they're ALL blue wires!!

[thehefner]

GIP, even though I really should be using the Bub and Johnny icon. Not sure the icon totally lives up to what I had in mind, but there you go. I'm sick and tired of listening to that damn Fall Out Boy song (how many people who listen to that song know where it comes from, much less what it means?) that, for the sake of Patrick Marber, Clive Owen, Mike Nichols, and hell, even Julia Roberts, I'm taking it back. After all, if ty_hallmark was to be believed, I did! in the purely dramatic sense! don't kill me, Roddy!

But aside from that, I'm also posting a li'l something-something from my very own "Girlfriend in Canada," the great little_dinosaur.

A little story about how all this came about. Anyone remember my SUPERDREAMTEAM that comprised of Oracle, Hal Jordan, Kitty Pryde, Bill the Butcher, Werner Herzog, Bub and Johnny, and others? Well, when I got the brilliant idea to see what would happen if Kitty and Bill finally faced off, just to see if I could pull off this brain-breakingly cracktacular story, I also wrote short little segments for the "Previously in VILLAINS BY NECESSITY..." (shamelessly stealing Jaki's brilliant orphan title, itself presumably snagged from KING LEAR).

So we got to see scenes like:

Herzog and Dr. Strange waxing philosophical and searching through Strange's sofa cushions looking for the Eye of Agamotto while the rest of the team battles replicants in the BLADE RUNNER world (not realizing that Johnny's hocked the Eye for gin money).

Hal Jordan and Otto Octavius reenacting the first scene between Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter from RED DRAGON/MANHUNTER.

Werner Herzog beating up Hitler and then going to make tea, while Bill double-crosses the team to Baron Zemo, then double-crosses Zemo back and wields Captain America's shield. He reverently hands it back to Steve, who accepts it with a quiet little, "Yyyyyeah, you take your damn hands off that, thanks" look.

And this little exchange between an increasingly-frazzled Oracle and the world's worst bomb squad:



Too cool.

Stuff like this makes me really consider doing little BUB AND JOHNNY webcomics, in the style of my last one. Once I have a bit more free time, of course. But dear lord, I love these characters. Don't hold your breath for more anytime soon, but keep your eyes out nonetheless.

Comments

[civilbloodshed.livejournal.com]

Ok, look, I totally had a brain spasm thinking you put Fall Out Boy lyrics on an icon OF YOUR FACE, but then I was oddly disappointed to realize you meant to quote CLOSER.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Did I mention to you about all the people who likened me to Patrick Stump, or did you just make that connection on your own?

In either case, wow, that's one link I hadn't made! Ha!

But still. CLOSER doesn't get enough love. Mainly because so many people who don't love it outright *hate* it.

[civilbloodshed.livejournal.com]

I believe this was mentioned before and I may have flailed around a bit laughing, but you do look like the guy if you shave.

[aeonata.livejournal.com]

I've always liked the Bub and Johnny concept- Will be thrilled to read it when you have time to make more!

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I have ideas. Hopefully other folks will be as (or even more) amused by their antics as I!

[little-dinosaur.livejournal.com]

I've never heard that Fall Out Boy song. I don't listen to the radio because of bands like Fall Out Boy. Never seen "Closer" either, though, so the reference is lost on me either way. It makes a spiffing icon, however.

They are so much fun to draw. They are so much fun, period.

They made me itemize the contents for customs! "Monetary value? I drew it!"

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

The song's actually not bad, even though I dislike FOB on principle. You know how it is. Also, I have a real love-hate for them just for the sheer fact that the lead singer looks exactly like me from three years ago (pre-Tammy weight loss/hair cut). And the fact that all the fangirls swoon over Pete frickin' Wentz over Porkpie!Heffie doesn't sit well with me either.

You should see CLOSER for a couple reasons. Two big ones being the best use of Damian Rice and the greatest performance Clive Owen's yet given. If you aren't going to watch it at all, or within the near future, then here: through the magic of YouTube, I present to you my favorite scene.

The setup: this is just before the play's intermission. Larry (Clive Owen) is returning from a buisiness trip to America, back home to his new wife, Anna (Julia Roberts). Before these scenes, Anna's been fighting the advances to Dan (Jude Law), the guy who accidentally got Larry and Anna together, and who's involved with Tammy-clone Alice (Natalie Portman).

As you've read THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES and most of the Harvey story, perhaps you'll understand enough of my psyche to get why this scene made such an impression on me. Bear in mind, I saw it not long after Tammy and I had our "closure" and I was not-dating Misty.



And for the sake of whatever, here's the actual Fall Out Boy video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xWHf_vYZzQ8

Not bad. But still, you'll forgive me if I can't take a song entitled "Thnks fr th Mmrs" too seriously.

[civilbloodshed.livejournal.com]

And the fact that all the fangirls swoon over Pete frickin' Wentz over Porkpie!Heffie doesn't sit well with me either.

THIS IS A FILTHY LIE JOHN HEFFNER, A FILTHY AND HURTFUL LIE. EXIBIT A: HE HAS POWERS TO TURN LESBIANS STRAIGHT.
EXIBIT B: SERIOUSLY, LESBIANS WANT TO BONE HIM.

I HAVE INCURRED THE WRATH OF ALL-CAPS!

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Gahhh! What am I doing in all those pictures?! I don't remember doing any of those things! Is this what happens when I black out? IS IT?!

The only picture I could find (not on facebook) of me from three years back is this:



Here's the link, if it doesn't work.

http://www.rudemechanicals.com/ayli/pix/Phoebe-Rosalind-Silvius.jpg

YOU SIR, DESERVE IT, FOR DOUBTING YOUR HOTASSERY.

[civilbloodshed.livejournal.com]

Haha! That's the same one you showed me last time we had this conversation. I think I even del.icio.us'd the link.

Re: YOU SIR, DESERVE IT, FOR DOUBTING YOUR HOTASSERY.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Ohoo, so we were actually discussing MY hotassery, were we?? Well, that's all right then!

[civilbloodshed.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, transitively. But still!

[little-dinosaur.livejournal.com]

Whoa. That guy could be your brother or something. Bizarre. Nice hat, though. But can I buy a vowel?

Which one is Pete frickin' Wentz? The one in the makeup? Hahahahaha.

Ooh, Clive Owen. He's no Seth Rogen, but I, uh, wouldn't cheat on him. Though I can see why you'd respond to this bit. I've been curious to see the movie, but afraid that I might hate it and that that would reveal me as a very specific sort of bad person.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Similarly, I've taken to wearing my bowler derby lately. My theory is that you can't be depressed while wearing a bowler derby. Take that, Porkpie Boy.

Aye, the one with the tats and the eyeliner. He's like the Patron Saint of MySpace.

With CLOSER, you'll either love it or hate it. There's no middle ground. Me, though, it hit enough personal chords that I loved it. It helps that all four of the characters absolutely are me, Tammy, Misty, and Dave. Absolutely. (Well, Larry is meant to be an old punk rocker who sold out and became a well-to-do dermatologist in private practice, but he still has the angry young man in him, as you could see).

If you hate it, no sweat, because it just might reveal that you have no use or interest in (unlikable, perhaps) people emotionally fucking each other up. Me, though, I see it as the emotional equivalent of TITUS. Yes, evil humor and all. That's why I love it. That, and there's SO much truth in it about the ugliness of screwed-up relationships.

Julia Roberts is lame (Cate Blancett originally had the role, and would have been much better), but as she's the Misty of the story, Anna's the hardest role anyway.

Jude Law does fine, but the problem is that he's a cad by nature, and it's so easy to make all these characters detestable anyway that he never stood a chance. When I played Dan, I was pleased to hear (even from people who hated the movie), that I actually made him sympathetic.

Natalie Portman gives the best performance I've seen from here since LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL. Holy shitcakes, there's so much Tammy there.

And Clive Owen... wow. That's all I can say.

"The Blower's Daughter" is used to wonderful, wonderful effect. As is "How Soon Is Now?" for a bit too. I say see it. If nothing else, it'll serve as a great appendix to THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES.

[little-dinosaur.livejournal.com]

That is excellent. It is a special time in every boy's life when he comes to an understanding with a fantastic hat.

Oh, I'll see it. Eventually. After the Fantasia Film Festival, though. Too much to see already! Luchadore slasher movies and sweet weird Asian movies and trying to escape AJ's plan to drag me to see one of Andrei Tarkofsky's movies (which are like oil paintings, pretty much)!