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ladybug_archiveFirst, a link to a few icons I posted. http://community.livejournal.com/monkeeicons/22298.html#cutid1 They're simple little icons with animation, but I love them. XD;
I just came from watching the movie Follow Me, Boys! It's an old Disney film from the sixties. I wanted it originally because Jimmy Murphy has a bit part, but I ended up loving the whole thing. And Jimmy was great in it, BTW. ^^ He played a soldier during a scene where they were having war games and accidentally intruded on the boy scout camp.
And the stuff I've been ordering is coming in now. Thursday my Monkees pins arrived. Friday the coffee table book Hey, Hey We're the Monkees came. (That's a fun book, BTW. Lots of little anecdotes and pretty pictures. I don't think it's worth the retail price of $24.99, though. I'm glad I found it cheaper. And it's a new copy, too!) And today Micky's autobiography and Les Miserables came. I'm really quite fond of the latter, from what little I remember of sitting and watching some of the old movie versions with Dad. I've always wanted to read the book since then. And Micky is hilarious in real life as well as on the show. XD I'm just browsing through his book and I'm getting a big kick out of it. I like it better than Davy's. ^^;
I got a 16-episode set of Peter Gunn episodes from the library, too, because well, Jimmy Murphy guested in one of them. XD;; But wow! The music is just awesome on that show. It's all jazzy and good. The whole setup reminds me of forties film noir, and you know how much I love that kinda thing. I want the soundtrack. If it's not on CD, I would buy the record. I have a record player that still works. ^^
Speaking of film noir, JP informed me that the All Dogs Go to Heaven TV show episode where they parody film noir movies is now on DVD. I bought that Thursday at Best Buy and watched it this morning. It's just as great as I remember it. XD They throw in all kinds of old clichés and in-jokes that little kids wouldn't get, referencing old movies and stars, and there's tongue-in-cheek plot twists. And there's even a bit of humor that reminds me of The Monkees.
Itchy: Hey! There weren't explosives on that carriage!
Charlie: I know, but it looked good on screen.
XD. I love it when shows directed at kids do smart stuff that only older people would understand. The old Disney TV shows used to do it, too. DuckTales, Darkwing Duck, Talespin.... Brilliant shows. They just don't make American cartoons like they used to.
Anyway, I still think the Monkees should have parodied film noir. It would have been classic! I want to write a story where they do that. Micky would be the detective, Peter would be his assistant/protege, Mike would be the driver, and Davy would be the mysterious girl who needs help with the case. LOL. Ruby would be the singer in the nightclub who claims to have the answers, and Baby Face would be the bad guy. I've been drawing a picture of Micky in the trenchcoat and fedora hat and Baby Face standing next to him wearing a pin-stripe suit and holding a Tommy gun. I need to find a picture of a Tommy gun. XD; I think there's a good one in an old TV Guide, where it was doing an article on The Untouchables.
That reminds me. On Thursday I also bought a book all about gangster movies. I hoped that it would help me with my stories, and well, I just kinda like the genre. XD; I've always been fascinated by gangster and detective movies and the like.
And I was also thinking of a really weird dream story where Baby Face is a police detective, only he still acts like a gangster. XD I got the idea from reading in my gangster book about how they'd pull stuff like that in the thirties to get around the strict Hays Code. Just by making the character a police officer instead of a gangster, it got past the censors. What a double standard. XD; It amuses me, though. So does my icon.
I just came from watching the movie Follow Me, Boys! It's an old Disney film from the sixties. I wanted it originally because Jimmy Murphy has a bit part, but I ended up loving the whole thing. And Jimmy was great in it, BTW. ^^ He played a soldier during a scene where they were having war games and accidentally intruded on the boy scout camp.
And the stuff I've been ordering is coming in now. Thursday my Monkees pins arrived. Friday the coffee table book Hey, Hey We're the Monkees came. (That's a fun book, BTW. Lots of little anecdotes and pretty pictures. I don't think it's worth the retail price of $24.99, though. I'm glad I found it cheaper. And it's a new copy, too!) And today Micky's autobiography and Les Miserables came. I'm really quite fond of the latter, from what little I remember of sitting and watching some of the old movie versions with Dad. I've always wanted to read the book since then. And Micky is hilarious in real life as well as on the show. XD I'm just browsing through his book and I'm getting a big kick out of it. I like it better than Davy's. ^^;
I got a 16-episode set of Peter Gunn episodes from the library, too, because well, Jimmy Murphy guested in one of them. XD;; But wow! The music is just awesome on that show. It's all jazzy and good. The whole setup reminds me of forties film noir, and you know how much I love that kinda thing. I want the soundtrack. If it's not on CD, I would buy the record. I have a record player that still works. ^^
Speaking of film noir, JP informed me that the All Dogs Go to Heaven TV show episode where they parody film noir movies is now on DVD. I bought that Thursday at Best Buy and watched it this morning. It's just as great as I remember it. XD They throw in all kinds of old clichés and in-jokes that little kids wouldn't get, referencing old movies and stars, and there's tongue-in-cheek plot twists. And there's even a bit of humor that reminds me of The Monkees.
Itchy: Hey! There weren't explosives on that carriage!
Charlie: I know, but it looked good on screen.
XD. I love it when shows directed at kids do smart stuff that only older people would understand. The old Disney TV shows used to do it, too. DuckTales, Darkwing Duck, Talespin.... Brilliant shows. They just don't make American cartoons like they used to.
Anyway, I still think the Monkees should have parodied film noir. It would have been classic! I want to write a story where they do that. Micky would be the detective, Peter would be his assistant/protege, Mike would be the driver, and Davy would be the mysterious girl who needs help with the case. LOL. Ruby would be the singer in the nightclub who claims to have the answers, and Baby Face would be the bad guy. I've been drawing a picture of Micky in the trenchcoat and fedora hat and Baby Face standing next to him wearing a pin-stripe suit and holding a Tommy gun. I need to find a picture of a Tommy gun. XD; I think there's a good one in an old TV Guide, where it was doing an article on The Untouchables.
That reminds me. On Thursday I also bought a book all about gangster movies. I hoped that it would help me with my stories, and well, I just kinda like the genre. XD; I've always been fascinated by gangster and detective movies and the like.
And I was also thinking of a really weird dream story where Baby Face is a police detective, only he still acts like a gangster. XD I got the idea from reading in my gangster book about how they'd pull stuff like that in the thirties to get around the strict Hays Code. Just by making the character a police officer instead of a gangster, it got past the censors. What a double standard. XD; It amuses me, though. So does my icon.
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Date: 2006-03-26 05:43 am (UTC)Heh . . . if you keep talking about Tommy guns, it's gonna make me wanna dig out my Warren Zevon CD with "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" (even if it's not really the same thing . . .). ~That sonuvabitch van Owen . . . blew off Roland's head . . . Roland the headless Thompson Gunner . . .~ If you look for some Dawn scans, Alucard was always swinging around a Tommy gun. They're probably pretty easy to draw as they don't have a too complicated of a shape or anything.
Gangsters are always interesting. I like when the mafia groups and crime lords grow into big syndicates like the Red Dragons on Bebop. They start meddling in big time politics and stuff. That reminds me, I need to make an icon with a picture of Bakura that looks oh so very God Father-ish . . .
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Date: 2006-03-26 07:06 am (UTC)Loving the icons btw. :)
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Date: 2006-03-26 08:19 am (UTC)I love the icons too. ^^
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Date: 2006-03-27 10:37 pm (UTC)I think i need a second job to pay for all the Monkee stuff i currently want mind you...
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Date: 2006-03-27 07:53 am (UTC)I read through the entire Wuthering Heights book last year because I wanted to know how similar it was to the song. LOL.