This year we had the death of Superman when Superman battled the Batman on cinema screens across the world.
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| Will Smith playing Ali in Michael Mann's movie of the same name |
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| Blackstar?! |
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| Bowie passed away in the same year as Ali and released his last album |
The Rumble in the Jungle, gaining victory in the eighth round.
The song was Wakelin's "Black Superman (Muhammad Ali)" released in late 1974.
In January 1975 the song reached number seven in the UK Singles Chart.
In January 1975 the song reached number seven in the UK Singles Chart.
It reached number one in Australia and spent six months in the US Billboard Hot 100 in more than one chart run in 1975, eventually peaking at No. 21 in September of that year.
Muhammad Ali, however, did not approve of the song and shunned it completely.
Muhammad Ali, however, did not approve of the song and shunned it completely.
It is thought that the American success of Wakelin's song inspired DC Comics to publish the 1978 comic Superman vs. Muhammad Ali."
But when I was moving house I found a warranty for a piece of sporting equipment that has been residing under my bed for the last few years, which is a bit like my equivalent to a teddy bear.
Louisville Slugger working with licensee to make Muhammad Ali-inspired bat
Turns out he was.
So, in a way, the "Black Superman" was also the "Batman", as well;-)
It was also weird how "The Greatest" passed away the same year when the greatest losing streak in Major Baseball was ended by the Cubs winning The World Series.
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| Ali was born in 1942, which reminds me of another "Black Superman" |
Luckily, I also have a solid iron bar next to my Louisville Slugger to give me more options on game day/night if need be;-)
I keep a bullet-proof vest under my bed in the event of a stray depleted-uranium bullet from some war zone on the other side of the planet somehow pierces the planet and wanders it's way up from under my bed through the hardened bunker foundation, a bowl full of hand-grenades on my nightstand...which always come in handy in close quarters combat in limited/close proximity spaces, I have a fire-proof - laser proof - radiation shielding - mosquito/flying insect proof netting draped over my bed...in the event some fiery, laser-eyed, radioactive flying bloodsucker somehow made it past my concrete reinforced titanium hermetically-sealed vault bedroom door, and I wear a football helmet equipped with a snorkel over my sleep apnea machine in the event of rogue waves...even tho I am nowhere near the ocean. Never can be too safe. Oh...and I wear flip-flop sandals to bed as well, so that I have some degree of awkwardness in the event of midnight global combat going down in my bedroom whilst I sleep. Makes me feel like I'm being a tad more sporting about things. I don't wanna make it TOO easy for me.
ReplyDeleteI also have some automated bedroom defenses inside and out. But those are secret. That's why I leave the doors unlocked. Can't be TOO untrusting of my fellow humans. :-D
Oh...and a quasi-serious-ish question...
Q: What does "Pop Culture" mean?
Q: What does "Pop" mean?
Q: What does "Culture" mean?
Q: What does "Pop Corn" mean?
I don't expect any answers, nor even a response/reply.
Just...food for thought.
Your posts make me think, so...yeah.
cFa
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ReplyDeleteI like the tune "Pop Corn" though and I'm sure that I've written a post somewhere on the blog about this tune and this cinema selling large quantities of Pop Corn before.
So to try and answer your question, "Pop Culture" to me is whatever is popular in the world's cultural mindset at present, or in the past that can be made popular again.
It's a big world, so whatever is popular in Asia may, or may not be popular in Europe and vice versa, but you would be surprised by all of the ripple effects that a popular meme can have even on people who believe that their own personal world is not touched by "Pop Culture".
Take a band like "The Beatles" for instance, whether you like their music, or not, or have never even heard of "The Beatles" before in your life, doesn't mean on some level your life hasn't been infected in some way indirectly by their "Pop Cultural" influence.
Life is one big mash-up when it comes to "Pop Cultural" threads woven throughout one's life and to untangle those threads from your own life would be impossible to do.
I could go on and on down this "Pop Cultural" "Rabbit Hole" but I would never get to the bottom of it and would probably get lost on the way down, like I probably have already;-)
Anyway, my blog isn't really about answering questions, it's more about posing more questions from my own angle of looking at life and letting readers answer their own questions about my sanity and their own view of life, while I laugh at the sanity those readers think that they posses over me.
Like my namesake Schultz(or the surname I would have had if my nana had not have given my father his step-father's surname when she remarried) on that popular TV show of the 60s, 'Hogan's Heroes' used to say a lot, "I know nothink, nothink".
I see a lot that others probably miss in life, but at the end of the day (or Kniht;-) I know that I Know "Nothink" when I "think" about it;-)
Awesome response. Thanks for taking the time.
ReplyDeleteYou have no idea how much your descriptive description of going to your local movie house for a coupla movies that I was able to see from way the fuck over here in North Texas/near Dallas.
I guess "the living and dying" of living and dying?...when they become more about what is dying, than what was living up to the point where they actually died?...I dunno...something kinda...speaking to us about where our focus is and/or is not.
I too do not seek answers so much, and really don't even like asking questions...except when I do. But those become lies over time eh? ;-)
Thanks for opening up a bit of your world for the rest of us.
<3
-cFa