52sightings

Over the years I have spotted the #52 everywhere. Here is a list that I put together back in 1999 at my old Indie music promotions and video streaming/webcasting web site 52media:

52SIGHTINGS

THE OBVIOUS YET UNEXPLAINABLE:

52 cards in a deck.
52 weeks in a year.

@ THE MOVIES:

Star Wars episode IV- 52 is seen twice in Luke's binoculars when he is searching for R2D2.

THX 1138- Its in Robert D's prison #. Is George Lucas a 52head?

At First Site- Val K. says there are "52 lamp posts on this street!"

You've Got Mail- Tom Hank's user name is Sterling52 or something, they go off on a tangent and say 52this & 52that when trying to figure out the who's, what's and where's about Meg R's Cyber pal.

Urban Safari- The delivery boy asks for "$152 bucks in cash NO credit this time!"

The Firm- 52 is seen on a license plate.

My Giant- Billy C's giant eats $152 bucks worth of hot dogs at a street vendor.

U Turn- Sean Penn's bus leaves at 7:52 PM, if only he would've made it!

52 Card Pick Up- 'Nuff said!

Meet Joe Black- Mention of a Baseball player from the year "1952"

Can't Hardly Wait- The girl that played the Clarrissa character wants to get all "522" seniors to sign her yearbook.

An Officer and a Gentleman- The recruit that hung himself mentions that "She's the best a$$ in 52 states". Very cool seeing it's a mistake and all. there's only 49 states man! :)

American Gigolo- Hey Richard Geer must be a 52head also! His character mentions an antique's quoted price as "between $4800 and $5200".

US Marshals- The time is 3:52 on the surveillance camera.

Jackie Brown- The time is 3:52.

Tommy Boy- TB yells "525, that's it"! Referring to the street address.

White Men Can't Jump- 52 is seen in a license plate.

Rudy- Football player's #, I bet 52 is in a lot of sports movies!

Exit to Eden- Mention of a 52 year old woman.

The Blair Witch Project- The time is 4:52.

True Believer- The #52 is seen in a James Woods client mugshot photo.

Jerry Macguire- Number of Basketball player in poster in his office.

Tin Cup- On sign that says "last chance to hit golf balls for 520 miles".

The Sirens- Elle McPherson movie, in license plate.

Notting Hill- 52's in there somewhere, I just forget where.

Varsity Blues- 52 is in a player's number.

Mr. Mom- In the obstacle course race at Martin Mull's home, racers #5 and #2 trip up our hero, Michael Keaton.

EDTV- 52's in there, I just forget where.

Blue Chips- Shaq scored a 520 on his SAT score.

3Men and a Baby- written on building wall that Ted Danson is constructing. That ghost kid still freaks me out!

The year my voice Broke- In License plate. Indie film.

Romey and Michelle's High School Reunion- In a license plate.

The Matrix- 52 IS the Matrix:) It's in all the numbers flying by about 52,000,000,000,000 times, I counted!

In model Paulina Okasik's 1st movie- She lives in Apt. #52. Anyone remember the title? What's up with supermodels and 52?


TV SHOWS/MOVIES

Saturday Night Live- In a skit of Howard Stern attempting to become New York's Governor, in the bus number.

MacGyver- In the casino episode, in a taxi's license plate.

Pirates of Silicon Valley- Apple programmer was "up for 52 hours"


SONGS

"It's Everything, It's 52" by LIVER
"Area 52" by Subsonic Headdub
"#52" by caitlin roscoe project
"J.S.Bach Weihnachts Oratorium Teil V #52" by The Wolfschlugen Orchestra


BANDS

The B-52s
Energy 52
Brother 52

MUSIC TRIVIA

How much did Nirvaan pay for the production of their first record? $552 bucks!

ALBUMS

Rock File 52 (various artists)
52nd street (Billy Joel)

COMMERCIALS

Toyota Camry 2000 circa 1999

BOOKS

52 Invitations to Grrreat Sex
Boeing B-52 : Stratofortress
52 Masterpieces For Violin & Piano In The First Position
BASIC-52 Programming

SYMBOLS

Group 52 (courtesy of symbols.com)

CLUBS/ORGANIZATIONS

52 Plus Joker- (Card collecters)
Troop 52- (Boys scouts)

NASA MISSIONS

Mission STS 52

These are just some examples, anyone else know of any others?

Email us at towilmusic at gmail and we'll add them to our site.

copyright June 5 1999 52nd stream press/2010 towilpress

52media UPDATE: We're not back, just still here!

Thanks to many folks at the Artist Area Bulletin Board, my online family of some of today's most talented, innovative and outspoken Indie artists spread throughout the world, I decided to continue on with the ole bastard, 52media and had a friend keep our domain active and get this blog out of mothballs.

That friend, Barry Z, owns www.1usa.com and you can check out his Indie ISP (one of the few that are left) by clicking on www.52media.com in appreciation of him "being there" for me during these tough economic times.

I've been posting online since 1991 and LLC'd 52nd stream media, unltd. in 1999 here in Kentucky. I gave my ex-lawyer like 49% of it for about $40 work and gas money for going to the state capital and registering it for me. Fortunately, he's a lawyer and an asshole like all lawyers are, so he gave me back the company 4 years ago after the smell of potential money wore off for him. Back in 2004 I placed 52 in mothballs due to economics of our primary focus, streaming media, just got out of hand and I could not afford to continue with my dwindling savings, yet 52 is still hanging out and doesn't owe anything to anybody, which in this economy is a good start, I guess.

Well, this past week I was speaking with the CEO of company and he was telling us about a 10 MB fiber connection that he just installed at their office. This got my wheels spinning and I asked him if he would like a dedicated ShoutCast radio station filled with some of today's finest unsigned artists which promoted his company and their unique and affordable rural high speed Internet solutions 24/7 utilizing the bandwidth that he was already paying for and he said YES!

While nothing is set in stone yet, this gives me hope that someday soon the old bastard, 52, might get a new life!

I'll keep you all posted.

Thanks for listening.

Regards,

Thomas-
52nd stream media, unltd.
Louisville Kentucky
My music Blog
My damn music
five2media at yahoo.com