Comments on: The Poster For “Oblivion”

By: Yours Truly

Yours Truly — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:07:31 +0000

AWESOME!
Yes! I meant to go deeper with Frankenstein but then I got distracted. You’re totally right!!! I mean, that book is ALL ABOUT the hubris of science biting humanity in its ass, obviously. He is totally a combo of natural/techno sublime.

I would love to hear an apocalypse quintet

I love your call about techno urban music being the contemporary sublime too!

whoa

By: Leandro

Leandro — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 19:58:55 +0000

Man, this entry has been so much on my brain since I read it yesterday! I went to this incredibly boring party where people were playing good romantic music VERY badly and I just kept on thinking about this entry….

OK so, two thoughts. First, I finally realize why the best music COT plays is mechanical or urban in nature. We play mid-century/late 20C music and that is the sublime of the era! duh! I’m currently in search of an amazing composer to make my dream of an apocalypse wind quintet a reality to bring us in to the next century. (The City of Tomorrow: ALL FUCKED UP BY TIDAL WAVES.)

Next, a brief thought about Frankenstein. It occurs to me that we are IN the age of F’s monster. Because him being closely tied to the nature sublime PLUS being manmade it’s like BOOM– Shelley’s a fortune teller. Anyway, I am pretty hung over from having beers and dancing and never doing those things anymore. And also, OMG I need to pack. But I hope you’re doing well. I hope there is a conference or some Jazz in Memphis sometime and you can come visit us!

By: Eileen

Eileen — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 05:30:02 +0000

You’ve seen the intro to the original BioShock, right? That whole game is totally in the combined sublimes area: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHJhtvNyvVg Also the WTF Ayn Rand area, not so shockingly.

I notice that the many mass markety books I consume also reflect back cultural issues (notably social & gender issues, although fantasy can go all over the place) in an interesting manner.