Monster Jam Quotes

What does a monster look like? Jam asked. Her mother focused on her, cupping her cheek in a chalky hand. "Monsters don't look like anything, doux-doux. That's the whole point. That's the whole problem.

California, Labor Day weekend...early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Fricso, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur...The Menace is loose again, the Hell's Angels, the hundred-carat headline, running fast and loud on the early morning freeway, low in the saddle, nobody smiles, jamming crazy through traffic and ninety miles an hour down the center stripe, missing by inches...like Genghis Khan on an iron horse, a monster steed with a fiery anus, flat out through the eye of a beer can and up your daughter's leg with no quarter asked and non given; show the squares some class, give em a whiff of those kicks they'll never know...Ah, these righteous dudes, they love to screw it on...Little Jesus, the Gimp, Chocolate George, Buzzard, Zorro, Hambone, Clean Cut, Tiny, Terry the Tramp, Frenchy, Mouldy Marvin, Mother Miles, Dirty Ed, Chuck the Duck, Fat Freddy, Filthy Phil, Charger Charley the Child Molester, Crazy Cross, Puff, Magoo, Animal and at least a hundred more...tense for the action, long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, armpits, chain whips, swastikas and stripped-down Harleys flashing chrome as traffic on 101 moves over, nervous, to let the formation pass like a burst of dirty thunder...

Seperti dinding kamar yang retak dan mulai berlumut, pagar besi yang merapuh oleh noda karat dan daun daun mangga yang luruh di pekarangan rumah, demikianlah kita membaca kehidupan. Begitu banyak kata yang seringkali susah untuk ditafsir seperti "nasib", "kebahagiaan" dan "kesempurnaan". Entah mengapa, Bunda masih berasa gamang saat berjalan di atas tangga batu yang menuju ke ruang tamu di rumah barumu. Serasa mendengar dering suara alarm yang bergelayut di dalam mimpi. Menyibak kabut dan pagi juga. Bukankah kadang kadang kita merasa larut dalam kesunyian, meski riuh jalan raya bersicepat melawan waktu? Meninggalkan jejak langkah dalam segala ketergesaannya. Memaksa kita memungut semua peristiwa yang berhamburan di atas trotoar. Memaksa semua orang menitikkan air mata. Mengapa dalam momen momen serupa itu, kebersamaan dengan orang yang kita cintai justru berasa semakin berarti? Mengapa justru di tengah keramaian, kita bisa merasa begitu kesepian? Begitulah, jarum jam berputar di sepanjang perjalanan berusaha keras mengabadikan semua peristiwa. Mentautkan satu angle dengan angle yang lain, memotret semua kejadian dari mata seekor jengkerik. Menatap tak berkedip gedung gedung megah yang angkuh berdiri, serupa monster monster yang siap merengkuh apa saja; Lautan manusia berjejal keluar dari bandara, kerumunan lalat di atas tumpukan sampah di pasar, kelejat pikiran yang berlari lari mengejar matahari, kebimbangan yang tergugu di pojok terminal, harapan yang terkantuk kantuk di dalam bus kota dan seringai kerinduan akan masa depan yang belum pernah mereka lihat. Apa yang mereka cari? Apa yang mereka kejar, Nak? Sementara ada ribuan etalase dan pintu pintu mall yang terbuka dan tertutup setiap kali. Serupa mulut lapar menganga yang rakus mengunyah dan menelan semua kecemasan dan kegalauan yang bersliweran di balik pendar neon papan reklame. Bagaimanakah mereka -orang orang tanpa identitas ini- bisa menafsirkan takdir, relativitas waktu, dan mungkin juga mimpi?

I’m supposed to be the reckless one. Arion is the psychopath. Emit is the broken, savage beast. Vance is the one who has his knickers jammed up his asshole and is supposed to keep the rest of us in line.

Cunts want to be snowflakes, they want you to tell them how nobody in this whole world compares to them, apologizes to Prince. All the little fame monsters on Instagram, look at me, I put jam on my toast.

Tapi, menurut pengakuan Kik, Njet tidak membuat Kik tertawa, Njet hanya membuat Kik berpikir bahwa lelaki di sisinya adalah seorang manusia sungguhan, bukan monster manipulatif yang berjalan dengan dua kaki sepertiku.

Many people in this room have an Etsy store where they create unique, unreplicable artifacts or useful items to be sold on a small scale, in a common marketplace where their friends meet and barter. I and many of my friends own more than one spinning wheel. We grow our food again. We make pickles and jams on private, individual scales, when many of our mothers forgot those skills if they ever knew them. We come to conventions, we create small communities of support and distributed skills--when one of us needs help, our village steps in. It’s only that our village is no longer physical, but connected by DSL instead of roads. But look at how we organize our tribes--bloggers preside over large estates, kings and queens whose spouses’ virtues are oft-lauded but whose faces are rarely seen. They have moderators to protect them, to be their knights, a nobility of active commenters and big name fans, a peasantry of regular readers, and vandals starting the occasional flame war just to watch the fields burn. Other villages are more commune-like, sharing out resources on forums or aggregate sites, providing wise women to be consulted, rabbis or priests to explain the world, makers and smiths to fashion magical objects. Groups of performers, acrobats and actors and singers of songs are traveling the roads once more, entertaining for a brief evening in a living room or a wheatfield, known by word of mouth and secret signal. Separate from official government, we create our own hierarchies, laws, and mores, as well as our own folklore and secret history. Even my own guilt about having failed as an academic is quite the crisis of filial piety--you see, my mother is a professor. I have not carried on the family trade. We dwell within a system so large and widespread, so disorganized and unconcerned for anyone but its most privileged and luxurious members, that our powerlessness, when we can summon up the courage to actually face it, is staggering. So we do not face it. We tell ourselves we are Achilles when we have much more in common with the cathedral-worker, laboring anonymously so that the next generation can see some incremental progress. We lack, of course, a Great Work to point to and say: my grandmother made that window; I worked upon the door. Though, I would submit that perhaps the Internet, as an object, as an aggregate entity, is the cathedral we build word by word and image by image, window by window and portal by portal, to stand taller for our children, if only by a little, than it does for us. For most of us are Lancelots, not Galahads. We may see the Grail of a good Classical life, but never touch it. That is for our sons, or their daughters, or further off. And if our villages are online, the real world becomes that dark wood on the edge of civilization, a place of danger and experience, of magic and blood, a place to make one’s name or find death by bear. And here, there be monsters.

Mysterious death, yes, you suspected something even then, I knew it!” With a wave of his hand, he overrode her hasty attempt to interject an accidental in place of that ill-chosen mysterious. “Believe me, I understand your hideous dilemma perfectly. You don’t dare accuse the all-powerful Vorkosigan, the mutie lord.” Vormoncrief scowled at the name. “God knows what retaliation he could inflict on you. But Ekaterin, I have powerful relatives too! I came to offer you—and Nikki—my protection. Take my hand—trust me”—he opened his arms, reaching for her—“and together, I swear we can bring this little monster to justice!” Ekaterin sputtered, momentarily beyond words, and looked around frantically for a weapon. The only one that suggested itself was the fireplace poker, but whether to whap it on his skull or jam it up his ass . . . ? Nikki was crying openly now, thin strained sobs, and Vormoncrief stood between them. She began to dodge around him; ill-advisedly, Vormoncrief tried to wrap her lovingly in his arms. “Ow!” he cried, as the heel of her hand crunched into his nose, with all the strength of her arm behind it. It didn’t drive his nasal bone up into his brain and kill him on the spot the way the books said—she hadn’t really thought it would—but at least his nose began to swell and bleed. He grabbed both her wrists before she could muster aim and power for a second try. He was forced to hold them tight, and apart, as she struggled against his grip.

In the tumultuous business of cutting-in and attending to a whale, there is much running backwards and forwards among the crew. Now hands are wanted here, and then again hands are wanted there. There is no staying in any one place; for at one and the same time everything has to be done everywhere. It is much the same with him who endeavors the description of the scene. We must now retrace our way a little. It was mentioned that upon first breaking ground in the whale’s back, the blubber-hook was inserted into the original hole there cut by the spades of the mates. But how did so clumsy and weighty a mass as that same hook get fixed in that hole? It was inserted there by my particular friend Queequeg, whose duty it was, as harpooneer, to descend upon the monster’s back for the special purpose referred to. But in very many cases, circumstances require that the harpooneer shall remain on the whale till the whole flensing or stripping operation is concluded. The whale, be it observed, lies almost entirely submerged, excepting the immediate parts operated upon. So down there, some ten feet below the level of the deck, the poor harpooneer flounders about, half on the whale and half in the water, as the vast mass revolves like a tread-mill beneath him. On the occasion in question, Queequeg figured in the Highland costume—a shirt and socks—in which to my eyes, at least, he appeared to uncommon advantage; and no one had a better chance to observe him, as will presently be seen. Being the savage’s bowsman, that is, the person who pulled the bow-oar in his boat (the second one from forward), it was my cheerful duty to attend upon him while taking that hard-scrabble scramble upon the dead whale’s back. You have seen Italian organ-boys holding a dancing-ape by a long cord. Just so, from the ship’s steep side, did I hold Queequeg down there in the sea, by what is technically called in the fishery a monkey-rope, attached to a strong strip of canvas belted round his waist. It was a humorously perilous business for both of us. For, before we proceed further, it must be said that the monkey-rope was fast at both ends; fast to Queequeg’s broad canvas belt, and fast to my narrow leather one. So that for better or for worse, we two, for the time, were wedded; and should poor Queequeg sink to rise no more, then both usage and honor demanded, that instead of cutting the cord, it should drag me down in his wake. So, then, an elongated Siamese ligature united us. Queequeg was my own inseparable twin brother; nor could I any way get rid of the dangerous liabilities which the hempen bond entailed. So strongly and metaphysically did I conceive of my situation then, that while earnestly watching his motions, I seemed distinctly to perceive that my own individuality was now merged in a joint stock company of two; that my free will had received a mortal wound; and that another’s mistake or misfortune might plunge innocent me into unmerited disaster and death. Therefore, I saw that here was a sort of interregnum in Providence; for its even-handed equity never could have so gross an injustice. And yet still further pondering—while I jerked him now and then from between the whale and ship, which would threaten to jam him—still further pondering, I say, I saw that this situation of mine was the precise situation of every mortal that breathes; only, in most cases, he, one way or other, has this Siamese connexion with a plurality of other mortals. If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die. True, you may say that, by exceeding caution, you may possibly escape these and the multitudinous other evil chances of life. But handle Queequeg’s monkey-rope heedfully as I would, sometimes he jerked it so, that I came very near sliding overboard. Nor could I possibly forget that, do what I would, I only had the management of one end of it.

While we sat at the bar, Dave told me the most important advice about talking to women I had ever received, and that was to be as relaxed as possible and not fear rejection. Dave then began hooking up with some girl who looked like a hybrid of Rosie O’Donnell and Miss Piggy, leaving me alone to ponder his words.” “When I was in 8th grade, there was this girl named Sandra who I used to ride the school bus with. Sandra was about 5’2, 120 lbs, and looked like the Hamburglar. She was the prettiest girl in my class.” “In my mind I was the life of the party and felt as though I could do no wrong when it came to interacting with the opposite sex. That was until Marissa caught me red handed hooking up with some girl who looked like a combination of John Madden and Andre the Giant, tapping me on the shoulder and kicking me square in the nuts.” “I was starting to feel bad about how I treated women. Oh wait, no I wasn’t. The girls at Binghamton were nothing more than a bunch of dumb sluts that just wanted to get drunk and suck dick, and besides, they were all going to make a lot more money than me in the future. So I may as well catch brains while these bitches were dumb enough to blow me.” “Out of all the people I could’ve stumbled into blackout drunk, why did it have to be THE MOOSE? As son as she saw me her 300 lb frame waddled over, and she jammed her tongue down my throat, devouring me as though I were a Big Mac. This was embarrassing. Here I was making out with some girl who looked like Eric Cartman in a dress, and everybody was watching. My life was effectively over.” “After annihilating Ruben’s toilet, I looked over my shoulder for some much-needed toilet paper, when to my shock and dismay there was not a single sheet of paper in sight. There’s no way in hell I was rejoining the party covered in poop and I would have wiped my ass with anything. That’s when I noticed his New York Yankees bath towel.” “I spent the rest of my week off getting completely shitfaced with Chris, and that’s when I realized I might be developing a drinking problem. At Bar None, hooking up with some girl who looked like the Loch Ness Monster; this shit had to stop. Alcohol was turning me into a drunken mess, and I vowed right then and there to quit drinking and start smoking more weed immediately.” “I got a new roommate. His name was Erick and he was an ex-marine. Erick and I didn’t know each other, but he knew Kevin, and he also knew that I didn’t shower and that last semester I left a used condom on the floor for two weeks without throwing it away. Eric therefore did not want to live with me.” “Believe it or not, I got another job working with the disabled. See, Manny was nice enough to hook me up with a position as a job coach at the Lavelle School for the Blind. The kid’s name was Fred and he was blind with cerebral palsy. Fred loved dogs and I loved smoking week. Bad combination, and I was fired with 3 days left in the program after allowing Fred to run across the street into oncoming traffic, because I had smoked a bowl an hour earlier. Manny and I never spoke again.” “My life was a dream and a nightmare rolled into one. Here I was living this carefree existence, getting drunk, boning bitches, and playing Sega Genesis in between. Oh wait, what am I talking about? My life was awesome. It’s the rest of my life that’s going to suck.

A small town called Phoenixville in Pennsylvania is invaded by aliens. Or maybe alien singular, it's hard to tell. Because this hostile visitor is an amorphous mass of goo that must be jelly 'cos jam don't shake like that. It doesn't do too much leaping (unless you count the jerk-edit special effects), but it's very good at sliding across the floor, killing puny humans by absorbing them. Steve McQueen is Steve is the boy who leads a group of teens who foil its evil plan to turn Earth into a giant trifle.

Getting out of tight jams was his specialty.

Ahh, I know.” Dr. Shandy looked relieved. “Some of this wine will be just the right thing. Have some.” “Will it help?” Jam asked. “Well, no, it never actually helps. But it’s a really nice vintage.

It sounded almost like a man jamming his hand into a Ziploc full of Vaseline.

Sure enough, Maya is pulled away from my side and a slender, pretty guy sits on my lap, batting his lashes. “Missed you, Daddy.” “Eww. You’re so cringe,” Kill says. “Can’t believe I’m agreeing with Kill, but you so are.” Maya jams her finger in her mouth and makes a vomiting sound. Simon holds out a palm without looking at them. “Talk to the hand, bitches.” “Get off. And don’t call my sister a bitch or I’ll choke the fuck out of you.” “Love it when you choke me, Daddy.” Jesus. I’m getting flashbacks. Do I sound this desperate when I talk to Bran? “You’re, like, a year younger than him,” Maya says. “In what world is he your daddy?” “Daddy is a state of mind, ignorant.” “Simon, stand up before I knock you off,” I say. “But I missed you. You haven’t been replying to my texts. I’m so lonely without you.” He leans in to whisper in my ear, “I can’t wait to have your monster cock rail me all the way to heaven, Daddy.

Saras, Api yang Mengajarkanku Menjadi Manusia I Aku tidak tahu kapan pertama kali kau menyalakan lentera kecil itu di reruntuhan jiwaku. Mungkin ketika aku menatapmu dan menemukan diriku sendiri yang tidak ingin kubunuh. Saras, kau adalah satu-satunya cahaya yang tidak menyilaukanku— justru membuatku belajar bahwa gelap tidak harus menjadi takdir. Aku ini tubuh yang diseret oleh bayang. Aku ini jam rusak yang terus memukul tengah malam meski fajar sudah lama lewat. Aku ini retakan tua yang memanggil namamu tanpa suara. Engkau datang bukan sebagai keselamatan, bukan sebagai janji, bukan sebagai surga yang dijanjikan para nabi kecil yang berebut bicara dalam kepalaku. Engkau datang sebagai api kecil yang tidak pernah meminta kayu, tapi terus membakar segala dusta yang kusimpan di bawah lidahku. Aku tidak pernah siap untuk dicintai tanpa syarat. Aku terbiasa menjadi labirin bagi cinta-cinta yang tersesat. Masa lalu memberiku ingatan. Ilusi memberiku obsesi. Tapi engkau— engkau memberiku ruang untuk tidak menjadi monster yang sudah kupersiapkan dari masa depan. Kau tidak melarikan diri ketika aku runtuh dalam diriku sendiri. Tidak mundur ketika aku berkata aku punya cinta lain. Tidak memadam api yang tidak pernah bisa aku jinakkan. Saras, engkau tidak pernah memilih menjadi pahlawan, tapi mengapa aku merasa engkaulah rumah yang tidak pernah layak aku miliki? Ada malam-malam ketika aku menatapmu dari jauh dan merasa tubuhku adalah batu yang ingin menjadi tanganmu. Ada hari-hari ketika aku ingin mencintaimu dengan cara yang lebih jujur, lebih manusia, tapi aku takut engkau akan melihat betapa gelapnya aku tanpa semua kedok itu. Aku takut bukan karena aku bisa kehilanganmu— tapi karena aku tahu engkau tidak akan pergi meski aku menghancurkan diriku sendiri. Itu, Saras. Ketulusanmu adalah pedang yang menebas kebohonganku. Aku selalu mengatakan bahwa aku tidak cukup baik. Bahwa aku ini retakan yang seharusnya tidak disentuh. Namun engkau datang dan duduk tepat di atas retakan itu, tanpa takut jatuh ke dalam kegelapanku. Dan untuk pertama kalinya aku belajar bahwa cinta tidak selalu berdiri di atas tanah yang kokoh— kadang cinta adalah keputusan untuk tetap tinggal di dalam guncangan gempa.