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[dherblay]

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[angeyja]

VENKMAN (shrugs) I guess they don't build them like they used to, huh?
STANTZ No! Nobody ever built them like this! The architect was either an authentic whacko or a certified genius. The whole building is like a huge antenna for pulling in and concentrating psychokinetic energy.
http://www.awesomefilm.com/script/Ghostbusters.txt

[dherblay]

"Antenna." Yeah, that's of what I was thinking! I bow to your superior internet search abilities.

[angeyja]

I am glad it was what you wanted. But, you shouldn't bow; I did't find it googling.

Do you think I would like Doom Patrol?

[dherblay]

I still bow no matter how you found it.

I think you'd like Doom Patrol. It plays with a lot of art history and philosophy (as well as anagrams and acrostics).

Following your example, I'm trying to track down the third volume of New X-Men.

[masqthephlsphr]

Is that true about Gaudi?

[dherblay]

In the sense that all cathedrals (mosques, synogogues, churches, temples) are designed to gather (together, in one place, people's) spiritual energies and broadcast them (out to others/up to God), it is true of Gaudi. In the sense that La Sagrada Familia could be used as it is in the comic, to build a counter-vibration against the mystical harmonics of the Decreator, I'd guess not so much.

[masqthephlsphr]

It's just, after visiting La Sagrada Familia, I could buy that a crack-pot artist might think he *was* creating something that could gather and focus energy.

; )

[cjlasky]

I love the DP. But then, given what Masq just posted on _grr_argh, you probably know that.

[londonkds]

Yep, the idea of a building architecturally designed as ome kind of occult amplifier/transducer appears in Ghostbusters, but wasn't original to that film - for a start I think Ghostbusters nicked that subplot from a Dario Argento movie. (Back at the start of BtVS7, some people were speculating that Xander had pulled something similar with the new Sunnydale High, for good or evil.)

[dherblay]

It seems like it should be a Lovecraftian idea, except the architecture stereotypical of his stories strikes me as being more subterranean than skyscraping.

[ponygirl2000]

I love Doom Patrol! Have you read the rest of Morrison's run on it? Funny as can be, yet it'll break your heart into a million pieces. I keep hoping they'll put out more collections so I don't have to rely on my original issues.

[dherblay]

I've heard rumor of a third collection due out in October; I, however, found a torrent and am up through issue 45.

[ponygirl2000]

Neat! Have you come across Flex Mentallo yet? And Danny the Street? And and... there are just too many cool things to mention. Morrison scared me with his brain.

[dherblay]

The last issue I read was, in fact, the one where Danny the Street appeared as a corridor in the Pentagon's sub-basement while Flex Mentallo regained his mystery muscle power and by flexing alone changed the Pentagon into a circle.

You know, the usual.