Getting The Band Back Together
The 90s and early 00s were beautiful times for falling in love with coding, the internet, and it's intersection with mysticism through media. There was also a sense of outsider community that was imminently appealing to a teenager born between generations.
K, so I'm going on a sick run at a Gibson to save the world and need the best of the best on my side. I get to be the hero, obviously, but I need a crew to back me up.
Characters on my Team:
- Jenny Calendar
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 1997-2003
- "Technopagan" is such an obnoxious term and I adore it. Yes, please, contact your monk with internet connection and get him to explain his bible-verse shit-posting to help prevent the impending apocalypse.
- Tank
- The Matrix, 1999
- The Original Operator, navigator of the matrix, and avenging brother. He runs the programs that teach me kung-fu in a gnostic playground. Hacker of the demiurge.
- Emmanuel Goldstein "Cereal Killer"
- Hackers, 1995
- The pure chaotic energy of this effer just murders me. He's crashed on the couch still wearing his rollerblades until I need a distraction.
- Molly Millions
- Neuromancer, 1984
- I know I said 90s and 00s, but Neuromancer is practically timeless and Molly is bodyguard par excellence. Cat Mother, Steppin' Razor, you're too good for that cowboy Case.
- Y.T.
- Snow Crash, 1992
- Unstoppable; Y.T. gets the job done. Connections, contacts, and credit - this girl can break or borrow her way out of (or into) any jam. THE courier.
Research, tech, distraction (and probably demolition), muscle, and delivery covered. NB: Snow Crash was my entry point into polytheism with Juanita's reverence of the goddess Inanna still an inspiration to this day.