Showing posts with label 2002. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2002. Show all posts

Saturday, October 25, 2025

On this day in movie history - Ghost Ship (2002):


Ghost Ship

directed by Steve Beck,
written by Mark Hanlon and John Pogue,
was released in the United States on October 25, 2002.
Music by John Frizzell.


Cast:

Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Ron Eldard, Desmond Harrington, Isaiah Washington, Alex Dimitriades, Karl Urban, Emily Browning, Francesca Rettondini, Boris Brkic, Bob Ruggiero, Iain Gardiner, Adam Bieshaar, Cameron Watt, Jamie Giddens, Matthew Wollaston.

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

On this day in music history - Metamorphosis, by Joan Jeanrenaud (2002):


Metamorphosis

Album by Joan Jeanrenaud,
released October 22, 2002.

Credits:

Cairn (Steve Mackey); Escalay (Hamza El Din); Altar Piece (Joan Jeanrenaud); The Song of Songs (Karen Tanaka); Metamorphosis Four (Philip Glass); Blood Red (Mark Grey).

Sunday, October 19, 2025

Recommended reading - A Century of Noir: Thirty-two Classic Crime Stories (2002):


A Century of Noir: Thirty-two Classic Crime Stories


Edited by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins.
Published 2002.
ISBN-10: 0451205960
ISBN-13: 978-0451205964

Anthology of short stories.

Description:

Bleak streets and bleaker futures. Trapped heroes and desperate shreds of hope. Wicked women and broken dreams. Urban whirlpools and inexorable fates. Call it noir. Call it pulp. Call it black – and blue. It’s a tradition – tough, reckless, and uncompromising – born from the fierce imaginations of a century of writers with a unique talent for creating shadows out of words and turning raw emotion into pure poetry.

And this is noir at its incomparable best – thirty-two of the finest crime stories of the twentieth century, personally chosen by Shamus Award winner Max Allan Collins and Mickey Spillane, one of the true masters of hard-boiled fiction.

Thursday, October 16, 2025

On this day in music history - Believe: A Spiritual Romance, by 2002 (2012):


Believe: A Spiritual Romance

Album by 2002,
released October 16, 2012.

Track list:

Believe; A Dream Creation [Instrumental]; Chain of Life; We Meet Again [Instrumental]; Dreams of Peace; A Change of Season [Instrumental]; Ready to Fly; Yeshua; Oasis [Instrumental]; Hold the Sky.

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

On this day in music history - Soul Be It, by Deborah Coleman (2002):


Soul Be It

Album by Deborah Coleman,
released October 15, 2002.

Track list:

Brick; My Heart Bleeds Blue; Don’t Lie to Me; I’m a Woman; You’re with Me; I Believe; The Dream; Goodbye Misery.

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

On this day in music history - Bounce, by Bon Jovi (2002):


Bounce

Album by Bon Jovi,
released October 8, 2002.

Track list:

Undivided; Everyday; The Distance; Joey; Misunderstood; All About Lovin’ You; Hook Me Up; Right Side of Wrong; Love Me Back To Life; You Had Me From Hello; Bounce; Open All Night.

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

On this day in music history - Trail of Dreams, by 2002 (2014):


Trail of Dreams

Album by 2002,
released October 7, 2014.

Track list:

Into the Light; Sky; Wait for Me; Trail of Dreams; Ta MÉ ‘Mo Shuí; Navigatio; Follow Your Star; Far from Home; Deep Horizon; Ever Onward.

On this day in music history - This Moment Now, by 2002 (2003):


This Moment Now

Album by 2002,
released October 7, 2003.

Track list:

Suddenly Yours; Sunny Day; Morning of Light; Even Now; Life Is; Moment of Love; Romancing the Moon; A Gate of Dreams; Children in Time; Bliss; Dreaming of You.

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

On this day in music history - The Sacred Well, by 2002 (2002):


The Sacred Well: The Best of 2002

Album by 2002,
released October 1, 2002.

Track list:

City of Peace; Lovers’ Bridge; Summer of 300 Years; Lady of the Moon; The Sea at Night; Stella Maris; Kindred Spirit; To Touch the Sky; The Calling; The Ocean Dreams; Full Circle.

Thursday, September 25, 2025

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1993)
Star Trek: Voyager (1995 & 1996)
Star Trek: Enterprise (2002)


Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 7. Episode 2.
Episode entitled: Liaisons.
Released September 25, 1993.
Directed by Cliff Bole.
Written by Jeanne Carrigan Fauci, Lisa Rich, Roger Eschbacher, Jaq Greenspon, René Echevarria, Naren Shankar.
Created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Dennis McCarthy.
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Barbara Williams, Eric Pierpoint, Paul Eiding, Michael Harris, Rickey D'Shon Collins, David Keith Anderson, Lena Banks, Michael Braveheart, Cameron, David Paul Christian, Tracee Cocco, Debbie David, Elliot Durant III, Gunnel Eriksson, Jack Gilroy, Linda Harcharic, Kerry Hoyt, Gary Hunter, Lorine Mendell, Christina Wegler Miles, Keith Rayve, John Alex Tampoya.


Star Trek: Voyager
Season 2. Episode 5.
Episode entitled: Non Sequitur.
Released September 25, 1995.
Directed by David Livingston.
Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.
Written by Brannon Braga, Kenneth Biller, Lisa Klink.
Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Jay Chattaway.
Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Louis Giambalvo, Jennifer Gatti, Jack Shearer, Mark Kiely, Majel Barrett, Almayvonne, Thomas J. Booth, Tracee Cocco, Kevin Finister, Susan Henley, Kerry Hoyt, Julie Jiang, Trey King, Steve Kopy, Irving E. Lewis, Robert Lombardo, Tom Morga, Mary Newport, Louis Ortiz, Jim Portnoy, Lavelle Roby, Irving Ross, Louis C. Simon, John Alex Tampoya, Jeff Witzke, Catherine Wong.

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 3. Episode 4.
Episode entitled: The Swarm.
Released September 25, 1996.
Directed by Alexander Singer.
Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.
Written by Michael Sussman, Lisa Klink.
Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Dennis McCarthy.
Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Carole Davis, Steven Houska, Majel Barrett, Johnetta Anderson, Chuck Borden, Damaris Cordelia, Christine Delgado, Tarik Ergin, John Alex Tampoya.


Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 2. Episode 2.
Episode entitled: Carbon Creek.
Released September 25, 2002.
Directed by James Contner.
Written by Chris Black, Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, Dan O'Shannon, André Bormanis.
Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.
Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.
Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.
Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.
Music by Jay Chattaway.
Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Ann Cusack, J. Paul Boehmer, Hank Harris, Michael Krawic, David Selburg, Clay Wilcox, Ron Marasco, Paul Hayes, Alexandrea Ortiz, Doug Wax, Brett Weir.

Saturday, September 20, 2025

On this day in movie history - Eye See You (2002)


Eye See You

aka D-Tox and The Outpost,
directed by Jim Gillespie,
written by Howard Swindle,
based on a story by Ron L. Brinkerhoff,
and the novel Jitter Joint written by Howard Swindle,
was released in the United States on September 20, 2002.
Music by John Powell.


Cast:

Sylvester Stallone, Charles S. Dutton, Polly Walker, Kris Kristofferson, Mif, Christopher Fulford, Jeffrey Wright, Tom Berenger, Stephen Lang, A.C. Peterson, Hrothgar Mathews, Angela Alvarado, Robert Prosky, Robert Patrick, Courtney B. Vance, Sean Patrick Flanery, Tim Henry, Dina Meyer, Rance Howard, Frank Pellegrino, James Kidnie, Yves Cameron, Harrison Coe, Peter Flemming, Chris Nelson Norris, Bill Mackenzie, Ian Gschwind, David Lewis, John Timothy Botka, James Ralph, Ruth Zalduondo.

On this day in television history - Firefly (2002):


Firefly

created by Joss Whedon,
was released in the United States on September 20, 2002,
and ran for one season until December 20, 2002.

Episode titles:

Serenity.
The Train Job.
Bushwhacked.
Shindig.
Safe.
Our Mrs. Reynolds.
Jaynestown.
Out of Gas.
Ariel.
War Stories.
Trash.
The Message.
Objects in Space.

Series music by Greg Edmonson.

Theme song The Ballad of Serenity by Joss Whedon.
Sung by Sonny Rhodes.

Lyrics:

Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don’t care, I’m still free
You can’t take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell ‘em I ain’t coming back
Burn the land, boil the sea
You can’t take the sky from me
There’s no place I can be
Since I found Serenity
You can’t take the sky from me


Cast:

Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Ron Glass, Christina Hendricks, Mark Sheppard, Michael Fairman, Jeff Ricketts, Dennis Cockrum, Zac Efron, Gregory Itzin, Doug Savant, Isabella Hofmann, Richard Brooks, Tom Towles, Carlos Jacott, Steven Flynn, Blake Robbins, Melinda Clarke, Jonathan M. Woodward, Andrew Bryniarski, Benito Martinez, Edward Atterton, Katherine Kendall, Daniel Bess, Ilia Volok, William Converse-Roberts, Branden Morgan, Richard Burgi, Kimberly McCullough, Franc Ross, Kevin Gage, Larry Drake, Rolando Molina, Andy Umberger, Lyle Kanouse, Erik Passoja, John Thaddeus, Jared Poe, Fredric Lehne, Dwier Brown, Al Pugliese, Gregg Henry, Philip Sternberg, Tom Virtue, Dax Griffin, Gary Werntz, Zachary Kranzler, Lancer Dean Shull, Bob Fimiani, Carl Bresk, John Dunn, Tracy Ryan, John Eric Bentley, Tod Nakamura, Larry Pennell, Jordan Lund, Roma Chugani, Eddie Adams, Michael Bentt, Andy Rolfes, Roderick McCarthy, Alex Stemkovsky, Valerie RedHorse, Craig Vincent, Heather Black, Michael McMillian, Kevin Will, Bob McCracken, Colin Patrick Lynch, Adam Pilver, Ira Steck, Matthew Ferreira, Morgan Rusler, Angie Hart, Bonnie Bartlett, Joel Steingold, Lina Patel, Michael Nagy, Joshua Grenrock, Johnny Shakespeare, Ronald Craig Williams, Doan Ly, Erica Tazel, John Jabaley, David Reynolds, Domingo Vara, Kim Onasch, Jason Van, Alex Connie, Sandy Mulvihill, Laura Niemi, Cate Cohen, Janora McDuffie, Ron Ostrow, Stephen O'Mahoney, Jim Lau, Jamie McShane, Morina Pierce, Simon Brooke, Casey Piotrowski, Eric Lange, Skylar Roberge, Clement Blake, John F. Kearney, Hunter Cochran, Gabrielle Wagner, Roy Werner, Tawny René Hamilton, Michelle Ferrara, Gerard J. Reyes, Damion Poitier, Michael Keyes, Tiffany Michelle, Brian J. Williams, Melody White, Stephen Silberkraus, Gary J. Wayton, Ernesto Trinidad, Kelly Wheeler, Rick Williamson, Heath Crawford, Lon Moriarty, Rabatan Salem, Greg Wendell Reid, Keith Mooney, Heath Russell, Joss Whedon, Danny Nero, Jerry Buys.

Thursday, September 18, 2025

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1993)
Star Trek: Voyager (1995 & 1996)
Star Trek: Enterprise (2002)


Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 7. Episode 1.
Episode entitled: Descent, Part II.
Released September 18, 1993.
Directed by Alexander Singer.
Written by René Echevarria, Naren Shankar.
Created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Jay Chattaway.
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Del Arco, Alex Datcher, James Horan, Brian Cousins, Benito Martinez, Michael Reilly Burke, David Keith Anderson, Majel Barrett, Pam Blackwell, Tracee Cocco, Debbie David, Gary Hunter, Rick Ryan Kiesau, Rad Milo, Ivonne Perez Montijo, Joe Murphy, Craig Reed, Joyce Robinson, Richard Sarstedt, Dee Giffin Scott, Adrian Tafoya, Oliver Thees, Rogan Wilde.


Star Trek: Voyager
Season 2. Episode 4.
Episode entitled: Elogium.
Released September 18, 1995.
Directed by Winrich Kolbe.
Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.
Written by Kenneth Biller, Jeri Taylor, Jimmy Diggs, Steve J. Kay.
Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Dennis McCarthy.
Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Nancy Hower, Hudson (Gary) O'Brien, Terry Correll, Kimberly Auslander, Tarik Ergin, Ken Gruz, Susan Henley, Stan Ivar, Julie Jiang, Dennis Madalone, Jordan Monheim, Louis Ortiz, Richard Sarstedt, Simon Stotler, John Alex Tampoya.

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 3. Episode 3.
Episode entitled: The Chute.
Released September 18, 1996.
Directed by Les Landau.
Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.
Written by Kenneth Biller, Clayvon C. Harris, Lisa Klink.
Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Jay Chattaway.
Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Don McManus, Robert Pine, James Parks, Ed Trotta, Beans Morocco, Rosemary Morgan, Derek Anthony, John Austin, Harry Boykoff, Terrell Clayton, Damaris Cordelia, Tarik Ergin, Kerry Hoyt, Donald R. Jankiewicz, Pat Jankiewicz, Julie Jiang, Jaehne Moebius, Tom Morga, Louis Ortiz, Irving Ross, Adrian Tafoya, John Alex Tampoya.


Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 2. Episode 1.
Episode entitled: Shockwave, Part II.
Released September 18, 2002.
Directed by Allan Kroeker.
Written by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, André Bormanis.
Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.
Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.
Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.
Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.
Music by Dennis McCarthy.
Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, John Fleck, Matt Winston, Vaughn Armstrong, Gary Graham, Keith Allan, Jim Fitzpatrick, Michael Kosik, Alexandrea Ortiz, Amy Kate Connolly, James Horan, Dieter Horneman, Bobby Pappas.

Sunday, September 7, 2025

On this day in music history - A World Away, by 2002 (2018):


A World Away

Album by 2002,
released September 7, 2018.

Track list:

Dream of Life; Finding You; To Live Again; Butterfly; Memory of Tomorrow; Stars and Moon; We Are Always; Stars Will Guide Us; The Space Between; Strings of Your Heart.

Thursday, September 4, 2025

Recommended reading - The Art of Noir: The Posters and Graphics from the Classic Era of Film Noir (2002):


The Art of Noir
The Posters and Graphics from the Classic Era of Film Noir

By Eddie Muller.

Published by Harry N. Abrams.
Published 2002.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 1468307355
ISBN-13: 978-1468307351

Description:

The poster art from the noir era has a bold look and an iconography all its own. During noir's golden age, studios commissioned these arresting illustrations for even the lowliest "B" thriller. The Art of Noir is the first book to present this striking artwork in a lavishly produced, large-format, full-color volume. The more than 300 dazzling posters and other promotional material range from the classics to rare archive films such as The Devil Thumbs a Ride and Blonde Kiss. With rare offerings from around the world and background information on the illustrators, The Art of Noir is the ultimate companion for movie buffs and collectors, as well as artists and designers.

Friday, August 29, 2025

On this day in movie history - Frida (2002):


Frida

directed by Julie Taymor,
written by Clancy Sigal, Diane Lake, Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas,
based on the book Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera,
was released at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on August 29, 2002.
Music by Elliot Goldenthal.

Cast:

Salma Hayek, Mía Maestro, Amelia Zapata, Alejandro Usigli, Diego Luna, Alfred Molina, Lucia Bravo, Valeria Golino, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Loló Navarro, Roger Rees, Fermín Martínez, Roberto Medina, Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas, Lila Downs, Martha Claudia Moreno, Maria Ines Pintado, Aida López, Ivana Sejenovich, Diego Espinosa, Ehécatl Chávez, Elliot Goldenthal, Edward Norton, Saffron Burrows, Didi Conn, Julian Sedgwick, William Raymond, Jorge Guerrero, Mary Luz Palacio, Geoffrey Rush, Margarita Sanz, Omar Chagall, Anthony Alvarez, Enoc Leaño, Karine Plantadit, Chavela Vargas, Jorge Zepeda, Benjamín Benítez, Thomas Ebert, Claudia Frías, Felipe Fulop, Joey Mazzarino, Andrés Montiel, Mauricio Osorio, Jorge Valdés García, Eszter Zakariás, Antonio Zavala Kugler.

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

On this day in music history - Bel Canto, by Renée Fleming and Patrick Summers (2002):


Bel Canto

Album by Renée Fleming and Patrick Summers,
released August 27, 2002.

Track list:

Bellini / La sonnambula: “Ah!..se una volta sola”; Bellini / La sonnambula: “Ah!..non credea mirarti”; Bellini / La sonnambula: “Ah! non giunge uman pensiero”; Donizetti / Maria Padilla: “Abbracciami”; Donizetti / Maria Padilla: “Il piu tenero suon d’arpa morende”; Donizetti / Maria Padilla: “Ah! non sai qual prestigio si cela”; Rossini / Semiramide: Introduzione; Rossini / Semiramide: “Bel raggio lusinghier”; Rossini / Semiramide: “Dolce pensiero di quell’istante”; Bellini / Il pirata: Introduzione; Bellini / Il pirata: “Ah! s’io potessi dissipar le nubi”; Bellini / Il pirata: “Col sorriso d’innocenza”; Bellini / Il pirata: “Oh sole! ti vela di tenebre oscure”; Rossini / Armida: “D’Amor al dolce impero”; Rossini / Armida: “Gli augei tra fronde e fronde”; Rossini / Armida: “La fresca eta sen fugge”; Rossini / Armida: “Ah! si, godete amanti”; Donizetti / Lucrezia Borgia:”M’odi, ah m’odi, io non t’imploro”; Donizetti / Lucrezia Borgia: “Figlio!...Figlio!...Ola, qualcuno!”; Donizetti / Lucrezia Borgia: “Era desso il figlio mio”.

On this day in music history - Saturate, by Breaking Benjamin (2002):


Saturate

Album by Breaking Benjamin,
released August 27, 2002.

Track list:

I Wish I May; Medicate; Polyamorous; Skin; Natural Life; Next to Nothing; Water; Home; Phase; No Games; Sugarcoat; Shallow Bay.

Thursday, August 21, 2025

Recommended reading - The Revenant (2002):


The Revenant

By Michael Punke.

Published by Picador.
Movie tie-in edition published in 2015.
Published 2002.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 9781250072689
ISBN-13: 978-1250072689

Description:

Read the book that inspired to major motion picture.

A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass.

The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the company’s finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two company men are dispatched to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies. When the men rob and abandon him instead, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge. With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets out, crawling at first, across hundreds of miles of uncharted American frontier. Based on a true story, The Revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits, and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution.

“The makings of a western classic, Michael Punke's novel The Revenant provides muscle and sinew to the vengeful and epic tale of mountain man Hugh Glass that even a sow Grizzly couldn't rend asunder.” – Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire novels.

“One of the great tales of the nineteenth-century West.” – The Salt Lake Tribune.