Wednesday, December 16

THE 7-YEAR-ITCH MIX: WINTER 2008

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...


Left-click [HERE] or [HEREto download 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

Left-click [HERE] to go to THE 7-YEAR-ITCH: WINTER 2007 mix.