my geekiness is getting in the way of my nerdiness

[ironymaiden]

Patton Oswalt: At Midnight I Will Kill George Lucas with a Shovel

(links to Rhapsody - sorry, damn furriners - not worksafe, listen first and decide for kids.)


"...here's a bag of rocksalt!" *snorfle*

Comments

[jfrog78.livejournal.com]

I bought that cd yesterday and listened to that track twice in a row.

Well he's a kid.

[ironymaiden]

"if there were a 120 year old in the White House, just sitting in a wading pool of his own poop with a pirate hat on...would things be any worse than they are right now?"

[buhrger]

damn furriner asks for a transcript at least?

[ironymaiden]

i can't find one online (the album is pretty new) but the summary is that if he could go back in time and kill someone, it would be George Lucas before he made episode 1. then he does a hypothetical conversation with Lucas that culminates in Oswalt's disappointment at the idea of sad little boy Darth Vader and sad little boy Boba Fett, and you get to see the Death Star but we just look at it and it doesn't do anything. Lucas offers him ice cream to compensate. yes! and then Lucas gives him rocksalt, one of the elements of making ice cream... i'll play it for you next month.

[markbourne.livejournal.com]

Oswalt's been keeping a web site and blog for years. In it he's loud and proud about his geek/nerd creds -- books, movies, comics, the whole fannish thing. His post after attending last year's San Diego Comic Con (http://www.pattonoswalt.com/index.cfm?page=spew&id=16) is one sample.

"I also met Alan Moore by proxy. That is, I met his collaborator on LOST GIRLS, Melinda Gebbie. She signed a book, and then maced me when I presented her with an Alan Moore doll I made from my fingernail pairings, clothing swatches, and human tears (my own)."

[ironymaiden]

i love the one about Elvis Costello.

[markbourne.livejournal.com]

"Your music makes a cake in my soul."