I'm still hoping that this will be made one day and that Chris Cunningham (of Come to Daddy, Windowlicker, and All is Full of Love fame) will somehow be involved. But Gondry adapting Ubik sounds almost as promising.

urgency
"…the lack of urgency that runs through all Vonnegut's fiction…"

@Often Posts: If everything is too quiet, you can turn the volume up… Or do you mean just the vocals? It's unconventional, sure, but it draws attention to the aggressive guitar playing and the terrific drumming. I think the production really adds to the emotional impact of that album: it sounds like the singer really…

This reminds me…
I had this idea for an AV club Q&A: What fictional works of art do you wish were real?

I would really like to see an adaptation of The Three Stigmata etc. too. Preferably with Chris Cunningham as director or art director.

Black
They really like that word don't they?

Bender was also right that they should have stayed in the terminator-future: a backward time machine must have existed (shall exist?) around that time. And they would have had a great view over Blood Lake from that pile of skulls.

split brain
I'm a bit surprised that no-one mentioned that the splitting of personalities was, at least partially, inspired by research on split-brain patients (people whose brain has been quite literally split in two surgically as a treatment for epilepsy), and the philosophical implications of that research. (For…