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Brecht and the Muppets

ailicoyote — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:15:00 -0500

In describing Bertolt Brecht’s epic theater, Walter Benjamin describes how the episodes of a Brecht play move in “spurts,” where songs, captions, and lifeless conventions “set one situation from another” and “paralyze [the audience’s] readiness for empathy.” The style, according to Benjamin, seeks to disrupt the Aristotelian unities and present a world-in-progress that requires the audience’s help to finish. Instead of “unalterable” characters who develop linearly, Brecht himself writes, characters are “alterable and able to alter” and they proceed “in curves.” And so, one might argue, the aesthetic of the epic theater presents an appropriate format for the personal development of children and adults alike.

This proposed panel seeks to analyze the way in which the Muppet franchise can be seen to participate in this project of epic theater. So long as they make a connection with Brecht’s epic theater, papers may address any manifestation of the Muppets.

Sarcastic Fringehead

ailicoyote — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:40:19 -0400

Fish Paste Rocketship

ailicoyote — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:51:07 -0500

Via Discover Magazine’s Discoblog.

(Props to HYHOMNB associate C.C.)

Steampunk Mr. Goodbody

ailicoyote — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:40:26 -0500

Screaming Hairy Armadillo

ethanfield — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 20:44:00 -0500

Potato Riddle

ailicoyote — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 18:07:00 -0500

Candy Basslet

indices — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:38:00 -0400

Opening for Orchid Dottyback.

The Antikythera Mechanism

indices — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:19:48 -0400

Their critically acclaimed first album: Olympiad.

(From the archives: originally posted by sanskritboy.)

Cloud Appreciation Society

indices — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:18:01 -0400

Cloud Appreciation Society

The Anti-Saccharine Society

indices — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:53:45 -0400

“I hope I shall before long have the pleasure of enrolling you a member of the Anti-saccharine Society, which I have had the happiness to organise, and which is daily extending its numbers. […] I purpose giving a festival, to which I shall invite all that is respectable and intelligent in this part of the country, and in which I intend to demonstrate practically, that a very elegant and luxurious entertainment may be prepared without employing a single particle of that abominable ingredient, and theoretically, that the use of sugar is economically superfluous, physically pernicious, morally atrocious, and politically abominable.”

Thomas Love Peacock, Melincourt, or Sir Oran Haut-ton (London: Macmillan, 1896), via The Economist: “Sick with the excess of sweetness”—which will be the title track of our debut album.

The Handgloves

indices — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:52:45 -0400

Opening for them at TT’s: Quick Fox & the Jackdaws.

Tawny Frogmouth Chicks

indices — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:52:46 -0400

(From the archives: originally posted by funkyethan.)

DJ Wyntry Mixx

indices — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:51:50 -0400

A big shoutout goes to DJ Scratch and Hurricane Oh-Feel-Ya for this contribution…

(From the archives: originally posted by funkyethan.)

FancyCandy Bonbon Fantaisic

indices — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:51:44 -0400

Open-Source Beard

indices — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:51:28 -0400

You know your coworker who puts up flyers in the employee kitchen for his band’s gigs? Like, all the time? This is that band.

(More info about Richard Stallman is available on teh Wikipedia, or ask your local MIT grad for stories.)

(From the archives: originally posted by Martini-Corona.)

Bed Intruder Panda

ailicoyote — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:28:46 -0400

Bed Intruder Panda are a Chinese–Paraguayan duo who have been touring internationally since 2007 but are only now becoming known in the U.S. They were recently interviewed on NPR’s “All Songs Considered.”

Basque Honey

ethanfield — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:03:06 -0400

Their new album, 69” Media Console, is set for a mid-October release.

Courtesy of Crate & Barrel.

Insectodeth

indices — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:15:00 -0400

Spray into cracks / crevices and corners / wherever insects hide / we leave only mourners

(From the archives: originally posted by oboreruhito.)

Shelf Unit Omar

indices — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:31:00 -0400

Omar’s got the space-saving solution fo’ all institutions. This product is part of the mother-@#$ing OMAR SYSTEM. Sheeit.

(From the archives: originally posted by Martini-Corona.)