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2:00 - kitty runs in and knocks the dog on it’s ass, and then the dog gets pissed and spazzes on the cat… haha.

Also, the dog has a funny name: “DeeOHgee”… GET IT???

YouTube - Puppy vs Kitty

NO SPOILERS, feel free to read.

OMFG.  This movie was amazing.  It has easily become my favorite “superhero” movie by leaps and bounds.  Holy crap.  Every bit of this movie was amazing.

I admit to not ever really being super into comics, so I’m not really super knowledgeable on Iron Man but wow, doubleyou oh doubleyou.  This was so much fun.  Spiderman was originally my favorite because of the swoop factor and how badass he was, but I’m digging the genius ladies man awesome guy more then emo kid QQ.

Stay till after the credits.  Holy shit.  Ho Le Shit.

I have so, so much bromance for Yahtzee. I took a trip to his site today to see the latest Zero Punctuation, and I found his second most recent post defending his stance as to why he hates the webcomic Control-Alt-Delete.

I’m kind of torn, I don’t want to copy/paste the entire essay but he currently offers no way to directly link to ‘just the post’ in question.

I think I would hate it if someone did this to something I wrote, without giving me lots of credit, because people are stupid, so I won’t. I’ll just point you vaguely to it right now:

http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/ - specifically the post titled ‘23/3/08: You Cad‘

But read this fucking poetry:

You see, I have this theory that the internet is causing a general mediocritisation of human culture, because you can put pretty much any piece of work on the internet and no matter how hugely it sucks dolphin jizz you’ll find some dick who’s prepared to tell you it’s brilliant. This is the principle on which Deviantart appears to be founded.

OH MY GOD, IT’s SO TRUE. I’ve felt this exact thing for a very long time. My god. My take on it has always been more that SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE will like what you make, if you put it online. This was the case eight years ago at least, I’d argue that it’s probably harder to find stuff online now, now that there is such a glut of content out there. Your stuff either needs to stand out or just simply be promoted effectively, but again, SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE will like your stuff. No matter how obscure, secular, or just simply bad it is, someone will like or at the very least appreciate your work. If I were to redraw the entirety of the Star Wars movies using stick figures, the site would get thousands of hits.

But the cruellest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn’t. It gives them no incentive to improve or try new things, which a creative person must always strive to do. And it tends to foster the kind of monstrous egos the webcomic sphere grows like mushrooms in the shit-spattered dark. Tim Buckley of Ctrl-Alt-Del is notorious for having a zero tolerance for any criticism, constructive or otherwise, often deleting it unregarded from his forums, or declaring them invalid for half-baked reasons. It seems blanket praise has already done its damage to this fevered ego.

Again, just to be clear, I did not write this amazing poetry, I’m simply citing it and passing it along for you to understand how amazing Yahtzee is. The bolded part is the like first cardinal rule of ‘art school.’ When you go get formal art training, THE FIRST THING YOU DO IS SPEND A YEAR BEING CRITICIZED, but also learning how to critique other people. This skill is just as important as learning how to draw, because as Yahtzee so eloquently pointed out, YOU WILL NOT GROW AS AN ARTIST IF YOU ARE UNAWARE OR UNABLE TO RECOGNIZE THAT GROWTH IS NEEDED.

He goes on to speak about how exactly to form comedy, explaining simple punchline examples, and showing exactly how CAD fails in regards to these seemingly simple elements. I can quote every passage and comment but I’ll let you go and read it yourself.

haha, I am just getting frustrated because I’m starting to see things materialize in front of me; mostly things that I feel very strongly about, and seeing other people elaborate and very eloquently ’say.’ I want to share this stuff with the world but I don’t know how.

This concert was amazing. They alternated old songs and then new songs from their new album, which are growing on me. Their energy is always super amazing. They played Kitty second, and right before the “kitty rear up and scratch me through my jeans” lyric, they cut IMMEDIATELY into playing “superstition” by Stevie Wonder. It was seamless and made for an amazingly mashup. I screamed my face off cuz I love that song too. Then, just as quickly as they cut, they cut right back into Kitty. I can honestly say that screaming “MEYOW” along with a venue full of people is nothing short of religious pilgrimage for me. (Just last Saturday I believe I was in a venue full of people screaming “PENIS”, which, in it’s own ways, was quite religious in itself.)

If you’re familiar with the song “Old Man on the Back Porch,” they busted that mofo out pretty crazy. During the ‘rant’ part where the ‘old man’ tells a story, in the story, the old man says he hears a knock on his door, and was visited in the story by Wayne Kramer of the band MC5. Then he hears another knock on his door and was visited by Weird Al Yankovick. The tangent was met with a lot of confused cheers but needless to say my ears perked up.

The show wrapped up, they had played all of my favorite songs, and you could feel the obligatory encore coming up. After an amusingly short cheer session, they came back out for an encore.

Then, for an encore, another guy came out. Turns out it was indeed the lead guitarist, Wayne Kramer, from MC5, to play the PUSA song “Kick out the Jams,” which I’ve now learned is a half-cover of the MC5 song. (Half-cover in that the melody and the chorus are covers but the rest of the lyrics aren’t covers.) Which looking back was pretty awesome. The exciting part of this, however, was the simple math I had done in my head regarding the previous foreshadowing.

They then played another song I think, and when that ended, and people could catch their breath, mister Wierd Al Yankovick walks the fuck onto the stage with a god damned accordion. I totally knew it, it was completely obvious, but I was hung up on what the hell they could possibly sing… I was going through the PUSA catalog in my head and the only things that were left were some of my favorite songs off obscure singles they released. Sure enough, they didn’t play a PUSA song, but busted out More Then a Feeling by Boston. Weird Al is amazing singer, totally got into the song, and fucking … rocked? on his accordion. There was a fan up on the stage, which I didn’t notice of course because Chris doesn’t have hair, but Weird Al times all of his rocking solos by standing in front of the fan and letting his curly hair waft in the breeze, honestly, it was amazing…. hahaha. We were all literally saying WHAT THE FUCK. IT’S WEIRD AL. HOLY SHIT. OH GOD. The song choice was hilarious, too, because it’s such a Guitar Hero song. Easily one of the most memorable concerts I’ll have ever gone to for this moment alone.

As an aside, Weird Al I think produced their latest music video, so I’m sure he was helping them out or wanting to or whatever. I don’t know, however, if they are on tour with them.

This is the shit I go to concerts for. So awesome.

I gave them 80 of my dollars for two t-shirts, and two CDs.