Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, actor and writer/author, who won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums.
Carlin was noted for his black humor as well as his thoughts on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various taboo subjects. Carlin and his "Seven Dirty Words" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a narrow 5–4 decision by the justices affirmed the government's power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves.
The first of his fourteen stand-up comedy specials for HBO was filmed in 1977. In 1988, the 1990s and 2000s, Carlin's routines focused on socio-cultural criticism of modern American society. He often commented on contemporary political issues in the United States and satirized the excesses of American culture. His final HBO special, It's Bad for Ya, was filmed less than four months before his death.
Mervyn Edward "Merv" Griffin, Jr. (July 6, 1925 – August 12, 2007) was an American television host, musician, actor, and media mogul. He began his career as a radio and big band singer who went on to appear in movies and on Broadway. From 1965 to 1986 Griffin hosted his own talk show, The Merv Griffin Show on Group W (Westinghouse) Broadcasting. Griffin created the game shows Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, Click, and Merv Griffin's Crosswords with his own "Merv Griffin Enterprises" television production company. During his life Griffin was considered an entertainment business magnate.
Griffin was born into an Irish-American family on July 6, 1925, in San Mateo, California, to Mervyn Edward Griffin, Sr., a stock broker, and Rita Elizabeth Griffin (née Robinson), a homemaker. Raised as a Roman Catholic, Griffin started singing in his church choir as a boy, and by his teens was earning extra money as a church organist. This is one of the reasons he got into show business early; he was considered a piano prodigy. He attended San Mateo High School, class of 1942, and continued to aid in financing the school.
James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic.
Baldwin's essays, such as the collection Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, vis-à-vis their inevitable if unnameable tensions with personal identity, assumptions, uncertainties, yearning, and questing. Some Baldwin essays are book-length, for instance The Fire Next Time (1963), No Name in the Street (1972), and The Devil Finds Work (1976).
His novels and plays fictionalize fundamental personal questions and dilemmas amid complex social and psychological pressures thwarting the equitable integration of not only blacks yet also of male homosexuals—depicting as well some internalized impediments to such individuals' quest for acceptance—namely in his second novel, Giovanni's Room (1956), written well before the equality of homosexuals was widely espoused in America. Baldwin's best-known novel is his first, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953).
Jane Fonda (born Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda; December 21, 1937) is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other movie awards and nominations during more than 50 years as an actress. After 15 years of retirement, she returned to film in 2005 with Monster in Law, followed by Georgia Rule two years later. She also produced and starred in over 20 exercise videos released between 1982 and 1995, and once again in 2010.
Fonda has been an activist for many political causes; her opposition to the Vietnam War and associated activities were controversial. She has also protested the Iraq War and violence against women. She describes herself as a liberal and a feminist. In 2005, Fonda worked alongside Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem to co-found the Women's Media Center, an organization that works to amplify the voices of women in the media through advocacy, media and leadership training, and the creation of original content. Fonda currently serves on the board of the organization. Since 2001, Fonda has been a Christian. She published an autobiography in 2005, and in 2011, she published a second memoir, Prime Time.
Here we fucking go
1965
That's when I was born
With my name Gene Ween, yes
Well, I was born in...
1965 and that is my year and my birthday
I was born at 5:30am, of course I was
Huh?
Well, I wasn't born to die
I've been forming in 1989 with Mean Ween and Dean Ween
Since 14-years ago
How does it feel to be born in 1965?
1965. Je m'souviens d'une chanson
Et de deux anneaux d'or
Que nous portons encore
Et d'un petit garçon.
1965. Je n'me souviens pas bien
Qui de nous deux partait
Et la mort de mon chien.
Quelques années plus tard
On apprenait un soir
Qu'un chêne était brisé,
Qu'il n'avait pas plié,
Qu'il entrait dans l'histoire.
1900, juste après.
Je me souviens très bien
La couleur des volets,
Les parfums du jardin.
1970. Je me souviens d'avril,
Une femme aux yeux clairs,
Un voyage aux enfers,
Une année difficile.
1970, c'est la première fissure,
L'avocat, le Palais,
Et les lettres d'injures.
1976, c'est la mort de mon père
Et cette impression folle
Que ses dernières paroles
N'étaient pas les dernières.
1980 et les années qui suivent,
C'est la fuite en avant,
Le combat délirant
Des plus forts qui survivent.
C'est la fin d'une histoire,
La moitié d'une vie,
Vingt années qui s'égarent
Et les jours que j'oublie.
1965. Je m'souviens d'une chanson
Et de deux anneaux d'or
Que nous portons encore
Et d'un petit garçon.
In this place our time, how it's been forever
So we set ourselves aside, with our eyes left tender
Now turn your ears to the trumpets as they play tonight
The sound of horns is their trigger
I can't take this any longer
Waiting without an answer
You left me hoping with a faith
Let's get this process faster
Deliberation, take the innocence away
Is this battle being won, why are we here?
We're wasting our time
Bones dry, desiccating throughout history
War and war, humans die, for pride or just as human greed
I can't be part if this mess
I can't be part of this wreck
Now turn your ears to the trumpets as they play tonight
Cast aside in record time,
Our youth runs off like rain.
And you looked so lovely standing in your wedding dress,
That I was overcome.
Safe from time in black and white,
Faces shine like wine laid down.
And your voice was just like water in a crystal glass,
And mine made castles fall.
Was it all you'd waited for?
Cast your eyes to Southern skies,
they destroy our world together while we praysend our
souls so far from heaven we drift away
but inside we cry out
there is nothing left for me
i know now i lost it all
live all my world forever while we pray
try to sell our souls in sevens and start a play
the time is the time now
i'll be your rope to pull you through
but nothing can stop us now
cause there's no dona just like you
we'll hang our heads together while we sway
we'll through our hands high up towards heaven and scream
hurray
somehow in some life i knew i belonged with you