Counter Culture.....

Tonight a strangely titled movie hits theaters. "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters" is the title of a feature film based on a 12 minute cartoon. All praise Cartoon Network and it's late night programming called "Adult Swim". It's a perfect example of the Counter Cultural coolness that can be found in today's world. Look at the characters. Frylock (the French Fries), Master Shake...(obvious) and Meatwad. It's a show about an animated Happy Meal for Christ sake. But, it's damn funny. Strange, weird, gory, odd but very funny. My Wife doesn't get it, but that's okay. Not everyone gets the odder humor of the world. My Stepson and I think it's hysterical. Look at the other examples of cultural oddness that is cool: South Park, Beavis and Butthead.......The Simpsons for crying out loud holds the record for longest running primtime animated series. Unheard of. The last one like that was "The Flintstones". I have a liking for some of the Anime out there, if it wasn't for Adult Swim I'd never have seen the "Ghost in the Shell" series or "Read or Die" or others. Awesome stuff as is the bizarre, anachronistic "Samurai Champloo"......Feudal Japan with one episode having a Samurai doing beat-box rap......don't ask, it was actually kind of cool. Counter Culture is what lead to "Burning Man" (the Perfect Line is a regular at this event), the Renaissance Faire (which Myself and the Perfect Line used to work) and the event I blogged about recently "The Running of the Big Wheels". Normal mundane folks don't dream up stuff like that, it's the creative ones who exist on the fringes or who just like to think like those on the fringes who are the driving force behind the Counter Cultural coolness.