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Oct. 5th, 2005
"Tortoise? What's that?"
Oct. 5th, 2005 03:31 amOne thing about Blade Runner: it makes me want noodles. They look so damn good, despite the grit and grime and blood that surrounds them. ("Four. No, four. Two, two. And noodles.") Mmm, and I do love that movie. It's one of the few futures that looks less alien now than when I first saw it.
The future felt a little less alien tonight. I hiked up to campus tonight to watch Blade Runner with the Skidmore SF class. I was a little nervous—ack, creepy old guy!—but it was fine; Laurie (she of the ill-fated dinner outing last week) is the prof, and she was quite welcoming, to the point of offering me a ride home. I managed to contribute to the discussion afterward without mouthing off—amazingly, I was the only person who knew what the unicorn signified—but, really, the joy came from watching a classic SF movie on a big screen in a lecture hall with geeks around me. For two hours, if I didn't think too hard, I was in SWIL again. Felt nice.
The future felt a little less alien tonight. I hiked up to campus tonight to watch Blade Runner with the Skidmore SF class. I was a little nervous—ack, creepy old guy!—but it was fine; Laurie (she of the ill-fated dinner outing last week) is the prof, and she was quite welcoming, to the point of offering me a ride home. I managed to contribute to the discussion afterward without mouthing off—amazingly, I was the only person who knew what the unicorn signified—but, really, the joy came from watching a classic SF movie on a big screen in a lecture hall with geeks around me. For two hours, if I didn't think too hard, I was in SWIL again. Felt nice.
