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March 15th, 2008 11:45
“Promenade across the floor. Sasche right on out the door. Out the door and into the glade and everybody promenade. Step right up you’re doing fine. I’ll pull your beard you’ll pull mine. Yank it again like you did before. Break it up with a tug of war. Now into the brook and fish for the trout. Dive right in and splash about. Trout! Trout! Pretty little trout! One more splash and come right out. Shake like a hound-dog. Shake again. Wallow around in the old pig pen. Wallow some more. Y’all know how. Roll around like an old fat sow. Promenade left with your right hand. Follow through with a great left band. Now lead your partner the dirty old thing. Follow through with an elbow swing. Grab a fence post. Hold it tight. Womp your partner with all your might. Hit him in the shin. Hit him in the head. Hit him again. The critter aint dead. Womp him low and womp him high. Stick your finger in his eye. Pretty little ring. Pretty little sound. Bang your heads against the ground. Promenade all around the room. Promenade like a bride and groom. Open up the door and step right in. Close the door and into a spin. Whirl! Whirl! Twist and twirl! Jump all around like a flying squirrel. Now don’t you fuss and don’t you swear. Just come right out and form a square. Now right hand over and left hand under. Both join hands and run like thunder. Over the hill and over the dale. Duck your head and lift your tail. Don’t you stray and don’t you roam. Turn to your partner. Promenade home. Corn in the cornfield. Wheat in the sack. Turn to your partner. Promenade back. And now you’re home. Bow to your partner. Bow to the gent across the hall. And that is all!”: BUGS BUNNY
Let’s see some squirrel say that!
Mark
March 15th, 2008 12:04
!!!!!(Carl Stalling in the background)!!!!!
March 15th, 2008 12:25
Carl was a GENIUS, master of the Tin Pan Alley oeuvre. I have all the recordings.
But think about it: what cartoon SQUIRREL could possibly match wits with Bugs? I mean even CHIPMUNKS (Chip N’ Dale of course, not, gods forbid, Alvin et) were just JDs with buck teeth (”applecore”..”Baltimore”…”who’s your friend?”) et. There’s something about RABBITS. Durer never drew/engraved a squirrel and he drew a dead Christ! And JOSEPH BEUYS: what did he explain ART to? A moribund squirrel? NO: A RABBIT!!!. A CWAZY WABBIT!!! You just don’t cover your head with gold leaf and honey for a stupid squirrel. And in INLAND EMPIRE, those are BUNNY-PEOPLE, not squirrel zombies. Yeah, squirrels can bully Veruca Salt, but who couldn’t?
Mark
March 15th, 2008 23:05
Don’t forget Watership Down! The mean rabbits vs. the good rabbits. Which one is pictured here?
March 15th, 2008 23:27
What’s interesting here is the anthropomorphizing of the image in both the drawing and the comments. The question is, “What makes humans want to humanize other species on this planet?” I think the use of animals in literature, pop culture, and art (high or low) is simply a way of exchanging masks and directly communicating something deeply human in the process. Something that perhaps would be hidden from us should we continue to keep the old masks, while at the same time making us aware of difference both in society and on the planet. What is this rabbit actually thinking when it puts its gaze on me? Does it have thoughts as such? Or does it exist in pure silence, knowing without knowledge? An alien concept to the human mind, making this drawing a kind of mirror that allows me to fantasize and create my own story around it simply because my understanding of its thought process is limited, having never experienced the mind of rabbitdom.
It must be the ears that draw people in….
March 15th, 2008 23:36
Carl Stalling is in my top-five-of-all-time musicians. I think.
March 15th, 2008 23:56
And I, for one, really enjoyed Inland Empire. Most of my friends hated it. I tried to argue that it was a wrapping up of all of his other films, a composite almost, and taken to another level, but they weren’t having it. They said it was gratuitous and fatuous. I could see their point, but I’ll sit on it and watch it again in a few years..
March 16th, 2008 14:18
Inland Empire: I’m with you. Right now, for the jaded “seen it all” set, it’s EXTREMELY fashionable to loathe Lynch’s work. It’s like Indie music too: every band is cool till a critical level of folks have discovered them, then they suck. Say what you will about Lynch, Inland Empire and Mulholland Drive is at least CREATIVE and interesting. That goes a long way with me.
RE: Jed. Many years ago, STEPHEN JAY GOULD wrote a great essay on what animals we find cute and why, especially baby cartoon animals. He felt it had to do with facial propotions: ears, big eyes, short snouts, et. ie: the same proportions of Mickey Mouse and many other “cute” animals. It all has to do with the neonatal vibes they give off. They mimic the facila proportions of baby humans. A great version of this essay was in RAW about a decade or so back, though I cannot remember who illustrated it. I have it somewhere.
RE: Carl Stalling: there are amazing stories of how he would just, out of thin air, call up some obscure tune that PERFECTLY fit the action on screen. I will always love Stalling for single-handedly reviving:
“A cup of coffee, and sandwich and you.” Look it up.
Mark
March 16th, 2008 16:31
Mark,
Are you related to David Lynch by chance?
I found Twin Peaks & Blue Velvet to be Lynch’s best works…
March 16th, 2008 16:35
CORRECTION:
The comic/essay is by Francis Masse and is entitled: THE MOUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, and can be found in RAW V.2/N3. The theory part of the comic is “borrowed” from a Gould piece, though Konrad Lorenz is mentioned in the comic. NEOTENY, that’s the ticket! Emulate a larvae and you won’t need Botox injections. It’s LARVAL proportions we find cute. BTW: Catherine’s work is therefore not CUTE in the least, at least in the cartoon/neotic sense of this essay. The squirrel looks like a damned adult squirrel, only more so. However, her landscapes are simply precious and more cute than a flower pot full of kittens.
Mark
Mark
March 17th, 2008 11:02
‘Cute’, doesn’t come to my mind when viewing Catherine’s work. But there are aspects of the creatures she draws that can be percieved as cute-like your recent drawing of the ’sciurus carolinensis’. His or Her ears kill me in that cute way.