Mother sent me photos of our family friends’ two new pups in Vancouver. Be amazed at how awesome they are.

Awwwwwwww. I could write a really crappy direct-to-video Disney movie based on these two. It would be like Homeward Bound. Except I would have them use those really awful digital mouths when the dogs talk to one another. The unfortunate thing is that movie would probably make a killing.

Here’s the formula:

Two new puppies from a shelter are adopted by a nice white suburban family. They take the puppies on a camping trip and somehow get separated. The two dogs…hmmm…let’s name them Buster and Lucky. So Buster and Lucky are adopted but neither of them like each other. But now lost in the forest and trying to find their way back to their family, they have to work together. They encounter oddball forest creatures (raccoons, woodpeckers, a dumb moose, whatever) and eventually grow to like one another. There’s a lot of Looney Tune sound effects when they slip on a mud puddle or bump their head on a tree trunk, you know.  Then eventually one of them, let’s sayyyy Buster, gets separated and falls into a hunters abandoned trap. A cougar is about to eat poor little Buster when Lucky jumps in to the rescue. Blah blah blah, they find their way back to suburbia and love one another by the end of it. The end.

I imagine this would be the reaction to watching that movie if it were ever made:

So far Tom has said nice things about the first draft, I’m not holding my breath. Just waiting for him to rip into it on Saturday. Eventually we’ll draw pistols and duel at dawn on Sunday. I have yet to look over the draft myself and start marking up what changes need to be made. Another thing that concerns me about this project is casting. I know we’ll have the manpower to crew, and the money to finance this thing, but casting for these specific characters will be difficult. Especially when, so far, we won’t be paying. Isn’t there some sort of saying that “good talent doesn’t come cheap”? Wait, that can’t be right if Will Smith is the highest paid actor today…or is he? I don’t even know. I also don’t give a shit, all I care about is what I get paid (which isn’t much, ho ho ho).

Talked to a good friend in New Brunswick briefly today, we used to play in a band together and recorded each others music. He’s now in a successful electro-pop-house-whatever-you-call-it band. Later I then received a message from him informing me that his band The Arka Teks are going to be featured in this upcoming season of Rookie Blue (which yours truly worked on). Fantastic news. Congrats to him.

Here’s the song I think is going to be used:

Garry Shandling pointed out on Twitter that today is George Carlin’s birthday. He’s the only performer on my concert bucket list I had to cross off due to his death some years back.

People keep telling me I need to watch shows. “You have to watch Mad Men.” “You have to watch Breaking Bad.” “You have to watch Battlestar Gallactica.” “You have to watch How I Met Your Mother.” And so on.

I’ve seen five minutes of How I Met Your Mother and I can say one thing…I don’t HAVE to watch that shit. If you weren’t created in the ’90′s and you have a laugh-track on your show, it’s very unlikely that it’s in anyway funny or entertaining but more likely that it’s just plain annoying and stupid. Same with that other show…what’s it called…the one about the geeks? Fuck. I have no idea. It has the guy who played Darlene’s boyfriend in Roseanne though. I’m too lazy to look it up, but that show sucks too.

As with the others, I plan on maybe at some point sitting down and starting a new drama series post-LOST, but it’s hard to find the time to keep up with The Office and Breakout Kings. Although I’ll watch Alcatraz when that finally airs.

I realized today my playlist mainly consists of female singer/songwriters. Currently Lenka, Christina Perri, Diana Krall, Norah Jones and A Fine Frenzy are almost overtaking the Tron soundtrack.

Although this is a great remix:

Anyway now I’m just talking about nothing because I finally had a little downtime at the office.

Also $5 to the person who can correctly reference the title of this post. Scout’s honor.

Cheers.

- B.