Camelot

Camelot is a great musical, and musicals that are great are one's in which the music propels the plot. I love the Arthurian Legend and this is one of my favorites. In Family Guy last night there was a rerun and in it Brian sang the "If ever I would leave you" Song. It was twice as funny cuz I knew what it was from. Another good movie that all should see.

Planet of the Apes

This was wierd, I had thought that all people would have seen the Planet of the Apes. The movie was great to see again. The secular humanist views were much more prominant this time around after doing all the studies I have this year. Are we doomed to dreadful destruction? Will we blow ourselves up? perhaps, but if we do, we won't turn into a lot of monkeys. Now that the class has seen this movie they will be able to understand many quips and allusions in television shows. This is the primary reason to see the classic. To know the humor of the present.

Stranger Than Fiction

The scene that I realized this time I saw it was the fibonacci sequence screen change. As he eats his lunch the screen turns into two side by side frames, then a third that is a square as wide as the two but together, then another continually making larger rectangles. The significance here is that the fibonacci sequence is the Greek phi calculation of perfection. Also an explanation of the biking child and the mysterious woman. When one tries to write, whether song, story or movie. As a part comes together, small inspirations come and you think, I want a child to be the cause, this child should ride a bike, it should be on the road, nay the sidewalk, no road is good, there should also be another lady involved, a government worker, a bus driver, he will be hit by a bus and so on. They are not so much a motif as a sign of the author's mutating ideas about his death.

Who won

The question is who won and why. The winner of a post-modern game would be the one who truely understands the post-modernism and all its intricacies and ambiguous hilarity. Toast wins of course. Tales wins, for their name was pomo with the wordplay. They never quite had a correct answer, but by their use of dizzying logic and ambiguous concepts to prove their points they forced the judge's hand into giving them their prize. What is a prize? Yet as things grew over-ruled, tales saw fit to grow into the most pomo position, becoming the uberman of Niestche. Using a double take-single return type of theft, making rules that imposed on the abilities of the other team. What is a winner? The tales team even gave their own value to the monetary sums, causing the money to mean different things in their own community. There are no winners. The truest winner in a game that is designed to show an abstract concept while building rules around which the players improvise is the one who is not bound by the rules, who creates their own, who defies the trees. In the end... The winner is... The last man standing is...

There is only I and who I choose.

Ros and Guil are XoX

The ambiguity is the key. The only thing solid is that which makes it mysterious and unknowable. A coin flip could be the ending of a time, a change in scene, a turn from fate to luck, or a gay joke. Nothing is everything and at that same time everything is always nothing. We are actors playing our roles, we are roles in our plots, and we are actors without scripts; our roles decide. Perhaps though, it is us, we are in control and take every facet into the light and make decisions. On a fifth hand, our instincts could be the role itself taking over for a wee bit of time...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern I

They exist after they are summoned, remember nothing else. They are actors and characters, they see proofs that they are in a story, a coin that never flips something else. Curious though, I expected it to be more of a meta story about Hamlet.

Evangeblogization of Oedipus

The first fact that stands out to me as I read Oedipus is the fact that there is a punishment for sin. Oedipus sins in his anger, in his tragic flaw he kills his father. In his anger he hastily damns the unknown murderer. Through his anger he is eventually run out by his own hands, caused to gouge out his own eyes. His sin of murder, and the acompanying sin of marrying his own mother, while it seems he gets away with it, are in the end dealt with. Man understands the idea that sin cannot go unpunished because it is engrained into our souls by God Himself.
The other more suddle idea is the idea of fate. While wrong in calling it fate the greeks know instinctively that there is something other than them in control of the reality that they live in. The idea of God is replaced with the idea of a force that controls the entire area of every facet of our life. As a Christian we can see that the world is controlled by God and that the idea of fate is directly influenced by the idea of a ominpotent God.
With these two ideas we can see from the Greek perspective;
Fate leads to the fulfilling of a prophecy of destruction
and from the Christian perspective;
God sees to the Destruction of those who go against that that He has set down as law