Geekgasm!
Having had an extra day off this weekend, I spent it being a geek extraordinaire instead of trying to grill something in weather that's been bouncing between already being 100 degrees or raining. (The humidity will get ya either way.)
To wit, my friends and I had a variation on movie night by making it a night of short films/shows (many new for me since I don't have cable).
It all began with Star Wars:
Bizarrely, Space Balls was on TV when I got to my friend's. We only caught the end of it, but it did start the evening off right.
The Family Guy Star Wars thingy (with some special name I can't remember) - funny and okay.
Robot Chicken Star Wars - freaking brilliant and hilarious! And I need to watch it five more times to get everything because it's a conglomeration of lots of short skits, some less than a minute long. [All I will say is Boba Fett + carbonite Han Solo = my new OTP.]
A quick Youtube look at Thumb Wars, though we didn't have the patience to watch all 22 minutes of it huddled around a laptop. Still funny - especially the way they make the light saber noise with their mouths.
Then we moved on to World of Warcraft things (which I enjoy even never having played WoW):
I showed my friend the first few episodes of The Guild, Felicia Day's funny award-winning internet series on Youtube that follows the life of gamers but is accessible to non-gamers - the first season is complete, so it's the perfect time to watch.
South Park's WoW episode - hilarious in the small background details.
Things got a little miscellaneous from there:
I'd brought the first Wallace and Gromit shorts, which I still think are better than the long movie - funny and clever, and everyone was amazed by the talent of the claymation.
I was shown the first few episodes of another award-winning series on Youtube I'd never seen called You Suck at Photoshop - it's so funny it's wrong. A guy in the middle of his marriage breaking up makes PS tuts ... with a twist. I highly recommend it.
I finally saw the first episode of Invader Zim - twisted dark humor with a heavy dose of wonderfully stylized drawing and an adorable and dumb robot to boot. Now I know what some people's icons I've been seeing are about.
So much to geek over, so little time.
To wit, my friends and I had a variation on movie night by making it a night of short films/shows (many new for me since I don't have cable).
It all began with Star Wars:
Bizarrely, Space Balls was on TV when I got to my friend's. We only caught the end of it, but it did start the evening off right.
The Family Guy Star Wars thingy (with some special name I can't remember) - funny and okay.
Robot Chicken Star Wars - freaking brilliant and hilarious! And I need to watch it five more times to get everything because it's a conglomeration of lots of short skits, some less than a minute long. [All I will say is Boba Fett + carbonite Han Solo = my new OTP.]
A quick Youtube look at Thumb Wars, though we didn't have the patience to watch all 22 minutes of it huddled around a laptop. Still funny - especially the way they make the light saber noise with their mouths.
Then we moved on to World of Warcraft things (which I enjoy even never having played WoW):
I showed my friend the first few episodes of The Guild, Felicia Day's funny award-winning internet series on Youtube that follows the life of gamers but is accessible to non-gamers - the first season is complete, so it's the perfect time to watch.
South Park's WoW episode - hilarious in the small background details.
Things got a little miscellaneous from there:
I'd brought the first Wallace and Gromit shorts, which I still think are better than the long movie - funny and clever, and everyone was amazed by the talent of the claymation.
I was shown the first few episodes of another award-winning series on Youtube I'd never seen called You Suck at Photoshop - it's so funny it's wrong. A guy in the middle of his marriage breaking up makes PS tuts ... with a twist. I highly recommend it.
I finally saw the first episode of Invader Zim - twisted dark humor with a heavy dose of wonderfully stylized drawing and an adorable and dumb robot to boot. Now I know what some people's icons I've been seeing are about.
So much to geek over, so little time.