In Seattle, there's a shipping canal that cuts through the Ballard, Fremont and University districts, each spanned by a single drawbridge, any of which MUST be opened if ANY boat traffic requests it. There's a time between 4pm - 6pm where they won't open the bridge, but one minute after 6, if you're not across you just turn off your engine and watch every entitled prick in the PNW putt their boat down the canal. Bridge opens, 10 minutes pass, bridge closes again. All along the canal. Backing traffic up to the fucking moon and it takes about 15 minutes to clear. Which works out wonderfully because the bridge often has to open 10 minutes after it just closed. At first, it's a novelty to see the bridge open. Then it's meh. Then it's the bane of your fucking existence. You start to whimper and sweat when you hear the two-minute horn and the ding-ding-ding of the gates coming down. Then come sthe white-hot fury directed at anyone who has the gall to come down the canal at exactly 6:00:01 and block traffic for the next 47 years. Hate. Hate. HATE!!!

The NOAA ships, mega-yachts and ships going to the yards are kind cool, 'tho.

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE!!!!!!

Join in, power ballard that shit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_Unknown

Out of the Unknown.

I've seen 'Liar' which is from "I Robot". It was excellent, in a Dr.Who vibe.
There is another "The Prophet" that I would love to see, with a score by BBC Radiophonics heroine Delia Derbyshire. But the film was destroyed. Soundtrack exists.



These are the Asmiov Eps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_%28Asimov%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfaction_Guaranteed_%28short_story%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucker_Bait

Other notable episodes are "The Machine Stops" and “Thirteen to Centaurus” (J.G.Ballard!!).
Simply amazing sci-fi

That is very interesting. It seems like the technology is already there - now insert some physics & sensors and it really would be virtual reality; that is to say not too much further to go simulating a corporate office environment of nightmarish JG Ballard quality

What is in Plano, Texas other than a lot of FedEx assholes?

"The city is home to many corporate headquarters, including Ericsson Inc., Rent-A-Center, Crossmark, Dell Services, Pizza Hut, Alliance Data Systems, HP Enterprise Services, JCPenney, Frito-Lay, Cinemark Theatres, Dr Pepper Snapple Group and Siemens PLM Software."

I stand corrected, it is of the schtuff that many a JG Ballard novel is made of.

Upvote for Archie McFuckin' McPhee!

The only non-douchey thing in Ballard.

At what point did "through" change from "throw" to "throo" and how is it pronounced in modern-day Great Britain? (You know, "daughters" used to be pronounced "dafters" in the US at least until 1800. [If you're interested in history, explore the diary of Martha Ballard.] I wonder when "laughter" will be pronounced "lotter.")

See Cronenberg's filmography:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000343/
I can recommend all of his films

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cronenberg did an adaptation of JG ballard's Crash novel... i thought that was a neat choice, considering how dark the theme. i'm interested to see what other films he's directed

cronenberg did an adaptation of JG ballard's Crash novel... i thought that was a neat choice, considering how dark the theme. i'm interested to see what other films he's directed