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Funny how good some of those old 45's sound now. Try the Zombies "Time of The Season", lots of reverb but real live sounding. Have a version of the Leaves doing "Hey Joe", what a blast! And they make great drink coasters. Who seen the movie,"A BOy and His Dog", starring a young Don Johnson who remains after the atomic bomb and finds women using his dog who can talk after the nuclear explosion improves his mind. He's captured by a society that exists underground lead by fanatical fundamentalist christians who need his sperm because they are infertile. They have robot farmers who chase rebels and twist off their heads if they misbehave. Very tricky ending.
from a story by late talk fave of the 70's Harlan Ellison. I have read a lot of Ellison and also his 3 volumes of stories called Dangerous Visions. They left out one of the good parts in A Boy and His Dog. E-mail me if you want to know.
that should be late _night_ talk fave. Far as I know Ellison is still alive. Other Ellison trivia: he was instrumental in getting Stephen King published in the early days. Also the reference to the Ellison story "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" in Matrix I.
Harlan Ellison, it figures. Been a long time since I read those. "I Am Legend", is another but I can't remmember if they made a movie unless it was night of the living dead which I consider still to be the top ten of sci-fi movies. Anybody like the TV show The Prisoner?
We must have all grown up watching the same things. I was very influenced by that. The Prisoner put me in the direction of wanting to do theatre for a living. When the DVD set was released, I requested that the local public library purchase it. They did. I can't think of anything better that was made for TV, but "OZ", another prison show, was extremely well-done also. Though I don't read s-f anymore, I came across a reference to a subgenre lately called "Steampunk" That's Cyberpunk but set in the Age of Steam when Victoria was queen. Recent example is "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." "The Difference Engine" by Gibson and Sterling is Steampunk too and I always thought that would be a good film project. Steampunk appreciation site
Yeah, that's a cool genre too. One that I liked of that type is "Time After Time." It's a story about H. C. Wells chasing Jack the Ripper in his time machine. First movie I saw with Malcolm McDowell after "Clockwork Orange." Time After Time also stars Mary Steenburgen, David Warner and has a great soundtrack. It's a pretty cool flick, 25 years old and still well worth seeing (again).
I don't know how the reviews went, but I enjoyed the new version of the Time Machine (2002, whatevs) better than the George Pal original. I got it when it hit the 50 cent remainder rack at the local store. I find gems in there but lots of clinkers too. There was even a retro 'sky car' in the Hallmark version of The Snow Queen. And I consider that anything with airships in it is steampunk. So the current Matrix knock-off called "Equilibrium" qualifies. Wild Wild West of course, and the Michael Moorcock Captain Bastable stories. Not enough good s-f film being produced these days. The tools are all there. But if you read about mother=mega-millionaire Peter Jackson from Lord of the Rings, the only idea he has for a new project is to remake King Kong.