PixlBit

Posted on 01/12/2019 at 11:51 PM | Filed Under Blogs

You should talk to Tami, since she lives in and takes photographs in Maine. 

Posted on 01/12/2019 at 11:07 AM | Filed Under Blogs

Hmmm ... The movie definitely has HAL in the more "plotty" bits and a lot of the rest of it is psychedelic imagery and maybe unspoken historical commentary? Now I'm interested in the book, because unless you're about to tell me the book has a bunch of descriptions of space and the station the characters are on, I have a feeling it's way different from the movie. That or it's just been long enough since I've seen the movie that I'm forgetting a bunch. Very possible.

Posted on 01/11/2019 at 09:27 PM | Filed Under Blogs

He's honestly not in THAT much of the movie either, though probably more important to its plot. 

Posted on 01/11/2019 at 09:26 PM | Filed Under Blogs

Oh, that sounds neat actually. I might even record one of my books that way for fun if I can get the right noises and effects.

Posted on 01/11/2019 at 06:08 PM | Filed Under Blogs

I mean, $400 is pricey for most of us, especially when you can get several of those games for cheap or free, but legit arcade cabinets are thousands of dollars, so .... 

Posted on 01/11/2019 at 06:05 PM | Filed Under Blogs

So you listened to audiobooks of graphic novels? I think you mentioned that before, but you don't miss the pictures?

Posted on 01/11/2019 at 06:02 PM | Filed Under Blogs

I've read Brave New World and felt so-so about it. I have yet to read 1984. 

Posted on 01/11/2019 at 06:51 AM | Filed Under Blogs

I read more than usual last year as well, but because I joined a non-fiction book club and therefore automatically read a book a month starting in ... June? I'm trying to read one fiction and one non-fiction a month this year, starting with my Christmas present, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, and Population Wars by Greg Graffin (it was my pick for the non-fiction book club this month). 

Your sci-fi choices are really interesting though. I think I may go in that direction the next time I choose a fiction book to read. Funny how many titles you mention were made into movies or TV shows. It's definitely a genre ripe for interpretations. 

I think The Left Hand of Darkness sounds the most in-tune with a lot of what I've read lately. While you mention '69, I find that I can make comparisons between today's political climate and a lot of now more obscure events from almost any decade. On that note, I read It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, which was frighteningly relevant right up to the point the dictator actually took over and then it felt cliche and pointless. That may well be less the book's fault and more the fact so many similar stories have been written since. Kind of like a Ghost in the Shell feels like it's ripping off The Matrix even though the former obviously came first situation. 

From what little I've read of Ready Player One and seen of the trailer, I'm not sure I'm the audience for it, but I definitely think I'd like the movie better than the book in that case. I don't feel the need to read descriptions of 80s movies. 

I'd be very interested in your thoughts on 2001: A Space Odyssey in movie form. The movie has so much "dead air" in it so to speak, just long stretches of Kubrick's cinematography that aren't really driving the plot forward, that I'm wondering how much was changed from the book. I still prefer the 21-chapter version of A Clockwork Orange to his movie, but he was pretty faithful to those first 20 chapters, so I wonder how close he hits the mark in 2001. 

Posted on 01/09/2019 at 12:55 AM | Filed Under Blogs

Yeah, I definitely remember Smash for local multiplayer more than most games. Glad you're losing weight though. I'm on a regimen, myself. 

Posted on 01/09/2019 at 12:54 AM | Filed Under Blogs

Someone recently complained about having to unlock all the characters and I was like, "that's the whole reason I used to play single-player in fighting games ... would you prefer to pay for them? I wouldn't."