Troetelbeertjes!! Troetelen doe met ons mee.. (klap klap)

 

EFFEN pure Nostalgie....

Samen met dochter kijken naar De troetelbeertjes .. (film 2 A new generation uit 1986)

De eerste film (1985) bevat dan weer de prachtig mooie 'troetelland'... Ook een pareltje!

hartje hartje hartje

xxx

Sara aka wishbear =) xxx

The first edition of....

 Hi Blog!

It's the first edition of ... NOSTALGIA NIGHT! @ Lokeren city!

This includes.. quality time with little brother S..

cocktails, cocktails, cocktails.. (who knew S turned out to be quite the cocktailmaker!!! I enjoyed them absolutely!

cats - cats - cats... even with my allergies.. i did quite good..

and lots of nostalgia - about old shows - cartoons - pictures - funny stories - old cd's..

We did an 'almost-allnighter'.... but had to go to sleep at 4, because of going back home at 6!

It was an absolute blast! Time flew by!

What passed the show? Quite a few! here's the list..

Spellbinder, Xena, Asterix and Obelix (even finishing the movie!) Suske en Wiske The musical, ...

Small intro: Beast wars, Ovide en zijn vriendjes.. (intro still stuck in my head!) Marsipulami, Stella Stellaris, Round the twist, Weird science, wicked science, (all quite aussie!.. Where the hell comes this love for Australia? Nearly all kids shows were imported from down under THATS WHY - such as.. written up here.. Skippy the bush Kangaroo and also mission top secret. 

dutch cartoons like - sing a long songs - Eurodisney edition.. - the rescuers, darkwing duck, gummy bears, ducktales, talespin, power rangers, turtles, the island of Noach, Seabert, captain planet, rainbow brite, dragon ball Z, Beestenbos is boos, de droomshow (from the netherlands) digimon, pokemon, dinosaurs the tv show! rugrats and hey arnold, alfred kwak, ren and stimpy, the pinky and the brain, Kuzco with the talents of Kronk and Yzma, Dommel, Boes and Popeye and son, sailer moon and the care bears, der kleine vampire, the secret world of alex mack, the intro of flikken, Postbus x, woof, escape to witch mountain,...

With honorably mention of 2 video's I totally forgot! But actually S remembered them vividly.. and after a small research we found everything about it! This show was named Beetleborgs... 

And the second being Weird science (the tv show I stumbled on when looking for the wicked science (aussie kids show) quite the coincidence.. 

Not only kids tv shows.. Even some old videogames.. AND playing some new ones! =)

after some research we even find some olden goldies! from somewhere between 1992 and 1995, when we briefly owned a freaking ATTARI!!! messed up really!! I remembered something about a superman game and a phonebooth, soon after we found this game: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ9NGfIE2xU

or even this one - which I clearly can remember.. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhd7FfGCdCo

Then moving on to the old old computer we once had that needed floppy disks.. yes.. they were called that way! We found these bangers!! All games from the 80's, that we played on an anciant computer. Like pipe mania...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpqzX6iW7qk&t=10s

or this iconic one.. 'alley cat'. Just hear that sound!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZDG4dlU5uY

WIPE OUT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoQMwdArFUA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW2HWKoo2nE

I eventually remembered also having a flight simulater too.. Where I always crashed after lift off.. very depressing game.

it truly was a trip to memory lane.. who knew owning a Switch could be so entertaining? Hate the playstation with its poor games.. love the switch! We played the multi player of Mario Wonderland.. What a game! Loved playing it, loved the tiny details and the smooth animation.. well well.. we came a loooooooon way from Pong to this.. well done people, well done .. now go solve wars, climate change,  ilness and famine please.

The best thing about this night? bonding with lil bro.. =) Thanks S!!!

xxxx

Keiko

Danny *Samson* Verbiest is niet meer..

Aan alle samsonliefhebbertjes *waaronder ik* samson is niet meer.

Dat is.. de allereerste stem - poppenspeler van Samson dat is.. Danny Verbiest!

Geen nobele onbekende in het wereldje! Hij speelde tussen 1989 en 2004 de stem van Samson. De bekendste hond van vlaanderen, zong liedjes met zijn *baasje* Gert. Speelde shows.. richtte een multinational op samen met nog een paar bekenden (studio 100) en is nu op 79 jarige leeftijd helaas overleden. Het ga je goed!

Het toeval treft weer dat ik net opzoekingswerk aan het doen was voor mijn eerste ervaring met Samson.. er staat een kerstshow van 1992 die ik dacht te hadden bijgewoond op een vhs..

Bleek dat waarschijnlijk niet zo zijn geweest. Want in september 92 is hij wel naar de Brielpoort in Deinze geweest (toen ik 7 was) jammer genoeg totaal geen herinnering meer van! Van de kerstshow (degene uit  1991 dan in antwerpen, ook geen herinnering meer van)

Mijn mama toverde plots enkele oude tickets uit vanuit de ouwe doos! Wat een verrassing!

En ook gisteren keek ik net een oud interview met bassie en Adriaan, die tijdens een gesprek de *de hond* wilde claimen.. zij hadden namelijk eerder een bobtail hond gebruikt tijdens hun programma (genaamd lara)... coincidence? I think not.

XxKeiko

All the love naar Samson...

cookie monster WisDOm

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1996Do3u8q/

So this happened.. (in the heat of the moment)

•  #A small party! 
• #10 year anniversary bride and groom..
• #sharing with everyone willing to come
• #Lifeisbetterwithgold
• #musiclovepasta
• #USCIA
• #D'ouweSmisse
• #hairandmakeup

But also..

• never - ever to be mentioned again. Or organised again.
• singing VERY much of key on my little solo :O
• just a few family members of my huge family.. (disappointed much?) no.. it was actually quite sad. Even Mics relatives were more present (and it's been nearly 5 years ago)
• One sister of my mother who brought everyone! Thank you aunt Sigrid.. You really made my day.
• on a friday evening..
• all of my collegues where there!
• good food - but very spicy!
• Thijs feeling bad (and even throwing up)
• no dad and his family (in Tunesia) Thank God for Ilyes. that really wanted to come..
• no dad-in-law because he dislikes parties... not even coming in for just a minute... sad sad sad..
• 1 friend out of 3 that showed up. #abitangryfor that.
• 2 friends who forgot to show up. sad, sad sad.. 
• Sister-in-law that didn't show up. too bad...
• the many friends that could have stayed for pasta.. because of the leftovers..
• looking for lights on thursday evening and getting them!! =) 
• having USCIA (choir) to perform on this big evening! THANK YOU!
• Brother-in-law that really forced his way back to Belgium after a worktrip to Ireland.
• and so much more...
• feeling a bit sad and insecure.. because.. why didn't my nephews and nieces left me message or something? They were also so much invited.. I don't understand.. perhaps its absolutely is my fault organising it on a friday.
• so much dissapointed.

Thank u NeXT

 Hi Blog!

Time for the research of the next VHS TAPE from the 90's.. And i've come to terms, I will not ever throw some of them away, like I actually was intended to do in the first place.

Next one is up:

This VHS TAPE has it all

- ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN (dutch sub)

Yes i watched again after 20+ years.. And oddly it felt like coming home.. even remembering the lyrics from the songs.. although I could'nt recall I would watch this movie so many times like others.. it felt quite strange hearing it again after so many years..

actually I watched this for knowing it's not that gruesome to show to my kids. because it was quite sad too..

some info on this movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096787/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_all%2520dogs 

• The director of this movie is Don Bluth.. quite famous for every good cartoon in the 80's - 90's.. (including secret of Nimh, Thumbalina, Land before time and even Anastasia) First starting his careers at Disney where he worked on Sleeping beauty and Merlin. (but nevertheless not even mentioned on movies credit list..
• Mr Bluth is still with us at the age of 88 (1937!) and is born in El Paso Texas! (wasn it the birthplace of one of het girlfriends of S?)Think so!
• this movie came out in 1989
• Original voices for the main characters are: Dom Deluise (Itchy the dashund) and Burt Reynolds for Charlie (streetdog) Dom died in 2009 at the age of 75 and Burt died in 2018 at the age of 82. 
• the saddest part of this movie was the death of original voice Anne-Marie (Judith Barsi) she died before the movie came out in 1988 at the age of 10 years old. She was killed by her abusive father in a homicide killing off all family members. 
• it is rumoured that the final lines (farewell to Anne-Marie when departing to heaven) by Burt Reynolds to the character of Judith Barsi where shot after her murder and thus very emotional to the actor! It had to be redone over 70 times!
• The Dutch voices of Barry Hay, Martin van Waardenberg and Lies Schilp where used for Dutch voices.. Good to know.. Barry Hay (Charlie) is a singer from a wellknown band called Golden earing! Gaining international succes as well! seem more @ https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Earring or @https://golden-earring.nl/

Next up:

- Aladin on Ice (special from 1995)

Then this gem occurred!

I found the whole episode on Youtube! (heaven forbid!)

About:

• This aired as a tv movie in 1995!
• Was filmed in Caïro, Egypt.. (wrong place no?)
• Included 2 very well known skaters: Kurt Browning and Kristi Yamaguchi
• It's kind of a remake but features a skating rink! =) and quite the impressive moves! (These skaters were no less but World Champions (Canada and US) in the 90's!
• Great to watch after all those years..
• I've ever been to 2 shows (when I was younger) Beauty and the Beast and Peter Pan.. that I recall just a little! (before 1995 - and going with my aunt Mietje - Thank you) but not Aladin I think.

- A small piece from The horse in the gray flannel suit.. (did I recognize)

I actually had this movie taped on another cassette and watched is when I was so much younger.. I found the whole movie on YT and will watch it over the next couple of days.. 

- The short movie: The Legend from Firefly Marsh. Firefly Marsh on IMDB

• Directed by Gabe Torres.
• tv Movie from 1987 and about 28 minutes long.
• No wellknown actors, but okay performances.
• just a golden oldie, not mucht to be found of this particular movie.
• aired on tv 1 (former BRT 1) 

- A couple of episodes from Flipper the series (aired in 1995 till 2000) with even a young Jessica ALBA!

(just 2 episodes.. ' season 1 episode 3 and 4: the green freak and 'true believer'. )

About: 

• Jessica Alba was kidnapped by animal right's activists off the set of this show. She was missing for 14 hours until she was found gagged and bound in the trunk of a car. She left the series soon after this. They never found the people who kidnapped her! Wow!

All with them old logos on from back in the day:

 nothing on the old VT4 logo.

And thats all for today!

Next on.. is this VHS.. All dogs go to heaven II!

I do'nt remember this at all!!

xxx

Sara

The great Basil Poledouris!!!

Well heck, who is this guy? You ask?

Well.. its quite frankly *just* one heck of a music composer for movies.. such as FREE WILLY! 

In all my years on this planet and devotion to people like John Williams, Ennio Morricone, Van Gelis and so on.. I simply forgot this mister.. the composer of the soundtrack from Free willy.

When recently going to a play/musical piece with the kids in Bijloke Gent (called Moby Dick - played with various actors and the philharmonic orchestra) they did a little skit from Free willy too.. (what a nice little surprise) 

Just a little bit tearyeyed because of the feelings and the memories from this beloved movie.. (1993) and not to forget the first HUGE crush I had on THE boy... (yes Jason James Richter) I just adored you as a wee 9 year old and fancied you quite a bit.. but nevertheless.. you were too old for me in that time.. (almost 13 right?) 

When heard the iconic tunes from the movie, I wondered how many of the audience would have guessed it from this movie.. ! Back home, I googled it (again for the billionth time) and finally learned the truth about the composer of free willy. And i'm so much ashamed by it, not knowing earlier who it was.

Here is some back ground story for Basil Poledouris.. cos afterall - the score on free willy is quite unique, haunting, stunning and fantastic at the same time.. Gracious, exciting, adventurous,..  it reminds me of 80's tunes and off course killerwhales in general. He died almost 20 years ago.. but today he's remembered in his plays, pieces, movies and for now on this little blog. He is not forgotten.

Basil Konstantine Poledouris (/ˌpɒlɪˈdɔːrɪs/; August 21, 1945 – November 8, 2006) was an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film and television scores,^[1] best known for his long-running collaborations with directors John Milius and Paul Verhoeven. Among his works are scores for the films Conan the Barbarian (1982), Red Dawn (1984), Iron Eagle (1986), RoboCop (1987), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Free Willy (1993), Starship Troopers (1997) and Les Misérables (1998).

Poledouris won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special for his work on the four-part miniseries Lonesome Dove in 1989, and was a four-time recipient of the BMI Film Music Award.

So.. quite the impressive list huh?! Thank you for the music mr Poledouris. 

xxxx

Keiko aka Sara