Wednesday, November 29, 2000

November 29: Zodiac

Thursday, November 23, 2000

November 23: Across The Universe


November 23, 1967 – Thanksgiving

Jude: We don't have it in England. Is it a big deal?
Max: It's a heartwarming American tradition.
Lucy: It celebrates the time when the indians shared their food with the early settlers.
And how did we repay them? We slaughtered them in thousands and shipped them off to the shittiest bits of real estate.

Wednesday, November 22, 2000

November 22: Forrest Gump


November 22, 1963
"Sometime later, for no particular reason, somebody shot that nice young President when he was ridin' in his car. And a few years after that somebody shot his little brother, too, only he was in a hotel kitchen."

Saturday, November 18, 2000

November 18: Zodiac

Friday, November 17, 2000

November 17: Forrest Gump


No telling what day it is when Forrest sits on the bus stop bench and tells his story, but that particular People magazine is dated November 17, 1980.

Wednesday, November 15, 2000

November 15: Godfather III

FINANCIAL TIMES
Wednesday November 15, 1979
"Building An Empire: Corleone Proposal for New Immobiliare"

also: "Car Bomb Kills British Finance Minister at H..."


00:43:08

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Wednesday November 15, 1979
"Immobiliare Takeover Appears Likely: Stock Soars"

00:43:23

Saturday, November 11, 2000

November 11: Be Kind, Rewind


"Listen kids, I appreciate your creativity. But let's be realistic for a second. We will never hit that number, and the building will be gone."

Be Kind, Rewind
1:02:49

Friday, November 3, 2000

November 3: "21"


Fake I.D. so the lad from MIT can cheat the casinos in Vegas


Curiously enough - but completely coincidentally - but still fascinating, for a numbers geek, in a movie about numbers geeks - the time code for the screen capture above is 42:42. Twice "21", two times.

Wednesday, November 1, 2000

November 1: The Apartment

On November 1st, 1959, the population of New York City was 8,042,783. If you laid all these people end to end, figuring an average height of five feet six and a half inches, they would reach from Times Square to the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. I know facts like this because I work for an insurance company - Consolidated Life of New York. We're one of the top five companies in the country. Our home office has 31,259 employees, which is more than the entire population of uhh... Natchez, Mississippi. I work on the 19th floor. Ordinary Policy Department, Premium Accounting Division, Section W, desk number 861.