Did you know that the way a character faces in an anime can determine who you need to root for? For the most part in an opening/ending, if a character is on the right side of the screen and faces/walks to the left, they are seen a righteous person and will be a good person, while if the character is doing the opposite (starts left and faces/walks right), they are probably one of the bad guys, a rival, or someone who will betray the group. This isn't always the case, but it's a quick way to block it to tell us who to root for.
Do you recognize this man?
No? Well, this man is called "Daryl Davis", an American R&B and blues musician who has played alongside Chuck Beery, Jerry Lee Lewis and even former president Bill Clinton. However, he's better know for converting a lot white supremacists so they can leave the KKK.
Uh? That how is that even posible? Glad you asked. You see, it all started back in 1983, where Daryl was playing country western music in a bar with mostly white people. A patron came up to him and said it was the first time he had "heard a black man play as well as Jerry Lee Lewis". Davis explained to the man that "Jerry Lee learned to play from black blues and boogie woogie piano players and he's a friend of mine." The white patron was skeptical and over a drink admitted he was a member of the KKK. The two became friends and eventually, the man gave Davis contact information on KKK leaders.
A few years later he decided to interview Klan menbers in order to answer a question he had since youth: 'Why do you hate me when you know nothing about me?'. This interviews led to over 200 people leaving the KKK altogheter, to the point that Davis pretty much disbanded the Klu Klux Klan in the state of Maryland. Some of this menbers gave Daryl their robes, which he hopes to showcase in a "museum of the Klan". All of this expirences were recorded in a book he wrote called Klan-destine Relationships: A Black Man's Odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan.
To sum it up: by showing Klansmen that they can coexist with black people ultimately resulted in them no longer believing in what the KKK stands for (thus leaving).
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Did you know? That Dr.Seuss wrote a script for a live-action film? The film was called The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. Keep in mind, this was before they made those live-action Grinch and Cat in the hat movies. This was Seuss's only live-action film that he wrote. He later disliked the outcome of it(even refusing to mention it by name in his biography). I'm actually curious about this movie now. I wonder if Turner Classic movies will air it.
Footage for what was essentyally the prototype versions of 07/30/2000 and 06/19/2002 were show at a live event on LACMA back in 2008, shortly after the release of the original series.
Both videos were released as part of the "New Lasagna Cat" series released in 2017, 9 years later.
According to an interview in the "Consequence of Sound" website, the New videos were in production shortly after the release of the original series and there were going to be 22 videos, but they decided to cut it to 12. Fatal Farm also stated that they did this because they wanted to take a different approach and make those videos "seem higher production value than the originals.”
Among other things, they also revealed that the reason behind Lasgana Cat's existence was because they originally wanted to recreate every single Garfield strip in live action, but they decide to turn down the idea because they coulnd't keep up with it. After that, they wanted to make “100 Days of Garfield“ but they only managed to shoot 80. Because tribute music videos were popular at the time, the team went for that route and the liked what they saw, so they stuck with that format.
Every now and then, there are singers that have interesting careers/lives outside of the music industry. My favorite example of this probably goes to Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring. You know, the band that gave us such deep philosophical pieces such as this:
Yeah, he has a phD in Molecular Biology and helped sequence the genome of HIV (specifically, the microRNA sequences that HIV uses to make proteins to survive). There is a large hope that this line of research may help lead to new treatments of HIV/AIDS. Yeah, no biggy.
Oh, and he is a liscened pilot and avation instructor to boot.
Continuing along the idea of "artists who have a surprising side job", Chamilionaire had exactly one big hit song, and he was already a millionaire multiple times over before he even had that hit song in 2002, "Ridin'".
Chamillionaire is actually a very talented investor in the tech world who made roughly $15 million before even releasing his breakthrough album... which he entirely self funded and released on his own label that he owns.
In the movie Ratchet and Clank (I have yet to play any of the games), there is an in joke on a Hollywood in joke - the famous Wilhelm Scream.
About 24 minutes in, during the first attempt to destroy the Galactic Rangers, one of the robots in the battle is knocked off a bridge; while falling you hear a Wilhelm scream and another robot reaches out and yells "Wilhelm!".
I found it amusing, not knowing how many people would actually get that reference, and I taught my wife what the Wilhelm Scream is. Good day!
Did you know? Killer Whales have actually worked with human in the past.
Back when Whaling was still legal there was a wild pod of Orca that teamed up with humans on the New South Wales coast of Australia. The humans would be in small whaling boats chasing after Humpback whales and would make the kill. Then the Orca would eat the lips and tongue of the whale and the whalers would get the rest of the carcass. Documentarian Greg McKee believes that Aboriginal Australians cooperated with the whales for at least 10,000 years
In Disney's Hercules movie, Phil states that his name is Philoctetes. As he pronounced it, I don't remember hearing the "c", it is feel-o-tee-tees. Feel o' titties. Yep. I think Disney struck again.
Did you know? The idea for fusion in the Dragon Ball series was suggested by Toriyama's friend Masakazu Katsura. Incidentally, Toriyama explains that fusion was set to be used in a movie (No. 12 w/ Gogeta), so fusing differently with the Potara was a fortunate, unintentional development.
DBZ Movie 12 (with Gogeta) premiered March 4 in 1995, while Dragon Ball chapter 503 (with Vegetto) premiered January 24 in 1995. Considering movie production schedules vs. Toriyama's writing style vs. Gotenks' much earlier introduction, it's easy to see fusion ideas overlapping.
Do you recognize this little guy?
No? Well, his name is Oscar, a cat living in the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A since 2005. He rose to fame back in 2007 not because he was particularly nice to people (Oscar is actually quite aloof most of the time) but rather because of his ability of predicting the dead of the patients of the nursing home.
His modus operandi consists of patroling the rooms in the dementia unit, he would take a peek at certain patient, if s/he was OK, he would leave, but if the patient was about to die, Oscar would nap next to said patient a few hours before they die. As of 2015, he has predicted up to more than 100 deaths, and he was always right. Always. He never misses.
A popular hypothesis for this phenomenon is that Oscar is picking up on the lack of movement in such patients and/or that he can smell biochemicals released by dying cells. IF this is something all cats and dogs can do, then it could mean that the reason he became famous specifically for doing that is because of one thing: opportunity— a home where he can put these skills to use.
Oscar became so famous in fact that he was featured in Stephen King's Doctor Sleep (a sequel to The Shining). Well, sort of. In the story, a grown-up Dan Torrance is aided at a hospice by a prescient cat who can sense when people are about to die. The source of inspiration is more than obvious on this one.
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