Experiencing monsters
Feb. 19th, 2009 09:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonRandom quote of the day:
"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. All this talk of waiting for experiences in order to write is simply a confession of incapacity to experience anything."
—G. K. Chesterton, “The New ‘Experience Philosophy,’” The Illustrated London News, March 7, 1931
I had such a hard time deciding which picture to use to illustrate this quote, but I finally decided on the one I thought would least overpower the quote itself:
I could have used this still from the movie:
Or this appropriately lurid poster:
Or even this widely appropriate poster (although, seriously, if this thing was ever in 3-D, then I'm a suckmonkey's uncle):
If you haven't seen Robot Monster, you really should. It's probably the silliest movie ever made—or, at least, right up there with the "best" of Ed Wood, although maybe more Freudian and less good-hearted. Chock full of unintentional hilarity. If you'd like to know what Louis Black thinks of this movie (no, not that Lewis Black), go here.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. All this talk of waiting for experiences in order to write is simply a confession of incapacity to experience anything."
—G. K. Chesterton, “The New ‘Experience Philosophy,’” The Illustrated London News, March 7, 1931
I had such a hard time deciding which picture to use to illustrate this quote, but I finally decided on the one I thought would least overpower the quote itself:
I could have used this still from the movie:
Or this appropriately lurid poster:
Or even this widely appropriate poster (although, seriously, if this thing was ever in 3-D, then I'm a suckmonkey's uncle):
If you haven't seen Robot Monster, you really should. It's probably the silliest movie ever made—or, at least, right up there with the "best" of Ed Wood, although maybe more Freudian and less good-hearted. Chock full of unintentional hilarity. If you'd like to know what Louis Black thinks of this movie (no, not that Lewis Black), go here.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.