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Ahhh... the Ballad of Hinge Thunder!

Medical device sales man. Starts out trying to pronounce weird eletrostaticdiscombubulator machinery. Ends up almost losing his child because he can't understand anyone.

I always liked that one as it wasn't really fantasy or science fiction just a story about someone with Aphasia told from his perspective.
>> ^spoco2:

I have this episode burned into my brain as it was one of a few 80s Twilight Zone episodes the my dad had taped off the tv, so I watched this, plus the one where the man slowly loses the ability to speak english (to him and us it starts seeming like everyone is using the wrong words for things), and one where a food critic does a bad review of a Chinese Restaurant and is doomed to eternally eat there when he gets a bad fortune cookie.
Yup, that's it for me and the Twilight Zone of the 80s, just those stories, burned in there!

It's kind of like the Sci Fi channel, which got so off the deep end they changed their name to SyFy so people would stop whinging that they weren't showing Science Fiction anymore.

>> ^shagen454:

That is an interesting piece of info I did not know about. I never really understood why they went with Lynch for Dune, either. Not that that was a bad idea, I know a lot of people complain about Lynch's adaptation but I liked it a lot. I bet Jodorowsky's version would have been absolutely insane and even less on point with the Dune novel. I can only imagine all of the shit Jodorowsky could shove into that.
wiki: "he planned to cast the surrealist artist Salvador Dali as the Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV, who requested a fee of $100,000 per hour. He also planned to cast Orson Welles as the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, who only agreed when Jodorowsky offered to get his favourite gourmet chef to prepare his meals for him throughout the filming.[23] The book's protagonist, Paul Atreides, was to be played by Jodorowsky's own son, Brontis Jodorowsky. The music would be composed by Pink Floyd, Magma, Henry Cow and Karlheinz Stockhausen"
Damn, man has some fine taste in music. And yep, looks like it would have been insane.
>> ^poolcleaner:
>> EDIT: oh yeah, it's all there on IMDB but I won't spoil it for anyone.

That's because Dan O'Bannon recruited Giger for the alien creature design after working with him on Jodorowsky's failed attempt to make Dune.



Weird times. The days of hiring directors like Lynch to take over a science fiction epic are over. It didn't work and it's not what people want to see.

If Jodorowsky had made Dune, it would have given a handful of people hard ons and Rocky Horror would have fallen to the way side as the midnight movie standard. All in all, I think there'd be less trannys and Hedwig and the Angry Inch would never have been made.

Frank Herbert, Dan O'Bannon, Jodorowsky, Dali, Welles, and Pink Floyd all under one roof? The entire movie would have been one big water of life spice orgy. Pregnant women viewing the movie would've given birth to abominations possessed by Orson Welles.

I think they got close on 4/5 there.

\>> ^FishBulb:

IBM's predictions for innovation from five years ago:
We will be able to access healthcare remotely, from just about anywhere in the world.
Real-time speech translation—once a vision only in science fiction—will become the norm.
There will be a 3-D Internet.
Technologies the size of a few atoms will address areas of environmental importance.
Our mobile phones will start to read our minds.

IBM's predictions for innovation from five years ago:

*We will be able to access healthcare remotely, from just about anywhere in the world.
*Real-time speech translation—once a vision only in science fiction—will become the norm.
*There will be a 3-D Internet.
*Technologies the size of a few atoms will address areas of environmental importance.
*Our mobile phones will start to read our minds.

Star Trek = Science Fiction
Star Wars = Fantasy

And that's fine. Apples and oranges. chalk and cheese.

Twilight = Toilet paper

I always go back to evolution.

Humans have, since the beginning, striven to "understand." We evolved over the thousands of years with this "defect."

I think it isn't a defect. I think it gave us an evolutionary advantage somehow. Otherwise, it would have gone the way of the appendix.

Doesn't make me like it, but it also means there is no point in trying to argue someone out of their beliefs. It is a waste of effort. They've got some gene, or brain structure, or something, that makes them susceptible to needing this kind of structure in their lives to make sense of it "all."

I like what the atheists are doing with their billboards and TV appearances -- concentrate on GENERAL education. Get the 'rational' word out there, as a life line to those poor folks born into households of faith and don't know that there is an alternative.

An It Gets Better project for non-believers, if you will.



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>> ^bareboards2:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/Phreezdryd" title="member since October 17th, 2010" class="profilelink">Phreezdryd, I read your comment (and agree wholeheartedly!). You underestimated my ability to skip over certain loooooooooong back and forths.

I tried to read a lot of the above.

Mormonism starts with a known con artist. Scientology starts with an apparently well medicated science fiction author, and possibly on a bet. Christianity didn't exactly begin in the friendliest of climates, and we may never know who actually started it, besides what the text claims. The list goes on of course across the planet.

Not to mention all the "cults" that have ended badly, or still skirt the edges of society today. Even the people who just believe in their personal psychic or tarot cards, astrology, etc.

The mind boggles at this effort throughout history to answer things possibly unknowable. And that's evidence enough for me to think none of them have a clue.

>> ^bareboards2:

@Phreezdryd, I read your comment (and agree wholeheartedly!). You underestimated my ability to skip over certain loooooooooong back and forths.

I tried to read a lot of the above.

Mormonism starts with a known con artist. Scientology starts with an apparently well medicated science fiction author, and possibly on a bet. Christianity didn't exactly begin in the friendliest of climates, and we may never know who actually started it, besides what the text claims. The list goes on of course across the planet.

Not to mention all the "cults" that have ended badly, or still skirt the edges of society today. Even the people who just believe in their personal psychic or tarot cards, astrology, etc.

The mind boggles at this effort throughout history to answer things possibly unknowable. And that's evidence enough for me to think none of them have a clue.

>> ^lucky760:

Holy crap. Of all the science fiction technology I've ever seen, this is near the bottom of the list of things I thought would ever be a reality.
promote


Anything is possible at Zombo.com!

Holy crap. Of all the science fiction technology I've ever seen, this is near the bottom of the list of things I thought would ever be a reality.

*promote

>> ^dag:

Right! Same publisher.>> ^Payback:
>> ^dag:
Good stuff. Quite a bit after this interview, but I used to love OMNI magazine.

So did I. Penthouse for the brain.



Not only that, the founder Kathy Keeton, was a long time girlfriend and later wife to none other than Robert Charles Joseph Edward Sabatini Guccione himself...

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Right! Same publisher.>> ^Payback:

>> ^dag:
Good stuff. Quite a bit after this interview, but I used to love OMNI magazine.

So did I. Penthouse for the brain.

>> ^dag:

Good stuff. Quite a bit after this interview, but I used to love OMNI magazine.


So did I. Penthouse for the brain.

>> ^Barseps:

>> ^westy:
lol instantly annoying me , "even science fiction couldn't imagine them " and the blody retarded voice like some retarded Jeremy Clarkson lol fucks sake who thought this was a good way to present this are they mental ? .

Ah well, if it reaches a wider audience by getting the attention of some less educated people, then so be it.


Burn!