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Oklahoma City Poster Question
Posted: Wed December 04, 2013 10:47 pm
by Vedder's Girl
The OKC poster is sort of confusing me. I see a rose, a boat, a barn and a silo. I'm sure I'm missing the deeper meaning that the artist "Johnny Crap" is trying to convey. Maybe it's a dust bowl tornado theme. Not sure what the rose has to do with it? Any ideas?
Re: Oklahoma City Poster Question
Posted: Wed December 04, 2013 10:56 pm
by doug rr
It's Pearl Jam rising from the ashes from whatever mother nature has to throw at them
Re: Oklahoma City Poster Question
Posted: Wed December 04, 2013 10:58 pm
by CopperTom
Pearl Jam only rises from the ashes of Mother Love Bone, not mother nature.
Re: Oklahoma City Poster Question
Posted: Wed December 04, 2013 11:07 pm
by malice
and with that, you've been officially welcomed to RM, Vedder's Girl.

Re: Oklahoma City Poster Question
Posted: Wed December 04, 2013 11:12 pm
by BurtReynolds
looks like a metaphor for Ed and Ricky Ramone's undying love for each other. The rose interwoven with the house symbolizes how nothing will ever come between them.
Re: Oklahoma City Poster Question
Posted: Thu December 05, 2013 3:20 am
by B
You should really post the pic when starting a thread like this.
Re: Oklahoma City Poster Question
Posted: Thu December 05, 2013 4:28 am
by Fuzzcharger
The silo represents Jeff's ample penis.
Re: Oklahoma City Poster Question
Posted: Thu December 05, 2013 8:18 am
by The Town
Here's an image of the poster.

Re: Oklahoma City Poster Question
Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 11:58 pm
by holdtightthething
I'm pretty sure the crappy, broken down old shack is to represent Riot Act.
Re: Oklahoma City Poster Question
Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 4:51 am
by Norah
you need to shut the fuck up
Re: Oklahoma City Poster Question
Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 7:36 am
by Sgt. Crackpot
THIP has returned?
Re: Oklahoma City Poster Question
Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 12:54 pm
by holdtightthething
cutuphalfdead wrote:you need to shut the fuck up
That's pretty rude.
Re: Oklahoma City Poster Question
Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 1:47 pm
by McParadigm
It's all based on a dream that Ed described to him, as I understand it.
Note the decrepit and precariously-placed nature of the structure bearing the band's name. It represents decay. It shows the inevitability of ending. Like the proverbial malt shop of old, this nearly-destroyed building is a thing of the past...a dead question with an unheedable answer.
The rowboat hangs uselessly from a waterless dock. The inhabitants, we conclude, failed to escape when that option still existed for them. Now, they are trapped, their tiny world held up by the roots of things that do not live. In effect they are supported to death, like a band being pushed into cancerous stagnation by its ever-craving but terribly weary fanbase.
There are no crops here. There is no substance at all. The once-common potato is gone. The mayonnaise is lost to time immortal. Things change, we inevitably conclude. It cannot be stopped.
Meanwhile, the rose...a cultural symbol of newness, of springtime, and of love...pushes through the tattered remains. It is a foreign object, an outside force that hints at many faces. It is larger than the building...and thus larger than band or man, we infer...and it is not slowed by the crumbling walls that its vibrant folds parenthetically lay to waste. It is a physical manifestation of "out with the old," and it is the corporeal representation of the unstoppable new. It is life. It is death. It is the densely-concentrated power collected within a dreamer's eager ambitions.
It is also a vagina.
Re: Oklahoma City Poster Question
Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 1:55 pm
by Kaius
Re: Oklahoma City Poster Question
Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 9:48 pm
by Sgt. Crackpot
holdtightthething wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:you need to shut the fuck up
That's pretty rude.
You figured chud out quite quickly. Bravo.
Re: Oklahoma City Poster Question
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 2:30 pm
by McParadigm
In which Sarge's and Kaius's avatars seem eerily appropriate for their posts.
Re: Oklahoma City Poster Question
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 2:39 pm
by Alex
McParadigm wrote:It's all based on a dream that Ed described to him, as I understand it.
Note the decrepit and precariously-placed nature of the structure bearing the band's name. It represents decay. It shows the inevitability of ending. Like the proverbial malt shop of old, this nearly-destroyed building is a thing of the past...a dead question with an unheedable answer.
The rowboat hangs uselessly from a waterless dock. The inhabitants, we conclude, failed to escape when that option still existed for them. Now, they are trapped, their tiny world held up by the roots of things that do not live. In effect they are supported to death, like a band being pushed into cancerous stagnation by its ever-craving but terribly weary fanbase.
There are no crops here. There is no substance at all. The once-common potato is gone. The mayonnaise is lost to time immortal. Things change, we inevitably conclude. It cannot be stopped.
Meanwhile, the rose...a cultural symbol of newness, of springtime, and of love...pushes through the tattered remains. It is a foreign object, an outside force that hints at many faces. It is larger than the building...and thus larger than band or man, we infer...and it is not slowed by the crumbling walls that its vibrant folds parenthetically lay to waste. It is a physical manifestation of "out with the old," and it is the corporeal representation of the unstoppable new. It is life. It is death. It is the densely-concentrated power collected within a dreamer's eager ambitions.
It is also a vagina.
THANK YOU. it was long overdue that we addressed elephant in the room.
Re: Oklahoma City Poster Question
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 2:53 pm
by McParadigm
It's going to be okay, Alex.
You don't have to be afraid anymore.
Re: Oklahoma City Poster Question
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 2:55 pm
by Alex
Re: Oklahoma City Poster Question
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 3:07 pm
by Kaius
What the hell is she doing?!