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I'm not sure what the etiquette of this is, but it's late here in Minneapolis (0331hrs) and I can just plea insomnia if it's a problem and lash myself a hundred times if it's really a problem, and...
Anyway. I posted this in my LiveJournal and thought maybe somebody here might be amused by it.
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Just saw Minority Report for the first time.
The following conclusions have come to mind:
1.) I will be reading more Philip K. Motherfucking Dick in the very fucking forseeable future, you bet your bippy.
2.) It's quite possible that I might have had too much nutmeg in my steamed milk thingie I drank at work earlier. I think I'm trippin' small balls.
3.) That one guy looks like Abbie Hoffman, and I don't think it was completely an accident.
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In The Invisibles by Grant Morrison, there is a character named Mason Lang who's a Bruce Wayne-like megamillionaire who went through an alien abduction and had an experience of drinking "liquid software" from a grail. Inevitably this apparently fucks up his mind so that he's aware of the constant anarchic subtext within every film. He thinks of Speed as being about the documentation of human evolution, and, uh... some other shit. I'm obviously explaining it all wrong.
Anyway, the way Grant goes on about it, it's mostly in huge Hollywood blockbusters. I'm sure that if Mason were to watch some po-faced foreign filmage, he'd probably get another kind of subtext, but the best carriers of subversive subtext would have to be huge Hollywood big-budget eyecandy... Mason considered that the films were other groups of Invisibles talking to one another. And what better way than to use a medium that would be:
a.) Seen by many, but "really understood" by the select few,
b.) Completely unscanned by those who can't understand, but would have said subversive ideas implanted in their subconscious minds,
c.) Able to be partially picked up by the "in-betweeners" (who could sense the subtext, but are too embarrassed to even conjecture about this deep cabalistic conspiracy shit) and prod them into subversive, creative, and possibly even sympathetic schools of thought.
This is another level of "meta" that I'm now just beginning to become aware of. And, of course, this awareness comes right at the time when Hollywood's deciding to moneyshot us to death with a bunch of really cool 21st century visions of the future... and of "fantasy".
In short, if there are Invisibles talking to one another via blockbuster movies, it's getting loud enough so that even half-aware schlumps like myself are beginning to be able to receive the signal.
I do think I ingested too much nutmeg, alas.
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