StewySmoot wrote:Listen, my multi-faceted friend, I had to live thru the Theatre of the Absurd Period off-off-off-Broadway in the 60s. I sure as HECK! dont need to relive those daze.
But it's so much more edifying than the "101 Myths" thread, don't you think?
StewySmoot wrote:Listen, my multi-faceted friend, I had to live thru the Theatre of the Absurd Period off-off-off-Broadway in the 60s. I sure as HECK! dont need to relive those daze.
But it's so much more edifying than the "101 Myths" thread, don't you think?
A poke in the eye with a sharp stick is better than some of the replies I read in that tome...
"Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down."
~Lennon, I am the Walrus, 1967
Samuel Beckett was an Absurdist? I did not know that.
I was thinking for some reason he wrote Murder in the Cathedral, but that was just another brain f*rt. TS Eliot. Did any of you ever see SCTV's parody, Buzz Aldrin and the Mercury 7 Players' production of Murder in the Cathedral? "Who are you to enter in the house of the Lord with a weapon, over?" "Roger on weapon, go for one, over..."
glauber wrote:It didn't? On the contrary, it took over the government of the USA! Or is that surrealism? I get them confused sometimes.
I think the difference could be encapsulated thusly: surreal times are generally not a good thing; Dadaistic times would be irrelevant to anything at best, so no problem, other than irritating StewySmoot.
Here's another view not necessarily incompatible with the styrogenetically striptovenious views of Nano. Dada sort of died out when it discovered rather quickly that it had nowhere else to go. A few people like Salvador Dali and Leon Trotsky decided to go there anyway. Surrealism is what they got when they arrived.
In truth both schools proved just a tad fibulicious for the general public. I think the general public still feels that way.
dada is
dada is nothing?
dada is not dead
dada is beautiful like the night
dada is an armadillo
dada is alive
dada is een gezicht
dada is already text manipulation
dada is a post
dada is many things at once and exists in many places at once
dada is the sun
dada is useless"
dada is a virgin microbe
dada is not surreal and neither is freud dada
dada is the heart of words
dada is a state of mind
dada is definitely not
dada is a tomato
dada is a label you can trust
dada is our intensity
dada is an independent dot
dada is building
dada is certainly one of the harder groups to classify?so why bother
dada is still around
dada is ?the roar of contorted pains
dada is dead
dada is still
dada is the story of idi amin
dada is a memory resident
dada is nada
dada is dada is dada is dada
dada is never right citizens
dada is the band that sounds like california
dada is an eight
dada is not an art of one
dada is a road leading to zen
dada is play
dada is also excellent administrator
dada is not a mode
George Bush just visited Australia. He referred to our Prime Minister, John Howard, well known star of Cane Toad Dundee, as the man of steel.
'Man of steel' translates into Russian as Stalin. I wonder if George Bush knows that. I wonder if John Howard knows that.
'Stalin' is only one easy typo away from 'Sralin'. 'Sralin' translates roughly into English as 'man of sh*t'. I wonder if George Bush knows that. I wonder if John Howard knows that. Several Russian journalists and editors found out how costly one little typo can be.
Why did I choose this thread to tell you all of this? Well, it just felt at home here.
