The 2nd-annual KRACKLEFEST is soon upon us! Below is the email I sent to friends, family and co-workers — it pretty much tells you all you need to know. If you’re coming to Seattle for ECCC, come let us rock you.
As part of the upcoming Emerald City Comic Con, my nerd-rock band Kirby Krackle is throwing the 2nd annual KRACKLEFEST at the Hard Rock Cafe on Friday, March 30th.
Last year’s KRACKLEFEST was off the chain, off the hook, um, off its meds, etc. with a full house of fans singing along and getting their faces rocked off with totally not-lame songs about comics and video games, executed with enough energy and precision to power the next Mars mission. This year we’re upping the ante with guest performances by nerdcore rapper Adam WarRock (The Parks & Rec EP, the Browncoats EP) and traveling nerdy songwriter Marian Call.
Come watch our singer Kyle lead the crowd in a sing-along to the Konami Code while avoiding sprained ankles during his patented stage jumps. If you’re planning on attending ECCC this year you won’t want to miss out!
KRACKLEFEST 2012
Kirby Krackle w/ Adam Warrock & Marian Call
Hard Rock Cafe Seattle
Friday, Mar 30, 2012 9:00 PM (8:00 PM Doors)
$8 advance / $10 at the door, 21 and over
I forgot to mention that last week Kirby Krackle released a “story cut” version of our “World Full Of Heroes” video (see the original video here). This version features some “real-life” superheroes and fans who volunteered to be in the video. Pretty sweet!
I only ask you, friends of the Internet, as a creator and consumer of culture, to not confuse your enthusiasm for a thing—expressed in tweets and tumbls and comments and torrents and downloads and upthumbs and gifs—with actual support for a thing that you want to last.
And if you want that thing to last, that means supporting it in the way that, for better or for worse, it makes its money: watching it as it airs, buying tickets to it when it comes out, buying it when it is available, seeing it when it comes to town.
I agree. But something nags: is it our fault that TV networks insist on using metrics that are so out of alignment with how people choose to watch shows today? Is it our fault that we now express our appreciation for quality entertainment through clicks, likes, tweets and pins? The snarky gremlin on my shoulder wants to say “well, what did you expect would happen when you put your television show on television?“
I’d never even heard of Community until I heard it mentioned in this interview with Bill Murray. Even then, another year passed before my wife put it in our Netflix queue. We gobbled up the first two seasons and I bought a Season 3 pass on iTunes so we could catch up to the season currently airing. It’s a brilliant, brilliant show.
There eventually has to be a better way to help shows like Community survive than to watch them with full commercials during its time slot. That doesn’t feel like supporting the show — that feels like supporting television watching. We just don’t roll like that anymore.
Really, I think that state of mind is all the copy protection any creator needs these days.
Awhile ago I was listening to a podcast interview with Patton Oswalt, and the discussion turned to other comedians who had stolen his jokes. He basically said he didn’t care. Which is the same reaction that Louis CK had when people were stealing his jokes. Remember, Louis CK regularly nukes his entire repertoire and starts again from nothing.
Neither guy really cared, because the next morning they were gonna get up, put on the coffee pot, and sit down and write twenty more jokes, and maybe five of them would be any good, and maybe one would be gold but still not make the cut. But they’d likely be twenty jokes ahead of the Mr. Steals-His-Jokes of the world.
And just like you don’t become a Patton Oswalt by sweating stolen jokes, you don’t become a Richard Stevens by freaking out over who might be grubbing your online comic for free.
