on rotoscoping
cut-and-pasted and paraphrased from some "premature" conversation on today's topic:

i'm reading this right now
well, not *right* now….

i'm not sure ASD "gets into the mental illness aspect MORE than his normal work," but i would certainly say it is done in a much more subtle, nuanced fashion in ASD. i agree with you, though, that his ability to remain interesting with a few themes over such a large body of work is a real testament to his storytelling…

$20 could buy you a house back in the 70s.

you've skipped a big one
massive corporations with ulterior motives reaching into our everyday lives, either co-opting or subverting the government along the way.

the roach in the ashtray and the bit with the bike are among the finest bits of stoner/junkie "logic" i've read; i have a feeling the former is something that actually happened (see: pkd letting randoms stay at his house, getting his safe blown up).

@farmer john- i might have said this before, but check out david marusek's work- he has a really fascinating take on how cureent/developing technologies will alter our society.

more like f. night shyamalan
amiright?

you mean the underwater smurfs?

yeah, that shit always got me, too- i can't hit a dude ten feet away, but i can fucking drop a cobra rattler at 1200 feet with one shot! maybe repeat viewings of red dawn as a six year old spoiled things for me.

found this on rzawu.com. once in a blue moon i wish i lived in nyc everything:

more like the D-Team!
i thought this show sucked even when i was little- how could such "badasses" never hit the people they aimed at?

better get the bobby digital movie!
seriously, i wanna see the bobby digital movie.

FA, i wish i had the book in front of me to debate, but i think you actually summed it up nicely, but i would "soft rains" would definitely have to get worked in there somewhere, especially considering the house is the closest thing to the "real future" in the book.

FA, i'm back to agreeing with you.

i know a guy who was hired towards the end of production to come in and help cg-ify the literally thousands of images they used in the scramble suits and he said that they used enough that the suits, like in the book, never repeat themselves.

i tried to use a jeff spender quote in my high school yearbook, but i was "advised" against it.

i like mccarthy well enough, but i wouldn't say he's even in the top five living american writers. bradbury probably is, though, along with my man stewart o'nan, and while i don't care for him myself, i can't believe nobody has brought up john irving.

@a salt gun- you might not like his stories, ideas, or philosophy as much, but as a pure writer, bradbury tops most people, especially dick and vonnegut, and i say this as a massive fan of kurt and pkd.

there's actually an av club interview with downey jr about the role, and i agree that he was a perfect fit.