Wednesday, September 3, 2025

On this day in movie history: Down Three Dark Streets (1954)

Down Three Dark Streets

directed by Arnold Laven,

written by Gordon Gordon and Bernard C. Schonefeld,

based on the novel Case File: FBI by Mildred Gordon,

was released in the United States on September 3, 1954.

Music by Paul Sawtell.

 

Cast:
Broderick Crawford, Ruth Roman, Martha Hyer, Marisa Pavan, Max Showalter, Kenneth Tobey, Gene Reynolds, William Johnstone, Harlan Warde, Jay Adler, Claude Akins, Suzanne Alexander, Myra Marsh, Joe Basselt, William Schallert.

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).

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Collect books and build your own home library:

 
Books are medicine for the mind and soul.
Build a library and immune yourself from ignorance.


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.