The Man in the High Castle: Book vs Series?🎥📕🏯🏰

I nearly finished viewing the Amazon series adaption of PKD's book on Hitler's birthday (April 20th), but ended up finishing the last episode the day after on April 21st, the late Queen of England's birthday ironically:-)

Which seemed apt, because in the book the British Empire wins the war in our universe and I like to think we did, too ... didn't we?-)

Personally, I thought the series was way better than the book, but I wasn't a fan of either, to tell the truth, and found them both a slog to get through.

The Man in the High Castle (TV series)

The Man in The High Castle ... and Was Jung Antisemitic?🎥🏯📕🏰📽 🎬

And now I'm reading VALIS ... again:-(

I was wondering how other people liked the book or the series, but I couldn't find a lot reviews about the complete series vs the book on the net.

Apart from opinionated reviews from people like this person below, who seemed to use the word "hate" a lot in her You Tube review, ironically:-)

She certainly liked the series, didn't she?-)
I think she forgot that it was meant to be a PKD adaption?

She should try reading all of his work, if she felt that way about the series:-)

I thought Rufus Sewell stole the series in his role as John Smith, an SS Obergruppenführer, later promoted to Oberst-Gruppenführer, and then to Reichsmarschall of the colony of North America.

It took me a while to realize that Rufus was in the 1998 movie 'Dark City' -

The Matrix, Dark City and April Fool's Day in the Emerald City of Oz?

And he was in the 2019 movie 'Judy' ... but we ain't gonna talk about 'Judy';-)

How times change?

Every Man, Woman and Wolverine is a Star? ⭐🤩🟎

I saw this movie poster at the cinema the other day and it reminded me of an old post of mine were Hugh holds the Guinness World Record for playing the beast, plus I haven't seen a good Disney Marvel film for quite a while, so I might have to give this one a viewing in July -

Hugh Jackman, Aleister Crowley, The Beatles and The Beast?

The Wisdom of Oz ... and Aphorisms?

Hugh Jackman: The Boy from Oz?

2024, The Year of the Dragons?⚽🐉🏆🐲

'Deadpool & Wolverine' comes out in America on July 26th according to the trailer, which I find rather synchromystic -

Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

Notre Dame Should Be Ready for the Paris Olympics Opening on July 26th?📕🔥🚒🎆

Joker: Folie à Deux ... Who's Still Laughing Now?🃏🤡

Dark Phoenix (2019)

#MemeToo: Sophie Turner?

Auto-Bibliotherapy of a Rebel?📖✍📕🐉

If you live in Australia, it's hard not to notice that Rebel Wilson has a book coming out on May 8th, 2024, or as Aussies like to call the date M8 (MATE).

That date rings a personal bell for some reason:-)

Oh, to be a dragonfly on the wall when it comes to the truth, right?-)

The dragonfly that flew into my home on May 8

Look Mate (May 8?-), a Dragonfly Just Flew Into My Home?

From 'Watching the Tree to Catch a Hare' 

Auto-Bibliotherapy?✍📖💻

Apparently, if you buy the Australian edition when it comes out, there will be a chapter missing, but if you buy the American version the chapter is included. 

"Rebel Wilson has seemingly lost her battle against Sacha Baron Cohen in the fight to have her memoir released intact.
Australian readers will be unable to read an entire chapter where Wilson detailed her account of working with Cohen.
Despite already being published in the US, Australian and New Zealand versions of the book were held from shelves due to a legal battle that’s now been resolved, forcing Wilson to edit the book in the process.
HarperCollins Australia confirmed that “for legal reasons we have redacted one chapter in the Australian/New Zealand edition and included an explanatory note accordingly. That chapter is a very small part of a much bigger story and we’re excited for readers to know Rebel’s story when the book is released, on Wednesday 8 May.”"

THE HUSTLE is a Remake of DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, which is a Remake of BEDTIME STORY? 🎥🎬

The Story of Trent Dalton's Stories ... and Life?

It seems like everyone has a story to tell these days, or even a semi-fictious story to tell:-)

Clelland, Bird and Name Synchronicities?🦉🐦📕

Faith based non-fiction?!

It's amazing how a bit of press ... good or bad ... can boost book sales or movie and TV shows, too, for that matter.

Boy Swallows Universe ... and That Red Bridge at Darra?🌉

I have to admit that I once thought it was a coincidence that Trent had a Blue Fairy Wren hit a window in his BSU novel as a major plot point in his story, while I started my synchronicity blog because of a blue bird hitting my window.

But it was a Sacred Kingfisher that hit my window, not a Blue Fairy Wren -

That's the window the bird hit

The Bird that Flew into the Window

The Fairy Wren stepping out
to greet me at Port Arthur

But I have written about Blue Fairy Wrens as well on my blog, well before Trent's book came out, like in this 2016 post -

Hit Me with Your Best Shot

Two souvenirs I bought at
the start of my road-trip

And I had written about Blue Fairy Wrens well before that -

The Elusive Bluebird of Happiness?

And I have written how meaningful the Brisbane City Hall is to me personally, with me having grown up in Brisbane, like Trent did, and how the City Hall clock tower plays a central role in his novel -

Brisbane City Hall

So, I now wonder if Trent didn't read my blog at some point and used some of my story for his story?

Not that I care if he did, as I like the story he crafted to make his story, as I think it is a real work of art.

I'm just curious to know where the Blue Fairy Wren hitting the window idea came from for BSU and whether it was all just one big coincidence that a Brisbane blogger would have similar synchronistic events happen in his own life with birds and fate?-)

I guess only Trent would know the answer to that one?

Animal Dreaming?

Oh, and Rebel's book comes out in Australia just before the Mother's Day Weekend;-)

4 Movies in One Day?🍿🎦

Yesterday I went to the cinema and watched 4 movies in a row.

All worth a watch in my opinion.

Civil War (2024)

Late Night with the Devil (2023)

Monkey Man (2024)

Freud's Last Session (2023)

And Freud's was the last session of the day for me.

Cinema 9

And that cinema resembled a padded cell ironically;-)

Freud's Last Session?👻

Each movie needs to have a post written about it I guess to explain why I think they are worth a watch, rather than make this post a mile long.

So, stay tuned, as I write them all a separate post, except maybe the movie about Frued and Lewis, as that movie is just more or less an augment about whether God exists or not, and as you would expect, it pretty much never gets resolved by the time the movie ends.