I’m almost done with Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” and I’m finding it at turns both terrifying and oddly lulling. I’m not all that into the spare prose, and “boy book”-ness of the thing, but the post-apocalyptic setting really nags at me. In a good way. I guess in general I’ve just acquired a strange fascination with the idea of a the world after it ends, who and what is still around, what everything looks like, how things march on. I felt the same about Children of Men (maybe my favorite movie ever), and almost wanted to see Resident Evil: Extinction for its depiction of a deserted (literally) Las Vegas. For that matter, pretty much every zombie movie hooks me and terrifies me and makes me think about things I don’t want to (but kind of do?). An especially great one is the remake of Dawn of the Dead. Not so powerful and artsy as 28 Days Later, but absolutely horrifying in its far bleaker ending.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
End Times
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Cormac McCarthy,
Destroy or Remove the Brain,
Things that Fascinate Me,
Things that Scare Me,
Zombies
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Two reliable friends have enthusiastically recommended that book, but both times I have tried to start it, it just didn't take.
I will persevere. I just need to finish Foreskin's Lament, which is fantastic.
Cormac McCarthy. Not so gret aktully.
Night of the Comet. Best post-apocalyptic/zombie/valley girl movie ever!
Like I said on Gawker a few days ago, Children of Men left me awestruck. Literally couldn't think about anything else for a week after I saw it.
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