April 8

It's April 8th


It's National Empanada Day, Draw a Bird Day, and International Romani Day.
Flag of the Romani People


On this day in 1971 - Caravan releases "In the Land of Grey and Pink".


In 1977 - Judas Priest releases "Sin After Sin"


In 1978 - Japan releases "Adolescent Sex"


In 1991 - Massive Attack releases "Blue Lines"


In 1993 – The Space Shuttle Discovery is launched.


In 2002 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched.


In 2008 - Thee Oh Sees releases "The Master's Bedroom is Worth Spending a Night In"


In 2024 - A total solar eclipse takes place at the Moon's ascending node, visible across North America.


Birthdays:

Patricia Arquette
as Alabama Whitman in "True Romance"
as Renee Madison / Alice Wakefield in "Lost Highway"


Robin Wright
as Princess Buttercup in "The Princess Bride"


Biz Markie




Dean Norris
as Fleming in "Full Eclipse"


Tine Asmundsen


Julian Lennon

"Woman"


Izzy Stradlin



Roman Dragoun



Christine Boisson
in "Born For Hell"


Mel Schacher


Hywel Bennett
as Martin Durnley/Georgie Clifford in "Twisted Nerve"


Tim Thomerson
as Jeff Moriarty in "Fade to Black"


Chris Orr
"Farm"


Steve Howe



James Herbert


Douglass Trumbull


Roger Chapman


Momo Kapor
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Jacques Brel


Shecky Greene

as Catleg in "Tony Rome"


Sarah Northrup Hollister
Northrup was a figure in the Pasadena branch of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), a secret society led by the English occultist Aleister Crowley, where she was known as "Soror Cassap". She joined as a teenager along with her older sister Helen. From 1941 to 1945 she had a turbulent relationship with her sister's husband Jack Parsons, a pioneer in solid-fuel rocketry and head of the Pasadena O.T.O. Although she was a committed and popular member, she acquired a reputation for disruptiveness that prompted Crowley to denounce her as a "vampire." She began a relationship with L. Ron Hubbard, whom she met through O.T.O., in 1945. She and Hubbard eloped, taking with them a substantial amount of Parsons' life savings and marrying bigamously a year later while Hubbard was still married to his first wife, Margaret Grubb.

Frédéric Back


Edward Mulhare
as Mark Fleming in "Signpost to Murder"
as Jean-Claude Ibert in "Eye of the Devil"

as the Genetics Professor in
"The Outer Limits" Season 1, Episode 5 "The Sixth-Finger"

Carmen McRae


María Félix


Emil Cioran
"Why Suffering is Beautiful | Emil Cioran's Dark Philosophy"

John Fante


Hugo Fregonese


Yip Harburg

Mary Pickford
7 films on YouTube playlist
in her last acting role as Mary Marlowe Carlton in
"Secrets"


Clarence Hudson White
"Pipes of Pans"

"The Bubble"

Hallelujah! - "Bubbles"

Allen Butler Talcott
"The Great Oak"



Giuseppe Tartini

"The Supernatural in Music V Tartini and the Devil’s Trill" by Maureen Buja
"Tartini’s Dream" by Louis-Léopold Boilly


Juan van der Hamen
"Offering to Flora"


I drew this horned owl pretty quickly. An owl is a bird. There I did it.
My Tempeh and Sweet Potato Empanadas were pretty damn good. They brough me more joy than this owl picture.

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