This is Why I'm Hot

For anyone who has read my contributions to this blog it should come as no surprise that I have a love of cartoons and all things cartoon related that borders on the juvenile, whatever, is juvenile,
but that's the whole point of the genre. I get a huge kick out of mean-spirited, short animations, perhaps a throw back to all the Tom and Jerry episodes I watched as an impressionable young thing. Anyway, we are here to talk art, not psychoanalyze me (if you believed that last statement please leave your email address in the comment box, there are some Nigerian internet entrepreneurs dying to get in touch with you).

Have you ever played that psycho-pop game where you ask a person what animal they would be, and based on that you'd get a clue into their personality or how they view themselves or some such entertaining nonsense... course you have. Whenever I get stuck in a conversation I turn to these psych 101 questions (or make up some outrageous lie just to see if I can get away with it, it mostly depends on how curious I am about the person) and these things generally unfold in a "here's my answer, what's yours" kinda way, so my staple answer is a cat, as the Aristocats was the first Disney cartoon to move something in me, the jazz, those french accents, that wild adventure, ooooo... but also I love the mad arrogance of those contradictory creatures.

Cats are lazy, prowly, languid, fickle, independent and aloof. They are also warm, loving, affectionate, needy and made for pampering, nothing so unattractive as some neglected alley cat... ew. Cats run the gamut from cuddly little kittens that are so cute you want to eat them, to ferocious lions that fascinate and frighten, and yet, throughout that spectrum, always retain that same feline je ne sais quoi. This animation brings together my cat and cartoon lovin'. This would be the cat I would love to be; mad, bad, and gets what cat wants, even if you're bigger and stronger and think you're in the right. Totally bonkers I know, but a girl can dream.

Scratch, scratch, scratch.


"Cat Among the Pigeons"