When commodities promise to satisfy profound psychological and social needs, shopping becomes a search for happiness. In this three part seminar, Lint Hatcher looks at what it is like to grow up in a consumer culture -- with his typical references to pop-culture like John Carpenters "They Live," Orwells "1984," George Romeros "Dawn of the Dead," and the book "What Should I Do If Reverend Billy Is In My Store?" The seminar is a three parter: (1) Apocalypse on Aisle 4 (2) The Parking Lot of Babel (3) Household Gods. First presented at the 2005 Cornerstone Music Festival in the Imaginarium tent, where people talk about C.S. Lewis, Santo and Blue Demon, Aurora monster models, G.K. Chesterton, Flannery OConnor, and the philosophical underpinnings of Star Treks "prime directive" as though they all belong under a single indefinable category.
Author: Lint Hatcher
Website: Excuse Me, Ghidorah?
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