Happy Halloween!

I made it through another Halloween night. I have had Thriller and Ghostbusters stuck in my head all day (new music mix?) I also helped Mom with our church Trunk-or-Treat dressed as a cowboy. And now I will decorate my blog for Christmas.

Try Me!

I'll let you in on a little secret; with a few minute details, I can identify a wide range of cartoon characters. Don't believe me? Think of some cartoon character, and I could identify them.

I Like Cameos

My favorite animated movies are the Toy Story movies. It's Tim Allen and Tom Hanks at their best, along with cameos from other famous toys. The new movie I was talking about earlier, Wreck-It Ralph, may have the most cameos of any single Disney movie aside from Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. There's Sonic the Hedgehog, Q-Bert, Frogger, and more. (Mario and Luigi were planned, but Disney couldn't pay Nintendo enough money to use them. Fortunately Mario's arch-enemy, Bowser, does appear.)
I think cameos are an interesting way moviemakers share their opinions of those characters.

Big Five-Oh!

This is the 50th blog that I have posted. I made changes to my blog last night, but I don't see them. Do you?

Costume Me!

I want to have a costume, too. I want to do something with cardboard panels, but what?

Ghostbusters Gangam Style

Tonight I listened to an interesting music mix involving "Gangam Style" and "Ghostbusters." Amazingly, the two fit right in with each other. The vocals of the first were mixed with the soundtrack of the second, then the reverse happened, back and forth. I guess you have to hear it for yourself to understand what I'm talking about.

Make Mine Music

I haven't blogged in a while because I want to get to sleep earlier. Goodnight everybody (just kidding!) Anyways, every year the orchestra students at BYU perform a Halloween concert revolving around a certain theme. Last year it was "Idaho Jones and the Search for the Crystal Baton." This year it's "A Christmas Ghostly Halloween Carol." Makes you wonder...   Goodnight. This has been fun (goodnight again). Now a song. (goodnight yet again.) 'Is this the real life, Is this just fantasy...'  (goodnight for realz this time.)

It seems that if you put orange and black together, it automatically means "scary." Take Clu-2, the enemy from Tron Legacy. He's pretty scary, don't you think? But put yellow and white in, and it looks like candy corn. Who wears candy corn colors?!?!?

A Change in Plans

Come to my blogspot. No pink background, candy colored spots or cartoony text await you. In keeping up with Halloween, Cartoon-in-Training is going scary. There will be no humor whatsoever! At least, not so much of it.

Popular why?

What, exactly makes a success? How do things like the Super Mario Bros theme and Garfield become known worldwide, and how can certain web images be so popular?

What wall?

Have you noticed that there is a "wall" between us and the cartoon world? Sometimes a character will interact with an imaginary object in our world and respond to it. This is called "breaking the fourth wall," and it is handy to use in a cartoon series. To them, there are only three walls and the paper or screen is a window they can open anytime.

Halloween is coming! Call me crazy, call me morbid, but Halloween is one of my favorite times of year. There are some things that are a little too creepy and horrorific (try decaying zombies with parts missing) but I try to stay away from that. I was thinking about what to carve into my pumpkin this year. Any ideas?

Portals?

I just noticed that the font I selected for my blog looks strange whith letters in italics (slanted letters.) I also noticed that my blog is purple on my computer, but pink on the home computer. I hope I have not entered into another dimension!

Today was my birthday. Sure, I still had school while my brother and sister take Harvest Week off, but it was a good day. After my homework was done, we went to Taco Bell where we each got our own meal (I got a cheesy potato burrito.) We also to a new ice cream shop where they sold each scoop of ice cream for a dollar. Then I took my family on a tour of the campus at BYU-Idaho. We also went to CAL Ranch (an farming strore) and WalMart. Back at home we had white chocolate cake frosted with BYU's "Y." As for presents I got one video game, De Blob 2. I also got three books; Super Mario Series for Piano, The Everything Cartooning Book, and The Art of Epic Mickey. What a wonderful birthday!