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...Matrix, the recent box-office hit now on DVD, Keanu Reeves and his leather-clad gang spend quite a bit of time staring at green columns of digital characters that stream down their computer monitors. These columns, our protagonists explain, represent the incredibly complex digital reconstruction of the 20th century human world--a vast computer program affectionately known as, well, the Matrix. By staring at these columns, those outside the Matrix can "see" what's going on within. "I don't even see the code," boasts one of the male techies as he points to various spots in the flickering...
...digital characters that stream down my computer screen. The ASCII characters on my screen don't look nearly as cool as the ones created by Warner Brothers. Nor do these characters represent anything close to an elaborate human prison designed by intelligent robots gone sour. But Keanu's Matrix is my Unix, and like my stolid friend, I can see what people are up to. Sort...
...begin to "see" things in my Matrix...
Steve Jobs can. Though he has no more to do with the creation of Pixar movies than, say, Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin had to do with The Matrix, he is a whiz at cajoling, nudging and cheering on John Lasseter and the other gentle geniuses in the Pixar cave to get stuff done. So with a great push, Toy Story 2 will be ready for its Nov. 24 release. It's nearly completed now, and judging by a sneak peek last week, we'd say it looks like high-comic computer...
...assault you with his lyrics; there's no screaming into the microphone or straining to reach the high notes. You must reach for the words, straining to find your own meaning in the often-cryptic songs, which drop references to everything from the Brazilian Carnival to the movie The Matrix. The poetry of the lyrics seems to take a back seat to the rhythmic music itself, which is beautifully composed and consistently interesting...