Saturday, July 27, 2013

Monday, July 15, 2013

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

mr. brightside

this (and basically anything by RRN):



band discovery courtesy of catfish (of all sources)

Monday, July 8, 2013

Friday, June 14, 2013

Patton Oswalt

not a huge patton oswalt fan (mostly out of ignorance not distaste), but really enjoyed the essay he posted to his site covering joke thievery, standup heckling, and rape as a topic of comedy. the main theory he challenges:

Comedians don’t write their own jokes.  They all steal.  All great artists steal.  You can’t copyright jokes.  It doesn’t matter who writes a joke, just who tells it the best.  Don’t musicians play other musicians’ songs?  There are only so many subjects to make jokes about, anyway.  I’ve seen, like, five different comedians do jokes about airplanes – isn’t that stealing, too?

as someone new to comedy fandom, I feel like I've already heard this time and time again. in my opinion, people feel as though they have a right to be comedians because it seems so accessible. not many fans watch lebron score an amazing block during the nba finals and think to themselves "I could easily go down there and do that," yet for comedy that seems to be the prevailing opinion. it's much more difficult to see the time and hard work necessary for success in standup than in athletics, art, or music. perhaps this is because most average people have tried these fields in school and understand they don't have what it takes to become a professional (or even half-way decent). if everyone studied stand up comedy, would they appreciate how impossible it is to master...?