10-20-2003, 09:29 PM
Shush Occhi, you might give some of the kids hanging out here with us old timers the wrong idea... Bad Rogue!!
You are correct my friend. Alice was all about Existentialism long before the 70's though. But it sure gained new meaning.
BTW... Has anybody noticed The Fountainhead... er well I wont go there. The Matrix movie is just another old story given shiny new packaging. Needless to say, Ayn Rand would have liked this movie methinks.
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small
When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head
Feed your head
Feed your head"
Anybody figured out why they use phones in the Matrix yet? Not the technical reasons mind you... Screw those, they are pointless. The Matrix series is not a bunch of techno weenie movies... If you go for the technical angle, you are missing the point. Somebody... I wont say WHO... But those in the know might know... But this somebody carried around a telephone and claimed to be talking to "God in the next reality over" Obscure? Grasping? Perhaps. But the Matrix with out a doubt is NOT just geared for Gen X. Sure, the flashy gun fights are cool. Special effects... Awesome. But the buried content is just fantastic.
You are correct my friend. Alice was all about Existentialism long before the 70's though. But it sure gained new meaning.
BTW... Has anybody noticed The Fountainhead... er well I wont go there. The Matrix movie is just another old story given shiny new packaging. Needless to say, Ayn Rand would have liked this movie methinks.
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small
When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head
Feed your head
Feed your head"
Anybody figured out why they use phones in the Matrix yet? Not the technical reasons mind you... Screw those, they are pointless. The Matrix series is not a bunch of techno weenie movies... If you go for the technical angle, you are missing the point. Somebody... I wont say WHO... But those in the know might know... But this somebody carried around a telephone and claimed to be talking to "God in the next reality over" Obscure? Grasping? Perhaps. But the Matrix with out a doubt is NOT just geared for Gen X. Sure, the flashy gun fights are cool. Special effects... Awesome. But the buried content is just fantastic.
All alone, or in twos,
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."