I liked the dark absurdity of it, even laughing out loud a few times. Everything here that will be discussed, pondered, scrutinized, and pontificated upon in this thread is ... bullshit. I know I'm new-ish around here, so ask me anything. More like a rollicking house party than a blistering Blues bash, WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE is an album that is bereft of pretension.This is music created by a group of friends – Ed Volker, Dave Malone, Camile Baudion, Reggie Scanlan and Frank Bua – that celebrates a lifetime of music, friendship and that groovy New Orleans vibe. I did enjoy it up to a point. To produce complex, analytic, well-supported arguments that matter in academic contexts. He was exceptional at this, which is why his work has continued popularity. The conscious, logical mind is slower than the ‘deep brain’, the ‘monkey brain’, your emotional command centre. 163 E Davis Street (48.06 mi) … Welcome to Dead House. Winner of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Tony Hawkins radio drama award. Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s shorter works. That said Sirens of Titan and Breakfast of Champions are fantastic books that will also likely make you a bit uncomfortable. Reddit gives you the best of the internet in one place. Never fear folks; you are lonesome no more. A Note: This thread is meant to be a weekly Casual Discussion thread for the sub where people can talk about things Vonnegut-related-or-not. It looks like:". I encourage you to keep reading, to take note of what feels wrong to read, and what feels right. This context helps for sure. Oh god probably old Reddit- I’m not that old- I just don’t stay on top of the digital trends that we’ll lmfao. This is meant to be a weekly Casual Discussion thread for the sub where people can talk about things Vonnegut-related-or-not. I read Cat's Cradle for the first time several years ago... My irony-radar hadn't been installed at that point. Vonnegut was a complicated man and his work is duly complicated. Become a Redditor. Give it a read and leave a comment if you like. Welcome to the Monkey House is the book that got me into KV...and kind of "flipped the switch" on me becoming a bona fide writer. 314 212 184KB Read more. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1981 Vinyl release of "Welcome To The Monkey House" on Discogs. Palm Sunday, Welcome to the Monkey House (Vonnegut Omnibus) BY KURT VONNEGUT Player Piano The Sirens of Titan Mother Night Canary in a Cathouse Cat's Cradle God Bless You, Mr. Rose . I did enjoy it up to a point. This subreddit is for discussing the life, works, and legacy of Kurt Vonnegut, beloved author. Now they were twenty, had not seen each other for nearly a year. Would you say his attitude to Billy the Poet is ironic or sincere though? “Welcome to the Monkey House” opens with Sheriff Pete Crocker of Barnstable County arriving at the Hyannis Federal Ethical Suicide Parlor to warn the hostesses, Nancy McLuhan and Mary Kraft, that the criminal Billy the Poet is approaching the parlor. This subreddit is for discussing the life, works, and legacy of Kurt Vonnegut, beloved author. The Monkey House Red Rooms Just watched a video horror story on YouTube (pretty sure everyone here has also seen it) about some hacker who quit hacking after breaking into a sketchy red room called the Monkey House and witnessed a live stream torture with people in animal costumes. Let's talk? I felt the same way! That said, it's important to note that the main point of his presence in the literary scene of his time was to push boundaries and to turn the low-brow into more high-brow commentary. 1,781 826 2MB Read more. I just named it "Welcome to the Monkey House" to be cute. A lot of people don't like to hear it, but his views on sex were really not so enlightened. Then it'll say your user name with an "(edit)" link next to it. I'm going to make a post every Tuesday on this sub, begging you all to please, have a casual conversation. "Soy boy" is a pejorative wielded by some who devalue this ability, along with the lives and experiences of others. I was once at a Vonnegut conference that almost erupted into a riot when a speaker made a comment about his dependency on female sexual exploitation in his work, like the room was incredibly tense (female speaker and mostly male crowd too, imagine that). Press J to jump to the feed. The karass has always held a significant place in my heart ever since learning about it- I just didn’t realize I’d find my karass on Reddit- I love this idea bloom- I got to brush up on my monkey house- and then I will give some casual convo about it in the mean time... so it goes. Take it to the ballot box at the nearest monkey house. And Vonnegut makes some interesting commentary on sex. He was heavily influenced by pulp magazines of the time, which ran a lot of sci-fi and pornographic stories. Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2010. 1 . An anthology series focusing on various stories from Kurt Vonnegut's acclaimed collection "Welcome to the Monkey House". I'm going to make a bold declaration, here: we are no longer a Vonnegut subreddit; we are a karass. Our goal is to move past the need to see issues in black and white terms, to become better participants in public debate, and to look for a way out of the monkey house. It also doesn't mean that you don't have to not like something he wrote because the sexual content is a bit skeevy. We are a group of people linked in a cosmically-significant way. jump to content. 940 people follow this. Welcome to Dead House. This is my first rodeo with Vonnegut though, so maybe it’s tongue in cheek. He is the sum of all of those things, and it's important to be aware of them all, but one thing doesn't make up who he is. First time I've ever been awarded! Yeah for sure. Maybe there isn't a sub for what you want to talk about. But don’t fret, apparently all we are here to do on this earth is fart around. Welcome to the Monkey House is the fourth studio album by American rock band The Dandy Warhols.The album was recorded between September 2001 and December 2002, and released on May 5, 2003 through record label Capitol.. Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (1999) God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999) Armageddon in Retrospect and Other New and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace (2008) Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction (2009) While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction (2011) Non-Fiction Collections Unfortunately "rape as liberation" is a bit of a Vonnegut trope. So thanks! The stories are often intertwined and convey the same underlying messages on human nature and mid-twentieth century society. Since its original publication in 1968, Welcome to the Monkey House has been one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved works. Over the course of their career, the Dandy Warhols alternated between slick, smart, slightly smirky pop singles like "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" and "Bohemian Like You" and the ambitious yet somehow empty-sounding tracks that made up the rest of their albums. If all goes well, I will be planning reading groups for the sub (with everyone's input) starting very soon, so look out for those threads! The album was originally mixed by Grammy Award-winning soul engineer Russell Elevado, but Capitol Records, the band's label at the time, were unhappy with releasing it, and it was shelved, contrary to the band's wishes. I just named it "Welcome to the Monkey House" to be cute. My apologies if this is true & obvious to everyone. I would recommend this mainly to hardcore Vonnegut fans or creative writing students who want to see how he wrote "Welcome to the Monkey House," step-by-step. 893 people like this. Stream songs including "Welcome to the Monkey House", "We Used to Be Friends" and more. 1 . Give it a read and leave a comment if you like. it makes it hard to know which are Vonnegut’s beliefs and which aren’t, but the pathway and method you’ve suggested seems to be the best path to take. & therefore, perhaps, all are equally true? Okay, when you're looking at this thread in the sub, look to your right where it says "Show my flair on this subreddit. Where in Sirens of Titan is rape ever alluded to? New York: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 2014. The backside of the book features rough drafts of the aforementioned short-story in various incarnations, some hardly recognizable to … Whereas traditional science fiction is often noted for its seriousness, Vonnegut peppers his descriptions of a bizarre and terrifying world with absurdist humor. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly , these superb stories share Vonnegut’s audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision. tony and jonny cat play something and get a warm place to sleep. Our first tale is called “Welcome to the Monkeyhouse”, one of the deep web’s most well-known stories of real-life horror. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. With Stuart Margolin, Teresa Woodham, Jeff Boyd, Malcolm Stewart. Talk about anything that's on your mind that maybe you haven't been able to talk about anywhere else. The original tale comes from a reddit user who claims to be a dark web hacker. It is alluded to in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater as one of Kilgore Trout's stories. Welcome to the Monkey House Topics for Discussion Kurt Vonnegut This Study Guide consists of approximately 88 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Welcome to the Monkey House. Plot summary. Although that in itself is such a convenient excuse. Never let anyone tell you that you can't like his work and still wish he was less graphic with the inclusion of sex, that's a very valid view. It's hard to know if he was just pushing boundaries or if he was being sincere, but either scenario does not discount the fact that you read it and were made uncomfortable. He's my favorite author but it's a thing that shows up in several of his works (Sirens of Titan is particularly egregious). Sorry for the ramble, but I am also a "soy boy" who finds a lot of Vonnegut's work to be quite uncomfortable to read, and though he is among my favorite authors, it's still very important that we allow people to note where the content of his work takes a fairly gross turn. There, you can add a flair to your user name. If you have recommendations on what you want added to the selection I've made (because I've missed dozens of characters), let me know, and I'll add them. Several months ago, I wrote a short story to honor KV and that classic collection of prose fiction. I liked the dark absurdity of it, even laughing out loud a few times. "Welcome to the Monkey House" is a Kurt Vonnegut short story that is part of the collection of the same name. my subreddits. Welcome to Reddit, the front page of the internet. This may by definition be a rant, but I want you to know I sincerely appreciate every word of this. Check that box. FYI, I've added a bunch of cool, new user flairs for anyone who wants to get in on the fun. Maybe you just need to rant to some like-minded people. Thoughts on the short story “Welcome to the Monkey House”? I could totally be misunderstanding his point. 1,372 42 1MB Read more. Even though he was ground breaking and pushed a lot of boundaries for his time, I still feel uncomfortable with some of the ways he portrays women as subservient and complicit. (1968) LONG WALK TO FOREVER THEY HAD GROWN up next door to each other, on the fringe of a city, near fields and woods and orchards, within sight of a lovely bell tower that belonged to a school for the blind. Listen to Welcome to the Monkey House by The Dandy Warhols on Apple Music. Know it it not, your emotions rule your life – the decisions you make are so quick, they happen before you ‘think’ them. ! The decaying, three-story cement fortress sits among weeds in the wooded, hilly outskirts of Dongducheon, a Korean city … Mathew Needleman's radio drama adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's story "Welcome to the Monkey House." Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works. Locals call it the Monkey House. New York University: Medical Humanities: Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database Kurt Vonnegut entry. This special edition celebrates a true master of the short-story form by including multiple variant drafts of what would eventually be the title story. Did you end up reading more by him? Mmm I should note: the casual conversation threads are meant to be about anything, Vonnegut-related or otherwise. Welcome to the Monkey House is the book that got me into KV...and kind of "flipped the switch" on me becoming a bona fide writer. Would you categorize this as a thread of fomas? I’m definitely intrigued to read those books for sure. I made a post here a little while back about the race politics of Breakfast of Champions (essentially saying that the only back character being written as a stereotype was really uncomfortable to read and didn’t serve the book, despite it obviously being an attempt at satire) because I wanted to have a discussion with other Vonnegut readers about it. Print. 13 tracks (47:57). Le Monkey House was originally created by Raygan Ketterer as a side project to outlet some non custo... See More. Press J to jump to the feed. I think of the term karass frequently, but usually in identifying something as a false karass.I will be sure to check in on Tuesdays, & look forward to dusting off Welcome to the Monkey House for this discussion :). We can’t afford a bunch of political monkeys any more. Sorry for the ramble, but I am also a "soy boy". Welcome to the Monkey House! But I suppose he’s just a product of his generation. In the story, the hacker is tasked by a friend to penetrate a “black box”, … What the label said was this: WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE. This is going to be a weekly thing. That is the best way I know of to develop your tastes and to strengthen your own moral compass. Note! With his use of satire and attempts to push boundaries (and buttons it seems?) Thank you for this comment. Give me your suggestions about what you'd like to see out of this karass. Several months ago, I wrote a short story to honor KV and that classic collection of prose fiction. Since "monkey house" was a fun sounding title I bought it, ignoring the book buying rule to never buy a book where the author's name is the same size or larger than the actual title. The story "Welcome to the Monkey House" within his short story collection is probably one of his works that has aged the least well, at least when viewed through a modern lens lol. It happens in Welcome to the Monkey House, a Long Walk to Forever, and it’s even implied in All the King’s Horses with the husband justifying to the reader the sacrificing of his son while the wife stood silent. The stories blend elements of black humor, satire, and science fiction. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Maybe that’s me being a “soy boy”, but it certainly left a bad taste in my mouth. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Additionally, I’m intrigued to read more by him, either the Sirens of Titan or the Breakfast of Champions. Edit: Thank you kind stranger(s) for gifting me these award(s)! If all goes well, I will be planning reading groups for the sub, though, starting very soon, so look out for that! Or did you ultimately decide your time was better spent elsewhere? WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE A full-lengthplay For a flexible cast that nlay vary between four to ten men, and eight to fourteen women CHARACTERS Basic cast HAZEL BERGERON a confused "average" woman ojthe future GEORGE BERGERON.. 11-herabove-averagehusband There's a lot of great commentary, and a lot of big misses. We are all folks to whom the literature of Kurt Vonnegut has spoken and resonated with. "Welcome to the Monkey House" is a perfect example of Vonnegut's signature style of comic science fiction, a style that digresses from the science fiction tradition. The title story "Welcome to the monkey house" has a protagonist that kidnaps and rapes a … 42 check-ins. Welcome to the Monkey House. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Chalk it up to a mentality from 50/60 years ago. The album was originally mixed by Grammy Award-winning soul music engineer Russell Elevado, but Capitol Records were unhappy with releasing it, instead opting for … COURSE GOALS: 1. How would I go about asking for Kilgore Trout as a flair? Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s shorter works. Is it possible that the point is ALL karasses are false? specifically for our purposes on June 7, vote for Malloy for congress and Roberts for supervisor. Listen free to The Dandy Warhols – Welcome to the Monkey House (Welcome To The Monkey House, We Used to Be Friends and more). Pretty much no one took me up on it. My sisters and I are reading “Welcome to the Monkey House” in our book club and one of my sisters pointed out how there was a common theme of the women in his stories suddenly realizing the man was right and completely changing their minds/views. About See All. Community See All. ... cute monkey play in the house. Excellent! Is it possible there's a touch of irony when the narrator of Cat's Cradle delineates the two? The special edition. Sorry for the confusion. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly , these superb stories share Vonnegut’s audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision. He especially seemed like such a forward thinking person, so I was taken aback when stumbling upon this. The suggestion of rape as a liberation for women definitely made me feel uncomfortable to say the least. It's totally ok, though, to be uncomfortable with his statements on rape in this story. Vonnegut made a lot of uncomfortable statements about sex in his stories. Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of 25 short stories written by Kurt Vonnegut, published by Delacorte in August 1968.The stories range from wartime epics to futuristic thrillers, given with satire and Vonnegut's unique edge. 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