A lot of times when I\u2019m putting together shows my imagination will run wild and I\u2019ll create a story with the music from the podcast acting as the soundtrack. The plot line often changes as I add or remove songs from the playlist.<\/p>\n
Take this week\u2019s show, called Wayout.<\/p>\n
As I selected the songs an epic unfolded with a hero, Captain Cornelius, as it\u2019s hero.<\/p>\n
Captain Cornelius is a multidimensional adventurer from a far-off place called Wayout, much in the tradition of Michael Moorcock<\/a> or Moebius<\/a>. The screenplay is by Grant Morrison<\/a> and directed by, of course, the Wachowski siblings<\/a>.<\/p>\n The story opens with Captain Cornelius enjoying the decadence of Wayout, his every need and whim responded to with utmost devotion by his nanotech servants. But such a utopia comes at a price and when not off duty Cornelius is a stalwart defender of Wayout.<\/p>\n The Captain is called to meet with his superiors. There is a threat not only to Wayout but the multiverse itself. Cornelius is tasked to go after a rogue captain from Wayout who plans to unravel the fabric reality, a quantum Ragnar\u00f6k. Even as we learn the nature of Cornelius\u2019s mission the rogue captian attacks and destroys the constabulary, but not before Cornelius escapes by hurling himself blindly through space and time, with the rogue captain always on his heels.<\/p>\n Cornelius\u2019s adventures takes him from humanity\u2019s neolithic past to a distant future far beyond imagining. Along the way he knows victory and defeat, love and love lost and finally, a pyrrhic triumph: total understanding of reality but with no ability to change the outcome of events, or prevent the death of his lover.<\/p>\n Cornelius returns home to Wayout an older and wiser man and finds that he has come to regard his utopia as false and empty. Such is the price of defending the Edenic realm of Wayout.<\/p>\n Well, at least that\u2019s what I got out of this week\u2019s show.<\/p>\n Photo Credit: paulpaws<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n