Friday, 20 April 2012

Change

They've changed the layout of this website and even though it's probably better than it was, it still took me a minute to find everything. It feels like I've moved into a new house. People always complain when the Facebook design changes, even if the new design is better. It makes me wonder whether people are just afraid of change.

I was reading a Cracked article about cartoons that are secretly disturbing or something like that. It seems like most articles on that site are random lists. This one was about all the sexual or violent implications the writers slipped into kid's shows that were able to soar over our little heads. When I was almost four I moved to Australia, where I settled in quickly into a life of riding kangaroos to school and throwing boomerangs at bunyips. I would also wake up early on weekends, because for some reason, when you are small, you don't sleep in. Maybe it's because you don't yet have a job that requires you to be up at a quarter past six to make salad, or because you don't go a private school where they dump a mountain of homework in your lap every night and tell you to fit it around the extra-curricular crap they make you do (thank god that part of my life is over). Anyway I would watch cartoons and nineties music videos until breakfast time. I can't remember many of them, but there was the one about claymation aliens and there was also one about Elvis' illegitimate son or something, which had a theme tune so annoyingly catchy that it's still kind of stuck in my head.  Most of the good cartoons came on after school though. Does anyone remember Cow and Chicken? Because I forgot about that abomination until it came up on Cracked. Apparently that was full of sex jokes. Catdog was one of those shows that makes you wonder about the implications of the world you're watching. How the hell did that thing go to the toilet? Similarly, why did Cow and Chicken have human parents? What kind of genetic horror story led to that outcome? I don't want to think about it. But the toon that takes the cake for the most effed up thing ever marketed to kids is Rocko's Modern Life, which for a time was my favourite show in existence. It was about a talking Wallaby who moved to America and befriended a talking cow. It was loaded with not-so-subtle sex jokes. But I think they may have cut those out for Australian TV because I don't remember seeing any of the more adult-humour moments you can now find on Youtube.

On a side note, Eurovision is coming back. I'm ready to laugh at all the weird songs and costumes and gimmicks they can scoop out from every nook and cranny across that strange continent. Last year bored me to tears, so this year needs to make up for it with the most hilarious trashy Europop it can get. I'm looking forward to watching them struggle to find famous stuff from Azerbaijan to celebrate (this year's competition is set in Baku, its capital city). What is there to see or do in that country, anyway?

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