Oh man. Looks like I've missed the boat on this one. That filled up fast.

Another game to watch, I guess.

A little confusion over whether this is Stuff or Moves. I mean, it's both, clearly, but does it all need to be, or does this risk turning into a kind of shopping list of things to get or use.

So, my instinct is to avoid coming up with stats for things like this until they are called for in the fiction.

The 1962 short film La jetee by Chris Marker. In tunnels beneath the ruins of  Paris, brainers perform a series of time-travel experiments and, monitoring the dreams of their prisoners, send one man back in... time? his memory? the psychic maelstrom, perhaps?

(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jetee - mind the spoilers.)

It was remade in 1995 by Terry Gilliam: 12 Monkeys. I haven't seen this version though.

YES. Jason this sounds great, and reminds me of a little article I once read. It starts like this:

The first time I experienced the war-as-party-time phenomenon, I had just turned 19 and had ended up in the former Yugoslavia by mistake (vodka and Cyrillic train schedules tend to fuck one up) right as the fighting broke out and the borders were closed. It was the best time of my life. Everyone thought they were going to die, so we got drunk, fell in love, fucked it, sucked it, took drugs, and fired off machine guns just to see the tracers fly into the hills like fireflies on jet fuel.

If that isn't the language of Apocalypse World, I don't know what is.

I like finding inspiration in real-world examples, and my apocalypse-media diet consists largely of non-fiction. There are, of course, lots of modern-world ruins scattered around the world that can provide good AW scenery- Pripyat and Hashima Island being the most famous, and notable on account of the depth of the disaster or the sheer scale of stuff that was left behind.

But there's a little apocalyptica just about anywhere if you're willing to look for it. Urban explorers going to abandoned sites and ghost towns are turning up some great, frequently eerie material.

Check out http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthreads.asp?fid=1&catid=103 for some visions of what you can throw at your players.

For a "living apocalypse" you could turn to accounts of life in Kowloon Walled City which was, for all intents and purposes, an enormous holding, or maybe several sharing a very tight, almost vertical geography. Picture an urban "island" surrounded by foreign territory, a jumble of sunless narrow streets, run by informal associations and triads but largely anarchic, recycling and re-purposing and jury-rigging their living space with limited material, making it all up as they go along. Consider http://www.archidose.org/KWC/.