August 14, 2004

  • I am so relieved that my busy week is over (for now). Monday is a big day for us – we are pitching Jive Turkey for the new CN Pre-school block . This weekend Eddie and I are going to chill out as much as possible. Tomorrow night we are seeing Hairspray at the Pantages Theater. We are expecting not to love it because we know the songs are different and we both feel that the original John Waters movie is perfect as it is. But hey, it’s good ‘dance’ reference and we haven’t been to a Broadway-style show in America before, so I am looking forward to a new experience.

    Eddie says: “All I want to see is The Madison. If they don’t do The Madison, I will jeer loudly and demand my money back!!!”

    I found this image below from the New York show, so,  phew! (sigh of relief)

    ¡Mucha Lucha Gigante!

    There are some big changes this Season 3 (13 x half hours), which premieres in Fall 2004. The show is being rebranded to incorporate mucho más action. Stories with badder villains and more craziness. ¡Mucha Lucha Gigante!

    This season’s new people:

    Tom Sheppard is the show’s new Story Editor.

    Chuy Flores (producer of the ML main title song) will be responsible for the music composition. We visited his studio a few months ago – Amazing. Besides the high-tech music production gear, Chuy also collects and uses antique instruments: a Wurlitzer organ, a Fender Rhodes piano, some really rare guitars, and an old-school Korg Theremin. Looking forward to some unique sounds!

    We also welcome Jason Marsden to this season, as voice of Rikochet! (He was also Eddie Munster in Munsters Today amongst other things) And Dee Bradley Baker joins the Voice cast as many different villains/characters…

    And from Australia, Evan Newby joins the production crew as Character Designer. Evan is a talented artist/animator who has worked at Fwak! on Cosmic Baby and The Fuzz.

    Random Links

     

    Chatango Mini (via davidgalbraith) - a private and disposable Flash/web-based chat which you can embed into your site. What’s cool is that there are NO downloads or installations, except an optional ‘messagecatcher’ (notifier) which sits in your Windows tray. Who wants to try it?

    Cute Things - I am a little obsessive about sharing things that I like. So I started this new blog, dedicated to images of cute toys on the internet.  Above is a new vinyl figure from Tokyo Plastic. (bought at Toy Tokyo, NYC). Next cool purchase – Tony and I are going halves in this Panda-Z mini series!

    1 Million Free & Legal music downloads wiki.

    RalphBakshi.com (via Cartoon Brew)  Very curious what bad experiences Amid has had with Ralph Bakshi… Nevertheless, we agree. The site is fantastic. We have always been huge fans of Bakshi’s work, especially the films, Heavy Traffic and Coonskin.


    by Ralph Bakshi

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