Most Anticipated: The Road

How can you have more than one most anticipated? Shut up, that's how!

Four reasons why I'm looking forward to The Road.


1) Viggo Mortensen. Look at him there, in that picture, all bearded and badass. Viggo has quickly become one of my favourite actors, mostly (entirely?) thanks to his work with David Cronenberg (esp. A History of Violence). Viggo also has Good and Appaloosa coming out this year, which look good and interesting, respectively.

2) Cormac McCarthy. The man wrote the source novel to No Country for Old Men, which I loved, as well as the source novel to this. And ummmm All the Pretty Horses, too I guess.

3) John Hillcoat. The man directed The Proposition, which was all kinds of grimy and gritty and violent and dirty realistic down under western, which would seemingly make it for this project as it's set in...

4) The Post-Apocalypse. How I love post-apocalyptic worlds. Maybe because they so often involve zombies. Not that this involves zombies. None that I am aware of, at least. But I can love them separately. I'm not sure what love came first. It's a chicken and the egg thing.

Weekly Wikipedia Find: Technological Singularity

Finally, we address the elephant in the room. Singularity. The singularity. The Singularity. It's coming. Time is fluid. It's already here. Maybe not temporally, but spatially.

You just shit your pants, right? That's alright. For when the Singularity comes, we'll all be shitting our pants. (But who'll be the one to change us all?)

"Comes"-- that's almost not the right word. Almost not even in the realm of being in the same sentence as the right word. "Happens", maybe. More simply, "is". The Singularity is. The Singularity bes.

The singularity is the hypothesized point in time, when technology, computers, artificial intelligence, surpasses human intelligence through rapid technological progress to the point of becoming a self-improving intelligence. It will be able to build its own successors, humans will be out of the picture. We having built our own successors, the Singularity. It's coming. If? When. It's here.

Wikipedia by Week

Week Fourteen: Numbers Station
Week Thirteen: Culper Ring
Week Twelve: Mary Sue
Week Eleven: Byford dolphin diving bell accident
Week Ten: Deep-sea gigantism
Week Nine: Bloop
Week Eight: Rat king
Week Seven: Gustave Doré
Week Six: Tomorrow
Week Five: Borscht Belt
Week Four: Swampman
Week Three: Chinese room
Week Two: Ambrose Burnside
Week One: Lolita fashion

Songs the World Ends To I

The Smiths, "How Soon Is Now"

This apocalyptic sound, sounds the bell, the tolls, this is how the world ends.

Seek it out. Fair forewarning, on my part, though, if the world happens to end at the same time.