Halb Mensch. Halb Ding.
The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air.
I was 11-years-old when I got my first computer. Generously given to me by my maternal grand-father who was and still is himself something of a computer geek. It was an Amstrad CPC464 with a built-in tape deck and a green monochrome screen.
I can say with some confidence that I won’t be writing my Matrix Revolutions review any time soon (that is within the next few weeks). First of all I have definetly suffered a Matrix-overload lately and I need a damn break (Yes, it’s so hard to be unemployed isn’t it? Thank you for your sympathy). Secondly all the little bits and pieces are constantly making their way to the surface and while I’m doing my best to assimilate all of them, trying to encapsulate all the ground that the franchise manages to cover is too big a task for me just now. Besides I have no interest in becoming the ‘defender of the faith’, especially when ‘certain people’ decide that I am fighting their fight.
I suggest that you go over to Kottke’s Matrix Revolutions thread and make your way through it. Even if you don’t like franchise it’s a really good read, and I think it’ll give most people an insight into what it is that we, the fans, are seeing. (Best of all it’s mostly made up of articulate people with interesting opinions instead of the standard forum package of ‘teenagers gone bad’).
Not that that will alter you opinion, and that’s just the same. I have read several people’s testimony of having hated Reloaded when they left the cinemas, only to slowly come around until they ended up loving it and I can only hope that the same will happen to you.
Personally I’m just looking forward to reading the comicbooks and other future franchise tie-ins.
Ah the simple pleasures of the nerd…
Anyway, I’m currently working on a small project that I’m very happy to be involved with. It should be done in a few days, I’m looking forward to showing it to you all.
Bush signs the partial ban on abortion. Notice anything strange on that photo?
What about the total and utter lack of Women?
“If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended. That you have but slumbered here, while these visions did appear, and this weak and idle theme, no more yielding but a dream. Gentles, do not reprehend. If you pardon, we will mend. And as I’m an honest Puck, if you have unearned luck, now to scape the serpent’s tongue, we shall make amends ere long. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.”
Continue reading ‘I’m an Arrogant Fuck, a Pathetic Geek, a Fucking Fanboy and a Sorry Loser.’
Wake up Neo. The Matrix has you.
“[…] in over 20,000 theaters, in over 100 territories around the world, people are watching the third and final chapter in the Matrix trilogy. “
Will everyone please take a moment to do what I failed to do? Read the date above this entry. It should say the 5th. What happens on the 5th? The Matrix Revolutions is realeased, that’s what happens!
What date did I think it was?… The 4th, that’s right. So I was happily trucking along, went down and bought a new coat for myself (long overdue) and Rikke indulged herself in a new laserprinter. We went shopping for food and finally headed home (and bumped into an old friend/boss) to see my PDA blinking…
And now I’m just not ready to watch Matrix Revolutions!! I was going to watch all the other 3 DVD’s between now and tomorrow evening, wallow in all it’s goodness and get myself superhyped… Alas, now all I have time for is some spaghetti and out the door we go.
I was also going to do a little surprise for you all tonight, alas there is no time for that and we’ll see whether I’ll want to do it tomorrow.