Ironically, there aren't a lot of podcast episodes to be found about 'The Divine Invasion', most podcasts that come up in an Apple Podcast search are Christian podcasts like this one below, which I had a listen to, and ironically the pastor/priest giving the sermon mentions the latest 'Star Wars' movie that was coming out at the time of that podcast recording:-)
I've been listening to a lot of podcast episodes featuring'The Owl Guy' Mike Clellandrecently, because of a few personal synchronicities I've had lately ... none involving owls or UFOs directly, though.
Some of his latest podcast appearances(if that's the right word) have been quite interesting to listen to, I think, as I have mentioned in some of my recent posts like this one -
I have mainly stayed in touch with Mike's blog posts and podcasts because I liked the old podcast shows where he would hook interesting guests to interview on his own podcast shows, not because I believe in UFO abductions like he does.
I liked the guests Gordo would interview on his podcast show, not because of his PC rants and to me Harry Potter role playing "Adult Magic';-)
And oddly, this morning as I'm lying in bed listening to a podcast, not involving Mike, a thought came into my head lamenting Mike not interviewing people for his podcast anymore like in the good old days, and then I see a new post on his blog about re-booting his old podcast?!
Tasmania even gets a mention in chapter 10 of 'VALIS':-)
Oddly enough, having finished reading my copy of 'VALIS' yesterday, I'm starting my library book today containing the last two 'VALIS' trilogy stories, and I noticed that the Gordon WhiteLibrary in Mount Pleasant is on PhillipStreet:-)
That's Dick's Exegesis under his semi-autobiographical novel VALIS
I'm halfway through reading 'VALIS' and then have the last two of his books to read before startingon his 'Exegesis', which I'm really looking forward to reading ... NOT!
The published version of Dick's 'Exegesis'is apparently one tenth the size of the original.
I found it amusing when getting up this morning to tear off the previous date of my Chinese wall calendar to see the May the 4th page and to see my other pictures of Brisbane(and surrounds)wall calender had a picture of the Japanese gardensinToowoomba, as I hadn't along finished watching and readingDick's'The Man in the High Castle' where he had a Japanese guy tossing the Chinese I Ching ... what a Dick?!
My original plan was to have finished reading all of Dick's books including his 'Exegesis' by March2024, but you know what they say, "if you want to make GodZebra laugh tell GodZerba your plans";-)
It was listening tothese Dickheads above at'42 Minutes'for about the last 10 years that got me into buyingDick's novel 'VALIS' and his 'Exegesis'to see for myself just what kind of "prophet" he was.
I'm only interested in Dick's semi-autobiography and stories from a pop-culturalperspective, not because I think he was a "prophet".
I think he was a drugged out religious nut bag, who read a lot of historical fantasy and fact and spewed it back up on paper in what he thought of as the truth.
It's a pity Dick died before he could write'The Owl in the Daylight', as I would have liked to have read what he thought about owls.
"The Owl in Daylight is a novel Philip K. Dick was writing at the time of his death in 1982. He had already been paid an advance for the book by the publisher and was working against a deadline. After his death, his estate approached other writers about the possibility of someone completing the novel based on his notes, but that proved to be impossible, as he had never formally outlined the story. Dick viewed the novel as his Finnegans Wake."
I've been listening to the latest podcasts that my old mate Mike Clellandhas been on, telling all about his latest semi-autobiographical work of fiction.
I've also been listening to podcasts about what people who have read VALIS thought about it.
My youngest son just got back from 10 days in The United States of America, and I had suggested we see the movie'Civil War'at the cinemas on his next night off work, as I had already seen it while he was in The States and I liked it.
Unfortunately, there were no suitable sessions of the movie playing at a time to suit us, so my son suggested the movie 'Tarot' and I said why not, as the trailer and poster looked OK, and besides if the movie was bad, it probably wouldn't be getting a cinema release, right? Wrong!
I thought it was going to be a movie like'Talk to Me', which is worth the price of a cinema ticket in my book, but 'Tarot' was like one of those B-Gradehorror flicks that used to go straight to rental when video and DVD stores were a thing in the 90s.
I couldn't even recommend you watch 'Tarot' on a free streaming service when its cinema run is over, it's that bad.
If anything, I'd just have to write the night off as a donation to keep one of my favourite Brisbane cinemas alive.
And I did have a good meal at one of my favourite Fish shops at West End before the movie.
And I did pick out two interesting looking books from the neighbourhood book exchange down the road from the Fish shop, which I never would have bought in a bookstore to read.
2024 is turning into a bad year for Russ, but there is still a long way to go yet. And ironically, my team the Sharkstake on our old foes theDragons this weekend.
And the Dragons are now coached by the man who won us our only NRL Grand Final.
