Day #348 - Happy Birthday Ross Evans!

I took some liberties here mate, as I know nothing of the AFL I assumed that the 'Cat' would be panther-like in appearance.

I also assumed that the best Cat would be Ablett Snr. so I used his number.

I could have copped out and drawn you the logo but I thought this would make you smile a lot more on your birthday, actually I think they played tonight? AND THEY WON!! just for you! (okay, I'm assuming this as well)

I simply wanted to say Happy Birthday mate! I hope that you have a wonderful day although knowing you you'd be paralytic by now so you'll see this when you wake up with a nice little hangover.

I hope it makes you smile!

Day #347 - MC Gusto

I love movies that take the piss out of a chosen arena.

I loved "the Great White Hype" and what it showed of the boxing industry.

Well, in 1993 came CB4, totally taking the piss out of the recording industry and especially Gangster Rap.

MC Gusto was the lead of the group CB4 and he was played by Chris Rock.

one of my favourite quotes was this "I'm MC Gusto, but in prison, I'm known as 97-KY-LMNOP-14 to the third power"

It was a hilarious movie.

Special thanks to Ross for finding it again!

Day #346 - Del Griffith

I recently watched the movie Due Date with Robert Downey Jr and Zach Galifinakis, whilst I thought it very funny watching it all I could think of was Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

PTA is really one of those movies that sticks in your memory for life and you can share scenes from it with lots of people the have seen it.

The rental car scene.

The taxi nearly running Steve Martin over and then him being picked up by his crown jewels.

The falling asleep in the car

The driving the wrong way between trucks

The car burning

The cops pulling them over and John Candy trying to argue the road worthiness

The hocking the watch for a room and then the sleeping in the car

The curtain ring selling

The dead wife

the list goes on and on and on.

Del Griffith just wanted to help his pal Neil Page get home in time for thanksgiving.

The world really lost a special person when John Candy died, PTA, Stripes, Uncle Buck, Cool Runnings, Space Balls he wasn't just a funny fat man but he made you believe his emotion so much.

Day #345 - Luke Skywalker

In the tradition of stupid one liners I decided to draw someone from Star Wars as today is May the 4th, so May the 4th be with you!

Star Wars is easily the most influential movie in my life, it's the earliest movie I ever remember watching, I was 5 and it just became my ultimate fantasy as a boy, when VHS players came out movies cost a mint, we could only afford one, so of course it was Star Wars. My brother and I watched it about 8 times on the first day that we had it.

I have probably seen the original Star Wars movie around 700-800 times at least.

I think I might pull out the trilogy this weekend.

Anyway, I tried to draw Luke from Return of the Jedi, when he had that terrible haircut and suddenly became this all powerful 'monkish' Jedi. At the end of Empire Luke was still cool although limbless but then he went all deep from the start of Jedi and once he flew off a saw Yoda die he turned into a bit of a tool.

Day #344 - Al Czervik

in 1980 the best golf movie of all time was made.

Al Czervik was the obnoxious but loveable protagonist with his heart set on turning the lovely country club into a whole bunch of condos.

Caddyshack is still one of my favourite movies and easily my favourite golf movie.

Bill Murray's character as the greenskeeper is genius and of course Chevy Chase as the ultra pro was faultless with his coolness.

But nobody stole the show like Rodney Dangerfield though, in a role that should have been considered the villian he was instead the one you were rooting for.

Throw in the Kenny Loggins soundtrack and it's almost the perfect movie.

Nice and early posting tonight allows me some PS3 time :)

Day #343 - Royal Tenenbaum

Wes Anderson in my mind is one of the most gifted writers/directors going around today, in fact Martin Scorsese said he was going to be the "next Martin Scorsese" in an interview for Esquire magazine.

His movies are brilliant,

the Royal Tenenbaums is my favourite, check this out for a killer cast;

Owen Wilson
Luke Wilson

Ben Stiller

Gwyneth Paltrow

Bill Murray

Angelica Houston

Danny Glover

and of course the immortal Royal Tenenbaum played perfectly by Gene Hackman

finally to top off the cast it's narrated by Alec Baldwin.

It's a movie about, hmm, let me think, family disfunction and a "dying" man's wish to keep his family together (well actually to keep his wife's money) and it has more smoking in it than any other movie I can think of, but it's not over indulgence it just seems to work.

Any Wes Anderson film in my mind is worth paying money to watch.

Day #342 - Walter Sobchak

After watching Spies like us the other night and quite frankly struggling for ideas to finish out this little project I've decided to draw some of my favourite movie characters.

Whilst they may not look like the actor, it's not the actor that I'm drawing.

First up is Walter Sobchak for the Big Lebowski.

Never seen it? it's a movie about a Rug, Bowling, a toe and a case of mistaken identity, it's one of my all time favourite movies and easily my favourite Cohen Brothers movies.

The characters I draw this week will be from movies that I like, no matter how abstract they may be.

And on that note the 2nd half of Man U v Arsenal just began.....