Video: Me Vs. Comic-Con: Who’s Better?

Shot during the San Diego Comic-Con, July 28-29, 2007
by me, David Malki !

Original song “Comic-Con (I Have Loved You)”:
Lyrics by Erica Stephens / Music by Kris Straub

Here are some other videos I have made, as well.

FEATURED IN THIS PIECE:

Michael Aushenker
Bill Barnes
Jose Cabrera
Frank Cho
Rachel Dukes
Shaenon Garrity
Mark Gonyea
Chris Hastings
Ben Heaton
Jerry Holkins
Paul Horn
Jeph Jacques
Dave Kellett
Kazu Kibuishi
Keith Knight
Scott Kurtz
Josh Lesnick
Sam Logan
Mike Lopez
Corey Marie
Scott McCloud
Matthew Mohammed
Kelli Nelson
Lewis Powell
Jon Rosenberg
Andy Runton
Christian Slade
Kris Straub
Gary Tyrrell
Shannon Wheeler
Matt Wood
and myself as myself

Special thanks to David Marks.

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Video: convention theme song

The day at the STAPLE! show started a little slow, so we thought we’d try a little reverse psychology:

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The great part about this song is that it’s equally applicable to any convention or trade show in any industry.  I predict it being a convention classic for basically everyone forever.

Here are the lyrics:

Don’t come over to look at our stuff
Nothing is for sale you see
We set up this table just for our health
Stacked it high with mediocrity
We paid money to ruin your day
We’re only here ironically anyway
We hope you avoid us, keep your cash in your pants
By the way we all have the plague

<em>(chorus)
This half the room completely sucks
And if you think we want your bucks
We’ll throw your money in your face
And hit you with a shot of mace
You clearly fail to understand
That we’re not here to serve The Man
There’s nothing worse than selling out
Yeah we don’t like you
Get the hell out</em>

You don’t get us, we’re too frikkin rad
I’m pretty sure that you are retarded
Our massive genius is over your head
We hope you walk on by brokenhearted
Better yet just turn around and leave
We’re not here to make any money
We have some endowment that makes us all dicks
And we don’t think your T-shirt is funny

<em>(repeat chorus)</em>

We hate that people think we’re here
To give them stuff to buy
Folks don’t get that we prefer
To make your children cry
We hate that people think we’re here
To give them stuff to buy
Folks don’t get that we prefer
To make your children cry

Video: an early draft of Bush’s speech

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Don’t read too much into this ideologically, it’s just for fun.

I spent a lot of time making many of the edits look invisible, and now I think it would have been more fun if they all were herky-jerky.  Oh well.