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- Now Read About Last Year, Then Purchase And Read My Fiction
- Umberto Rossi Reflects on Dortmund PKD Conference (with pics!)
- Cyber Monday Meme
- PKD Otaku #26 Out Now!
- Fiction Up At Linguistic Erosion
- Radio Free Albemuth to Play NYC at Philip K Dick Film Festival
- Umberto Rossi Recalls His Festival Experience
- William Sarill Chronicles His Dick-Fest Experience
- Marc Haefele Recounts His Dick-Fest Experience
- Total Dick-Head Fiction At DailyLove.com
- Issue One of Pravic - Now Available
- Dick-Fest 2012 Totally Recalled
- PKD Fest 2012 Now Just an Implanted Memory
- A Little Update For Us Tempunauts
- Revised Festival Schedule - Saturday September 23
- Entrhalling Books: Do Androids Dream Edition
- Total Recall, Recalled For You
- PKD Otaku #24 Out Now!
- Some Reading Materials
- Festival T-Shirts Fundraising
- PKD Festival Update
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- Precious Artifacts Arrives!
- Blade Runner in Time, Clarion-Write-A-Thon
- Wow, That's Stupid!
- Announcing Pravic Magazine
- PKD Festival Update!
- Radio Free Albemuth Racks Up Another Win!
- Blade Runner Sequel to Have Chick Blade Runner
- Hampton Fancher to Pen Blade Runner Sequel Script - FTW!
- RFA To Appear in London and Links!
- Total Dick-Head is Five Years Old Today (Now with Links!)
- Festival News
- Errol Morris on Dick on Twitter
- Erik Davis on The Exegesis
- Picture of the Day 3.6.12
- It Was 30 Years Ago Today
- Toot! Toot! (LA Times Book Review Likes the Exegesis, and this blog)
- New PKD Otaku #23 Now Available
- 2011: Now Read About Last Year
- All I Wanted For Christmas Were Links, Links, Links
- Happy Birthday, Philip K Dick (NYT Reviews The Exegesis)
- A Tale of Two Conferences
- Now Wait For The Next Adaptation
- Exegeting the Exegesis
- Amalgamated Links Brought To You By Autoblogger
- About Last Night
- Well Today's Not a Total Waste
- Picture of the Day 11.13.11
- Another Weekly Amalgamation of PKD Reading (Now With Listening!)
- The Lethem/Exegesis Juggernaut
- Look What Came in the Mail: This Week's Edition
- Interview with Marc Haefele
- You Can Read The Lawsuit
- How Can It Be Copywrong, When It Feels So Copyright?
- Look What Arrived in the Mail
- How It All Started
- The World Sucks, and My Lack of Posting Isn't Helping
- Semi-Weekly Amalgamation of PKD Links
- Ridley Scott to Re-Visit Blade Runner
- RFA To Show At Renovation Film Fest Aug 20
- PKD's Bible For Sale on Ebay
- RFA Reviewed by Variety
- Here's a Contest! PKD and the Beauty of Nature
- Umberto on Androids
- PKD's Postmodern Thoughts About Genre
- Quote of the Day 7.18.11
- First Look at Total Recall: Haven't We Seen This Before?
- On Criticism: Umberto's Book
- Video Round Up 7.10.11
- Otaku #22 and Umberto's Book
- Things and Stuff About Amazon and an Article About PKD's Writing
- Weekly News Roundup 6.26.11
- Radio Free Albemuth Screening in Seattle
- Some More Thoughts on Ubik
- Some Thoughts on Ubik
- A Polaroid is Worth 276 Words
- Orthogonal Weekley Roundup 5.25.11
- The Desperate Recreation of Place
- A Thought About A Dream Within A Dream
- Quote of the Day 5.13.11
- About That "Empathy Test" Of Yours
- Joanna Russ - RIP
- We Can Monetize Your Legacy, Wholesale
- A Runcible Spoon
- Radio Free Albemuth Wins Special Jury Award
- An Obscure Interview with PKD
- Mark Your Calendars!
- Weekly Roundup 3.27.11
- My Future Has Been Adjusted
- Required Reading
- The Adjustment Bureaul: The Reviews Are In
- In Defense of Art
- Radio Free Albemuth Trailer Online
- From All Over the Internetz
- Gondry to DIrect Ubik Adaptation
- Radio Free Cairo
- My 'Eureka' Moment
- Stories From the Road
- Who Is Marjorie Morningstar?
- Crosshairs Over VALIS
- We Can Re-Build You
- Diving Into We Can Build You
- Now Read About Last Year (2010)
- We Can't Read It For You
- Isn't One Remembering Enough?
- We Can Build You It Is!
- Happy 82nd Birthday PKD!
- Winter Break Reading Project
- New York Times Reviews Androids Stage Adaptation
- What to Expect From Androids Onstage
- Interview with Androids Stage Director
- Obsessive Blogger Featured in the New York Times
- Whatever Happened To?
- King Felix, Revealed
- A Little Good News
- Save the Androids Fundraiser
- Exit Dreaming Robots, Stage Left
- Sentient Gravity by John Fairchild Part V
- God I Love the Internet
- Tachyon Releases New Edition of Anne Dick's Search for Philip K Dick
- Photo of the Day: Halloween Edition
- Sentient Gravity by John Fairchild Part IV
- "Horrors of War" Card #54
- Sentient Gravity by John Fairchild Part III
- Quote of the Day 10.28.10
- New and Improved Philip K Dick Article Machine?
- Weekly News Roundup 10.17.10
- Photo of the Day 10.14.10
- Well Deserved Rest
- Ridley Scott Set To Produce The Man in the High Castle for the BBC
- Radio Free Albemuth Debuts in NYC Tomorrow
- On the Road Again
- PKD Otaku Moves, Continues to Rock
- Sentient Gravity by John Fairchild Part 2
- Musical Allusion of the Day 9.28.10
- Sentient Gravity - By John Fairchild
- Interview with Laurence Rickels
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Lecture from PKD Festival Available
- Home Again, Home Again, Jiggety Jig
- On the Road
- More Bertrand on PKD
- Eric Carl Link on GPH
- Stuff I'm Doing, Update
- William Gibson on PKD
- Robert Bee On Galactic Pot-Healer
- Bonus Bertrand on GPH
- Frank Bertrand on Galactic Pot-Healer
- Philip K Dick Festival - This Is Happening!
- YouTube of the Day
- First Thoughts on Galactic Pot-Healer
- More Pot-Healer Secondary Sources
- Two New PKD Sources Hit Bookshelves
- GPH Secondary Sources
- Poetic Allusion of the Day 6.30.10
- Desceding Into Pot-Healer
- Starting Galactic Pot-Healer
- Summer Reading... Milky Way Street Professor of Treatment of Container
- Shorter Darragh McAnus
- Another Look at PKD Otaku with Walker Morrow
- The Adjustment Bureau Trailer
- Interview with PKD-Fest Organizer Lord RC Part One
- Who is Pamela Jackson?
- YouTube Exegesis
- The Exegesis is Coming
- Japanese Multi-Foci Influence
- News Roundup 4/25/10
- "I Think I Am" Impressed
- Arrival
- Back in the Future
- It's Not You, It's Me
- Sedona Film Festival to Screen Radio Free Albemuth
- More Reading Material
- New Representation
- LOST's Buried Treasures
- Cornell to Expose Freshmen to Androids, Undecidablity
- Sunday Reading Roundup
- Philip K Dick Festival
- YouTube Video of the Day 1.22.10
- Anne Dick Weighs In
- Name That Novel
- YouTube Video Roundup 1.09.10
- Tweet of the Day 1.5.10
- Radio Free Albemuth Update Part II
- The Decade's Top Ten PKD Moment
- QOTD - Maureen Dowd
- Merry Christmas To Me!
- Trouble for King of the Elves?
- Radio Free Albemuth Update
- Erik Davis Interviews Jonathan Lethem About Philip Dick
- Happy Birthday Phil - Updated!
- TDH Exclusive! Interview with Bev Davies
- Recommended Reading Material
- PKD Segment on The Electric Playground
- Courtesy of The Onion
- From Our WTF? Department
- Stuff From All Over 10.25.09
- VALBS Transmission
- Some Thoughts on 'Adjustment Team'
- My First Look At Radio Free Albemuth - The Movie
- Stories From All Over 10.03.09
- Lethem's 'Crazy Friend' Essay
- Church of Latter Day Dicks
- Stories From All Over 9.19.09
- A Golden Opportunity
- Excerpts From A Search for Philip K Dick
- Even More on Maze of Death
- Maze's End
- More Thoughts On Maze
- Lost in A Maze of Death
- The Maze's Entrance
- Summer Reading Club
- Which One Will It Be?
- We Have a Winner
- Volume Three From the Library of America Reviewed
- Total Dick-Head Sighting
- Some Reading Material 7.5.09
- Rare PKD Photo of the Day 6.25.09
- Review of The Cardboard Universe Posted
- You Tube Video Roundup
- Paul Williams Benefit Concert
- Tessa Dick on Gnostic Radio
- Stories From All Over 6.12.09
- The Duty of Survival
- Blade Runner Web-Based Prequels Announced
- '800 Words' Hyped in Minnesota Star Tribune
- In Defense of Sanity
- Flow My Tears to be Next PKD Film
- PKD Day Three at Nottingham Trent
- Pages From Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Comic
- Please Let This Be On Judge Judy
- Phoebus K Dank in the LA Times
- What To Get The Bounty Hunter That Has Everything
- Phoebus K Dank
- Mindblower of the Day
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? To Become Comic Book Series
- Paul Williams Website and Support Fund
- Fun With Facebook
- Rare Blade Runner Script Drafts Unearthed
- BBC to Air 'Bring Me The Head of Philip K Dick"
- Another Anniversary
- Total Recall Remake May Become 'Reality'
- Matt Damon Attached to "Adjustment Team"
- Ted White's Response
- Helping Out the Internets!
- Interview with Tessa Dick
- Third Library of America Volume to Include...
- Birthplace of Philip K Dick?
- Happy 80th Birthday Philip K Dick!
- Somebody's Got a Birthday Coming Up (Link to Podcast of PKD B-Day Tribute)
- PKD Documentary Now Available
- Listen to the Total Dick-Head Friday Night
- Lethem Discusses The Preserving Machine
- Video of 'Phillip K Dick' Discovered On YouTube
- Ferris F Fremont Loses the Election!
- Quote of the Day 10.26
- Parallel Dimension Plans Animated Owl in Daylight Feature
- Rare Blade Runner Production Shots
- Ubik Screenplay Out Now
- Back with a Vengeance (and Some Cool Shirts)
- PKD's Obscure Biblical Allusion of the Day
- New Aquisitions of the Day
- John Alan Simon Interviewed at Dickien.fr
- PKD's Obscure 18th Century Philosophical Allusion of the Day
- You Can't Libel The Dead, But Disch Gives It A Hell of Shot
- Flow Some Thoughts Ont the Book, The Blogger Did
- PKD Article Machine Strikes Again
- Interview with Tessa Dick (Part One)
- PKD Article Machine Up and Running (Again)
- Obscure PKD Poetic Allusion of the Day
- PKD's Relationship to Academia
- 'The Electric Ant' Series in the Work
- A Short Interview with Larry Sutin
- Oh Ho On Sale On Ebay
- Long Article About PKD in London Review of Books
- Rare PKD Photo of the Day 7.16.08
- Variety Reviews 'Your Name Here'
- Thomas Disch RIP, Thanks For Putting PKD In Your Last Book
- Rare PKD Photo of the Day 7.2.08
- Interview With Tessa Dick on Dickien.fr
- Old Vertex Magazine PKD Interview and Photos
- A Letter From The Dark Haired Girl
- Boingboinger, Commenter Geek Out on LEGO 'Spinner'
- 'Your Name Here' Trailer Online
- PKD's LoA Volume Fastest Selling Ever
- How Much More Dick Is There?
- PKD Otaku #19 Now Available
- 'Your Name Here' Interview With Matthew Wilder
- Next Stop Pottersville
- 707 Hacienda Way
- Lunch with Powers
- Covers of the Day - The Cosmic Puppets
- Jump Into the Urinal! Ubik To Become Film!
- Tony Grisoni Interviewed (By Someone Else!)
- Alternate Plot for The Owl in Daylight Unearthed!
- PKD Day 2 - Electric Sheep Bugaloo
- All I Really Need to Know I Learned From PKD
- PKD Ads - Apply Directly to the Forehead!
- 'Your Name Here' to Premiere in Vegas in June
- Rare PKD Photo of the Day 5.04.08
- VALIS Discussed
- Headless Man Sues, Loses
- Disney To Produce 'King of the Elves' in 2012
- Total Dick-Head is One Year Old
- More Proof We're Living in a PKD Novel
- Radio Free Albemuth Production Update
- Rare PKD Photo of the Day 3.25
- Kevin Kelly on PKD
- Chrome Eyes, Teeth, and Arms - Everywhere I Look
- Rare PKD Photo of the Day 3.10.08
- My Afternoon with Kleo Mini
- That's A Lot of Dick
- VALIS Featured Again on Last Night's 'Lost'
- Cover of the Day 3.4.08
- French Interview with Anne Mini
- Erik Davis on PKD
- Yep, VALIS Was On 'Lost' Last Night
- Cover of the Day 2.21.08
- "An Introductory Lesson in Ontology, Made Palatable for the Kiddies."
- Back From Harvard
- VALIS to be Featured in Fourth Season of 'Lost' According to Spoiler
- The Oracle Says, "You Want This Shirt"
- My Date With 'Destiny in a Mini-Skirt'
- Two New Exegesis Excerpts Available At PhilipKDick.com
- Steven Hart Reviews 'A Scanner Darkly'
- Deckard and Meursault
- While I'm Away
- PKD's Agent David G Hartwell Responds to Accusations of PKD's 'Nutiness'
- Happy Birthday PKD
- I've Got Nothing To Prove Here
- The Total Dick-Head Goes to Harvard
- Two Long-Out-Of-Print-Titles Return!
- Finally, The Final Cut
- Blade Runner Tickets on Sale NOW!
- Cover of the Day 11.19
- I See Something Red and Flag-Like Waving Over There
- Giamatti Dishes on Owl
- Radio Free Albemuth Website Up and Running
- Comic Strip of the Day
- Beam Me Up Scotty, This Place Sucks!
- A Moment in the Classroom
- Theatrical Release of Blade Runner: The Final Cut Extended
- Production Wraps on Radio Free Albemuth
- Isa Dick-Hackett Inteview in French Media
- 'Your Name Here' To Be Wildly Inaccurate
- Humpty Dumpty in Oakland Hits Bookshelves
- Electric Shepherd Productions Teams Up With The Halcyon Company
- What's New In Blade Runner
- Ridley Scott on Blade Runner
- Take The Quiz Part II
- Library of America Announces Second Volume of PKD Novels
- You Mean There Might Be More?
- Anne Dick Responds To The New Yorker
- New Issue of Article is Online - And They Ran My Article
- PKD Article in LA Times
- We Can Make It - You Get Me?
- Problems With The PKD Society Newsletters
- I Say End Your Gopnik-Hating Days, And Merely Dislike Him
- The Future Is Now: Blade Runner at 25 - The Conversation!
- Pink Beam - Thumbs Up
- Reviews of the Review Are In, And They're Not Good
- Back to Business
- PKD Gets the Royal Treatment in The New Yorker
- Owl in Daylight Update! There's Nothing to Update
- Warren Ellis Starts His Sunday Morning Hangover With Some PKD
- Erik Davis to Teach 'The Crazy Wisdom of PKD' at Maybe Logic Academy
- Cover of the Day 8.12
- First Half of Chapter Five
- Pink Beam: Another PKD Compendium Hits the Market
- Chapter Four
- Cover of the Day 8.1
- Galactic Pot Maker's Tribute
- Blade Runner Press Release - Dick-Head Vacation
- Chapter Three
- The 'Real' Ideas of Philip K Dick
- Chapter Two
- Me Thinks Thou Dost Protest Too Much!
- The Second Half of Chapter One
- Half of Chapter One
- One More Handful
- We're Only Made Out of Dust
- Sutin Interviews Himself
- Code 7
- Cover of the Day with Special Guest Erik Davis
- Hypocrite Lecteur!
- Radio Free Albemuth Live... and Free!
- The Empire In Disguise
- Welcome to the Future
- Another Blow to Linear Time
- Ballard Takes On PKD (in 1966)
- A Total Dick-Head Milestone
- Warren G Harding in the Blooming Grove
- Head Piece Filled With Straw, Alas!
- Dr Futurity Killed JFK From the Grassy Knoll
- Blade Runner - The Final Cut Trailer
- Has The Empire Finally Ended?
- Reviewer's Thumb Confused by Eldritch
- Special Issue of Scratch Pad 44 Available
- PKD-Day Has Come and Gone at Nottingham Trent
- A Satanic Bible: Eldritch Reviewed
- All These Memoirs, Like Tears in the Rain
- Serving Up Even More Chew-Z Sources
- Cover of the Day: Secondary Sources
- We Can Read It To You For Free
- PKD in NYT - Again!
- Summer Reading: Blogging "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch"
- SF Chronicle on Library of America Release
- On The Edge of Blade Runner
- PKD's House in East Gak-ville
- Stranger Than Fiction
- Cover of the Day 5.31
- Frank Rose's Unabridged Lethem Interview
- NYT PKD Article Update
- 'Your Name Here' Update
- Has PKD Become Too "Legit"?
- One Reality Out of Many
- Cover of the Day 5.22
- The Strange Case of Dr Dick and Mr Horselover
- PKD Article in Newsweak
- Blade Runner: The Ultimate Collection - Details
- Are We Cultish?
- Rudy Rucker Saw PKD at a Party in 1983
- The Penultimate Hoax
- Cover of the Day 5.12
- Proof We're Living in a PKD Novel
- Posthumous Interviews and Stage Appearances
- PKD-Related Cover of the Day Part 2
- PKD-Related Cover of the Day
- Now Wait For Last Cover Story
- PKD Article in Todays New York Times
- New Issue of PKD Otaku is Available
- Spinning On Air: Music Inspired by PKD
- PKD Day at Trent Nottingham University
- Cover of the Day 5.2
- PKD Special Available as Streaming Video
- It's A Small World
- So Many Options
- I've Been Next'd
- Total Dick-Head Sighting
- The Golden Man
- Blade Runner Reshoot?
- Flow My Press Junket, the Producers Said
- The New York Times Reviews 'Next' - Unkindly
- The Novel That Japed
- Cover of the Day 4.24
- Lethem's Dick Meta-Fic
- The Un-Memoirable Man
- Flow My Press Junket, the Publicist Said
- Cover of the Day Contest Results
- Cover of the Day 4.18
- Random Quote
- It Has Arrived
- The Power of Myth
- A Shorter Review of a Short Review
- Narrative of the Cover Art for Time Out of Joint: Part 3
- Narrative of the Cover Art for Time Out of Joint: Part 2
- PKD on Vonnegut (RIP)
- Narrative of the Cover Art for Time Out of Joint: Part 1
- Cover of the Day 4.10
- Cinematic Dick
- Cover of the Day -- Easter Edition
- Scenery from Confessions of a Crap Artist
- Cover of the Day 4.8
- PKD on BBC Radio 4
- Where the Magic Happened!
- Cover of the Day 4.7
- Cover of the Day 4.6
- Take the Quiz
- Cover of the Day 4.5
- The Owl in Daylight: Update!
- "This is what my acosmic ten-volume unique meta-novel deals with."
- Cover of the Day 4.4
- We Can't Build You
- Cover of the Day 4.3
- My Aunt's Middle Name Was Penfield
- Mr. Smith Goes To Proxima Centauri!?
- What A Dick!
- Another PKD Cover Unearthed!
- What's Next
- Voices From the Street Reviewed
- Two New Bluejay Special Edition Covers
- I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
- Amalgamated Links Brought To You By Autoblogger
- About Last Night
- Well Today's Not a Total Waste
- Picture of the Day 11.13.11
- Another Weekly Amalgamation of PKD Reading (Now With Listening!)
12 comments:
What's any of that got to do with PKD? (sigh)
What, no dogs barking at garbage men??? j/k
Looks like a cheap thrill, and I'll almost certainly see it in the theaters.
(RFA is what I've really been waiting for.)
I will wait till this is on cable it is not a real Dick story they are just using his name. The synopsis of the movie has nothing to do with Dick's original story so why bother.
Vegas Rich,
The OCR text isn't on Wikisource yet but a scan of the real Philip K. Dick story from original magazine appearance with two illustrations by Faragasso is on Wikimedia Commons at http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AThe_Adjustment_Team%2C_1954.djvu&page=1. You'll need a browser plug-in for DJVU to read it if you don't already have such a plug-in. They are available as freeware, just use a search engine to locate appropriate one for your browser. I think the illustration on the first page of the story is much cooler than anything I saw in the movie trailer.
I also might watch the movie sometime on TV but not at the movies or on DVD. It might be better than the trailer suggests to me but emotionally I can't get past the apparent exploitation of Philip K. Dick's name and the ESP involvement which is ethically questionable to put it mildly. Oh, in case ESP or the Trust wants to whine or make threats I'll note a JPG scan of the magazine's Table of Contents with copyright notice is also in Wikimedia Commons.
darkcity anyone
and which pkd story is this based on, i can't identify it.
Actually, I think Chris Nolan's upcoming movie INCEPTION may steal the PKD thunder this year. The basic idea is that [POSSIBLE SPOILER]
DiCaprio runs a corporate espionage team that uses advanced technology to get inside people's dreams and either steal their ideas or insert their own ideas into these people. One major motif or theme is that it is hard to tell if you are in a dream or in waking life.
Personally, from what I can find, this is about as close to an adaptation of UBIK as one can get without going to court.
The "reality adjustment" scenes looked cool and Emily Blunt is hot in that button-nosed, saucer-eyed English girl kind of way, so I'll happily watch it on DVD. Is it pure PKD? Naw, but who really cares, it's just a short story. Now when they get Michael Bay to direct UBIK, then I'm gonna get pissed off...
I agree that Inception looks very interesting from it's trailers.
The Adjustment Bureau looks awful. It takes an interesting premise and turns it into a very un-interesting story.
Inception on the other hand, looks great. Nolan is on a roll and I can't see him disappointing with this one.
i never understood why people always whine about how a movie is not close enough to the source novel/story. i don't care, as long as the movie is good. this sure looks awesome.
i read an interview recently with the great Italian horror director Dario Argento. When asked about people wanting to re-make his films. He basically said that he thought it was kind of counter-productive to pay money to buy the rights to the name/script/story just make a totaly differant film. doesn't make much sense.
Personally, from what I can find, this is about as close to an adaptation of UBIK as one can get without going to court.
Frankly, I'm shocked that the producers of Vanilla Sky (and the movie that it's a remake of, Open Your Eyes) weren't sued into a fine powder over the blatant similarities to Ubik.
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