Sad video

While reading through 31 years of Garfield comics I decided to look it up on Wikipedia, as I do with most things...And learned about a strip Jim Davis had done as a reference to an Italian animation called Valse Triste. Its part of a larger production using many different musical pieces to different animation styles...something like Fantasia I guess. Anyway, this is a video of the segment he was referencing...



Its probably one of the sadder things I've witnessed. In case you have no interest in watching it, its about the ghost of a cat walking through a destroyed house, reliving all the happy moments it experienced there...he begins to see it all in these grand hallucinations and its like he is actually there again...but eventually it all comes crashing down and he is brought back to the reality of the situation...and he resigns himself to this...and vanishes...seconds later a large wrecking ball moves on screen and destroys the remnants...leaving not even a memory of what went on in the life of the cat and the lives of the owners.

I dunno, that really ruined my mood...inspired my previous post thats for sure.

The Garfield strip Davis made starts October 23, 1989... You can find it here, Garfield Vault. Just enter the date in the little sidebar if its not linking directly to the proper one...

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