Album Anniversary - October 31, 2015

Today is the 15th anniversary of Stankonia, the fourth album from Outkast.

Video: "B.O.B."

Today's Words of Wisdom - October 31, 2015

Today is the birthday of the following people:

John Keats (1795 – 1821):

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”

and

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”

and

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination.”

and

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”

and

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

and

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'--that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

Ad Rock (1966 - ):

"But make no mistakes and switch up my channel

I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle

What could it be, it's a mirage

You're scheming on a thing - that's sabotage."

Larry Mullen, Jr. (1961 - ):

"My drumming career has always been based on a complete lack of expertise."

Peter Jackson (1961 - ):

"Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant."

Neal Stephenson (1959 - ):

"The difference between stupid and intelligent people—and this is true whether or not they are well-educated—is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations—in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward."

and

“Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.”

Katherine Paterson (1932 - ):

“Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.”

and

“It is not enough to simply teach children to read;

we have to give them something worth reading.

Something that will stretch their imaginations-

something that will help them make sense of their own lives

and encourage them to reach out toward people

whose lives are quite different from their own.”

and

“All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.”

Album Anniversary - October 30, 2015

Today is the 45th anniversary of Tumbleweed Connection, the third album by Elton John.

Video: "Amoreena"

Album Anniversary - October 30, 2015

Today is the 15th anniversary of All That You Can't Leave Behind, the tenth album from U2.

Video: "Beautiful Day"

Album Anniversary - October 30, 2015

Today is the 20th anniversary of Different Class, the fifth album from Pulp.

Video: "Common People"

Album Anniversary - October 30, 2015

Today is the 30th anniversary of Tim, the fourth album from The Replacements.

Video: "Bastards of Young"

Album Anniversary - October 30, 2015

Today is the 30th anniversary of This is Big Audio Dynamite, the debut album from Big Audio Dynamite.

Video = "E=MC2"

Album Anniversary - October 30, 2015

Today is the 30th anniversary of the eponymous debut album from The Dream Academy.

Video: "Life in a Northern Town"

Today's Words of Wisdom - October 30, 2015

Today is the birthday of the following people:

Ezra Pound (1885 – 1972):

“Literature is news that stays news.”

and

“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

and

“There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”

and

“And the days are not full enough

And the nights are not full enough

And life slips by like a field mouse

Not shaking the grass”

Henry Winkler (1945 - ):

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”

Louis Malle (1932 – 1995):

"You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows."

Paul Valéry (1871 – 1945):

“Poems are never finished - just abandoned”

and

“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.”

and

“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.”

and

“God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.”

John Adams (1735 – 1826):

“Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.”

and

“I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.”

and

“There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live.”

Today's Words of Wisdom - October 29, 2015

Today is the birthday of the following people:

James Boswell (1740 – 1795):

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.”

Winona Ryder (1971 - ):

“When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.”

Dan Castellaneta (1957 - ):

"Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves."

Television Anniversary - October 28, 2015

Today is the 65th anniversary of the first episode of The Jack Benny Show.

Album Anniversary - October 28, 2015

Today is the 30th anniversary of Dead Man's Party, the fifth album from Oingo Boingo.

Video: "Dead Man's Party"

Today's Words of Wisdom - October 28, 2015

Today is the birthday of the following people:

Jonas Salk (1914 – 1995):

“If all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.”

Frank Ocean (1987 - ):

“There's somethin' about you

I can't believe I'm even talking to you,

Tellin' you this right now

You're special, I wish you could see what I see”

Bill Gates (1955 - ):

“Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.”

and

“Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world...if you do so, you are insulting yourself.”

and

“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”

John Hollander (1929 - ):

"The trouble lies in pointing

At any stars. For one's own finger aims

Always elsewhere: the man beside one seems

Never to get the point. 'No! The bright star

Just above my fingertip.'''

Evelyn Waugh (1903 – 1966):

“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”

and

“To understand all is to forgive all.”