Born on this day – Don Sharp:

Director

Writer

Actor

April 19, 1921 – December 14, 2011

Credits:

A Woman of Substance (1985); Act of Will (1989); Bang! Bang! You're Dead! (1966); Bear Island (1979); Callan (1974); Carve Her Name with Pride (1958); Child's Play (1954); Curse of the Fly (1965); Dark Places (1974); Edge of Divorce (1953); Film '78 (1978); Fuss Over Feathers (1954); Ghost Squad (1961–1962); Hammer House of Horror (1980); Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood! (1987); Ha'penny Breeze (1950); Harry Black and the Tiger (1958); Hennessy (1975); Hold the Dream (1987); Kraft Mystery Theater (1961); Legend of a Gunfighter (1964); Linda (1960); My Hero (1953); Navy Heroes (1955); Outpost in Malaya (1952); Puppet on a Chain (1970); Q.E.D. (1982); Raiders in the Sky (1953); Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966); SyberVision Neuro-Muscular Programming - Bowling with Marshall Holman and Johnny Petraglia (1983); SyberVision Neuro-Muscular Programming - Golf with Al Geiberger (1983); Taste of Excitement (1969); Tears in the Rain (1988); The Adventures of Hal 5 (1958); The Avengers (1968); The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966); The Champions (1968); The Cruel Sea (1953); The Death Wheelers (1973); The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964); The Dream Maker (1963); The Face of Fu Manchu (1965); The Fast Lady (1962); The Four Feathers (1978); The Human Jungle (1963); The Inbetween Age (1958); The Inbetween Age (1958); The Kiss of the Vampire (1963); The Professionals (1960); The Stolen Airliner (1955); The Thirty Nine Steps (1978); The Violent Enemy (1967); This Is Your Life (1987); Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967); Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965); To the Devil a Daughter (1976); Tusitala (1986); Two Guys Abroad (1962); What Waits Below (1984); Witchcraft (1964); You Know What Sailors Are (1954).

Born on this day – Eliot Ness:

 

Law enforcement agent and head of The Untouchables

Writer,

April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957

Credits:

Book:

The Untouchables (1957).

Movies and television:

American Justice: Target - Mafia (1993); Gangster Empire: Rise of the Mob (2013); Haunted History (2013); Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America (1997); The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries (2008); The Scarface Mob (1959); The Untouchables (1959–1963); The Untouchables (1987); The Untouchables (1993); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959).

Born on this day – Doctor Clayton:

Blues singer

Songwriter

April 19, 1898 – January 7, 1947

Credits:

Albums:

Angels in Harlem (2002); Complete Recorded Works (1935–1942) (1994); Doctor Clayton & His Buddies: Complete Recordings 1946 & 1947 (1994); Doctor Clayton and His Buddy (1935–1947) (1989); Doctor Clayton and His Buddy: Pearl Harbour Blues (1970); Gotta Find My Baby (1987).

Born on this day – William Axt:

Composer

April 19, 1888 – February 13, 1959

Credits:

Untamed (1940); What's Your IQ? (1940); Miracles for Sale (1939); Tell No Tales (1939); The Kid from Texas (1939); Sergeant Madden (1939); Within the Law (1939); Heroes at Leisure (1939); Stand Up and Fight (1939); The Girl Downstairs (1938); Spring Madness (1938); Listen, Darling (1938); Three Loves Has Nancy (1938); Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938); Fast Company (1938); Woman Against Woman (1938); The Story of Doctor Carver (1938); Yellow Jack (1938); Modeling for Money (1938); La Savate (1938); Everybody Sing (1938); The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937); Friend Indeed (1937); Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937); Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937); The First Hundred Years (1937); Big City (1937); London by Night (1937); Between Two Women (1937); Parnell (1937); Song of the City (1937); Ski Skill (1937); Espionage (1937); The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937); Under Cover of Night (1937); Wanted -- A Master (1936); Mad Holiday (1936); All American Chump (1936); Libeled Lady (1936); Old Hutch (1936); Piccadilly Jim (1936); Suzy (1936); We Went to College (1936); The 3 Wise Guys (1936); Old Shep (1936); The Unguarded Hour (1936); The Story of 'The Jonker Diamond' (1936); Petticoat Fever (1936); Three Godfathers (1936); Tough Guy (1936); Three Live Ghosts (1936); The Garden Murder Case (1936); Primitive Pitcairn (1936); Last of the Pagans (1935); Whipsaw (1935); The Perfect Gentleman (1935); Rendezvous (1935); Trained Hoofs (1935); It's in the Air (1935); O'Shaughnessy's Boy (1935); The Perfect Tribute (1935); Pursuit (1935); Woman Wanted (1935); The Murder Man (1935); Pitcairn Island Today (1935); Windy (1935); Buried Loot (1935); David Copperfield (1935); Forsaking All Others (1934); A Wicked Woman (1934); Death on the Diamond (1934); Taking Care of Baby (1934); Hide-Out (1934); Straight Is the Way (1934); The Girl from Missouri (1934); Paris Interlude (1934); Stamboul Quest (1934); Operator 13 (1934); Dartmouth Days (1934); The Thin Man (1934); Hollywood Party (1934); Flying Hunters (1934); Sadie McKee (1934); Manhattan Melodrama (1934); Men in White (1934); Lazy River (1934); Vital Victuals (1934); Goofy Movies Number Two (1934); The Mystery of Mr. X (1934); This Side of Heaven (1934); You Can't Buy Everything (1934); Fugitive Lovers (1934); Should Ladies Behave (1933); Eskimo (1933); Bombshell (1933); Menu (1933); Penthouse (1933); Broadway to Hollywood (1933); Beauty for Sale (1933); Dinner at Eight (1933); Storm at Daybreak (1933); Midnight Mary (1933); When Ladies Meet (1933); The Nuisance (1933); Reunion in Vienna (1933); Looking Forward (1933); Hell Below (1933); Gabriel Over the White House (1933); Clear All Wires! (1933); Whisperin' Bill (1933); The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933); Whistling in the Dark (1933); Prosperity (1932); The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932); Payment Deferred (1932); Microscopic Mysteries (1932); Blondie of the Follies (1932); Sea Spiders (1932); The Washington Masquerade (1932); As You Desire Me (1932); Are You Listening? (1932); The Wet Parade (1932); Polly of the Circus (1932); Mata Hari (1931); Private Lives (1931); Wild and Woolly (1931); Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931); Love-Tails of Morocco (1931); The Big Dog House (1931); Inspiration (1931); Pêle-Mêle (1930); Who Killed Rover? (1930); A Lady's Morals (1930); Madam Satan (1930); Doughboys (1930); Romance (1930); Call of the Flesh (1930); The Unholy Three (1930); Redemption (1930); Free and Easy (1930); The Ship from Shanghai (1930); The Woman Racket (1930); Anna Christie (1930); The Rogue Song (1930); Chasing Rainbows (1930); The Bishop Murder Case (1929); Their Own Desire (1929); Devil-May-Care (1929); Navy Blues (1929); Dynamite (1929); It's a Great Life (1929); Untamed (1929); The Kiss (1929); The Unholy Night (1929); The Mysterious Island (1929); Speedway (1929); Our Modern Maidens (1929); Marianne (1929); Madame X (1929); The Single Standard (1929); Wonder of Women (1929); Thunder (1929); The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929); Where East Is East (1929); The Pagan (1929); Tide of Empire (1929); The Duke Steps Out (1929); Desert Nights (1929); Wild Orchids (1929); The Bellamy Trial (1929); The Flying Fleet (1929); A Woman of Affairs (1928); A Lady of Chance (1928); West of Zanzibar (1928); The Masks of the Devil (1928); Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928); The Viking (1928); Show People (1928); The Wind (1928); While the City Sleeps (1928); Excess Baggage (1928); Our Dancing Daughters (1928); The Mysterious Lady (1928); White Shadows in the South Seas (1928); The Cossacks (1928); The Man Who Laughs (1928); The Trail of '98 (1928); Love (1927); The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927); Annie Laurie (1927); Slide, Kelly, Slide (1927); The Fire Brigade (1926); Camille (1926); Monte Cristo (1922); Faust (1926); The Scarlet Letter (1926); Don Juan (1926); La Bohème (1926); Mare Nostrum (1926); Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925); The Big Parade (1925); Greed (1924); He Who Gets Slapped (1924); The Navigator (1924); The Sea Hawk (1924); Richard the Lion-Hearted (1923); Scaramouche (1923); The Mark of Zorro (1920); Passion (1919).

Selma Lagerlöf, on imagination:

 

No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.

- Selma Lagerlöf.
 

On this day in music history - Doolittle, by the Pixies (1989)

Doolittle

by the Pixies,

was released in the United States on April 18, 1989.

One of my favorite all-time albums, Doolittle, by the Pixies, is perfect.

From Kim Deal’s first bass chords of Debaser to the final guitar fade out of Gouge Away, which I was lucky enough to witness live at the DAR Constitutional Hall, in 2009, as part of their Doolittle 20th anniversary tour. 

The 2009 show opened with the 1929 French silent short film Un Chien Andalou, directed by Luis Buñuel, followed by Black Francis, Joey Santiago, Kim Deal, and David Lovering, performing the complete Doolittle album in order.

The audience was an interesting mix of 40-to-50-year-olds and college kids.

So happy the music has inspired newer generations, as it did me in the early 1990s.

Interesting sidenote:

In the run up to my 2012 LASIK surgery, I couldn’t stop hearing Debaser’s line “slicing up eyeballs”, which is not something you can share with anyone not already a Pixies fan.

Thanks to some resourceful and accommodating surgery techs, I was able to have my LASIK performed with an audio backdrop of Debaser and Karma Police by Radiohead.

Ten minutes later, I had an on-demand mini concert and perfect vision…a pretty great deal.

Thank you, Pixies for Doolittle, a singular, perfect album, inspiring many, many bands that followed, along with being part of the soundtrack of my life.

#Pixies #Doolittle #Debaser #Tame #WaveOfMutilation #HereComesYourMan #Dead #MonkeyGoneToHeaven  #MrGrieves #CrackityJones #LaLaLoveYou #No13Baby #ThereGoesMyGun #Hey #Silver #GougeAway

On this day in movie history - Transcendence (2014)

Transcendence

directed by Wally Pfister,

written by Jack Paglen,

was released in the United States on April 18, 2014.

Music by Mychael Danna.

Cast:

Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Cillian Murphy, Kate Mara, Cole Hauser, Morgan Freeman, Clifton Collins Jr., Cory Hardrict, Falk Hentschel, Josh Stewart, Luce Rains, Fernando Chien, Steven Liu, Xander Berkeley, Lukas Haas, Wallace Langham, James Burnett, Sam Quinn, Sam Webb, Chris Gartin, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Abe Bueno-Jallad, Lauren Sivan, Laramie Cooley, Nancy Jeris, Colin Jones, Dylan Kenin, Chad Brummett, Antonio Del Prete, Jon Kristian Moore, John Trejo, Matthew Berke, Darren P. Leis, Donna Brown, Richard Daniel, Zack Carpenter, Christina Lancellotti, Kristen DeVore Rakes, Seth Adkins.