Adam Grundy

I ain’t lyin’, the last one makes me throw up every time I see it.

How I Would Write The Top Cat Movie

So it’s been announced that August 2012 will see the release of ‘Top Cat: The Movie in 3D’, the new movie adaptation of the popular cartoon series. TC is back, along with his street-cat gang. From what I can make out, the film will actually be an English dub of the Latin-American Top Cat movie that was released late last year.  Looks like the Top Cat of old with some new animation, and that’s great y’know, but I just have this sneaking suspicion it will be mangled into something that resembles the recent Yogi Bear disaster, with shit celebrities voicing characters like Choo-Choo or Brain, and I can only assume a tacky Lady Gaga song will be thrown into the soundtrack. Kids love that shit!

This is not how I would have done it. In fact, I had a better idea for a Top Cat film.

For one, Top Cat would be a live action film.

Top Cat is in fact, not a cat, but a total bum, a homeless fellow.

Warning: this story gets weird.

All those scenes where Top Cat is talking to Benny and Spook? Oh, they’re still cats. I wouldn’t change that, but Top Cat spends the entire film off his face. Dude smells of vomit and urine, he just spends his day sat in a trash can near a telephone. His odour attracts all the local cats to him, they can smell him a mile away. But TC is crazy. We see loads of cats just purring and meowing around him, but Top Cat, he can hear these cats talk. Dude is fucked up. He plots and schemes with these cats, all the while none the wiser that he’s lost his god damn mind.

Officer Dibble (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a local policeman who has been tasked with working in the community, trying to clean the streets up. He tries to help the homeless, trash can-dwelling Top Cat (I’m open to who will play TC, you be the judge of that from the picture). Dibble tries to get him clean, get him into a  shetler, but mainly tries to get Top Cat to put some friggin pants on. Oh yeah, TC doesn’t wear pants. This film will take the ‘cartoon characters don’t have to wear pants’ notion and thrust it in your face, literally if it’s 3D. Dude’s private parts are everywhere, mangled and stuff by all the cats chewing on him.

I think in the end, Top Cat just kinda…dies. A harsh winter comes and his gang of cats that he talks to just go home at night, but TC just passes away in his can. It’d be pretty sad and stuff, naked guy who thinks cats are talking to him dying alone in a back alley, but Top Cat: The Live Action Movie is all about real life shit.

Now tell me you wouldn’t watch that film.

Here’s a picture from the set of the video I was helping out on yesterday. Can’t really say too much about it right now, but hopefully it’ll be edited together in the next week or two. We got so much footage.

It was really great to work with a crew and band that seemed to work together so well. There was a lot of freedom of input which was very refreshing, and even though everyone had to be awake mega-early, it was a great working atmosphere. It was also cool to hear a song back to back for a few hours and still love it. I remember when we shot our music video a few years ago, it drove me crazy listening to the same track over and over. Of course, yesterday’s shoot was in a lovely Scandinavian church in Liverpool, not a dank practice room we used to rent.

Aside from shooting and setting up, I was able to get some cool behind the scenes photos on my Praktica camera, so when I (finally) get those developed I’ll share them!

Aww yisss. Found my mum and dad’s old record collection in the crawl space (a storage thing in my room. It looks like the one Joel gets locked in by the bullies in Sixth Sense). I can finally use my record player for more than just the B-52’s, Test Icicles and Madison Avenue, though I’m sure they’ll be making a return sooner rather than later…

I have to be up really, really early tomorrow for a shoot. I don’t think I’ve ever taken a train this early to Liverpool before…

So this is what I’ve begun to do with my free time; sending witty sarcastic emails into The One Show.

The joke is on you Matt, no one was making me watch it at all!

One of the greatest Reddit threads I've ever read: "Tell me your 'glitch in the Matrix' stories."

reallykatie:

journalofajournalist:

Nix that, one of the best things ON THE INTERNET ever. 99% of these folks just had whoops-I-forgot experiences, but hey! Crazy good reading!

my glitch in the matrix: i just lost half my friday night reading these stories. I LOVE THIS STUFF.

I spent most of last night/this morning reading all this stuff.

So many strange occurrences have been happening over the past few weeks while I’ve been at home. I recapped on here about a key dropping, but so many other things have happened since, and not just to me! Freaky leaky stuff I won’t post on my own blog for fear of readers coming to the conclusion that I’ve actually gone insane after spending a lot of time in my home-town. But if you see me soon, be prepared to hear all about it.

Anyway if you’re really, really into reading about simulated reality, hit up that reddit thread. It’s so good.

(Source: spytap)

2 Broke Girls co-creator defends show's racial humor in worst possible terms

I’m so glad that the reporters at the TCA press tour addressed things that needed to be addressed in regards to 2 Broke Girls, namely the shallow, racist stereotypes that make up the supporting cast.

While the article pretty much sums up what I like about the show (enjoyable lead roles that have been developed over the series) and what I hate (pretty much the rest of it), what does annoy me is how Michael Patrick King outlook on the series and how responds to everything brought up.

Being a white, straight male, I can’t say I’ve had to deal with things that say, MPK had to, growing up gay. I’m sure was difficult, but I think unless you’ve been in the position where you’re looked down on because of your race or your sexuality, you don’t really understand what people have gone through in the past or continue to struggle with. Which is why all the racist bullshit in 2 Broke Girls sort of irks me. He’ll obviously have first-hand experience of what is must be like to watch television and have shows make fun of gay people to the point where you think “hang on, this doesn’t feel like a joke any more…” which is why I can’t understand why every week we get Han and Oleg acting how you’d imagine complete bigots view other nationalities. Something just isn’t adding up.

Look, comedy is comedy, and at some point everything has to be made fun of. But if your friend kept making fun of the same thing every week, you may start to believe that he means what he says (or maybe he just isn’t creative with his jokes). I also believe that if you don’t find something funny (hello every Seth MacFarlane animation!) then turn the damn thing off.

There lies the problem, because like a lot of other people, I do like the show. I just know it can do better.

God, those new episodes of Arrested Development can’t come soon enough.

In Wigan, the Crazy Frog is still popular.

The year is 2012.

A Nightmare Future

The year is 2039. You’ve been with your partner for 12 years now. You never quite made it down the aisle, but who cares, you don’t live by society’s conventions, you’re in the mother fucking future!

Together you’ve produced two wholesome children. Ken, 8, and his adopted sister Chun-Li, 3. You really love Street Fighter. Everyone does.

In the future, everything is still the same, except the Conservatives dissolved the BBC, and Channel 4 got sold to the now largest television channel in the Uk: ITV. BBC2 made way for ITV 2. The only show that still remains from the BBC-era is The One Show, because back in 2012 it was still one of the worst programs to ever be made. In 2039, Adrian ‘face like a shed’ Chiles is back on the sofa, but it’s now co-hosted with Phillip Scofield, because even in the future he’s shoe-horned into every single piece of ITV programming. The partnership has no chemistry, and Adrian is soon shipped off to Channel 5, replaced by Holly and her chest.

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linkmakingfaces:

Not a face, but I worked too hard on this not to show it off here.

THE BEST DAY OF LINK’S LIFE.

FINALLY, MY TWO FAVOURITE THINGS HAVE BECOME ONE. Ahhhhhh!!!!! This is my Song Of 2012!

(Source: flanoirbunny)

New Years TV Resolutions

Thank Zeus that Christmas is over, because the month of December was like a black hole for my television schedule.

For one, I can’t for the life of me build up the courage to watch the Doctor Who Christmas Special. Since the show came back in 2005 I’ve never missed an episode or a special, but the end of last season really, really put me off the show.

I think my recent problem with Doctor Who is the fact that in the past, young people watched it and could be genuinely scared. That sort of thing stayed with them, so as they got older they’d always say “I remember it when I was young, it terrified me!”. When the show got brought back, these kids had grown up and had children of their own, and now it was their time to experience some mild peril. Now, I’m not saying I was ever shaken up by anything in the show, but remember The Toclafane? What, recently, has been their equivalent? The show has become so focused on it’s young demographic that I find it embarrassing. The last Christmas special was so lame I’m still finding it hard to finally click ‘play’ on the 2011 one. I’m hoping the next season will get a little darker and less cartoonish, but if it doesn’t, I’m fine to let it go from my life.

In fact, the worst thing about Christmas this year was the fact that all my shows seemed to stop around about the start of December. New Girl, 2 Broke Girls, It’s Always Sunny, SNL, and House seemed to go on a short hiatus (thankfully not a real hiatus like Community!) for the holidays, so I’ve been left with nothing to watch!

Anyway, it’s January 3rd, and 3 Broke Girls finally came back. I’m looking forward to its debut over here in the UK, but I feel a lot of people might enjoy it as much as I do, so all my bigging up of it will fall upon deaf ears. Still, this week’s return episode had me laughing out loud, for realz!

My new years resolution is to finally watch some of the series’ I’ve been putting off watching. So many people have been telling me to watch Game of Thrones, but as someone who finds it hard to enjoy most things to do with swords & sorcery, I’ve been very lax in making time for it. Watching the first episode of any new show is the big hurdle one has to overcome, but you really can’t make a solid judgement on a show based on the pilot. I think you need to give something at least three-four episodes till it starts to resemble the tone the writers are aiming for.

I also resolve this year to methodically re-watch every single episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun, The X-Files, 30 Rock, to finally complete my re-watching and documentation of Sailor Moon episodes, and maybe even give Breaking Bad the chance it so apparently deserves. But yo, what else should I watch?

Gerudo Valley - Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony

You will all have no idea how happy I was to discover that you got the Zelda Orchestral Soundtrack when you purchased Skyward Sword. ‘Gerudo Valley’ has always been my favourite track, but slipping this into my CD player at home hone is blowing my mind with its brilliance. The rest of the CD is great too, but there is something about this arrangement. I love the beginning. I love it all.
 

New Year’s Eve, Same Old BS (NSFW)

New Year’s Eve is complete and utter bullshit, and here is why I choose not to celebrate it.

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Hey! Listen! While out on my travels yesterday (finally buying Skyward Sword, the first game I’ve bought in 2011!) I came upon a shop in Liverpool that was giving things away for free!

Look what my friend spotted in there. Yes, in 1973, William Mayne wrote a shot children’s book titled ‘The Jersey Shore’. Sadly, it is nothing like the show, instead detailing a visit a young man pays to his grandfather, who tells him about his time in Norfolk. Thrilling stuff.

Still…look at the title! I’ll get around to reading it when I finish Kevin Murphy’s ‘A Year At The Movies’ I just started.

Here it is, my costume for the nightly Boxing Day festivities.

Cool beanz.

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