First post of 2009! Two weeks ago, I was in the ZONE. Well, I wasn't writing yet, but I at least had the projects at hand circling my head most of the time, and I did at least half of the WL plotline. Then suddenly my mood collapsed into itself.
You know when you suddenly find something that you know you're going to be obsessed with? And then you ARE obsessed with it a day later? That's me for Adventures in Wonderland, a children's television show from 1992 that aired on the Disney channel. I saw clips of it earlier this year and thought that it was the most retarded thing I had ever seen. But on the other hand, I also knew immediately that its Hatter, the adorable John Robert Hoffman, was a replica of Akira. I've talked about it before by now, but I suppose I can go all out in my journal: I LOVE THIS GUY. Everything about him is spot-on, ignoring the fact that his antics are exaggerated enough for a kid's show. His FACE... it's.... AAAAAH! He looks just like Akira, and I know that my representations have been lacking since most of my life I've drawn anime and stuff and his front side has mainly been inconveniently out of view in my CP3 illustrations, so for many, they don't know how I want Akira to look in the first place. But I did do a "cartoon network" sketch in which I tried my best to portray his traits - somewhat tall forehead, heavier brow, very noticeable white eyebrows (though not as bushy as the Hatter's costume), mostly lean face, pouty lips that make it obvious whenever he's sulking about his life. The Hatter is also tall and lean in general, has a very nice silhouette, and is good at moving about. (I always joked, but meant it, that Akira secretly listened and danced to Britney Spears.)
It doesn't end at the looks. Even his attitude is equivalent. He's a fruit. Not every waking second, but often enough, and he has very questionable orientation. Akira's battling the same impression, although he is mostly straight, I promise. He's just a tad bi curious. (There is such thing as fruity straight men. Really.) This Hatter also has issues with believing in himself too much, and somewhat too little in others. (sometimes) There was a pizza episode that Kate and I laughed over where the Dormouse asked how he could make a pizza if he didn't have any dough or equipment, and where his recipe was. He goes "pffff. I don't need a recipe." He's also great at being in denial about his problems. There's an episode where he gets "fat" off cookies (fat just meaning there's a balloon-like protrusion on his belly and he walks around like he's in labor), and he reasons with everybody like a drug addict, even goes as far as trying to trick Hare in giving him the cookie jar that he himself suggested be hidden by saying stuff like "let's not quibble over what I did or didn't say..."
If you think that's the end of the rope, no, it is not.
He also SOUNDS just like him. I mean okay, as close as I have ever heard in my life in comparison to crappy altered clips of Gwen Stefani. I mean the range of his voice and the way he uses it, the way he pronounces everything, and the way he moves his mouth, it's just... it's just... I could die! I hear every one of Akira's lines coming from this guy's mouth. I see him saying it. I also now picture Akira begging for cookies and doing funny dances.
The Hatter has not only reminded me of Akira, he has brought a physical life to him that was always flickering somewhere but never could be just imagined. I do love the Hatter in his own right- he is a splendid character and he's extremely hot, and adorable, and funny... but this whole Akira thing is like a pleasant punch to the face, if that makes any sense.
To show you what he is like, I'm going to post an episode of the show right here:
It's called He's Not Heavy He's My Hatter, and it's in three parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQYFpVlR80g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09xJdDv8iRg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HIEMJQTTTg
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I also made some icons back at my regular journal ~ http://ladybow.livejournal.com/321539.html
I don't want to sound like all I care about in the show in the Hatter, though. I have actually grown to really like nearly everybody (the caterpillar maybe not so much) Everything just suddenly GREW on me. I knew that it was the dorkiest show in existence, but I guess I needed something like that. We all do, sometimes.
NOW! I need to get on to why I am really writing this journal, and it's for several reasons. I just needed to explain my obsession so the rest made sense.
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First on the batch of news is that I'm putting John Hoffman on my wishlist of castmembers for Crystal Palace. Not the original... I don't know how that's going to work out.... but the animated sequels. I am infinitely excited about this because even though the show is 17 years old, he is still writing/working with movies and seems interested in more of a variety of things. On the other hand, he's still kind of a nobody. I don't mean that in a really bad way, I just mean that he really doesn't have any well known credits, and I cannot find any of the tv shows where he made small appearances on torrents or anywhere. What I mean by this is he's not so unattainable. I want JOHN GOODMAN to play Anus, for Christ's sake. And Dennis Quaid to play Roger & His Dastardly Penis. I know Kate and I were joking with these actors, but now it's kind of stuck. XD But as I said, I actually feel there is a chance he would like to do it. I promise that I will pay him lots of money!! I cannot stop dreaming about standing next to him in a recording room and fighting about whether or not he's having an affair with Cosmo. His voice is just spectacularly... eerily... amazingly Akira's. I will do anything for it!
*cough*
Anyway.
Kate and I and now BOTH using the Hatter for inspiration now. For a while I just thought more about him when I read aloud Akira's lines, but now that Kate has been watching the show too, we have this common love for the Hatter and see Akira in everything he does, and want to plant in some of his line's as homage to the show in our own script. The most 'infamous' line of all being Hatter's catchphrase "how true that is."
News #2.
Because I can't stop thinking about these things, my SAW mood has gone out the window and I don't know how to bring it back. All I have wanted to do lately is develop CP3 and have been having all these ideas for interactions and dialogue. Even for way in the future. I have slipped into a Disney fangirl mode again, but a different kind. I would be happy just writing for this script and drawing for it.
I also got myself into something I know my will power won't back-step on.
Adventures in Wonderland FANFICTION.
( Read more... )
I know I must sound like a total nut, but the obsessed bug bit me in the ass without my consent. Now I have all these things to write and frankly, that's where my heart lies!
And you know where else my heart my lies.... working on Tilly & Jo. Restarting it, I mean. I think I'm mainly more inspired now because Gina has grown at least a little bit of personality from becoming an Alice fangirl (and this idea had been brewing LONG before, so don't even ask the question you were thinking.) And with that idea going, with them embodying the characters in some way (Tilly: Hatter, Jo: Hare, Gina: Alice), I see even more opportunities. In where she lives, in what she can be, and I feel there will be more flavor in her fascination for these two when I write it.
So... I just don't know what I'm going to do now. I have written a serious buttload about what's going on, all implying favor in dropping my plans. I feel I should go where the wind blows me instead of try pushing a mountain or... or yanking at a Chinese finger trap, you know? But at the same time, I could just kill myself for doing that. Yes, I can postpone these plans until next season or something, but I just hyped it up so much and a friend was excited to read WL. *hits self over head* Told everyone on Smackjeeves and DA that Huggle the Puppet was coming back... I hate myself and my mood swings. But I guess my being in love with the Hatter is numbing some of the pain.... Agh.
You know when you suddenly find something that you know you're going to be obsessed with? And then you ARE obsessed with it a day later? That's me for Adventures in Wonderland, a children's television show from 1992 that aired on the Disney channel. I saw clips of it earlier this year and thought that it was the most retarded thing I had ever seen. But on the other hand, I also knew immediately that its Hatter, the adorable John Robert Hoffman, was a replica of Akira. I've talked about it before by now, but I suppose I can go all out in my journal: I LOVE THIS GUY. Everything about him is spot-on, ignoring the fact that his antics are exaggerated enough for a kid's show. His FACE... it's.... AAAAAH! He looks just like Akira, and I know that my representations have been lacking since most of my life I've drawn anime and stuff and his front side has mainly been inconveniently out of view in my CP3 illustrations, so for many, they don't know how I want Akira to look in the first place. But I did do a "cartoon network" sketch in which I tried my best to portray his traits - somewhat tall forehead, heavier brow, very noticeable white eyebrows (though not as bushy as the Hatter's costume), mostly lean face, pouty lips that make it obvious whenever he's sulking about his life. The Hatter is also tall and lean in general, has a very nice silhouette, and is good at moving about. (I always joked, but meant it, that Akira secretly listened and danced to Britney Spears.)
It doesn't end at the looks. Even his attitude is equivalent. He's a fruit. Not every waking second, but often enough, and he has very questionable orientation. Akira's battling the same impression, although he is mostly straight, I promise. He's just a tad bi curious. (There is such thing as fruity straight men. Really.) This Hatter also has issues with believing in himself too much, and somewhat too little in others. (sometimes) There was a pizza episode that Kate and I laughed over where the Dormouse asked how he could make a pizza if he didn't have any dough or equipment, and where his recipe was. He goes "pffff. I don't need a recipe." He's also great at being in denial about his problems. There's an episode where he gets "fat" off cookies (fat just meaning there's a balloon-like protrusion on his belly and he walks around like he's in labor), and he reasons with everybody like a drug addict, even goes as far as trying to trick Hare in giving him the cookie jar that he himself suggested be hidden by saying stuff like "let's not quibble over what I did or didn't say..."
If you think that's the end of the rope, no, it is not.
He also SOUNDS just like him. I mean okay, as close as I have ever heard in my life in comparison to crappy altered clips of Gwen Stefani. I mean the range of his voice and the way he uses it, the way he pronounces everything, and the way he moves his mouth, it's just... it's just... I could die! I hear every one of Akira's lines coming from this guy's mouth. I see him saying it. I also now picture Akira begging for cookies and doing funny dances.
The Hatter has not only reminded me of Akira, he has brought a physical life to him that was always flickering somewhere but never could be just imagined. I do love the Hatter in his own right- he is a splendid character and he's extremely hot, and adorable, and funny... but this whole Akira thing is like a pleasant punch to the face, if that makes any sense.
To show you what he is like, I'm going to post an episode of the show right here:
It's called He's Not Heavy He's My Hatter, and it's in three parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQYFpVlR80g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09xJdDv8iRg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HIEMJQTTTg
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
I also made some icons back at my regular journal ~ http://ladybow.livejournal.com/321539.html
I don't want to sound like all I care about in the show in the Hatter, though. I have actually grown to really like nearly everybody (the caterpillar maybe not so much) Everything just suddenly GREW on me. I knew that it was the dorkiest show in existence, but I guess I needed something like that. We all do, sometimes.
NOW! I need to get on to why I am really writing this journal, and it's for several reasons. I just needed to explain my obsession so the rest made sense.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
First on the batch of news is that I'm putting John Hoffman on my wishlist of castmembers for Crystal Palace. Not the original... I don't know how that's going to work out.... but the animated sequels. I am infinitely excited about this because even though the show is 17 years old, he is still writing/working with movies and seems interested in more of a variety of things. On the other hand, he's still kind of a nobody. I don't mean that in a really bad way, I just mean that he really doesn't have any well known credits, and I cannot find any of the tv shows where he made small appearances on torrents or anywhere. What I mean by this is he's not so unattainable. I want JOHN GOODMAN to play Anus, for Christ's sake. And Dennis Quaid to play Roger & His Dastardly Penis. I know Kate and I were joking with these actors, but now it's kind of stuck. XD But as I said, I actually feel there is a chance he would like to do it. I promise that I will pay him lots of money!! I cannot stop dreaming about standing next to him in a recording room and fighting about whether or not he's having an affair with Cosmo. His voice is just spectacularly... eerily... amazingly Akira's. I will do anything for it!
*cough*
Anyway.
Kate and I and now BOTH using the Hatter for inspiration now. For a while I just thought more about him when I read aloud Akira's lines, but now that Kate has been watching the show too, we have this common love for the Hatter and see Akira in everything he does, and want to plant in some of his line's as homage to the show in our own script. The most 'infamous' line of all being Hatter's catchphrase "how true that is."
News #2.
Because I can't stop thinking about these things, my SAW mood has gone out the window and I don't know how to bring it back. All I have wanted to do lately is develop CP3 and have been having all these ideas for interactions and dialogue. Even for way in the future. I have slipped into a Disney fangirl mode again, but a different kind. I would be happy just writing for this script and drawing for it.
I also got myself into something I know my will power won't back-step on.
Adventures in Wonderland FANFICTION.
( Read more... )
I know I must sound like a total nut, but the obsessed bug bit me in the ass without my consent. Now I have all these things to write and frankly, that's where my heart lies!
And you know where else my heart my lies.... working on Tilly & Jo. Restarting it, I mean. I think I'm mainly more inspired now because Gina has grown at least a little bit of personality from becoming an Alice fangirl (and this idea had been brewing LONG before, so don't even ask the question you were thinking.) And with that idea going, with them embodying the characters in some way (Tilly: Hatter, Jo: Hare, Gina: Alice), I see even more opportunities. In where she lives, in what she can be, and I feel there will be more flavor in her fascination for these two when I write it.
So... I just don't know what I'm going to do now. I have written a serious buttload about what's going on, all implying favor in dropping my plans. I feel I should go where the wind blows me instead of try pushing a mountain or... or yanking at a Chinese finger trap, you know? But at the same time, I could just kill myself for doing that. Yes, I can postpone these plans until next season or something, but I just hyped it up so much and a friend was excited to read WL. *hits self over head* Told everyone on Smackjeeves and DA that Huggle the Puppet was coming back... I hate myself and my mood swings. But I guess my being in love with the Hatter is numbing some of the pain.... Agh.
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