Memes and Dreams, Across the Universe

These are from momentai:

1. Bruce Wayne: When I think about Bruce Wayne, I think about the fact that Batman is really about boy who watched something senselessly ripped from him and literally became the embodiment of making sure that never happened to anyone again. Because of this, Batman doesn't kill, but he will cripple. If you're dead you won't learn anything, and someone else hurts from your death. Bruce Wayne also bought out LexCorp, in a stunning hostile takeover, and that's... That's just brilliant.

2. corvids: To repeat: "I like Ravens. A lot. They are messengers, they are portents, they are the bearers of knowledge. Ravens are like a punk Irish psychic with integrity and honour, but who'll still kick ten shades of shit out of you, if you so much as look at them funny. They're extremely intelligent, and can learn more concept-formation than most parrots and some dogs. Crows are pretty smart, but they're like the Brooklynite cousins of Ravens. Rooks are strange. Blue Jays are assholes."

3. continual awakening: To repeat: "This stems from the Zen idea that awakening to Nirvana is something that Keeps Happening. It doesn't simply happen once and boom, you're done. It's a constant process of recognition and change, in the self, a perfect dance between being and becoming. This also tracks with the Leibnizian idea that every smallest unit of time the universe is destroyed and created again; hence the only thing that exists is Now, and the Need to recognise it, and be awake in every piece of that Now."


4. the greek pantheon: I like any system of gods where they're not "better" they're just more powerful. Anyone could become a god, in the Greek pantheon; all you had to do was do something absolutely fucking amazing that would be just as likely to get you chained to a rock for eternity as rewarded, and come out on top. They interest me because they're so weird, really, so infighting, incestuous, broken, and they revel in it. This was the Greek Ideal. I love it.

5. mechanical organics: Again: "This is different, for me, than biomechanica, but only slightly. When I think of biomech, I think of Giger, something chitinous, slick, technological but grown, and that has a place in what I'm talking about, but the transitions aren't as smooth. In Mechanical Organics, you can still see the grafts where the wires and tubing are getting into place, you can still see the line where the natural (organic) mates with the technological. I like that liminal space."

In addition, there's a lot more blood and bone, Organics, in this idea. More Tetsuo than Giger.

6. xarexcks'carelikcarta: I'm actually kind of surprised that you're the first to ask about this one. I think everyone else thinks is just gibberish. Ah, you might, too, for all I know. Anyway, it's a Word, that means, at current, "the mechanical feeling of loss, an empty room, at the thought of a lost brother."

7. the morrigan: Gaelic Goddess[es] of war, a tree part deity comprised of hatred, bloodlust, and cunning, represented by Crows and Ravens, a fertility goddess whose nourishment comes from the blood of the battlefield to make the grass grow green. Goddess, Queen, Force of Nature. Awesome Woman.

Dreams were of Dragon*Con come round again, already. I had a break down in the hallway, when I realised how soon it was. Something about travelling through tunnels and stairwells in new hotels, figuring out where everything led, which was mostly in circles.

Something about Scrubs, and JD having to room with Larry the Kissass from Eureka.

So, you should go see Across the Universe. You should take friends and sit and watch, and hear some of the best versions of Beatles songs you've ever heard in your life, and enjoy a touching story that condenses the 60's and 70's down to a distilled essence and does something new, with it. The main thing I got from this movie? A new sense of context. The Beatles have always seemed, to me, like some disconnected platonic ideal of what people remembered the 60's being. Even their stories of searching and trying were like Symbols of that time. This movied helped put a face (in some cases a whole different but equally wonderful face) to the music and the meaning. Glorious visual imagery and quite a wonderful number of wonderful surprises. Dr. Robert, for instance. ^_^

Wherever you are, go see it, and then get the soundtrack, somehow. Just however allows you to listen to the music.

Light breakfast and television, now.

I will only say this:

Last night's Doctor Who episode, "The Last of the Time Lords"?

That's what I'm talking about.

If you've not seen it, then do so, and you'll know what I mean.

In other news, here's this:

Now I'm off to watch Titus, again.