February 1

February 1st is Imbolc. Halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox.

On this day in - 1964 Indiana Governor Matthew Walsh bans the Kingsmen's version of "Louie Louie," calling it "pornographic".


– The Beatles have their first number one hit in the U.S. with "I Want to Hold Your Hand"


In 1972 - Neil Young releases "Harvest"


In 2007 -


Birthdays:

Big Boi


Leymah Gbowee
-Interview from 2011

Michael C. Hall
as Thomas Eastman in "The Report"

Patrick Wilson


Joshua Redman


Brain Krause
as Damian in "The Demonologist"

Pauly Shore
as Bud Macintosh in "Bio-Dome"



Brandon Lee
as Brandon Ma in "Legacy of Rage"

Sherilyn Fenn
as Helen in "Crime Zone"

Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times criticized the film as humorless and grim, but he wrote that it rises above its low budget roots to become a competent Blade Runner clone. Drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs wrote, "Sure, we've all seen this story before, but have we seen it with 1,000 Peruvian extras in shiny silver space suits? I think not."

Linus Roache
as in Charles Lynden "Division 19"

Takashi Murakami

Tomoyasu Hotei


Gilbert Hernandez


Exene Cervenka


Bill Mumy
as Greg Mazzey in "Space Command Redemption"

Chick Dukowski



Rich Williams


Mike Campbell


Rick James


Normie Rowe


Elisabeth Sladen

as the Dormouse in "Alice in Wonderland"

Terry Jones


Sherman Helmsley


Jimmy Carl Black


Garrett Morris
as "Chocolate Chip Charlie" W. Hobbs in "The Stuff"


Stuart Whitman
as William Whitaker in "The Ransom" aka "Maniac!"


Vivian Maier


Zao Wou-Ki


Muriel Spark
"The Stories of Muriel Spark"

Langston Hughes
"The Voice of the Poet"

John Ford

Vladimir Dimitrov


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