Necessary ReRun-Age
Not the kind you think.
Tonight, as I was downloading something I now need an unpacker program to open (that I will acquire when I have bandwidth/time), I went to the storage boxes and retrieved an old VHS tape of MTV's The Maxx and watched most of an episode. It was the one in which Maxx is stuck in a Dr. Seuss poem, and then must fight Mr. Gone's hired assassin Hammerhead once he re-emerges in the "real world", while Julie and Sara's mom engage in an R&R trip that is neither sufficiently relaxed nor restful.
That series had been probably one of the most pervading influences on me and my creativity at that time of my life. Ethics & Toy Soldiers was, thematically, a fusion of The Maxx with Gulliver's Travels. The Maxx pretty much says that it's about who we want to be as people, versus who we're forced to be in this world; E.& T.S. was meant to be about the world we want to live in, versus the world that forces itself upon us.
But once again, the reality of the Internet Age has changed everything. Each of us, we inhabit roles we would have only had our imaginary friends to play, have become one another's imaginary friends. The Internet is Maxx's Outback, inhabited by monsters and Izzes and Leopards and really strange stuff...but it also has a comforting effect on us because it's part US.
Tonight, as I was downloading something I now need an unpacker program to open (that I will acquire when I have bandwidth/time), I went to the storage boxes and retrieved an old VHS tape of MTV's The Maxx and watched most of an episode. It was the one in which Maxx is stuck in a Dr. Seuss poem, and then must fight Mr. Gone's hired assassin Hammerhead once he re-emerges in the "real world", while Julie and Sara's mom engage in an R&R trip that is neither sufficiently relaxed nor restful.
That series had been probably one of the most pervading influences on me and my creativity at that time of my life. Ethics & Toy Soldiers was, thematically, a fusion of The Maxx with Gulliver's Travels. The Maxx pretty much says that it's about who we want to be as people, versus who we're forced to be in this world; E.& T.S. was meant to be about the world we want to live in, versus the world that forces itself upon us.
But once again, the reality of the Internet Age has changed everything. Each of us, we inhabit roles we would have only had our imaginary friends to play, have become one another's imaginary friends. The Internet is Maxx's Outback, inhabited by monsters and Izzes and Leopards and really strange stuff...but it also has a comforting effect on us because it's part US.