On this day in television history - Justified (2010)

Justified
Season 1. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: Fire in the Hole.

Released March 16, 2010.

Directed and written by Graham Yost.

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

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Joelle Carter, Natalie Zea, Damon Herriman, Matt Craven, Peter Greene, Doug E. Doug, Kevin Rankin, Ryan O’Nan, Joel Marsh, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Walton Goggins, John Eddins, John Ciccolini, Danny Wildman, David Michael Holmes, Paul Aldanée, Michael Keith Allen, Giovanna Angle, Xavier Cortes, John W. Iwanonkiw, William Kania, Christian Lopez, David Dale McCue, Tiffany Sander McKenzie, Phil Nardozzi, Jackson Nunn, William Ragsdale.

On this day in television history - Justified (2011)

Justified
Season 2. Episode 6.

Episode entitled: Blaze of Glory.

Released March 16, 2011.

Directed by Jon Avnet.

Written by Graham Yost and Benjamin Cavell.

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, Walton Goggins, William Ragsdale, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Chris Coy, Conor O’Farrell, Connie Ray, Scott Wilson, Jill Basey, Mel Fair, Rodney J. Hobbs, Andy Hoff, Roderick McCarthy, Kinsey McLean, Stefan Marks, Casey Sander, Tom Schmid.

On this day in music history - King of the Blues, Homeland, He Said She Said

King of the Blues / My Kind of Blues by B.B. King (1960)

Homeland by Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel (1990)

He Said She Said by Peter Karp & Sue Foley (2010)

 

King of the Blues / My Kind of Blues

Album by B.B. King,

released March 16, 1960.

Track list: King Of The Blues; I've Got A Right To Love My Baby; What Way To Go; Long Nights; Feel Like A Million; I’ll Survive; Good Man Gone Bad; If I Lost You; You’re On The Top; Partin’ Time; I’m King; You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now; Mr. Pawnbroker; Understand; Someday Baby; Driving Wheel; Walking Dr. Bill; My Own Fault, Baby; Catfish Blues; Hold That Train; Please Set The Date; Whole Lotta Love; Woke Up This Morning; Let’s Do The Boogie; Story From My Heart And Soul; Jump With You Baby; Bye Bye Baby.

Homeland

Album by Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel,

released March 16, 1990.

Track list: Homeland; Lotus; Peru; Aria; Clancy's Heart; Traveling Home; Caravan Crossing; Immigrant; The Voyage.

 

He Said She Said

Album by Peter Karp & Sue Foley,

released March 16, 2010.

Track list: Treat Me Right; So Far so Fast; Wait; Rules of Engagement; Hold on Baby; Mm Hmm; Danger Lurks; Ready for Your Love; Scared; Valentine's Day; Dear Girl; Baby Don't Go; Regret; Lost in You.

Author humor:

4,000 years later and we're back to the same language.

Introvert insight:

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

– Henry David Thoreau.

 
Don’t think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.
– Susan Cain.

I don’t have time for superficial friends.
I suppose, if you’re really lonely, you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what’s the point?
– Courtney Cox.

 

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
– William S. Burroughs.

Farley Mowat, on writing:

I write every day/

I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.
- Farley Mowat.

Recommended reading - The Goodbye Look

The Goodbye Look

by Ross Macdonald.

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

First published 1969.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0375708650

ISBN-13: 978-0375708657

Description:

"The American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald." – The New York Times Book Review.

In The Goodbye Look, Lew Archer is hired to investigate a burglary at the mission-style mansion of Irene and Larry Chalmers. The prime suspect, their son Nick, has a talent for disappearing, and the Chalmerses are a family with money and memories to burn. As Archer zeros in on Nick, he discovers a troubled blonde, a stash of wartime letters, a mysterious hobo. Then a stiff turns up in a car on an empty beach. And Nick turns up with a Colt .45. In The Goodbye Look, Ross Macdonald delves into the world of the rich and the troubled and reveals that the past has a deadly way of catching up to the present.

If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it is 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 pre-decessors 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.