Science Fiction Films

Well folks i am on my travels but only in the local area. It is a sunny warmish day and the forecast for the following day is good too. So i shall be making the most of it, although at the moment i am in Faversham library. I have just been to Past Sentence to sell some books in which i received six pounds for and transferred some money that i had residing in my Pay Pal account across to my bank.

Thank goodness i have another pay day tomorrow.

Last night i watched that science fiction film Elysium. Not bad, but as usual with some of these modern crop of sci-fi films it is too long on the combat action and too short on the drama or philosophical action. There isn't the gravitas that something like The Martian Chronicles or 2001 A Space Odyssey held. Of recent years and i guess i am going back twenty years, maybe more,  the best science e fiction films are the director's cut of Blade Runner (based on Philip K Dick's "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep" ), Minority Report (also based on a Dick short story), Inception, Cloud Atlas, and or course the most recent Star Trek films. There are others but i do not want to bore you with a long list.

So folks, what are your favourite science fiction films, and if you can , give the reason why. All comments accepted.



 

Book 62 - Frederick C. Crews "The Pooh Perplex"

Frederick C. Crews "The Pooh Perplex : A Student Casebook" (Robin Clark Ltd.)




One that once i started reading, giggling , and so on, i could not put down till i finished it.

A dozen "critical essays" about the Pooh stories by as many literary "critics". I think this is one of the best, and definitely the funniest Pooh spin-off book (it was one of the first, too). The analysis of literature is to me a fascinating topic, and here we have an academic caricature of its various branches. I liked it. In addition to making me laugh, I think I learned some literary criticism from it.

The last essays are the funniest, my favourite ones being the Freudian analysis and the call for a rigorous foundation for criticism. The essay by "Woodbine Meadowlark" was almost touching with its end-of-childhood theme.

This book has a smattering of technical jargon in which the language was hard to follow, especially when Crews simulated the writing of the most over-the-top critics. Perhaps the funniness suffered somewhat from my frequent browsing of a dictionary.

B'Day Greetings

Happy birthday to calico_pye . I hope you have a good one.

Busy Days

Busy couple of days from tomorrow. A cinema visit and a charity shop in Rochester, a meal visit in Sevenoaks and a charity shop visit in Paddock Wood. Then Thursday in Canterbury a travel agent visit, another charity shop and a footfall count.

If the good weather continues it will be  a great couple of days.

Meanwhile, another dose of music from the vaults , from the album Mezzanine, the Bristol trip hop sound of Massive Attack and Group Four with Liz Fraser on the vocals.

Enjoy.

More Tunes

Some more tunes from the Jazzy D archives -

Starting with this finger snapping instrumental by Gramatik and No Way Out.

It's cool for cats!

Spurred on by threemilechild some classic avant garde music from Nurse With Wounds , whom are excellent soundscapers,but can throw in the odd tune such as (I Don't Want To Have) Easy Listening Nightmares.

Scary artwork too

Next up from the superb Black Ships Ate The Sky album by Current 93 and The Autistic Imperium Is Nihil Reich

And finally from the debut album by Canadian post-rock outfit Godspeed You Black Emperor (from the "F♯ A♯ ∞" album) the track The Dead Flag Blues.

Enjoy. I am going to watch a film on catch-up.