Chowderhead Bazoo

Sex, Drugs, and Canadians

There can be little doubt that the Twin Peaks-Fire Walk With Me film of yesteryear was a giant ball of hard-sucking lame, but I remember getting a solid boot out of this scene. By all rights it really should be incorporated into the Winter Olympics somehow, if nothing else to at least scare off a few beigers or conversely dupe the more outre fans of the random and fucked up.

If only. Sadly, there is precious little Angelo Badalamenti on the local jukeboxes, but with enough bacon, beer, and B.C. bud perhaps a heavy dose of Bachman Turner Overdrive would start to warp your mind.

Wombat

The book is still coming together, most of it now handed off for mass production. Well... production. Here's a strip from somewhere in the middle of the strip's lifespan, perhaps notable not only for its searing timelessness, but also for its execution - evidence of my first fumbly forays into inking with a brush. Much honing, much crafting would ensue until I could no longer ink with anything else. 

How to Write a Cartoon Script

Don't even get me started. This isn't specifically about TV, where budgets are much, much lower, but my favourite part:

"If you're making a cartoon, you can have free range to put your story in where ever you want, because you don't actually have to make the place, rather than, you know, of course you have to draw it. You don't have to make it."

Free range? And - you don't have to make it?

John Kricfalusi summed it up nicely: "She means she doesn't have to make it. The cartoonist slaves do."

And what about, uh, funny?

Flappin' in the Uptight Breeze

Uptight Seattleite

Soul Stomp

Despite youthful fantasies of being a Mod, I didn't really know much about the British Northern Soul scene until just recently when I stumbled upon a Youtube treasure trove of crazy and obscure old 45's that the Brit teens of the 60's and early 70's went nuts for.

Here's a real propulsive instrumental freak-out with Earl Van Dyke leading the Motown house band, the Funk Brothers - the latter the subject of the excellent 2002 documentary, "Standing in the Shadows of Motown."

(I love that there are so many Youtube clips of 45's playing on old turntables - like a Model T and a DeLorean mashing together in a car crash.)

Halloween Giggin'