On this day in movie history - The Wharf Rat (1995)

The Wharf Rat

directed by Jimmy Huston,

written by Paul Kimatian and Jimmy Huston,

was released in the United States on September 3, 1995.

Music by Mervyn Warren.

Cast:

Lou Diamond Phillips, Rachel Ticotin, Judge Reinhold, Scott Cohen, Rita Moreno, William Dunlop, Alan Vint, Paul Willson, Peter Radon, Loren Farmer, Wilfred Bray, Steven Randazzo, Beau Starr, Thoywell Hemmings, Jude Coffey, Rusty Ryan, Stephen Jackson, Yank Azman, Desmond Campbell, Jean-Luc Côté, Scott Wickware, Nicole Farmer, Ray Paisley, Don De Fina, Richard Blackburn, Jeff Christensen, Shawn Lawrence, Chris Peterson, J.J. Murray, Danny White.

On this day in movie history - Pearl (2022)

Pearl

directed by Ti West,

written by Ti West and Mia Goth,

was released at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on September 3, 2022.

Music by Tyler Bates and Tim Williams.

Cast:

Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, Emma Jenkins-Purro, Alistair Sewell, Amelia Reid, Gabe McDonnell, Lauren Stewart, Todd Rippon, Grace Acheson, Shaman Theron.

On this day in music history - The album Harmonic Activations: The Alchemy of Crystal Sound, by Tryshe Dhevney (2014)

Harmonic Activations: The Alchemy of Crystal Sound

by Tryshe Dhevney

was released on September 3, 2014.

Track list:

Awaken Intuition Activation; OM Frequency Activation; High Heart Activation; Ascension Portal Activation; Throat Chakra Activation; Endocrine System Activation.

On this day in music history - I Am Rachel Platten (2024)

I Am Rachel Platten

Album by Rachel Platten,

released September 3, 2024.

 

Track list:

I Know; First Day; Slow December; The River; Bad Thoughts; Mercy; Surrendering; I Don't Really Care (Set Me Free); Girls; Gimme Something; Need You; Caroline (feat. Michael Bolton).

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Recommended reading - The Descendants

The Descendants

by Kaui Hart Hemmings.

Filmed as The Descendants (2011), directed by Alexander Payne.

Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks.

Published 2007.

ISBN-10: 0812982959
ISBN-13: 9780812982954
 
Description:

“A Pandora’s box–style tragicomedy . . . [Kaui Hart Hemmings’s] comic sense is finely honed in this refreshingly wry debut novel.” – The New York Times Book Review.

“With beautiful and blunt prose, Hemmings explores the emotional terrain of grief, promising something far more fulfilling than paradise at its end.” – San Francisco Chronicle.

“A surprising and affecting novel, a story about death and infidelity that manages to be a finer, lighter story about life and love.” – Time Out New York.

Fortunes have changed for the King family, descendants of Hawaiian royalty and one of the state’s largest landowners. Matthew King’s daughters – Scottie, a feisty ten-year-old, and Alex, a seventeen-year-old recovering drug addict – are out of control, and their charismatic, thrill-seeking mother, Joanie, lies in a coma after a boat-racing accident. She will soon be taken off life support. As Matt gathers his wife’s friends and family to say their final goodbyes, a difficult situation is made worse by the sudden discovery that there’s one person who hasn’t been told: the man with whom Joanie had been having an affair. Forced to examine what they owe not only to the living but to the dead, Matt, Scottie, and Alex take to the road to find Joanie’s lover, on a memorable journey that leads to unforeseen humor, growth, and profound revelations.

 

Recommended reading - The Galton Case (1959).

 

The Galton Case

by Ross Macdonald

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Vintage Crime / Black Lizard
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 0679768645
ISBN-13: 978-0679768647
 
Description:
 

Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. Now Anthony's mother wants him back and has hired Lew Archer to find him. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to be Galton's son, and a con game whose stakes are so high that someone is still willing to kill for them. Devious and poetic, tersely poetic, The Galton Case displays MacDonald at the pinnacle of his form.

 

If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it was Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his predecessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.

 

Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer mysteries rewrote the conventions of the detective novel with their credible, humane hero, and with Macdonald’s insight and moral complexity won new literary respectability for the hardboiled genre previously pioneered by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.

 

“Exciting and beautifully plotted.” – The New York Times Book Review.
 
“A model of intelligently engineered excitement.” – The New Yorker.
 
“One of his best … The Macdonald depth of understanding and dispassionate charity come out well, and the story … is richly plotted.” – San Francisco Chronicle.