HMLIS Update
Hmm, I've hit a weird writer's block with HMLIS and Chapter 14 of Vice. I can only get a few words out a day, but it's going along. I'm thinking of doing a thing with HMLIS...we will see.
It's all weird, I'm having doubts about a side character/plot which is no where near central to HMLIS, but it's vexing me.
The Story I Wish I Could Have Written
There are a lot of amazing stories out there and as a writer I get all grabby hands. But there is a film coming out that has kind of a cyberpunk-ish storyline I really WISH I could have written.
It's the Spike Jonze movie, Her, where Joaquin Phoenix falls in live with an Artificial Intelligence Operating System voiced by Scarlet Johannsen. I just saw the trailer and thought that is such a cyberpunk story even if it isn't all Crapsackworld, gangsters and crime. Here is the TV spot:
While I think Vice has ventured away from cyberpunk, I'm starting to see there really were two schools of cyberpunk. The more action packed Total Recall type of thing and then things like Her, which is something you'd see in a Cyberpunk short story. This whole Veritas project started out as the first kind, but has been moving towards the other kind.
And in case you were wondering, no, Siri is not pleased.
Sundays
In which I give Maxwell a The Reasons You Suck Speech....TDOSH Sundays 3
