Celebration: Josh Radnor’s Birthday
Mission: Watch an episode of HIMYM
Status: Complete
Notes: Josh Radnor was born in Columbus, Ohio on this day in 1974. He plays Ted Mosby on How I Met Your Mother. The episode I saw today had Ted & Barney pretending to be tourists visiting New York so they could chat up the local girls.
Celebration: Kim Deal’s Birthday
Mission: Put on some sensible clothes and listen to “Gigantic”
Status: Complete
Notes: Kimberly Deal was born in Ohio on this day in 1961. In January 1986 she was the only person to answer and Black Francis and Joey Santiago’s classified advert and so she became the bass player in the Pixies – despite not owning a bass guitar and never having played one before (she was a guitarist up until this point). Her husbands’ drumming friend David Lovering was roped in to complete the band, and off they went to international fame until Kim & Francis fell out over creative musical differences.
Kim teamed up with one of the Throwing Muses in 1988 and formed a new band called The Breeders who would let her write some of the songs.
The Pixies let her back in the band for their last couple of albums circa 1990-91, but no one really talked to each other until the reunion tours in 2004-05 which included headlining at the Reading Festival in August 2005 and I was there!
Celebration: Marilyn Manson’s Birthday
Mission: Listen to ‘Beautiful People’
Status: Complete
Notes: I completed this mission via YouTube. Marilyn “Brian Warner” Manson was never in the Wonder Years. He was born on in Ohio on this day in 1969, which makes him two days younger than Michael Schumacher.
A Year of Celebration 
