Kelly Rued, Etcetera
Insufferable as NASCAR, indomitable as moon prospectors, metal as the wind—such is our love.
Welcome, svelte cybernauts, to my personal scrapblog. Some people say, "you waste so much time looking at stupid shit on the internet. When you're on your death bed, think how you'll wish you could get that time back." People who win at the internet don't go out like that. We'll have a lifetime of stupid internet shit saved in our scrapblogs so we can cherish it ON our death beds. Remember that great lol you had in June 1998? I don't either. Don't let your lolz continue to deteriorate like your aging, senile brain. Get a tumblelog and win at the internet. - PSA by KRetc.
I think Tom Green is pure genius. His style of comedy is so original and unapologetically STUPID, it’s the opposite of all the snarky, ironic, pop-culture-reference shit out there today. It’s the best performance art I’ve seen online and it speaks volumes about the sheer size of his metaphorical balls that he does this shameless, honest shit for the whole world to see. He resurrects the dead art of clowning by losing all the stupid circus tropes and just going for the essence of what a clown IS. In a world of people desperately trying to look smarter than they are, Tom Green acts ridiculous and elevates dumb and conversational/emergent humor in a way that is a celebration rather than a put-down of our collective human stupidity.
I’m probably not doing his work justice with my clumsy praise. I’m just so thrilled to see that he’s making a serious effort to create a truly independent and fantastically bizarre internet tv channel. He’s harnessing the real transformative power of online media to create interactive comedy shows where the audience is part of the content, the video, the conversation, and in all professional seriousness, it makes me want to have dozens of his virtual interweb babies (like in Second Life, not IRL where babies are poopy and you can’t log out and get some damn sleep). I would love to design games and entertainment apps for his web channel.
Even if his comedy isn’t your cup of tea, there are good reasons to support Tom Green’s channel, to help build a success story which will inspire talented, creative people to get off their asses and do what they are best at, directly for their audiences. Instead of trying to impress talent scounts, agents, and producers, people need to just make comedy and entertainment online, even if the corporate sponsored world of mainstream media doesn’t get it. The future of entertainment is in the niches, the communities where we feel like we “get it” and know our peers “get it” too.
Mainstream media was always just a half-ass solution because we lacked the technology to do things a better way. Tom Green’s web tv channel proves that we are on the right track to more diverse and personally enjoyable media (because I love his weirdness to pieces and there is no way in hell I could see this kind of public dickery and the absurdity of a guy just interviewing people in his living room on prime time TV).
So do you part to support awesome: subscribe to TomGreen.com
