Sunday, June 1, 2025

On this day in movie history - Total Recall (1990)


Total Recall


directed by Paul Verhoeven,

written by Ronald Shusett, Dan O’Bannon, Gary Goldman and Jon Povill,

based on the novella We Can Remember It for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick,

was released in the United States on June 1, 1990.

Music by Jerry Goldsmith.

Cast:
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, Michael Ironside, Marshall Bell, Mel Johnson Jr., Michael Champion, Roy Brocksmith, Ray Baker, Rosemary Dunsmore, David Knell, Alexia Robinson, Dean Norris, Mark Carlton, Debbie Lee Carrington, Lycia Naff, Robert Costanzo, Michael LaGuardia, Priscilla Allen, Ken Strausbaugh, Marc Alaimo, Michael Gregory, Ken Gildin, Mickey Jones, Parker Whitman, Ellen Gollas, Gloria Dorson, Erika Carlsson, Benny Corral, Bob Tzudiker, Erik Cord, Frank Kopyc, Chuck Sloan, Dave Nicolson, Paula McClure, Rebecca Ruth, Milt Tarver, Roger Cudney, Monica Steuer, Sasha Rionda, Linda Howell, Robert Picardo, Kamala Lopez, Morgan Lofting, Patti Attar, Bob Bergen, Joe Unger, Karlyn Michelson, Andy Armstrong, Elizabeth Dennehy, Thomas Ebert, Frank Allen Forbes, Allan Graf, Peter Kent, Joel Kramer, Steven Lambert, Bennie Moore, Terry Richards.

On this day in television history - Justified (2010)


Justified
Season 1. Episode 12.

Episode entitled: Fathers and Sons.

Released June 1, 2010.

Directed by Michael Katleman.

Written by Graham Yost, Fred Golan, Dave Andron, Wendy Calhoun and Chris Provenzano.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:
Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Raymond J. Barry, Alexandra Barreto, Jordi Caballero, Mo Gaffney, M.C. Gainey, Linda Gehringer, Rick Gomez, William Ragsdale, David Meunier, Ray Porter, Omar Avila, Joshua Bitton, Pat Skipper, Walton Goggins, Lizabeth Allen, John Lee Ames, Ezra Buzzington, Chris Gorbos, Tommy Savas, Ronnie Steadman, Sarah Baldwin, Bill Blair, Matt Leonard.

On this day in music history - Eagles, by the Eagles (1972)


Eagles


by the Eagles

was released on June 1, 1972.

Track list:

Take It Easy; Witchy Woman; Chug All Night; Most of Us Are Sad; Nightingale; Train Leaves Here This Morning; Take the Devil; Earlybird; Peaceful Easy Feeling; Tryin’.

#TakeItEasy #WitchyWoman 

On this day in music history - The album Takin' a Stand, by Deborah Coleman (1995)

Takin' a Stand


by Deborah Coleman

was released on June 1, 1995.

Track list:

Evil Gal’s Daughter; Missin’ You; Don’t Talk About Love; Takin’ A Stand; I Believe; Moanin’ The Blues; I Cry; What Should I Do; Can’t Leave The Blues; Them Changes; Changes Revisited.

On this day in music history - The album Chromatones, by Darlene Koldenhoven (2018)


Chromatones


by Darlene Koldenhoven

was released on June 1, 2018.

Track list:

Golden Dawn; Mourning Doves; Red Savannah; Swans on the Seine; Terra Affirma; Native Bloom; Vibrant Worlds; Chromatones; Prism of Time; Painted Desert; Waltzing in Planetary Time.

On this day in music history - Piano Solos, by Laura Sullivan (2003)


Piano Solos


by Laura Sullivan,

was released on June 1, 2003.

Track list:

Hope for the Sun; Dreaming Underwater; Selling Water by the River; Lullaby Wind; Sleepwalking (On a Tightrope); Claire De Lune; Calls to Spirit; Brave Mourning; Of Land & Sea, Of Mortal & Divine; The Voyage Home; In Last Hours.

Saturday, May 31, 2025

Henry Ward Beecher, on books:


Books are not made for furniture,
but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
- Henry Ward Beecher.