Simon Van Booy, on books and reading:

I read books because I love them,

not because I think I should read them.

- Simon Van Booy.

On this day in television history - Justified (2015):

Justified

Season 6. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: The Trash and the Snake.

Released February 10, 2015.

Directed by Adam Arkin.

Written by Graham Yost, Chris Provenzano, Ingrid Escajeda, Keith Schreier.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Jere Burns, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Walton Goggins, Mary Steenburgen, Jeremy Davies, Garret Dillahunt, David Brisbin, Jake Busey, Kaitlyn Dever, Brad Leland, Sam Elliott, Rebekah Brandes, Russell Bertolino.

On this day in music history - Life, by Michele McLaughlin (2017):

Life

Album by Michele McLaughlin,

released February 10, 2017.

Track list:

The Gift; The Storm; At Home; Life; Belonging; A Deeper Understanding; Drifting Through a Dream; Heartbroken; Stronger; Precious Memories; Crossroads; Guilty Pleasures; Give It Time.

On this day in movie history - Before Sunset (2004):

Before Sunset

directed by Richard Linklater,

written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke,

based on a story by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan,

was released at the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany on February 10, 2004.

Cast:

Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff, Louise Lemoine Torrès, Rodolphe Pauly, Mariane Plasteig, Diabolo, Denis Evrard, Albert Delpy, Marie Pillet.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990)

Star Trek: Voyager (1999)

Star Trek: Discovery (2022)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 3. Episode 14.

Episode entitled: A Matter of Perspectives.

Released February 10, 1990.

Directed by Cliff Bole.

Written by Ed Zuckerman, Ronald D. Moore.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Ron Jones.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Gates McFadden, Craig Richard Nelson, Gina Hecht, Mark Margolis, Colm Meaney, Juliana Donald, Majel Barrett, Michael Braveheart, Tim McCormack, Parker McPhinney, Keith Rayve, Dan Sachoff.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 5. Episode 14.

Episode entitled: Bliss.

Released February 10, 1999.

Directed by Cliff Bole.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Robert J. Doherty, Bill Prady, Bryan Fuller, Nick Sagan, Michael Taylor.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Scarlett Pomers, W. Morgan Sheppard, Majel Barrett, Larry Fine, Sylvester Foster, Marva Hicks.

Star Trek: Discovery

Season 4. Episode 8.

Episode entitled: All In.

Released February 10, 2022.

Directed by Christopher J. Byrne, Jen McGowan.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Sean Cochran, Glenise Mullins, Brandon Schultz, Carlos Cisco.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Wilson Cruz, David Ajala, Oded Fehr, Shawn Doyle, Chelah Horsdal, Daniel Kash, Annabelle Wallis, Oyin Oladejo, Michael Chan, Daniel DeSanto, Jason Gosbee, Emmanuel John, Claudia Jurt, Jeff Kassel, Nabil Khatib, Warren Scherer, Oksana Sirju, Robinne Fanfair, JaNae Armogan, J. Adam Huggins, George Nickolas K., Lizz Porter, Jennifer Rebecca.

On this day in movie history - Blue Collar (1978):

Blue Collar

directed by Paul Schrader,

written by Paul Schrader and Leonard Schrader,

based on an article by Sydney A. Glass,

was released in the United States on February 10, 1978.
Music by Jack Nitzsche.

Cast:

Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Bellaver, George Memmoli, Lucy Saroyan, Lane Smith, Cliff De Young, Borah Silver, Chip Fields, Harry Northup, Leonard Gaines, Milton Selzer, Sammy Warren, Jimmy Martinez, Jerry Dahlmann, Denny Arnold, Rock Riddle, Stacey Baldwin, Steve Butts, Stephen P. Dunn, Speedy Brown, Davone Florence, Eddie Singleton, Ava Singleton, Vermettya Royster, Jaime Carreire, Victoria McFarland, Gloria Delaney, Rosa Flores, Crystal McCarey, Debra Fay Walker, Gino Ardito, Sean Fallon Walsh, Jerry Snider, Colby Chester, Donl Morse, William Pelt, Tracey Walter, Almeria Quinn, Lee McDonald, Rodney Lee Walker, Jeannine Oppewall, Jimmy Williams.

Born on this day – Clive Wilmer:

Clive Wilmer

Writer

February 10, 1945 – March 13, 2025

Credits:

A Catalogue of Flowers – poetry pamphlet (1986); A New Road on which the World should Travel: John Ruskin, "The Nature of Gothic" and William Morris – lecture (2014); Amores - poetry pamphlet (1986); Cambridge Observed: An Anthology (1998); Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Selected Poems and Translations (1991); Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Selected Poems and Translations (2002); Devotions - poems (1982); Donald Davie, Modernist Essays: Yeats, Pound, Eliot (2004); Donald Davie, With the Grain: Essays on Thomas Hardy and Modern British Poetry (1998); Forced March: Selected Poems (1979); George Gömöri, My Manifold City (1996); George Gömöri, Polishing October – revised and expanded edition (2013); George Gömöri, Polishing October (2008); György (George);  Gömöri, Versek Marinak / Poems for Mari (2006); György Petri, Eternal Monday: New and Selected Poems (1999); János Pilinszky, Passio: Fourteen Poems (2011); John Ruskin, Unto this Last, and Other Writings (1985); Miklós Radnóti, Forced March: Selected Poems, revised & expanded edition (2003); New & Collected Poems (2012); Night Song of the Personal Shadow: Selected Poems (1991); Of Earthly Paradise – poems (1992); Poets Talking: The 'Poet of the Month' Interviews from BBC Radio 3 (1994); Ruskin’s Language: How a Victorian Prophet Uses Words – lecture booklet (2016); Selected Poems (1995); Steep Path: Poems translated from Hungarian (2018); Stigmata - poetry pamphlet (2005); The Dwelling-Place (1977); The Falls – poems (2000); The Letters of Thom Gunn (2021); The Life and Poetry of Miklós Radnóti: Essays (1999); The Mystery of Things – poems (2006); Thom Gunn, Selected Poems (2017); Thom Gunn, The Occasions of Poetry: Essays in Criticism and Autobiography (1982); Urban Pastorals – poetry pamphlet (2014); What the Guild of St George Does: Reflections on Wealth and Life – lecture (2019); William Morris, News from Nowhere and Other Writings (1993).