Tag: Hitchhiker
-
The Tripping Forecast
Back to lighter and less serious times (although I suspect now that was just a freak pause), this mix from Rob Manuel as l_o_n_g_w_a_v_e is indeed a radiophonic trip. Very hauntological and nostalgic in the vein of The Focus Group and others recreating library music and ‘logotones’ and radio idents for the teens..Given that this…
-
RIP Marvin (Stephen Moore)
Life? Don’t Talk To Me About Life…RIP Marvin – he’s finally gone to silicon heaven. Stephen Moore who voiced Marvin The Paranoid Android in Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy TV and radio series (and thus is the only Marvin to me) has sadly died aged 81. Marvin is and was a hero of mine, I…
-
Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy reaches 40
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet where on 10:30 pm on Wednesday, 8th March 1978 a radio program went…
-
Hitchhikers
Not the Douglas Adams one, but very appropriate animation by LISAA as I’m reading ‘Dimensions of Miracles’ by Robert Sheckley at the moment, which shares a lot with Hitchhiker’s Guide, although not the ‘complete rip off’ that some catfishy Amazon reviewers contend, and Douglas said he hadn’t read it anyway… (via Counter Sparkle)
-
Land Grab
While most of the country seems to be worried that Uragoing Home from the World Cup, I’m more concerned about the Infrastructure Bill and the land grab going on. There are two things: like the horror of what happened to Royal Mail, the Land Registry is being privatised, and this new Bill allows building on…
-
A personal mantra
Well apart from Marvin’s “Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.” which is a mantra I repeat almost daily and should tell you a lot about my approach to life, this Douglas Adam quote is one that has stayed with me since I read Hitchhiker’s as a small kid.This one is from…