Friday, August 14, 2009

Proof I'm Starting To Lose It

I might have considered a post bitching about the latest Mad Larry blogspot (by the way, oh Pirate King, when you get pwned by Ian Levine, it's probably time to reexamine the way you're going about your life), but while idly scrabbling through my collection of possessions, I found this...
I don't remember drawing that. At all. Or even thinking about that joke. I just found this in an old notebook I got for asthma research, a notebook full of jottings I DO remember in vivid detail. But not the vaguest memory trace about that. And I remember everything I draw. At least when I find it afterwards.

But not this time.

I can only wonder before all the content of that notebook becomes a mystery to me, and I wonder why on Earth I drew a dozen cartoons about a lawnmowing service as the memory of my very brief attempt to get into the advertising service vanishes from what's left of my brain...

Oh, why don't the grandchildren visit me any more?

Why do they keep feeding me dog food?

And who are you, anyway, and what have you done with the little Linburg baby!

I'M NEARLY FINISHED!!!!!

10 comments:

Jared "No Nickname" Hansen said...

I don't know, I found that cartoon quite humourous..

Youth of Australia said...

Well...

..good...

BUT I SHOULDA REMEMBERED IT!!!

Jared "No Nickname" Hansen said...

I come across stuff in my notebooks that I've forgotten all the time.

I can't remember too many examples, for obvious reasons, but my enthusiasm for my proposed novel The Riding Officer didn't last too long.

Youth of Australia said...

I can remember the very first drawing I ever did, at the age of three and a half. But not that one.

Scares the hell out of me.

BTW, Sharpe's Challenge is on TV this weekend.

Jared "No Nickname" Hansen said...

Hmm, well that's weird.

Yeah my dad pointed out that Sharpe was on, at a ridiculously late timeslot as well. Of course I have the DVD and the still unscreened follow-up (which Aunty will probably be showing the next week) If I remember right I sent you a copy of that. (It involved drug running, Pete Postlethwaite's bastard son and character shift of the century with Michael Cochrane - I'm sure you'd remember it if you saw it)

Youth of Australia said...

Yeah, you did, but it didn't work. The Colour of Magic DID however work and we really enjoyed that.

Jared "No Nickname" Hansen said...

Damn, that old DVD burner had an appalling strike rate!

Good to know you got CoM, though, because I thought that was good fun. I was hoping you'd feel the same way, what with you NOT being a bitchy book-obsessed Discworld fan like everyone who dissed it online. Tim Curry for the win!

Youth of Australia said...

I thought it was great. Apart from Death, though. Great they got Christopher Lee back and all... but he really was surplus to requirements. Yes, we get it. He won't die. And is the orangutan the dude from the Mighty Boosh? Before AND after turning into an ape?!?

Jared "No Nickname" Hansen said...

Apart from Death, though. Great they got Christopher Lee back and all... but he really was surplus to requirements. Yes, we get it. He won't die.

That was due to the fact that the source material wasn't very good in the first place. The book of CoM is one of the ultimate examples of the 'pilots suck' effect out there, as Pratchett had no ideas about writing a series at that point - the novel is largely paroides of very obscure modern fantasy stories. In fact, most of the good stuff's in the sequel, The Light Fantastic, because CoM just ended with Rincewind and Twoflower falling off the world and presumably dying.

It's a really weird book to go back to as a fan, because there are a lot of things that don't match up. In particular Death talks quite colloquially and kills everyone and everything that he touches without thinking, sometimes out of spite. He also gets so sick of Rincewind that when he does actually die by falling off the Disc he sends some weird Demon apprentice instead - though subsequently the demons are established as entirely separate and Death as working (mostly) alone.

And is the orangutan the dude from the Mighty Boosh? Before AND after turning into an ape?!?

lol. No. He does look a bit like ... erm, Naboo I think his name is, whose actor might be Michael Fielding (something Fielding anyway), but the bloke playing the Librarian in CoM is Nicholas Tennant. I don't know anything about him except that he played Nobby (the weird buck-toothed guy) in Hogfather. And I'm pretty sure he's not related to David.

Don't know if the Beeb lend out their orangutan costumes either.

Incidentally, the University's orangutan Librarian is quite an important character in the novels - despite never actually appearing in the books in human form or saying anything intelligible. The B-plot of an entire novel involves the faculty going on a magical quest to save his life from a mysterious disease.

Youth of Australia said...

That was due to the fact that the source material wasn't very good in the first place.
Oh.

I assumed that given the hassle involved, they'd only bother to adapt the decent stuff...

In fact, most of the good stuff's in the sequel, The Light Fantastic, because CoM just ended with Rincewind and Twoflower falling off the world and presumably dying.
"Meh," says Prachett. "If Chris Boucher can get away with it..."

In particular Death talks quite colloquially and kills everyone and everything that he touches without thinking, sometimes out of spite. He also gets so sick of Rincewind that when he does actually die by falling off the Disc he sends some weird Demon apprentice instead - though subsequently the demons are established as entirely separate and Death as working (mostly) alone.
Wow. My first experience of Discworld was the cartoons of Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters, where he's a lot more... well... not evil.

lol. No. He does look a bit like ... erm, Naboo I think his name is, whose actor might be Michael Fielding (something Fielding anyway), but the bloke playing the Librarian in CoM is Nicholas Tennant. I don't know anything about him except that he played Nobby (the weird buck-toothed guy) in Hogfather. And I'm pretty sure he's not related to David.
Well, as "Tennant" isn't David's real name, I was rather expecting that...

Don't know if the Beeb lend out their orangutan costumes either.
Nope, never again, not after the nasty Sea Devil incident...

Incidentally, the University's orangutan Librarian is quite an important character in the novels - despite never actually appearing in the books in human form or saying anything intelligible.
Oh yeah, I know that. Indeed, I spent the first bit of the film wondering just where he'd got to, and was stunned to discover this was his secret origin. I preferred the impression I had that he was just a passing monkey that was best qualified. The idea he'd just a transformed human seems a bit... lame.

I mean, I could buy Ook-boy building that motorbike for Death in a cosmic coincidence, but a librarian? I just find that smacks of plot contrivance.