Album Anniversary - June 28

Today is the 30th anniversary of two albums: Scritti Politti's Cupid & Psyche 85, and Sting's The Dream of the Blue Turtles.

Video: Scritti Politti - "Perfect Way"

Video: Sting - "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free"

Album Anniversary - June 26

Today is the 20th anniversary of Exit Planet Dust, the debut album from The Chemical Brothers. It is also the 25th anniversary of Goo, the sixth album from Sonic Youth.

Video: The Chemical Brothers - "Leave Home"

Video: Sonic Youth - "Kool Thing"

June 18, 2015

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

Roger Ebert (1942 – 2013):

“I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.”

and

“Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will.”

and

“What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.”

and

“The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.”

and

“An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.”

Paul McCartney (1942 - ):

“And, in the end

The love you take

is equal to the love you make.”

and

“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.”

Richard Powers (1957 - ):

“Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.”

and

“When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.”

and

“Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narrator’s mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, here’s spring.”

Album Anniversary - June 17

Today is the 30th anniversary of "Crush," the sixth album from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.

Video: "So in Love"

June 17, 2015

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

James Weldon Johnson (1871 – 1938):

“...evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We light upon one evil and hit it with all the might of our civilization, but only succeed in scattering it into a dozen of other forms”

M.C. Escher (1898 – 1972):

“It's pleasing to realize that quite a few people enjoy this sort of playfulness and that they are not afraid to look at the relative nature of rock-hard reality.”

and

“I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.”

John Hersey (1914 – 1993):

“Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.”

and

“Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.”

Kendrick Lamar (1987 - ):

“We hurt people who love us; love people who hurt us.”

and

“I stare at the mirror then realize that “real” lies within me.”

June 16, 2015

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

John Howard Griffin (1920 – 1980):

“For so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man's good intentions toward his fellow man.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938 - ):

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”

June 15, 2015

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

Brian Jacques (1939 – 2011):

“Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”

and

“Friend is a very small word,

A little sound we make,

For one who is true, one who will do,

Great deeds for friendship's sake.”

Paul Rusesabagina (1954 - ):

“Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.”

Ice Cube (1969 - ):

“Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.”

Neil Patrick Harris (1973 - ):

“I don't know, but I think kids just want to be listened to, so I want to make sure I do that.”

Gary Lightbody (1976 - ):

“Light up, light up

As if you have a choice

Even if you cannot hear my voice

I'll be right beside you dear”