Various miscellaneous musings

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I just ordered this (warning: link not work-safe!) for Shelly. I can’t wait to see it on her; I hope it arrives tin time for our trip to San Francisco (and Power Exchange) in early January.

I am falling, I am fading, I have lost it all…

Last Sunday, Shelly hosted a Lain marathon. Lain is a six-hour Japanese animated movie about…

Well actually, it’s kind of hard to describe what it’s about. It’s about a character named Lain, who’s an eighth-grade schoolgirl who seems perpetually baffled by her life. The thing is, see, she’s not actually a person at all; she’s a physical embodiment of the collective consciousness of a computer network. Problem is, she doesn’t know it. She’s perpetually losing the things that are important to her, because she wants what anyone else wants–family, home, a sense of connection to the people around her–and by her very nature, those are exactly the things she can’t have.

It’s an interesting, if flawed, story, and it asks a lot of questions about the nature of existance, the Void, the meaning and purpose in life, the way we define ourselves…

It’s also got a theme song called “Duvet,” which has been stuck in my head since Sunday. You can download it (legally!) in MP3 format from the band’s Web site here. It’s a beautiful song, though quite sad, and the lead singer has an amazing voice.

You need to download it. Seriously. Yes, I mean you.

Dangerous thoughts

I’m bringing The World’s Most Obnoxious Pencil to game night tonight. lightgatherer has warned me that she’s going to do “things that will frighten me” with it. I’m frightened already, actually.

Now off to head home. It’s been something of a wasted day; I’ve been headachy and vaguely lightheaded all day, so it’s interfered with my ability to get anything done.

8 thoughts on “Various miscellaneous musings”

  3. Thanks for posting the link to the boa music! I’ve seen Lain once before, and it was so nice to hear the theme song again (and the other cuts are good, too.)

    The idea that jumped out at me the most among the themes in Lain was the question asked toward the end: “if no one remembers something, did it ever really happen?” That has gnawed at the back of my mind ever since. In a sense, it was one reason I started blogging. It would be nice to read (or maybe fun to write) at some point an explorative treatment of that question in the style of your Void piece.

    Glad the marathon was fun, I saw it posted on the Freaks list but couldn’t realistically consider the idea. =)

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  4. Thanks for posting the link to the boa music! I’ve seen Lain once before, and it was so nice to hear the theme song again (and the other cuts are good, too.)

    The idea that jumped out at me the most among the themes in Lain was the question asked toward the end: “if no one remembers something, did it ever really happen?” That has gnawed at the back of my mind ever since. In a sense, it was one reason I started blogging. It would be nice to read (or maybe fun to write) at some point an explorative treatment of that question in the style of your Void piece.

    Glad the marathon was fun, I saw it posted on the Freaks list but couldn’t realistically consider the idea. =)

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