Album Anniversary - August 30, 2015

Today is the 50th anniversary of Highway 61 Revisited, the sixth studio album from Bob Dylan.

May 24, 2015

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

William Trevor (1928 - ):

“As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society and people are our meat, one really doesn’t belong in the midst of society. The great challenge in writing is always to find the universal in the local, the parochial. And to do that, one needs distance.”

and

“I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.”

Bob Dylan (1941 - ):

“Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”

and

“I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.”

and

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”

Michael Chabon (1963 - ):

“The problem, if anything, was precisely the opposite. I had too much to write: too many fine and miserable buildings to construct and streets to name and clock towers to set chiming, too many characters to raise up from the dirt like flowers whose petals I peeled down to the intricate frail organs within, too many terrible genetic and fiduciary secrets to dig up and bury and dig up again, too many divorces to grant, heirs to disinherit, trysts to arrange, letters to misdirect into evil hands, innocent children to slay with rheumatic fever, women to leave unfulfilled and hopeless, men to drive to adultery and theft, fires to ignite at the hearts of ancient houses.”

Mo Willems (1968 - ):

“A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have to hold it in your hands, because a book sits there, waiting for you, whether you think you want it or not, because of all these things, a book is a friend. It’s not just the content, but the physical being of a book that is there for you always and unconditionally.”

Album Anniversary - March 27, 2015

Today is the 50th anniversary of "Bringing It All Back Home," the fifth album from Bob Dylan. It is also the 25th anniversary of the third and self-titled
album from Social Distortion.

Video: "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding"

Video: "Ball and Chain"

Album Anniversary - January 17, 2015

Today is the 40th Anniversary of Blood on the Tracks, the 15th studio album from Bob Dylan:

Video: "Tangled Up in Blue"

May 24, 2014

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

William Trevor (1928 - ):

“As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society and people are our meat, one really doesn’t belong in the midst of society. The great challenge in writing is always to find the universal in the local, the parochial. And to do that, one needs distance.”

and

“I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.”

Bob Dylan (1941 - ):

“Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”

and

“I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.”

and

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”

Michael Chabon (1963 - ):

“The problem, if anything, was precisely the opposite. I had too much to write: too many fine and miserable buildings to construct and streets to name and clock towers to set chiming, too many characters to raise up from the dirt like flowers whose petals I peeled down to the intricate frail organs within, too many terrible genetic and fiduciary secrets to dig up and bury and dig up again, too many divorces to grant, heirs to disinherit, trysts to arrange, letters to misdirect into evil hands, innocent children to slay with rheumatic fever, women to leave unfulfilled and hopeless, men to drive to adultery and theft, fires to ignite at the hearts of ancient houses.”

Mo Willems (1968 - ):

“A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have to hold it in your hands, because a book sits there, waiting for you, whether you think you want it or not, because of all these things, a book is a friend. It’s not just the content, but the physical being of a book that is there for you always and unconditionally.”