A Little Inspiration

by T-Bob

First of all I want to say how excited I am to be not only working towards bringing this story to life, but also to be doing it with mis hermanos! It's quite an adventure.

Now onto your irregularly scheduled blog post:

A couple years ago I created the two main characters as illustrations and figured they'd never be anything more. They're shown below. After seeing them, you may be wondering, where the hell did I get the idea for them?

Little Hog (LHFH) was inspired by one of my best friend's and my favorite pastimes; singing songs and changing the lyrics. One day we were singing Roxette's "Listen to your heart" (of course) and we changed the last line of a verse to "A little hog from heaven in your dreams!" Obviously that character we were singing about had to be brought into the world

Evil Asian Robot came by us in a completely different but equally ridiculous way. Anyone who knows me, knows that I'm a huge fan of Joss Whedon. Well in his show 'Angel', Daniel Dae Kim played an evil lawyer who was not very threatening, or emotional but was still technically evil. He was so uninfluential in the show Zabeth (my bestie) and I began to call him Evil Asian Robot (EAR). So I went about creating him.

The originals were done in literal layers (as opposed to Photoshop [PS] layers). The bottom layer (background) is water color. The top layers are done in pencil which I went over with colored marker, then cut out with exacto blades and glued onto the first layer. And let me tell you those curly Q's in LHFH's name were not easy to cut out! The exception is that EAR was put together in photoshop even though I cut out the pieces. Also part of his name was drawn in PS, but I can't remember which part now.

LHFH Theme Song

Post by Don

Since the beginning, we have really wanted a theme song that contains the story of how LHFH got to live with the Evil Asian Robot and explain why he is named Little Hog From Heaven. It could act as a title and front credit song.

I had written a simple little verse-chorus-verse-chorus back when we first started playing with the ideas in 2008.

I have been a really drawn to acoustic Americana recently. I got to see Ralph Stanley live (of O'Brother Where art thou fame) a months back and am a really big fan of the Cold Mountain soundtrack, both of which have lead me to discover some great Americana.



Reflecting back I think these as well that the Beverly Hillbillies and The Dukes of Hazard theme songs really inspired us.



On Tuesday January 5th, I refined some of the lyrics and settled on producing it in a Folky - Early Americana style. Bernard and I started to record a demo for the theme and we really liked it.

T-Bob look a listen when we met the next day for our production meeting. He really loved it but felt it was way to long. It was almost 1 minute long. So at T-Bob's suggestion we cut extra beats and removed some lyrics and tightened it up and got it down to 46 sec.

We were still laughing when we played it back for the last time that night, so it has passed the bench mark.

Here are the lyrics we are working with now.

Little Hog from heaven
was a curious pig
so he snuck out the fence to see what he could see
hit by a tractor
dead by 4:11
and that's how the piggy became
Little Hog From Heaven

Little Hog From Heaven
Little Hog From Heaven

waiting in line
at the pearly gates drank to much
and he just could not wait

followed Evil Asian Robot
to the bathroom door
and little hog from heaven
weren't in heaven anymore

Little Hog From Heaven
Little Hog From Heaven
spends all of his days with a robot friend
the adventures continue .. . .and they never ever end.