7.28.2007

Jimmy Wichard?

While spending another Saturday night watching Austin City Limits, this week featuring Modest Mouse, I had an realization. Has anyone seen the character Jimmy Wichard on the show King of the Hill? A Wikipedia entry describes Jimmy as:

a violent mentally retarded man; local color claims that he wasn't born retarded, but rather gave himself brain damage by spending an entire day staring into the sun; as Dale points out, though, he couldn't have been very smart to stare at the sun in the first place. He has had several jobs, including concession manager at the racetrack and modern artist.

Is there any chance that Jimmy's character was based on Modest Mouse's leadman, Isaac Brock? For some reason that is the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw him...

Labels: animation, Austin City Limits, awesomeness, Modest Mouse

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I just googled Jimmy Wichard and your post came up 2nd overall. Apparently that character doesn't have many fanboys. comment by  brian, 7/30/2007 1:50 PM

Yeah...I spent like an hour trying to find a picture of or video of Jimmy Wichard so people would get the reference. Also, I enjoy this quote (again if you know the Jimmy character): When I saw the news story about President Bush declaring himself "The Decider," all I could think was, "Great, now we have Jimmy Wichard for a president..." comment by  C, 7/30/2007 5:27 PM

"You work for Jimmy you gonna work hard people are hot and dry the want something cold and wet..." "...I'm the boss!" comment by  Anonymous, 8/08/2007 4:37 AM

6.28.2007

O HAI!

I'm am back from the wilderness and I thought I would post a super delicious animation.

From the same guy who brought this viking band video. He did a music video for "Chinese Translation" by M. Ward. It is a super fun video and a great tune.

Labels: animation, awesomeness, music

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Did your bear bell prevent the bear attacks? comment by  jp, 6/28/2007 3:40 PM

I first saw that video a few months ago on a Frontier Airlines flight out to Denver (and every month after that...they need to change the videos a little more often). I have since gotten the M. Ward album...it's pretty enjoyable. comment by  C, 6/28/2007 7:11 PM

No bear bells used. Just clapping an "Hey Bear" every few minutes. However, we saw absolutely no wildlife because of that. comment by  nick, 6/29/2007 10:25 AM

Matt Ward really knows how to write a good tune. His music (and voice) is incredibly timeless and wonderful. Did you all catch this performance of Chinese Translation with the unreal lineup of Ward, Neko Case, Kelly Hogan, and Jim James? Holy crapballs. I would have paid $867,312.12 to have seen that. I also know that Wade would have paid that much just to see Ms. Case. comment by  brian, 7/02/2007 12:17 PM