It's HAPPENING! AHHHH!!!
Remember, the show is at 4 PM in the Omni International Room.
I still need to determine what other panels I'm going to, but I'll be there! Even Thursday has looked really exciting!
JAM OF THE WEEK: "Canary In A Coal Mine" by The Police
OK, I only picked this because I JUST found out that it's very possible Zenyatta from Overwatch was named after a Police album, Zenyatta Mondatta.
Zenyatta is one of the playable heroes in Overwatch.
Mondatta was the Omnic Monk who was assassinated in the "Alive" short.
We all caught up? Good.
I never associate The Police with words like "Happy" or "Upbeat", but it turns out The Police can turn out a good summer jam, eh? "Canary In A Coal Mine" is a fast paced reggae song about someone who's a hypocondriac. It's not deep or difficult to play, it's an enjoyable song from a band I usually associate with more dour fare.
"Don't Stand So Close To Me", the lead track off the album sets kind of a downer tone for the rest of Zenyatta, which is prime Florida Driving Music. Also the rest of the album isn't about pedophilia, which is good.
RICK AND MORTY IS SOME GOOD STUFF
Shocker, right? Imagine if Futurama went more toward the "Twilight Zone", where it's not so much "ALL THE FEELS!", but more like "Let's play around with this concept for 30 minutes and see how far we can take it. For all the WACKY SCIENCE ADVENTURES!, there's this really sad undercurrent to everything. My favorite episodes are where Morty wants to save someone and ends up killing thousands in the process and I always like B-plots focusing on Morty's parent's terrible marriage.
The thing is, you see all of these memes and catchphrases that pop up from the show like "Get Schwitfty", "Wuba Lubba Dub Dub!" and "I'M MR. MESEEKS!" and you see them on T-shirts from Hot Topic and shouted at cons, but those are within the first 5 minutes as the launchpad for the rest of the episode.
It's streaming on Hulu and Adult Swim, so check it out!
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