| Apr. 21st, 2005 @ 10:49 pm Popeman |
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Tude:  creative
Lyric: hope it's right when you die, old and bony
So we've got a new pope -- Benedict the Sixteenth -- and suddenly everything's crazy. The good dirt on the holy scene is that this guy was the "bad cop" to JPII's "good cop." A Hitler Youth and leader of the Inquisition before being pope'd, Ratzinger apparently has something of a "rep" for being hardline, unforgiving, and generally one of those kinds of dudes whose pride in his faith gets him away from the implementation of the faith. Still, giving the guy the benefit of the doubt, choosing Benedict as his papal name puts him firmly in a line of disputed, contentious, violent, and largely nominal popes that have served, often briefly, during times of great war and bloodshed, often campaigning fruitlessly for peace the entire time. If you're one for doomsday theories, two different folks have this guy pegged as the "last true pope" before the End Times, both say is reign will be brief, and both say the next guy in line is the Antichrist. Certainly some of the Popes themselves give these theories credit -- one of the prophecies once fortold a "mariner" pope, so one of the candidates sailed up and down a river to try and fit into the idea.
This is a bit nerve-racking for me, because I was a pretty big fan of JP v 2.0. He was a uniter kind of fellow, and though he was a little bit wonky on the whole "no condoms for AIDS-ridden Africa!" deal, he did things like actually visit Africa, and chilled with Muslims and Jews and the like to try to get a real dialogue going. He wasn't affraid to tell Bush when he was right, or when he was wrong, and that went pretty much for the rest of the world leaders equally as well. To have the "dark version" of JP2 strikes me as largely a BAD thing. Though I suppose much like Bush, there's no use judging him before he does his job. We will know them by the fruits of their labors, and getting to be in charge might calm him down a little bit. Or maybe we'll have that whole Second Coming thing pretty soon. If the Mayans are right, it's Dec 12, 2012....
Which leaves plenty of time for the new live-action Transformers to come out on DVD. ^_^ I'm stoked about this discovery, and I think I remember hearing some rumblings about it before, but there will most assuredly be a live-action version of Transformers. Spielberg is producing, but the writing credits (MI3? Alias?) and Directing credits (Michael "The Geographical Feature" Bay?) are partially less than heartening. Still, I'm gonna go with "it's pretty hard to screw up gaint robots fighting" and put in a "SHOCKWAVE SHOCKWAVE SHOCKWAVE!" chant. This is one of those instances where what's cool about the sci-fi isn't nessecarily *just* the giant robots fighting, it's the character-driven drama of a clash of ideologies, and the fact that humans are cought in the crossfire.
The known characters for the movie so far: Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Jazz, Ratchet, Arcee vs. Megatron, Soundwave, Starscream, and two other random Decepticons. This further encourages me to go ahead with that Transformers tatoo ("because I'm not hardcore enough to be a Decepticon")....who knows. I don't. Maybe someday.
HEY! I have a long-ass job interview tomorry. 8:30 AM 'till 5:30 PM. Those bitches better feeds me...
Until then, I'm listening to The Shins. A Lot. A superlot. The whole alt-appalachia thing gets me good, and it's lead me to distract myself from paper writing with writing OTHER things. Such as writing. Such as writing what I'm gonna put below (it's VERY FIRST DRAFT stuff, but I think it's gots some cool idears).
( The Feathers Fell As Snow )
And because I can't do an update without a link, here is something interesting, inverting the way the World Is Supposed To Work. It's okay though, because as awesome as Ninja are, I think I secretly like robots better. Because all I could think of while watching GI Joe as a kid was "Sweet, Nijna! Now only if they had a giant, earth-shaking robot!!!!"
.....Yeah, I think that's all for now. L8rs. |
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