Author: DOuG pRATt

HELP, I’m Down!

“Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane” is a 2-sided Beatles hit with both songs based upon childhood memories. But I think “Help!” and “I’m Down” can also been thought of as a single with both sides having related ideas.

Both songs are about feeling bad, but I think John’s is more heartfelt. It’s almost a follow-up to “I’m a Loser,” while Paul’s song seems more like the flip-side it is.

John’s sons were born to two different, and very different, mothers. They had different relationships with their father, and they have different memories of him, but with similar feelings.

https://youtu.be/Bh87SeH1y8g

DLC – Doug Loves Cuphead

If I keep posting about Cuphead this way, I’ll have to give him his own category. The “Delicious Last Course” title seemed curious to me, so I asked an expert, “Why DLC?” The answer is it’s stating exactly what the long-delayed game addendum will be — Downloadable Content.

Until the Netflix series premieres, here is the closest thing available to a Cuphead cartoon that’s independent of the gameplay. It starts with the first thing every new animator must master, a walk cycle.

Follow-up: Netflix has a preview of the cartoon series. It looks… okay… but it completely lacks the quirky charm of the work done by the original team. I’ve been told the animation shows the influence of the CalArts School of Film/Video.

Roomies

Right after thinking up the title for this post I wondered if there’s a Roomies TV show or musical. This is what I found:

“ROOMIES is a sassy, silly, & sexy new web series about two gay roommates from small town Indiana who move to L.A. in pursuit of fame, glitz, & glamour.”

They’re certainly not shy about embracing gay stereotypes. But the subject of this post isn’t that.

A while ago I talked about one of my college roommates, regarding the subject of cassettes. An old friend of mine, going back to high school, has told me a bit about her one-time roomie in college.

Geena Davis
Geena Davis during production of Thelma and Louise