File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2004/lyotard.0401, message 83


Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 07:12:26 +1100 (EST)
From: "Glen Fuller" <g.fuller-AT-uws.edu.au>
Subject: RE: In the Good News



> Glen, do you have any ideas about the right kind of souped-up 
> post-apocalyptic supercharged vehicle for the Son of God 
> Action Superhero as he drives into battle to duke out Satan 
> in this new no holds barred violent and crazy flick 'Beyond 
> the Golgatha Dome' with the avenging warrior wearing a crown 
> of thorns and shouting out 'Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani'?  

Eric, 

If the boys from Ministry are correct then 'Jesus built my hot rod':

"Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true,
Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil,
Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet,
All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world,
So there was only one thing that I could do,
Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long.

[...]

"Jesus built my car,
It’s a love affair,
Mainly Jesus and my hot rod.

"Yeah, fuck it!"

So the son of God is a mechanic, and a pretty good one at that it 
seems. Perhaps he will be like the Vin Diesel character in "the Fast 
and the Furious"? Less the 'road warrior' on faith's journey than 
the 'machinic-engineer' of the masses. I think more than likely if 
there was to be a return by SOG to the toyshop shelves of pop-religion 
("He even moves! Faith not included.") I might have to partially agree 
with Virilio and suggest that a celluloid SOG would necessarily be a 
hyperactive man, the souped-up, post-apocalyptic supercharged 'vehicle' 
being the bioengineered human body. ALthough that would be a paradox in 
that the Return of the SOG would have to be pre-apocalyptic... perhaps 
not the third in a trilogy (or the fourth in a quadrilogy for MM)?


Ciao,
Glen.


-- 
PhD Candidate, Centre for Cultural Research
University of Western Sydney


   

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