Hey, I'm on TV!

Well, techically it's online... but who cares, I'm in it!

At the Newgrounds booth, Tom Fulp & Dan Paladin were being interviewed to promote the Castle Crashers video game. While they were being interviewed, myself along with some of my friends/collegues: Chris Zito, Chris "Kirbopher" Niosi, Rina-Chan & a slew of others, are in the background chatting away with eachother. Don't believe me?... See for yourself (courtesy of Gametrailers.com, of course):

To add to the Comic-Con video goodness, here's a video shot & narrated by Chris Zito while at the Newgrounds booth. Watch 'til the very end (you'll find out why):

No, I'm not that scary in real life, although I do eat cameras on occasion.

"Disney's Blood-Curdling Female Scream of Death"

Along with the Bambi's Mother episode of "Disney's Gettin' Lazy", my "Goofy Holler" compilation video is the one thing that brings the most people to my site. It was linked from the Goofy Holler wikipedia page about three months ago, & about 50% of the visits each day are from there. It's a blessing & a curse...

Although the "Wart Holler" video I posted a few months back didn't get as big a response as the Goofy one, I thought it would be nice to make another one for ol' times sake (as well as it being something to add to all the Sleeping Beauty buzz flyin' around these days) . This one I prefer to call "Disney's Blood-Curdling Female Scream of Death"!

The scream was recorded by actress Lucille La Verne, who provided the voices for both the Evil Queen & the Old Hag in Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs. Since then, it was reused twice more: once in the Donald Duck cartoon Trick or Treat, & was last used for another female villain's death: Maleficent's in Sleeping Beauty. Although it isn't as used as many times as the Goofy or Wart hollers were, it's still pretty interesting to know that it was used again & again as well. Enjoy!

By the way, I'm planning on creating another Disney's Gettin' Lazy video (possibly part 4 of my Ollie tribute also) sometime before my trip to the San Diego Comic Con in two weeks. I hope I have enough time & effort to do it!

HEY EVERYBODY, I NEED YOUR HELP WITH THE OLLIE TRIBUTE!

Like I said in my last post, I wish to get started on a tribute video to Ollie Johnston but before I do I need your help!

I know plenty of scenes Ollie has animated (Thumper's blossom/greens speech, Archimedes laughing, the Bare Necessities scene, etc.), but it would be a great help if you guys could let me know about as many other Ollie scenes as possible. If you can, send me an email (use the link on my profile page) listing as many specific Ollie scenes that you can properly identify so I can choose and compile them appropriately. Consider it as making a large collaboration to pay tribute to Ollie's legacy from all of us!

I wish to get started by the beginning of next week, so let me know ASAP. Thanks everyone!

"YAAAAAAA-HOO-HOO-HOO-HOOOEEEYYYY!!!"

Recognize that onomatopoeia? It's the famous "Goofy Holler"!

The Goofy Holler's debut was in the 1941 cartoon The Art of Skiing, originally recorded by a professional yodeler by the name of Hannes Schrolle. Since then, it has become a staple of the history of cartoon sound effects and voices.

Here is a video I compiled of as many Goofy Hollers I could find and identify. It's a pretty big movie to load, so be patient.

I know what some of you are thinking... "Hey, that's not the same kind of holler in that clip!" or "You forgot the one in...". I couldn't possibly have found all the hollers, especially in the more recent films (from 1980 on). If any of you know of any Goofy Hollers that I forgot to mention, let me know in the comments section & I if I can I'll try to stick it into the video and re-upload it.

*Thanks for watching, and remember to leave comments!*

*UPDATE* - an anonymous commenter just gave me the heads up about a few I missed. If possible, I'll try to splice them into the video sometime next week. Til then, enjoy the incomplete one I have up now!

Time to Show Some Class!

I'm extremely bored. Help.

Question #2: "How do you Draw Steve-O?"

Here's another question coming my way!

David Spector from Long Island asks me "How do you draw Steve-O?". & what better way to demonstrate this than by videotaping the whole process!

I apologize for the quality of the video. From a distance, the camera works great! But close-up, everything looks like distorted, blurry garbage. When & if I get a better camera for this, I'll redo the whole thing.

I never really noticed how deep my accent was. Now after listening & watching these videos, I'm extremely shocked by it. Maybe I should take some sort of lecture to fix that, huh?

Keep those questions coming & remember to leave comments!

For the Birds' On-Air Question-Answering Program #1

Here's my first question asked for me to answer on the site: "Will there ever be a 'Steve-O Movie"?"

Thanks Emily for submitting your question. I was very pleased to answer it.

Keep those questions coming! & remember to LEAVE COMMENTS!

My First Video Blog Post (Yikes!)

I know, I'm an awkward guy, but let's face it... nobody's perfect!