tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post4803488527035051086..comments2024-03-11T11:06:36.576-07:00Comments on Total Dick-Head: Ubik Screenplay Out NowRagle Gummhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13951340313214410331noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post-5183077524155982522010-01-25T16:13:06.314-08:002010-01-25T16:13:06.314-08:00This is the main PKD book that kept shouting to me...This is the main PKD book that kept shouting to me that it should be a film, and I read it before Blade Runner came out. I haven't seen the PKD script, but I am quite sure whatever is very close to the novel would make an excellent movie. That Phil & Van Gogh never saw the extent of the love for their work is both sad and ironic.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08791316504675124743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post-54417952222170436112009-06-18T00:52:46.970-07:002009-06-18T00:52:46.970-07:00http://www.myspace.com/bishopdante2008
A random s...http://www.myspace.com/bishopdante2008<br /><br />A random selection of tunes stashed on myspace which totally doesn't reflect anything from my output, but who careth LOLbishopdantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05719895032759745692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post-10641183515146328752009-06-18T00:42:41.927-07:002009-06-18T00:42:41.927-07:00I can make the music for it. I know exactly what t...I can make the music for it. I know exactly what to do, you see.<br /><br />Well, this glitchiness is going to date REALLY hard. It's going to sound as passé as 80s hard rock.<br /><br />In the future, everything will be old, there'll be more retro than you could imagine.<br /><br />The ultimate transcendental extension of music is the choir, choral sounds. I'd make the 1st section of the movie ambient choral works, nicely mashed up in melodyne or something to make it a bit more artificial and plastic. However, I'd avoid the "tinny & glitchy" sound of today's gear, I'd want it to sound smooth and futuristic.<br /><br />As the film progresses, the vernacular and artifacted aspects of the film would appear more and more, but with a bio-engineered flavour distorting and artifacting these trad sounds. I'd probably use a piece of meat as a transducer (bolt a speaker coil onto it) and play pitch-shifted banjo through it. That sort of thing.<br /><br />I could do a better soundtrack for this film than any of the "name" film soundtrack guys in LA.<br /><br />For sure. Danny Elfman's Salvation score was even shitter than the rest of the film. A late romantic orchestra?! For Terminator?!!! 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Tim Powers wrote much of the UBIK screenplay book.<BR/> ~~ Tessa Dick <BR/> ~~~tuffy777https://www.blogger.com/profile/06169895128599237020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post-1860775693790983832008-10-13T17:50:00.000-07:002008-10-13T17:50:00.000-07:00Actually, I have come to dislike Vangelis' soundtr...Actually, I have come to dislike Vangelis' soundtrack to BLADERUNNER...it's too slow and lugubrious. Anyway, I intended to post about the UBIK screenplay, not about Vangelis.<BR/><BR/>I've read the screenplay, as I bought the original edition at the time of its publication. I read it then and haven't since, so that's what? 20 years? Accordingly, I don't remember it well, but for me, it didn't work as well as the novel. Why? I'd have to reread to know. (Or perhaps I'd change my mind on second reading.) It might have to do with my difficulty in immersing myself in playscripts or screenplays...the authorial asides and directions are too intrusive to me. I just think I came away thinking Dick had given the material the full force of his efforts and thought and emotion when writing the book, and the script just seemed as if he were "reheating" the material.<BR/><BR/>I certainly recommend any Dick fan buy this newly available edition, and I might even spring for it if I see in the bookstore, and I don't mean to suggest it is not entertaining or a worthy try...only that the novel is a masterful statement that the screenplay did not (as it seemed to me at the time) replicate.<BR/><BR/>Let's see what others think. Or even I, if I reread it.Robert Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951286299515983901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post-60816248968389961502008-10-13T08:48:00.000-07:002008-10-13T08:48:00.000-07:00After listening to Vangelis' soundtrack for Blade ...After listening to Vangelis' soundtrack for Blade Runner, it's difficult for me to imagine another style used for a PKD-based movie.<BR/><BR/>If I were to nominate someone tho, I'd surely go with Trifonic. Their blend of glitchy electronics and what I can somewhat spot as "rock" (in the most non-generic way possible) is compelling, lush, ethereal — sometimes, it unfolds traces of paranoia. Other times, the crashing rhythms peel new layers of understanding. Like Dick's work.▓▒░ TORLEY ░▒▓ https://www.blogger.com/profile/14739012768658265437noreply@blogger.com