The most psychedelic show.
A few years back someone showed me this cartoon. So I decided to check ... It was really tripped out! You would watch each 11 minute episode and it felt like half an hour to an hour and a half went by. That's how intense it got. Yet why!? with so much potty humour and all that... well it showed the frail fakeness of our current consumer culture I felt, a bizarre precurser to the rise of vaporwave it seems.
It's about a far out figure named Xavier in a cg animated hell hole. A student at mastering inner chaos. The bigger the mistake the more the progress I guess! He has a snake for an arm, a beak for a mouth, a hairy body with 8 nipples. He is an anti hero our my aunty hero!? The character crosses borders with many fast paced puns.
"I'm a survivor, we're a dying breed" - Xavier Renegade Angel quote. It makes you want to watch the whole 2 seasons so you can get nerd revenge on your friends outside your blog/virtual reality by re-enacting each pun from the show. It mixes new age metaphor with pop cultural failure. There is a whole freudian vibe to the entire show. That's more of a surprise don't want to give too much away.
I actually suggest watching this if you never have done a psychedelic drug or a dirty cult religious experience. Watch this show and you will taste the pain!! Learn to love it cause McLife - I'm loathing it. The real pain can't hurt you. It is good for getting into the cartoon detox of western culture I have been on about. I came up with it even before I saw this show.
All in all I did quite enjoy this show for what it's worth. Really was good at exposing sleazy stereotypes in our culture and making wild puns that made you think...even if they did seem bizarre/silly. In a way a real dumb show. In another pretty brilliant. Everyone I know who has seen it wishes they would make another season. Although the last episode was well done and it's hard to pull that off so maybe leave it be.
I may write a few blogs about Xavier Renegade Angel. Some great social commentary in much of it. Real good with the symbolism and mythologies in the story. Even Snoop Dogg is one of the voices for one show! He is a pimp named PerSe. LOL wicked!!
It is an adult swim show that can be seen on their website! I bought my own copy on dvd. Lent it out so now gotta buy a new copy. For now glad they have them online! Check out the first episode!! http://www.adultswim.com/videos/xavier-renegade-angel/what-life-d-d-doth/ What doth life!!!!!
Don't be surprised if you laugh hysterically at it! Don't be too amazed when other people don't get it. You may not even know what's going on when you first see it. It makes more sense once you get into it. You almost have to change your way of listening and thinking. It's a good messed up feeling I like to be sure!! It's important to feel uncomfortable by messed up stuff!! hee hee! It's a sign of health!
It's a philosophical hilarious show that makes you think
http://www.adultswim.com/videos/xavier-renegade-angel/what-life-d-d-doth/
