Friday Night Law: Fan Art, SOA, 9/11
Pencils
If you pay attention to our Facebook page you’ll notice my obsession with fan art. Name a popular film or television show and chances are pretty high that there’s hundreds of fan-made artwork floating around the web. I’ll log into Deviantart.com and stare at my screen for hours. They vary from cool to funny to absolutely incredible page by page and as much as I love just sitting there and admiring or sharing as much as them as I can, I SO want to take part. Like any pop culture obsessed child I would draw my own comic books and try to make up my own super heroes all the time back in the day. I was awful. I remember writing EVIL DEAD 3 (before ARMY OF DARKNESS) with periodical pictures and ended up stopping because whatever my hands were drawing on the page was not matching up with what was in my head. I’m 40 years old now and might be rounding a corner when it comes to my free time as my youngest kid finally started school this week, so a few days ago I was walking around a book store and notice a sketchbook on clearance. Call it whatever you want, a mid-life crisis, a pipe-dream, an inspired next step – I sat down and drew my first picture in, probably, twenty-eight years or so. Behold….
I realize it’s not amazing but I can’t help but be a little bit impressed with myself for not putting pencil to paper for so long. That and the fact that the last time I drew anything it looked like I was blind and was using my feet. I’m happy with how it turned out but I want to get better.
Sons
I don’t know if it was the internet hype or our very own Final Exam contest but I found myself surprisingly excited for the return of Sons of Anarchy this past week. Moreno and I spent a lot of time laughing at this show last season during our commentaries and I will forever hate the character of Jax but nothing could keep me from absorbing the season premiere. And for the most part it delivered greatly. The Club seems more pissed off than normal, Gemma actually has a relevant story line, and the predictability factor was at an all time low as Sutter and company decided to keep the most important plot hidden from the viewing audience until the end. Look, Jax still sucks, between his over-dramatic dialogue delivery and this tired tough guy act, I can’t help but shake my head every time he’s on screen. There’s not many TV shows I can think of that are held back from being great by their lead character. That said, the last few years I’ve finished off some shows simply because I had invested so much time prior to them turning to shit (Dexter, Californication), Sons genuinely has my full attention until the end.
That’s about it this week but I wanted to share this since it was what I was listening to while writing the column this week. As most of you know, I’m a huge Howard Stern guy, but I had never listened to his 9/11 broadcast until now. It’s messy at times and comically uninformed at best but I think that was the state we were all in that morning. The range of emotions Stern and his staff go through that morning is one of the most relatable moments in the history of widespread media. He gets calls from people on the street, people that were in the towers, members of Congress, and people that just needed somewhere to vent.
Pete
September 12, 2014 @ 9:15 am
Quiz and commentaries are the only reasons why I’m excited for sons.
baronweazle
September 12, 2014 @ 11:11 am
That drawing actually isn’t half bad Law, honestly! (and even if it was just go on. Art is everything you create out of scratch, it doesn;t matter wther it’s “good” or “bad”)
Kupka
September 12, 2014 @ 3:54 pm
Impressed by the sketch yo.
YoshioKun13
September 14, 2014 @ 6:51 pm
Not bad Law.