Jake the Dog and Finn the Human

Posted on 13th January 2011 in Something Daily

I remember seeing a funny youtube cartoon way back in about 11th grade called Adventure Time where Jake the Dog and Finn the Human battled the Ice King to save Princess Rainicorn and also met Abraham Lincoln on Mars. If you’ve never seen it, I’m sure you can just tell from the description that it’s awesome; and if you still don’t, the fact that Finn’s exclamations are stuff like “mathematical!” and “rhombus!” should help you out. The point is that I saw this little eight-or-so minute video back in high school and thought it was awesome, and then recently learned that it was the pilot for a Cartoon Network show, and that the ensuing show is my new favorite cartoon (with the possible exception of Aqua Teen Hunger Force). Adventure Time has this crazy sensibility that allows it to do stuff like having Finn’s voice be autotuned whenever he sings, or giving the two a pet computer that loves to dance. I don’t know if those are great examples, but you get the idea. There is, however, a fair chance that the actual reason I like Adventure Time is that everything is so cute. They all have little mouths and little eyes and little legs and that makes them adorable. I mean, Adventure Time is great for other reasons. The guy who voices Bender on Futurama also voices Jake the Dog. It’s just pretty unpredictable in everything it does – voices, characters, animation, et cetera. Watch Adventure Time. Or don’t.

I’ve been reacquainted with the apparently inexhaustible power of Mastodon’s Leviathan to make me totally wired. I’ve also been reacquainted with the difficulty of Diddy Kong Racing for N64. For someone used to playing (and pretty good at) Mario Kart 64, getting back into Diddy Kong Racing is a challenge indeed. A big issue is that the game requires you to place first before advancing. Another big issue is those horrible silver coin challenges.

Better charge my iPod battery – I’ve got a long plane ride coming up tonight. I wish I had remembered to put “A Space Oddity” back on my iPod – I always loved to listen to that song as my plane was taking off and try to time it so that the drop after the big ascending bit (some would call it the ‘second half’) would time up exactly with the wheels leaving the runway. I did that a lot on Rock School trips when I was pretty scared of flying – David Bowie helped me out. I’m pretty sure there was only one time when I actually managed to get the song to sync up correctly. I’d usually just keep restarting it over and over and then be right at the beginning when we took off. This kind of thing is fun for me, apparently. Wish me luck on my Bowie-less flight.

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White Whale – Holy Grail

Posted on 30th October 2010 in Something Daily

I’m listening to Leviathan by Mastodon right now and it is so. Sick. Awesome. I found out about them recently from Leo and they’re great for an old fan of Slayer’s Reign in Blood, albeit a bit less thrashy. I think the very idea of writing a metal album about hunting Moby Dick is a concept that oozes awesomeness. I mean, it’s a huge WHITE WHALE, and when you listen to this album you’re getting hit by huge waves and hanging on to the mast for dear life while this monster with crazy eyes and about fifty harpoons sticking out of its face smashes its tail against the ship and you can feel it shaking and hear it cracking and everybody’s yelling and firing cannons at it but you can’t stop it no matter what you do. That’s what listening to Mastodon is like for me. It makes me really wired though, and it’s hard to hear right after listening to it all the way through.

The wiredness is only increased by the fact that I just got off of a several hour long Dragonball Z binge – so I’ve been watching super saiyan Goku blowing crap up with his mind and listening to Mastodon and apart from that staring at a computer for most of the day. So I may be a bit crazy. I drew a picture of Sonic the Hedgehog today, I think I’m getting better. I was going to do Charmander, but I don’t know if I’m up to it tonight. Maybe later.

Sonic the Hedgehog, drawn 10/30/10

When I get out of school, I’m going to try to get into audio engineering. But if that doesn’t end up working out, I’m going to open a pancake house with a friend of mine. We’re going to call it “Mancakes”, and we’ll only hire big beefy hairy guys to dress up like lumberjacks and serve you flapjacks – the minimum will be a five-stack.

Last night I saw an undergraduate performance at Tisch Dance that a friend of mine choreographed and danced in, and I helped her with the audio for her piece. It was a really good show, just as good if not better than all of the other Tisch shows that I’ve been to, in my opinion. They’re mostly modern pieces, usually with some type of message behind them, and usually choreographed by students, who are incredibly talented in my opinion. There was one piece that was really manly where these three guys with their shirts off were running around and jumping and slapping themselves and grunting. It was really unexpected and awesome. I think the dancing was top notch, and I loved a lot of the freshmen that I hadn’t seen in performances before. I mean, I don’t really know anything about dance, but I loved watching this show.

I decided yesterday that my room would be a lot cooler to live in if we made it more like an island, and then filled it with muppet treasure.

A friend of mine sent me this link to a really cool music video. I don’t know the band or anything, but I really enjoy the song, and of course the video is crazy cool. And I’m from Philly, so there’s that.

Oh, and Edward James Olmos is now following my tweets. That is all.

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