"Talkin' 'Bout My Generation."

[wolven7]

Last night's Sealab 2021 was a fifteen minute-long reference to the Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. It was utterly awesome.

Alice Cooper was in a Staples commercial, talking to a huffy little girl who said, "I thought you said 'School's Out Forever'?" To which he replies "Uhm.. The song Goes 'School's out for Summer.' Sorry."

Maxwell Atoms and "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" have made references to "Evil Dead," "Escape from LA" and "Escape from New York," and Frank Herbert's God Emperor of Dune.

Everywhere i look, these days, i'm seeing members of the geek set of my generation, and the one just before, taking an actual foothold in the moulding of society, via the children, and applying slight pressure on the parents of said children. Pressure to explain, i mean. This is different from the geek trend, of the late nineties and early 2000's, as this is an actual institutionalisation of the values. Cartoons are where we get a lot of our start, in life, with humour, and amusement, and over-all entertainment. This makes me very very happy.

It is most certainly a foot in the door.

Off to work. Later

{2.31pm: All of which is in stark contrast to this: http://www.scifiweekly.com/issue378/editorial.html

Thank gods for editorialists. Do as the nice man says. Read a book.}

Comments

I second that emotion.

[momentai.livejournal.com]

I don;t have examples ready, but I have seen this new wave of geek values you speak of. It makes me all teary eyed, as well. And Feldman has it right. I could not have written it better myself...well, maybe, but that's not the point:)

Re: I second that emotion.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

It looks like it's going to be a good few years. Working toward.. Stuff.

Yep. *nods*

[kmn-rdr-caoimhe.livejournal.com]

Incedentally, I keep hearing that I, Robot didn't suck as bad as the trailers suggested. In fact, I have heard one official "it actually didn't suck," from a friend who was expecting it to suck at first, but decided to give it the benefit of the doubt (to which, as usual, another friend tried to shoot down, even though he hadn't seen it, but that's beside the point).

But then, I've been hearing several different responces from people and critics who've read the book ranging from "yeah, it was actually pretty close" to "it was absolutely nothing like it," so apparently, the only one who would be able to determine whether or not the movie actually sucks…is FSCKING DEAD.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Exactly. And that makes me very sad...

[jessicarabbitt.livejournal.com]

I want to say that ATHF did a vague Evil Dead reference too...Meatball, Shake and Carl come back from the dead and fuck with Frylock...though if you think about it, ATHF really tenders to a different audience...

[wolven.livejournal.com]

That was more a traditional Haunting reference, or, maybe ('cause it was Awesome) "An American Werewolf in London." ^_^ And yeah, it does apply to different people, but many of the circles overlap. *nods*