On this day in music history - Mother Earth, by Within Temptation (2000):

Mother Earth

Album by Within Temptation,

released December 24, 2000.

Track list:

Mother Earth; Ice Queen; Our Farewell; Caged; The Promise; Never-Ending Story; Deceiver of Fools; Intro; Dark Wings; In Perfect Harmony; World of Make Believe; Bittersweet; Jane Doe.

On this day in movie history - Cast Away (2000):

Cast Away

directed by Robert Zemeckis,

written by William Broyles Jr.,

was released in the United States on December 7, 2000.
Music by Alan Silvestri.

Cast:

Tom Hanks, Wilson the Volleyball, Helen Hunt, Paul Sanchez, Lari White, Nick Searcy, Jenifer Lewis, Geoffrey Blake, Chris Noth, Garret Davis, Vince Martin, Nan Martin, Joe Conley, Timothy Stack, Elden Henson, Steve Monroe, Valerie Wildman, Jay Acovone, Dennis Letts, Michael Forest, Viveka Davis, Jennifer Choe.

On this day in movie history - Unbreakable (2000):

Unbreakable

directed and written by M. Night Shyamalan,

was released in the United States on November 22, 2000.
Music by James Newton Howard.

Cast:

Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright, Spencer Treat Clark, Charlayne Woodard, Eamonn Walker, Leslie Stefanson, Johnny Hiram Jamison, Michaelia Carroll, Bostin Christopher, Elizabeth Lawrence, Davis Duffield, Laura Regan, Chance Kelly, Michael Kelly, Firdous Bamji, Johanna Day, James Handy, Sally Parrish, Richard Council, Damian Young, Sherman Roberts, Whitney Sugarman, Dianne Cotten Murphy, M. Night Shyamalan, Sasha Joseph Neulinger, Jose L. Rodriguez, Samantha Savino, Ukee Washington, Susan Wilder, Greg Horos, Todd Berry, Angela Eckert, Anthony Lawton, Julia Yorks, John Patrick Amedori, John Rusk, Joey Hazinsky, Bill Rowe, Kim Simms Thomas, Andrea Havens, Gina Allegro, Gary Beck, Glen Nasser Bell, Lloyd Booker, Anthony Bosco, Bob Bowersox, Robert Randolph Caton, Chrismandu, Antonio Costa, Skye Dennis, Jaime Gallagher, Natalie Hultman, Rick Kain, Scott Kennedy, Greg Korin, Megan Kratz, Lon Lawson, Fred Leeds, Bryce Lenon, Erin Lulevitch, Christina Mahon, John Marcionetti, John Martineau, Tiffany Marz, Robert Millett, Sean Oliver, Joey Perillo, Lisa Pickell, Mark Poulton, Mark Pricskett, Wayne Pyle, David C. Roehm Sr., Robert Romani.

On this day in music history - A Day Without Rain, by Enya (2000):

A Day Without Rain

Album by Enya,

released November 20, 2000.

Track list:

A Day Without Rain; Wild Child; Only Time; Tempus Vernum; Deora Ar Mo Chroí; Flora’s Secret; Fallen Embers; Silver Inches; Pilgrim; One by One; Lazy Days.

On this day in music history - Back to the Blues, by Sue Foley (2000):

Back to the Blues

Album by Sue Foley,

released October 24, 2000.

Track list:

Lightin’ Boogie; Come On; Positively 4th Street; If You Think I’ve Lost You; I Feel So Good; Tanya; Me & My Chauffeur Blues; Come Play With Me; Can’t Afford to Do It; Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor; Guitar Rumba; The Leading Brand; Gone Blind.

On this day in music history - The Very Best of Badfinger, by Badfinger (2000):

The Very Best of Badfinger

Album by Badfinger,

released October 23, 2000.

Track list:

No Matter What; Day After Day; Baby Blue; Name of the Game; Maybe Tomorrow; Come and Get It; Rock of All Ages; Carry on Til Tomorrow; Midnight Caller; We’re for the Dark; I’ll Be the One; Without You; I’d Die Babe; It’s Over; When I Say; Dennis; Lonely You; Love Time; Meanwhile Back at the Ranch / Should I Smoke.

On this day in music history - American III: Solitary Man, by Johnny Cash (2000):

American III: Solitary Man

Album by Johnny Cash,

released October 17, 2000.

Track list:

I Won’t Back Down; Solitary Man; That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day); One; Nobody; I See A Darkness; The Mercy Seat; Would You Lay With Me (In A Field Of Stone); Field Of Diamonds; Before My Time; Country Trash; Mary Of The Wild Moor; I’m Leavin’ Now; Wayfaring Stranger.

On this day in music history - Renée Fleming, by Renée Fleming and Charles Mackerras (2000):

Renée Fleming

Album by Renée Fleming and Charles Mackerras,

released September 26, 2000.

Track list:

Puccini: _: Puccini: Quando m’en vo (Musetta’s Waltz song) [La Bohème]; Puccini: _: Puccini: Signore, ascolta [Turandot]; Leoncavallo: _: Leoncavallo: Stridono lassù [Pagliacci]; Cilea: _: Cilèa: Io son l’umile ancella [Adriana Lecouvreur]; Catalani: _: Catalani: Ebben? Ne andrò lontana [La Wally]; Massenet: _: Massenet: Je suis encore [Manon]; Massenet: _: Massenet: Adieu, notre petite table [Manon]; Bizet: _: Bizet: Je dis que rien ne m’épouvante (Micaela’s aria) [Carmen]; Gounod: _: Gounod: Ah, je veux vivre [Roméo et Juliette]; Verdi: _: Verdi: Come in quest’ora bruna [Simon Boccanegra]; Bellini: _: Bellini: Casta Diva [Norma]; Verdi: _: Verdi: Merci, jeunes amies (Mercè, dilette amiche) [I vespri siciliani].

On this day in movie history - The Room (2000):

The Room

a ten-minute short directed by Rutger Hauer and Erik Lieshout,

written by Erik Lieshout,

based on a story by Harry Mulisch,

was released in the United States on September 26, 2000.
Music by Dyzack.

Cast:

Rutger Hauer, Mattijn Hartemink.

On this day in movie history - When Brendan Met Trudy (2000):

When Brendan Met Trudy

directed by Kieron J. Walsh,

written by Roddy Doyle,

was released at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada on September 12, 2000.
Music by Richard Hartley.

Cast:

Peter McDonald, Flora Montgomery, Marie Mullen, Pauline McLynn, Don Wycherley, Maynard Eziashi, Eileen Walsh, Barry Cassin, Niall O'Brien, Rynagh O'Grady, Ali White, Julie Hale, Jack Lynch, Dr. Stewart, Robert O'Neill, Eoin Manley, George McMahon, Sean Flanagan, Pat Kinevane, Terry Byrne, Myles Horgan, Charlie Bird, Anne Cassin, Harry Crosbie, Luke Boyle, William O'Sullivan, Jonathan White, Philip Judge, Alicia O'Keefe, Kieron J. Walsh, Berts Folan, Kevin Sharkey, Robbie Doolin, Keith McErlean, Martin Murphy, Frank O'Sullivan, Nuala Kelly, Triona McGarry, Jim Corry, Ding Dong Denny O'Reilly, Conor Evans, Patricia Martin, Susan Murray, Gail Kainswarren, Amelia Crowley, Robert Mack, James Mack, Coco Kenny, Francis Schurmann, Shauna Nugent, Gabriel Byrne, Antony Conaty, Chris McHallem.

On this day in music history - Deja-Blues, by Steven Halpern (2000):

Deja-Blues

Album by Steven Halpern,

released September 12, 2000.

Track list:

Deja-Blues; Blue Nile; Morocan Roll; Time-Trippin’; Bamboo Blue; Deja-Blues II; Hear To Eternity; Marrakesh; Blues By the Ganges; Udu Blue; Snake Charmer; Atlantis Rising; Ancient Mysteries.

Recommended reading - Sleuths of the Century (2000):

Sleuths of the Century

Edited by Ed Gorman and John L. Breen.

Published in 2000.

Published by Carroll & Graf.

First Edition.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 0786707097

ISBN-13: 978-0786707096

Description:

Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Lord Peter Wimsey and Hercule Poirot, Matt Scudder and Easy Rawlins, Spenser and Dalgliesh - they stand among the most popular of twentieth-century heroes. And now the award-winning mystery novelist Ed Gorman and novelist-critic Jon L. Breen present a full century of the world's favorite sleuths in tales by such classic writers as G. K. Chesterton, Ellery Queen, Dorothy Sayers, and Agatha Christie as well as contemporary giants like Sharyn McCrumb, Walter Mosley, Ed McBain, Lawrence Block, P. D. James, and Ruth Rendell. A hefty, handsome volume, Sleuths of the Century also offers serious suspense from Dashiell Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, Tony Hillerman, Rex Stout, Donald E. Westlake, and John D. MacDonald. Crossing the decades with a gallery of sleuths impeccably styled for every generation, this collection provides exciting, literate tales of detection and danger that will keep the reader on tenterhooks well into the next century.

On this day in movie history - Pollock (2000):

Pollock

directed by Ed Harris,

written by Barbara Turner and Susan Emshwiller,

based on the biography Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith,

was released in the United States on September 6, 2000.
Music by Jeff Beal.

Cast:

Ed Harris, Robert Knott, Molly Regan, Marcia Gay Harden, Sada Thompson, Eulala Scheel, Matthew Sussman, Bud Cort, Amy Madigan, Everett Quinton, Annabelle Gurwitch, John Rothman, John Heard, Kenny Scharf, Tom McGuinness, Val Kilmer, Jeffrey Tambor, Katherine Wallach, Cassandra Clewicki, Tom Bower, Sloane Shelton, Jake, Eduardo Machado, Moss Roberts, Robert O'Neill, Isabelle Townsend, Jennifer Piech, Rebecca Wisocky, Linda Emond, Tony Palazzolo, Barbara Garrick, David Cale, Claire Beckman, Stephen Beach, Jill Jackson, David Leary, Donna Mitchell, Sondra Jablonski, Frank Wood, Julie Anna Rose, Kyle Timothy Smith, April Petroski, Nicholas Petroski, Noah Petroski, Norbert Weisser, Stephanie Seymour, Trecker, Jennifer Connelly, Sally Murphy, Bob L. Harris, John Madigan, Matthew Hart Landfield, John Nesci.

On this day in music history - Il Tenero Momento: Mozart & Gluck Arias, by Susan Graham and Harry Bicket (2000):

Il Tenero Momento: Mozart & Gluck Arias

Album by Susan Graham and Harry Bicket,

released September 2, 2000.

Track list:

Paride Ed Elena: Oh, Del Mio Dolce Ardor; Le Nozze Di Figaro: Non So Piu Cosa Son, Cosa Faccio; La Clemenza Di Tito: Parto, Ma Tu, Ben Mio; Iphigenie En Tauride: Non, Je N’espere Plus... O Toi Qui Prolongeas Mes Jours; Iphigenie En Tauride: O Malheureuse Iphigenie!; Iphigenie En Tauride: Non, Ect Affreux Devoir... Je T’implore Et Je Tremble; Le Nozze Di Figaro: Voi Che Sapete; La Clemenza Di Tito: Deh, Per Questo Istante Solo; Orphee Et Eurydice: Qu’entends-je? Qu’a-t-il Dit?... Amour, Viens Rendre A Mon Ame; Idomeneo: Non Ho Colpa; Orphee Et Eurydice: J’ai Perdu Mon Eurydice; Lucio Silla: Dunque Sperar Poss’io... Il Tenero Momento.

On this day in movie history - Nine Queens (2000):

Nine Queens

directed and written by Fabián Bielinsky,

released in Argentina on August 31, 2000.

Music by César Lerner.

Cast:

Gastón Pauls, Ricardo Darín, Graciela Tenenbaum, María Mercedes Villagra, Gabo/Gabriel Correa, Pochi Ducasse, Luis Armesto, Ernesto Arias, Amancay Espíndola, Isaac Fajm, Jorge Noya, Leticia Brédice, Oscar Nuñez, Ignasi Abadal, Carlos Lanari, Roberto Rey, Tomás Fonzi, Celia Juárez, Alejandro Awada, Antonio Ugo, Leo Dyzen, Elsa Berenguer, Carlos Falcone, Ricardo Díaz Mourelle, Ulises Celestino, Norberto Arcusín, Gabriel Molinelli, Emanuel Mercado, Claudio Rissi, Roly Serrano.

Recommended reading - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000):

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

By Stephen King.

Published by Scribner.

Published 2000.

This edition published in 2020.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1982159375

ISBN-13: 978-1982159375

Description:

"A one-of-a-kind classic." – The Wall Street Journal.

"On Writing had more useful and observant things to say about the craft than any book since Strunk and White's The Elements of Style." – Roger Ebert.

"This is a special book, animated by a unique intelligence, and filled with useful truth." – Michael Chabon.

“The best book on writing. Ever.” – The Cleveland Plain Dealer.

“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King’s On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King’s advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999 – and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower and entertain everyone who reads it – fans, writers, and anyone who loves a great story well told.

On this day in music history - Massenet: Thaïs, by Renée Fleming... (2000):

Massenet: Thaïs

Album by Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, Giuseppe Sabbatini and Yves Abel,

released August 22, 2000.

Track list:

Acte Un, Premier Tableau: Voici Le Pain ... Et Le Sel; Acte Un, Premier Tableau: Le Voici ! Le Voici !; Acte Un, Premier Tableau: Helas! Enfant Encore; Acte Un, Premier Tableau: Ne Nous Melons Jamais, Mon Fils; Acte Un, Premier Tableau: Vision/Honte ! Horreur !; Acte Un, Premier Tableau: Toi Qui Mis La Pitie Dans Nos Ames; Acte Un, Premier Tableau: Mon Fils, Ne Nous Melons Jamais; Acte Un, Deuxieme Tableau: Prelude - Orchestre National bordeaux Aquitaine; Acte Un, Deuxieme Tableau: Va, Mendiant, Chercher Ailleurs Ta Vie !; Acte Un, Deuxieme Tableau: Voila Donc La Terrible Cite; Acte Un, Deuxieme Tableau: Ah ! Ah ! Ah ! ... Athanael, C’est Toi !; Acte Un, Deuxieme Tableau: Ah ! Ah ! Ah ! Je Vais Donc Te Revoir; Acte Un, Deuxieme Tableau: Garde-toi bien ! Voici Ta Terrible Ennemie !; Acte Un, Deuxieme Tableau: C’est Thais, L’idole Fragile; Acte Un, Deuxieme Tableau: Quel Est Cet Etranger; Acte Un, Deuxieme Tableau: Qui Te Fait Si Severe; Acte Un, Deuxieme Tableau: Non ! Non ! Je Hais Vos Fausses Ivresses !; Acte Deux, Premier Tableau: Ah ! Je Suis Seule, Seule Enfin !; Acte Deux, Premier Tableau: Dis-moi Que Le Suis Belle; Acte Deux, Premier Tableau: Etranger, Te Voila, Comme Tu L’avais Dit !; Acte Deux, Premier Tableau: Eh Bien ! Fais-moi Connaitre... Tout Cet Amour; Acte Deux, Premier Tableau: Je Suis Athanael, Moine D’Antinoe !; Acte Deux, Premier Tableau: Je N’ai Pas Plus Choisi Mon Sort Que Ma Nature !; Acte Deux, Premier Tableau: Meditation Religieuse – Symphonie; Acte Deux, Deuxieme Tableau: Pere, Dieu M’a Parle Par Toi Voix !; Acte Deux, Deuxieme Tableau: Non Loin D’ici, Vers L’occident; Acte Deux, Deuxieme Tableau: Considere, O Mon Pere; Acte Deux, Deuxieme Tableau: Suivez-moi Tous, Amis !; Acte Deux, Divertissement: No.1 Allegro Vivo; Acte Deux, Divertissement: No.2 Melopee Orientale; Acte Deux, Divertissement: No.3 Allegro Brillante; Acte Deux, Divertissement: No.4 Allegretto Con Spirito; Acte Deux, Divertissement: No.5 Mouvement De Valse; Acte Deux, Divertissement: Voila L’incomparable !/No.6 La Charmeuse; Acte Deux, Divertissement: No.7 Finale; Acte Deux, Divertissement: Eh ! C’est Lui ! Athanael !; Acte Deux, Divertissement: Il Dit Vrai !; Acte Trois, Premier Tableau: L’ardent Soleil M’ecrase; Acte Trois, Premier Tableau: Ah ! Des Gouttes De Sang Coulent De Ses Pieds Blancs; Acte Trois, Premier Tableau: O Messager De Dieu, Si Bon Dans Ta Rudesse; Acte Trois, Premier Tableau: Baigne D’eau Mes Mains Et Mes Levres; Acte Trois, Premier Tableau: La Paix Du Seigneur Soit Avec Toi; Acte Trois, Premier Tableau: Mon Oeuvre Est Accomplie !; Acte Trois, Deuxieme Tableau: Que Le Ciel Est Pesant !; Acte Trois, Deuxieme Tableau: C’est Lui Qui Vient !; Acte Trois, Deuxieme Tableau: Qui Te Fait Si Severe; Acte Trois, Deuxieme Tableau: Thais Va Mourir !; Acte Trois, Troisieme Tableau: Seigneur, Ayez Pitie De Moi; Acte Trois, Troisieme Tableau: Sois Le Bienvenu Dans Nos Tabernacles; Acte Trois, Troisieme Tableau: C’est Toi, Mon Pere !.