Category Archives: grotesque

Classical music identification request

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Rubber nipples episode of Ren and Stimpy

 

The piece I’d like to pin down starts at 26 seconds into this clip. Thanks! It’s not here.

 

I found it!

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The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns.

Very much in the vein of Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune by Claude Debussy.

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Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune by Claude Debussy.

Thou shalt not tempt

Yesterday as I went for a quick book shopping trip to the city, I glimpsed a detail of the The Temptation of St. Anthony painting by Patinir and Matsys on the cover of a Dutch language book on the history of witchcraft in the Low Countries.

That Northern Renaissance gets my vote over Italian Renaissance any day was confirmed once more.

Detail Temptation Metsys Patinir

Temptation of Saint Anthony by Patinir and Metsys (detail)

Temptation of Saint Anthony by Patinir and Metsys (detail)

Temptation of Saint Anthony by Patinir and Metsys (detail)

Temptation of Saint Anthony by Patinir and Metsys (detail)

Temptation of Saint Anthony by Patinir and Metsys (detail)

Temptation of Saint Anthony by Patinir and Metsys

Temptation of Saint Anthony by Patinir and Metsys (detail)

 

Please excuse the poor quality of the scans compared to the image I saw on the cover of that book. I would need a photographic cliché to reproduce the details well enough.

Thanks La boîte à images.

I acquired a copy of Marvellous Méliès. More on The Temptation of St. Anthony and the allure of Northern Renaissance later.

A reminder of the events

In early 2005, Fernando Botero revealed a series of 50 paintings (Google Gallery) that graphically represent the controversial Abu Ghraib incident, expressing the rage and shock that the incident provoked in the artist. The works were initially presented in Italy, Germany and Greece. In 2006, they had their first showing in the United States. In 2007, the Abu Ghraib series was exhibited at the University of California in Berkeley. Botero has stated that he does not plan to sell the paintings, but instead intends to donate them to museums as a reminder of the events depicted within. Are these on display somewhere now?

Talking body parts

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Timmy and the Talking Body Parts

The Residents present a series of very short videos following the adventures of a 9 year old kid named Timmy. Talking body parts are a trope in the fantastique. Examples include Marquis which features extensive conversations of Sade talking to his genitals (and the genitals talking back to him), other fiction which employs the trope of the talking body parts are Naked Lunch (1959) by William S. Burroughs and the The Indiscreet Jewels (1748) by Denis Diderot.