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That’s exactly what Octomom is: a carnival attraction.
The Carnival dancers are such a vital part of any carnival, whether it’s in Rio, Mardi Gras or even Notting Hill Carnival in my home town of London. Once you see them, you know it’s time to party.
I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.
In Brazil, you buy tickets to go to the stadium to watch the carnival, but in Trinidad, you buy a costume and take part. There are very few things that can rival that experience.
I never drank, never party, Carnival, none of that.
The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar ‘queen,’ alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.
A friend and I were talking about how I don’t like carnival rides that make me dizzy. I looked up from the conversation and thought, ‘Dizzy – that sounds like a great title for a song.’ The next day, I went into the studio with some co-writers, and we wrote that song.
Just as Josef K, the protagonist of Kafka’s ‘The Trial,’ awoke one day to discover that he had become part of some unfathomable legal carnival, we, too are frequently waking to discover that the rules of the digital game have once again profoundly changed.
‘Carnival Row’ is us looking at the stranger; ‘The Curiosity’ is the stranger looking at us.
It’s getting hard to keep up with all of the news from Washington – witch hunts, conspiracy theories and Republicans tearing each other apart over who is ideologically pure and who is apostate. It’s a real set of carnival sideshows.
To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses.
The true Caribbean people… we are carnival people, we are vibrant people, not dead people. We like to be heard and we like to have fun.
According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards’ fanciful images – from the Fool to Death – were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.
I went to the carnival a lot. The carousel was my favorite ride as a kid.
I saw a song and dance act at the carnival and decided that’s what I wanted to do. I worked on my mother first, she convinced my dad, and I started taking dance lessons at the Maureen Bennett Studio.
Paying to teach in the trenches was like putting my face through a cutout hole at a carnival while a quarterback threw pies at me. At least with a carnival, I’d see it coming.
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
People who work in horror know they are contributing to a genre that has always been loved and will always be loved – privately. It’s the forbidden evil working behind the curtain. My job scoring a horror movie is like being the barker at a carnival. A good barker can get anyone to walk into the roped-off tent.
If you squint at ‘Deadwood,’ you can see ‘Game of Thrones’ coming. That’s the show that first got me thinking ‘Carnival Row’ could be a series.
I was sure that somewhere a grandiose carnival was going on in the sky, and I was missing it.
I’ve always had a thing for theme parks and their less-glorious cousins, amusement parks, the carnival midway, and others of such ilk.
Notting Hill is a very different carnival from anywhere else. This is an international city, so it represents everybody. You walk around every corner here, you’ll hear something new. It’s awesome.
When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I’d go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.
When I got to Activision, it was like a carnival. They had a recycling container filled with cans and a sign over it that said ‘Activision Takeover Defense Fund.’ Activision was making games based on passion and gut instinct. We needed to develop games based on P&L statements and what was going to sell.
How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.
When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and all that. About a month after we started dating, he bought me this amazing black-and-white photo book on the circus in the 1930s, and I started sobbing.
I’ve already done things I never believed I would. Even stepping out of Northampton and being in London – London always seemed like the big city I might go to for Carnival, go for a party and a chill and then head home.
In Toronto, the film festival is like a carnival… entire families come to it.
Can I play a southern character? You betcha. Can I do the voice of Tourist Dad and Carnival Barker? Ya betcha. Can I do Fix-It Felix? Ya betcha. But I don’t want to just play southern characters, so I hide it; I bury it. I tamp it down like a secret. Like a dirty little secret.
Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival – the freaks who bite the heads off chickens – but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people.
