new friends and RESIDENT EVIL

02Oct07

i’ve started hanging out with lily since matthew died. i mentioned her a while back; she was one of the zoths who came to film fest the dla did. not to sound too cliched angsty teen, but she and her friends are really the only ones who seem to understand my feelings these days. i still care about the zoms, you know. i mean, i spent 4 years living with a deceased brother. but there just doesn’t seem any point in trying to change the world, do something about it on a big scale. these zoth kids, though, they’re really just showing respect for the mobile deceased on a personal level. i can’t bring matthew back again (too bad zoms can’t go double-zombie or something). and i can’t change the way the rest of the world treats people like him. but, whereever he is, i can show him that he, and all the other zoms who we’ve killed won’t be forgotten. i’m not going to change my name (lily has one friend, patrick, who goes by “ghnaah.” last week he got a detention because he was only responding to mrs simmons in groans. he’s kinda nuts. cute but nuts. ;)), but i’ve started wearing more rags. i know i should feel like a hypocrite, but i just didn’t understand it before. i don’t know that i would say that it’s wrong to dress a zom family member in “normal” clothes, but i have realized that it’s kind of insensitive; i mean, it’s the same sort of cultural homogenization like making native peoples dress like everyone else. also, it’s just not really honest, you know? they wouldn’t change their clothes every day on their own. once you turn, you do change. it’s kind of denial of what they are if you try to make them dress like non-deceased people. am i a zoth now? i don’t think so, but lily makes a lot of sense. i’m definitely not as far gone as brainygirl!

ANYWAY, i went to see the new resident evil movie last week with lily and ghnaah. they just keep getting further and further from the facts. the first one was no documentary, but at least it tried to stick relatively close to the truth (except for the secret evil corporation stuff… so far as WE know :)). “based on a true story,” then “inspired by a true story.” i don’t think this one was even “inspired.” sure, it was fun, i guess (if you’re into slaughtering innocent zombies who are just a product of their circumstances, and don’t really know any better), but if i were the real alice parks, i’d be kind of pissed at this point. she better be making a lot of money (and at least milla jovovich is hot). i saw mrs parks give a talk once. it was pretty interesting. she’s a big proponent for zombie rights these days, actually. she was speaking at a dra rally, about progress towards a cure. strange to know she was the same person who killed all those zoms in raccoon city.

well… i guess that’s it. night all!

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