#november 2001

[digitalfountains]

Helene Ruys by Dana Menussi

DS France, November 2001

[trueafterthoughts]

Wayback Wednesday:

moviefone.com November 2001

[azspicegirlstimeline]

can you do 11/12/2001 pls ?

i'm super sorry, i haven't been on the blog in a while (it's been running through queue) so i didn't know anyone had sent requests. i unfortunately also i don't have anything for the 12th besides this rumor:

november 12, 2001: victoria was rumored to be shopping at enfield garden center for discount toys, reported by spicenews.com:

Victoria was spotted going shopping at an Enfield garden centre recently, buying bargain toys (~Ł2.99) for Brooklyn. When he tried to reach for them, Posh said: "Not until Christmas, Brooklyn"

i can't find any base in this, and i doubt she would shop for bargain toys being the richest spice girl. nor could i find any photos of her in enfield during this time, so i believe this was just tabloid fodder.

i did add things from the 10th through the 13th.

>november 10, 2001: melanie c is seen out at a gas station. i'm unsure of what date this is, but it would have been sometime before november 10th.

source: spicenews.com | full image here

november 11, 2001: emma buys a weekend seaside home in brighton for £500,000.

"The penthouse is a perfect lovers' retreat. It boasts panoramic views of the sea and is kitted out in designer luxury. The inside is painted stark white and there are beautiful wooden floors and a white marble kitchen. Exclusive light fittings and an opulent bathroom suite with a huge jacuzzi complete Emma's romantic retreat. The penthouse is one of four in the Art Deco Van Alen Building in the heart of Brighton's vibrant gay district. And to welcome their new star neighbour, regulars at nearby gay bar Legends are playing Spice Girls tracks on the juke box." -CATHRYN KEMP

source: spicenews.com | hello! magazine

november 11, 2001: victoria and david are rumored to be working on a collaboration with marks & spencer, however this was later denied and nothing came of it.

source: spicenews.com | vouge uk

[on-this-day-btvs]

November 20, 2001

Smashed aired for BTVS season 6, episode 9. Spike and Buffy fight, and prove that houses are not safe around them.

(image credit to buffycapss)

[on-this-day-mcr]

On this day, November 26

In 2001: Frank Iero released "Heartbreak in Stereo", the first and only studio album released by the band "Pencey Prep" (🖤)

Stream "Heartbreak in Stereo" here!

[give-grian-rights]

guys i need y'all to remember that superheroes have existed for So Many years . so you get to ask yourselves "woww why didn't you save them" . Superman where were you during the 1986 Challenger shuttle disaster . Spider-Man how dare you let 9/11 happen

[2001hz]

Electronic Gaming Monthly Magazine Advert (2001) November Issue 148

[ey-melody]

sweet november • 2001 🎬

[lonestarbattleship]

"Grumman F-14A Tomcats from Fighter Squadrons 14 (VF-14) 'Tomcatters' and VF-41 'Black Aces' prepare to take off from the flight deck of USS Enterprise (CVN-65) a final time on November 9, 2001. This was the last time the F-14 Tomcat was deployed on the carrier. Both squadrons were assigned to Carrier Air Wing 8 (CVW-8) aboard the Enterprise for a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean from April 25 to November 10, 2001."

NARA: 6641105

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔑𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔴𝔦𝔰𝔥 - 𝔅𝔢𝔞𝔲𝔱𝔶 & 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔅𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔱

[digitalfountains]

Stephanie Seymour by Juergen Teller

- i-D Magazine, November 2001

[nerds-yearbook]

On November 15, 2001, the highly acclaimed Halo franchise was begun with Halo: Combat Evolved as the launch game for the Microsoft XBox game system. ("Halo: Combat Evolved", Game, Event)

[petrikovvy]

dear george,

it was on this day 22 years ago that you tragically passed away, leaving behind a world of people who infinitely loved you.

you are still loved by us all, and sorely missed.

i’m holding you close to my heart, today and forever.

🕊️

[sunburnacoustic]

An interview with Matt Bellamy in the Guardian, 17 August 2001. By Will Hodgekinson.

Matt Bellamy is the slight, angular, 23-year-old lead singer of the rock band Muse. He's sharing a flat in north London with a friend from his hometown of Teignmouth and the band's drummer, Dom. The flat has the air of a temporary home with only the bare necessities present and standard regulation furniture fills up the space between a piano in one corner and a computer in the other. For a flat occupied by three rock'n'roll-involved young men, it's surprisingly clean.

"We've been here a couple of months," says Bellamy, who talks in a rapid monotone. "I lived in Exeter for six months and I'll probably be here for six months before hopefully moving to the States. I'm living my life in six-month chunks at the moment."

Laying down roots is not on the current agenda. "If I'm in the same place for too long, I can't write anything. When things are changing, that's when the writing kicks in, whether that change be moving house, or losing a girlfriend, or making a new bunch of friends. Because that's when I get the urge of wanting to be in touch with the one thing that is constant, which is the feeling I get from making music. That's why the last album was called Origin of Symmetry - it's important to have that base when everything is in flux."

Being a child of the 21st century, Bellamy has dispensed with the notion of a record collection for something far more transportable - music stored on computer. "Since Napster went, the program you need is Morpheus, which can not only download music, but films and other computer programs as well. Perhaps I shouldn't be saying this, but I've got AI and all these films that haven't come out yet downloaded on to my computer. And with songs, you download the ones you want from somebody else's machine and form your own playlist."

When he's away from the computer, Bellamy uses a wristwatch-sized MP3 player to listen to music. "You plug a lead into the computer and put on the songs you want, so you can walk around with this and the quality is brilliant. It costs about £250. I'm on planes a lot and they always tell me to turn off my Walkman during take-off, but this is so small that they can't even see I've got it on. When you put these headphones on, it's absolute cut-off from the outside world. You can't hear kids crying or anything."

On the little MP3 player is a catholic range of music. Along with tracks by Rage Against the Machine, Weezer, American lo-fi favourites Grandaddy and funk-rockers Primus are blues tracks by Robert Johnson and European classical excerpts. "When I was about 10 my dad played me Robert Johnson, and that was the first time I heard music that made me feel something, even though what I'm playing on piano these days isn't blues but music from European history, be it folk, classical, or flamenco. I'm into Jeff Buckley's voice a lot too, as he was one of the first male singers who made me comfortable about singing in a female range."

Another favourite is the Belgian rock band Deus. "One of the best rock bands from Europe. They're too experimental for radio here so they've never made it, but they're huge in Belgium. They jump across all kinds of styles and will play anything from blues to disco in the same track. They've been around for about 10 years, and they did a tour supporting PJ Harvey in England, but apart from that, they've never had much exposure."

All of this feeds into Muse's own sound - emotional, heartfelt rock popular with troubled young men. "Chris, the bass player, is into his metal, and for some reason he's also obsessed by the Beach Boys, and he's got all those outtakes of Beach Boys tracks that you can get. Dom's into percussive things like Buddy Miles and the Aphex Twin. We all like Rage Against the Machine, while I listen to a lot of classical music and the other two don't really go there. We meet in the middle of all our tastes with what we do in the band."

From playing us noisy American rock on his computer, Bellamy goes to knocking out some astonishingly accomplished classical piano. "I play the piano for ages because I enjoy the experience of doing it. It's always been something of an escape, if you like," he says. "Then something will come from that and there will be the start of a new song, even if at that point it's just expressing a state of mind, a feeling of loneliness or whatever. I wrote a lot of the last album on tour, so I would often find a piano backstage at a venue, and just play it all day."

Occasionally, there's time for that most traditional of listening pleasures, the record. "Our producer, John Leckie, has opened me up to people like Tom Waits and Captain Beefheart, and even Jimi Hendrix who I don't think I would have listened to otherwise. After a day's session he would pull out a few records and play them in the dark. It was cool."

[on-this-day-btvs]

November 6, 2001

Once More, With Feeling aired for BTVS season 6, episode 7. This was the only BTVS episode performed as a musical. All of the regular cast performed their own vocals, although two actors (those who played Willow and Dawn) were given minimal singing at their request. Apart from vocal and choreography prep: "[actual shooting] took something like 19 hours of singing and 17 hours of dancing in between shooting four other episodes."

The demon Sweet (shown in a blue suit above) is played by Hinton Battle, a three-time Tony-winner. This is his only Buffyverse appearance.

(mod note: Apparently Hinton Battle also choreographed the dancing in this episode!)

Commonly referred to as "OMWF," the episode was nominated for a 2002 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction. (If it had won, the award would have gone to Christophe Beck and Jesse Tobias.) Despite the nomination, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences neglected to include the title on the ballots. The Emmy was awarded to the Opening Ceremony of the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games.

In March 2019 a vinyl press of the original cast recording was released, with cover art by Paul Mann (shown above).

The moderator is unaware of any recordings of the 2002 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony ever being sold, in any format.

(image create to illustrator Paul Mann) (vinyl details and image via Consequence) (SMG quote and other information via wikipedia)

[wedding-shemp]

starting the justice league cartoon from the beginning. i've never heard the phrase "weapons of mass destruction" in a children's cartoon.