#robot carnival 1987

[l-ultimo-squalo]

Robot Carnival (1987)

[oflightandshadows88]

Robot Carnival (ロボットカーニバル) (1987)

Segment: Presence ( プレゼンス) | dir. Yasuomi Umetsu

[obscureanimeoftheday]

Obscure Anime of The Day:

Robot Carnival

Aired: 1987

Genres: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mecha, Romance, SciFi, Steampunk

[natsukashiihearts]

Robot Carnival (ロボットカーニバル) (1987)

(Song: Automatic Man by Michael Sembello)

[xtrain]

1979-1990 Anime Primer

I wrote this primer to serve as an introduction to those new to 80s anime. It features 50 titles (plus one bonus title), all of which are either films or OVAs for ease of viewing. Please note that Studio Ghibli films from this era were purposefully excluded since they are already so well-known (I consider Nausicaä to be pre-Ghibli).

1979    Aim for the Ace!

1979    Galaxy Express 999　

1979    Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro　

1981    Ashita no Joe 2

1981    The Door into Summer 1981    The Fantastic Adventures of Unico　

1981    Mobile Suit Gundam: The Movie Trilogy

1982    Arcadia of My Youth

1982    Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie

1983    Urusei Yatsura Movie 1: Only You

1984    Birth

1981    Daicon IV

1984    Macross: Do You Remember Love?

1984    Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

1984    The Star of Cottonland

1984    Urusei Yatsura Movie 2: Beautiful Dreamer

1985    Angel’s Egg

1985    GoShogun: The Time Étranger

1985    Leda: The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko

1985    Megazone 23

1985    Minky Momo: La Ronde in My Dream 1985    Night on the Galactic Railroad 1986    Fist of the North Star

1986    Megazone 23 Part II

1986    Project A-ko

1986    Windaria

1987    Black Magic M-66

1987    Bubblegum Crisis

1987    Devilman: The Birth/Demon Bird

1987    Dirty Pair: Project Eden

1987    Neo-Tokyo

1987    Robot Carnival

1987    Royal Space Force: Wings of the Honnêamise

1987    To-y

1987    Twilight of the Cockroaches

1988    Akira

1988    Dominion Tank Police

1988    Dragon’s Heaven

1988    Gunbuster

1988    Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars

1988    One Pound Gospel

1988    Vampire Princess Miyu

1989    The Five Star Stories

1989    Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai!

1989    Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket

1989    Patlabor: The Movie

1989    Venus Wars

1990    Cyber City Oedo 808

1990    Nineteen 19

1990    Record of Lodoss War

BONUS    Blue Blazes

[firespirited]

Today’s film is the anime short film anthology Robot Carnival 1987 available on youtube or in separate videos: 7 short films showcasing different styles, many without dialogue.

TW for flashing lights, violence, body horror and disturbing imagery.

I loved the bad guy character design and kinetic animation of Deprive, Westerner’s invasion is a very funny concept, Cloud has that OG little mermaid/little prince melancholy and Star Light Angel grew on me once I’d read the synopsis.

For the most part the animation has aged well but the music has not.

[badoccultadvice]

Robot Carnival [Full Movie - 1987] | ロボットカーニバル

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

tuesday again 10/11/22

in which i read a book but completely fail to discuss it

listening Bloody! Bloody! by Junie & TheHutfriends. self-described indie pop, incredibly fun chorus! the same sort of frantic plinky..banjo? undertones that i liked so much in my absolute favorite song of hers, The Consequence of Imagination Is Fear.

very good spooky halloween song. i truly do love this band so much for how fucking Weird it is.

And you’re driving with your hands, not believing all the bleeding, and they’re calling you- Bloody! And the knife sits gleaming in the red back seating, and they’re calling you- Bloody! And they’re all still screaming in your head, and their lips dead, calling you- Bloody!

there are a couple creatives where i'm like "yes i WOULD like a new Frog Detective/twine novel/something every year, where i have a marvelous time for forty minutes and it's a little self-contained experience". this band goes in the same brain bucket, bc it feels like it is as much an excuse to collage and make felt puppets as it is to release a new single once every few months. now i am projecting bc i do not know this lady or her process, but i would like more people to be able to make art where i the art enjoyer get a little thing every once in a while, without the artist feeling the crushing need to be a professional artist hitting it big in order to make the art and any sort of living also.

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reading The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick.

i had to think really fucking hard about if i wanted to talk about this book, bc like a lot of older scifi it critiques the problems of its time but is also very much a product of its time. and i then i remembered that i'm going to do what i want forever until i die :) and then i didn't really have time to even discuss this book much at all :)

let's yoink the description straight off wiki

The Man in the High Castle (1962), by Philip K. Dick, is an alternative history novel wherein the Axis Powers won World War II. The story occurs in 1962, fifteen years after the end of the war in 1947, and depicts the political intrigues between Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany as they rule the partitioned United States. The Grasshopper Lies Heavy is a novel-within-the-novel which is an alternative history of the war in which the Allies defeat the Axis.

i do enjoy how scifi, especially older scifi, often refuses to resolve neatly or at all. this one left me unsettled. this is not a bad thing! it is unsettled in a way that is un-fan-ficcable. it is unsettled in a way that even though Philip K. Dick planned a sequel, he couldn't bring himself to write one bc the research for this book was so depressing. i do think i gotta let this one percolate in the back of my brain a bit, bc i don't have any useful thoughts aside from "wow yeah this series of events is totally plausible and plays out in a very 'yup i can see that happening' way". this entry is more setting down a marker to myself that i can in fact read full length books. maybe even do it again

how did i find it: this entry came about through a perfect confluence of events: i read this all in one sitting (rare) after seeing it in a thrift store earlier that day (also rare) and thinking "this probably isn't a book i'll reread, does my library have it" (near-miraculous).

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watching Ōtomo Katsuhiro, director of Akira, has done three...whatever the animated version of a book of short stories is. is it just an anthology also??? anyway i watched Memories (1995) back in july, adored it, half the soundtrack is on my regular roulette wheel of data entry music, and i finally looped back around and watched the other three anthologies he was part of this week.

didn't like them as much! it is eleven forty three pm as i write this so i will not be going into great detail. overall impressions only.

robot carnival (1987) i did not care for very much at all. i think it is the weakest overall of the four both in animation and in story. it did give me this baller screenshot.

neo tokyo (1987) absolutely off the fucking chain with animation flexes. stories overall were not as strong as memories (i am going to be thinking about the first short in memories until i die probably). i have never seen such a perfectly animated cat that nobody seems to have really giffed? unrelated in a different short, i have never seen fire animated like that and now all other animated fire looks wrong.

short peace (2013) i liked much more both on strength of animation and strength of storytelling. "possessions", wherein a wandering samurai takes shelter from a storm in a shrine to...discarded objects? charmed me the most.

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playing Card Cowboy by a large assortment of people and published by Luckshot. available PWYW on itch and it's like three american bucks on steam. you're out seeking "Revenge against the Gunman who killed your dad, wooed your mom, and kicked your dog" in a procgen fashion gathering cards board-game-style to progress along a web of little location options. and the little opening animatic has the best royalty-free morricone i've ever heard

this is a very polished game with all the quality of life features and smooth art one expects from a card game. it wants to be a phone game really badly.

this is not a moral judgement or a dig at how fun it is, bc it's very fun, but the whole time i played it i thought about how much fun it would be to play on my phone.

at one point i had three bandits, a wife, a baby, a baby horse (the game did not call it a foal don't @ me), and a gold lasso. the next turn i got Blood Money from sending the foal off to compete in the rodeo.

the below is how i got a baby

the below is how i lost the baby

this game is very easy to tell stories about like "oh yeah did you get the blood money from sending the foal off to the rodeo???" which is always super fucking helpful in both game discovery and selling the damn thing. extremely streamable bc it is procgen. i hope it sells a billion copies.

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making having a fancy bathroom makes me feel like a rich bitch so i got a new shower head. the shower head of course did not fix the abysmal water pressure in this house but it does have an additional detachable head so possibly i will actually clean my bathtub more often. got to use a big fuckoff pipe wrench to take the old showerhead off which was fun. other than recaulking the little escutcheon to the shower wall (annoying) this was a fairly quick and painless process. suspicious. shower head here except i did not spend seventy five dollars on it, that’s ludicrous, i found a new in box one on eBay for thirty bucks.

in other news, acquired the Perfect double breasted trench coat in the Perfect length, it’s got the belt, the wool lining is intact, it’s in decent shape except for the horrible stain on the front. so it’s at the dry cleaners to see if anything happens. the armscyes are just a hair too tight for me in a thin tshirt to lift my arms over shoulder height without looking stupid as fuck so i may find a tailor if i ever want to wear it with a sweater or something. i cannot stress enough how much it is the perfect cut and the perfect length for me. i am willing to invest some dollars in a good classic trench coat i will hopefully have for the next twenty years.

[oneheadtoanother]

Robot Carnival - Cloud (1987) | ロボットカーニバル

[canmom]

Animation Night 158: The Carnival Is Back In Town

Hi everyone, it’s Animation Night! Still happening!!

Tonight I am evidently running quite late. The reasonable reason for this is that I just arrived at my friends’ house in Glasgow and it’s taken a minute to get everything set up. The less reasonable reason is that I spent a lot of time today playing Beat Saber. But anyway!

Today is going to be a combination of old stuff and new stuff! Back in the day, one of the first things I showed on Animation Night were short film collections such as Meikyū Monogatari (1987) [lit. Labyrinth Tales, but known in English as Neo Tokyo and Manie-Manie] and Robot Carnival (also 1987).

The unifying factor in both of these is Katsuhiro Otomo, but let’s not make it all about him! Both are collections of short films by a huge variety of directors. For Otomo himself, it was a ridiculously busy time - as well as directing films in both collections he was hard at work on Akira. For Robot Carnival he created the intro and outro, telling the story of the Robot Carnival itself, a massive crawling machine whose displays have turned into deadly weapons to the apocalypse survivors it runs over below.

And alongside him are a number of familiar names. Kōji Morimoto, future cofounder of Studio 4C, made the ridiculously involved short film Franken’s Gears almost singlehandedly (his family helped with the inbetweening!). Animator Manabu Ōhashi, who tragically passed away last year, made a beautiful abstract short film called Cloud. And Yasuomi Umetsu, whose uniquely chunky hyperrealist design style I’ve written about now and again, directed a troubling short called Presence about a man who creates and destroys a gynoid, probably the most technically spectacular film he’s done. Takashi Nakamura (who I must cover soon, director of e.g. A Tree of Palme) brings a riotous midnight dance of machines in The Tale of Chicken Man and Red Neck. Hiroyuki Kitakubo, future director of Golden Boy and Blood: the Last Vampire, brings a satirical 19th-century fight in Strange Tales of Meiji Culture: Westerner’s Invasion.

All in all it’s one of my favourite short film collections - this is probably like the fourth or fifth time I’ve shown it to people? It’s a great and very varied ride.

And Meikyū Monogatari, this is the work of Madhouse, and as such it has films by Rintarō and Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Rintarō who introduces us by leading a girl into a strange surreal circus to set the stage for the other shorts. Kawajiri directs cyberpunk racing short The Running Man, which is pure imagery and carrying 1000 synthwave music videos on its back - but the original is surprisingly dreamily paced. The biggest highlight is Otomo’s Construction Cancellation Order, in which a salaryman attempts to shut down a massive out-of-control autonomous construction project, butting up against a robot foreman who will do anything to continue the work. If you watched Akira and felt like “damn I think this needs more machinery porn”, Otomo’s got you covered! It’s a great short, unfolding with a sense of wonderful comic inevitability.

Tonight the plan is to revisit both of these short films! But also to check out some recent short films that I thought were neat. For example, we have How And Why Don Jose Dissipated by ‘Animoshe’, a psychedelic short about a bee and a tourist with a truly unique style...

And Record Highs by Beryl Allee about an athletic competition among frogs amidst... striking circumstances.

It’s also coming into CalArts season, so if we feel hungry for more, I’ll check out the latest student films. Plus, if you’ve seen anything neat you’d like to watch together, tell me and I’m sure we can find room!!

Sound fun? We’ll be going live shortly over at twitch.tv/canmom and start the films at 10pm UK time! Would love to see you there ^^

[cyberpunkcinema]

Robot Carnival (1987) 

The definitive anthology of future imperfect-robots, as presented in hand drawn celluloid?  Robot Carnival features the work of Katsuhiro Omoto (Akira), Koji Moromoto (Animatrix) and several other visionary artists– even Joe Hisaishi of Ghibli soundtrack fame.  Do you remember a time when anime looked better?  Have you ever pined for a time when gynoids really were imaginary?  Do you like robots, violence and a refreshing lack of dialogue?  Take your AI generated mirrorshades off and see how it used to be done.  Directed by Hidetoshi Oomori, Hiroyuki Kitakubo, Hiroyuki Kitazume, Katsuhiro Otomo, Koji Morimoto, Mao Lamdo, Takashi Nakamura & Yasuomi Umetsu

…as always, we’ll watch one episode of Cowboy Bebop first!

[mikiandrobo]

Mecha, robot, and cyborg shows and movies I have seen

FINISHED:

The Transformers G1 (1984)

Transformers Zone (1990)

Transformers Beast Wars (1997)

Transformers Beast Machines (1999)

Challenge of the Gobots (1984)

Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 (1979 series)

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985)

Mobile Suit Gundam Char's Counterattack (1988)

Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (1989)

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn

Mobile Suit Gundam Cucuruz Doan's Island (2022)

Mobile suit Gundam Hathaway's Flash (1st movie 2021)

Tetsujin 28 (2004 series)

Brigadoon Marin and Melan (2000)

Megazone 23 (1985)

Megazone 23 II Please Give Me Your Secret (1986)

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (2007)

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (2006)

Aura Battler Dunbine (1983)

Aura Battler Dunbine: The Tale of Neo Byston Well (1988)

Invincible Superman Zambot 3 (1977)

Shippū Iron Leaguer (1993)

God Mazinger (1984)

Black Magic M-66 (1987)

Kurogane Communication (1998)

Robots (2005)

Magic Knight Rayearth (1994)

Key the Metal Idol (does this count??/1996)

My Dear Marie/Metal Angel Marie (1996)

Kaiba (2008)

Promare (2019)

Marriage of God & Soul Godannar (2008)

Bicentennial man (1999)

READ:

Makyou Gaiden Le Deus / Ladius (1987)

Argento soma (2000)

Bang brave bang bravern (2024)

Iron Widow (2021) by Xiran Jay Zhao

In the Lives of Puppets (2023) by TJ Klune

SEEN:

Cyborg 009 2001

Astro boy 1980 & 2003

Ruby Spears Mega man

Megaman StarForce

Megaman Upon a star

Mobile suit Gundam: The Origin

Robot Carnival

Evangelion

WATCHING:

Rahxephon

STARTED:

Ideon

Brave Exkaiser

Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ

Chouriki Robo Galatt

Transformers Masterforce

Transformers animated

Transformers Beast Wars ii

[bittyb0t]

I’m still working my way thru ur movie recs but I’m watching Robot Carnival (1987) rn, idk if youve seen it but its an animated anthology featuring stories about robots and so far it’s equal parts dark and cute (depending on the story) but the animation is charming I thought maybe itd be something youd like :] hope ur having a great day btw

i have not seen it, but i will absolutely put it on my list to watch soon!!! sounds super interesting :]c

thank you sm btw! i hope you’re having a good day too 💜

[grusinskayas]

top 10 animated films? 💞

i feel like i could make 5 different lists of favorite animated films separated into different categories so what i'm gonna do is choose 2 ghibli, 2 satoshi kon, 2 other anime, 2 disney and 2 other random films

ghibli: i'm NOT gonna say princess mononoke and nausicaä bc these are always the ones i talk about lol so when marnie was there (2014) and castle in the sky (1986)!

satoshi kon: paprika (2006) and perfect blue (1997)

anime: robot carnival (1987) and night is short, walk on girl (2017)

disney: luca (2021) and the little mermaid (1989)

other: song of the sea (2014) and the last unicorn (1982)

[brookston]

Holidays 2.6

Holidays

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1st Tuesday in February

African-American Coaches Day [1st Tuesday]

International Eggplant Day [1st Tuesday]

Safer Internet Day [1st Tuesday]

Independence & Related Days

Massachusetts Statehood Day (#6; 1788)

Überstadt (Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]

Zenia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Festivals Beginning February 6, 2024

Carnival of Tarragona (Tarragona, Spain) [thru 2.13]

Cerknica Carnival (Cerknica, Slovenia) [thru 2.14]

Colusa Farm Show (Colusa, California) [thru 2.8]

Sanremo Music Festival (Sanremo, Italy) [thru 2.10]

Spokane Ag Expo (Spokane, Washington) [thru 2.8]

Feast Days

Achille Devéria (Artology)

Amand of Poitou (Christian; Saint) [bar staff, bartenders, brewers, publicans]

Aphrodisia (The Feast of Aphrodite; Ancient Greece)

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Barsanuphius of Palestine (Christian; Saint)

Bob Marley Day (Rastafari; Saint)

Dorothea of Caesarea (Christian; Saint) [brewers]

Dorothy (Christian; Saint) [gardeners, flowers]

Feast of the Apostle of the Franks (Christian)

Feast of the 26 Martyrs (Japan)

Gamelia (Celebration of Marriage of Zeus & Hera; Ancient Greece)

Guarinus (Christian; Saint)

Hadaka Matsuri (Naked Festival; Japan)

Hildegund, O.Praem (Christian; Saint)

Jacut (Christian; Saint)

Karl von Kügelgen (Artology)

Mateo Correa Magallanes (one of Saints of the Cristero War)

Mél of Ardagh (Christian; Saint)

Melchu (Christian; Saint)

Othon Friesz (Artology)

Oto Matsuri (Fire Festival; Japan)

Paul Miki and Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan (Christian; Martyrs)

Peter Baptist (Christian; Saint)

Relindis (Renule) of Mosaic (Christian; Saint)

Rubic-Cube Muddling Championships (Shamanism)

Self Stimulation Day (a.k.a. Self-Love Day; Pastafarian)

SKF Robot Smokestack (Muppetism)

Stray Animal Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Titus (Christian; Saint)

Tlaloc Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint) 

Vedastus (a.k.a. Vedast or Vaast; Christian; Saint)

Winter Snow Festival (Northern Japan; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Zacchaeus Sunday (Orthodox Christian)

Zeuxis (Positivist; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [8 of 32]

Prime Number Day: 37 [12 of 72]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

American Dad (Animated TV Series; 2005)

Antigone, by Jean Anouilh (Play; 1943)

Barenaked Ladies Are Men, by Barenaked Ladies (Album; 2007)

The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler (Novel; 1929)

The Big Wash (Disney Cartoon; 1928)

Billy Liar, by Keith Waterhouse (Novel; 1959)

Black Widow (Film; 1987)

Blank Night or The Age of Nothing (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 150; 1962)

Blues Brothers 2000 (Film; 1998)

Bosch (TV Series; 2014)

The Brasher Doubloon (Film; 1947)

The Bull Fight (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)

Coraline (Animated Film; 2009)

Crazy Town (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1954)

Deep Night, by Rudy Valley (Song; 1929)

Funny Funny Business (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1942)

Get Rich or Die Tryin’, by 50 Cent (Album; 2003)

The Happy Tots’ Expedition (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1940)

Infinity On High, by Fall Out Boy (Album; 2007)

Jupiter Ascending (Film; 2015)

Keith Waterhouse (Writerism)

The Kid (Silent Film; 1921)

Light of Day (Film; 1987)

Little Black Sambo (Ub Iwerks Cartoon; 1935)

Magician Mickey (Disney Cartoon; 1937)

Miracle (Sports Film; 2004)

Mozart in the Jungle (TV Series; 2014)

The Mission (Film; 1987)

Of Mice and Men (Novella; 1937)

The Ol’ Swimmin’ Hole (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1928)

Pink 8 Ball (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1972)

Porky’s Road Race (WB LT Cartoon; 1937)

Push (Film; 2009)

The Replacement Killers (Film; 1998)

Rhenish, a.k.a. Symphony No. 3 in Eb Major, by Robert Schumann (Symphony; 1851)

Saludos Amigos (Animated Disney Film; 1943)

Spike, by Elvis Costello (Album; 1989)

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (Animated Film; 2015)

Temple Grandin (Film; 2010)

Terror on the Seas or We’ve Only Begun to Fright (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 149; 1962)

The Uncultured Vulture (Phantasies Cartoon; 1947)

Weathering the Storm, Parts 1 & 2 (Underdog Cartoon, S1, Eps. 37 & 38 1965)

Today’s Name Days

Doris, Dorothea, Paul (Austria)

Svetla, Svetlana, Svetlomir (Bulgaria)

Dorica, Doroteja, Pavao (Croatia)

Vanda (Czech Republic)

Dorothea (Denmark)

Doora, Doris, Dorotea, Tea, Thea (Estonia)

Tea, Teija, Terhi, Terhikki, Tiia (Finland)

Dorothée, Gaston (France)

Doris, Dorothea, Paul (Germany)

Fotis, Photis (Greece)

Dóra, Dorottya (Hungary)

Amando, Dorotea, Paolo (Italy)

Dace, Dārta, Dora, Dore (Latvia)

Alkis, Darata, Titas, Živilė (Lithuania)

Dorte, Dortea (Norway)

Angel, Angelus, Antoni, Bogdana, Bohdan, Bohdana, Dorota, Ksenia, Szymon, Tytus (Poland)

Fotie, Ioan, Varsanufie, Vucol (Romania)

Ksenia (Russia)

Dorota (Slovakia)

Dorotea, Pablo (Spain)

Doris, Dorotea (Sweden)

Teofil, Teofila (Ukraine)

Amanda, Dolly, Dora, Doreen, Dorothea, Dorothy, Dorthy, Dottie, Manda, Mandi, Mandy, Ron, Rona, Ronald, Ronalda, Ronaldo, Ronnie, Titus (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 37 of 2024; 329 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 6 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 17 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Yi-Chou), Day 27 (Geng-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 27 Shevat 5784

Islamic: 26 Rajab 1445

J Cal: 7 Grey; Sevenday [7 of 30]

Julian: 24 January 2024

Moon: 14%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 9 Homer (2nd Month) [Zeuxis)

Runic Half Month: Elhaz (Elk) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 48 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 16 of 28)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 2.6

Holidays

Aaron Burr Day

Aldus Day

Alzheimer’s Disease Day (Florida)

Battle of Port Henry Day

Bob Marley Day (Jamaica)

Food Freedom Day (Canada)

International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (UN)

International Translator Mug Appreciation Day

Lame Duck Day

Monopoly Board Game Day

National Ashley Day

National Eighties Day

National Laplander’s Day (Sweden)

National May Thai Day (Thailand)

National Seaweed Day (Japan)

National Tinnitus Day

National Valentine Shopping Reminder Day

National Werewolf Day

New Zealand Day

Pay-a-Compliment Day

Reclaim Social Day

Reggae Day

Ronald Reagan Day (California)

Saamelaisten Kansallispäivä (Finland, Norway)

Sami National Day (Finland, Norway, Sweden)

Unity Day (Burundi)

Waitangi Day (New Zealand, Niue)

Wear Orange 4 Love Day

World Compliment Day

World Concertina Day

World Day without Mobile Phones

World Muaythai Day

Yes Tree Day (French Republic)

Food & Drink Celebrations

International Day of the Bartender

International Frozen Yogurt Day

Maple Syrup Day (Canada)

Matcha Day (Japan)

National Chopsticks Day

National Seaweed Day (Japan)

1st Tuesday in February

African-American Coaches Day [1st Tuesday]

International Eggplant Day [1st Tuesday]

Safer Internet Day [1st Tuesday]

Independence & Related Days

Massachusetts Statehood Day (#6; 1788)

Überstadt (Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]

Zenia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Festivals Beginning February 6, 2024

Carnival of Tarragona (Tarragona, Spain) [thru 2.13]

Cerknica Carnival (Cerknica, Slovenia) [thru 2.14]

Colusa Farm Show (Colusa, California) [thru 2.8]

Sanremo Music Festival (Sanremo, Italy) [thru 2.10]

Spokane Ag Expo (Spokane, Washington) [thru 2.8]

Feast Days

Achille Devéria (Artology)

Amand of Poitou (Christian; Saint) [bar staff, bartenders, brewers, publicans]

Aphrodisia (The Feast of Aphrodite; Ancient Greece)

Aphrodite Genetrix’s Day (Pagan)

Barsanuphius of Palestine (Christian; Saint)

Bob Marley Day (Rastafari; Saint)

Dorothea of Caesarea (Christian; Saint) [brewers]

Dorothy (Christian; Saint) [gardeners, flowers]

Feast of the Apostle of the Franks (Christian)

Feast of the 26 Martyrs (Japan)

Gamelia (Celebration of Marriage of Zeus & Hera; Ancient Greece)

Guarinus (Christian; Saint)

Hadaka Matsuri (Naked Festival; Japan)

Hildegund, O.Praem (Christian; Saint)

Jacut (Christian; Saint)

Karl von Kügelgen (Artology)

Mateo Correa Magallanes (one of Saints of the Cristero War)

Mél of Ardagh (Christian; Saint)

Melchu (Christian; Saint)

Othon Friesz (Artology)

Oto Matsuri (Fire Festival; Japan)

Paul Miki and Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan (Christian; Martyrs)

Peter Baptist (Christian; Saint)

Relindis (Renule) of Mosaic (Christian; Saint)

Rubic-Cube Muddling Championships (Shamanism)

Self Stimulation Day (a.k.a. Self-Love Day; Pastafarian)

SKF Robot Smokestack (Muppetism)

Stray Animal Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Titus (Christian; Saint)

Tlaloc Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint) 

Vedastus (a.k.a. Vedast or Vaast; Christian; Saint)

Winter Snow Festival (Northern Japan; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Zacchaeus Sunday (Orthodox Christian)

Zeuxis (Positivist; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [8 of 32]

Prime Number Day: 37 [12 of 72]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

American Dad (Animated TV Series; 2005)

Antigone, by Jean Anouilh (Play; 1943)

Barenaked Ladies Are Men, by Barenaked Ladies (Album; 2007)

The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler (Novel; 1929)

The Big Wash (Disney Cartoon; 1928)

Billy Liar, by Keith Waterhouse (Novel; 1959)

Black Widow (Film; 1987)

Blank Night or The Age of Nothing (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 150; 1962)

Blues Brothers 2000 (Film; 1998)

Bosch (TV Series; 2014)

The Brasher Doubloon (Film; 1947)

The Bull Fight (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)

Coraline (Animated Film; 2009)

Crazy Town (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1954)

Deep Night, by Rudy Valley (Song; 1929)

Funny Funny Business (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1942)

Get Rich or Die Tryin’, by 50 Cent (Album; 2003)

The Happy Tots’ Expedition (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1940)

Infinity On High, by Fall Out Boy (Album; 2007)

Jupiter Ascending (Film; 2015)

Keith Waterhouse (Writerism)

The Kid (Silent Film; 1921)

Light of Day (Film; 1987)

Little Black Sambo (Ub Iwerks Cartoon; 1935)

Magician Mickey (Disney Cartoon; 1937)

Miracle (Sports Film; 2004)

Mozart in the Jungle (TV Series; 2014)

The Mission (Film; 1987)

Of Mice and Men (Novella; 1937)

The Ol’ Swimmin’ Hole (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1928)

Pink 8 Ball (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1972)

Porky’s Road Race (WB LT Cartoon; 1937)

Push (Film; 2009)

The Replacement Killers (Film; 1998)

Rhenish, a.k.a. Symphony No. 3 in Eb Major, by Robert Schumann (Symphony; 1851)

Saludos Amigos (Animated Disney Film; 1943)

Spike, by Elvis Costello (Album; 1989)

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (Animated Film; 2015)

Temple Grandin (Film; 2010)

Terror on the Seas or We’ve Only Begun to Fright (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 149; 1962)

The Uncultured Vulture (Phantasies Cartoon; 1947)

Weathering the Storm, Parts 1 & 2 (Underdog Cartoon, S1, Eps. 37 & 38 1965)

Today’s Name Days

Doris, Dorothea, Paul (Austria)

Svetla, Svetlana, Svetlomir (Bulgaria)

Dorica, Doroteja, Pavao (Croatia)

Vanda (Czech Republic)

Dorothea (Denmark)

Doora, Doris, Dorotea, Tea, Thea (Estonia)

Tea, Teija, Terhi, Terhikki, Tiia (Finland)

Dorothée, Gaston (France)

Doris, Dorothea, Paul (Germany)

Fotis, Photis (Greece)

Dóra, Dorottya (Hungary)

Amando, Dorotea, Paolo (Italy)

Dace, Dārta, Dora, Dore (Latvia)

Alkis, Darata, Titas, Živilė (Lithuania)

Dorte, Dortea (Norway)

Angel, Angelus, Antoni, Bogdana, Bohdan, Bohdana, Dorota, Ksenia, Szymon, Tytus (Poland)

Fotie, Ioan, Varsanufie, Vucol (Romania)

Ksenia (Russia)

Dorota (Slovakia)

Dorotea, Pablo (Spain)

Doris, Dorotea (Sweden)

Teofil, Teofila (Ukraine)

Amanda, Dolly, Dora, Doreen, Dorothea, Dorothy, Dorthy, Dottie, Manda, Mandi, Mandy, Ron, Rona, Ronald, Ronalda, Ronaldo, Ronnie, Titus (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 37 of 2024; 329 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 6 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 17 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Yi-Chou), Day 27 (Geng-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 27 Shevat 5784

Islamic: 26 Rajab 1445

J Cal: 7 Grey; Sevenday [7 of 30]

Julian: 24 January 2024

Moon: 14%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 9 Homer (2nd Month) [Zeuxis)

Runic Half Month: Elhaz (Elk) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 48 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 16 of 28)