Comments on: El Voyage Maximo

By: Quincy St. Clair

Quincy St. Clair — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:37:22 +0000

The Spaceman sustained an unknown bacterial infection and concussion while visiting the regulars on East 4th Street. It is not known whether his mission has been completed. Several samples of the earthlings’ detritus including a chili dog, half-smoked blunt, and spatula were collected during his visit and sent back to the lab on his home planet. We are uncertain if the Spaceman is a mortal being like ourselves or is made of some otherworldly life-force. We’ve received transmission that he is in stable condition. We hope that the Spaceman and his civilization have mercy on our inability to grasp the meaning of his visit. We are a curious species to them.

By: Ang

Ang — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:34:43 +0000

The Spaceman went to some of my favorite places–can’t believe I didn’t run into him! When is he coming back?

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:33:56 +0000

It is educational. Most suitable for K-8.

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:04:53 +0000

They need to show this in Cleveland Schools.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:24:44 +0000

Seriously, this needs to be released to a wider audience. Is Maximo available for parties, birthdays, weddings, & such?

By: Eleanore Danson

Eleanore Danson — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:50:49 +0000

“In the fashion of Rene Magritte’s Ceci n’est pas une pipe (This is not a pipe) the Spaceman of El Voyage Maximo is not the space creature of first appearances, but rather refers to a metagalactic everyman who arrives in the decaying Midwestern city–a city that represents the utopia of possibility—to battle loss of hope, malaise, ennui, and boredom. He offers an opportunity for each to embrace their inner Space-creature–man, woman, child—through joy, laughter, dance, and the warmth of community. Each viewer can associate with the Spaceman’s struggles….will he learn the tactics of, “throw it over and walk around” by slipping the hotdog up his sleeve to gain sustenance, will he learn drink his Rolling Rock with a straw inserted into a vent in his space uniform?.

As Foucault has stated about the famous Magritte work, “Magritte knits verbal signs and plastic elements together, but without referring them to a prior isotopism. He skirts the base of affirmative discourse on which resemblance calmly reposes, and he brings pure similitudes and nonaffirmative verbal statements into play within the instability of a disoriented volume and an unmapped space. A process whose formulation is in some sense given by Ceci n’est pas une pipe.”

We must ask, what is the Spaceman offering with the spatula in the final minutes of this cutting edge film? As the jazz great Blind Lemon Jello once said….”I can see, I can see…..”

Eleanor Danson — Vogue Italia

By: Max

Max — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:10:10 +0000

“hallucinating from being overmedicated” … more like hallucinating from being undermedicated.

By: Rollie Pollie Wollie

Rollie Pollie Wollie — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:52:27 +0000

Feh. Puerile and unrealistic. Maximo, aka Trash, finds himself in a locked room, groggy and hallucinating from being overmedicated. Torchie, Cheater, Flinch, Lucky and Martin round out the group.
Makes me wanna splash all over the floor.

By: Cleveland SGS? « Swords & Dorkery

Cleveland SGS? « Swords & Dorkery — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:37:02 +0000

[…] Cleveland SGS? Someone wondered why I had a link in my blog roll to something that had nothing obviously related to swords, or to dorkery, no miniatures, no dungeons or dragons… The answer is because Cleveland SGS rocks. q.v. El Voyage Maximo. […]