December 26th, 2008
Sonja Turbot: Existential Investigator, Page 1
Today I taught my last classes ever at this high school. Starting in March I’ll be teaching at a different school, though I don’t yet know where. Today I thought I’d present a selection of Christmas music, but couldn’t find videos for my favorite Christmas songs: “Santa’s Gonna Kick Your Ass” by the Arrogant Worms and “Sandbox” by Too Much Joy. Instead, I present these, and they’re pretty nice too.
January 4th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Re: Existential Investigator
I like what I’ve seen of this new webcomic. Interesting premise, though I’m curious to see where this is going. Almost seems to have a Matrix-like theme. (Your mention of the Wizard of Oz piqued my interest, esp. since reading some of the other, lesser known books by L. Frank Baum. BTW: It’s amazing the free books one can download from Archive.org.)
In particular, I liked these two lines:
“…I’m not sure the people who live here are even human”
“Every time they open their mouths you can see there’s nothing inside”
Question: Was this just part of the character’s existential personality? Or did you draw upon personal feelings? It’s common for artists and writers to either draw upon personal experiences or become inspired by the world around them, so I was wondering.
In any case, I can relate to such sentiment. Sometimes I get the impression that some people are not entirely human. By that I mean some of them give me the sense of being different, almost as if they belong to a different species than myself. And from all the corruption, murder, and atrocities in the world it seems clear that many people do not behave humanely - or in a ‘human manner’.
I can even relate to how some people can come across as if they were empty shells. Many of the talking heads on TV seem flat, almost hollow inside, as if they had no soul. But then, I don’t have one of those new digitial TVs.
Actually, I don’t watch much TV anymore. (I think I’ll give it up this February instead of upgrading. Games such as GearHead are much more entertaining, anyway.) However, I can also relate to how the strange, “plastic” worlds of anime and such sometimes seem marginally more real than this reality.