brak

A Week With The Brak Show: Day 1

6 December 2006
tell your friends... tell your friends...

Words by Sean Moeller//Illustration by Abby Rodriguez
When I don’t answer my phone, your luckiness will hear Carl Brutananadilewski from the Aqua-Teen Hunger Force cartoons questioning the hell out of you that you might be the very best person to tell him who wrote, “The moon rule’s, No. 1,” on his car with a key. It’s frightening. You’ll likely not leave a message. That toon may be the funniest on the television, but there was a precursor sort of character on Adult Swim that goes mostly overlooked in the shadow of Carl, Meatwad, Inignod and Ir. Brak is the epitome of what Williams Street and all of the heavy watching for the entire Adult Swim lineup is all about. Aqua-Teen Hunger Force is easy to be down with: Sunset Rubdown was eating episodes up when they were here to record their session earlier in the year. If that ain’t enough proof that it’s rad to be a fan of ATHF…what is doggs? But Brak is almost the same kind of influence on those characters as George Mikan and Oscar Robertson were influences on Shaq and Dikembe Mutumbo. Without the forefathers, there are no big diesels. Brak is a combination of Meatwad, Master Shake and Carl all in one, joining the asinine one-liners of Steven Wright/Zach Galifianaskis set to twisted standards and as much archaic language and phrasing – don’t laugh – to give The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy epiphanies and such – enough to write another record. Childish humor doesn’t have to be for children as shown in the first three episodes of the second season of “The Brak Show.” Covering just 45 minutes of time we’re treated with KISS boots, froggie socks, armpit farts, a Brakologist, burning hair and shooting pigs with tanks as leisure activities, a weird Charlie Daniels floating thing, potbelly pigs, a mural of a cockfight, a guest voice from Weird Al Yankovic as Petroleum Joe, crying knees, a threat to roll someone up in a pancake (for good behavior) and fishing in 37,000-degree waters. All of a sudden thinking odd thoughts is simple. Join us for analysis of the other 11 second season episodes these next few days and feel free to quote your favorite lines in the two cents box below.

share on facebook digg this seed newsvine delicious bookmarks seed magnolia

commenting closed for this article

Daytrotter Presents Jonathan Rice On Tour


Recent Progressive Reviews

A Week With Death Cab For Cutie's "Narrow Stairs"
    Day: 1  
A Week With Destroyer's "Trouble In Dreams"
    Day: 5   4   3   2   1  
A Week With Wu-Tang Clan's "8 Diagrams"
    Day: 4   3   2   1  
A Week With The Mountain Goats' "Heretic Pride"
    Day: 5   4   3   2   1  
A Week With Radiohead's "In Rainbows"
    Day: 3   2   1  
A Week With P.J. Harvey's "White Chalk"
    Day: 5   4   3   2   1  
A Week With Okkervil River's "The Stage Names"
    Day: 1  
A Week With Bill Callahan's "Woke On A Whaleheart"
    Day: 5  
A Week With Bill Callahan's "Woke One A Whaleheart"
    Day: 4  
A Week With Bill Callahan's "Woke On A Whaleheart"
    Day: 3   2   1  
A Week With The White Stripes' "Icky Thump"
    Day: 2   1  
A Week With Handsome Furs' "Plague Park"
    Day: 5   4   3   2  
A Week With The Handsome Furs' "Plague Park"
    Day: 1  
A Week With Bjork's "Volta"
    Day: 2   1  
A Week With Panda Bear's "Person Pitch"
    Day: 3   2   1  
A Week With Winterpills' "The Light Divides"
    Day: 5   4   3   2   1  
A Week With Modest Mouse's "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank"
    Day: 5   4   3   2   1  
A Week With Arcade Fire's "Neon Bible"
    Day: 4   3   2   1  
A Week With Deerhoof's "Friend Opportunity"
    Day: 3   2   1  
A Week With The Shins' "Wincing The Night Away"
    Day: 5   4   3   2   1  
A Week With Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's "Some Loud Thunder"
    Day: 4   3   2   1  
A Week With Nellie McKay's "Pretty Little Head"
    Day: 5   4   3   2   1  
A Week With Luke Temple's "Snowbeast"
    Day: 5   4   3   2   1  
A Week With The Skygreen Leopards' "Disciples of California"
    Day: 5   4   3   2   1  
A Week With The Brak Show
    Day: 3   2   1  
A Week With Jay-Z's "Kingdom Come"
    Day: 4   3   2   1  
A Week With Swan Lake's "Beast Moans"
    Day: 5   4   3   2   1  
A Week With Joanna Newsom's "Ys"
    Day: 5   4   3   2   1  
A Week With Bright Eyes' "Noise Floor"
    Day: 5  









Subscribe to our newsletter:



follow me on twitter

realdaytrotter: do yourself a favor and be like me: discover the daredevil christopher wright and wild beasts. go for it.



info@daytrotter.com