Ka-Sendak-Sendak!
The first thing you notice about the Wild Things is that they’re all mixed up. One has a lion’s head and webbed feet; another, a cockatiel’s head and lion’s body; yet another shows scaly, reptilian legs, horns, and a shaggy mane. They recall the hybridized monsters of the Ancient Greek world, complicated in appearance and lineage, who harassed the heroes of myth and bedeviled contemporary taxonomists. For example, the Chimera, a fire-breathing cross between a goat, a snake, and a lion, was said to be the daughter of Typhon (a winged giant with a dragon’s tail) and Echidna (a woman with the body of a serpent) as well as the sister of Cerberus, a three-headed dog. Like the Wild Things, the monsters of classical myth were neither fish nor fowl, but they were always somebody’s relatives.
Monsters ink: How Maurice Sendak made the world safe for monsters, and vice-versa, by Roger White in the Boston Globe.
Some ancestors of the Wild Things: Goya’s Los Caprichos.
In the Examiner: How to make a Where The Wild Things Are Halloween mask. Then again, Halloween came to Metro Manila a month early.
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October 9th, 2009 at 00:39
Totally looking forward to seeing the Spike Jonze film. Bookstores out in the US released the novelization of the film by Dave Eggers. Totally kicking myself for not attending the his lunchtime reading appearance at the nearby bookstore yesterday.
October 9th, 2009 at 08:54
Yeah, right! Halloween came to Manila literally and literarily. The first talks about the incoming movie ” Where The Wild Things Are” and the latter pertains to the tremendous and simultaneous attacks of typhoons which resulted to a present tragic-allegoric scene in the history of the Philippines.
On the long road, (bear with me, for I’m six feet from the edge….) Halloween comes to me every morning as I wake up from a deep slumber, facing the mirror and AHHHHHH!!!! – A pale creature with swelling eyes and bulging eye bags are looking at me! Is it a living zombie? nah! It’s none other than me….hahaha…Perhaps my bulging eye bags was caused by insomniac nights spent in endless thinking about the problems of Atlas! sigh….