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Reminder: Dirk Gently on now
2007-Oct-03, Wednesday 18:42Nearly forgot about this, but it'll be on Listen Again as well:
BBC Radio 4 - Comedy - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
BBC Radio 4 - Comedy - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Favourite quotes
2006-Dec-20, Wednesday 19:18Just looked up a quote to add to a comment elsewhere; I first heard it in a lecture by Bill Tupman[1], and then read it when I got Salmon of Doubt. Given it's one of my favourite "life" quotes around, I'm posting it. Douglas Adams - Wikiquote:
[1] Bill was the admissions tutor that let me into the course at Exeter. He was also the regular who propped up the bar in the Jolly Porter when I lived there, and a top bloke: great company and always worth a chat in the evenings. It was his course, with the 'assessed website' element that got me to learn the basics of coding and prompted me to register my first domain name. It was also, of course, his module that I failed to complete, leading me to get the BA without the (hons). Figures, doesn't it?
Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.The closer I get to thirty-five (less than three years now, ouch!), the more true it becomes. Mobile phone ringtones? Just wrong, damnit, phones should RING. The Internet? Bloody marvellous, I'm making a career in it. I hope.
[1] Bill was the admissions tutor that let me into the course at Exeter. He was also the regular who propped up the bar in the Jolly Porter when I lived there, and a top bloke: great company and always worth a chat in the evenings. It was his course, with the 'assessed website' element that got me to learn the basics of coding and prompted me to register my first domain name. It was also, of course, his module that I failed to complete, leading me to get the BA without the (hons). Figures, doesn't it?
On fandom, obsessives, and H2G2
2005-Apr-10, Sunday 21:39Oh dear. From Slashdot:
So, I go to read the reviews. Because, let's face it, I'm watching it anyway.
The "review" is that of an obsessive nutjob. He looks to be even worse than the LoTR freaks who wlaked out of Fellowship because there was no Tom Bombabil.
Well, you see, the thing is doofus; the radio series is long, the books longer, the TV series is also quite long. The film needs to be 90 minutes, and work well as a film. So, it hasn't got every joke from the book.
So what? It isn't the book, it's a film. Ah well. The movie may be great, it may be awful. But the above reviews don't help me make a judgement one way or another.
What is it with obsessive fans that expect movie adaptations to be word perfect? Or radio adaptations for that matter. JK Rowling refuses to allow Radio 4 to adapt her books, so you're only allowed to read them out verbatim. Completely, and utterly, pointles...
( Goth test version XX )
If I own all their albums, can someone tell me who they are?
MJ Simpson, who has 'been studying and documenting the life and career of Douglas Adams for more than 20 years', has written a very in-depth review and plot analysis of the Hitchhiker's movie. As well as the full review that contains SPOILERS , he has also published a shortened spoiler-free version, as well as a list of things
from the radio plays, records, books and TV series that have not been
included in the movie. Hitchhiker's fans, prepare to be like Marvin...
very depressed.
So, I go to read the reviews. Because, let's face it, I'm watching it anyway.
The "review" is that of an obsessive nutjob. He looks to be even worse than the LoTR freaks who wlaked out of Fellowship because there was no Tom Bombabil.
It hasn't got that bit so it sucks.
Well, you see, the thing is doofus; the radio series is long, the books longer, the TV series is also quite long. The film needs to be 90 minutes, and work well as a film. So, it hasn't got every joke from the book.
So what? It isn't the book, it's a film. Ah well. The movie may be great, it may be awful. But the above reviews don't help me make a judgement one way or another.
What is it with obsessive fans that expect movie adaptations to be word perfect? Or radio adaptations for that matter. JK Rowling refuses to allow Radio 4 to adapt her books, so you're only allowed to read them out verbatim. Completely, and utterly, pointles...
( Goth test version XX )
If I own all their albums, can someone tell me who they are?
