On this day in music history - Factotum, by Kristin Asbjørnsen (2006)

Factotum

by Kristin Asbjørnsen,

was released on August 15, 2006.

The soundtrack to the movie Factotum (2005).

Track list:

On The Bus; Reunion; I Wish To Weep; Farewell I; Slow Day; Ice Plant Overture; Pickles; Still Awake; Quirky Waltz; Dreamland II; Slow Day Fragments; My Garden; In The Kitchen; Beside You; Drunk Driving; Remembering; Shoes; If You’re Going To Try; Horse Race Groove; Farewell II; Slow Day II.

Ray Bradbury, on writing:

 

Find out what your hero or heroine wants,

and when he or she wakes up in the morning,
just follow him or her all day.
- Ray Bradbury.
 

Recommended reading - The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories (1988)

 

The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories

Edited by Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenberg.

Published by Running Press.
This revised edition published in 2004.
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 0786713712
ISBN-13: 978-0786713714
 
Description:
 

The very best in hardboiled fiction, from such masters as Ross Macdonald, Raymond Chandler, Marcia Muller, Michael Collins, Ed McBain, William Campbell Gault and many more.

With its roots in the American private detective fiction of the 1920s but traceable back as far as Sherlock Holmes, the private eye story remains as popular as ever. 

Here are 24 of the finest short novels and stories from the hardboiled world of the private eye. The characters in this collection range from the tough, cynical, hard-drinking Philip Marlowe type to hard-hitting female private eyes and the one-armed intellectual Dan Fortune – from masters of the genre past and present.

Born on this day – Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

 

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Writer

August 14, 1802 – October 15, 1838

Credits:

Books:

Calendar of the London Seasons (1834); Castruccio Castrucani (date?); Duty and Inclination (1838); Ethel Churchill (1837); Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Books (1832–1839); Flowers of Loveliness (1838); Fragments in Rhyme (1822); Francesca Carrara (1834); Lady Anne Granard (1842); Medallion Wafers (1823); Metrical versions of the Odes tr. in Corinne, or Italy by Madame de Staël (1833); Pictorial Album (1837); Poetic Sketches (1822); Poetical Catalogue of Pictures (1823); Romance and Reality (1831); Schloss's (English) Bijou Almanacks (1836–1839); Subjects for Pictures (1836);  The Book of Beauty (1833); The Easter Gift (1832); The Enchantress and Other Tales / The Novelists Magazine 1 (1833); The Fate of Adelaide (1821); The Female Picture Gallery (1838);  The Golden Violet with its tales of Romance and Chivalry, and other poems (1827); The Improvisatrice and other poems (1824); The Love Letter (1816); The Marriage Vow (date?); The Troubadour (1825); The Venetian Bracelet, The Lost Pleiad, A History of the Lyre and other poems (1829); The Vow of the Peacock and other poems (1835); The Zenana, and minor poems of L.E.L. London (1839); Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836); Versions from the German (1835).

Born on this day – Angela Clarke:

 

Angela Clarke

Actress

August 14, 1909 – December 16, 2010

Credits:

A Double Life (1947); Alcoa Premiere (1962); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); All in the Family (1979); Arnie (1970); Backlash (1947); Baretta (1977–1978); Ben Casey (1961); Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953); Blindfold (1966); Bonanza (1965–1970); Bracken's World (1970); Brookside (1983); Cagney & Lacey (1984); Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1949); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2009); Combat! (1963); Daniel Boone (1966); Darling, How Could You! (1951); Death Valley Days (1965–1969); Dr. Kildare (1966); Dundee and the Culhane (1967); Fantasy Island (1978); Going My Way (1962); Gunsmoke (1962–1964); Harrad Summer (1974); Her Sister's Secret (1946); Houdini (1953); House of Wax (1953); Insight (1974–1980); It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951); Killer in the Mirror (1986); Kojak (1974); MacGyver (1985); Mission: Impossible (1967); Mr. Novak (1965); Mr. Soft Touch (1949); Mrs. Mike (1949); My Favorite Spy (1951); Night Song (1947); Nightmare Honeymoon (1974); Outrage (1950); Petrocelli (1974–1975); Rich Man, Poor Man (1976); St. Elsewhere (1984); The Bounty Hunter (1954); The Doctor and the Girl (1949); The Egyptian (1954); The Ghost of Flight 401 (1978); The Girl Most Likely to... (1973); The Great Caruso (1951); The Gunfighter (1950); The Harlem Globetrotters (1951); The High Chaparral (1968); The Interns (1962); The Killer That Stalked New York (1950); The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952); The Outer Limits (1964); The Partridge Family (1973); The Savage (1952); The Seven Little Foys (1955); The Snake Pit (1948); The Undercover Man (1949); The Untouchables (1962–1963); The Virginian (1966); The Young Lawyers (1970); Undercover Girl (1950); Visions (1977); Voyagers! (1983); Woman in Hiding (1950).

Born on this day – Andrea Leeds:

 

Andrea Leeds

Actress

August 14, 1913 – May 21, 1984

Credits:

Anna Karenina (1935); Asegure a su mujer (1935); Bachelor of Arts (1934); Come and Get It (1936); Dante's Inferno (1935); Earthbound (1940); Elinor Norton (1934); Forgotten Faces (1936); It Could Happen to You (1937); Letter of Introduction (1938); Life Hesitates at 40 (1935); Magnificent Obsession (1935); Meet the Baron (1933); Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play (1941); My Man Godfrey (1936); Song of the Trail (1936); Stage Door (1937); Sutter's Gold (1936); Swanee River (1939); The Bohemian Girl (1936); The Count Takes the Count (1936); The Goldwyn Follies (1938); The Laurel and Hardy Show (1986); The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988); The Moon's Our Home (1936); The Real Glory (1939); They Shall Have Music (1939); Youth Takes a Fling (1938).

Born on this day – Jorja Curtright:

 

Jorja Curtright

Actress

August 14, 1923 – May 11, 1985

Credits:

Ben Casey (1962); Bonanza (1966); Boston Blackie (1952); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1952); Celanese Theatre (1952); Chevron Theatre (1952–1953); China Smith (1952); City Detective (1953–1954); Conflict (1956); Crusader (1956); Dangerous Assignment (1952); Fireside Theatre (1951); General Electric Theater (1958); Gruen Guild Theater (1951); Gunsmoke (1956); Heaven Only Knows (1947); Hitler's Madman (1943); Hollywood Opening Night (1951–1952); I Dream of Jeannie (1966); Insight (1963); Iron Horse (1967); Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955); M (1951); Passport to Danger (1954); Perry Mason (1962); Racket Squad (1952); Stage 7 (1955); Stars Over Hollywood (1951); State Trooper (1956); Strange Stories (1956); Studio 57 (1954); Surfside 6 (1961); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1954); The Best in Mystery (1954); The Cases of Eddie Drake (1952); The Danny Thomas Show (1953); The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (1957); The Loretta Young Show (1953); The Millionaire (1957); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953–1954); The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956); The Rogues (1965); The Sheriff of Cochise (1957); Whistle Stop (1946); Zane Grey Theatre (1958).