what I've heard and every addict starts out in moderation until addiction and then they beg that they shouldnt have started in the first place so I am gonna do that.)
I love who I am and the things I stand for and how I came upon them logically to try to build a better life for myself and others around me too and so I hope that you do not try to debate about drugs to a 17 year old whose saying that he wont do drugs ever in his life :)
And yeah, have a nice day man!
In a population of equally vulnerable genetics and stochastic outcomes, there will be families that all live long.
We are wired to attribute that to something.
ICYMI the low fat diet craze was built on lies and corruption, fat isn't bad for you. Sugar is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-HsXBPWH3Y&list=PLtbMv4lXX2...
Alarming in a "Mad Men" era of drinking...
The man is a brilliant comedian. He knew some of the greats; he is one of them.
The Comic (1969):
The modern world is a lot more crammed together than we think it is
Take your current age and work backwards that same number of days, months and years before your birth. Every year something else remarkable is added.
At my current backwards age, World War II is the best part of two decades away; the UK is still recovering from World War I. Rocket 88, the first rock and roll song, won't be written for nearly another three decades. Women still can't vote in the UK, the Wall Street Crash is several years away.
When my father (who knew one of the most important men in medical history in his younger days and who was working in medicine not long after the NHS was founded) died, his backwards age reached back before the germ theory of modern medicine.
Another interesting game is to use your "oocyte age" — about 32 weeks before your mother was born is roughly when the oocyte developed that led to your egg. In my case this too is before World War II started.
It reminds me as well that I am a wave - the cells that make up my body have all been formed from food I ate in the past decade or so - my skin my liver my heart my brain. None of it is what is was when I was 18. But I still think it is.
And that reaches back to my mothers own birth is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfdRr7MWax4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeCBVerpYj8
If you have never seen this film, I don't care how old you are, you should watch it. It is overshadowed by Mary Poppins but it is a work of art — a funny, charming, astonishing visual feast of a film and he is magnificent in it. His performance as the jack-in-a-box alone is worth an Oscar:
I’m not sure about the all ages part. We watched it in first or second grade and I can still remember wondering how a movie with a flying car could be so boring.
I did the same when it came out, and was thrilled.
And now that you've brought this to my attention, the weight of this responsibility - that I didn't like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in elementary school - weighs heavily on my heart. Thanks a lot.
Part 1 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1J9kfDCAmU>
Part 2 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0IGjoo5gRg>
\m/ happy birthday Mr Van Dyke!
source: <https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/obe3v6/95_year_old_d...>
The comedy show within a comedy show is a cool dramatic and operatic trick.
Magnificent delivery.
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It's charming. I'm sure digital post offers many advantages. Van Dyke might be one of a few who has done both.
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