Mortal Kombat: Girls Night Out (2011)
The ladies of Mortal Kombat go out and paint the town red. With blood.
Mortal Kombat: Spelling Bee (2011)
Turns out spelling in Outworld is inkredibly diffikult.
Our FLUX event was a huge success! We had a blast doing it, and we had a great crowd to perform and be silly for. It was a crazy experience, producing a live show plus three new sketches all in the span of two months, but it was absolutely worth it.
Thinking back, we got to work with so many great friends and so many new people, and everyone was incredibly supportive, generous, and positive the entire way. I kept saying that we were running out of miracles, because every time something would go what seemed irreparably wrong, we would get completely bailed out at the last second by some great person. Everything always worked out, and it’s a complete testament to how cool and awesome people were despite asking a lot of them and not paying them.
I suddenly feel compelled to challenge myself and list EVERY single person who helped us along the way, even in the tiniest ways. Here we go.
THANK YOU: Katie Hawkins-Gaar, Eli Banks, Molly Shepherd, Geoff Bartlett, Max Fisher, Stephanie Rucker, Heaven Beatbox, Beat Bunchies, Ken Uzquiano, Keith Huff, James Yates, Eve Krueger, Tom Rittenhouse, Philip Dido, Eddie Ray, Rob Bullard, Jeremiah Timmons, Gabe Arniella, Ben Cohen, Rafiq Batcha, Ryan Littmann, Germain Perez, Nancy Thanki, Bobby Andrews, Laura Krueger, Twinhead Theatre, Mike and Pete and Johnny at Elliott St. Pub, Erica Jamison and MINT, Matt Davis and Condesa Coffee, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta, Bobb Lovett, John Grubb, Craig Vogel, Krista Carothers, Aaron Keuter, Cynthia Modugno, Tera Buerkle, Danny Davis, Mark Basehore, Seth Williams-Welch, Louis Corrigan, and Anne Dennington. And Julian, doi.
Hey everyone. I know, we haven’t written in a while. But no writing = we’re busy working on skits, which is good. However, we’re busy working on skits = no $$$$, which is bad. BUT, according to Professor B.I.G., this results in: no $$$$ ≠ mo’ problems. So, hooray! We’re just writing to say we have no problems.
But we have some REAL NEWS. Bland Hack was recently tapped to participate in this year’s FLUX on September 30! For those unaware, FLUX is a big, one-night art crawl through the I-wish-all-of-Atlanta-looked-this-cool urban labyrinth that is Castleberry Hill. It features live music, live dancing, Live (the band), and lots of other artistic interpretations of things. Last year, there was an arm-wrestling contest. This year, there’s us.
We are producing another beatboxing extravaganza like back in April, but this one will be much different. For starters, the event incorporates the beatboxing competitions into a live theatrical show, which would be Bland Hack’s FIRST EVER live performance. Secondly, we’re producing not just one but THREE brand new videos to premiere during the event, and to make up for the lack of videos lately (and because we love you). And finally, the whole event is set in the Mortal Kombat universe. MKOMG.
Also, it’s going to be performed at Elliott St. Pub, arguably the coolest joint in Castleberry. We we we so excited.
“I can’t believe this only has a little over 4500 views. It’s amazing!”
“WHY THE HELL DOESN’T THIS VIDEO HAVE MORE VIEWS?”
“this could use another million views”
“Going viral in 3… 2… 1.”
“This is probably one of the funniest parodies on youtube. I don’t get why the video isn’t more popular.”
“How can a video with the line, “I gestated in a butt.” not have more views?”
We get these comments quite a bit — two back-to-back last night, in fact — and they remain the most coherent, sober, and intelligent responses we get from YouTube commenters (although “that is so stupid but so so funny hahahahahaha LOL” from ThisBitchGotSwag2012 remains a cerebral highlight, and let’s not forget “stupid man stupid thats copying that other video stupid man” from user 21emmak for its rich insights into the human condition).
I too wonder why we haven’t reach a larger audience, gentle YouTubers. It can be frustrating to think about, but mostly I think it’s a time-will-tell sort of situation. I’m certainly not complaining — for the love of Pete (r Faulk, RIP), we make these videos to make our friends and ourselves laugh, and that’s about it. Although, maybe they will feature less people in costumes and more people in regular clothes standing in regular rooms (costumes are ‘spensive).
