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Counterculture of the 1990s
- Bart SimpsonMatt Groening sat in the lobby of producer James L. Brooks's office in 1987, sketching a new family while waiting for his pitch meeting.
- The SimpsonsMatt Groening sat in the lobby of James L. Brooks's office on a day in 1987, sketching a dysfunctional family that would become The Simpsons.
- David LynchDavid Keith Lynch was born at St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula, Montana, on the 20th of January 1946. His father worked as a USDA research scientist and…
- Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis on the 11th of November 1922. He descended from a long line of German Americans whose family fortune rested on the…
- Punk rockThe Kingsmen released "Louie, Louie" in 1963, a song that later became known as punk rock's defining ur-text. This garage band from Portland, Oregon, played…
- Rolling StoneJann Wenner borrowed seven thousand five hundred dollars from his family and the parents of his soon-to-be wife Jane Schindelheim to launch Rolling Stone in…
- John CageJohn Milton Cage Jr. was born on the 5th of September 1912 at Good Samaritan Hospital in downtown Los Angeles. His father, John Milton Cage Sr., worked as an…
- South ParkTrey Parker and Matt Stone met in a film class at the University of Colorado in 1992. They discovered a shared love for Monty Python, which became one of…
- Frank ZappaFrank Vincent Zappa was born on the 21st of December 1940, in Baltimore, Maryland. His father worked at the Edgewood Arsenal chemical warfare facility of the…