Oh Goodbye, Babylon
I have just started reading a book entitled Alas, Babylon.
I started reading it in this morning because I couldn't sleep or reading anything else and maybe you do not know this but I read a lot of books where the world has just ended the day before. I know that everyone talks about The Road that that is how it would really go, that after we raped each other we would just eat each other but for whatever reason this does not fully register into my mind frame completely. The books where the world doesn't get to come back or where it doesn't get to end in a flash light of light, the films where there is a big flash and Kirsten Dunst is glossy eyed and the planet came to close after all but there were not some kind of aliens that waged war. If the aliens did wage war, I would need Will Smith to me there. I do not care what you think, if you want to talk like this, I do not want you to eat my family, I want Will Smith to take a temporary break to fly away from his stripper girlfriend to fly away into the sky proudly screaming in his Alien craft "I gotta get me one of these."
Florida is the back drop of for our characters in this world ender. The apocalypse or whatever it is. The end of days. There are Biblical names also, for me this is a strong selling point, it makes things full circle
Knowing that Stephen King read it and that it was referenced in one of my other favorite world-enders Swan's Song is also something. I am only on chapter 3. I stopped reading The Marriage Plot
because I figured this would make good research---no I think I stopped
reading The Marriage Plot because I have been waiting for Jeffrey
Eugenides to write a third book for years & I am just not there
right nw for a character still in modern day experiencing Cold War
hysteria. Maybe it's me, maybe it doesn't matter what I was not born
yet.
Speaking of
Have you seen those films on television? Tell me what they are called because I know some of you watch them. Don't get upset. I watch them sometimes because I don't understand. They see a picture of a mountain or a pyramid and the world is ending and everyone suddenly who has accepted Jesus Christ has to go there they are just drawn to it and they meet some non-believers on the way but the end of days has already started and even though en-route their non believing friends try and help them, the ones who havent felt the son of God all up inside them drive them trough army blocks and pray with them and talk about the good lives they've left you have some hysterical Evangelical in the passenger seat to trying to save his soul-- but guess what it's judgment day! Not the Terminator kind unfortunately so John Connor cannot rise up and well guys, think of a good solution when everyone is a walking iphone. Probably tomorrow.
But there are a whole series of these movies which I always get excited to watch because the little blurbs on TV when you hit info say "Family tries to survive end of the world."
NOoo, not really. All non-believers including children and house pets you forgot to convert get nosebleeds, have seizures and suddenly. It was too late.
Unless they time traveled back a few times too many to the island, Daniel Feraday.
So yeah if you see one of those films on TV pick up a copy of Cormac McCarthy's on the road, or eat your own cat in front of your kid sister.
Wow. Did Starbucks change their coffee?
I am really enjoying Alas, Babylon. Is what I meant to say
Click to viewThis is one of the end of the world movies where people aren't saved but I never saw this one. They are usually really bad but maybe I will watch this one it is very Lifetime movie and seems pretty good. The whole thing is on youtube but that's just a clip. I mean, I watch The Walking Dead.
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