Hey there! The trip was amazing, thank you for asking! Saw my first IMAX movie with Sucker Punch, which I dug quite a bit. Dallas, for the most part, rocks and is one of my favorite bigger cities. Aside from that, there are several things I could blog about; just started writing for the comic, watching some Doctor Who to get psyched for the new season (just watched Silence in the Library!), how happy I was the new Thundercats trailer didn't suck which gives me hope for the series and am playing Mass Effect 2 on 360 and Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery on iPad. Some of those things I might blog about later on, today I want to talk about one, or is it two, things.
So Blade Runner is one of my favorite movies and probably, besides The Fountain, my favorite Sci-Fi movie. Just bought the 5 Disc Blu-ray set off Ebay and will devour that again. I love the depth to it and the questions and debates that movie brings up. Like is Deckard a Replicant? Or the age old question of what does being human even mean? Movie never gets old and it even heavily inspired my second favorite video game. Which leads me to the novel the film is based on, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. Ha ha, yes, his last name is Dick. It's funny, moving beyond that though, odds are if you've really liked a Sci-Fi movie in the past ten or fifteen years it might have been based on his work. Did you like Minority Report? Based on a Philip K. Dick novel. The Adjustment Bureau? Dick. A Scanner Darkly? Dick. Go back a little bit further and you have Total Recall and Blade Runner, Dick and more Dick. That said and me loving most of those movies, I've never read any of his novels.
Until now, where I'm almost done with the audio version of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Aside from my issues with the narrator, who has no infliction to his voice, which if that's intentional is very bad in a story where you're supposed to be guessing who's real and who's fake, I'm really liking the story though. Not quite as much as Blade Runner, I think Blade Runner tells the story in a more interesting way, I have issues with the Androids in Electric Sheep, because they become unsympathetic in the novel towards the end, where as in Blade Runner you feel an extreme amount of pity for Roy Batty. I don't know if I'll read anymore of Dick's work anytime soon, I'm just about Sci-Fi'd out book-wise, between this and Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein, but if you're a fan of the movie and haven't checked the book out, do it. They compliment each other very well. Just stay away from the audio book version!
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