Seriously now, this is not some metaphorical masterpiece, it's almost a play-by-play description of the Alien movies. The whole "mummified circuitry, skin graft machinery" bit is a dead-on description of the H.R. Giger art created for the movie Alien. Giger is well-known as an artist who paints mostly disturbing bio-mechanical scenes.
The "self-destruction sequence" bit is taken right from the damn movie -- they try to blow up the ship and they can't, because as it says in the song, "this station is non-operational."
Slithered entrails in the cargo bay? Another scene from Alien.
"Species in an IV loitering"? Another scene from one of the Alien franchise.
You could even argue the "one-armed scissor" is the bio-mechanical hive first shown after the crash landingin the first movie.
The people trying to stretch this into some grand metaphor about the rigors of life have been listening to too much My Chemical Romance. FFS.
@xystophoros there is nothing wrong with MCR. And also, don't you think that things could have a larger point than a sci-fi film franchise. People write things for reason. At the drive in isn't a nerdy pop culture band like psychostick.
@xystophoros there is nothing wrong with MCR. And also, don't you think that things could have a larger point than a sci-fi film franchise. People write things for reason. At the drive in isn't a nerdy pop culture band like psychostick.
Just to follow up on my earlier post:
Seriously now, this is not some metaphorical masterpiece, it's almost a play-by-play description of the Alien movies. The whole "mummified circuitry, skin graft machinery" bit is a dead-on description of the H.R. Giger art created for the movie Alien. Giger is well-known as an artist who paints mostly disturbing bio-mechanical scenes.
The "self-destruction sequence" bit is taken right from the damn movie -- they try to blow up the ship and they can't, because as it says in the song, "this station is non-operational."
Slithered entrails in the cargo bay? Another scene from Alien.
"Species in an IV loitering"? Another scene from one of the Alien franchise.
You could even argue the "one-armed scissor" is the bio-mechanical hive first shown after the crash landingin the first movie.
The people trying to stretch this into some grand metaphor about the rigors of life have been listening to too much My Chemical Romance. FFS.
@xystophoros there is nothing wrong with MCR. And also, don't you think that things could have a larger point than a sci-fi film franchise. People write things for reason. At the drive in isn't a nerdy pop culture band like psychostick.
@xystophoros there is nothing wrong with MCR. And also, don't you think that things could have a larger point than a sci-fi film franchise. People write things for reason. At the drive in isn't a nerdy pop culture band like psychostick.