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Call it poor lab safety techniques, call it contaminated chemicals, call it what you will, but last night Dewitt was working on the unsalvageable 1970 film l, Monster when the decinemadroxylase began to fibrilate--the rushes began to fade--everything was going black--Dewitt knew he was in trouble...
Similarly, "Wrong In The Charts" uses low vocal distortion to offset some Beatle-esque harmonies, and "San Quentin, CA" muddles a country ballad with a batch of terrific grunge. The best tune here is "Loch Ness Monster," an outlandish love song directed at Scotland's most famous anachronistic ichthyosaurus, more commonly known as "Nessie...
IDIDN'T see him for a while after that, and when I saw him again I realized I had created a monster. He had transformed my apartment--beautiful high ceilings with real hardwood floors--into a debauched crash pad for freaked-out artists and assorted hanger-on, calling it "The Factory". What's more, he had taken my concept and was churning it out on silkscreen by the thousands; the art scene was going wild. Unwittingly I had transformed the aesthetic perceptions of the West forever...
Drama, in particular, naturally lends itself to the issue of illusion versus reality--being as it is an illusion of sorts itself. When Shaggy and Scooby pulled the mask off the Swamp Monster to discover that it was none other than kindly Mr. Hoople, the caretaker, they were retracing the philosophical footsteps of Dorothy, Alice, and the ancient Chinese sage who asked himself, "Am I a butterfly dreaming...
...visitor thought of a passage of bully rhetoric in Theodore Roosevelt's African Game Trails, the record of his 1909 safari. The rhino, wrote Roosevelt, "seemed what he was, a monster surviving over from the world's past, from the days when the beasts of the prime ran riot in their strength, before man grew so cunning of brain and hand as to master them...