 | Rowan Lipkovits (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1){kind=small} reluctance) wrote, |
the show I was born to play
A camp on Bowen Island for blind children, performing a set of songs engaging the camp's theme for the week: cryptozoology. Having satisfied both the vampire and werewolf camps, I realise that I've arrived at Margaret Atwood's fabulous Frankenstein song. "Ah, Frankenstein," I begin, "a man made from the parts of other dead men, brought to life with lightning." A child's voice sounds out from the back of the room, weighing in with a reflex response impossible to stifle: "That's AWESOME!"
August 9 2010, 22:44:00 UTC 1 year ago
August 10 2010, 02:04:41 UTC 1 year ago
Isn't it great when sometimes it becomes something more than just entertainment?
August 10 2010, 03:05:34 UTC 1 year ago
I never thought of it that way. It really is a cool story.
I just wonder to myself how badly that kid's world is going to get rocked the first time he hears Black Sabbath's Iron Man.Isn't it great when sometimes it becomes something more than just entertainment?
Frankenstein was always intended to be insightful allegory (as Wikipedia sez, "a warning against the expansion of modern man in the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novel's subtitle, The Modern Prometheus.") (Iron Man I'm not so sure about...)