ok, in 'terminator 2', it is indicated that in the future, both the risen machines and the revolutionaries have access to the sort of time-travel technology that makes it possible to send a terminator back in time. so refined is this technology that at least one side is able to send a force back to a very specific time -- hence, two opposing, and naked, terminators being birthed from lightining-spheres in random spots in LA at the exact same time. great. i get it.
i know what follows would render the need to make terminator 2 pretty pointless, which would be awful. but still...why not just send one terminator just a little further back in time? this is the obvious comment that will inevitably come up, and yeah, sure. why not? or is that just a waste of a terminator? if john connor only needs protection from, like, bobby budnik and being influenced to smoke weed because he's listening to too much GnR, i guess he can handle that on his own?...so, yeah, if someone's not specifically trying to kill him, this might suggest that yep, arnold's a waste of space. on the flipside, however, why would melted-metal terminator not just go a little further back in time?
what i gleaned from this, then, after much thought, is as follows: the revolutionaries, in the future, will clearly have a better grasp of time travel. not so much perhaps, of cyborgenics (or whatever), but SHIT, if you can time travel, and do so more accurately than a robot that's trying to kill you...you MUST have a leg up. somehow.
i haven't seen t3; frankly, i am hesitant because i know t2 can't be topped, and i don't want to ruin this solid run for myself. i first saw the original terminator when i was 4, and i'm pretty sure that's the reason why i'm an insomniac to this day. i am disclaiming because i really am curious if and how time travel is addressed in post-t2 sequels/fanfic/etc. anyway, time travel inconsistencies aside, holy SHIT i am glad this movie exists. it definitley cuts me to the core.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Friday, December 14, 2007
CHRONIC NIGHTMARES THE ZINE
people who know me will argue that i loved the 90's more than most. a few weeks ago, roomie dan managed to dredge up a vhs that features a greatest live performances episode of my old staple, mtv's 120 minutes. while there was a lot of pointing and laughing at the tv set -- i mean, everyone looked soooo bad in like 1994 or whatever -- the tables eventually turned when other roomie stacie called me out on being 'frozen in time' and totally dressing like one of the girls in luscious jackson. ok, fair enough. true. although i could largely give a shit, one aesthetic i never, ever wanted to hit was the classic, old navy swathed, baggy-panted, mousy-haired, sort-of-looking-like-a-hippie-but-not-really TURD. i remember kara warning me about this a few years ago, and the warning stemmed from her admonishing me for dressing all 90's. i have to accept the facts. i look like an extra from 'airheads'. at BEST.
getting back to the roots that i apparently can't leave behind, i decided to resurrect a hobby that was semi-entrenched in 90's culture. i am launching a zine. when i was a freshman in high school, my older sister created one herself that was called the singlet. it proliferated throughout the lehigh valley and our town in jersey, and it was awesome. my own contributions were usually dumb drawings of crying punks or anything with lots of blood and for some reason i made a dumb fake russian comic strip for a while. not sure what that was all about in retrospect, but at any rate, i really liked doing that shit!
anyway, i just finished laying out and photocopying the first issue of CHRONIC NIGHTMARES today. each issue, i've decided, will be a single short story, fiction or nonfiction, whatever. the first issue is titled 'the hair' and, um, let's just say that it might hold the interest of anyone who has a zit-popping fetish. anyone else who reads it might puke, but hey, it's free! i'll probably be distributing it at a few bars, venues, etc....ideally, places where semi-literary degenerates hang out. i will also be posting the content on this blog so anyone who is NOT a degenerate can have access to the fruits of my imagination, as well. obviously, feedback will be very welcome, even if your 'feedback' consists of shaking me like a baby and yelling 'GET A GRIP, IT'S 2007.' that's cool, i guess.
getting back to the roots that i apparently can't leave behind, i decided to resurrect a hobby that was semi-entrenched in 90's culture. i am launching a zine. when i was a freshman in high school, my older sister created one herself that was called the singlet. it proliferated throughout the lehigh valley and our town in jersey, and it was awesome. my own contributions were usually dumb drawings of crying punks or anything with lots of blood and for some reason i made a dumb fake russian comic strip for a while. not sure what that was all about in retrospect, but at any rate, i really liked doing that shit!
anyway, i just finished laying out and photocopying the first issue of CHRONIC NIGHTMARES today. each issue, i've decided, will be a single short story, fiction or nonfiction, whatever. the first issue is titled 'the hair' and, um, let's just say that it might hold the interest of anyone who has a zit-popping fetish. anyone else who reads it might puke, but hey, it's free! i'll probably be distributing it at a few bars, venues, etc....ideally, places where semi-literary degenerates hang out. i will also be posting the content on this blog so anyone who is NOT a degenerate can have access to the fruits of my imagination, as well. obviously, feedback will be very welcome, even if your 'feedback' consists of shaking me like a baby and yelling 'GET A GRIP, IT'S 2007.' that's cool, i guess.
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