[kj] Play dead

[Brendan Quinn]

The Matrix series introduced some concepts to non-readers that they mightn't
otherwise come across, such as solipsism, questioning the nature of 'the
real world' etc. I think most people find the concept of questioning the
solidity or real nature of the physical world ridiculous, other than
regurgitated ideas of heaven and hell. I remember my mate's wife's reaction
to watching Maybe Logic (Robert Anton Wilson doco) - she couldn't come close
to getting her head around what he was getting at so called it total
rubbish. The idea of questioning the nature of reality / truth / gravity
itself etc was impossible for her to do.totally trapped in The Matrix.
Everything is solid, black and white, good and bad etc. So the first movie I
think actually elevated people's consciousness a little, or a certain
demographic at least.

 

It also used the general artwork & the physics of fight scenes really well
to flesh out the guts of the multi-dimensional reality it was trying to
depict. But after that is was all style over substance, there was absolutely
no need to delve any further into story in order to earn money, it was
surefire paydirt to get the same actors and team back, throw shitloads of
money at ridiculous disjointed action CGI and watch the money roll back in.
And it showed, the second two movies detracted from the first, in a
successively worse manner. I thought the 3rd might be some kind of
redemption, a decent book-end to the series, but it just got worse.

 

That chick was sorta almost pretty hot, in an angular, manly kind of way.
Laurence Fishbourne was great as always. Keanu was passably okay-ish for the
role, I think I'd have found someone like Ed Norton or Christian Bale
preferable. Soundtrack was pretty good. Compares very favourably with shit
like the new Star Wars movies. I'd watch the first movie again, but not sure
about the other two.

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of sade1
Sent: Monday, 4 May 2009 09:33
To: dpeace at suspiria.demon.co.uk; A list about all things Killing Joke (the
band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] Play dead

 

I guess no one enjoyed it like I did... 8)  8D

 

 

...and who hasn't felt like Neo when you've stepped into a greater level of
awareness looking back in to the 

bubble of others' more limited grasp of "reality," - sans the super
powers.... I only hope to never need "the 

Blue Pill" and may not everything end up tasting "like chicken" one day.
And, of coourrse, Trinity was f#$*%in' 

hot the whole time.

 

The 1st was the best (saw it on dvd right around the time I also saw PI so
it was a good time all'round),

the 2nd was a good sequel, but deh 3rd (pron'oonced 'turd') should've been
cut down to 1/2-1/3 duration 

and just tagged on to the backend of the 2nd for completion's sake.

 

That KJ progeny Juno Reactor was involved in spearheading that soundtrack
(along with some RATM tunes) 

was pleasure for my ears throughout.

 

the end

 

 

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[looking at the current state of things..]

 

'Save me...

  save me from Tomorrow..

    I don't want to sail in this Ship Of Fools...'   

 

 

 

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From: Darren A. Peace <dpeace at bigfoot.com>
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2009 8:53:14 AM
Subject: Re: [kj] Play dead

The Matrices are clearly one of the biggest steaming piles of sub-Castaneda
donkey manure EVER MADE.

 

"Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" doesn't begin to address the
contempt I feel for this over-plotted, over-styled, over-Canoed feculence.
You need to take a break from the films every ten minutes or so for a
palate-cleansing infusion of Proust.

 

Bullet time indeed. It's this sort of filmic tripe that makes me reach for
the hemlock, and something made before 1950.

 

And I had the fucking 10-DVD boxed set I had to review, meaning there are
238974502938745602987365235 hours of my life I will never get back. I will
ceremonially smash it with hammers when I can bear to touch it again. 

 

Darren

Hungerford, UK

 

From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of Brendan Quinn
Sent: 03 May 2009 14:45
To: 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)'
Subject: Re: [kj] Play dead

 

I still haven't figured out what the fuck that movie series was trying to
get at with The Architect.load of waffle if you ask me.

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of sade1
Sent: Sunday, 3 May 2009 06:28
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] Play dead

 


> Go into your BIOS and kill it there man.


 

Doesn't trying to delete a stubborn, son-a-bitch program sometimes seem 

like you really are dealing with a "successively harder end-of-level boss"? 

At one point I'm thinking 

I'll have to meet this guy:
http://www.traditioninaction.org/movies/movieimages/007_j_architect.jpg 

(Architect of the Matrix) before I'll ever get a chance to delete a prog.

 


 

... ... ... ... ... ... 


[looking at the current state of things..]

 

'Save me...

  save me from Tomorrow..

    I don't want to sail in this Ship Of Fools...'   

 

 

 

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From: Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Friday, May 1, 2009 10:45:49 AM
Subject: Re: [kj] Play dead

Go into your BIOS and kill it there man.

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of folk devil
Sent: Saturday, 2 May 2009 01:24
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] Play dead

 

iTunes...a totally invasive piece of annoyance! That little ficker tried
taking over every sound device on my pc. It is now gone!
Windows, still insists on using its own primary s/c after installing the
delta 1010, with the original s/c no longer on the drive. Reformatted and
all :[
Bloody annoying at the beginning of each recording session.
 

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