Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Born on this day – Samuel Taylor Coleridge:


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Writer

October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834

Credits:

Poems:

Christabel; Dejection: An Ode; Dura Navis; Easter Holidays; Fears in Solitude; France: An Ode; Frost at Midnight; Hymn Before Sunrise; Kubla Khan, Or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment; Limbo; Lines on an Autumnal Evening; Lines Written at Shurton Bars; Monody on the Death of Chatterton; Ode on the Departing Year; On Quitting School; On Receiving an Account; Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement; Religious Musings; Sibylline Leaves; Songs of the Pixies; The Destiny of Nations; The Destruction of the Bastile; The Devil's Thoughts; The Eolian Harp; The Fall of Robespierre; The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison; Time, Real and Imaginary; To a Young Ass; To Bowles; To Burke; To Erskine; To Fayette; To Fortune; To Godwin; To Kosciusko; To Lord Stanhope; To Mrs Siddons; To Pitt; To Priestley; To Sheridan; To Southey; To the River Otter; To William Wordsworth.

Books:

Aids to Reflection (1993); Biographia Literaria (1983); Essays on his Times in the Morning Post and the Courier (1978); Lay Sermons (1972); Lectures 1795 on Politics and Religion (1971); Lectures 1818–1819 on the History of Philosophy (2000); Lectures, 1808–1819, on Literature (1987); Logic (1981); Marginalia (1980); On the Constitution of the Church and State (1976); Opus Maximum (2002); Poetical Works (2001); Shorter Works and Fragments (1995); Table Talk (1990); The Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1956–71); The Friend (1969); The Watchman (1970).

Movies and television:

A Delirious Eye (2020); Blomman ligger i din hand (1986); Camera Three (1956); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Creation in the 21st Century (2011); In Motion (2000); Kubla Khan (2010); Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1975 / 1977); The Albatross (1998); The Ancient Mariner (1925); The Ancient Mariner: A Rock Opera (1983); The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1967); Venus Blue (1998).

Recommended reading - The New Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction (2014):


The New Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction

Edited by Maxim Jakubowski.
Paperback.
Published 2014.
Short story anthology.
Published by Running Press Adult.
ISBN 13: 9780762452217
ISBN 10: 0762452218
ASIN: 0762452218

Description:

Join shady operators, voluptuous molls, ruthless big-shots, and crooked cops in this massive collection filled with seven decades worth of pure, unadulterated pulp fiction. From Mickey Spillane to Dashiell Hammett, all the greatest writers are here – so watch your back!

Henry Rollins, on writing:


If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light.
If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls.
I will always write.
I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.

- Henry Rollins.

Monday, October 20, 2025

On this day in movie history - Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America (2022):


Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

aka Sergio Leone - L'italiano che inventò l'America,
documentary directed by Francesco Zippel,
was released in Italy on October 20, 2022.
Originally shown at the Venice Film Festival.
Awarded the 2023 Nastro d'Argento for Best Documentary.

Cast:

Sergio Leone, Dario Argento, Darren Aronofsky, Jacques Audiard, Damien Chazelle, Jennifer Connelly, Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood, Christopher Frayling, Arnon Milchan, Frank Miller, Giuliano Montaldo, Ennio Morricone, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Giuseppe Tornatore, Hark Tsui, Carlo Verdone, Eli Wallach.

On this day in movie history - Kubrick by Kubrick (2020):


Kubrick by Kubrick

a documentary directed and written by Gregory Monro,
was released at the Chicago International Film Festival in the United States on October 20, 2020.
Music by Vincent Théard.


Cast:

Stanley Kubrick, Michel Ciment, Malcolm McDowell, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Sterling Hayden, Arthur C. Clarke, Marisa Berenson, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Peter Sellers, Garrett Brown, Ken Adam, Leonard Rosenman, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Christiane Kubrick, Roger Ebert, Dann Gire, Maurice Beaupère, J.-H. Bigay, Kirk Douglas, Pierre Fruchon, Sue Lyon, James Mason, Agop Terzan.

On this day in music history - Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose, by Meat Loaf (2006):


Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose

Album by Meat Loaf,
released October 20, 2006.

Track List:

The Monster Is Loose; Blind As a Bat; It’s All Coming Back To Me Now; Bad For Good; Cry Over Me; In The Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King; Monstro; Alive; If God Could Talk; If It Ain’t Broke Break It; What About Love; Seize the Night; The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be; Cry To Heaven.

On this day in music history - Live in Italy, by Cecilia Bartoli (1998):


Live in Italy

Album by Cecilia Bartoli,
released October 20, 1998.

Track List:

Tu Ch’hai Le Penne, Amore; Amarilli; Al Fonte, Al Prato; Lascia la Spina; Agitata Da Due Venti; Oiseaux, Si Tous Les Ans, K. 307; La Pastorella, D 528; Havanaise; Hai Luli!; Zaide; Malinconia, Ninfa Gentile; Ma Rendi Pur Contento; La Conocchia; Me Voglio Fa ‘Na Casa; Mi Lagnero Tacendo; Mi Lagnero Tacendo (Il Risentimento); Mi Lagnero Tacendo (Sorzico); L’ Orpheline Du Tyrol; Riedi Al Soglio (Zelmira); Le Nozze Di Figaro: Voi Che Sapete; Canzonetta Spagnuola; Caro Mio Ben; Cinco Canciones Negras, No. 5: Canto Negro; Carmen: Seguedille (Carmen).