Gringo Loco's blog: "Did You Know"

Did You Know - March of 08 Some Birthday's and Events that most people probably don't know bout. "The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream." ~ Oscar Wilde *March 6th - Michelangelo born in 1475 in Caprese, Italy. He was a Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. *March 9th - Daylight Saving Time Begins *March 10th - Eastren Orthodox Lent Begins *March 13th - Artist Hans Bellmer is born in Katowice, Silesia in 1902. He is noted for his drawings implying the passing of time. *March 15th - Fantastic painter and sculptor De Es Schwertberger (Book: Heavy Light) born in Gresten, Austria in 1942. *March 16th - Palm Sunday *March 17th - St. Patrick's Day *March 19th - Actor Bruce Willis (12 Monkeys & The Fifth Element) born in 1955 in Germany. *March 20th - Spring Equinox Begins *March 21st - Good Friday & Benito Juarez' Birthday *March 22nd - Holy Saturday *March - 23rd - Easter Sunday *March 24th - Harry Houdini born in 1874 in Budapest. & Easter Monday *March 30th - Vincent Van Gogh born in 1890. *March 31st - Nikolai Gogol born in 1809 in Ukraine. Well I hope you all enjoyed them, I'll be back in April to tell you all more. Thank You, Johnny T3

*!* Yes I know its Very Late lol Did You Know - February of 08 Some Birthday's and Events that most people probably don't know bout. "Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica." ~ Stephen Leacock *February 2nd - Groundhog Day *February 5th - Swiss fantastic artist and designer H.R. Giger born in 1940 in Chur, Switzerland. & Anniversay of the Constitution *February 6th - Ash Wednesday *February 7th - Lunar New Year & Chinese New Year *February 8th - The Giger Bar opens in 1992 in Chur, Switzerland. It features artwork and furniture created by H.R. Giger. *February 11th - National Foundation Day (Japan) *February 12th - Lincoln's Birthday (United States) *February 13th - Fantastic Realist artist Ernst Fuchs (Painting: Griffin and Dragon) born in 1930 in Vienna, Austria. *February 14th - Valentine's Day *February 15th - Illustrator and writter Art Spiegelman (Maus) born in 1948. *February 18th - Presidents' Day (United States) *February 22nd - Filmmaker and director Luis Bunuel (El Angel Exterminador) born in 1900 in Spain. & Washington's Birthday (United States) *February 24th - Artist Zdzislaw Beksinski (The Fantastic Art of Beksinski) born in Sanok, Poland in 1929. Much of his work is darkly fantastic. & Flag Day *February 25th - Maria Kanellis (WWE Diva Maria) Born in Ottawa, Illinois in 1982. & Author and critic Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange) born in England in 1917. "Duality is the ultimate reality." Well I hope you all enjoyed them, I'll be back in March to tell you all more. Thank You, Johnny T3

Did You Know - December of 07 Some Birthday's and Events that most people probably don't know bout. "Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.” - Charles F. Kettering *December 2 nd - Painter Otto Dix (The Seven Deadly Sins) born in 1891. Many of his works tend toward the macabre, the results of his experiences in World War I & Advent *December 5 th - Director Fritz Lang (Metropolis, By Rocket to the Moon) born in Vienna in 1890 & Chanukah *December 9 th - Actor Kirk Douglas (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) born in Amsterdam, NY in 1916. *December 12 th - Painter Edvard Munch (Painting: The Vampire) born in Norway in 1863. *December 13 th - Sculptor Stanislav Szukalski born in Warta, Poland in 1893. He believed all human culture derived from a single origin on Easter Island after the biblical Deluge of Noah. *December 16 th - Author Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) born in 1928 in Chicago. *December 17 th - Realist artist Paul Cadmus (The Seven Deadly Sins) born in New York City in 1904. *December 22 nd - Winter Solstice *December 23 rd - Emperor’s Birthday (Japan) *December 24 th - Christmas Eve *December 25 th - Christmas Day & Screenwriter Rodman Serling (The Twilight Zone) was born in Syracuse, New York in 1924. *December 26 th - Boxing Day (Canada) *December 28 th - Director F. W. Murnau (Film: Nosferatu) born in 1888 in Westphalia, Germany. *December 31 st - New Year’s Eve Well I hope you all enjoyed them, I'll be back in January to tell you all more. Thank You, Johnny T3

Did You Know - November of 07 Some Birthday's and Events that most people probably don't know bout. "Visionary people are visionary partly because of the very great many things they don't see." - Berkeley Rice *November 1st - All Saints' Day & Day of the Dead (Mexico) *November 2nd - All Souls' Day *November 4th - Daylight Saving Time Ends. *November 5th - Guy Fawkes Day (Great Britain). *November 8th - Abraham "Bram" Stoker born in 1847 in Clontarf, Ireland, a coastal village near Dublin. He was best known for his influential horror novel Dracula. *November 11th - Veterans's Day & Rememberance Day (Canada). *November 12th - Veterans' Day Observed. *November 13th - Actor Oskar Werner (Fahrenheit 451) born in 1922 in Vienna, Austria. *November 18th - Occult writer Aleister Crowley (Songs of the Spirit and The Diary of a Drug Fiend) joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn on this date. *November 21st - Surrealist Ren. *November 22nd - Thanksgiving Day. *November 28th - Fantastic artist and poet William Blake born in London in 1757. *November 29th - Author and scholar Clive Staples Lewis (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength) born in 1898 in Belfast, Ireland. Well I hope you all enjoy'd them, I'll be back in December to tell you all more. Thank You, Johnny T3

Did You Know - October of 07 Some Birthday's and Events that most people probably don't know bout. *October 4th - Actor Charlton Heston (Omega Man, Soylent Green and Planet of the Apes) born in 1924 in Evanston, Illinois. *October 5th - Writer, director, and painter Clive Barker (Books: Galilee, Sacrament, and The Books of Blood) born in Liverpool in 1952. *October 8th - Actress Sigourney Weaver (Films: Alien, Aliens, Alien III, and Alien: Resurrection) born in 1949 in New York City. & Columbus Day *October 9th - Director Guillermo Del Toro (Chronos, Devil's Backbone, Blade 2, Hellboy) born in 1964 in Guadalajara, Mexico. October 16th - Author Oscar Wilde born in Dublin in 1854. He was an advocate of Aestheticism and supported the movement's basic principle, Art for Art's Sake. *October 20th - Actor Bela Lugosi (Films: Dracula, Murders in the Rue Morgue, and Island of Lost Souls) born in 1882 in Lugos, Hungary. *October 21st - Author Ursula K. Le Guin (The Left Hand of Darkness) born in California in 1929. *October 22nd - Psychologist Timothy Leary born in 1920. At Harvard in 1960, Dr. Leary and Dr. Richard Alpert conducted research into the effects of psilocybin and LSD. *October 26th - Saw IV (4) *October 31st - Halloween Well I hope you all enjoy'd them, I'll be back in November to tell you all more. Thank You, Johnny T3

Yes I know this is a month late Did You Know - September of 07 Some Birthday's and Events that most people probably don't know bout. "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allen Poe *September 1st - Prolifif author Edgar Rice Burroughs (Marrs series, Pellucidar series, and, of course, the Tarzan series) born in 1875 in Chicago. *September 3rd - Director Jean- Pierre Jeunet (Delicatessen, Amelie, Alien Resurrection, and City of Lost Children) born in Roanne, Rance in 1953. *September 5th - Director - Werner Herzog (Films: The Mystery of Kasper Hauser and Nosferatu: The Vampire) born in Munich in 1942. *September 8th - Macabre painter Sibylle Ruppert born in 1942 in Frankfurt, Germany. *September 9th - Artist Fabius Von Gugel born in Worms, Germany in 1920. & Grandparents' Day *September 13th - Rosh Hashanah *September 16th - Independence Day (Mexico) *September 21st - Writer Herbert George Wells (The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds) born in Bromley, Kent in 1866. *September 22nd - Yom Kippur *September 23rd - Fall Equinox *September 26th - Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot (The Waste Land -- "I will show you fear in a handful of dust" born in 1888 in Saint Louis, Missouri. Well I hope you all enjoy'd them, I'll be back in October to tell you all more. Thank You, Johnny T3

Did You Know - August of 07 Some Birthday's and Events that most people probably don't know bout. "People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.” - William Butler Yeats *August 1st - Confederation Day (Switzerland) *August 2nd - Director Wes Craven (Film: A Nightmare on Elm Street) born in 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio. *August 13th - Director Alfred Hitchcock (The Birds) born in London in 1899. *August 16th - Director James Cameron (Films: Terminator I & II and Aliens) born in 1954 in Ontario, Canada. *August20th - Writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Books: the Dunwitch Horror and The Call of Cthulhu) was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1890. *August 22nd - Science fiction and fantasy writer Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles) born in 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. *August 25th - Actor Sean Connery (Outland) born in 1930 in Edinburgh, Scotland. *August 27th - Dadaist painter, object-maker, filmmaker, and photographer Man Ray born in 1890 in Philadelphia as Emmanuel Radnitzky. *August 30th - Writer Mary Shelley (Novel: Frankenstein, Or The Modren Prometheus) born in 1797 in London. She was 21 when her masterwork was published. Well I hope you all enjoy'd them, I'll be back in September to tell you all more. Thank You, Johnny T3

Did You Know - July of 07 Some Birthday's and Events that most people probably don't know bout. *July 1st - Singer & Actress Deborah Harry of Blondie (Film: Video-Drone) is born in 1945. & Canada Day *July 3rd - Actor/producer Tom Cruise (Minority Report & War of the Worlds) is born in Syracuse, NY in 1962. *July 4th - Independence Day *July 5th - Poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau born in Maisons-Laffitte, France in 1889. His films were particularly important in introducing surrealism into French cinema. *July 7th - Painter Jacek Yerka (Books: Mind Fields and The Fatastic Art of Jacek Yerka) born in 1952 in Poland. *July 13th - Actor Harrison Ford (Star Wars & Blade Runner) born in Chicago, Illinois in 1942. *July 14th - Bastille Day (France) *July 26th - Director Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey) born in 1928 in the Bronx, New York. *July 30th - Actor and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (Total Recall & the Terminator trilogy) born in 1947 in Austria. Well I hope you all enjoy'd them, I'll be back in August to tell you all more. Thank You, Johnny T3