Archive for June, 2003

Whew! It’s Friday!

Who knew that posting to a weblog would take a little time and effort! 😉 Anyways, it’s been a busy week, and yesterday was spent doing some “team-building” type exercises in bluff country, southeast MN.

I have a great picture to post from that outing later today, but for now, need a little poster to put up somewhere?

Radiohead… Live

radiohead news: : North American Tickets

Tickets for the first leg of the North American tour went on sale today. All shows still have tickets available, except for Red Rocks, which sold out in 9 minutes!

Guess who got two tickets?

Radiohead Albums, In Order

As could be expected, I have been listening to quite a lot of Radiohead in the past few weeks.

And since we were graced with a new album in the past week, I felt it was time to update the rankings of Radiohead albums. In My Opinion.

  1. OK Computer
  2. Hail to the Thief
  3. Kid A
  4. The Bends
  5. Amnesiac
  6. Pablo Honey

Hail to the Thief may be enjoying a bump in the rankings since it is the newest release, but I’ve ranked and re-ranked all the tracks on these six albums, and I think that HTTT may stand at #2.

Numbers 3, 4, and 5 are really tough. Not only is The Bends and Kid A/Amnesiac the complete opposite ends of the spectrum, I think they are all strong albums. Kid A is getting the bump up for marking the point at which the band proved they could completely reinvent themselves, still sound like Radiohead, and still put out a wonderful record.

I’d love to hear some opinions, let me know-

A New Word: Wonderfun

Today I am coining a new word.

Wonderfun. adj, extraordinarily good fun.

It is not in dictionary.com, and I searched google for wonderfun as well. The google search returned 275 results, but I’m convinced that all those people were just misspelling wonderful.

That is, in fact how I came across the word, in case the historians are someday wondering. In fact, google itself wonders, Did you mean: wonderful (which returns approximately 12,100,000 results)

And maybe at first I meant wonderful, but now I’ve realized that I really meant wonderfun. So there you have it. I hope everyone has a wonderfun day!

Matricies Make Me Meditate

Martin Marprelate answered my questions over at his blog on saturday.

Talking to some other friends over the weekend, we all agreed on this: We can’t wait for the next movie. There are so many things that will hopefully be addressed in the final installment.

Email about the Matrix

Just sent this email to Martin Marprelate. Owner of the blog with some wonderful Matrix Reloaded discussions:

Thank you for your excellent analysis of Reloaded. I’ve enjoyed it and have been pointing people towards your site.

One question that I haven’t seen addressed anywhere…

What do you think the significance is of the multiple monitors during the architect scene, and the many varying reactions by Neo to what the Architect was saying. Also, the moving between different iterations of this scene has me wondering as well. I’m speaking of when the camera flies through one of the monitors and into the “same” scene. Much like in the Matrix when Neo is first interrogated by the Agents. We see many monitors and we zoom into one of them.

Are these simulations by the Matrix of how things might pan out? Similar to how humans (I seem to do this) foresee a conversation they are about to have, and run through different iterations of how that conversation might go?

I’m interested to hear your thoughts, thanks-

A.J.

Matrix Links

I thought I would drop two more Matrix links on here…

This first article is the closest to what I think is going on. I know I’ve just posted a few links here and there, and not really fleshing out some sort of theory. I don’t really have the knowledge and background to really dive into it, but originally I was thinking “layers” or “The Matrix within a Matrix”. John was pretty much against this all along, but being the open-minded fellow he is, he heard me out.

I’ve pretty much dropped that theory now, and I’m running with Neo being imprinted with some computer code that helps him stop the machines in the real world. I’m not completely convinced that he is actually human, regardless of what the Architect says. Basically I don’t know.

Here’s what I’m still not understanding. What do the multiple iterations of Neo on all the computer monitors during the Architect scene mean? To me it looked like hundreds of different reactions to the Architects questions. And the way we were entering and leaving the monitors pointed to multiple, parallel Matrices.

So basically, I haven’t a clue.

Matrix Article #1, (or #3 I think, depending on how you want to count it.)

What follows is a series of explorations of the meaning of certain scenes as well as how the matrix hangs together as a whole. Donít read any further if you want to avoid spoilers!

A transcript of the Architect / Neo talk, with notes.

Next Page »