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Happy Birthday to Clarence Clemons!!!

25 years ago, I listened to this song and thought "Shit, this is cool! I want to learn to play sax like that!" Unfortunately, my family couldn't afford to pay for music lessons and when I had enough money to pay for it myself, I rather travelled the world to see my heroes live. But then, it's a good thing to ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday to Pat Benatar, Shawn Colvin and Rod Stewart!

And I couldn't help to throw in some extra Jeff Beck into today's post:

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Well, let's just assume that timestamp is accurate. *curses her circadian rhythm*

Happy Birthday to Simone de Beauvoir, Joan Baez and Jimmy Page!

Manowar are one of my all-time guilty pleasures when it comes to music and have been for over 20 years now. There are only a handful of songs I truly like and this is one of them:

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Happy Birthday, Elvis Presley! And Happy Birthday to Shirley Bassey, Stephen Hawking, David Bowie and John McTiernan as well!

Today... some more poetry:

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With enormous delay because last night was marred with sudden-onset narcolepsy.

Happy Birthday, RayV aka David Marciano! And Happy Birthday to my big sister Christine, wherever she might be (miss you!). She and I shared our love for German painter Hans-Werner Sahm and his futuristic pictures. Completely my fault, if I remember correctly. ;-)

( Beautiful pictures )

January 6 means Happy Birthday to Rowan Atkinson and Anthony Minghella. Today is Epiphany, or Nollaig Beagh (Little Christmas) if you're Irish. And it's Phi Day. Well, Phi Day could also be on June 18, depending on who you ask, but I like this one better because it's a direct transposition from the number to the date ( Read more... )

Today, I say: Happy Birthday to Umberto Eco (even though Foucault's Pendulum almost killed me... eh, since I never finished it, it might still!) and Roger Spottiswood (well, only because he directed Turner & Hooch) and Diane Keaton (even 22 years later, I still have a soft spot for Baby Boom) and Joe Flanigan and Paul McGillion. *g* And, Happy ( Read more... )

On January 4, 1961 Erwin Schrödinger died. Yes, that Schrödinger. 1933 Nobel Laureate, famous for his achievements in quantum physics and his 1944 book What is life? which inspired the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. And of course, famous for Schrödinger cat.

( Which is why we're having cats today: )

Today's birthdays include: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), John Sturges (1910 - 1992; director of The Magnificient Seven, one of my favorite movies when I was a wee elf) and Mel Gibson (who's still the actor with the most films in my DVD library).

And George Martin, of the Beatles fame.

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