Well, July mostly sucked.
Anxieties, weather troubles, work mishaps, car stuff (not mine for once).
We lost some legends in the span of a week:
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who I'll always remember as the producer at the end of The Magic School Bus
Ozzy
and Chuck Mangione, who I (and a whole lot of other people) was exposed to thanks to King of The Hill.
And the star of Thunder in Paradise, Hulk Hogan.
Hulk Hogan, the character, will be missed. Terry Bollea, the person...not so much.
Joey Chestnut returned to the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest and dominated as usual.
I still don't have a Switch 2 or Donkey Kong Bananza, but I did pick up the amiibo
And this sweet shirt from The Yetee from their Summer Games Done Quick collection.
I thought it wouldn't ship until August!
And I saw Superman!
I quite enjoyed Guardians of the Justice Friends. James Gunn really knows how to tell a Superman story. AMD how you organically include more heroes and build a foundation for what's to come next. But I will agree with some people that felt like this was a sequel to a movie we never saw. But it really did cut down from the bullcrap and repeating stuff we've seen in all the other Superman movies.
Krypto was great, Guy Gardner was great, the Kents were great, and Mr. Terrific was...also great! I'll be seeing Fantastic Four soon, and I hear that one's good, too.
But that's all behind us now. A few weeks back I got to see Weird Al at Madison Square Garden!
I've never seen a concert at MSG before, and the place was pretty huge.
The nosebleeds really earn their title there, and each of those seats were filled. Shame I never got a picture of the seats behind me, but you get the idea.
I had some pretty killer seats. Although while I had floor seat money, I didn't have 8th row floor seat money like my friend did.
But that didn't matter, Weird Al killed it as usual! And he played some songs I hadn't heard him do live in eons, like Fat, Eat It, and Like A Surgeon, plus ones I wasn't expecting like Everything You Know is Wrong (his TMBG homage), Ricky (his parody of Toni Basil's "Mickey"), and I Love Rocky Road. Some new stuff was sprinkled in, like the new polka, the song at the end of Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, and the Captain Underpants theme.
He played the Milo Murphy's Law theme, too. I wish he played more songs from the show, but it was nice to hear this one. He starred in a show from the Phineas & Ferb people, and hardly anyone talks about it!
And yes, he still played lots of clips from shows and movies that mentioned him, like this classic from King of The Hill.
And the ever classic cameo in The Naked Gun.
When I saw the trailer for the new movie I said "he'd better be in this one," and apparently he is!
And Conan The Librarian from UHF.
And Puddles Pity Party opened the show!
The sad clown with the golden voice was amazing to finally hear live. His cover of Crazy Train really took on a different meaning after Ozzy died. And stay for the end where he professes his love of Kevin Costner.
I got to see it with my dad, which made that night really special. My friend who was supposed to go with me backed out a week before and I couldn't find anyone else before he volunteered. He said that "the parodies don't hit as hard when you've seen the actual artists." He has a very impressive concert resume. The last time he was at MSG was to see Bob Dylan and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.
But I knew he had a good time.
That'll do it for July, and August will be packed for me: a few conventions, Anime NYC, and a trip to Seattle! Stay tuned!
