Apocalyptica

I have this strange fascination with apocalyptic stuff.

2 years ago, if you had mentioned anything about an apocalypse of the end of the world I would've flipped my rocker. Remember Y2K and that whole year 2000 thing? that scared the living daylights out of 7 year old me! All those commercials and t.v. shows talking about the power being shut off, stocking up on toilet paper, and when the clock finally reached 12, nothing happened, but I was already in a full fledged panic attack, to the point where my dad had to demonstrate that the power was still working (obviously- we weren't standing there in the dark). Then I remember someone saying that doomsday was on 6/6/06? And now this whole 12/21/12 thing? When I first heard of it, I was really scared and told people not to talk about it, but really, what can you do? save the world?


Anyhow, lately I have found things about worlds ending, Utopian and dystopic societies, sci-fi really fascinating, not fascinating as in ' post pictures from the newspaper on my wall about what may be our eventual fate', but as in movies, media, pictures, etc. Here are some:

• Nero's Welcome Reality concept album

This album eased me into the apocalyptic sub genre. The concept is basically the end of the world, and trying to rebuild it from the ashes. Just look at the album cover- it looks like something from a Stephen Spielberg film.

• Assassins Creed

 When I first found out that Assassins Creed was not really about history, but the protagonists' attempt to stop the solar flare of 2012, I admit I was really reluctant to try it, but a few years later I found myself hooked on the series. The plotline of the modern-day Assassin and trying to save the world can be a bit confusing though, but still, it makes you think, are we the ones saving our world, or are we the ones destroying it? Hmm..

• Mad Max Series

Guilty pleasure: I'll admit that I like the Mad Max series. Although I really don't know what's going on, all I know is that the government fell and the world is now in total anarchy and chaos. I watched Thunderdome when I was a little kid, because I was a big fan of Tina Turner and my mom told me she was in it. And I find it hilarious that Max is wearing that same leather jacket though the whole series. Speaking of Mad Max..

• Borderlands

  

There is no box or catagory or description that can describe the badassery which is the Borderlands series. Borderlands isn't apocalyptic, per se, but it does take place on a dystopic planet called Pandora, and theres loads of guns and violence that will turn even the girliest girl into a testosterone ridden mutant.

• Tank Girl

 

Tank girl is a series of comics drawn by Jamie Hewlett (same guy that draw the Gorillaz too!), and she is basically a kick ass warrior kicking ass in the kick ass future or something. I don't know. There was also a movie adaptation of it, which caught my attention on the television more than the Magic Mike DVD I was trying to watch on my laptop at the same time.

• Fallout Series

 The Fallout video game series is a superior gaming series going all the way back to 1988 when we thought the commies were gonna nuke us. Basically, Fallout follows a path of 'alternate history', meaning what would've happened if we had lost WWII or been nuked in the 50's like people thought we were. So now the world's water supply has radiation, there are mutated people aaaaaannnnnd everyone is fucking insane. Sounds like fun.

• Akira

 

 Although I've never actually SEEN this movie or read the manga, I really like the plotline, and the whole Neo-Tokyo backdrop is easy to visualize since, Tokyo is already kind of Neo-Toyko, right? Not make sense? hmmm? ABCDEFG?