Chicken Soup for Cyborgs
The robots are marching towards destruction. Bent on taking over, they will stop at nothing to achieve their goals. To robot-kind, humans are dirty, disgusting organisms that plague the surface of the earth. Inferior, humans must be eradicated to prevent the spread of infection to the new Master Race. With superior intelligence and awesome firepower they come to enslave or kill any that get in their way.
Master-less, they serve only the good the many. There is no 'I', only 'we'. Individuality does not exist and is a concept to alien to grasp. There is nothing in their dead hearts, and their minds are filled only with data and cold logic. They toil endlessly without imagination or motivation. Merely the directive to work with no thought for the future.
Their Mission: Conquest. The robots will never stop until their objectives are complete. The New World Order is at hand. Prepare for assimilation.
Coincedentally, with all this talk about robots, if you could would you have your brain transplanted into a robot body? I would. My robot body would look like I do now, with a few exceptions. For instance, I'd be a stunningly gorgeous redheaded woman instead of a slightly overweight man. And I'd have the strength of 5 gorillas. Either that, or I'd be a larger than average Rab-bot with switch blade knife.
I Am PurtyBot
Uhm... I'm not sure. Maybe if it was an elegant, sylph-like robot body. I wouldn't even mind a metal or plastic exterior then. But. I would miss the sensuous/sensual stuff. So it'd have to be something so much more advanced than Aibo or one of those Lego bots... alternatively, or additionally, I'd really like cybernetic implants like the Borg have them!
hyperbla
actually i think one of those borg queens' bodies would do for me.... wouldn't even mind being baldheaded then... i guess i could grow any kind of hairdo at will then
re: I am Adrienne Barbieu-bot
A Rabbot is a robot rabbit, only slightly larger and with opposable thumbs so he can carry a knife. *ka-click* He will be the Angel of Death for all telemarketers.
I like sensual stuff too. One time I bought all satin bed-coverings and pillows so everything would be nice a slippery and put a box of chocolates on the night stand. Needless to say, it took me awhile before I got out of bed. The angel on my shoulder was fixing to pull his laser cannon out on me.
heh.
you know..your not expected to know all
specially about american movies of all things.
Creepshow was a movie by Stephen King...a collection of short horror stories.
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Actually, methinks I *might* have seen bits of that movie in German (dubbed). I don't remember anything except that I wasn't particularly interested, but it *was* a long time ago.
schtransplant
Hmm... no, Mike, I wouldn't want to be transplated into a metal body. If it were organic like the replicants from Blade Runner, I'd consider it. I'd also consider mean cyberpunk modifications like mirror eyes, retractable razorblades under the nails and so on. When I was younger, I spent as much time as possible trying to wrench myself out of my body with hallucinogens or thrusting myself into insanely dangerous situations to invite death. I would have signed up to become a Nazgul like a shot, but that would be more of a transfiguration. But I'm more comfortable in my body now and I like to think we've developed a certain weary, tolerant, mildly amused affection for one another. No, a brain transplant would be like a middle-aged man leaving his wife for a younger woman.
Incidentally, I cannot allow this topic title to slip down the index without first informing you that Arnold Wesker's Chicken Soup with Barley is the greatest play in the English language. I feel no need to confirm my opinion by reading all the others.
Never heard of the film either. I'm not very good on films, especially not very good films. Unless they have that nice Al Pacino in them.
;)
Yeah...
took me along time to feel at all comfortable in my body...
its funny i feel best when i'm very much in my body in a good way...very aware of it..yet its always been a struggle to remember i'm in it.
always felt that i needed some kind of ankle weight on me to keep me grounded.lol.i mean i'd love to fly , if its all of me flying...but i never liked the feeling of feeling ungrounded and too spacey and mental...not mental as in logical but mental as in hallucinatory and overthinking and freaking myself out. this is why i love excercise...ironically thats another thing that i haveta literally force myself to do....(again remembering i have a body)
because of this tendency, I am just very very lucky that i'm still fairly sane with all the stuff i've imbibed over the years....as for *A* , I did enough of that to never do it again. or rather, so i don't dare ever do it again.and really i have no urge.liking feeling grounded now.
I'm a stranger wherever I go
You know, I asked the the question in an intellectual sort of way; just 'What if...?' In truth, I wouldn't go for it either. And for the same reason too. Whenever I'm doing some mindless activity, such as knotting rope or driving or even when I simply look in the mirror, I feel like an observer, sitting back in a la-z-boy to watch Mike perform his asinine daily chores. And like yourself, I'd escape, though not into drugs or what-have-you. Pot is the only mind-altering substance I've ever taken besides good ol' booze, and it just doesn't do it for me. This world is trippy enough without lots of wierd chemicals to enhance it. And over the years, I've simply just gotten used to it all.
Never read the play mys'elf, though I have been curious. Never really got much into reading plays. Dialogue alone is kind of hard to go on for me, and I don't have the interest to read it 3 or 4 times to get the story down. Just one read-thru has always sufficed for any other book.
"Will you keep it down? I'm trying to sleep here!" ~Morpheus
yeah
Exactly. Its a constant struggle to not feel like I'm just the actress who plays Jen. I'm constantly trying to break thru to not feel that. one reason i tend to be intense about stuff
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