30 (Well, it's just twice as old as 15, really)

Alas, thus endeth my twenties; not with a bang, but with a whimper. But let us not mourn the things that be no more, but rejoice in the many, many wonderful things that enter their thirties the same year as I do!

So, here is my list of 30 great events from way back in 1976, which oddly enough is the year I was born. Go figure.

Music:

1. Kansas - "Leftoverture"
2. Eagles - "Hotel California"
3. Jean Michel Jarre - "Oxygene"
4. Kiss - "Destroyer"
5. Stevie Wonder - "Songs in the Key of Life"


Movies:

6. "Network"
7. "Taxi Driver"
8. "Rocky"
9. "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"
10. "All the President's Men"
11. "Carrie"
12. "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (It turned me into a newt!)



Synthesizers:

13. The Yamaha CS-80
14. Roland System 700
15. The Arp Odyssey 3



Other noteworthy inventions:

16. The Inkjet printer
17. Atari's "Breakout"
18. The Cray-1 computer
19. The VHS tape



Events:

20. Viking 1 lands on Mars
21. Apple Computer founded!
22. First commercial flight of the Concorde
23. United States Bicentennial
24. Discovery of the Megamouth shark



People - Well, seems that there really weren't that many cool people born in '76, but here is a random selection anyway:

25. Dominic Monaghan
26. Ryan Reynolds
27. Melissa George
28. Fred Savage
29. Soleil Moon Frye
30. Colin Farrel

Coincidently, this appears to be my 60th blog post as well. Hah!


Ok, all together now: "Happy birthday to you..."