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<title><![CDATA[Good movies to watch while high on pot]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is a list of good movies to watch while high on Pot that I decided to compile, after smoking a ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>This is a list of good movies to watch while high on Pot that I decided to compile, after smoking a little Pot. I started it and got quite most of it done and then pawned the rest off on a couple of buddies! These are in no particular order, and this list isn&#8217;t &#34;The Best Movies to Watch High on Pot,&#34; just some <i>good</i> movies to watch while enjoying the green. </p>
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<li><b><font size="4">Any Monty Python Movie (but especially Monty Python and the Holy Grail)</font></b>
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<p>ADDED LATE: At first for got to add any Monty Python, mostly due to smoking pot and getting distracted by shiny things!&#160; Anyway, anything by Monty Python fits the bill for good watching while high&#8230;anything. I especially like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, though, as I believe it just may be the pinnacle of humour! </p>
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<li><strong><font size="4">The</font></strong> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_big_lebowski"><strong><font size="4">Big Lebowski</font></strong></a>
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<li>Just an all round cool movie with cool characters. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bridges">Jeff Bridges</a> as Jeffrey Lebowski (aka &#34;The Dude&#34;) is amazing, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goodman">John Goodman</a> as The Dudes friend Walter Sobchak is a performance you won&#8217;t soon forget. A mix up around two people with the same name that leads to an epic battle to get the Dude&#8217;s carpet replaced or cleaned after a thug pissed on it&#8230; Never mind that, just take a few puffs and watch the damn thing!
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddyshack"><font size="4"><strong>Caddyshack</strong></font></a>
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<li>One of the best Summer comedies of all time! Trouble&#8217;s brewing at an upscale private golf course/country club when a crass, fun loving loudmouthed millionaire plans on joining the quiet and normally reserved club. Bill Murray puts in one of the funniest performances ever captured on film (in my opinion, at least), as the messed up, pot smokin&#8217;, gopher hunting groundskeeper Carl Spackler. Great performances from Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield (his best performance!) and Ted Night make this one a gem.
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<li><strong><font size="4">Spaceballs </font></strong>
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<li>Mel Brooks takes on Star Wars. Brooks comedic genius combined with alumni of the great Canadian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_City_Television">Second City Television (SCTV)</a> Rick Moranis and the late John Candy makes this a winning sci-fi cheesefest.
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<li><strong><font size="4">Evil Dead 2</font></strong>
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<li>A Sam Raimi masterpiece. I know it&#8217;s it&#8217;s Evil Dead 2, but it&#8217;s not necessary to watch the first. Evil Dead 2 is written as if the first didn&#8217;t take place, despite both staring the great Bruce Campbell and taking place in the same old scary cabin. It&#8217;s just that I find the second movie superior. Even so, I still suggest watching the original Evil Dead.
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<li><font size="4"><strong>A Scanner Darkly</strong></font>
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<li>An award winning book by Philip K. Dick, translated into an animation meets reality festival for the eyes with a story that draws you deep into itself. A twisted tale of a deep undercover vice cop trying to find the source of the drug &#34;Substance D,&#34; a drug that he himself has become addicted to. A myriad of twisted characters and plot drive this movie. A great cast of actors including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanu_Reeves">Keanu Reeves</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Downey,_Jr.">Robert Downey Jr.</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winona_Ryder">Winona Ryder</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Harrelson">Woody Harrelson</a> certainly doesn&#8217;t hurt either. Try to make sure you smoke your good, heavy mental stuff for this movie.
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<li><font size="4"><strong>Pink Floyd The Wall</strong></font>
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<li>An over the top, self indulgent whiny story about how shitty life would be if you were a fabulously filthy rich monster rock star made of equal parts Syd Barret and Roger Waters. Oh, and it totally freakin&#8217; rocks. Pink Floyd&#8217;s monster Rock Opera concept album, The Wall fuels this warped, cool stylistic animations mixed with live action. A feast for the ears, eyes and mind. Puff away!!!
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_%26_Kumar_Go_to_White_Castle"><font size="4">Harold &#38; Kumar Go to White Castle</font></a>
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<li>A truly funny, stupid movie about two stoned buddies trying to score some White Castle burgers. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Patrick_Harris">Neil Patrick Harris</a> (as himself) steals their car, and the dubious duo end up riding on the back of a cheetah so you know this is a good movie!
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<li><strong><font size="4">Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters&#160; </font></strong></li>
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<li>One of the most disjointed plot-lines I&#8217;ve ever seen with a bizarre collection of animated characters including a floating, super-powerful &#34;fries&#34;, a milkshake with tiny hands, a suggested omniscient watermelon and his side-kick, Rush&#8217;s Niel Peart. The &#34;Let&#8217;s All Grab a Snack&#34; retro intro is classic.&#160; &#34;Don&#8217;t talk, watch! Don&#8217;t talk, watch! You came here, watch it! You don&#8217;t like it, walk out!
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<p><font size="4"><strong>Heavy metal</strong> </font></p>
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<li>An awesome movie to watch after smoking a little something,something. It is animated, there is great music and boobs, it took forever to get on vhs , just waiting for a blu-ray copy of it. </li>
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<li><font size="4"><strong></strong></font></li>
<li><font size="4"><strong>The Kentucky Fried Movie</strong></font>
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<li>The very first movie from John Landis (He even has a cameo). This collection of skits, satire, and parodies from 1977 stands also as one of the first efforts from the creative team of Jim Abrahams&#160; and the Zucker Brothers of <i>Airplane! </i>and <i>The Naked Gun</i> fame. It sports a &#34;movie within-a-movie&#34; called &#34;A fist Full of Yen&#34; which is a spoof of <i>Enter the Dragon</i>. Classic. Any movie that starts off with a news anchor stating &#34;The popcorn you are eating has been pissed in&#8230;film at 11&#34; receives <i>high</i> accolades.&#160;&#160; </li>
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<p>As you probably know, a list like this could go on and on… but it won’t!</p>
<p>That’s it for now, folk. Hope you enjoy!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Postmoderni narratori apocalittici]]></title>
<link>http://minimaetmoralia.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/postmoderni-narratori-apocalittici/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>minimaetmoralia</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Questo articolo è apparso sul Manifesto. di Luca Briasco Finzioni DOPO LA FINE Una messa a fuoco del]]></description>
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<i>Questo articolo è apparso sul </i><a href="http://www.ilmanifesto.it/il-manifesto/argomenti/numero/20091119/pagina/11/pezzo/265082/" target="_blank">Manifesto</a>.</p>
<p>di <b>Luca Briasco</B></p>
<p><a href="http://minimaetmoralia.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/cave_copertina.jpg"><img src="http://minimaetmoralia.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/cave_copertina.jpg" alt="" title="cave_copertina" width="130" height="197" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1213" /></a><b>Finzioni DOPO LA FINE</B><br />
Una messa a fuoco delle espressioni più recenti che la letteratura ha dato alle nostre paure, tra fantascienza e nostalgie del presente. Fredric Jameson ha parlato di «un millenarismo invertito» e James Berger ha osservato come alla fine del XX secolo alcuni romanzi ci abbiano fornito «una retrospettiva prospettica».<br />
«Sono finito, pensa Bunny Munro in quell&#8217;attimo improvviso di consapevolezza riservato a chi ha i giorni contati. Ha la sensazione di aver commesso un grave errore, ma è una sensazione che passa in un lampo terribile e sparisce, lasciandolo in una stanza del Grenville Hotel in mutande, solo con se stesso e la sua fame». In questo incipit c&#8217;è già tutta la strana grandezza che fa di <a href="http://www.ibs.it/code/9788807702167/cave-nick/morte-bunny-munro.html" target="_blank"><i>La morte di Bunny Munro</I></a>, secondo romanzo del musicista e compositore rock <a href="http://www.nickcaveandthebadseeds.com/" target="_blank">Nick Cave</a>, forse l&#8217;opera narrativa più importante del 2009. L&#8217;inconsapevolezza e il senso della fine, una fine in qualche modo sempre già avvenuta, sono i due perni intorno ai quali Cave allestisce una sorta di <i>Everyman</I> postmoderno, molto più vicino allo spirito del morality play medievale di quanto non abbia saputo o voluto esserlo il romanzo di Philip Roth che ne mutuava il nome. Ed è probabilmente nel quadro di una letteratura ossessionata dalla fine come dato di fatto epocale e già compiuto che il romanzo di Cave va misurato, per scoprirne l&#8217;originalità e la capacità di tracciare scenari nuovi e inediti.<br />
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<a href="http://minimaetmoralia.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/aftertheend.jpg"><img src="http://minimaetmoralia.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/aftertheend.jpg" alt="" title="aftertheend" width="131" height="200" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1214" /></a><b>Un millenarismo invertito</B><br />
Dieci anni fa, James Berger intitolava <a href="http://www.amazon.com/After-Representations-Post-Apocalypse-James-Berger/dp/0816629331" target="_blank"><i>After the End</I></a> un saggio interamente dedicato al post-apocalittico, che spaziava dalla letteratura al cinema, ai media. Concentrandosi in particolar modo sulla scena americana tra la fantascienza &#8211; punto di riferimento quasi ovvio &#8211; e la fiction postmoderna, Berger osserva come «nella fase finale del ventesimo secolo abbiamo avuto l&#8217;opportunità, prima accessibile solo attraverso la teologia o la finzione narrativa, di vedere oltre la fine della nostra civiltà, di scorgere, in una strana sorta di retrospettiva prospettica, come si presenterebbe la fine: come un campo di sterminio nazista, o un&#8217;esplosione atomica, o una wasteland ecologica o urbana. E se siamo stati in grado di vedere queste cose è solo perché esse sono già accadute». Le visioni distopiche della grande fantascienza degli anni Sessanta, da Dick a Ballard, non possono fare altro che replicare le vere catastrofi storiche del ventesimo secolo. «Si dice spesso», conclude Berger, «che la modernità è preoccupata da un senso di crisi e vede sempre come imminente, o addirittura arriva ad agognare, una catastrofe finale. Questo senso di crisi non è scomparso, ma coesiste con un&#8217;altra sensazione, quella secondo cui la catastrofe finale è già avvenuta (forse non sappiamo esattamente quando) e l&#8217;attività incessante dei nostri tempi &#8211; l&#8217;informazione, con la sua processione quasi indistinta di disastri &#8211; è solo una forma complessa di stasi».<br />
Il quadro disegnato da Berger porta quasi naturalmente a tracciare una distinzione tra una narrazione apocalittica e una post-apocalittica; tra una modalità di racconto (spesso cinematografica più che letteraria, tradotta nella visibilità quasi «oscena» degli effetti speciali) che si concentra nel declinare all&#8217;infinito una «processione indistinta di disastri» e un&#8217;altra che tenta di individuare gli scenari possibili di un mondo che è già post-apocalittico, e che più che del disastro (dato come acquisito e sempre già avvenuto) intende parlare di ciò che a esso fa seguito, di cosa significhi vivere e raccontare «dopo la fine».<br />
La tendenza a teorizzare una condizione «postuma» della letteratura, dell&#8217;arte, del pensiero, è uno degli elementi portanti della riflessione sul postmoderno: per usare le parole di quello che rimane forse il suo più grande teorico, Fredric Jameson, nel definire la narrazione postmoderna esemplare si potrebbe parlare di «un millenarismo invertito, nel quale le premonizioni del futuro, che si presentino sotto forma di catastrofe o di redenzione, sono state sostituite dal senso della fine».<br />
Naturalmente, è sempre possibile e del tutto ragionevole criticare il postmoderno prima di tutto a partire dal paradosso che lo fonda: dare la fine come fatto acquisito o addirittura già avvenuto. Le conseguenze che ne possono derivare sono di due tipi, entrambi perniciosi. Se parte dall&#8217;assunto che la fine sta per arrivare e non vi è modo di evitarla, la narrazione apocalittica tenderà a concentrarsi esclusivamente sul quando e il come, replicando all&#8217;infinito un ennesimo modello catastrofista la cui ultima incarnazione, nelle sale proprio in questi giorni, è 2012 dello specialista Ronald Emmerich. Se invece si dà la fine come già avvenuta, è concreto il rischio di ripiegare su un modello narrativo fondato su quella che lo stesso Jameson ha definito «nostalgia del presente». Rievocato a partire da un futuro in cui la catastrofe si è già verificata, il nostro oggi acquista un valore, se non altro residuale, che si rischia di dare come acriticamente acquisito. È quanto in fondo accade in <a href="http://www.ibs.it/code/9788806185824/mccarthy-cormac/strada.html" target="_blank"><i>La strada</i></a>, l&#8217;ultimo romanzo di <a href="http://www.ibs.it/libri/mccarthy+cormac/libri+di+mccarthy+cormac.html" target="_blank">Cormac McCarthy</a>, del quale <i>La morte di Bunny Munro</I> rappresenta un (probabilmente voluto) controcanto.<br />
Nel mondo post-apocalittico in cui un padre e un figlio sono condannati a errare, la sopravvivenza prima di tutto morale è legata all&#8217;elemento più antico e fondante di ogni consesso civile: il nucleo famigliare e i legami di sangue come cinghia di trasmissione dei valori che ci rendono umani. Un messaggio che McCarthy aveva già cominciato a declinare in <a href="http://www.ibs.it/code/9788806188191/mccarthy-cormac/non-paese-per.html" target="_blank"><i>Non è un paese per vecchi</I></a>, incanalandolo nel conflitto tra l&#8217;antica etica western, incarnata nell&#8217;anziano sceriffo Bell, e l&#8217;assoluto disinteresse per la vita umana dell&#8217;uomo-macchina Chigurrh. Un messaggio che reagisce alla condizione postuma teorizzata dal postmoderno non negandola o dialettizzandola, ma ripiegando nostalgicamente verso ciò che la precede e pre-esiste a essa, in cerca di un nucleo incontaminato che torni a farci sentire «umani».<br />
<a href="http://minimaetmoralia.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/cronache_deldopobomba.jpg"><img src="http://minimaetmoralia.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/cronache_deldopobomba.jpg" alt="" title="cronache_deldopobomba" width="130" height="190" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1216" /></a>Attingendo ai temi e all&#8217;immaginario della fantascienza, McCarthy ne fa un uso deliberatamente retro, che ci riporta agli scenari degli anni Cinquanta e della grande paura atomica. Scenari dai quali i maestri della science fiction postmoderna, da Dick a Ballard, avevano preso le distanze proprio rifiutando quella «nostalgia del presente» che Jameson aveva teorizzato (con un&#8217;accezione negativa) e McCarthy torna a fare propria. In <a href="http://www.ibs.it/code/9788834712733/dick-philip-k/cronache-del-dopobomba.html" target="_blank"><i>Cronache del dopobomba</I></a>, l&#8217;unico romanzo in cui affronta in modo diretto il tema della catastrofe nucleare, <a href="http://www.ibs.it/libri/dick+philip+k./libri+di+dick+philip+k..html" target="_blank">Philip K. Dick</a> proietta gli effetti del disastro su una comunità piccola e chiusa, illustrando la continuità degli atteggiamenti e degli stili di vita, la difesa ostinata di un sistema di valori che è però tutto residuale, e che tenta vanamente di nascondere gli effetti di un&#8217;apocalissi ben più profonda e duratura: lo sfaldamento dei rapporti sociali e di un modello di vita comune, travolto dalla brama di profitto, dalla tecnologia, dal razzismo ancor più insidioso perché ridotto allo stato latente. Il dopobomba di Dick è il nostro presente, e nient&#8217;altro: la retrospettiva prospettica di cui parla Berger nel suo saggio è un gesto d&#8217;astuzia attraverso il quale la narrazione può parlarci, dalla giusta distanza, esattamente di ciò che siamo. Un processo che trova la sua estremizzazione e il suo compimento negli ultimi romanzi di Ballard (forse, l&#8217;autore più vicino a Cave): <a href="http://www.ibs.it/code/9788807720154/ballard-james-g/cocaine-nights.html" target="_blank"><i>Cocaine Nights</i>, <a href="http://www.ibs.it/code/9788807817137/ballard-james-g/super-cannes.html" target="_blank"><I>Super Cannes</I></A>, <A HREF="http://www.ibs.it/code/9788807818851/ballard-james-g/millennium-people.html" TARGET="_BLANK"><i>Millennium People</i></a>, con la loro parata di luoghi futuri che invadono il nostro presente perché ne sono, in fondo, l&#8217;incarnazione e la visualizzazione più compiuta.</p>
<p><b>Senza inseguire un riscatto</b><br />
In <i>La morte di Bunny Munro</I>, la fantascienza postmoderna di Dick e Ballard torna a essere il vero orizzonte di riferimento, ben più della «operazione nostalgia» tentata da McCarthy. La scommessa mirabilmente vinta da Cave consiste nello scavare a fondo dentro l&#8217;umanità degradata e terminale del protagonista, senza cercare facili riscatti, portando alla luce il dolore che cova sordo dietro il suo stupore di erotomane alcolista, di eterno bambino in fuga dalle responsabilità. E nel proiettare la vita errabonda di Bunny e di suo figlio, Bunny Junior, sullo sfondo di un mondo marchiato a fuoco dalle catastrofi quotidiane, popolato di assassini che si esibiscono davanti alle telecamere a circuito chiuso dei centri commerciali, di famiglie distrutte, di moli che bruciano quasi per autocombustione, di locali squallidi e alberghi in disarmo.<br />
Il romanzo di Cave è in fondo il perfetto compimento della frase che lo apre: <i>la storia di un uomo in mutande in un albergo di quart&#8217;ordine, immerso in un perenne stupore alcolico</i>; un Mefistofele degradato che vende l&#8217;eterna giovinezza sotto forma di creme per il corpo, e che solo a tratti, per lampi terribili come quello che finirà per ucciderlo, intuisce la misura dei suoi errori. E di un bambino che accompagna il padre nella sua vita errabonda, perdendo gradualmente la vista, aggrappandosi al fantasma della madre morta e a un&#8217;enciclopedia dalla quale, per vie del tutto arbitrarie, distilla un residuato di saggezza. Nella storia di Bunny e Bunny jr., l&#8217;apocalisse torna ad assumere il suo significato più autentico: non una catastrofe, ma un lampo che, in pochi momenti di bruciante fulgore, illumina a pieno giorno il dolore del mondo.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Borne by gunslingers]]></title>
<link>http://allportauthority.org/2009/11/25/borne-by-gunslingers/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
<guid>http://allportauthority.org/2009/11/25/borne-by-gunslingers/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Not usually one to bring up Stephen King outside of mentioning that he&#8217;s actively working on a]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Aufregende Zeiten]]></title>
<link>http://zeitundalter.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/aufregende-zeiten/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Leo</dc:creator>
<guid>http://zeitundalter.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/aufregende-zeiten/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Nach ein paar Tagen Pause vom Internet, zumindest von diesem Blog, wieder zurück. Man hat eben auch ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Nach ein paar Tagen Pause vom Internet, zumindest von diesem Blog, wieder zurück. Man hat eben auch als Halbrentner viel zu tun. Eigentlich wollte ich nahezu täglich meinen Alltag bloggen, aber manchmal schafft man&#8217;s nicht oder ist zu luschig, setzt andere Prios, etc. Vielleicht sollte ich mir vornehmen, morgens nach dem Frühstück ein paar Zeilen zu schreiben. Werd&#8217;s mal probieren.<br />
Meine Teilnahme an der <em><strong>Quodlibet</strong></em>, der hamburger Antiquariatsverkaufsmesse, habe ich sehr genossen. Nicht übermässig viel verkauft, aber doch zufriedenstellend. Die gemachten Erfahrungen, den direkten Umgang mit Kunden und Besuchern, Kollegen usw. fand ich sehr erfrischend. Insgesamt bestärkte mich der Ablauf der Messe darin, dass das Gutenbergzeitalter seinem Ende entgegengeht. Viele Kollegen wollen das nicht wahrhaben, aber die Zeichen hierzu scheinen nicht nur am Horizont auf, sondern verwandeln sich in gleissende Spots, denen man nicht mehr ausweichen kann. Es wird mich dennoch nicht aufhalten und entmutigen, meiner Nebenbeschäftigung mit dem gedruckten Buch nachzugehen.</p>
<p>Gestern abend war eine tolle Runde bei <strong>Beckmann</strong> mit sehr interessantem Thema: Internet und wie es uns und unsere Welt verändert, der gläserne Mensch und die Allmacht des Netzes.. Die öffentliche Diskussion über diesen &#8220;Machtkampf&#8221; zwischen Mensch und System wird spürbar stärker und findet Eingang in sonst flaue Talkshows. Ich bin überzeugt, dass es nur noch wenige Jahre dauern wird, dass das Internet-System noch  rasantere Geschwindigkeit aufnehmen wird zur Vervollkommnung und Entwicklung eines eigenen Handelns und Bewußtseins. Vielleicht wird es schrecklich werden für uns Menschen oder segensreich, noch kann man das nicht sagen. Aber der Weg zur allumfassenden Verselbständigung und Mächtigkeit ist weit beschritten und nicht mehr aufzuhalten.<br />
<strong>Karl Olsberg </strong>hat eine mögliche schreckliche Variante in seinem Thriller &#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/3746623677?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=a0c55-21&#38;linkCode=as2&#38;camp=1638&#38;creative=19454&#38;creativeASIN=3746623677" target="_blank"><em><strong>Das System</strong></em></a>&#8221; vorweggenommen.</p>
<p>Wahrscheinlich sind die Zeiten nicht mehr fern, wo die beiden Google Gründer <strong>Sergey Brin</strong> und <strong>Larry Page</strong> sich nichts sehnlicher wünschen, sie könnten die Büchse der Pandora, die sie mit ihrer Suchmaschine und allen Konsequenzen, Entwicklungen daraus geöffnet haben, wieder schliessen. Aber diese Lawine wird weiterlaufen und vieles begraben. Die Firma Google hatte die besten Absichten, wird es eines Tages heissen.<br />
Aufregende Zeiten in denen wir leben; man braucht wirklich keine SF mehr zu lesen, wenn sich in der Realität mit der Entwicklung des Internets und allen damit zusammenhängenden Themen eine Entwicklung zeigt, die weit über die Phantasien von <strong>Philip K. Dick</strong> oder <strong>Arthur C. Clarke</strong> hinausgehen. Bei mir formen sich auch einige Themen und Ideen für aktuelle SF-Geschichten; vielleicht sollte ich mir Zeit nehmen und versuchen, es zu Papier (haha) zu bringen.</p>
<p>Heute stand im Hamburger Abendblatt, dass die Post ihr normales Briefgeschäft bald einstellen wird, zumindest ein völlig neues Konzept anbieten will, nämlich eine Umstellung der besonderen Art: angeboten wird dann, dass E-Mails postalisch auf Papier den Empfängern zugestellt wird. Damit ist dann das Schreiben, das Anfertigen eines papierenen Briefes oder Dokumentes völlig out, aber man kann dann über die Post dem Empfänger noch etwas Materielles zustellen lassen. Ich glaube durchaus, dass dieses Konzept erfolgversprechend ist, aber es wird zu  einem Nischendasein führen, zumal sich die Post das bezahlen lassen will/muss. Damit ist für mich das Schicksal der Post auch klar. der Konzern wird sich auf diesem Sektor zum Nischenbetrieb entwickeln, mit der Folge von unzähligen Arbeitsplatzverlusten. <strong>Howard Rheingold</strong>, ein sehr kluger Internetbeobachter und Autor,  hat schon vor mehr als zehn Jahren derartige Entwicklungen (völlige Digitalisierung/ Virtualisierung) vorausgesehen.</p>
<p>Leo</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Sci-Fi Talk Community Spotlight - Daniel J. Fox ]]></title>
<link>http://scifitalk.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/sci-fi-talk-community-spotlight-daniel-j-fox-dreamscape/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>scifitalk</dc:creator>
<guid>http://scifitalk.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/sci-fi-talk-community-spotlight-daniel-j-fox-dreamscape/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Trailer for Daniel&#8217;s film Dreamscape which has a Philip K. Dick feel to it. Daniel is a member]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Madmen Science Fiction?]]></title>
<link>http://damiengwalter.com/2009/11/21/is-madmen-science-fiction/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>damiengwalter</dc:creator>
<guid>http://damiengwalter.com/2009/11/21/is-madmen-science-fiction/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Now work with me here. I know its a leap, but I&#8217;m starting to think that the hit television sh]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Now work with me here. I know its a leap, but I&#8217;m starting to think that the hit television show Madmen is a work of science fiction.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been geeking out over Madmen season two for the last fortnight. And when I say geeking out, I mean obsessing. Having watched season one three times (friends kept wanting to see it, so I had to rewatch it with them) I decided it was time to move on to the second season. Partly its the soap opera aspect of the show, once you get me hooked on the life stories of a good ensemble of characters, I&#8217;m likely to keep coming back for more and more. But Madmen goes a long, long way beyond the simplistic writing of most soap operas, and even exceeds the spate of recent excellent TV series including The Sopranos and The Wire. In an era when the TV series has become our strongest storytelling vehicle, Madmen is telling the best stories of all.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s on the thematic level that Madmen really triumphs. Through the lens of the advertising industry, Madmen is able to look at individual facets of our modern, ever more materialist society. Each character in the show is in someway complicit in the construction of the amoral society that they are also a victim of. From the lead male Don Draper who harnesses the pain of losing love to sell products even while his own family is slipping from his grasp, to junior copywriter Betty Olsen who understands every sin she is committing even whilst she is committing them. As a beat poet charcater says to draper in season one, the characters in Madmen &#8216;are making the lie&#8217;, and then they have to live in it.</p>
<p>And its because of its critique of materialist culture that Madmen is creeping over some line in my thinking to qualify as science fiction. Not in the rockets and rayguns way of course. No, Madmen is a much more interesting kind of SF than that. Imagine if Philip K Dick had been given free reign to write a television show, with the provision that it had to be entirely realist and mainstream. And imagine that J G Ballard and Harlan Ellison were asked in to consult. They might have come up with something not dissimilar from Madmen. There is a thread of paranoia and hyper-realism threaded through the show, as though the materialist reality the characters are inhabiting is actually some artificial projection a la The Truman Show or a PKD novel like Ubik. In season 2 the show introduces an overt discussion of god and morality, which culminates in the heavy symbolism of catholicism and the tarot playing out to the backdrop of the Cuban missile crisis, as though some greater power is trying to commune with the characters. Its tempting to think of madmen as the most subversive kind of science fiction, one that works by treating reality itself as the biggest fiction we have ever created.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m saving Madmen season 3 for a rainy day, so now what the hell do I watch?</p>
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<link>http://generallordisimo.com/2009/11/18/reading-other-peoples-letters-and-being-fascinated/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
<guid>http://generallordisimo.com/2009/11/18/reading-other-peoples-letters-and-being-fascinated/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I have for a long time been fascinated by letter writing and reading (and personally wish I did a be]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I have for a long time been fascinated by letter writing and reading (and personally wish I did a better job at writing more of them myself).  I remember finding a number of various letter, written by people I never knew (nor ever will) in my grandmother&#8217;s basement some years back.  They were amazing!</p>
<p>As such, perhaps one of my favorite blogs of recent weeks has to be <a href="http://www.lettersofnote.com/" target="_blank">Letters of Note</a> which collects and transcribes letters written by all sorts of people of some fame throughout the years.  Many of them are absolutely amazing and wonderful and provide us insight into a world most of us don&#8217;t get to encounter.  Two recent favorites appearing on the blog are from two of my all-time favorite authors.  One by <a href="http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/11/philip-k-dick-on-dreams.html" target="_blank">Philip K. Dick on weird, worthless dreams</a> and one by <a href="http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/11/slaughterhouse-five.html" target="_blank">Kurt Vonnegut Jr. about his experience as a POW in Dresden</a>.</p>
<p>I must admit that part of me wonders if it is altogether proper or ethical to read letters that were intended for other people.  Probably if I didn&#8217;t find letters so interesting I would feel that reading another persons private correspondences is something like spying.  But I do find them too fascinating, and fascination tells me reading the letters can&#8217;t be all that bad (especially when you place moral judgements on any number of other things that people do on a daily basis).</p>
<p>If you are interested check some of those letters out, you may be amazed at some of the things you learn or discover.</p>
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<link>http://fearfulsymmetryuk.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/total-recall-all-the-deaths-including-johnny-cab/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fearful Symmetry</dc:creator>
<guid>http://fearfulsymmetryuk.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/total-recall-all-the-deaths-including-johnny-cab/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Kill Them All!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Philip K Dick Android Project]]></title>
<link>http://k21st.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/the-philip-k-dick-android-project/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Wildcat</dc:creator>
<guid>http://k21st.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/the-philip-k-dick-android-project/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&nbsp; &nbsp; Philip K Dick was brought back to life as a fully autonomous conversational android. A]]></description>
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<p>Philip K Dick was brought back to life as a fully autonomous conversational android.</p>
<p>A team of roboticists, computer scientists, designers, and science fiction fans built a &#8220;robotic portrait&#8221; of the sci-fi author. The project was a collaboration between Hanson Robotics, the University of Memphis, and the Automation and Robotics Research Institute (ARRI) at the University of Texas, Arlington. The android used cameras to track visitors and turn to face them while talking. It used speech recognition and speech synthesis software to listen and respond, and AI routines that drew on Dick&#38;apos;s body of work to hold a natural conversation with visitors.</p>
<p>The project is an unparalleled technical demonstration as well as a unique and strong work of art. With an artificial intelligence based persona based on the life and works of Philip K. Dick, the robot depicts the author with stunning accuracy. Using cameras in his eyes, the Android is able to recognize individuals in a crowd and can carry on conversations.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.pkdandroid.org/">The Philip K Dick Android Project</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[...and I feel fine.]]></title>
<link>http://counter-force.com/2009/11/15/and-i-feel-fine/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Marco Sparks</dc:creator>
<guid>http://counter-force.com/2009/11/15/and-i-feel-fine/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hello! It&#8217;s Sunday. And Sundays, well, Sundays are boring, right? Right. Went and saw 2012 yes]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Hello! It&#8217;s Sunday. And Sundays, well, Sundays are boring, right? Right.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5274" title="John Cusack goes out for a little jog in the middle of the apocalypse." src="http://counterforce.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/john-cusack-goes-out-for-a-little-jog-in-the-middle-of-the-apocalypse.jpg" alt="John Cusack goes out for a little jog in the middle of the apocalypse." width="455" height="277" /></p>
<p>Went and saw <em>2012</em> yesterday, as promised. It was, well&#8230; Hmm.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5279" title="the end of the world just got a whole lot more end of the world-ier." src="http://counterforce.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/the-end-of-the-world-just-got-a-whole-lot-more-end-of-the-world-ier.jpg" alt="the end of the world just got a whole lot more end of the world-ier." width="453" height="268" /></p>
<p>My first reaction to it: Ehhhh. Not horrible, but not great. It&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s advertised on the tin, I&#8217;ll put it this way. You&#8217;ve got a lot of real actors doing some cartoon shit while the world goes to hell all around them. The cast, when you think about it, is actually quite impressive. Also, Woody Harrelson&#8217;s in the mix too.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5270" title="We can see you." src="http://counterforce.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/we-can-see-you.jpg" alt="We can see you." width="479" height="219" /></p>
<p>My second reaction to it: Why the fuck didn&#8217;t this come out in the middle of the summer?</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5278" title="It was literally this or ID4ever, right?" src="http://counterforce.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/seriously-can-you-believe-me-made-this-fucking-movie-it-was-literally-this-or-id4ever-right.jpg" alt="It was literally this or ID4ever, right?" width="462" height="316" /></p>
<p>Third reaction: Comedy of the year, hands down.</p>
<p>Especially in a year when, if you think about it, the big comedy was&#8230; what? <em>The Hangover</em>? Right? Get serious. I never saw the movie, I won&#8217;t lie, but for a lot of reasons. Primarily, things like the trailer. Did you see it? It looks like it was made for retarded boys. But, you know what&#8217;s even worse than the trailer? Listening to people who actually liked the movie. They sound like retarded boys, don&#8217;t they? Anyway.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5277" title="There is virtually no situation in which I will not find Thandie Newton excruciatingly gorgeous, except for maybe 2012." src="http://counterforce.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/there-is-virtually-no-situation-in-which-i-will-not-find-thandie-newton-excruciatingly-gorgeous-except-for-maybe-2012.jpg" alt="There is virtually no situation in which I will not find Thandie Newton excruciatingly gorgeous, except for maybe 2012." width="449" height="304" /></p>
<p>But I really feel like <em>2012</em> deserves a good proper Counterforce review. It really does. It&#8217;s really our kind of movie, and I mean that in the best and worst possible ways. I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;m the man for that job. Benjamin Light, I&#8217;m looking at you. Are you the man for that job?</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5276" title="Can you believe me actually made this ridiculous movie?" src="http://counterforce.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/can-you-believe-me-actually-made-this-ridiculous-movie.jpg" alt="Can you believe me actually made this ridiculous movie?" width="289" height="427" /></p>
<p>Anyway, I went and saw the film yesterday with Conrad Noir and walking out of the theater, still buzzing from all that ridiculousness, we saw this:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5269" title="You are killing me with this ridiculous shit, Dwayne. You really are." src="http://counterforce.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/you-are-killing-me-with-this-ridiculous-shit-dwayne-you-really-are.jpg" alt="You are killing me with this ridiculous shit, Dwayne. You really are." width="332" height="442" /></p>
<p>And we thought, &#8220;Dear God, who gave that man wings.&#8221; Much less <em>Wings Of Desire</em> and much more Red Bull: The Movie.</p>
<p>But then we got into a little conversation, talking about this and that and action heroes of the 80s, mostly cause we&#8217;ve been watching a lot of that horrendous/wonderful action movie fare from that decade, and we were talking about how action stars back then were so&#8230; <em>foreign</em> seeming. And maybe that contributed a lot to their allure. Maybe it also made some of the ridiculousness easier to stand, too?</p>
<p>For example there, Benjamin Light and were discussing a week or so ago what a remake of <em>The Terminator</em> would look like &#8211; since the franchise is up for sale, and s<a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&#38;source=web&#38;ct=res&#38;cd=4&#38;ved=0CBAQFjAD&#38;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2009%2FSHOWBIZ%2FMovies%2F11%2F03%2Fjoss.whedon.terminator%2Findex.html&#38;rct=j&#38;q=the+terminator+joss+whedon&#38;ei=8bAAS6bpF4i5ngePwLGLCw&#38;usg=AFQjCNFt8sQFEFQO-iLr0qTk6P_PPHj_Lg">hould be sold to Joss Whedon</a>, of course, cause why not? &#8211; And I brought up the question, &#8220;Does the killer robot from the future have to be Austrian?&#8221; Commander Light emphatically assured he that it indeed had to be. I&#8217;m taking his word for it.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5272" title="This just looks magical." src="http://counterforce.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/this-just-looks-magical.jpg" alt="This just looks magical." width="411" height="328" /></p>
<p>Anyway, so Conrad and I, discussing action stars today, talking about guys like Dwayne Johnson, and how, in our minds, he&#8217;s not really latched on with America. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I enjoy the idea of a &#8220;non-conventional&#8221; action star quite a bit, i.e. a non white guy running around screaming at people, doing high kicks, and blowing copious amounts of shit up. So why hasn&#8217;t &#8220;The Rock&#8221; caught on with us? I posit two possibilities:</p>
<p><em>1. </em>In a grab for &#8220;credibility&#8221; or attempting to &#8220;not being as big a joke as he is,&#8221; he ditched his silly little wrestling moniker, &#8220;The Rock,&#8221; and went with his real name: Dwayne Johnson. Except, we can&#8217;t root for a guy named Dwayne.</p>
<p><em>2.</em> Not foreign enough? Perhaps? I suggest investigating this has merit. Especially since it seems American action-loving fans get a bigger hard on from a ponce like Jason Statham than Dwayne Johnson.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5273" title="How Statham picks up a girl." src="http://counterforce.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/how-statham-picks-up-a-girl.jpg" alt="How Statham picks up a girl." width="406" height="327" /></p>
<p>Then, walking out of the theater, Conrad and I were looking at the various posters on display, the coming soons and the current releases. Part of me still wants to see <em>This Is It</em>. <a href="http://counter-force.com/2009/06/26/you-keep-changing-the-rules-while-i-keep-playing-the-game/">I&#8217;m a Michael Jackson fan</a>, I won&#8217;t hide it.  But I&#8217;m also a huge Richard Matheson fan, and while I have <em>serious</em> reservations about the movie, I also kind of want to see <em>The Box</em>.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5283" title="Cameron Diaz is trapped inside her own box." src="http://counterforce.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/cameron-diaz-is-trapped-inside-her-own-box.jpg" alt="Cameron Diaz is trapped inside her own box." width="450" height="302" /></p>
<p>But I don&#8217;t know that I trust Richard Kelly anymore. <em>Donnie Darko</em> was okay when it first came out, before you put it through any real tests of serious thought or logic and saw through it&#8217;s masturbatory philophosizing. It&#8217;s a glorified remake of <em>Last Temptation Of Christ </em>that doesn&#8217;t fully pan out. But Kelly also went on to make &#8211; speaking of Dwayne Johnson &#8211; the gloriously bad <em>Southland Tales</em>.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5284" title="Dwayne Johnson Fever Dot Net." src="http://counterforce.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/dwayne-johnson-fever-dot-net.jpg" alt="Dwayne Johnson Fever Dot Net." width="450" height="299" /></p>
<p>Look, I&#8217;m not going to talk about <a href="http://counter-force.com/2009/10/23/">the Philip K. Dick <em>pastiche</em></a> that was <em>Southland Tales</em> here. I&#8217;m just&#8230; not. I&#8217;m not going to do it. All I&#8217;ll say is I went into that movie wanting to like it. And I sit here now feeling like I&#8217;m a veteran of that war. It&#8217;s like Richard Kelly is George W. Bush and I was some dumb kid who supported the Iraq war until I went into the fucker and got my bits and pieces all cut off. Now I&#8217;m shell shocked.</p>
<p>But, yeah, there&#8217;s <em>The Box</em>, directed by Richard Kelly, starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden, based on the Richard Matheson story, &#8220;Button, Button,&#8221; and was previously adapted into an episode of The Twilight Zone. We&#8217;ll see if I ever see it.</p>
<p>And again, here we are. It&#8217;s Sunday. Tomorrow&#8217;s the start of the &#8220;work week.&#8221; I&#8217;d love to Weeks In Review here at Counterforce, but lately it&#8217;s just me rambling and I&#8217;d feel bad directing the two and a half readers of this site back to more of me rambling. Poor fuckers. Oh yeah, <a href="http://counter-force.com/2009/11/11/so-you-do-want-to-be-in-advertising-after-all/">the season finale of <em>Mad Men</em></a> was last Sunday. And we had <a href="http://counter-force.com/2009/11/13/the-13th/">a Friday the 13th </a>happen this past week as well. There you go. Oh, and: <a href="http://counter-force.com/2009/11/10/we-dont-have-art/">Young women having sex with sea creatures</a>. Now there you really go.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5280" title="The Doctor hates funny robots." src="http://counterforce.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/the-doctor-hates-funny-robots.jpg" alt="The Doctor hates funny robots." width="450" height="253" /></p>
<p>But again, here we are. It&#8217;s Sunday. Let&#8217;s see, let&#8217;s see, let&#8217;s see&#8230; Oh! Tonight was the airing of the latest <em>Doctor Who</em> special over in the UK, &#8220;The Waters Of Mars,&#8221; the start of the end of David Tennant&#8217;s run as #10. You can catch it online if you&#8217;re good, if you&#8217;re very good, and it&#8217;s dark. And a bit sad. And leaves you kind of sweaty and breathless too.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5281" title="Water Monsters! On Mars!" src="http://counterforce.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/water-monsters-on-mars.jpg" alt="Water Monsters! On Mars!" width="435" height="323" /></p>
<p>Also tonight is AMC&#8217;s remake of the classic 60s show, <a href="http://www.aintitcool.com/node/43079"><em>The Prisoner</em></a>. I&#8217;d watch it, but I&#8217;m not sure I want to see my childhood get raped so thoroughly and with such production values. Ian McKellen is a good choice for just about anything, but Jim Caviezel? I think I hate you for that, AMC. Honestly, Jim Caviezel makes Keanu Reeves look like Marlon Brando to me.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5282" title="You deserve so much better than this, Gandalf." src="http://counterforce.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/you-deserve-so-much-better-than-this-gandalf.jpg" alt="You deserve so much better than this, Gandalf." width="373" height="379" /></p>
<p>Oh well, here we are. The weekend&#8217;s almost over. I went to the movies to watch the end of the world as we know it and&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5275" title="What?" src="http://counterforce.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/what1.jpg" alt="What?" width="500" height="305" /></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Reading Habits - October 2009]]></title>
<link>http://poursomegravyonme.co.uk/2009/11/14/reading-habits-october-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sherby57</dc:creator>
<guid>http://poursomegravyonme.co.uk/2009/11/14/reading-habits-october-2009/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s already half way through November and I&#8217;m only just getting around to writing about]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>It&#8217;s already half way through November and I&#8217;m only just getting around to writing about October&#8217;s books &#8211; let&#8217;s hope I can spin a full post from my half-arsed notes.  As always, all my books are kept in chronological order, I then alternately read the book I’ve had longest (marked B.H.L.), followed by a free choice (F.C.).  For a full description of my insane book selection rules, please click <a title="An Introduction to my Reading Habits" href="http://poursomegravyonme.co.uk/2009/08/26/reading-habits-an-introduction/">here</a>.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Books Read</span></p>
<p>I started the month by reading <em>Street Magic</em> (B.H.L.) by Paul Zenon.  I bought it a few years ago, probably from Borders, because I suddenly got it in to my head that it would be a good thing to be able to do a few magic tricks.  Please don&#8217;t ask me where this spurious thought came from as I don&#8217;t have a clue.  Anyway, I did read some of it at the time but it all seemed a bit like hard work, and, not being afraid to give up when something proves tricky, it found its way to my To Be Read pile.</p>
<p>As I started my second reading of the book I soon remembered my original sticking point: palming.   Not wanting to divulge too many magician&#8217;s secrets, this is the skill of concealing a coin in your hand.  And I just couldn&#8217;t do it.  I did practice, but, although I could have practised more,  I didn&#8217;t feel myself getting any better at it, and so I wondered if I was missing something fundamental.  Anyway, this time I decided just to read it through and see what happened.</p>
<p>There is actually a variety of impressive tricks within the book and it soon became apparent to me that it&#8217;s not enough to know the secrets of a magic trick; in order to pull it off you need equal measures of expertise and performance.  Far from spoiling my enjoyment of the art of illusion, reading this book actually increased my respect for its practitioners.</p>
<p>Next up came <em>Archangel</em> (F.C.) by Robert Harris.  This was a random purchase from the <a title="The British Heart Foundation" href="http://www.bhf.org.uk/">British Heart Foundation</a> shop because I&#8217;d read, and enjoyed, <em>Fatherland</em>, Harris&#8217; first novel.  This book has the distinction of being the first ever F.C. that has also been the B.H.L., for whatever that&#8217;s worth.  It&#8217;s an end-of-the-cold-war thriller that charts an academic&#8217;s quest to locate an old notebook of Stalin&#8217;s.  It&#8217;s one of those strange stories in which nothing really seems to happen and yet it is still somehow quite gripping.  It was a fun read but I don&#8217;t really have much more to say on it.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s another random British Heart Foundation buy next with <em>The Man in the High Castle</em> (B.H.L.) by Philp K. Dick, which I bought because I was interested to read a Philip K. Dick novel.  It was a great choice and I was hooked from the minute I started readig; it was the kind of book that makes you remember why you love reading so much.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s an alternate history novel set in an America following a Second World War which was won by Germany and Japan.  The Axis powers have carved the globe up between them, and this includes North America &#8211; the east coast belongs to Japan and the west to Germany.  This kind of premise could have carried out very heavy handedly, but Dick shows an incredibly subtle touch.  We see this unfamiliar world through the eyes of ordinary people and so the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis are only ever discussed third hand.  This makes them seem only more sinister.</p>
<p>In addition to this is a whole subtext about the nature of reality.  Many of the characters are reading a novel-within-a-novel called <em>The Grasshopper Lies Heavy</em>, which is in itself an alternative history in which the Allies won the war &#8211; which is a reality subtly but significantly different to our own.  There are moments in the story when one reality appears to blend in to another, but it is done in a way that you are unsure as to whether it happened or not.  What is true and what is false? There are no answers here but the questions are certainly interesting.</p>
<p>I first heard of <em>The End of Faith</em> (F.C.) by Sam Harris a few years ago, primarily because he is a pal of Richard Dawkins, and that is always a good recommendation.  It&#8217;s a devastating attack not only on religion but on the nature of faith itself.  To be fair, and pardon the pun, he is already preaching to the converted, so luckily there was even more food for thought.  For example, he poses the question as to whether torture be ethical, and asks if pacifism is immoral.  It&#8217;s a very well written, intelligent book, but towards the end he lost me a bit with his thoughts on spirituality as they, superficially at least, seem to conflict with his otherwise rational arguments.  It&#8217;s pretty brave of him to go down that road though.  A further, petty criticism is the amount of end notes &#8211; I didn&#8217;t know whether to skip them or not.</p>
<p>My final book of the month was the rather unusual choice of <em>Buying and Running a Florist Shop</em> (B.H.L.) by Alan Peck.  You&#8217;d be forgiven for thinking that it was a wacky women&#8217;s novel, but it is actually a manual on buying and running a florists shop.  In case you&#8217;re wondering, I didn&#8217;t buy the book and I won&#8217;t bore you with the details on how I came to own such a book.  Strangely, I actually found it to be an enjoyable read. It&#8217;s a slim, straightforward volume that gives an insight in to what it must be like to run a small business.  The main thing I took from it is that when you consider the low pay, long hours and undue pressure, being a florist is a thankless task.  I suggest you go out and buy a florist some flowers today.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Books Acquired</span></p>
<p><em>The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie</em> by Muriel Spark &#8211; <a title="About Bookmooch" href="http://poursomegravyonme.co.uk/2009/07/30/bookmooch/">Bookmooch</a> &#8211; This had been on my &#8216;wish list&#8217; for years.  I think I remember seeing a programme about it as part of the BBC&#8217;s Big Read, but I cannot remember anything about why this made me want to read it.</p>
<p><em>Moving Pictures</em> by Terry Pratchett &#8211; Salvation Army shop &#8211; I decided a while ago to start reading the Discworld novels and then, fortuitously, someone at work gave me a load of them.  Sadly, there were omissions and so any books that are not contiguous in the serial are not on my official TBR pile.  This was one of the missing and so I was very glad to see it.  It was 50p.</p>
<p><em>Heart of Darkness</em> by Joseph Conrad &#8211; Salvation Army shop - It was slim, I&#8217;d heard of it and it was 50p.  Why wouldn&#8217;t I buy it?</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Books Given Away on Bookmooch</span></p>
<p><em>How the Mind Works</em> by Steven Pinker &#8211; I bought this from the British Heart Foundation even though I knew that there was a good chance that I already had it.  It&#8217;s the kind of book that you don&#8217;t see all that often in a charity shop, so I bought it anyway.  Of course, I already had it at home sat in my TBR pile.  It&#8217;s a weird feeling to give away a book that I haven&#8217;t read yet.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Result</span></p>
<p>Books Read 5 &#8211; Books Acquired 3, result &#8211; A WIN!!!!!</p>
<p>I never thought I&#8217;d see the day that I&#8217;d record a win in <em>Reading Habits</em>, so it&#8217;s champagne all around (if you happen to be in my house as I type this).  Everything is looking rosy &#8211; except that we&#8217;re already half-way through the current month and I know it&#8217;s going to take a miracle for it not to be a big loss.  Fingers crossed.</p>
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<link>http://presenteduepuntozero.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/opinioni-sulla-droga/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fabio Turone</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Tutti abbiamo udito la donnetta che dice: «oh, è terribile quel che fanno questi giovani a se stessi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><blockquote><p>Tutti abbiamo udito la donnetta che dice: «oh, è terribile quel che fanno questi giovani a se stessi, secondo me la droga è una cosa tremenda»&#8221;. Poi tu la guardi, la donna che parla in questo modo: è senza occhi, senza denti, senza cervello, senz&#8217;anima, senza culo, né bocca, né calore umano, né spirito, niente, solo un bastone, e ti chiedi come avran fatto a ridurla in quello stato i tè con i pasticcini e la chiesa.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><strong>Charles Bukowski</strong></p>
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<blockquote><p>Comprare droga è come comprare un biglietto per un mondo fantastico, ma il prezzo di questo biglietto è la vita.
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Se ti droghi ti capisco, perché il mondo ti fa schifo; se non lo fai ti ammiro, perché sei in grado di combatterlo.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><strong> Jim Morrison</strong></p>
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<blockquote><p>Io non ho un problema di droga. Ho un problema di polizia.
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<p style="text-align:right;"><strong>Keith Richards</strong></p>
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<p>L&#8217;abuso della droga non è una malattia, ma una decisione, come quella di andare incontro ad una macchina che si muove. Questo non si chiama malattia, ma un errore di valutazione. Quando un certo errore comincia a essere commesso da un bel po&#8217; di persone, allora diviene un errore sociale, uno stile di vita. E in questo particolare stile di vita il motto è: &#8220;Sii felice oggi perché domani morirai&#8221;; ma s&#8217;incomincia a morire ben presto e la felicità è solo un ricordo.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><strong>Philip K. Dick</strong></p>
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<p>La droga non è cattiva. La droga è un composto chimico. Il problema è quando quelli che prendono droga la considerano una licenza per comportarsi come teste di cazzo.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><strong>Frank Zappa</strong></p>
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<p>Non vi è persona al mondo che non si droghi. Dopo tutto, possiamo considerare &#8220;droga&#8221; ciò di cui si sente il bisogno, dopo aver soddisfatto i minimi bisogni per la propria sopravvivenza.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><strong>Yoko Ono</strong></p>
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<p>Ho provato tutto, tranne la droga, il fumo e l&#8217;omosessualità.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><strong>Pupo</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[PHILIP K. DICK | MYSTIFICATION ET PSYCHOSE | FRANCE CULTURE]]></title>
<link>http://radiokilledthevideostar.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/philip-k-dick-mystification-et-psychose-france-culture/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>theterraformer</dc:creator>
<guid>http://radiokilledthevideostar.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/philip-k-dick-mystification-et-psychose-france-culture/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[PHILIP K. DICK (1928 - 1982) PHILIP K. DICK MYSTIFICATION ET PSYCHOSE FRANCE CULTURE DATE DE DIFFUSI]]></description>
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<p>PHILIP K. DICK<br />
MYSTIFICATION ET PSYCHOSE<br />
FRANCE CULTURE<br />
DATE DE DIFFUSION INCONNUE</p>
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<link>http://losefectossecundarios.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/los-clanes-de-la-luna-alfana-de-philip-k-dick/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bruno Corrales</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Mientras caminaba por la calle central de Ciudad Gandhi, llena de barro y de montones de basura, la ]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><em>Mientras caminaba por la calle central de Ciudad Gandhi, llena de barro y de montones de basura, la doctora Mary Rittersdorf dijo:</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em>―No había visto algo así en la vida. Desde el punto de vista clínico, están locos. Esta gente deben de ser todos hebefrénicos. Están terrible, terriblemente deteriorados. ―En su interior, algo le gritaba que se fuera, que abandonara aquel lugar y no volviera nunca. Que regresara a Terra y a su trabajo como asesora matrimonial y olvidara lo que había visto.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em>Y la idea de someter a aquella gente a una psicoterapia&#8230;</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em>Se estremeció. Ni siquiera la terapia con drogas y el electroshock servirían de mucho allí. Aquello era el extremo de los trastornos mentales, el punto de no retorno.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="alignleft" title="Los clanes de la luna Alfana" src="http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/3269/clanes.png" alt="" width="130" height="207" /><em>Los clanes de la luna alfana</em> es una novela de ciencia ficción escrita por el estadounidense Philip K. Dick en 1964. En un futuro lejano, nuestro planeta se ve desbordado por los casos de enfermos mentales, por lo que se decide exiliar a los pacientes a Alfa III M2, un satélite aislado del sistema alfano conquistado en la guerra que enfrentó antaño a Terra (la Tierra) con los alfanos. Pero, a consecuencia de nuevos conflictos con esta raza, las comunicaciones con la luna cesan y durante mas de dos décadas los enfermos mentales son abandonados a su suerte. Desde entonces, crean formas de autogobierno, formando siete clanes. En primer lugar tenemos a los denominados <em>pares</em>, los paranoicos, personas obsesionadas con su propia protección ante algo que nunca les ataca. Residen en el asentamiento de Adolfvilla. Por otro lado están los <em>manses</em>, maníaco-depresivos, que son el clan más activo del satélite. Su carácter violento y agresivo se complementa con una interesante creatividad y multidisciplinariedad. Habitantes de Cumbres da Vinci, están siempre haciendo varias cosas a la vez y manejan la tecnología más puntera. Los <em>hebes</em>, hebefrénicos, son la otra cara de la moneda. Se dice de ellos que son los más cercanos a Dios, pues se despojan progresivamente de toda preocupación y valor material. Residentes en Ciudad Ghandi, son personas simples, primarias y sucias, dedicadas a trabajos manuales y monótonos. Resultan repugnantes a los ojos del resto de los clanes. Los <em>ob-coms</em>, personas con trastornos obsesivo-compulsivos, pueden ser considerados como los funcionarios de esta sociedad debido a su empeño por las acciones repetitivas. Aportan de este modo una relativa estabilidad. Los   esquizos (esquizofrénicos) resultan ser la clase visionaria, mística, en permanante alucinación, algunos cercanos a la catatonia o con poderes psiónicos. Los <em>polis</em>, afectados por otro tipo de esquizofrenia, se encuentran atrapados en la infancia y nunca maduran. Son impulsivos y muy creativos. Y por último están los <em>deps</em>, con depresión clínica, sumidos en una profunda tristeza y vacío, inútiles en cuestiones prácticas. La novela da comienzo con una reunión del consejo en el que los representantes de cada clan de la luna, alertados ante una inminente invasión, deben decidir su plan de actuación.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 150px"><img title="Philip K. Dick" src="http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/6349/philip.png" alt="" width="140" height="195" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Philip K. Dick</p></div>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Por otro lado, tenemos en Terra a Chuck Rittersdorf. Chuck trabaja para la C.I.A. programando simulacros (robots que simulan ser personas reales) con el objetivo de difundir propaganda anticomunista en varios países de los alrededores de Estados Unidos. Es un trabajo mal visto por la sociedad, y sobre todo por su mujer, Mary Rittersdorf, ambiciosa y manipuladora, que presiona a su marido para que busque algo mejor y aproveche su talento. La ruptura de este matrimonio es el detonador de importantes sucesos. Mary Rittersdorf, de profesión asesora matrimonial, se ofrece voluntaria al gobierno, que guarda intenciones de retomar el contacto con Alfa III M2, y se embarca como psicóloga hacía el sistema alfano, con el objetivo de establecer un primer contacto con sus habitantes y valorarlos clínicamente. Chuck, por su parte, se ve envuelto en una espiral de acontecimientos que escapan a su control. Recién trasladado tras su divorcio a un desagradable bloque de pisos, donde convive con varios inquilinos no terráqueos, conoce a Lord Running Clam, un hongo ganimediano con poderes telepáticos, de gran inteligencia, quien le presta su apoyo, y a Joan Trieste, miembro del Departamento de Policía de Ross con poderes psiónicos. Ante las obligaciones jurídicas que se le presentan tras su separación, Chuck se ve obligado a pluriemplearse y acepta un segundo trabajo como guionista al servicio del famoso cómico televisivo Bunny Hentman, de pasado oscuro.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="alignleft" title="Los clanes de la luna Alfana" src="http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/6069/clansk.png" alt="" width="130" height="196" />Pero no todo es tan complicado como su planteamiento en <em>Los clanes de la luna Alfana</em>, que resulta ser una novela muy entretenida y sencilla, en la que las intrigas personales cobran una gran importancia. A pesar de situarnos en un contexto de pura ciencia ficción, con viajes interestelares o razas alienígenas, la novela se centra sobre todo en la complicada vida de Chuck Rittersford, para el que las cosas van cada vez peor y que evoluciona irremediablemente hacia la figura del antihéroe, con acciones  y pensamientos de dudosa moralidad durante su recorrido. Por otro lado, y al más puro estilo Philip K. Dick, el tema de la percepción de la realidad vuelve a ser clave, esta vez desde  el punto de vista de la psiquiatría.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Formalmente hablando, el famoso autor de <em>Ubik</em> o <em>¿Sueñan los androides con ovejas eléctricas? </em>juega permanentemente con la narración, pues la novela sigue dos frentes inicialmente separados: la situación de los clanes en la luna Alfana y del agente de la C.I.A. Chuck Rittersdorf, que va intercalando aleatoriamente. Así como otorga protagonismo a varios personajes secundarios durante la trama o realiza pequeños saltos en el tiempo que obligan a reubicarse y encajar las piezas. Quizá el mayor valor de esta novela es el tratamiento de la psiquiatría desde un punto de vista literario y poético y las consecuentes preguntas que uno se propone al terminar el libro. ¿Puede sobrevivir una sociedad formada por locos?  ¿de qué forma? y es que, en realidad, ¿en qué se diferencian de nosotros?</p>
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<link>http://palomitasenlosojos.com/2009/11/08/el-pop-del-nwo-new-world-order/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>palomitasenlosojos</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Veamos, antes de empezar, estas interesantes imágenes que me tienen políticamente hipnotizado: Woow!]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;">Veamos, antes de empezar, estas interesantes imágenes que me tienen políticamente hipnotizado:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/EA1iofeM_6k&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/EA1iofeM_6k&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Woow!!. Este video, como ustedes comprenderán, ha causado una oleada de verdadero estupor en los canales donde rebusco  toda la mierda que a ustedes les encanta. ¿Es éste un concurso televisivo japonés real?. Quiero decir, uno dónde vas y dónde tras superar una serie de pruebas de habilidad (cocinar los platos de cada país, hacer nudos con la lengua…) y dónde tras contestar a una serie de preguntas que demuestran tus conocimientos geopolíticos, al final consigues una cita con tu presidente preferido. Si es así, yo de todas todas elegiría una cita con <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-il">Kim Jong-il</a>, no sé, creo que me valoraría más como persona, más por lo que soy yo, no sé si me explico, quiero decir a <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad%C3%ADmir_Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> o a <a href="http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/h/hu_jintao.htm">Hu Jintao</a>, presidente de China, los veo como más centrados en sí mismos, más a su rollo, y la verdad, aunque uno venga toooodo el día de represaliar adversarios políticos un “¿cómo estas cariño?” nunca sobra.  Además que no lo llaman “Querido Líder” por nada…</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2058" title="tumblr_kq7ezc1p671qza3e8o1_400" src="http://palomitasenlosojos.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/tumblr_kq7ezc1p671qza3e8o1_400.jpg" alt="tumblr_kq7ezc1p671qza3e8o1_400" width="300" height="424" /></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Este video, por otro lado, me ha llevado a plantearme seriamente algunos conceptos políticos fundamentales para el discurrir de Occidente, y cómo estos hubieran cambiado si la Historia en algún momento hubiera dado un giro inesperado. Por ejemplo, el escritor <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick">Philip K. Dick</a> planteó en una de sus obras clave, <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_hombre_en_el_castillo">El hombre en el castillo</a>, qué hubiera pasado si el asesinato de <a title="Franklin Delano Roosevelt" href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> hubiera evitado que EEUU se hubiera recobrado de la Gran Depresión, y este hecho hubiera llevado al país una política aislacionista que, a su vez,  hubiera impedido su entrada en la II Guerra Mundial. Lo que, evidentemente, hubiera hecho que la balanza de fuerzas se inclinara hacia el Eje del Mal (Alemania, Japón e Italia) y éste hubiera ganado la contienda.  Pero, y no es por enmendarle la plana, a mí me gustaría llevar el planteamiento <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ucron%C3%ADa">ucrónico </a>o de <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_contrafactual">historia contrafactual</a> más allá, imaginaros que hubiera pasado si Hitler, además de haber ganado la II Guerra Mundial, hubiese sido rapero. Pues hubiese pasado una cosas parecida a esta:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/NpRqvCps_MQ&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/NpRqvCps_MQ&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>“H-I-T-L-E-R driving on the streets in fancy cars”</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Hitler en su llegada al poder elimina los mecanismos de la democracia occidental e instaura un sistema político basado en la guerra de <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maestro_de_ceremonias_%28Hip_hop%29">MCs</a>, donde dos vocalistas rap luchan exponiendo dos ideas tan sólo diferentes en forma delante de un parlamento títere. Este sistema, férreamente mantenido en vida de Hitler, inicia una etapa aperturista a la muerte de éste por sífilis cerebral (tal como expone Dick en su libro). Entonces, frente al sistema individualista de los MCs se inicia un tímido intento de arco parlamentario donde aparecen distintas formaciones, que aunque manteniendo unas ideas muy similares, varían en la forma en las que se exponen. Están los que recurren a la canción ligera, a la balada romántica, al gran hit de discoteca, o al house más gay. Existe una gran gala cada cuatro años en la que se decide cual va a ser el tono y estilo musical que marque cada país durante la próxima legislatura. Además habría pequeñas galas semanales en la que los distintos grupos políticos preparasen las canciones con sus propuestas, y, muy importante, las vistosas coreografías que las acompañasen. Así en vez de listas parlamentarias habría castings, todo por supuesto televisado. Voy a poner un sencillo ejemplo:</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">A mí el chulazo de arriba me pide que renuncie a mis derechos fundamentales (total, para la gente que hay con la que reunirse o para lo que hay que decir) o pide mi voto para la esterilización de la hembra subnormal, y oye, lo tiene de todas todas, porque yo, de flick flacks de esos no había visto antes, y del resto, pues tampoco, la verdad, no nos vamos a engañar.  Que ya me lo decía <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin">Walter Benjamin</a> en <em>La obra de arte en la era de su reproducibilidad técnica</em> que la sumisión a la individualidad del artista nos prepara para la sumisión política, y yo, por un gobierno internacional de la canción formado por <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton%20John">Elton John</a> por Gran Bretaña (¿en el papel de Reina Madre?), <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_%28cantante%29">Madonna</a> por EEUU, <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Sanz">Alejandro Sanz</a> por España, las <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls%27_Generation">Girls Generation</a> por Corea del Sur, y… <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-il">Kim Jong-il</a> por Corea del Norte, que ese sirve para un roto y un descosido, por un gobierno así, yo me quito mis malos hábitos democráticos. Eso sí, este sistema, según pienso, debería estar bajo el escrutinio de una fuerza humanitaria internacional en el que <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2">U2</a> hubiera sustituido a la <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizaci%C3%B3n_de_las_Naciones_Unidas">ONU</a>…</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Sin embargo, el vídeo con el que hemos empezado el artículo, tiene una explicación&#8230; ¿más lógica?. Es una parodia de un enloquecido anime titulado 幼なじみは大統領 o <em><strong>My girlfriend is the president</strong></em> en el que una nave extraterrestres choca contra la Casa Blanca provocando la muerte de  todos los políticos que en ella estaban, por lo que se decide, para evitar el kaos mundial, poner a la cabeza del gobierno a la única persona que se encontró viva en el lugar de los hechos, una bella adolescente alienígena… pero para qué les cuento nada si lo tienen clarito aquí…</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/i1Gcw6skLdM&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/i1Gcw6skLdM&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Uhmmm, un gobierno mundial formado por <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosias">sosias</a> (no sé si sosias o <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelg%C3%A4nger">doppelganger</a>) de las <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls%27_Generation">Girls Generation</a>… un mundo terrible y paralelo donde uno de los grupos con menos poder, las mujeres adolescentes, dominan el mundo. Donde los problemas internacionales se resuelven con enfrentamientos manga, donde los chismorreos de después del instituto son la pieza clave para entender el juego de fuerzas… ¡¡ wooow!! Eso si que es un futuro chungo y no el de <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira">Akira</a>… espero poder vivirlo.</p>
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<link>http://benjamindavidsteele.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/a-scanner-darkly-movie-and-pkd-interview/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Benjamin Steele</dc:creator>
<guid>http://benjamindavidsteele.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/a-scanner-darkly-movie-and-pkd-interview/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A Scanner Darkly Philip K. Dick Interview Full Movie Best Scene &nbsp;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Signs of the Apocalypse: The Philip K. Dick Android on the Loose]]></title>
<link>http://generallordisimo.com/2009/11/05/signs-of-the-apocalypse-the-philip-k-dick-android-on-the-loose/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
<guid>http://generallordisimo.com/2009/11/05/signs-of-the-apocalypse-the-philip-k-dick-android-on-the-loose/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In February 2006, an America West Airlines employee misplaced the android, and it has not yet been f]]></description>
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<p>                                                           ~via <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick" target="_blank">this Wikipedia Article</a></p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick#Death" target="_blank">The fact that there is an android with Philip K. Dick&#8217;s likeness</a> is bad enough (did people miss the point of <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep</span> and several of his other stories or something?) but the thought of that android being out on the loose somewhere in the world is even worse.</p>
<p>Now, a skeptic about how much of a GDAFSA this is, might point out that the android is &#8220;remote-controlled.&#8221;  Sure, fine I&#8217;ll give you that, and then counter with &#8220;what&#8217;s your fucking point?  It is still out their on the loose somewhere.&#8221;</p>
<p>Skeptics might then be tempted to point out that it is probably sitting around in some fanboy/girl&#8217;s basement or garage.  Really?  Great!</p>
<p>Not!</p>
<p>It was deranged fanboys/girls who built this abomination in the first place.  Now some unknown individual has the horrid android in their possession and is probably just waiting for the day to unleash it on the unsuspecting world.</p>
<p>If anyone can appreciate my concern I imagine it is my good friend Adam &#8220;Bear&#8221; Gautsch (whom I deeply offended with my previous anti-orange post.  sorry dude).  Bear has maintained <a href="http://www.orangecoat.com/topics/self-aware-robots-must-be-stopped" target="_blank">a healthy and logical anti-robot stance</a>, which is precisely what we are going to need to avoid conquest by our metallic machine overlords.</p>
<p>That being said, self-aware Philip K. Dick androids must be stopped!</p>
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<link>http://souklaye.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/teaser-en-serie-12-southland-tales/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>souklaye</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[J’observe la fin du monde du fond de mon hamac, un verre à la main et l’autre sur tes reins. À voulo]]></description>
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<p>J’observe la fin du monde du fond de mon hamac, un verre à la main et l’autre sur tes reins.</p>
<p>À vouloir toujours et encore changer les choses, j’en ai oublié les gens, ces mêmes gens qui font de moi un puzzle ou une pièce unique.</p>
<p>Par habitude, on apprend à vivre dans un musée et l’on se croise les uns les autres un peu gêné, alors on regarde ses pieds, mais plus ses objectifs !</p>
<p>Trop de pieds, de pas, d’histoires, de chemins pour je puisse suivre quoi que ce soit, mais je comprends et peut-être j’apprends ce que je suis en voyant qui je fuis.</p>
<p>Depuis je préfère les miroirs à la psychanalyse !</p>
<p>Les hommes de plomb tremblent, les murs frémissent, la terre défaille et c’est à mon tour de jouir.</p>
<p>Aujourd’hui, c’est la fête du chaos, les instincts débridés des uns construisent en toute hâte la peur du néant des autres, alors disparaissons ensemble !</p>
<p>Pour une fois, pour cette fois, donnons-nous la main – pas pour une cause perdante ou un jeu d’enfant – mais pour se rappeler à quoi cette dernière servait, avant que nous perdions tout notre temps à nous applaudir les uns les autres.</p>
<p>Dites merci à cette peur animale qui vous traverse et aimez vous…</p>
<p>J’ai vu mourir le World Trade Center, l’A.S. St Étienne et la télé hertzienne, qui nous pleura donc ?</p>
<p>Personne, ou peut-être notre créateur et vendeur en nous lisant sur sa pile de publicités démodées dans ses toilettes capitonnées.</p>
<p>Mais sous ses pieds, la ville court à sa perte comme chaque jour sans penser un instant que celui-ci serait le dernier !</p>
<p>Le dernier meurtre de masse au nom de la démocratie côtoie les derniers adultères d’un excès de monogamie dans la plus pure des logiques, puisque tout est lié, acceptons nos liens !</p>
<p>Les chantages d’une nuit se conjuguent aux complots d’une vie.</p>
<p>Et après cela, le monde bascule d’une folie ordinaire à une résignation exceptionnelle sous le joug d’une foule ivre de se regarder dans le blanc des yeux sans avoir aucune raison de se parler.</p>
<p>Une minute de silence pour tout ceux qui ne le connaissent pas !</p>
<p>Je me fabrique des idylles copiant celles de nos idoles pour nos vies sans idéal.</p>
<p>J’ai perdu pied le jour où je me suis senti pousser des elles, gangrené par un bonheur sur mesure.</p>
<p>Nuit après nuit, lit après lit, je me réveille avec un arrière-goût de progrès dans la bouche, puis j’effrite le reste de la matinée entre la chambre et la douche, en évitant soigneusement de penser, le visage concentré en fixant la poignée de la porte.</p>
<p>À force de courage ou de fainéantise, je tire des plans sur la comète, du canapé au téléviseur, moralité je crois en ce que je dois, rien d’autre.</p>
<p>On m’a dit d’aimer, de procréer, de ne pas tuer et tout le reste, pour être sûr que nous savons obéir !</p>
<p>On voudrait me faire croire que j’ai le choix, que mon avis compte et surtout que quelqu’un se souviendra de tout ça, sans savoir pourquoi.</p>
<p>Les pertes de mémoires valent bien ces vérités de toujours.</p>
<p>Alors, je voudrais m’envoyer en l’air jusqu’au 7<sup>ème</sup> ciel, tutoyer le nirvana, mais le plafond m’en empêche, si vous saviez, d’aussi bas que vous êtes, en attendant pieusement que ce même ciel ne vous tombe sur un coin de la tête, parce que c’est comme ça, parce que c’est écrit.</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>J’aimerais être vaguement humain le temps de la Fin et arrêter à ce moment de prier la technologie. Moi, le moyen de la chaîne alimentaire, je réalise que je ne suis qu’un animal de compagnie, plus domestiqué que civilisé.</p>
<p>Rien ne se perd tout se revend, je ferai de l’apocalypse le dernier hit sur ton téléphone portable où se reflètent ton teint artificiel, ton sourire en image de synthèse et ta dentition de carnassier végétarien.</p>
<p>L’homme moderne sait qu’il sera le dernier, mais il préfère railler le passé et prendre le peu d’oxygène qu’il reste du globe en otage.</p>
<p>La ville, elle, elle sait, elle le sent, elle se décompose peu à peu, au fur et à mesure que l’heure sonne et qu’elle oublie les morceaux de vie qui l’anime.</p>
<p>A vrai dire, je me suis souvent demandé en disparaissant progressivement dans la foule désorientée des grands jours de consommation, ce qui distinguait un kamikaze d’un suicide collectif ?</p>
<p>C’est peut-être que l’un des deux se pose encore des questions, alors que l’autre a arrêté pour aménager son emploi du temps !</p>
<p>Quand il n’y a pas plus de cris que de bruit, on peut s’attendre à ce qu’il y ait plus d’absences que de silence.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Pink Floyd, ’68 e Eluana: Fini è un altro Fini Mutazione da fantascienza per l’ex leader Msi ]]></title>
<link>http://sottoosservazione.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/pink-floyd-%e2%80%9968-e-eluana-fini-e-un-altro-fini-mutazione-da-fantascienza-per-l%e2%80%99ex-leader-msi/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sottoosservazione</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Con questo articolo, dall’oltretomba, il più famoso scrittore di fantascienza inizia la sua collabor]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-8117" title="images" src="http://sottoosservazione.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/images14.jpg" alt="images" width="111" height="136" />Con questo articolo, dall’oltretomba, il più famoso scrittore di fantascienza inizia la sua collaborazione con Il Fatto quotidiano, all’insegna dello slogan: “Nulla è più incredibile della politica italiana”. Il suo racconto, “Il futuro delle libertà”, è in realtà la recensione di un autentico saggio di Gianfranco Fini</div>
<div>di <strong>Philip K. Dick</strong></p>
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<div>Nel 1962, come è noto, dopo mille insuccessi, avevo rinunciato a fare lo scrittore e aiutavo mia moglie a vendere gioielli. Ma siccome lei mi dava le parti più rognose del lavoro, mi inventai di aver firmato un contratto con una casa editrice per scrivere un libro in <em>hard cover</em>. Non avevo in mente nessuno spunto preciso, se non che il Giappone e la Germania avevano vinto la guerra. Non avevo nemmeno una trama, e così mi appoggiai ai <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libro_dei_Mutamenti">Ching</a>. Il libro ebbe un successo incredibile, prese il titolo <em>Svastica sul sole</em>, venne acclamato come un capolavoro della fantascienza, e inaugurò il filone della cosiddetta “storia eventuale”. Il mio editore mi chiese subito un sequel.</p>
<p>Non volevo correre il rischio di deludere, e così mi immaginai una trama ambientata nel dopoguerra, in Italia, una storia altrettanto assurda e incredibile. Focalizzai l’intreccio sui due destini possibili di un leader della destra postfascista. Decisi che il personaggio si sarebbe chiamato Gianfranco, in onore del proprietario di un ristorante italiano dove io e mia moglie Anne andavamo a mangiare. E scelsi come cognome Fini, in omaggio a una espressione italiana che mi pareva emblematica di quel che volevo raccontare: “L’eterogenesi dei fini”. <!--more--></p>
<p>Tutto ruotava intorno a due biografie possibili di Gianfranco Fini. La prima la immaginai volutamente incredibile e romanzesca. Gianfranco nasceva da una famiglia proletaria nell’Emilia Romagna del dopoguerra, nella regione più rossa d’Italia, lui aveva un padre che provava simpatia per il regime di Benito Mussolini. Gianfranco cresce apparentemente senza passioni politiche, poi incontra da ragazzo, nel 1968, la sua sliding door. Immaginai un pretesto assolutamente folle, perché mi aiutava a caricare di pathos il personaggio: il giovane Fini una sera veniva fermato da un gruppo di extraparlamentari che gli impediscono di vedere un film di John Wayne, Berretti verdi. Non mi preoccupai della verosimiglianza, nè di controllare se effettivamente un simile paradosso potesse accadere: da noi in America quel film era l’essenza stessa della destra americana bellicista e reazionaria, mi piaceva che un simile film potesse far danni addirittura in un altro continente.</p>
<p>Qui l’intreccio che immaginavo prendeva corpo in una storia amara, che era la parafrasi delle difficoltà che io stesso avevo vissuto come aspirante scrittore. Il mio Fini iniziava una carriera di “delfino” del leader neofascista italiano Giorgio Almirante, meditava a tratti l’abbandono della politica, veniva picchiato dai suoi camerati dopo la morte di uno studente greco perché non si era mostrato abbastanza duro nella rappresaglia, arrivava quarto nelle elezioni per designare il nuovo leader giovanile. Però Almirante lo ripescava, lo faceva diventare capo dei giovani di destra, e poi, prima di morire, segretario di partito. Immaginavo che questo Fini praticasse una politica xenofoba, che offrisse addirittura il simbolo del suo Msi – la fiamma &#8211; al leader della destra razzista francese Jean Marie Le Pen; che predicasse contro i maestri omosessuali. Immaginavo che la sua politica procedesse a stento fino all’incontro con un magnate delle televisioni, Silvio Berlusconi che lo sponsorizzava nelle elezioni comunali a Roma, spalancandogli un avvenire da statista. Questa era la prima parte del libro. E quando la mia agenzia letteraria, la Meredith agency la lesse, decise di abbandonarmi: “Scrivi delle cose di nicchia, che non stanno plausibilmente in piedi”. L’anno dopo, nel 1963, vinsi il premio Hugo, e riuscii a trovare la forza per terminare il mio capolavoro.</p>
<p>Nello stesso giorno in cui nell’altra vita il protagonista incontrava i picchetttatori di sinistra, un altro Gianfranco Fini seguiva di impulso uno studente di filosofia di sinistra, tale Stefano Bonaga, che lo invitava a seguirlo all’isola di Wight. Mentre parte con il sacco a pelo, Fini incontra il futuro segretario del sindacato di sinistra, Guglielmo Epifani, che va nella direzione opposta e lo guarda con invidia. Questo Fini scopre i Pink Floyd assistendo allo storico concerto di Pompei, prova la mescalina mentre ascolta Set the control for the heart of the sun. Si immerge nel movimento del 1968. Tiene un diario. Esalta il movimento femminista: “Le ragazze mie coetanee, almeno quelle più consapevoli, sono scese in strada per rivendicare il loro diritto, come donne, di essere protagoniste della loro vita, senza più ruoli rigidi, senza discriminazioni di ogni genere”. E poi la rivoluzione sessuale: “I capelli dei ragazzi si allungavano, le gonne delle ragazze si accorciavano”.</p>
<p>Siccome il mio editor mi rispondeva che era impossibile attribuire queste parole ad un leader di destra, per indispettirlo mi inventai la figura di una deputata del partito democratico che era iscritta all’Opus dei e considerava gli omosessuali dei “malati”. Il mio secondo Gianfranco, seguendo il suo destino parallelo era diventato un leader molto apprezzato. Aveva condannato l’Olocausto, aveva espresso idee progressiste in materia di diritti civili, aveva condannato le idee antislamiche, propugnato la causa del voto agli immigrati, era uno statista, un presidente della Camera, un modello per tutte le destre europee. Immaginai che nel 2009 scegliesse di consacrare questo nuovo ruolo con un pamphlet che condensava tutte le sue idee. La destra di governo guidata dal miliardario delle televisioni negava diritti agli italiani? Lui nel suo libro sosteneva il contrario: “Mantenere una legislazione restrittiva nel campo della procreazione assistita significa, quantomeno, non conoscere, o rifiutarsi di farlo, il dramma di tante coppie sterili, per le quali il figlio rappresenta non un capriccio, ma il coronamento di un sogno”.</p>
<p>Questo Fini andava giù duro contro la destra intollerante: “Perché negare questo diritto o renderlo impervio a chi lo desidera fortemente?”. Mi piaceva l’idea che il mio personaggio, al contrario dei leader noiosi della seconda repubblica non scrivesse un saggio pensoso, ma una lettera di piglio brillante, indirizzata ai ragazzi nati nel 1989. In questo libro Fini parlava di tutto con tono leggero ma “alto”, censurava il secolo dei totalitarismi assumendo con spirito colto le categorie di una intellettuale ebraica come Hannah Arendt, censurava sia il nazismo che il comunismo defininedoli “gemelli omozigoti”. Memore del concerto che aveva cambiato il suo destino, il mio Fini sceglieva la caduta del muro di Berlino come metafora della libertà, e citava ancora una volta i versi dei Pink Floyd: “Soli o a coppie/ quelli che davvero ti amano/ camminano su e giù fuori dal muro”. Il Fini che stava prendendo forma nella mia mente citava pensatori liberali come John Stuart Mill, parafrasava Gramsci per forgiare lo slogan “dell’ottimismo della ragione”, bacchettava la sua stessa coalizione sul fine vita, prendendo spunto da un caso di cronaca realmente accaduto, la morte di una giovane alimentata artificialmente di nome Eluana Englaro (“La politica italiana tende ancora a presentarsi non secondo le linee contemporanee del fare, ma secondo quelle novecentesche dell’essere”. Il leader partorito dalla mia fantasia era un paradosso italiano, più carismatico dei dirigenti della sinistra, più moderno dei democratici, più avanzato dei neocomunisti. Scelsi come titolo del saggio: “Il futuro delle libertà”, e fu un altro enorme successo. Dopo la pubblicazione del libro, in una università italiana un ragazzo mi chiese: “Ma lei inventando questo Fini voleva contribuire alla rifondazione della destra?”. Gli risposi che non aveva capito nulla. L’unico epilogo possibile del “Futuro delle libertà” era che contribuisse a risvegliare la sinistra italiana dal suo letargo. Ma questa è un’altra storia.<br />
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(Nota: i brani citati sono tutti autentici, e tratti dal libro di Gianfranco Fini “Il futuro delle libertà”, Rizzoli, 200 pp, 16.00 euro)</p>
<p>da Il Fatto Quotidiano n°37 del 4 novembre 2009</em></div>
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<link>http://tatteredpage.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/the-holy-shelf/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[I have a short list of books that are my all time favorites. You know the kind you never tire of? Th]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/moriza/96724309/"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-198" title="On the Platform Reading" src="http://tatteredpage.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/on-the-platform-reading.jpg?w=300" alt="On the Platform Reading" width="300" height="300" /></a>I have a short list of books that are my all time favorites. You know the kind you never tire of? The kind that charm and seduce you and still manage to feel comfortable and familiar? The ones I&#8217;d grab in a fire. Those are the books that live on my holy shelf. It&#8217;s an altar to literature, of sorts. Unfortunately it&#8217;s not a real shelf, but maybe one day it will be.</p>
<p>Right now, there aren&#8217;t many titles on it, just a few really. Here&#8217;s three:</p>
<p><em>If on a winter&#8217;s night a traveler</em> &#8211; Italo Calvino</p>
<p>This novel starts out:</p>
<blockquote><p>You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino&#8217;s new novel, <em>If on a winter&#8217;s night a travler</em>. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade.</p></blockquote>
<p>Not many pages after these very welcoming first lines you come to find out that the &#8220;you&#8221; in the book is not you the reader, it&#8217;s the main character.  And the author of the book being read is considerably different than the book in your hands. That&#8217;s when things start to get crazy. Any author who has the guts to write like this and the skill to do it well is someone who loves to play with literature and someone I&#8217;m glad to spend time with.</p>
<p><em>Invisible Man </em>- Ralph Ellison</p>
<p>If there was ever a book that could be named the great American novel, <em>Invisible Man</em> would be my nomination. The narrator shares his story of trying to become a man greater than who he thought he was, and through it we get a glimpse of an interwar America that is itself deep in the throes of growth and change set to a backdrop of jazz, politics and history.</p>
<p><em>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?</em> &#8211; Philip K. Dick</p>
<p>Yes, this is the book the film BladeRunner is based on, but they&#8217;re not the same. And I don&#8217;t mean that in any kind of depreciating way to the film. It&#8217;s gorgeous. But the irony is that in the translation from text to film, it seemed that some of Deckard&#8217;s humanity was lost. The film is done in the noir style and as such his detective character is very hard edged and nearly inpenetrable; weaknesses don&#8217;t show through often, or for long, when in fact the Deckard of the novel is trying to maintain that image but he&#8217;s too clearly vulnerable. Everything comes into question from his beliefs to his own existence and somewhere in the mess of it all, the world itself finds that it needs to come to terms with whether its real threats are from without, or within.</p>
<p>So that&#8217;s a few of my absolute favorite novels. How about you? What novels might exist on your own holy shelf?</p>
<p>By the way, the image is by moriza. It&#8217;s called <em>On the platform,  reading</em> and you can check out more of his people watching photographic awesomeness <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/moriza/96724309/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hoje em dia, com a Internet, informações sobre genética, inteligência artificial, viagens espaciais ]]></description>
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<p>Se você curte <strong>Philip K. Dick</strong> (autor de Blade Runner), <strong>Isaac Asimov</strong> (Eu, Robô) e <strong>Willian Gibson</strong> (Neuromancer), recomendo dar uma olhada no vídeo abaixo, que traz a primeira parte do programa Espaço Aberto, da <a title="Globo News" href="http://globonews.globo.com/" target="_blank">Globo News</a>, sobre literatura e ficção científica. Para ver as partes 2 e 3, dê um pulo no<strong> </strong><a title="Canal Dois Espressos, no YouTube" href="http://www.youtube.com/doisespressos"><strong>canal Dois Espressos, no YouTube</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/S4ik3t8D2Uo&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/S4ik3t8D2Uo&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
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<description><![CDATA[&#8220;She must see only the most meager outer part of people, I decided. Must be aware of them in t]]></description>
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<link>http://nogirlovers.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/diez-cuentos-favoritos/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Tenía ganas de hacer listas, así que hagamos una media tontuela: mis diez cuentos favoritos (uno por autor y estos en orden alfabético.</p>
<p><strong>“El misterio”</strong> – Andréiev, Leonid</p>
<p><strong>“Enoch Soames”</strong> – Beerbohm, Max</p>
<p><strong>“La biblioteca de Babel”</strong> – Borges, Jorge Luis</p>
<p><strong>“La tercera expedición”</strong> &#8211; Bradbury, Ray</p>
<p><strong>“Otra vuelta de tuerca”</strong> – James, Henry</p>
<p><strong>“Los venenos”</strong> – Cortázar, Julio</p>
<p><strong>“La fe de nuestros padres”</strong> – Dick, Philip K.</p>
<p><strong>“Tantalia”</strong> – Fernández, Macedonio</p>
<p><strong>“La construcción”</strong> – Kafka, Franz</p>
<p><strong>“ ‘El cuento más hermoso del mundo’ ” </strong>– Kipling, Rudyard</p>
<p>Qué decir… no mucho. Tal vez, de Kafka, hay decenas de cuentos de él que me encantan y que, tal vez, sean más populares (“Ante la ley”, “La construcción de la muralla china”, “Un artista del hambre”), pero elijo La construcción porque me parece que tiene esa sensación de paranoia, de claustrofobia que me parece tan suya y que no encuentro en ningún otro lado… Aparte, al igual que “El castillo”, es un cuento de lo que podríamos llamar “literatura ambiental” o “atmosférica” (en el sentido de que el énfasis está en crear una atmósfera, un ambiente, antes que en la narración, y el cual, a diferencia del terror gótico –que también se especializa en eso- no se apoya en un engorroso lenguaje barroco –el <em>vocabulario</em> de Kafka siempre es sencillo y conciso-, sino en la tortura y la paranoia psicológica), y que a mí particularmente me encanta.</p>
<p>De Borges, también, podría elegir “Funes el memorioso”, o “Tlon, Uqbar, Tertius” o “El sur”, pero “La biblioteca…” tiene ese noséqué de estupor metafísico, de inquietud, de terror ante el infinito y la soledad.</p>
<p>El título de “El cuento más hermoso del mundo” está lejos de ser una hipérbole pretenciosa. Verdaderamente podría estar, cuando un hipotético tribunal futuro juzgue la mera literatura de estas épocas, en la selección de lo más hermoso. Todo en ello es perfecto: la descripción del protagonista, la inquietud de índole fantástica, la aparición del amor.</p>
<p>“Los venenos” de Cortázar tal vez sorprenda a alguno, que esperaba “Casa tomada”. Yo, como pedófilo y como nostálgico sin remedio de la infancia, me quedo con “Los venenos”, un cuento, un relato, que supera, a mis ojos, cualquier belleza: su descripción de la infancia en formato “súper 8”, cargada de melancolía, mirando a través del prisma de la nostalgia al primer amor, ante esa belleza suprema de una niña que <strong><em>“estaba con su vestido de lunares anaranjados, que era el que más me gustaba”</em></strong>, verdaderamente me llenan, me sigue llenando de lágrimas los ojos. Este cuento es la última oda a la niñez, “Music has the right to children” de Boards of Canada hecho literatura, “Cuentos asombrosos” hecho cuento de verdad. Es un relato tan chiquito y perfecto y hermoso y nostálgico y maravilloso y colorido y amoroso que difícilmente tenga parangón. Me parece, para mí gusto absolutamente melancólico hacia la infancia, infinitamente mejor a “Casa tomada”.</p>
<p>Muchos dirán “pero che, ¡’Otra vuelta de tuerca’ no es un cuento!” Pues allá ellos. “Otra vuelta de tuerca” es un cuento largo, pero cuento al fin. ¿Qué me gusta de él? Además de inscribirse en la misma línea de ciertos relatos kafkianos de “literatura ambiental”, una de las cosas que más me gustan de él, y ciertamente no la menor, es Flora. Flora es, en palabras de James, “beatífica visión de belleza angelical”. Flora es la niñita más hermosa de toda la literatura (CAGATE LOLITA). Aparte, ese nombre, Flora, qué nombre PRECIOSO, un nombre tan hermoso y bello como su hermosísima portadora. Así que “Otra vuelta de tuerca” aparte de ser el mejor relato de fantasmas jamás hecho sirve como bonita excusa para estar cerca de una de las más hermosas niñitas de toda la literatura.</p>
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<link>http://noboylovers.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/diez-cuentos-favoritos/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>porlaverdad3</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Tenía ganas de hacer listas, así que hagamos una media tontuela: mis diez cuentos favoritos (uno por autor y estos en orden alfabético.</p>
<p><strong>“El misterio”</strong> – Andréiev, Leonid</p>
<p><strong>“Enoch Soames”</strong> – Beerbohm, Max</p>
<p><strong>“La biblioteca de Babel”</strong> – Borges, Jorge Luis</p>
<p><strong>“La tercera expedición”</strong> &#8211; Bradbury, Ray</p>
<p><strong>“Otra vuelta de tuerca”</strong> – James, Henry</p>
<p><strong>“Los venenos”</strong> – Cortázar, Julio</p>
<p><strong>“La fe de nuestros padres”</strong> – Dick, Philip K.</p>
<p><strong>“Tantalia”</strong> – Fernández, Macedonio</p>
<p><strong>“La construcción”</strong> – Kafka, Franz</p>
<p><strong>“ ‘El cuento más hermoso del mundo’ ” </strong>– Kipling, Rudyard</p>
<p>Qué decir… no mucho. Tal vez, de Kafka, hay decenas de cuentos de él que me encantan y que, tal vez, sean más populares (“Ante la ley”, “La construcción de la muralla china”, “Un artista del hambre”), pero elijo La construcción porque me parece que tiene esa sensación de paranoia, de claustrofobia que me parece tan suya y que no encuentro en ningún otro lado… Aparte, al igual que “El castillo”, es un cuento de lo que podríamos llamar “literatura ambiental” o “atmosférica” (en el sentido de que el énfasis está en crear una atmósfera, un ambiente, antes que en la narración, y el cual, a diferencia del terror gótico –que también se especializa en eso- no se apoya en un engorroso lenguaje barroco –el <em>vocabulario</em> de Kafka siempre es sencillo y conciso-, sino en la tortura y la paranoia psicológica), y que a mí particularmente me encanta.</p>
<p>De Borges, también, podría elegir “Funes el memorioso”, o “Tlon, Uqbar, Tertius” o “El sur”, pero “La biblioteca…” tiene ese noséqué de estupor metafísico, de inquietud, de terror ante el infinito y la soledad.</p>
<p>El título de “El cuento más hermoso del mundo” está lejos de ser una hipérbole pretenciosa. Verdaderamente podría estar, cuando un hipotético tribunal futuro juzgue la mera literatura de estas épocas, en la selección de lo más hermoso. Todo en ello es perfecto: la descripción del protagonista, la inquietud de índole fantástica, la aparición del amor.</p>
<p>“Los venenos” de Cortázar tal vez sorprenda a alguno, que esperaba “Casa tomada”. Yo, como pedófilo y como nostálgico sin remedio de la infancia, me quedo con “Los venenos”, un cuento, un relato, que supera, a mis ojos, cualquier belleza: su descripción de la infancia en formato “súper 8”, cargada de melancolía, mirando a través del prisma de la nostalgia al primer amor, ante esa belleza suprema de una niña que <strong><em>“estaba con su vestido de lunares anaranjados, que era el que más me gustaba”</em></strong>, verdaderamente me llenan, me sigue llenando de lágrimas los ojos. Este cuento es la última oda a la niñez, “Music has the right to children” de Boards of Canada hecho literatura, “Cuentos asombrosos” hecho cuento de verdad. Es un relato tan chiquito y perfecto y hermoso y nostálgico y maravilloso y colorido y amoroso que difícilmente tenga parangón. Me parece, para mí gusto absolutamente melancólico hacia la infancia, infinitamente mejor a “Casa tomada”.</p>
<p>Muchos dirán “pero che, ¡’Otra vuelta de tuerca’ no es un cuento!” Pues allá ellos. “Otra vuelta de tuerca” es un cuento largo, pero cuento al fin. ¿Qué me gusta de él? Además de inscribirse en la misma línea de ciertos relatos kafkianos de “literatura ambiental”, una de las cosas que más me gustan de él, y ciertamente no la menor, es Flora. Flora es, en palabras de James, “beatífica visión de belleza angelical”. Flora es la niñita más hermosa de toda la literatura (CAGATE LOLITA). Aparte, ese nombre, Flora, qué nombre PRECIOSO, un nombre tan hermoso y bello como su hermosísima portadora. Así que “Otra vuelta de tuerca” aparte de ser el mejor relato de fantasmas jamás hecho sirve como bonita excusa para estar cerca de una de las más hermosas niñitas de toda la literatura.</p>
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<link>http://joshuahunterboylover.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/diez-cuentos-favoritos/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>porlaverdad3</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Tenía ganas de hacer listas, así que hagamos una media tontuela: mis diez cuentos favoritos (uno por]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Tenía ganas de hacer listas, así que hagamos una media tontuela: mis diez cuentos favoritos (uno por autor y estos en orden alfabético.</p>
<p><strong>“El misterio”</strong> – Andréiev, Leonid</p>
<p><strong>“Enoch Soames”</strong> – Beerbohm, Max</p>
<p><strong>“La biblioteca de Babel”</strong> – Borges, Jorge Luis</p>
<p><strong>“La tercera expedición”</strong> &#8211; Bradbury, Ray</p>
<p><strong>“Otra vuelta de tuerca”</strong> – James, Henry</p>
<p><strong>“Los venenos”</strong> – Cortázar, Julio</p>
<p><strong>“La fe de nuestros padres”</strong> – Dick, Philip K.</p>
<p><strong>“Tantalia”</strong> – Fernández, Macedonio</p>
<p><strong>“La construcción”</strong> – Kafka, Franz</p>
<p><strong>“ ‘El cuento más hermoso del mundo’ ” </strong>– Kipling, Rudyard</p>
<p>Qué decir… no mucho. Tal vez, de Kafka, hay decenas de cuentos de él que me encantan y que, tal vez, sean más populares (“Ante la ley”, “La construcción de la muralla china”, “Un artista del hambre”), pero elijo La construcción porque me parece que tiene esa sensación de paranoia, de claustrofobia que me parece tan suya y que no encuentro en ningún otro lado… Aparte, al igual que “El castillo”, es un cuento de lo que podríamos llamar “literatura ambiental” o “atmosférica” (en el sentido de que el énfasis está en crear una atmósfera, un ambiente, antes que en la narración, y el cual, a diferencia del terror gótico –que también se especializa en eso- no se apoya en un engorroso lenguaje barroco –el <em>vocabulario</em> de Kafka siempre es sencillo y conciso-, sino en la tortura y la paranoia psicológica), y que a mí particularmente me encanta.</p>
<p>De Borges, también, podría elegir “Funes el memorioso”, o “Tlon, Uqbar, Tertius” o “El sur”, pero “La biblioteca…” tiene ese noséqué de estupor metafísico, de inquietud, de terror ante el infinito y la soledad.</p>
<p>El título de “El cuento más hermoso del mundo” está lejos de ser una hipérbole pretenciosa. Verdaderamente podría estar, cuando un hipotético tribunal futuro juzgue la mera literatura de estas épocas, en la selección de lo más hermoso. Todo en ello es perfecto: la descripción del protagonista, la inquietud de índole fantástica, la aparición del amor.</p>
<p>“Los venenos” de Cortázar tal vez sorprenda a alguno, que esperaba “Casa tomada”. Yo, como pedófilo y como nostálgico sin remedio de la infancia, me quedo con “Los venenos”, un cuento, un relato, que supera, a mis ojos, cualquier belleza: su descripción de la infancia en formato “súper 8”, cargada de melancolía, mirando a través del prisma de la nostalgia al primer amor, ante esa belleza suprema de una niña que <strong><em>“estaba con su vestido de lunares anaranjados, que era el que más me gustaba”</em></strong>, verdaderamente me llenan, me sigue llenando de lágrimas los ojos. Este cuento es la última oda a la niñez, “Music has the right to children” de Boards of Canada hecho literatura, “Cuentos asombrosos” hecho cuento de verdad. Es un relato tan chiquito y perfecto y hermoso y nostálgico y maravilloso y colorido y amoroso que difícilmente tenga parangón. Me parece, para mí gusto absolutamente melancólico hacia la infancia, infinitamente mejor a “Casa tomada”.</p>
<p>Muchos dirán “pero che, ¡’Otra vuelta de tuerca’ no es un cuento!” Pues allá ellos. “Otra vuelta de tuerca” es un cuento largo, pero cuento al fin. ¿Qué me gusta de él? Además de inscribirse en la misma línea de ciertos relatos kafkianos de “literatura ambiental”, una de las cosas que más me gustan de él, y ciertamente no la menor, es Flora. Flora es, en palabras de James, “beatífica visión de belleza angelical”. Flora es la niñita más hermosa de toda la literatura (CAGATE LOLITA). Aparte, ese nombre, Flora, qué nombre PRECIOSO, un nombre tan hermoso y bello como su hermosísima portadora. Así que “Otra vuelta de tuerca” aparte de ser el mejor relato de fantasmas jamás hecho sirve como bonita excusa para estar cerca de una de las más hermosas niñitas de toda la literatura.</p>
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