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Yes, and not to mention the Mercer cult and the mood organs and the alternate police station etc. not in the film. . . .

A lot of fun and understanding can come from listening to the recreations I think. I agree the originals are important. I wish Jim luck on his quest.

Wow, very good news on the Roach! The McDaniels may be interesting as well. . . .

Inventions and Dimensions is really my favorite, but Speak Like a Child is right on its heels.

You're right about Androids, a closer adaptation of the book would have made quite a different movie! Here's a thread about the upcoming Scanner movie: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=17970

Oh, I've faced it. I've even embraced it!

Oh listening is one thing, agreeing another. Recreations can be very well done as well. Though it's rarer. And I really do like the work on earlier styles that is done by Marty Grosz, Dan Barrett, Keith Ingram, Scott Robinson and others. They do make rhythmic changes, but those rhythmic changes add accessibility; most anyone I know that is turned off by early music recordings is first turned off by the sound and then the "stiffness". . . (That's not me; I have hundreds of cds of the first decade of jazz for instance).

I forgot about that screenplay, I'll bet it's very interesting. Now that you mention it (and you did in the first post) I'd really like to see a movie of "Martian Time Slip" . . . What a powerful novel!

Hmm. . . that's a selling point!

I am one hundred percent behind that. Yes, 1984 is available as a download. One other came out last year. Here's hoping they all come out soon, and the remaining Savoys as well.

For me, it's not that it sucks. It's awful damned funny. But it is less "interesting" than the Impulses and (partly because) it has been out on cd a few times (or at least once, from Japan).

You're right Eric, that one could work out more plausibly than some others. I just like other novels MORE and since we're dreaming, I'm dreaming BIG! Actually, since Hollywood seems to like to bend and shape the short stories more than anything else, how about a really well done "In the Days of Perky Pat"!

But they need to reissue an INTERESTING one. . .

That Titanic cd is quite good. Excellent sound and performance. A few pieces that might interest you Jim, but from what I know of your tastes and likes . . . I'm not sure that you're going to find a whole lot of early American music that you really dig . . . . Just my hunch. You're quite a sophisticate of modern music.

My newest player elevated my redbook cd playback to such an extent that the SACDs it plays don't sound tremendously better, a bit better, at least so far. Some users of the same modified SONY as I have say I just haven't "broken in" the SACD section enough yet, which may be true, as I don't play SACDs that often. As a result I haven't felt compelled to buy a lot of SACDs and haven't; I have maybe 20. The two I wouldn't live without are "Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy" and "Planet Waves." Both are sentimental favorite recordings, and both sound pretty darned good on SACD to me. Especially the Pops. Magnificent in all ways!

Yes, It does look as if I'll have to buy a dvd of 2046. I know she's small and cute. . . but I really like her presence on screen. Thanks for the information.

The Man Whose Teeth were all Exactly Alike. Or UBIK. Or The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Any of those three would be a trip!

Hmmm. . . Angelina Jolie or Liz Hurley or Ziyi Zhang pop into mine. . . I must be a deviant!

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As you know, I'm just such a nut as well. Video game. .. yeah I thought of that. . . and I guess that there is a generation to which these are very important as a part of their "reality". . . . And it would be PhilDickian to explore that. . . . Just isn't how I personally view or want to view Scanner!

Both of those women are lovely, but Ziyi catpivates my attention. There's Rush Hour 2, as well, she does a nice supporting role there!

Yeah, those spray cans of Ubik are hard to find when you most need them. Scanner thread

Hey, this Bapatiste "Let Freedom Ring" is good stuff. All over the map as far as Trane and Jo'burg and bit of West Indies and Cannon and Strata East and Jihad and the Mingus spoken attitude, yet cohesively and inventively stirred in. Nice arrangements. Dig the guitarist a LOT. Nice playing, the playing ain't the real big deal of it, the whole sort of collective performance and texture is what I'm digging and I think I'm supposed. I should check this guy out further and probably will. Did the trick today uplifting wise today. I needed some plucking up by the suspenders.

Yeah, I'd really like to have a remastered version of "Anything Goes." Great cover too. I'm very very fond of "Time Further Out" and "Bossa Nova U.S.A." because my mother had these growing up and I used to listen and marvel and bang on furniture to them and I haven't ever outgrown my admiration for all concerned on these.

Okay, I've been enjoying this lovely charismatic actress in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Hero," "House of Flying Daggers," "Musa the Warrior". . . . Any other outstanding performances in film that I should look into?