davefischer

Dark City is intense, but my favorite movie by Alexander Proyas is his first feature film: Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds. The genre of artsy post-apoc is small, and that's one of the best.

My favorite SF comedy is Dark Star.

I've been reading a lot of Stefan Wul lately. Fantastic Planet was an adaption of one of his books. Great stuff. So weird.

(You know the scene where the Oms in the park take down two Draags? In the book, they don't have weapons (and they're not as tiny). It's more like an attack by a pack of dogs. They bite the Draags to death.)

When I was in my 20s, definitely Principia Discordia.

Now... maybe Brecht's Threepenny Opera?

Or Zamyatin's We.

Love longan. Also very photogenic. (Sometimes I buy fruit primarily to photograph.)

Even Dwarfs Started Small

Worked with a murderer who was living under a fake name, back in the 90s. But he was actually fine.

There were probably terrible people at that job, but I don't remember... Oh, the first actual real, live creationist I ever met was at that job.

There's SO MANY Alice adaptations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Films_and_television_programmes_based_on_Alice_in_Wonderland

I had a 3g modem in my cisco router that I used to use for that, but when they shut down the 3g network I was never able to find another cheap sms-only service for the 4g version of the cisco modem. (So I switched to wifi & xmpp.)

I wrote my own software to use it, talking to the raw modem interface. Which, interestingly, uses an extension of the old "AT" modem command set. Weird.

Being able to write shell scripts that access sms is fantastic, I miss it.

Mansa Musa

Whoa, never heard of that. Nice.

I think about that a lot. On usenet, I had lots of friends. On modern forums, every conversation is sitting down with a bunch of strangers.

Maybe it's just my memory is shot because I'm old? Ha ha.