turning three cubed...

Ok....so my 27th birthday is quickly approaching...and I'm not really in a celebratory mood this year. In order to get out of my birthday blues, I decided to research the number 27...which led me to dig through info regarding my birth year (1981) and day (September 2). Here's what I found:

notable facts about the number 27:

• Twenty-seven is the smallest positive integer requiring four syllables to name in English, though it can be unambiguously defined in just two: "three cubed." Twenty-seven is a perfect cube, being 3 to the third = 3 x 3 x 3. 27 is therefore the second smallest cube of a prime number. ( I plan to think of myself as a 3 year-old cubed...)
  
• There are a total of 27 books in the New Testament. (which, of course, makes the number holy.)
  
• Uranus has 27 moons. (no comment.)
  
• The number of completed, numbered piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; and his birthday (27 January 1756).
• The age in years at which many famous and supremely talented rock/blues musicians died, often referred to as the 27 Club. These include:
  

-Brian Jones

-Janis Joplin

-Jim Morrison

-Jimi Hendrix

-Kurt Cobain

(No need to worry about me joining this club...I'm not a famous, talented musician...and I definitely don't have a drug problem.)

tidbits about the year 1981:

• MTV was launched on Aug. 1
• Simon & Garfunkel reunited for a free concert in Central Park
• Researchers found the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic
• Post It Notes were launched by 3M Corp
• 1981 in Music
• Crimes of the Heart won a Pulitzer Prize... (I played 'Babe' in this play when I was in high school....if you read the synopsis, you'll get an idea of how sketchy my role was.) 
  
• Popular Films of 1981:

-Raiders of the Lost Ark

         -Superman II

         -9 to 5

         -Chariots of Fire

and September 2nd:

• On September 2, 1935, George Gershwin signed his name to the completed orchestral score of the opera Porgy and Bess. The composer called the 700-page score his masterpiece and never ceased to marvel that he had created it. Many critics consider Porgy and Bess to be the first and finest American opera.
• On this day...September 2

To top things off, I made a special birthday mix....since music always gets me excited. Check out "twenty-seven is heaven" over on the right...it's a mix of 28 (27 + 1 to grow on) songs and artists that I love! :)