On this day in the Star Trek universe - The Next Generation, Picard

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1994)
Star Trek: Picard (2020)
 

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 7. Episode 20.

Episode entitled: Journey’s End.

Released March 26, 1994.

Directed by Corey Allen.

Written by Ronald D. Moore, Shawn Piller, Antonia King / Anatonia Napoli, René Echevarria.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Tom Jackson, Natalija Nogulich, Ned Romero, George Aguilar, Richard Poe, Eric Menyuk, Doug Wert, Lena Banks, Joe Baumann, Hal Donahue, Elliot Durant III, Henry Kingi, Marianne Lewis, Tom Morga, Rebecca Parker, Matilda Resendes, John Saint John, Frank Salsedo, Oliver Theess, William P. Yazzie.

Star Trek: Picard
Season 1. Episode 10.

Episode entitled: Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2.

Released March 26, 2020.

Directed by Akiva Goldsman.

Created by Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Michael Chabon, Akiva Goldsman, Nick Zayas.

Based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, Alison Pill, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Evan Evagora, Isa Briones, Harry Treadaway, Brent Spiner, Tamlyn Tomita, Brian DeRozan, Matt Perfetuo, Mike Perfetuo, Jade Ramsey, Nikita Ramsey, Jonathan Frakes, Peyton List, Kay Bess, Apolla Asteria, Antoine Holmes Sr., Spencer Holmes, Natalie Kailey, Maya McClean, Nandy McClean, Marina Miller, Julia Nolan, Liz Nolan, Ella Rogers, Geoff Samuels, Greg Samuels, Petra Sprecher, Anna Waldrum.

On this day in television history - Justified (2013)

Justified
Season 4. Episode 12.

Episode entitled: Peace of Mind.

Released March 26, 2013.

Directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton.

Written by Graham Yost, Taylor Elmore, Leonard Chang, Ingrid Escajeda, VJ Boyd, Leonard Chang.
 
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, Walton Goggins, Jim Beaver, Ron Eldard, Dan Buran, Rick Gomez, John Kapelos, Jesse Luken, David Meunier, Abby Miller, Mike O’Malley, Lindsay Pulsipher, Mykelti Williamson, Natalie Zea, Mel Fair, William Gregory Lee, T.O.N.E-z, Shawn Habibi, Frank Scozzari.

On this day in music history - The album Brigade, by Heart (1990)

Brigade by Heart (1990)

The Bitter Truth by Evanescence (2021)

Brigade

Album by Heart,

released March 26, 1990.

Track list: Wild Child; All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You; Secret; Tall, Dark Handsome Stranger; I Didn't Want To Need You; The Night; Fallen From Grace; Under The Sky; Cruel Nights; Stranded; Call Of The Wild; I Want Your World To Turn; I Love You.

 

The Bitter Truth

Album by Evanescence,

released March 26, 2021.

Track list: Artifact/The Turn; Broken Pieces Shine; The Game Is Over; Yeah Right; Feeding The Dark; Wasted On You; Better Without You; Use My Voice; Take Cover; Far From Heaven; Part Of Me; Blind Belief.

On this day in music history - Machine Head, by Deep Purple (1972)

Machine Head

by Deep Purple,

was released on March 25, 1972.

Track list:

Highway Star; Maybe I'm A Leo; Pictures Of Home; Never Before; Smoke On The Water; Lazy; Space Truckin'.

Machine Head is one of my favorite albums and the very first album I ever purchased.

Best lineup ever - Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, and Ian Paice.

Great songs from a great band.

#HighwayStar #PicturesOfHome #SmokeOnTheWater #SpaceTruckin #JonLord #RitchieBlackmore #IanGillan #RogerGlover #IanPaice

James A. Michener, on writing:

 

I love writing.

I love the swirl of words as they tangle with human emotions.
- James A. Michener.

Recommended reading - The Mothman Prophecies: A True Story, by John A. Keel (1975)

The Mothman Prophecies: A True Story

by John A. Keel.

Published by Tor Books.
First published 1975.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0765334984
ISBN-13: 78-0765334985
 
Description:
A true story of unexplained terror…

West Virginia, 1966. For thirteen months the town of Point Pleasant is gripped by a real-life nightmare culminating in a tragedy that makes headlines around the world. Strange occurrences and sightings, including a bizarre winged apparition that becomes known as the Mothman, trouble this ordinary American community. Mysterious lights are seen moving across the sky. Domestic animals are found slaughtered and mutilated. And journalist John Keel, arriving to investigate the freakish events, soon finds himself an integral part of an eerie and unfathomable mystery…

 

The Mothman Prophecies.

Translated into more than thirteen languages, John Keel’s unsettling account of what he encountered in Point Pleasant has long been regarded as a classic in the literature of the unexplained. A New York Times bestseller, it also inspired the acclaimed 2002 film.

Born on this day – Béla Bartók:

Béla Bartók

Composer

Pianist

Ethnomusicologist

March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945

Credits:

Music compositions:

14 Bagatelles; 44 Duos for Two Violins; Allegro barbaro; An Evening at the Village; BB 34, Sz. 30; Bluebeard's Castle; Buciumeana; Cantata Profana; Concerto for Orchestra; Contrasts; Dance Suite; Divertimento for String Orchestra; Études de Bartók; Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs; Hungarian Folk Tunes: III; Hungarian Pictures; Kossuth; Maruntel; Mikrokosmos, Sz. 107, BB 105: Volume VI: 148-153: Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm; Mikrokosmos; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Out of Doors; Piano Concerto No. 1; Piano Concerto No. 2; Piano Concerto No. 3; Piano Method (Zongoraiskola), BB 66, Sz. 52: 116. Moderato; Piano Sonata; Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra, BB 36b (op. 1): I. Adagio molto; Rhapsody No. 1; Rhapsody No. 2; Romanian Christmas Carols; Romanian Folk Dances; Slovakian Dance; Sonata for Solo Violin; Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion; Sonatina; Sonatina, BB 102a: III. Finale. Allegro vivace; String Quartet No. 1; String Quartet No. 2; String Quartet No. 3; String Quartet No. 4; String Quartet No. 5; String Quartet No. 6; Suite, Op. 14; The Barbarian; The Miraculous Mandarin; The Wooden Prince; Two Pictures: I. In voller Blüte; Viola Concerto; Violin Concerto No. 1; Violin Concerto No. 2.

Movies and television:

40 éves a Cantemus (2015); A Bibo Reader (2002); A kékszakállú herceg vára (1970); A kékszakállú herceg vára (1981); A kékszakállú herceg vára (2005); À la découverte des Français (1957); A la memoria del autor (1966); A Nyolcak nyomában (2011); A varázsló álma (1987); A zene határtalanul (2016); Aleph, lectures contades (2000); Anthropoid (2016); Artemis: The Neverending Quartet (2020); Back on Stage (2020); Bal Masqué (1981); Bartok (2017); Bartók Béla: Az éjszaka zenéje (1970); Bartók Béla: Kontrasztok (1981); Bartóks Requiem (2008); Behind Closed Doors (1988); Being John Malkovich (1999); Bluebeard's Castle (1963); Bluebeard's Castle (2022); Budapeströl jut eszembe (2001); Caniche (1979); Catatonic (2009); Celibidache (1992); China Lake (1983); Chuzhaya belaya i ryaboy (1986); Cinderella (2021); Concerto for Orchestra (1965); Contrasts (1968); Control Room (2004); Correspondances (1953); Cosmos (1980); Csodálatos mandarin (2001); Das muss man erst mal aussprechen können (2021); Das Versprechen (2023); Des hommes qui ont perdu racine (1956); Diamantino (2018); Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music (2007); Doctor Who (1967–1968); Doomwatch (1972); Drakengard (2003); Duke Bluebeard's Castle (1988); Duke Bluebeard's Castle (2020); Echoes From a Somber Empire (1990); Égetö Eszter (1989); El grosso concerto (2001); Életbevágó (2000); El-Lailah el-Akhirah (1963); Este a székelyeknél (1998); Flaming Creatures (1963); Fuchsmühl (1974); Full House (1972); Grâce à la musique (1981); Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma (1986); Hamsun (1996); Het slot van hertog Blauwbaard (1965); Hope@Home (2020); Impressions de New York (1956); Imre Eck and Maria Bretus in Csodálatos mandarin (1970); (In Here) I Am God (2018); Ocio (2022); In memoriam Gyarmathy Tihamér (2016); In Search of Dracula (1974); Katzenspiel (1972); Kékszakállú (2016); Klaus Mäkelä dirige Ravel, Debussy et Bartók (2023); Kristallnacht (2022); Le Cabinet des estampes (1954); Le chateau de Barbe-Bleu / La voix humaine (2015); Le mandarin merveilleux (1964); Le roman (1991); Legion (2017); Les grands interprètes (1967); Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997); Long Time No See (2019); Magritte (1978); Medvetánc (1972); Melinda and Melinda (2004); Mindennap (1980); Miroirs (2016); My Homeland (1976); NET Festival (1968); New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts (1959–1963); Not Reconciled (1965); Obiettivo sul territorio (2009); Oldás és kötés (1963); Orchestre National de France (1964); Playing Mona Lisa (2000); Polyformia (2008); Public Eye (1971); Pursuit (1997); Ready Player One (2018); Réfugiés Algériens (1958); Rosa (1992); Senseless (1962); Simon Says (2015); Singing the Blues in Red (1986); STAR WARS EP 5: Attack of the Phantom Past (2016); Star Wars Ep 6: The Last Laser Master (2018); Steve Martin's Best Show Ever (1981); Stick and Bone (1968); Studio One (1953); Szörnyeteg (1975); Tatort (2017); The Boris Giltburg Five Minute Library (2017); The Catch (1946); The Good Mother (1988); The Illiac Passion (1967); The Legacy (2009); The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2015); The Prediction (1991); The Shepherds of Cat Island (2020); The Shining (1980); The Silent Revolution (2018); The Souvenir (2019); The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2010); The Young Pope (2016); Trainwreck (2001); Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (2006); Ulrike Marie Meinhof (1995); Un paso al frente (1966); Un petit prince (1984); Visions (1977); Zongora a levegöben (1976).