The film Blade Runner is a fascination for me, and a film that I’ve spent a lot of time obsessing over. I wanted to share some of the work I’ve previously done on it and expose it further. It’s very interesting how many allusions are in this film. I’m going to try to deal with a few themes that I think all fit together.
More Father than Father: Paternal Archetypes and the Death of Tyrell in Blade Runner
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Tombstone: Revelation of the Faustian and the Feminine
8 04 2011Tombstone is in my opinion a great and beautiful homage to a romantic style of westerns 
that transcend the horror of killing people and the dirtiness of the frontier, while at the same time remaining brutal. So awesomely brutal.
How did they do this? With Wyatt Earp.
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Categories : Film
A Hyatt Trek: My First ST Convention!
17 03 2011
It’s appalling that I haven’t been to a Star Trek Convention, isn’t it? You can say so. It’s completely pathetic. But, you know, I’m a bit of a pup yet and I haven’t previously been able to afford the event. You have to do it right, I discovered.
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Categories : Geek, Social Studies, Star Trek
Senbazuru: Wishes for the End of Vengeance
14 03 2011I woke up on a Friday feeling fresh, peaceful, surprisingly well rested. My roommate was still in his room having not
left for work. He was standing watching his television.
“There were giant earthquakes in Japan,” his face was still, cold and pale as stone. He has a unique tie to Japan having spent time there and having made friends.
I feel the chilled stillness take my heart and I choke feeling unable to grasp any peaceful humor from a situation in which 10,000 people have washed up on the shores or crumbled with the earth of their country at this point. Nuclear emergency, swelling tsunamis, a fury of the shaking earth threatening a country with which my country has a strange and compelling relationship.
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Categories : Social Studies
Another Rant about Hipsters amidst the noise.
6 01 2011Everybody hates hipsters. “Look at this fucking hipster,” I hear you say. So, I want to engage this phenomenon before it dies. It will eventually fade away from discussion because they will become more ubiquitous. Too many young kids will grow up to be hipsters. It has already jumped the shark.
So I just want to talk about a specific group of phonies who fit this bill. I want to talk about the hipster as the opposite of somebody who has a lot invested in authenticity, sincerity, and the ability to take and give constructive and effective criticism. Hipsters can handle none of these things.
A lot of people embrace the American-Apparel and thrift-store aesthetic and that does not make them hipsters, necessarily. I have some shirts of American Apparel. They’re nice. I’m not a hipster. It’s unfair, I think, to categorize hipsters based on looks. That’s profiling, man.
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Categories : Social Studies
Tron, baby, Tron
10 12 2010
I went to go see Burlesque last night with my buddy, and while this post is not about that movie at all, it brought us to an interesting discussion. Can a film still be “good” while choosing looks over substance?
A lot of people would say no, and that’s why critics hate big musical numbers and Xtina Aguilera.
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Categories : Geek
Pumpkin Thunkin: Thoughts on the Sophistication of Halloween.
29 10 2010
My buddies had a pumpkin-carving party that is becoming what I hope to be annual. Unfortunately I was sick and could not attend. Had I attended, however, I would’ve carved a complex design in homage to Batman’s Long Halloween into the side of an artfully selected orange beauty.
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Categories : Social Studies
Ranger Bagel
