Hello from Peter Bergman's place
Brian Westley
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Merlyn LeRoy
Cat Ishikawa
c.
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Brian Westley
tch-tch. Top posting?
Anyway, "Hello, all you happy people" is a Droopy quote.
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Merlyn LeRoy
Thomas Armagost
BTW, maybe I'll ask Woz about P.A.'s prob. He'd probably help P.A.
personally if asked nicely. And, unlike Jobs, he wouldn't force
P.A. to accept an obscene sum of cash to endorse his product.
<http://woz.org/images/woz_jobs2.jpg>
I swear I got stoned with those two dudes at college--I can't
remember exactly where or when.
<http://www.australiancattledog.com/puppy.htm>
This URL could help P.A. with his other prob. Scroll down to
"Naming Your Puppy."
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blog <http://www.well.com/user/silly/> si...@well.com
"Don't forget to register to vote" - Frank Zappa
Comrade Mister Yamamoto
> Brian, you'd better get out of there before he gets home.
>
> BTW, maybe I'll ask Woz about P.A.'s prob. He'd probably help P.A.
> personally if asked nicely. And, unlike Jobs, he wouldn't force
> P.A. to accept an obscene sum of cash to endorse his product.
> <http://woz.org/images/woz_jobs2.jpg>
> I swear I got stoned with those two dudes at college--I can't
> remember exactly where or when.
>
> <http://www.australiancattledog.com/puppy.htm>
> This URL could help P.A. with his other prob. Scroll down to
> "Naming Your Puppy."
>
Well, 3 out of 5 of my cat names don't even register(Steve, Rob Roy and
Kathy) :P
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Comrade Mister Yamamoto
http://mryamamoto.50megs.com
Thomas Armagost
Comrade Mister Yamamoto <mryam...@optonline.net> wrote:
> Thomas Armagost wrote:
>
>> Brian, you'd better get out of there before he gets home.
>
>> BTW, maybe I'll ask Woz about P.A.'s prob. He'd probably help
>> P.A. personally if asked nicely. And, unlike Jobs, he wouldn't
>> force P.A. to accept an obscene sum of cash to endorse his
>> product.
>> <http://woz.org/images/woz_jobs2.jpg>
>> I swear I got stoned with those two dudes at college--I can't
>> remember exactly where or when.
>
>> <http://www.australiancattledog.com/puppy.htm>
>> This URL could help P.A. with his other prob. Scroll down to
>> "Naming Your Puppy."
>
> Well, 3 out of 5 of my cat names don't even register (Steve, Rob
> Roy and> Kathy) :P
Comrade Mister Yamamoto would be a good name for an Akita.
If P.A. gets Skyradio working on his Mac, he could maybe name his
Australian Cattledog pup Woz. I'd name the four boy pups pictured in
the following image file Austin, Ossman, Proctor, and Bergman.
<http://www.australiancattledog.com/images/boys%203%20weeks.jpg>
As long as I've got you on the line, I might as well share another
thought that's totally unrelated to the subject of this thread. A
motion picture production of Phil (yet another Phil) Dick's novel
"A Scanner Darkly" is nearing release.
<http://www.philipkdick.com/films_scanner-061204.html>
What interests me about "Scanner" is the style of animation. Here's
a two minute Quicktime trailer from director Richard Linklater's 2001
debut "Waking Life." The animation is a breakthrough.
<http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/waking_life.html>
It's nothing less than the fusion of technology and art that I've
been waiting over thirty years for--it can do the classic FST albums
justice. The soundtrack by the crazy guys is already in the can.
All that's needed is a movie to go with it. FINALLY, I'VE MADE MY
POINT! Thanks for your patience.
I'm not necessarily recommending Linklater as the director. However,
he deserves recognition for his pioneering work.
benway
PKD is well on his way to being recognized for the genius he was. I've
got ALL his books (40 plus) and first started collecting with the
immoral "Time out of Joint".
The Scanner movie looks to rock.
--
benway
"Exterminate all rational thought" -bill lee
Cat Ishikawa
after his death, if then. I've also subscribed to the PKD society stuff with
tons of unpublished work by him as well as read the exegis, his letters,
bios, etc, etc. Do Androids Dream is one of my fave books, while the flick
made from it, was, well, something else again. Androids was the best book
ever written about religion, that I've read, and the flick is totally devoid
of PKD"s invented religion. I liked Minority Report, inspite of
Cruise/Speilberg in that it captured PKD's (like Firesign's) fascinating
with advertising, never better captured than with the ads in UBIK, the novel
I'd most like to see filmed. That being said, Scanner Darkly would be a
lousy novel by anyone and was by far the worst thing PKD ever wrote, and
that's saying a lot. Great point about art/technology evolving to the point
it can do, for example, Firesign stories justice, as it did with Lord of the
Rings. Considering how much Westly's host is into the digital future, this
may be something the lads are looking into. Waking Life was wonderful
animation, just not exactly a film.
Apprentice film maker,
C. Simril
James W. McKelvey
Including the non-SF novels like "In Milton Lumky Territory"?
--
What portion in the world can the artist have
Who has awakened from the common dream
But dissipation and despair?
-- William Butler Yeats
Thomas Armagost
"Cat Ishikawa" <cish...@telus.net> wrote:
> Scanner Darkly would be a lousy novel by anyone and was by far the
> worst thing PKD ever wrote, and that's saying a lot.
I actually liked the novel quite a bit. Although "Salton Sea" with
Val Kilmer has stolen a lot its thematic thunder.
> Great point about art/technology evolving to the point it can do,
> for example, Firesign stories justice, as it did with Lord of the
> Rings. Considering how much Westly's host is into the digital
> future, this may be something the lads are looking into.
Maybe we'll have to wait until it becomes feasible for a half dozen
or so firefans to animate a full-length FST production using their
home PCs on a budget of several thousand dollars. That may be
another three to five years down the road. When the consumer edition
of Flash TMZ is released in 2008, your brain impulses will become
professional quality animation. Look, ma, no hands! I'm making a
movie and eating Cheetos at the same time! ;-)
> Waking Life was wonderful animation, just not exactly a film.
I found the storyline and characters boring, and the production
pretentious. The two minute trailer at apple.com contains everything
that excited me about the film. Did you catch the flying ghost/
hallucination bozo? Watch the trailer again if you didn't. Go
ahead, it's only two minutes long.
<http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/waking_life.html>
Now here's some symbolism I think you'll really dig.
> Apprentice film maker,
> C. Simril
Excellent! Now we have a director! We'll stash the DVDs of our
work-in-progress in Smasher's van, man.
>>> A motion picture production of Phil (yet another Phil) Dick's
>>> novel "A Scanner Darkly" is nearing release.
>>> <http://www.philipkdick.com/films_scanner-061204.html>
>
>>> What interests me about "Scanner" is the style of animation.
>
>>> It's nothing less than the fusion of technology and art that I've
>>> been waiting over thirty years for--it can do the classic FST
>>> albums justice. The soundtrack by the crazy guys is already in
>>> the can. All that's needed is a movie to go with it.
>
>> PKD is well on his way to being recognized for the genius he was.
>> I've got ALL his books (40 plus) and first started collecting with
>> the immoral "Time out of Joint".
Clans of the Alphane Moon, Ubik, The Man in the High Castle... The
list goes on and on. It occurred to me that nearly every hotshot
Hollywood director in an entire generation is a PKD fan--I bet
they're all FST fans, too. I was only half joking when I suggested
that Woz should fix P.A.'s Skyradio-on-Macintosh problem personally.
Woz and Jobs are probably FST fans.
>> The Scanner movie looks to rock.
Well worth a dollar.