Private Eyes
  • snooki
    January 15, 2010

    cat and girl should guest star on jersey shore

  • festival of patience
    January 15, 2010

    Woah, creepy. I bought an ukulele last week.

  • julia
    January 15, 2010

    as a youtube enthusiast who entirely agrees, and as someone who has been playing the ukulele and posting videos of me playing it,

    i love it.

  • John K
    January 15, 2010

    you mean that Balloon Boys dad ISN’T interesting?

  • scare
    January 15, 2010

    christopher lasch/ susan sontag/ guy debord refernce?

  • Dustin
    January 15, 2010

    I… bought a ukulele too : (
    But months ago !

  • Erika
    January 15, 2010

    A movie of someone standing still… what a sophisticated comment on the visual arts of today. I wouldn’t have thought Cat was so avant-garde.

  • Krimson
    January 15, 2010

    Cat is the David Lynch of his world.

  • Mason
    January 15, 2010

    aw hell, I thought he was commenting on how people always seem to stand still and wave when the video camera comes out.
    It’s really bad on the old home movies from the ’60s.

  • Colin Flanigan
    January 15, 2010

    I know I’ve said this before, but this comic only confirms it: Your comic is the closest thing (in terms of finding something so instantly endearing and wonderful that I want to read all of it at once) I’ve come to finding something I like as much as Calvin and Hobbes. And twice as relevant.
    Thank you.

  • Mike
    January 15, 2010

    Damn, why did you remind me? I had my ukulele ripped off out of my house on Wednesday.

  • exjentric
    January 15, 2010

    I… bought a ukulele too : (
    But years ago !

  • Nny
    January 15, 2010

    fat men falling in chairs NEVER GETS OLD!

    @julia: i think you inspired me to play guitar again. your awesome. i was gonna buy a ukelele but i already had the guitar and im broke. if your not julia nunes than nevermind.

  • yachris
    January 15, 2010

    Yeah, Cat’s awesome, but then Girl messes it all up by moving… she FROWNED! How dare she ruin his epic art-ness.

  • Nny
    January 15, 2010

    also, Moving Pictures by The Cribs is great tunes. that is all.

    wait. no its not.

    ok, it is.

  • chuck kirk
    January 16, 2010

    @scare
    definitely some sort of Guy Debord reference. whenever Dorothy writes about images in modern society it strikes me heavily of Debord, which speaks of how relevant Society of the Spectacle still is, if not more so, as when it was written.

    The internet has created a new sort of Spectacle. Previously, the spectacle was mostly created and distributed by burgeoning mass media, with messages and ideas aimed at creating a populace at once comfortable with modern capitalism.

    Now we have self-actualized spectacles. We create our own “hyper reality,” by defining who we are through the lens. “We all know how to behave in front of the camera.” We all know how to act. We all know how to hold up the lens to get the picture we want, instead of the stark, disappointing, and bland reality.

    I committed social networking suicide over contemplating such ideas.

  • Niha
    January 16, 2010

    @chuck kirk
    I don’t think everyone knows how to behave in front of the camera. Just have a look at http://antiduckface.com

  • Chris Kuan
    January 17, 2010

    I wanted to buy a ukulele, but knew I would never practise enough to be satisfied with the results.

  • Harry
    January 17, 2010

    Ukulele’s are everywhere these days, I go to a school where I acually expect to see 2 – 3 Ukulele’s daily(like 100-200 dollar ones.) It’s sort of this poppular instrument that you can’t go wrong with because it makes everything sound pretty and high.

  • Alotron
    January 18, 2010

    I want a banjo

  • micaupe
    January 18, 2010

    I have a banjo ukulele.

  • AndyL
    January 18, 2010

    CAN’T … RESIST … CLICKING … PRETEND … PLAY … BUTTON!

  • Nny
    January 18, 2010

    i didnt even notice the youtube framing

  • rocketbride
    January 19, 2010

    my husband used to teach ukulele to aspiring elementary teachers when i was in teachers college. a room full of little guys on ukes is WAY easier on the ears than a room full of recorders.

    this interest in ukes is how we found performance artist/uke fiend carmaig de forest, who led us to accordion wizard geoff berner, who makes my like so much better with his filthy drunken klezmer.

    all of which is to say that i also need to hit the fake play button. a lot.

  • rocketbride
    January 19, 2010

    oops. life better, not like better. that’s, like, better.

  • scare
    January 19, 2010

    @chuck kirk
    yeah, but the spectacle is still an illusion even when its our own construction. we conform to hegemonic norms even if we hypothetically have the freedom to create our on-line personality. subversion is no more (if it ever were?).

  • chuck kirk
    January 19, 2010

    @scare
    oh i agree entirely. its all still illusion. that’s why its simply a facade of hyper-reality masking the boring reality of sitting at home on the internet posting photos to facebook.

    subversion truly is no more. as Debord might say, “boredom is counter-revolutionary.”

  • scare
    January 20, 2010

    @chuck –
    hahaha that debord quote was my forum quote for a long time XD it looked like this – > http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m102/chinche_chinche/boredomopy.jpg
    talk about end of subversion… that pic was my visual for procrastination. i woudl say it was autoironic if irony didn’t became so mainstream :p

  • openuniverse
    January 22, 2010

    it’s kind of like selective breeding in animals. you always go for the traits you want to see most, until you’ve bred some kind of super-aggressive, disease-ridden- hey, it’s like the royal family line superimposed on television! two of the world’s greatest things, combined!

  • chase
    March 24, 2010

    augh! girl totally called me on my banjo-lele playing. authenticity points?

  • Abdullah the Gut Slasher
    June 12, 2010

    And the moral of the story is… if you want some reality TV, look in the mirror!

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