Still getting used to this. I am not very eloquent. Don't expect too much.
I will post some "top fifteen" lists.
I will rant on about stuff.
I will clog up your internets with junk.
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Top Fifteen Movie Songs 15/15 (in no particular order that I will admit to): 15) "More Human Than Human"
I am cheating on this one.
See, Blade Runner - in the movie, the Tyrell corp produces the Nexus replicants (androids). Their motto is "More human than human." Their product has an expiration date. In the movie, the current product generation is "Nexus 6"
And White Zombie - the song has the line, "I am the Nexus One, I want more life [censored] I ain't done." And so on. So, the two are inseparable in my mind.
Okay, now, for the rest, well, I can imagine a replicant thinking of himself like the zombie described in the song.
The replicants were made to do the things that humans did not want to do, or were too dangerous to do. Mostly described in the film, they were pleasure androids and wariers. They were also used a assassins and other things like that and they had become so human-like, that they were made illegal to have on earth.
So, Tyrell corp experimented with giving them a "past" - a collection of fictitious human histories by which they can develop an empathy for the human perspective. This, as the replicants began to approach their own expiration date, caused much introspection as they also developed a stronger, living-organism-like, sense of self preservation. This is also described in the lyrics:
"Yeah, I am the jigsaw man
I turn the world around with a skeleton hand - say
I am electric head,
A cannibal core,
A television said - yeah
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.
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Into a psychic war,
I tear my soul apart and I eat it some more"
"jigsaw man" - their parts are synthetic, vat grown, and then assembled.
"I turn the world around with a skeleton hand" - describes that their super-human qualities put them outside the natural world, able to control it; but (skeleton hand) still not human, not "living", and not in control of their own, ultimate destiny.
"electric head" - android
"cannibal core" - self expiring - time limit.
"television said" - not quite sure, but I have my thought on this... maybe referring to their "invented past"
Then
"Into a psychic war" - refers to the point at which they suffer an internal struggle driven by psychological motivators.
"I tear my soul apart and I eat it some more" - the introspection they go through during the "psychic war"
So, the film was awesome. It is iconic of the "dystopian future." It helped define a genre. There is a lot missing from the book, but the film stands well enough on its own. I have seen it with and without the narration, but I saw it with, first, so memory kept filling it in, so I do not know that I can form a proper opinion of the director's cut.
I am currently sixteen years old, but I expect that will change, eventually - maybe.
I started fencing about 4 years ago, with varying levels of competitiveness. I mostly fence for health reasons (stress, fitness, sanity; well, 2 of 3 isn't too bad.)
The club where I fence is kinda limited on the schedule, so several of us get together on our own.
I teach a little kids fencing class at the local community centre, but it is a small town, so it doesn't always make.
I was infected with HIV in 2000, when I was about 7. I am living with it and have a descent life – or I should say most of the issues I have were pre-existing. I managed to control things with diet and exercise, but since about 2005, my immune system surrendered and I started my chemical regime.
During the school year I live with my dad and in the summer I stay with my mom. Except this year - staying with Dad. They get along ok as long as they do not have to live together – in the same city. Alaska is kinda big, so they can manage to be in the same state.
I like reading
I like cycling
I like music
I like school, but not so much the people in it... myself included because I am evil, just so you know.
Sometimes I have issues and whatnot going on in my life and whatnot and I will sometimes blog about it, but mostly I like making Top Fifteen lists. Just search for "Top Fifteen" and you can skip the malarkey.
:edit:To day is my sixteenth birthday and I thought I would update this About Me part:/edit:
10-12-2009 10:49 AM 