Hey folks, Harry here... We might have the nominee for the title to most give Jack Valenti a facial tic of the year award! Putting the phrase "HOT BITCHES" in the middle of your title is the greatest way ever to piss a lot of people off in a most righteous way! Sorry if I haven't been updating much recently - the BNAT planning and plotting duties have pretty much become my life the last couple of days... I mean... in the last 45 minutes about 400 lbs of giveaways arrived on my doorstep and we're trying to take a tally of this stuff, so we can figure out how to give it away... and that doesn't even count the 75 giant boxes of items that the Drafthouse hauled away yesterday. IN-SANE! Here ya go...
Harry,
Went to see a Q&A with John Kricfalusi tonight in Seattle. He showed a new Ren and Stimpy episode called "Naked Beach Party" that was downright pornographic and delightfully disturbing. He also showed "The Ripping Friends," his Yogi Bear stuff, an old R+S episode that was heavily censored, and a short about two young boys who wake up with enormous "Pee Bonors".
The only upcoming maybe-possibly-hopefully thing he mentioned was going down to LA to talk to Jack Black about producing a feature called "Funny Animals, Hot Bitches, and Rock & Roll," which sounds like a really accurate summation of their overlapping fixations.
John K seems like a great guy who loves what he does and is amazingly unfazed by -- in fact seemingly unaware of how unreceptive the powers that be are to his type of stuff. Maybe he's just moved beyond all that. I dunno. There was a little talk about the massive number of cartoons today that were heavily influenced by R+S, but he said he doesn't watch any of it and doesn't know anything about it and that was pretty much that. He doesn't look at cartoons made after 1960.
He told a great story about getting invited to the Neverland ranch and showing MJ the "Pee Bonor" cartoon. He said it was a big hit.
