Oh, but what would one do without the ubiquitous existence of Wikipedia? Such a fortuitous fount of information -- be it accurate or the exact antithesis of said such. (I mean, these days, who really gives a crap about accuracy?)
So... just for some fun... why don't we take a passing glance at some notable folks named "Winter" or "Winters" before I bestow the best of my BEST OF OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, and DECEMBER 2008 mixes upon you...
- MILADY DE WINTER/(1844- )fictional character in the novel "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas
- VICTORIA WINTER/(1984- ) law graduate, businesswoman, beauty queen, model, and television presenter. The winner of Miss Earth Australia, 2006
- ARON MOHAMED WINTER/(1967- ) Dutch footballer
- ARTHUR HENRY WINTER/(1844-1937) English priest and cricketer
- EDGAR WINTER/(1946- ) American musician
- SIR GREGORY PAUL "GREG" WINTER/(1951- ) British antibodies researcher
- HOWIE WINTER/(1929- ) American convicted criminal
- JAN WILLEM DE WINTER/(1750-1812) Dutch admiral
- PETER WINTER/(1754-1825) German dramatic composer
- PETER WINTER/(1971- ) Australian decathlete
- SOLOMON WINTER/(1778-1859) Hungarian philanthropist
- STEFAN WINTER/(1968- ) German national ski mountaineering coach and alpine sports author
- TERENCE WINTER/(1960- ) Emmy Award-winning American screenwriter and television producer
- MORICE FREDRICK "TEX" WINTER/(1922- ) American basketball coach
- TIMOTHY J. WINTER aka SHAYKH ABDAL HAKIM MURAD/(1960- ) British Islamic scholar
- ZIKMUND WINTER/(1846-1912) Czech novelist and historian
- SHELLEY WINTERS aka SHIRLEY SCHRIFT/(1920-2006) Academy Award-winning American actress for "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "A Patch of Blue." Also Academy Award-nominated for "A Place in the Sun" and "The Poseidon Adventure." Additionally appeared in "Lolita," "Executive Suite," "The Night of the Hunter," "Alfie," and "Pete's Dragon"
- JONATHAN WINTERS/(1925-2013) Grammy and Emmy Award-winning American comedian, actor, author, and artist. Appeared on "Mork & Mindy," "Hee Haw," and voiced "Grandpa Smurf" on "The Smurfs" from 1986 to 1989
There. Now don't we all feel just a little bit brighter after all that exquisite ephemera? Thank you, Wikipedia. (Now, Wikipedia... please be so kind as to amend my page post-haste on your otherwise sacrosanct site, as, to my knowledge, "A Plague of Angels" is NOT, in fact, meant to be the next installment in the "Da Vinci Code" concatenation.)
Finally, here is that promised distillation of my dearest ditties from the winter of 2008...
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THE 7-YEAR-ITCH: WINTER 2008 mix.
TRACKLIST ---
01 FALLING DOWN oasis
02 LOSING YOU anna ternheim
03 GET US HOME the panics
04 BIRDS frida hyvonen
05 WE CAN MAKE IT LAST bjorn norestig
06 LE BRUIT DU DEHORS poney express
07 SCANDINAVIAN WARFARE champagne riot
08 BROKEN ARM winterpills
09 PETER AND THE WOLVES neimo
10 OASIS amanda palmer
11 HONEY AND THE MOON joseph arthur
12 BLACK/WHITE the raveonettes
13 POOR OLD RA the pica beats
14 TROUBLE IS A FRIEND lenka
15 MINOR KEYS starflyer 59
16 YOU’RE MY STAR stereophonics
17 A MORE UNCERTAIN FUTURE love is all
18 BORDER GUARDS the rosebuds
19 PART OF THE DEAL the lurios
20 BIRD OF PREY jentri colello
21 ALWAYS DO annuals
22 RUE DE L’ABRICOT france gall
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"Autumn" or "fall" is regarded as the third season of the year. Chaucer first used the word "autumn" c. 1374. The use of "fall" to mean "autumn" in North American English comes from the phrase "fall of the leaf" and it came into use by 1545. The term "autumn" is still preferred in British English." -- Dictionary.com
But also: "Autumns are brunettes with big brown beautiful eyes and freckles. They tend to be a little pale with rose-colored cheeks. They are shy at first but once you get to know them they are a total [sic] different person. They love to hang out and cuddle. They tend to have nice-shaped bodies and dimples. They are usually spoiled and popular at school. They tend to go for guys named "Sam" and love nice weather. They usually like to have a boyfriend taller than them because they usually get no taller than 5' 4". If you ever meet an Autumn you better keep her, because she won't come around again." -- The Urban Dictionary
So... take your pick. Just as I've hereby picked the favorite of my favorites from my BEST OF JULY, AUGUST, and SEPTEMBER 2008 mixes...
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THE 7-YEAR-ITCH: FALL 2008 mix.
TRACKLIST ---
01 ANOTHER WAY IN the rosebuds
02 NEIGHBORHOOD #2 (LAIKA) arcade fire
03 I’M MAKING EYES AT YOU black kids
04 I WANT YOU BACK the school
05 NINA AND HER VERY LONG HAIR the heart strings
06 ANGEL SONG gram rabbit
07 CHICK HABIT april march
08 CAN YOU TELL ra ra riot
09 COMBAT LOVER nina kinert
10 ORANGE CRUSH r.e.m.
11 HAVE TO DRIVE amanda palmer
12 NEVER MISS A BEAT kaiser chiefs
13 THE SEX HAS MADE ME STUPID robots in disguise
14 DJ IN THE CORNER parka
15 SORRY youth group
16 REWIND TO KICKSTART yes cassette
17 THE PARTY naomi
18 I’M NOT GONNA TEACH YOUR BOYFRIEND HOW TO DANCE WITH YOU black kids
19 ALWAYS THE LAST TO KNOW blondfire
20 DOWN AND OUT the displacements
21 I KNOW YOU’LL FIND A WAY the coral sea
22 LONESOME SWAN glasvegas
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Now that June is about to pass away, I am reminded that I once had an AUNT JUNE. (Along with an Aunt Sue, Aunt Gloria, Aunt Jemima, Auntie Em, and Auntie Christ).
Aunt June passed away last year. Cancer. She was something of a second mother to me -- babysitting me till I was old enough to stick one timid toe into the social imbroglio that was my first blood-curdling kindergarten class.
As long as I knew her, Aunt June had one leg. She had lost the other to another cancer when she was still in her 30s. After divorcing her drunk of a husband, she was left a single mother to two teenage daughters -- Charlene and Doreen -- who, to me, were little more than rarely-seen strangers, off doing the typical things that typical teenagers do.
Despite her disability, Aunt June cruised along quite adeptly on her crude crutches -- baking her own bread, tending her own backyard garden, and making the best French toast in the history of all French toasts (lavishly-slathered with Log Cabin syrup and served alongside an oh-so-satisfying glass of Hershey's chocolate milk). (Alas, she also made me eat things like rutabaga, beets, and peas -- for which I'll never truly forgive her.)
Aunt June smoked like Bogart and often bellowed at her uppity puppy, Taffy, when Taffy took to yapping at random passing cars or less-than-stealthy mailmen. Aunt June let me watch "Sesame Street" and "The Electric Company" in the mornings, but the afternoons were hers. She liked her her soaps. I can't remember which were her favorites, but I can remember her sitting there rapt on her sagging sofa, smoking like Bogart, drinking iced-tea like a drinker drinks liquor, and every now-and-again bellowing at that poor, picked-upon puppy.
It wasn't often that Aunt June strayed from her weathered, white bungalow home with the rain-rusted, green-and-white-striped awning. But, when she did, she would drive me in her rusty, mufflerless Maverick to the corner store for cigarettes or iced-tea or sometimes all the way to Cass Lake to allow me the chance to sift through the sand, wade in the water, or just let the summer sun bake my brown hair blond. Those were golden days -- dimly-yet-well-remembered -- and forever resonant with the hope-above-hopes of enduring adventure and endless innocence.
Why do I mention these memories as preface to presenting my most pleasantly-remembered tunes from my BEST OF APRIL, MAY, and JUNE 2008 mixes? No reason, really. Just felt like it. And this IS my blog, after all -- so I guess I can reminisce and/or vent about anyone and/or anything I damn-well want. And now I've done that. And now I'm done doing that.
And here ensue those most pleasantly-remembered tunes...
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THE 7-YEAR-ITCH MIX: SUMMER 2008 mix.
TRACKLIST ---
01 LOS TESTIGOS NO DESCANSAN EN DOMINGO clint
02 OLD SHIT/NEW SHIT eels
03 KICK THIS CITY kara keith
04 CAUGHT IN YOUR TRAP the pigeon detectives
05 LET THE LOVE sandrine
06 PLEASE YOU the raveonettes
07 ROOKS shearwater
08 BABYDOLL the fratellis
09 COMMON REACTION uh huh her
10 ISLANDS creeper
11 WE HATE THE KIDS the indelicates
12 GET BETTER mates of state
13 PORK AND BEANS weezer
14 BLOOD FLOWERS tilly and the wall
15 FIRST TASTE OF TROUBLE the sweet serenades
16 WE WALK the ting tings
17 VIVA LA VIDA coldplay
18 WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG? the courteeners
19 THAT NIGHT IN AMSTERDAM the blue seeds
20 THE RICHEST KIDS this is ivy league
21 REVOLVE hush the many (heed the few)
22 SMILE the jayhawks
23 THAT GREAT LOVE SOUND the raveonettes
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7-YEAR-ITCH: SUMMER 2007 mix.
Ahh, spring. A time for looking forward. To warmer weather. Additional daylight. March Madness. April showers. May flowers. Junebugs & jasmine; baseball & Birkenstocks.
But, for all that, I have always had the habit of looking (and listening) back to the music that has most moved me in the past. Consequently, the following 22 tunes were whittled down from the 65 that initially existed on my BEST OF JANUARY, FEBRUARY, and MARCH 2008 mixes.
These are the ones that still sing & speak to me. The ones that persist in putting the "pep" in my step; matching the "mucho" to my "gusto"; and ratcheting the "get-up" into my "get-up-and-go."
May they have a similar enervating effect on you...
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7-YEAR-ITCH MIX: SPRING 2008.
TRACKLIST ---
01 ON AND ON (LODESTAR) crash vegas
02 MR. UNDERSTANDING pete and the pirates
03 STEPPING STONE duffy
04 SEE THE SUN the kooks
05 BLOODLINE monkey swallows the universe
06 THE IDEA OF GROWING OLD the features
07 HAIRLESS YOUTH OF BOSNIA split squad
08 ASTAIR matt costa
09 HENRI the heavy circles
10 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE torpedo
11 YOU LOOK SO FINE garbage
12 PEACEKEEPER fleetwood mac
13 GILT COMPLEX sons and daughters
14 GOT NONE robert post
15 MIRACLES pet shop boys
16 BLUE MOTORBIKE moto boy
17 ON APRIL 2 headlights
18 CARRION british sea power
19 CATHERINE BY THE SEA paris motel
20 KNOTS pete and the pirates
21 ROADS [live] portishead
22 BACK TO BLACK [rumble strips remix] amy winehouse
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7-YEAR-ITCH: SPRING 2007 mix.
