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...comic is set in a banal yet bizarre near-future world, in which voodoo dinosaur zombies can run amuck in a 24-hour convenience store, or the clerical error of some guy in shipping can cause you to wind up wearing the right arm of a lycanthropic astronaut. Schrab calls this aesthetic "surreal"--indeed, one of the book's slogans is "Surreality just got funky!"--but that doesn't seem quite the right way to describe it. The key to understanding the "logic" of Schrab's universe is to realize that it's not the same sort of causality that...
...even apart from the hedonistic excess sometimes associated with fame and fortune, there seems in many cases to be a certain finite lifespan of public popularity due to achievement, irrespective of the behavior of the successful party. The vilified purple dinosaur, after all, has never been caught with a stash of illegal drugs, firearms or prostitutes, and indeed did nothing more offensive than continue to preach his universal message of goodwill. The Bulls, who we are so pleased to see falling in the standings, are guilty only of playing excellent basketball for many years...
BARNEY "THE DINOSAUR" AGE: 200 million HEIGHT: 7 ft. WEIGHT: Won't divulge OCCUPATION: Children's TV host BEST PUNCH: Suing over a long-running skit in which the Chicken would "punch, flip, stand on and otherwise assault the putative Barney...
What makes Dinosaur Jr.'s attitude all the more humorous is the nagging feeling that, at the same time, they're laughing at us as well. Although Mascis admittedly perceives the circumstances of growing up young and lonely in America, his on stage performances give the sense that he's simultaneously weeding some hypocrisy out of the audience. Seriously, was our prepubescent generation really at the stage to understand lines like "With life surrounded/Entombed in war/Don't lie to her. No Bones. No Bones"? More importantly, were any of us, in our torn jeans and flannels, really wounded enough...
...school parking lots and smoked cigarettes while listening to "Puke & Cry" may have grown up and realized that life isn't so bad after all; but at the same time, they've retained that nostalgia for the music of desperation that eased their hormone-riddled inductions into adulthood. Dinosaur Jr., for their part, have matured as well, diversifying their musical efforts while keeping their guitar-emphasis rock just far enough out of the mainstream to remain interesting. Although their audience's "Kurt Cobain is alive" T-shirts now read "Save BU football" instead, the bodies themselves are the same...