tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post6127570037639122918..comments2024-03-28T22:32:39.500-07:00Comments on Total Dick-Head: The Power of MythRagle Gummhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13951340313214410331noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post-30942472372985591502007-04-19T09:03:00.000-07:002007-04-19T09:03:00.000-07:00I suspect those columns in Wired are there mostly ...I suspect those columns in Wired are there mostly to annoy people :)<BR/><BR/>Next month, they'll tag a some documentary about the making of the biopic of PKD as "wired," and then biopic itself will be "tired," and so on. It's all about equating "meta" with "cool." <BR/><BR/>The stories themselves will then be, I suppose, "vampired" or "umpired" or "backfired."<BR/><BR/>Mostly, that column just makes me ired!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post-13752151058566405502007-04-16T13:27:00.000-07:002007-04-16T13:27:00.000-07:00WIRED: Total Dick-HeadTIRED: WIRED MagazineEXPIRED...WIRED: Total Dick-Head<BR/><BR/>TIRED: WIRED Magazine<BR/><BR/>EXPIRED: Philip K. Dick (R.I.P.)Cal Godothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11822149941361325037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post-3308102410531225392007-04-16T12:35:00.000-07:002007-04-16T12:35:00.000-07:00This is only meaningful if you intellectually inve...This is only meaningful if you intellectually invest in the value of Wired's hot or not column. Hot or not columns are stupid and arbitrary and Wired magazine is a useless compendium of high-tech advertisements. To dismiss a valuable contribution to human culture as 'expired' speaks more of a personal desperation to stay trendy by 'making opinion' on the part of the column writer rather than a true reflection of reality. <BR/><BR/>Personally I think 'biopics' are bizarre, why watch a movie about Philip K Dick that inevitably provides a trite and flashy single-point perspective of the man when he was a real person who wrote 50+ novels you can read along with five volumes of short stories and at least one volume of philosophical essays. Biopic - His life reduced to dumb entertainment when his reality was that he was an innovative artist who produced interesting artwork which can't be duplicated by a biopic, only referenced. Experiencing a biopic will NEVER come close to matching the value of experiencing the featured artist's work. That just wouldn't make sense. So to say that the biopic is 'hot' and the originating works that will only be referenced in the biopic is 'not' is pretty stupid -Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2184123882936370131.post-8370116054363206122007-04-16T00:54:00.000-07:002007-04-16T00:54:00.000-07:00I totally agree - given the quality of cinema work...I totally agree - given the quality of cinema work based on PKD's work so far, a 'biopic' doesn't inspire much hope.<BR/><BR/>Reading Sutin's biography made me feel that I'd just read about something way weirder than any of PKD's books. I remember feeling quite emotionally drained at the end of it. How did he survive for as long as he did? (PKD, not Sutin!)<BR/><BR/>But, we're living in an age when Hollywood rushes to fictionalise history as soon as it occurs, so...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com