Soon enough though, monsters began occupying those lands. But that actually started as an exercise in just sourcing cheap used canvases which he could then paint over wholesale. (If you’ve got a spare landscape cluttering up the garage, you can commission your own via his Voluntary Involuntary Collaboration Program.) So painting monsters comes secondary to finding just the right landscape painting. To set such sympathetic scenes, McMahon fills the voids of each secondhand painting with just the right monster. The immediate success gave McMahon plenty of impetus to stick with the motif. I wonder what I looked like at the time because I usually involuntarily make the same facial expressions I’m trying to paint.” THE MONSTER WITHIN US PAINTING FULLBut with that one, as soon as I had finished his face with its mouth full of awkward teeth and derpy eyes, he became my favorite. “There was a tree in the way that I had to work around, and I wanted his feet to disappear in the mist (which has caused much speculation as to what his feet look like). “This particular one wasn’t as difficult to execute as some have been,” McMahon says. While McMahon usually finds it challenging getting his creatures to blend in and interact with the existing environment of the original painting, he didn’t find that with "The Mountain Monster." "The Lake Serpent" by Christopher McMahon Which paralleled the dual tales of The Scientist and The Artist being woven into the album’s developing songs.” And most importantly to Rivers, it was clear the monster wasn’t angry - it was upset, sad, searching for something it was missing. The Monster was both on a terrifying rampage, and yet the painting was peaceful and dreamlike. “When he stumbled across artist Chris McMahon’s ‘The Monster,’ which was in an online gallery, he felt an immediate pull. “During the recording of the album that would become 2014’s Everything Will Be Alright In The End, Rivers was searching for a cover art concept that would personify the deep feelings that were going into the album, and the emotional story that was developing,” Karl Koch, Weezer’s 5th Member/Fan Liaison, tells SYFY WIRE via email. One of those sites caught the eye of Weezer’s lead vocalist and songwriter, Rivers Cuomo, and eventually, “The Mountain Monster" found his forever home. I didn’t realize how rare and significant that was at the time, but those three paintings started circulating the internet on various web sites.” “Later that day, one of my friends excitedly called me to tell me I’d been upvoted to the front page. I think my Reddit account was like a few weeks old at the time,” McMahon says. “After I made the first set of three paintings, ‘The Lake Serpent,’ ‘The Swamp Monster,’ and ‘The Mountain Monster’ (my original intent was to title them based on where they were located, but I quickly realized that wasn’t going to work if I was going to make more), I posted them to Reddit. In this day and age we find it so difficult to believe in anything that we can't explain." (She also says El Cuco goes by "the grief eater," but the truth to this denotation is unclear.Everything Will Be Alright in the End Weezer album cover by Christopher McMahon ( Amazon) (Credit: Republic records) It can look like a person if it needs to be, but it's not. What we should tell them is: it doesn't matter either way it takes what it wants. When we tell our children El Cuco, we say, if you you misbehave, it will take you away and eat you. Which seems to be the being's lasting impression.Īs the Cuban woman in The Outsider explains, "All the old cultures have the bad habit of turning truth into fairytales. Of course, there's also the children-eating part. In the Spanish-speaking world, that being is known as "El Cuco." By some descriptions, El Cuco acts as a kind of motherly ally, disciplining kids for misbehavior. In all cultures, the woman suggests, there exists such a punishing being. "When you were a child, who were you told would come for you if you misbehaved, if you didn't go to sleep?" the woman asks. The lullaby's singer is a a Cuban woman who Holly meets while visiting a New York prison. Early rhymes about El Cuco contain a similar line, including a children's bedtime lullaby sung during the episode: The name of the episode, "Que Viene El Coco," or "El Coco comes," is also the title of a 1799 painting by Goya, depicting a hooded figure, El Coco, approaching a woman and two screaming children. In a typically terrifying Stephen King fashion, The Outsider, moving away from scientific explanation, introduced 'El Cuco,' a shape-shifting monster and force of pure, indiscriminate evil that makes the clown from It seem, well, like a clown. Here's what the myth might mean for the series.The myth has Spanish origins-El Cuco is similar to the boogeyman.HBO's The Outsider introduced "El Cuco" (sometimes "El Coco") in episode 4.
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