asterios kokkinos
geoffrey golden
rob asaro
adam daroff
eric larnick
jenni powell
rob morrisonall i want for my birthday is a g.i. joe buddy
| written by morrison on 07/19/07 | 1 comment |
i’m 24 today. woot. so what do i want, you ask? an electric guitar, money for rent and loans, maybe a nice meal from the falafel stand. you know, 24-year old person stuff.
but part of me still wants the same gift i wanted since i was ten. somebody who enjoys playing with gi joes as much as me.
these kids in the commercial loved playing with each other! they probably came up with awesome war strategies like hasbro phalanxes and kenner blitzkriegs to bring lifelike realism to playtime. sorry jason sherman, former friend: cobra commander does NOT intermingle with teenage mutant ninja turtles, or live inside my bucket of ghostbusters slime. that is specifically for my ghostbusters hq, and it is finite, so don’t waste it!
filed under commercials, toys, tv kids shows: 80's
who needs girls when richie rich is on telemundo?
| written by morrison on 07/12/07 | leave a comment |
so my girlfriend broke up with me. big whoop.
richie rich (the movie) is on telemundo right now in glorious spanish overdubbing. if watching that guy from lost boys and chrysler commercials cavort as an awkwardly hispanic rich man ain’t the most romantic scenario possible, i don’t know what is. maybe blank check in swedish.
too bad the youtube-o-sphere is slacking off and there isn’t a single fucking clip from richie rich to be found, let alone its spanish counterpart, rico rico.
filed under movies: 90's, music: 80s, tv kids shows: 80's
gary busey is definitely not crazy
| written by morrison on 06/29/07 | leave a comment |
filed under movies: 80s, movies: 90's
“we’re back”: the movie that ruined dinosaurs
| written by morrison on 06/20/07 | 5 comments |
little kids are sold on dinosaurs from the moment they find out about them. no one knows why, but it’s a fact.not only did i have a totally boss hologram ruler that depicted a different set of dinosaurs for the metric system and the us-only system, but i was totally hooked on the land before time as a kid (i even stuck it out for the first eight sequels). as i grew up, dinosaurs grew with me. by the time i was 12, my dream was to be robert muldoon, uttering my last words, “clever girl,” before being ripped to shreds by raptors who would later get beat up by the gymnast half-daughter of jeff goldblum.
then i saw we’re back: a dinosaur’s story. and it all changed. dinosaurs could never be cool again. hopefully every reel of this disaster has been roasted or donated to homeless shelters.
footage from the we’re back snes game (!) after the jump…
filed under movies: 90's
jonny quest re-imagining blows ass
| written by morrison on 06/08/07 | leave a comment |
it’s pretty fucking impossible not to love jonny quest. weird crab/eyeball monsters from the intro, science-based adventures that reinforce family values, the forced equal opportunity casting (hadji) — there’s something for everyone.
so a jonny quest reboot should be awesome too, right? yeah, unless it looks more like reboot than jonny quest.
filed under tv kids shows: 90s
tom and jerry mash-up is an 8 minute disaster
| written by morrison on 05/30/07 | leave a comment |
i’m the only guy i know who still laughs at tom and jerry cartoons. i don’t know… chuck jones has a way with me. i like the way mouths look in his cartoons. there’s just something inticing about it. like maybe i could make out with a cat mouth if it looked like that.
i hunted on youtube earlier today for a fucking hilarious t&j short, but found something simultaneously better and more debilitating. there are no original ideas. someone has synced “in the court of the crimson king” by prog rock outfit king crimson to the tom and jerry short “switchin’ kitten.”
so what the hell am i supposed to do with all these foghorn leghorn cartoons that i dumped into imovie?
filed under kid culture, strange internet