Yeah, Dick had a problem for many years. He wrote fast to make a decent living to support wives/children. He used amphetamines to help write faster. This noticeably increased his expenses, so he...
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Yeah, Dick had a problem for many years. He wrote fast to make a decent living to support wives/children. He used amphetamines to help write faster. This noticeably increased his expenses, so he...
Meanwhile, I'm reading a pretty trashy book -- Toll of Honor, the lastest in David Weber's "Honor Harrington" series (and a completely unnecessary addition to the series; it seems to be a rehash of...
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One of my favorite Dick books. (H'mmm. That just sounds wrong...) It was partly autobiographical. Phil had a longterm struggle with drugs. (He once wrote four novels in a few months, fueled by...
I've always heard it as "paperback" also -- I went and listened. Yep, it's "paper bag." Wow!
Yeah. David Gerrold said that the reason the first two seasons of Trek were so good was because it had good Genes.
Indeed, a fine couple, very big in LA fandom. Well known for their work in costuming and more.
They did more than just write letters for renewal ST; they organized a letterwriting campaign. The...
That "Jolene" sounds like a really good tenor.
Trina R's death actually made CNN.com's front page.
RIP Trina Robbins, pioneering underground comix artist, creator of the anthology series Wimmen's Comix. Author of numerous books, editor of others. Namechecked in Joni Mitchell's "Ladies of the...
How have I missed subbing to this thread?!?
Here's a top five albums...but not in any particular order.
Somewhere in Afrika
Chance
Angel Station
The Roaring Silence
Nightingales and Bombers
Speaking of the late Priest ... I just read his "The Last Deadloss Visions," a short-book-length essay he wrote in the late '80s/early '90s concerning the ongoing nonappearance of Harlan Ellison's...
Two of my four favorite Tull albums (the others being APP and TaaB). I can't rate them against each other; they're all just amazing albums from beginnig to end.
Oh, well, all right, "4WD" drags a...
^^^Agreed. And that "trilogy" (to these ears) came out in order of quality: Songs is a definite A+, HH a B+/A-, and Stormwatch a C+ at best.
Nice.
That's an interesting question, and has a lot to do with the nature of the show.
In '77, the ELP Works 1 tour had to stop carrying an orchestra with them because of Led Zeppelin, sort of. Zep...
O.J. Simpson RIH
Haven't seen the movie, but the book* was excellent. The book, at least, is non-fiction. I imagine the movie takes liberties with the facts; they almost always do.
* By Daniel James Brown, whose...
I am told that it was the (relative) success of House of Wax that led to the making of Creature.
Back in the '70s? Kansas, early Chicago, and the Manticore PFM albums were about all the non-British prog I knew.
Just watched that. It isn't that bad. Yes, he's totally the wrong voice for the song, but at least he can carry a tune without using a basket, or autotune... unlike some 'singers' I might mention...
For Collins-era Genesis, I'd agree; but Gabriel's vocals for Genesis and his first few solo albums were (for me) just shy of intolerable at first listen. I grew to love them, but they are pretty...
The Creature from the Black Lagoon. I hadn't seen this since ice ghoul daze, fifty years or so ago (at which time I saw it in a 3D double feature with It Came from Outer Space). I had forgotten all...
17541 ... click it to see it in all its glory...
So, who else does book reviews? I used to do them for a zine called The New York Review of Science Fiction, but it appears to have died. I also review just about every book I read (and I'm aiming for...
It isn't just the US though... a lot of countries, and even some cities (Venice, for example) places are starting to charge "admission fees."
As the man said: If an uneducated, illiterate...
...not to mention Nektar...
Random thoughts as I scan this...
Write a paragraph about Pino Palladino, mention his very slight connection to Gabriel, and not mention The Who at all? Very weird.
Gail Ann Dorsey deserves to...
Weirdly, my doorway into mariachi music was when a neighbor's radio played a mariachi version of "The Night Chicago Died," and I realized that (a) I liked it better than the original, and (b) it bore...
Thank you so much! My copy was actually lost with a computer that feww down went boom a couple of years ago...
Rather to my amazement, I enjoyed the whole almost-two-hours of that. Plus, there are now some movies on my to-watch list...
It's hardly "current" at this point, but it's far from "classic," so it goes here -- I've been really enjoying the first season of Doom Patrol. Alan Tudyk (one of my favorite living actors) makes an...
^^^ :up
Godzilla Rages Again (1955). The first Godzilla movie to feature a second kaiju (Anguirus, a giant ankylosaur, more or less, but without the tail bobble). Also interesting because it takes the...
I wasn't that impressed by the lead single, but I heard her "Jolene" and liked it, and this one won me over. Her voice on this is incredible, quite possibly better for the song than Macca's; too bad...
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Seriously? No Springsteen? No Twisted Sister? In Jersey?!?!?
Yeah, I've read PSS once before, but I forgot just how weird it was. My favorite Miéville book (and I'm several behind, I think the last one I read was Embassytown) is probably his children's book,...
Somehow I never saw that when first posted. Very nice. The guy holds his guitar in a rather freakish posture at times tho...
^^^ There were indeed crowd sounds. You can hear the original recordings of (some of) the tracks, plus other good stuff, on the Night Watch live album from the Concertgebouw...
Perdido Street Station, by China Miéville. This is some seriously weird shit.
I went and looked ... the third disc contains things like guide vocals. The only thing that actually interested me is two tracks of interviews with "the creators" (presumably Rice & Webber?), and...
Not to mention dead. But then, I suppose a dead guy might well be a better vocalist than Roger these days. He sounds like Leonard Cohen with a mouth full of cotton.
When I want something of this sort, I usually turn to the Shemp Meditation Tape. Alas, only a sample (or is that a cample?) appears to be available online.
I agree with what you say. But it wasn't a matter of not speaking against the government; it was a matter of having voluntarily issued a statement in favor of the Uyghur genocide. I draw the line...
I have seen exactly one episode of The X-Files -- the one with the vampire pizza delivery boy -- and, while I thought it was pretty funny, I had no desire to see any more.
I've heard one track by Might Could, but it was a long time ago. I remember liking it.
Re: Three Body Problem -- I've read the original trilogy, thought they were brilliant, and will probably never reread them or read anything else by Cixin Liu.
I can usually separate a writer's...
Thank you for posting this. Mahavishnu Orchestra have always been kind of opaque to me. This short piece let me "get it."
Mick was often involved in writing the lyrics, as I understand it.
I'm not going to post it, because everybody here knows it (or should), but the outro to Cinema Show has one of the greatest 7/8 grooves imaginable.
The original Night Stalker film was written by Richard Matheson, one of the best horror writers of his generation -- as indeed was The Night Strangler.
Matheson wrote The Incredible Shrinking Man...
...not quite prog, so I put it in the Off-Topic forum...
...I present the Korean quartet, J.Una Team...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfPVAYYsDuU
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"Singularity" is a mathematical term for "a point at which a function takes an infinite value." The singularity in a black hole is the point at which the energy required to escape is infinite.
The...
Bittersweet? That final scene is just harrowing.
H'mmm. I honestly don't care for much from New World Record on. Those first albums are absolutely prime stuff though...
^^^Given that National Health were founded nine years after Martin wrote "Theme One," I think the answer -- if there's any actual influence or "borrowing" -- is obvious.
Funny...it doesn't seem to actually contain a CD version of the actual ZS&tR&FotSfM* album.
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* Say that five times fast, and then go have your head examined.
^^^ I'm pretty sure Gracie was being sarcastic there...
As Spider Robinson's cluracaun character says, "Saints dip us in preservatives."
Just finished a book "by" C.S. Lewis called On Writing. It's a Frankenbook, built out of quotes from real books, essays, and letters Lewis wrote.
Now reading James Stephen's The Crock of Gold. A...
Okay, we're losing the thread a bit here... I'm talking about good/important musicians named Steve H. (I'm pretty sure there's still at least one that I'm just not thinking of and nobody has named.)