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unusual facts about White Light, White Heat, White Trash



Cody Jarrett

Cody Jarrett is also the screen name of the leading villain in White Heat, portrayed by James Cagney.

Edward Carrere

Throughout the late 40s and the 50s he worked on such films as "White Heat" (1949), "The Flame and the Arrow" (1950), "Dial M for Murder" (1954), "Sweet Smell of Success" (1957), "Separate Tables" (1958) and "Elmer Gantry" (1960).

LaVeyan Satanism

Great attention was paid to details gleaned from noir films like White Heat and The Big Sleep in creating one's ideal Self from deliberately invoked forms.

Louise and Liza

"Louise and Liza" is a 7" single by NOFX. The songs are sequels of sorts to "Liza and Louise" from White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean with the lyrics "Louise" being about the lesbian characters engaging in sado-masochistic activity. The songs are sexually explicit, and lead singer Fat Mike has remarked that the lyrics make him "get embarrassed whenever I see them.

Poor white trash

White trash, an American English pejorative term referring to individual or groups of lower social class Caucasian people that the speaker considers to lack social status

Red Frame/White Light

The song is about a red telephone box in Meols that was used by the band to make calls to organise their gigs in the late 1970s.

Social Distortion discography

Four years elapsed before Social Distortion's next studio album, White Light, White Heat, White Trash, which peaked at #27 on the Billboard 200 in 1996, the band's highest chart position to date, and featured their only Billboard Hot 100 single "I Was Wrong".

Steven Okazaki

Okazaki co-received the 2008 "Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking" Primetime Emmy Award for White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and his fourth Oscar nomination in 2009, for the documentary short The Conscience of Nhem En.

Virginia Kellogg

Virginia Kellogg (December 3, 1907 – April 8, 1981) was a film writer whose scripts for White Heat (1949) and Caged (1950) were nominated for Oscars.

Whatever Happened to Slade

The song's lyric, written by Holder, was based on a 1949 gangster film titled "White Heat", starring James Cagney.

White Light/Violet Sauce

The song features a cameo from Sin City director, Robert Rodriguez, who can be heard saying "Welcome to Sin City" in a distorted voice.

White trash

In 1833 Fanny Kemble, an English actress visiting Georgia, noted in her journal: "The slaves themselves entertain the very highest contempt for white servants, whom they designate as 'poor white trash'".


see also

Social Distortion discography

After the release of the White Light, White Heat, White Trash album, Social Distortion took another hiatus and Ness pursued a solo career and released two albums (Cheating at Solitaire and Under the Influences) in 1999.