"Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility."
January 2, 2014 12:37 PM Subscribe
Whatever the case, that barroom floor's got to be a bitch to mop at the end of the night.
The encrusted filth of generations trampled underfoot is a feature, not a bug.
posted by Runcible! at 1:01 PM on January 2, 2014 [4 favorites]
The encrusted filth of generations trampled underfoot is a feature, not a bug.
posted by Runcible! at 1:01 PM on January 2, 2014 [4 favorites]
Next to Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum.
posted by hal9k at 1:04 PM on January 2, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by hal9k at 1:04 PM on January 2, 2014 [1 favorite]
Yeah, so… I was expecting, hm, more words?
posted by dominik at 1:10 PM on January 2, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by dominik at 1:10 PM on January 2, 2014 [1 favorite]
No throne of human skulls?!
posted by indubitable at 1:16 PM on January 2, 2014
posted by indubitable at 1:16 PM on January 2, 2014
At the end of the night, you don't clean the barroom floor; it shambles out, clatters down stone steps to a black pool, dives in, and cleans itself by scraping its skin with bone shards.
posted by Bunny Ultramod at 1:40 PM on January 2, 2014 [10 favorites]
posted by Bunny Ultramod at 1:40 PM on January 2, 2014 [10 favorites]
I haven't been on any sort of vacation in like 4 years. I'm thinking I might've found a place.
posted by nevercalm at 1:40 PM on January 2, 2014
posted by nevercalm at 1:40 PM on January 2, 2014
I have been there. It is as bizarre as you'd think.
Imagine if someone picked a picture perfect gemutlich village with the cheese and the surrounding buttercup valleys and the cobbled streets and the smiling friendly swiss neat people serving cheese curdOMYGOD WHY IS A SUCCUBUS EATING THE ENSLAVED HUMAN HYBRID CYBORGS BRAIN WHILE BEING SPINALLY PENETRATED BY THE SELFSAME CYBORGS ROBOPHALLUS?
posted by lalochezia at 1:49 PM on January 2, 2014 [8 favorites]
Imagine if someone picked a picture perfect gemutlich village with the cheese and the surrounding buttercup valleys and the cobbled streets and the smiling friendly swiss neat people serving cheese curdOMYGOD WHY IS A SUCCUBUS EATING THE ENSLAVED HUMAN HYBRID CYBORGS BRAIN WHILE BEING SPINALLY PENETRATED BY THE SELFSAME CYBORGS ROBOPHALLUS?
posted by lalochezia at 1:49 PM on January 2, 2014 [8 favorites]
No throne of human skulls?!
Well, there is the design for Baron Harkonnen's chair that David Lynch foolishly discarded when he took over the stalled Dune project.
posted by [expletive deleted] at 1:51 PM on January 2, 2014 [2 favorites]
Well, there is the design for Baron Harkonnen's chair that David Lynch foolishly discarded when he took over the stalled Dune project.
posted by [expletive deleted] at 1:51 PM on January 2, 2014 [2 favorites]
The encrusted filth of generations trampled underfoot is a feature, not a bug.
The bugs are also features.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 1:57 PM on January 2, 2014 [9 favorites]
The bugs are also features.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 1:57 PM on January 2, 2014 [9 favorites]
lalochezia's description is spot-on. Remind yourself to look up, also. If you are outside you see very nice hills and mountains in the distance. If you are inside, well, I would not want to spoil that for you...!
posted by whatzit at 2:15 PM on January 2, 2014
posted by whatzit at 2:15 PM on January 2, 2014
The bugs are the featured special.
posted by arcticseal at 3:24 PM on January 2, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by arcticseal at 3:24 PM on January 2, 2014 [3 favorites]
If you haven't heard them, the Superego H.R. Giger bits are grand. "I grow black leaves"
posted by jeribus at 3:37 PM on January 2, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by jeribus at 3:37 PM on January 2, 2014 [2 favorites]
There are some good shots of the museum in this documentary.
Giger is not the only artist capable of tapping the darker aspects of the human psyche so sympathetically, but is perhaps the most consistently prolific.
posted by walrus at 4:12 AM on January 3, 2014
Giger is not the only artist capable of tapping the darker aspects of the human psyche so sympathetically, but is perhaps the most consistently prolific.
posted by walrus at 4:12 AM on January 3, 2014
Is it just me, or does the museum (what few images there are of it) look really small and cramped and overfilled with stuff?
That said, I'd definitely go if I were in the area.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 8:42 AM on January 3, 2014
That said, I'd definitely go if I were in the area.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 8:42 AM on January 3, 2014
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