darkmonki

This is the basic scoop  from Fox.com:

In the year 2019 the U.S. has become a third world country in the wake of the Pulse - an

electromagnetic shockwave unleashed by nuclear terrorists in 2009. This is Max's world, an unforgiving place even for a genetically engineered soldier like her. On the run from her creators and constantly in search of her past, Max joins forces with the idealistic cyberjournalist "Eyes Only." She's a revved-up girl trying to make a run-down world a better place.

That's the backdrop. Depending on which episode you're watching, it can be very c-punk or it can be like a grimy episode of Neighbours. Lots of pretty people, some fighting, some Johnny Mnemonic-style Lo-Tek TV interruptions... I don't know. I never watched much of it, though some of it was pretty cool, and certainly pretty cool-looking, but a lot  of it reminded me of second season Max Headroom episodes...

My 2 cents from a Brit abroad.

Quote from psychophipps, posted on Sep. 10 2001,03:37

the first problem is the price of the bloody stuff!  50eb per difficulty, per dose?!?  GET REAL!  like ANYONE could afford a Black lace habit at 650 eb a pop  try difficuty times 5 in eb, and we can start talking about something even resembling reality.

Exactly what I used to do. Divide the cost by 10. IIRC, Smash was, like 10 euros a can, or something. In the UK right now, there's Tennent's Super, which does exactly the same thing for only a pound a can.

Plus, of course, club drugs which exist now are so overpriced in the game that they'd be impossible to sell.

There was also Mary K. Kuhner's "Jayhawk" series which was tres cool, and Ridley McIntyre's Year Of The Rat stories. The latter can be found at www.intertext.com, three or four stories published in different issues - Boy, Monkeytrick, Seven (a sideline story) and Ghostdancer. All very good IMO. You have to run a search on the site for them. There's other stories there, but they're not cyberpunk.

Come to think of it, as a translation from Gibson to film, Johnny Mnemonic wasn't half as bad as New Rose Hotel. NRH was definitely one of my fave Gibson shorts, along with Fragments Of A Hologram Rose, and the story was easily enough to make a great SF movie, but for some reason, even with a great cast (inc. Willem Dafoe and Christopher Walken) and Abel Ferrara at the helm, it sucked golf balls through garden hose. Slow, ponderous, lo-tech, tedious direction. And for some reason, the writers seemed to think it would be cool if they told the story in present tense first, then reverted to the point where Gibson's story tells it in flashback and told the whole thing again. Resulting in the same overlong movie being played twice from the same perspective.

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Quote: from COMMODORE69 on 2:49 pm on Aug. 16, 2001

Rammstien?

I suppose tu hast was a laff.

Du Hast.

As for Prodigy, yeah man, altho Fat of the Land I didn't like.

Weather Experience and Their Law are still 2 songs that make me go spazmodic if I hear them in a club someplace(which is rare but has happened)

I much preferred them when they were rave.

Weather Experience I always thought was more like an ambient/breakbeat track than a dance track. Not that I'm knocking your choice an all... But...

Back in the days when SL2 and Altern-8 were cool.

(And now I seem to be the only one that remembers them)

Not at all... I have a whole ton of stuff of Altern-8 stuff on Real Media format here... Unfortunately I can't transfer any of it to CD, so many of my friends are missing out.

SL2, however, were no more cool than Technotronic or 2 Unlimited. Humanoid, or Lords of Acid... Now they were cool...