Um... I forgot what I was gonna say. Okay, so like, the other day I wrote a self-profile, but this here is like, my first real article. And for the past couple days or so, I've worked on reading the articles and stuff on this site (except for the ones I read months ago over to spacepark or whatever). And of course while reading each article, I get ideas for things to say in my own articles. And then I forget those ideas. Also occasionally I get an idea just at some random time of day. Then I forget those ideas, too. But I'm going to try to write an article, anyway. I guess.
I like Teen Titans. It isn't great or anything, but I like it because I'm an otaku wannabe and because I like almost any cartoon based on comic books, though I've never really seen Superfriends and don't like it anyway, except for some of those little sketch things Cartoon Network did with it. And I like the theme song by Puffy AmiYumi, the popular J-pop duo that I've liked ever since I first saw their video for "Boogie Woogie #5" on WorldLink TV, which I recently discovered now calls itself just Link TV, and which I wish I still got but I can't get satellite in my stupid apartment building, and Link TV isn't on cable. I miss watching world music videos. Anyway, I also like J-pop, though I don't get to hear much of it, and there was never much of it on WorldLink TV, either. But I like Puffy, who add their first names, Ami and Yumi, to the band's name in the States so as not to be confused with Sean Combs. And the only good thing I can think of about Sean Combs off the top of my head is that Ben Stiller was in one of his videos. But I digress (which is a phrase I've always wanted to have printed on a t-shirt). Also I think Starfire and Raven are hot, but I think most cartoon girls are hot, especially anime girls. This is one of the psychological problems I mentioned in my profile, but I wanted to mention it here specifically about the Teen Titan girls, and also because I want it to be clear that the problem doesn't just apply to anime girls. Also I wanted to say the series seems to be getting better. I don't think it's quite as cliched as when it started, though I could be wrong about that.
Which brings me to another thing I wanted to write about, which is that cliched and predictable things aren't always bad. And original and unpredictable things aren't always good. I'd rather watch a good unoriginal show than a sucky original show. Um... I also wanted to mention that years ago, I saw this movie on TV one night with this guy who went back to his hometown, and started investigating all these mysterious deaths, and it became painfully obvious to anyone watching the movie that the people were being killed by electrical appliances. It's like, duh, how can the stupid people in the movie not realize that inanimate objects have come to life and turned against their masters? But no, in the end it turned out I was wrong. Actually, the local surgeon was killing people with electrical appliances because they had all caused a blackout one night when he was operating on his son, which caused his son to die. It was completely unpredictable and uncliched, I thought (except for the doctor ending up with a shotgun on some tower or something), but it still sucked ass. I also want to mention that last night I was watching Justice League, and I was sure it would turn out the villian who was giving everyone nightmares would've turned out to have been dreaming the whole thing himself, but he wasn't. I suppose it was kind of nice to be wrong. On the other hand, I often enjoy predicting things and turning out to be right. Like how one time on Teen Titans, Robin was pretending to be some mysterious villain to try to get close to Slade. It was so obvious (to anyone other than his friends, of course), but it was still fun to be right. Anyway... I think I had something else to say about things being cliched and predictable, something I thought of maybe yesterday, I dunno. I forget what it was, now.
Also I was watching Duck Dodgers the other day. Back in the old days, that was a good character. Now that he has his own series, it just kinda sucks. I still watch it though. I don't know why. But I do like the girls on that show. Even the Martian Queen. (If you think that's weird, I also think Jenny the Teenage Robot is hot.) Anyway, the other day it occurred to me, the non-Warner Bros. characters on this show look like they were done by Spumco. I don't know if that's true or not, but they look like it. I just wanted to mention that. And the only thing I've ever liked by Spumco was Björk's "I Miss You" video.
Another thing I was thinking about the other day was that people seem to be ironic or sarcastic alot these days. I'm (today) put in mind of the line from an old Simpsons episode where one teenager at Lollapalooza or whatever says something, and his friend says "are you being sarcastic?" and the first guy replies, "I don't even know anymore." Yes, I was thinking the other day about how folks can be ironic and serious at the same time, and I was gonna make a comic about that, but now maybe I'll just mention it here. And this scene from the Simpsons reminds me of what I was thinking, even though I didn't remember it till today. Or yesterday, I dunno. But whatever. What was my point? Um... several days back, I was thinking that irony is a cross between fear and something else, but now I can't remember what. Dammit. I wish I had a recording device in my head. And don't talk to me about brain wrinkles, cuz they don't do shit. Most people are supposed to use 10% of their brains, but I swear to God, most of my recent thoughts get taped over. But the point was, sometimes I find myself saying something ironically, but it isn't entirely ironic. It's like I'm afraid what I want to say will be mocked, so when I say it I couch it in irony, as a form of pre-emptive self-defense. (This is odd, because I'm big into self-deprecation, as you'll be well aware if you've ever read my comix. Or almost anything else I've ever said, for that matter.) Which is not to say that I don't actually feel a certain sense of irony or sarcasm in these things I say. It's there, and I enjoy it on its own level, but on another level... I want to be taken at least semi-seriously. (I worry conversely about both being taken too seriously and too ironically, though perhaps not always at the same time.) Of course, I'm basically just a dabbler in irony, and part of that goes to my trying to emulate teenagers, as I talked about in my profile. You people can write whole, hilarious articles which are ironic. I admire that. And while I'm sure my kind of irony-as-defense-mechanism is something we all engage in, it seems like you all also use straight-up irony and sarcasm alot more than I do. You bunch of Darias, you. (Did I ever mention how much I love pop culture references?) Anyway, as for myself as well as others, I think it's often hard to tell whether someone's being completely serious, completely ironic, or a mix of the two. Probably most often a mix. But then, you've all understood this stuff forever and have been saying "duh" throughout this whole paragraph, if you even bothered to read it....
I don't know if I had anything else to say right now, except that the other day I saw an ad for these Wiccan Barbie dolls (Secret Spells Barbie), and I just thought that was hilarious. But they weren't at all Goth, which is a damn shame. Cuz Goth girls are the hottest.
Oh yeah, also I would write an article about how Adult Swim has changed over the years if I didn't have such a terrible memory. But perhaps that has its advantages....