Destiny, meet world. World, meet Destiny.
That's a quote from The Core, just FYI.
I never write in here anymore. I brought my real journal back home with me so I could write angstily over break, and I was reading some of the older entries. I used to be hilarious. I wonder if not writing very much except academic papers is making me less funny.
Anyway, break was eh, mostly due to lots of funeral-related activities and spontaneously bursting into tears at relatively unremarkable times. I did a reading at the mass, which went actually much better than I expected it to. It might be that I'm getting better at public speaking, but I actually think its whenever I have a microphone, I do better. Not sure why, but it seems to be a pattern. I got some nice presents (like my new, fabulous, fantastic, AND awesome risTouch 3000, which to everyone else would be a new ipod) and saw some movies, etc.
Which brings me to my next point. I'm compiling a list of end-of-the-world media that I'm going to use to create some sort of a "Everything I Need to Know to Survive the Endtimes I Learned from Movies" book/something I will never finish or do anything with, but what I do finish of it will hopefully be hilarious and awesome. I figure it could be one of those books that sits on the "Weird Stuff" tables on the way to the checkout at Barnes and Noble, akin to "Zombies 101," "The History of Salt," and other relatively pointless reference books. Anyway, I'm dealing with books and movies of the following categories: Horrible Humanity-Ending Infectious Illnesses, Alien Invasions, Natural Disasters and Space-Related Destruction, Humanity-Induced Destruction (nuclear war, etc.), Plague of Preternatural Creatures (Including but not limited to vampires, zombies, zombie-like vampires, etc.), Some Combination of the Aforementioned Occurrences.
Horrible Humanity-Ending Infectious Illnesses (often cross-referenced with Plague of Preternatural Creatures):
I Am Legend (book and movie)
World War Z (book)
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Omega Man
The Andromeda Strain (also sort of alien?) (book and movie)
Blindness (book and movie)
The Stand (book, Stephen King)
The Last Man (book,Mary Shelley, 1826)
Earth Abides (book, George Stewart, 1949)
Emergence (book, David Palmer)
Oryx and Crake (book, Margaret Atwood, cr: post-apocalyptic plague scenario)
Outbreak
Alien Invasions:
Independence Day
Day the Earth Stood Still
When Worlds Collide
War of the Worlds (book and movie versions)
Day of the Triffids (also a book, but the movie's better)
Invasion of the Body-Snatchers
Natural Disasters and Non-Alien Space-Related Destruction:
The Day After Tomorrow
The Core
Deep Impact
Armageddon
Lucifer's Hammer (book, Larry Niven)
2012 (upcoming)
Dante's Peak
Asteroid
Humanity-Induced Destruction (often categorized as "Post-Apocalyptic" and including dystopic situations):
The Road (book and upcoming movie)
The Pesthouse (book, Jim Crace)
Planet of the Apes
Mad Max (Mad Max 2: Road Warrior, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome)
Reign of Fire
Children of Men
12 Monkeys
Soylent Green (overpopulation)
A Boy and His Dog (book and movie)
The Postman
On the Beach
A Canticle for Leibowitz (book, Walter Miller)
After London (book, Richard Jefferies, 1885)
Star Mans Son (book, Andre Norton, 1952)
Waterworld
Dr. Strangelove
Delicatessen (post-apocalyptic cannibalism, sort of)
Escape from New York
The Quiet Earth
Red Dawn
Plague of Preternatural Creatures:
The Birds (I'm a little unsure of where to put this one, actually)
Night of the Living Dead
Living Dead (book, Stephen King)
Day of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead
The Matrix Trilogy (are machines creatures? cr: post-apocalyptic)
Cloverfield (only 1 creature, cr: alien invasions)
Cell (book, Stephen King)
Shaun of the Dead
I'm a little torn on whether to include stuff like Resident Evil or Terminator. And there's a LOT of bad apocalypse/infection fiction out there that maybe should be left out, and overtly religious stuff like the Left Behind books (and movie), even though the Book of Revelation is awesome and will be included as literature somewhere along the way. Anyway, this is just what I've seen/read and could think of, so please SUGGEST MORE END OF THE WORLD STUFF FOR ME TO READ/WATCH. Oh, and for those of you who intend on being prepared for the apocalypse, http://survivetheapocalypse.wordpress.com/ is pretty great.
ALSO, it's Armageddon Week on the History Channel starting today until the 11th. Stuff about 2012 predictions and other such prophetic business. http://www.history.com/content/armageddon
I never write in here anymore. I brought my real journal back home with me so I could write angstily over break, and I was reading some of the older entries. I used to be hilarious. I wonder if not writing very much except academic papers is making me less funny.
Anyway, break was eh, mostly due to lots of funeral-related activities and spontaneously bursting into tears at relatively unremarkable times. I did a reading at the mass, which went actually much better than I expected it to. It might be that I'm getting better at public speaking, but I actually think its whenever I have a microphone, I do better. Not sure why, but it seems to be a pattern. I got some nice presents (like my new, fabulous, fantastic, AND awesome risTouch 3000, which to everyone else would be a new ipod) and saw some movies, etc.
Which brings me to my next point. I'm compiling a list of end-of-the-world media that I'm going to use to create some sort of a "Everything I Need to Know to Survive the Endtimes I Learned from Movies" book/something I will never finish or do anything with, but what I do finish of it will hopefully be hilarious and awesome. I figure it could be one of those books that sits on the "Weird Stuff" tables on the way to the checkout at Barnes and Noble, akin to "Zombies 101," "The History of Salt," and other relatively pointless reference books. Anyway, I'm dealing with books and movies of the following categories: Horrible Humanity-Ending Infectious Illnesses, Alien Invasions, Natural Disasters and Space-Related Destruction, Humanity-Induced Destruction (nuclear war, etc.), Plague of Preternatural Creatures (Including but not limited to vampires, zombies, zombie-like vampires, etc.), Some Combination of the Aforementioned Occurrences.
Horrible Humanity-Ending Infectious Illnesses (often cross-referenced with Plague of Preternatural Creatures):
I Am Legend (book and movie)
World War Z (book)
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Omega Man
The Andromeda Strain (also sort of alien?) (book and movie)
Blindness (book and movie)
The Stand (book, Stephen King)
The Last Man (book,Mary Shelley, 1826)
Earth Abides (book, George Stewart, 1949)
Emergence (book, David Palmer)
Oryx and Crake (book, Margaret Atwood, cr: post-apocalyptic plague scenario)
Outbreak
Alien Invasions:
Independence Day
Day the Earth Stood Still
When Worlds Collide
War of the Worlds (book and movie versions)
Day of the Triffids (also a book, but the movie's better)
Invasion of the Body-Snatchers
Natural Disasters and Non-Alien Space-Related Destruction:
The Day After Tomorrow
The Core
Deep Impact
Armageddon
Lucifer's Hammer (book, Larry Niven)
2012 (upcoming)
Dante's Peak
Asteroid
Humanity-Induced Destruction (often categorized as "Post-Apocalyptic" and including dystopic situations):
The Road (book and upcoming movie)
The Pesthouse (book, Jim Crace)
Planet of the Apes
Mad Max (Mad Max 2: Road Warrior, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome)
Reign of Fire
Children of Men
12 Monkeys
Soylent Green (overpopulation)
A Boy and His Dog (book and movie)
The Postman
On the Beach
A Canticle for Leibowitz (book, Walter Miller)
After London (book, Richard Jefferies, 1885)
Star Mans Son (book, Andre Norton, 1952)
Waterworld
Dr. Strangelove
Delicatessen (post-apocalyptic cannibalism, sort of)
Escape from New York
The Quiet Earth
Red Dawn
Plague of Preternatural Creatures:
The Birds (I'm a little unsure of where to put this one, actually)
Night of the Living Dead
Living Dead (book, Stephen King)
Day of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead
The Matrix Trilogy (are machines creatures? cr: post-apocalyptic)
Cloverfield (only 1 creature, cr: alien invasions)
Cell (book, Stephen King)
Shaun of the Dead
I'm a little torn on whether to include stuff like Resident Evil or Terminator. And there's a LOT of bad apocalypse/infection fiction out there that maybe should be left out, and overtly religious stuff like the Left Behind books (and movie), even though the Book of Revelation is awesome and will be included as literature somewhere along the way. Anyway, this is just what I've seen/read and could think of, so please SUGGEST MORE END OF THE WORLD STUFF FOR ME TO READ/WATCH. Oh, and for those of you who intend on being prepared for the apocalypse, http://survivetheapocalypse.wordpress.com/ is pretty great.
ALSO, it's Armageddon Week on the History Channel starting today until the 11th. Stuff about 2012 predictions and other such prophetic business. http://www.history.com/content/armageddon