Ken the Box: Complete and Annotated Part One
Ken the Box was an experiment designed by a mad scientist named Survival Tobita to test the boundaries of humanity's capacity for violence and acceptance. Like Frankenstein, he is a haunted creation, cursed to fight pro wrestling's most villainous baddies to prove that even a lab-created monster is touched by god's grace and deserving of rights, respect, and compassion.
Even if you don't like absurdist art or believe that co-operative fighting can be a emotionally moving and an intellectually valid experience, you should take this journey with us. Ken the Box shows what is kept inside us all.
Kevin Spacey and Ken the Box vs. Brad Pitt and Gwenneth Paltrow
Si and his daughter and I watched this and now she's in his arms, shaking, crying cold and terrified tears.
This was horrible. Lets just say that the heels won when Spacy defeated Paltrow and leave it at that.
Ken the Box vs. Kent Hebox.
This was an engaging mirror-matchup, featuring Ken versus a slightly different version of himself. But as happens in a lot of mirror matches, they caught sight of one another in one another and disappeared into an endlessly reflective void.
Ken the Box vs. A Garden Gnome.
Entrance music can tell us a lot about a wrestler. Here Ken comes out to The Venetian Snares, a piece entitled "Destroy Glass Castles" from A Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding. Usually the Venetian Snares are harsh, inaccessible, and unforgiving but this album is accessible, even to music fans who aren't into experimental murder music. So Ken is signalling something to us here, that he wants to be appreciated by a wider audience, that he's tired of working in a niche genre, that he's ready to push his chips forward and declare himself "all in" as an artist and a valued part of human society.
But is society ready to accept him as he is? Or will he be reduced to something more recognizable, more manageable, and trite? Something cute to laugh at and be put amongst the flowers in a garden, perhaps? Sensing a traitor, a sellout, someone who was willing to sacrifice individualism for acceptance, Ken the Box smashes the Garden Gnome to small bits and pins each and every one of them to satiate his growing outcast's rage.
Even if you don't like absurdist art or believe that co-operative fighting can be a emotionally moving and an intellectually valid experience, you should take this journey with us. Ken the Box shows what is kept inside us all.
Kevin Spacey and Ken the Box vs. Brad Pitt and Gwenneth Paltrow
Si and his daughter and I watched this and now she's in his arms, shaking, crying cold and terrified tears.
This was horrible. Lets just say that the heels won when Spacy defeated Paltrow and leave it at that.
Ken the Box vs. Kent Hebox.
This was an engaging mirror-matchup, featuring Ken versus a slightly different version of himself. But as happens in a lot of mirror matches, they caught sight of one another in one another and disappeared into an endlessly reflective void.
Ken the Box vs. A Garden Gnome.
Entrance music can tell us a lot about a wrestler. Here Ken comes out to The Venetian Snares, a piece entitled "Destroy Glass Castles" from A Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding. Usually the Venetian Snares are harsh, inaccessible, and unforgiving but this album is accessible, even to music fans who aren't into experimental murder music. So Ken is signalling something to us here, that he wants to be appreciated by a wider audience, that he's tired of working in a niche genre, that he's ready to push his chips forward and declare himself "all in" as an artist and a valued part of human society.
But is society ready to accept him as he is? Or will he be reduced to something more recognizable, more manageable, and trite? Something cute to laugh at and be put amongst the flowers in a garden, perhaps? Sensing a traitor, a sellout, someone who was willing to sacrifice individualism for acceptance, Ken the Box smashes the Garden Gnome to small bits and pins each and every one of them to satiate his growing outcast's rage.
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