taken from the album
Economics for Mr Ugly

About the Video

I met Opposite Day through working with the Sarah Sharp Band, where both Greg and Sam have played bass and co-written songs. I felt Opposite Day's music was perfect for animation and decided to build a cartoon that would both promote the band but also give me a project to put together a full length Flash animation using a Tablet PC.

Girl Spy was the first choice for the cartoon because the lyrics and form of the song were so imaginative, specific and "cute". The story board was very simple (maybe 10 frames) but allowed us to demonstrate the idea to a group of friends to guage interest. People who had seen my previous work and were familiar with the band were very excited!

The end result I consider to be rough by professional animation standards (I did a poor job lip-synching) but I think it captures the essence of the Opposite Day vibe in a fun way, hopefully exposing their music to a greater audience.

Whilst watching the cartoon, look for Opposite Day anagrams, a caricature of Sarah Sharp, models of "Greg the villain" and the Picasso representation of the Yancey bass (Greg builds fine custom bass instruments).

Please let us know what you think of the video in our guestbook. And if you like the music, buy the CD as the whole album is an incredible collection of songs (see review below).

For almost 20 years Andy has been creating caricatures and cartoons of friends from all over the world. From the rich and the famous through to the poor and homeless everyone has the potential to star in an Andy cartoon. During the day he runs an internet consulting company, Stella International, Inc. in Austin Texas.

Austin Chronicle Opposite Day Review

BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
May 16, 2003:

Opposite Day
Economics for Mr Ugly If there's one thing Austin needs right now, it's more bands with songs about 5-year-old superspies, cannibalistic bagels, and monkeys throwing their own feces. This is not sarcasm: In the wake of the capital city's silent (and now smoke-free) spring, Opposite Day's freewheeling, absurdist debut is a welcome batch of high-spirited non sequiturs. Musically, the local threepiece plots a course marked by schizophonic guitars, limber drumming, and loads of, as Anthony Kiedis once so eloquently put it, "funky-ass Flea bass." While they obviously owe a debt to earlier rock oddballs like Frank Zappa and They Might Be Giants, Opposite Day is still very much a unique specimen, and Economics contains enough hairpin turns to frustrate the most ice-veined Formula One driver. Although there are the inevitable moments of high-concept wankery, along with a handful of head-scratching interludes, the 311-ish "Adam Smith" and breezy bossa nova "Candyland Bomb Squad" suggest that underneath all the gee-whiz grandstanding lurk actual songs. "Android Food" feels imported from a Fishbone album, but it's hard not to be swayed by the lubricious rhythms. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, comes the killer psych-rock intro to "Danger! Monkey." If Opposite Day ever figures out exactly what it is they're going for, they could really turn some heads. Even if they don't, however, their fantastical menagerie of cephalopods and androids already offers a much-needed respite from the rational world.