Along with martial arts flicks, I grew up watching cartoons. I never had the Care Bears/Winnie-the-freakin'-Pooh stage (the debate whether this pooh-pooh-ing bear is a male or a female still rages). Nor did I care about Casper the frigging Ghost, Disney Classics like Cinderella and worst of all, the incomparably corny Peter Pan and Tinkerbell. I adored the slapstick and hero variety, not the cutesy ones. Popeye, Super Friends (or present-day Justice League), He-Man, Scooby Doo, Dennis the Menace and of course, Tom & Jerry. I was a kid, after all. These days, I'm not sure what to make of Spongebob Squarepants, ya know, he's a sponge, his best friend is a star fish, and another character is a squid.
I still watch cartoons, though. I still find myself laughing at Bart's naughtiness and pondering on snippets of wisdom from that great Philosopher, Homer Simpson. I like the new American Dad and King of the Hill series which tackles modern-day issues facing the average American family-- such as terrorism, multiculturalism, the religious right-- in a funny but really engaging manner. But I'm drawn mostly to South Park for its irreverent, sarcastic and ironic humour. Kenny gets killed in every episode.
I also watch the Japanese anime variety. Animes proliferate in Quiapo, along with Korean drama series. Japanese cartoons are way, way different from what we are accustomed to. Originating from manga comics, a lot of the series are actually adult-oriented. Should a comics series capture a following, it moves on to the animated platform, thus the term anime. Japan has a huge comic-reading and cartoon watching market.
Problem is, sometimes both boys and girls look alike, and since I couldn't tell from their names alone, the confusion leads me to space out instead. And the violence depicted can be extremely gory and the sexual situations very explicit, bordering on pornography ("hentai", which means "strange" has plenty of explicit stuff). Hardly the stuff fit for children.
Anway, here's the classic Tom & Jerry clip where Tom plays a concert on the grand piano, featuring Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (I think), while Jerry was roused from his slumber inside the instrument, leading to the usual cat-and-mouse chase, this time hammering each other with piano keys while maintaining the dance-like rhythm and pace of the music at the same time.
Tom & Jerry
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Stumbled upon this while researching a script. I think it was about the DB forum. I could not stop myself from identifying the blogger. With the given name, the usual suspects was cut down to three. A couple of blogs down I knew I was right. Intrigued by the aliases given, I continued reading. Just about identified all except for a couple or three. Hope you will paddle again. I think I hit the nail on the head when I said you were a Renaissance man. (But why am I not surprised?) I always knew you had it in you. Since you are computer savy, you will probably identify this team mate. Until then --- keep on blogging (I enjoyed reading them on an idle rainy night) and paddling.
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