Beastly Behaviour - The Dog
Don't be fooled kids by the bright colours! "Beastly Behaviour" was an adult animation that was screened on late-night Channel 4 in the mid-90s. Not all of the episodes are on Youtube (There's a cat one too). These 1 minute plus animations, feature the very different way animals and other beasts like marine life, have male-to-female mating. The animations are crude, but the narration is pitched in the style of a wild-life narrator, and if your not aware alot about animal biology and how they mate, well many of the facts may astound you, as they're all true. The show was produced by eggtoons, which has it's own website, but the main brains behind it is Andrew Wyatt. Wyatt was a freelance animator who had worked on such well-known cartoons like the Ninja Turtles and the Ducktales movie for Disney. He joined Honeycomb animation, and produced this obscure classic.
4 episodes feature on Youtube, but I'm sure there are more. Rodents, Mantis and Marine Bristleworm are the other 3, however I feel this Dog one is the funniest of the lot, and the least gory. I like the dig at humans in this one too. This is definitely not for kids! The Mantis one is probably the most gory, as true to life, as the female bites the male's head off, as he is having sex with her. Thank god that doesn't happen in humans, I'd be a virgin all my life then!
Showing posts with label 1994. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1994. Show all posts
Sunday, 7 March 2010
Saturday, 27 February 2010
A Feast of Lycra and not-so Lycra Men/Women in Snow and Ice 1972-2002
Alright, we end our Winter Olympics special with this rough, but brilliant highlighting music video of recent Winter Olympics bar 2006 and 2010, of course. Some really good footage of the earlier Olympics which are hard to find on Youtube. The Sports genre will take a break, but we'll be back to good ol' football and more.
List of Winter Games shown:
1972 -Sapporo, Japan
1976 - Innsbruck, Austria
1980 - Lake Placid, USA
1984 - Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)
1988 - Calgary, Canada
1992 - Albertville, France
1994 - Lillehammer, Norway
1998 - Nagano, Japan
2002 - Salt Lake City, USA
It's a very good highlights video with small clips of each Games opening ceremonies, and the features the most awe-inspiring and most excelled athletes of the games, so we see the likes on Torvill and Dean for '84, Alberto Tomba for '88 and so on. Also, period music of the time from each Olympics, If you want to know what the songs are, well, I'm horribly bad at naming these earlier ones. I've heard the 1972 one loads of times, I just can't put a name to it?
1972 -???
1976 -???
1980 -???
1984 - Irene Cara - What a Feeling
1988 -Erasure -Give a Little Respect
1992 - Snap - Rhythm Is A Dancer
1994 - Whigfield - Saturday Night
1998 - ???
2002 - James Williams - Call of the Champions
Sunday, 21 February 2010
Sabotaged American Figure Skater Returns with a Flourish at Lillehammer
Nancy Kerrigan - 1994 Olympics LP
On to ice skating now, in our Winter Olympics section, as the present 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics rumbles on. Although she never won Gold medal, the American figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is considered one of the greatest never to have won the Gold. Only a month before, Nancy Kerrigan was purposely smacked by a combustilble baton on the knee, which was disturbingly planned out by Figure skating American rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly, and her bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt. They ordered a man by the name of Shane Stant, to make the hit on Kerrigan. Harding was not completely guilty and actively tried to cover up the plot. In cruel fashion, Harding won the US Championships while Kerrigan was out of action.
A media frenzy ensues and a court case was taken out against Harding on February 1st, 1994, where she pleaded guilty, but still maintained her innocence, in perhaps a selfish attempt to not receive a jail sentance. Controversially, Tonya Harding was still allowed to participate in the Lillehammer 1994 Olympics, however her career floundered thereafter, and was then banned from figure skating for life, after these events. Harding finished 8th while Kerrigan, not quite the fairytale, but ended in second place for the silver medal, with one of her greatest performances on the ice. Kerrigan was lucky to have recovered from the incident in time for the Winter Olympics.
More off-topic, what was odd about the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics in Norway, was it only came 2 years after the previous 1992 Olympics in Alberville. This was to stop both the Winter and Summer Olympics clashing in the same. They would never of course clash directly, but the thought was, with the close proximity of the looming Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics, not quite the ratings-winner as the Summer ones, was felt to be overshadowed by it.
On to ice skating now, in our Winter Olympics section, as the present 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics rumbles on. Although she never won Gold medal, the American figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is considered one of the greatest never to have won the Gold. Only a month before, Nancy Kerrigan was purposely smacked by a combustilble baton on the knee, which was disturbingly planned out by Figure skating American rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly, and her bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt. They ordered a man by the name of Shane Stant, to make the hit on Kerrigan. Harding was not completely guilty and actively tried to cover up the plot. In cruel fashion, Harding won the US Championships while Kerrigan was out of action.
A media frenzy ensues and a court case was taken out against Harding on February 1st, 1994, where she pleaded guilty, but still maintained her innocence, in perhaps a selfish attempt to not receive a jail sentance. Controversially, Tonya Harding was still allowed to participate in the Lillehammer 1994 Olympics, however her career floundered thereafter, and was then banned from figure skating for life, after these events. Harding finished 8th while Kerrigan, not quite the fairytale, but ended in second place for the silver medal, with one of her greatest performances on the ice. Kerrigan was lucky to have recovered from the incident in time for the Winter Olympics.
More off-topic, what was odd about the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics in Norway, was it only came 2 years after the previous 1992 Olympics in Alberville. This was to stop both the Winter and Summer Olympics clashing in the same. They would never of course clash directly, but the thought was, with the close proximity of the looming Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics, not quite the ratings-winner as the Summer ones, was felt to be overshadowed by it.
Thursday, 11 February 2010
Oh, Stop All this Canoodling! I'm trying to Eat my Pop Tart!
Paula Yates and Micheal Hutchence on the Big Breakfast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHI_G1QFfIs
A classic moment from the show, which in hindsight, has a sense of the bittersweet and tragic. This is from Channel 4's "Big Breakfast", that really did break new ground as regards to weekday mornings, giving a more fun and sometimes surreal edge compared to mugs and woolly jumpers, and middle class P's and Q's that were a feature on TV-AM (ITV really) and the BBC's comparative shows.
Can Paula Yates be in any more head-over-heels love with "INXS" singer Michael Hutchence, with that long-winded introduction? This was a slighty edgy segment for morning TV, where Yates was a seconadary presenter on the show and starred in an interview section called "In Bed With...". This is from 1994, regarded as the "golden age" of the show when Chris Evans and Gaby Roslin were the main presenters. Yates established a relationship with hutchence, although being married to musician and charity fund-raising machine Bob Geldolf. It's rumoured that it was in this moment, was when it began, however, Wikipedia claims it started some time before. They seem helluva cosy in support to that.
Michael Hutchence was the lead singer of Australian rock-pop band "INXS". They had success in the 80s, with a range of hits including "Need You Tonight", "Devil Inside" and "New Sensation". Hutchence had met Yates back in the 80s, when she presented "The Tube". The tragedy is, that to complete surprise, Hutchence was found dead in an hotel room, hanging himself with a belt. Depression and drugs were the main factor over the strained relationship with Yates, the pressure to get married and hassle with Geldof's fight for custody of Paula's daughter Tiger Lilly. However the famed cause of death was that Hutchence had died accidentally, according to many from Erotic asphyxiation. This is attempting to cut off oxygen from the brain to increase sexual arousal in the person.
What was even more tragic, is that Paula Yates was never really the same after Hutchence's death, who she clearly loved. No longer appearing as the quirky and bubbly personality we once saw, she appeared emotionally drained up to her tragic death. She continued to look after her daughter, until her own death, from drugs too, but this was accidental. A sad demise to one of Britain's most natural female presenters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHI_G1QFfIs
A classic moment from the show, which in hindsight, has a sense of the bittersweet and tragic. This is from Channel 4's "Big Breakfast", that really did break new ground as regards to weekday mornings, giving a more fun and sometimes surreal edge compared to mugs and woolly jumpers, and middle class P's and Q's that were a feature on TV-AM (ITV really) and the BBC's comparative shows.
Can Paula Yates be in any more head-over-heels love with "INXS" singer Michael Hutchence, with that long-winded introduction? This was a slighty edgy segment for morning TV, where Yates was a seconadary presenter on the show and starred in an interview section called "In Bed With...". This is from 1994, regarded as the "golden age" of the show when Chris Evans and Gaby Roslin were the main presenters. Yates established a relationship with hutchence, although being married to musician and charity fund-raising machine Bob Geldolf. It's rumoured that it was in this moment, was when it began, however, Wikipedia claims it started some time before. They seem helluva cosy in support to that.
Michael Hutchence was the lead singer of Australian rock-pop band "INXS". They had success in the 80s, with a range of hits including "Need You Tonight", "Devil Inside" and "New Sensation". Hutchence had met Yates back in the 80s, when she presented "The Tube". The tragedy is, that to complete surprise, Hutchence was found dead in an hotel room, hanging himself with a belt. Depression and drugs were the main factor over the strained relationship with Yates, the pressure to get married and hassle with Geldof's fight for custody of Paula's daughter Tiger Lilly. However the famed cause of death was that Hutchence had died accidentally, according to many from Erotic asphyxiation. This is attempting to cut off oxygen from the brain to increase sexual arousal in the person.
What was even more tragic, is that Paula Yates was never really the same after Hutchence's death, who she clearly loved. No longer appearing as the quirky and bubbly personality we once saw, she appeared emotionally drained up to her tragic death. She continued to look after her daughter, until her own death, from drugs too, but this was accidental. A sad demise to one of Britain's most natural female presenters.
Friday, 22 January 2010
Buona Sera Keith Floyd...
Floyd on Italy 1-1
A full first episode of 1994's "Floyd On Italy" featuring the wine-lashing, late, great Keith Floyd. This was one of the many branches of Floyd's focus on various countries and continents food culture, that were a feature on the BBC since 1984 with "Floyd on fish". Many viewers liked Keith, as he tell you as it is, about the food, as the main focus, not trying to steal the show himself, or be flashy, but his enthusiasm came across the screen very well. He travels to find the best restaurants and the best vineyards in Italy, and in this episode, he discovers the culture and food of the Piedmont region Of course, there's the famed cookery-on-the-spot of Keith making traditional Italian dishes from scratch in amongst the hustle and bustle of a street in a small north west Italian fishing village, the beautiful scenery of the Turin vineyard and cooking up on a boat.
A full first episode of 1994's "Floyd On Italy" featuring the wine-lashing, late, great Keith Floyd. This was one of the many branches of Floyd's focus on various countries and continents food culture, that were a feature on the BBC since 1984 with "Floyd on fish". Many viewers liked Keith, as he tell you as it is, about the food, as the main focus, not trying to steal the show himself, or be flashy, but his enthusiasm came across the screen very well. He travels to find the best restaurants and the best vineyards in Italy, and in this episode, he discovers the culture and food of the Piedmont region Of course, there's the famed cookery-on-the-spot of Keith making traditional Italian dishes from scratch in amongst the hustle and bustle of a street in a small north west Italian fishing village, the beautiful scenery of the Turin vineyard and cooking up on a boat.
Sunday, 3 January 2010
Tragedy Ensues at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix...
Murray Walker announces Roland Ratzenberger's Death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT1ysM7NgyY
1994 was a year of real tragedy for Formula One, as the BBC's Murray Walker, announces the death of the Austrian driver Roland Ratzenberger, when crashed in the qualifying on Saturday 30th April. The motor was offset by the high wind pressure during a backstraight, and crashed into a wall, dying of basal skull fracture. This was not the first death of an F1 driver since 1986, and more shock was to come, as 3-time world F1 champion Ayrton Senna crashed and died at the same course, the following day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT1ysM7NgyY
1994 was a year of real tragedy for Formula One, as the BBC's Murray Walker, announces the death of the Austrian driver Roland Ratzenberger, when crashed in the qualifying on Saturday 30th April. The motor was offset by the high wind pressure during a backstraight, and crashed into a wall, dying of basal skull fracture. This was not the first death of an F1 driver since 1986, and more shock was to come, as 3-time world F1 champion Ayrton Senna crashed and died at the same course, the following day.
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