By various quirks of timing/negligence/accident/karma/loserness, today's SNLC on 5/5 is not the 55th edition, which would have been remotely cool, if in a loserly way. Besides being Cinco de Mayo, today is the second numerologically coincided Saturday of 2007, between March 3 and July 7. Thus this diary observes the usual SOP for SNLC's on such dates, i.e. a sampling of cultural references with the number 5 as a theme. Remembering that after immediately after 2, "5 is right out!!!!!", follow below the flip....
Some literature:
Stefan Heym: 5 Tage im Juni (Five Days in June)
Miyamoto Musashi: The Book of Five Rings
Peter Shaffer: Five Finger Exercise
Shakespeare: Henry V
Jules Verne: Cinq Semaines en balloon (Five Weeks in a Balloon)
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five
Movies:
The Beast with Five Fingers
Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna (Utamaro and his five women, Kenji Mizoguchi film)
Five Fingers
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (OK, sort of a stretch)
The Five Pennies
Five Easy Pieces
Nine to Five
The Five Heartbeats
Great classical "5ths":
Bartok: String Quartet No. 5
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Emperor")
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 ("Turkish")
Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 5
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
Schoenberg: Fünf Orchesterstücke (Five Pieces for Orchestra), op. 16
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5
I'll let others more knowledgable than self expound on more pop-culture 5-themed artifacts. Besides that, you know the drill....