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I am a musician and I dance. Suck at both being a musician and a dancer, but I do both.

Very cool booklet with this box set.

VALIS, though similarly pre-occupied, is quite different. Dick misunderstood his agent's suggestions and rather than make a few revisions he completely reworked the material. I think VALIS is superior to Radio Free Albimuth.

It's not his birthday til August 4! But I guess you know that.

Weird to see limited edition box sets. . . sold in MP3 format by ohter than Moaaic. Is this Juno Records legitimate? The Turrentine surprised me, seemingly legitimate.

RIP Ruth.

Many happy returns!

Well, having talked to your new landlady, she seems very nice, I'M SO GLAD you got the apartment! All the best in your new home! I expect Pyewacket will soon relax and take a long nap.

I decided to re-read this one when I pulled it from the shelf and read this sentence from the Introduction: When you find you can go neither backward nor forward, when you discover that you are no longer able to stand, sit, or lie down, when your children have died of malnutrition and your aged parents haven been sent to the poorhouse or the gas chamber, when you realize that you can neither write nor not write, that you are convinced that all exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you should stand still like the hummingbird. Henry Miller is always an inspiration for me.

Many happy happy returns!

Many happy happy returns Laton!

Indeed. One of the movies I've seen most like that is "The Grifters", not just dialog but even other passages directly from Jim Thompson's novel.

Good news, fingers crossed.

I basically agree, but I'm not his scheduler. All I know is he doesn't have a lot of dollars, and motels are expensive and cam eat up a meager stake in a hurry.

I hope Shawn doesn't mind my speaking for him so to speak. Shawn is an audio engineer with a degree and he's also very knowledgeable and "into" film. This is where he's wanted to be for a long time and never managed to be. There are more jobs that he is both qualified for and really wants to have there than almost any city in the world.

Shawn has very severe fiscal restraints that are ruling his decisions regarding "should I stay or should I go." If anyone there has a couch or floor it could save his butt and keep him there fighting for his new home.

That's groovy baby!

Hmm.. .guess I better open up that Season Two I've had on my shelf for a while. Season One was pretty good.

Many happy happy returns!

I'm wondering if Shawn really meant to leave his expresso machine behind. . . .

Mention should also be made of the atmospheric fiction of Cornell Woolrich. Really like some of his such as "Waltz into Darkness" and "The Bride Wore Black."

Many many happy returns!

I've read about three by Elroy. . . not really impressed! I like McDonald, read all those, but they're not quite top shelf for me.

Yes. And Farewell My Lovely has the most diverse characters and wildest scenes of all Chandler's novels as well as perhaps less of his unpleasant personal quirks. I'm a fiend for this stuff. Re Nero Wolfe, there's quite a post-WW2 darkness and gloom about the 3 Zeck novels. I'm a fiend for the Chandler stuff. Agree about the darkness and gloom in the Zeck novels.

Looks like a bad Peter Max trip.