The Undead
I'm flipping through the television today (because it's finals season and I have to do something other than outline my classes) and I come across two things that both suck, and yet go toward proving a long held thesis of mine.
First was an episode of the mid-90s Spiderman animated series on the Family Channel (or ABC Family, or whatever). It was the episode where Spiderman tries to stop Blade from killing Morbius even though Morbius himself is a genetically mutated vampire, in the process he ignores Mary Jane Watson who gets pissed whe he misses dates as Peter Parker. It was pretty bad, but again: better than studying.
Second is the movie "Queen of the Damned" based on the Anne Rice novel of the same name, on the Sci-Fi channel. That movie sucks, it's one of the worst things ever, seriously, don't even give it a shot.
What do these two have in common? Vampires. And my theory? Vampires love, nay require, a thumping techno soundtrack. When vampires get together, there is goth/house/techno hybrid whatever music and it's bass line is kicking! (There is a lesser corollary to my theory that says vampires do everything just a little bit more goth than the average person, partly due to being undead creatures of night and darkness, partly because vampires seem to seek out insufferably affected behavior). The Spiderman cartoon wasn't really providing my thesis with support, but the Blade movies--all three (!) of them--definately lend strength to the techno-vampiric nexus I have postulated. And in "Queen of the Damned" the main character, Lestat, is not merely a vapire who likes techno, but is in fact also a wildly popular techno/goth rock star. That my friends, is what we call "ringing proof" of my thesis.
First was an episode of the mid-90s Spiderman animated series on the Family Channel (or ABC Family, or whatever). It was the episode where Spiderman tries to stop Blade from killing Morbius even though Morbius himself is a genetically mutated vampire, in the process he ignores Mary Jane Watson who gets pissed whe he misses dates as Peter Parker. It was pretty bad, but again: better than studying.
Second is the movie "Queen of the Damned" based on the Anne Rice novel of the same name, on the Sci-Fi channel. That movie sucks, it's one of the worst things ever, seriously, don't even give it a shot.
What do these two have in common? Vampires. And my theory? Vampires love, nay require, a thumping techno soundtrack. When vampires get together, there is goth/house/techno hybrid whatever music and it's bass line is kicking! (There is a lesser corollary to my theory that says vampires do everything just a little bit more goth than the average person, partly due to being undead creatures of night and darkness, partly because vampires seem to seek out insufferably affected behavior). The Spiderman cartoon wasn't really providing my thesis with support, but the Blade movies--all three (!) of them--definately lend strength to the techno-vampiric nexus I have postulated. And in "Queen of the Damned" the main character, Lestat, is not merely a vapire who likes techno, but is in fact also a wildly popular techno/goth rock star. That my friends, is what we call "ringing proof" of my thesis.
posted by justin | 1:43 PM
1 Comments:
The techno-vampiric nexus. That is brilliant. It is reall not fair that they don't test on this kind of thing in law school. I believe you have stumbled onto an important new theory that could transform comics and movies for genreations to come. Or at least until vampires find something more goth than techno.
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