Friday the 13th!

It’s been rainy here the past couple of nights so I hope I can see that full moon tonight. Here are some more facts about Friday the 13th:

* One / DONE. This year, we only get one Friday the 13th, and that’s today! Next year, though, we have three.

*You’ll know that a particular month will have a Friday the 13th in it because it starts on a Sunday.

* Make sure you don’t look out at that full moon tonight through a pane of glass. Stick your head outside or go outside. Looking at it through the glass is said to be unlucky.

* Do you have a genuine fear of Friday the 13th? You share that with 21 million other Americans, and it’s got a name: friggatriskaidekaphobia.

*Do you have a genuine fear of the number 13? It also has a name: triskaidekaphobia. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Henry Ford were among two prominent Americans who also had a fear of the number 13.

* That fear of the number 13 causes millions of dollars in absenteeism, cancelled plane and train travel and reduced commerce.

* I couldn’t do a Google search on Friday the 13th with out tons of results coming up for the movie. Friday the 13th grossed 40 million dollars at the box office during its initial run. Killer.

* Not everyone looks upon the number 13 as unlucky. The ancient Chinese and ancient Egyptians looked upon it as a lucky number. Singer / songwriter Taylor Swift finds 13 to be her lucky number, too, and paints it on her hand before each show.

Famous Friday the 13th Birthdays:

Marco Andretti (race car driver)
Feist (musician)
Darius Rucker (musician, lead singer Hootie and the Blowfish)
Kat Dennings (actress)
Max Weinberg (drummer for the E Street Band)
Tom Kenny (voice actor for Sponge Bob Squarepants)
Steve Buscemi (actor)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (actress)
Peter Tork (musician)
Whoopi Goldberg (actress / comedienne)
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (actresses / entrepreneurs)
Alfred Hitchcock (film director)
Samuel Beckett (playwright / theater director / poet)

Shuffle meme for this Friday the 13th!

Bored! LOL! First ten songs to come up on iTunes shuffled:

01. santana // se a cabo
Instrumental track from the album "Abraxas".

02. page & plant // the battle of evermore
The apples turn to brown and black, the tyrant's face is red.
This is off of "No Quarter", the Page and Plant CD. The original was a duet Robert did on "Led Zeppelin IV" with Sandy Denny of Fairport Convention.

03. beck // the new pollution
She's got a paradise camouflage
Like a whip-crack sending me shivers

04. the beatles // you won't see me
Though the days are few
They're filled with tears
And since I lost you
It feels like years

05. the rolling stones // you can't always get what you want
I saw her today at the reception
In her glass was a bleeding man
She was practiced at the art of deception
Well I could tell by her blood-stained hands

06. frank sinatra // in the wee small hours of the morning
In the wee small hours of the morning
That's the time you miss her most of all

07. elvis costello // alison
I'm not going to get too sentimental
Like those other sticky valentines,
'Cause I don't know if you've been loving somebody
I only know it isn't mine.

08. billie holiday // god bless the child
Mama may have, Papa may have,
But God bless the child that's got his own, that's got his own.

09. jack white // three women
I got three women
Red, blonde, and brunette
It took a digital photograph to pick which one I like

10. david bowie // friday on my mind
Today I might be mad
Tomorrow I'll be glad
'Cause I'll have Friday on my mind

That last one was perfect, no? :D