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What, No MOG Love for Blade Runner .......

Posted over 2 years ago
Release date was June 25, 1982 (also the birthday of my good friend Tom Caskie, 1969. Happy Birdhey, TAC) a movie production based on the book, "*Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?*":http://www.philipkdick.com/works_novels_androids.html by Phillip K. Dick and directed by Ridley Scott.
If you have never seen this movie or read the book, you must have been living under a rock.
So what do you think of the "ultra-homogeneous society"? Corporations as civic entities all on their own terms? Androids?While your thinking here is the Cocteau Twins. Off of their album Lullabies to Violaine, Vol. 1, released in Nov. of 1982. Enjoy!P.s. Sorry folks I have to lay off the Jazz for a bit.

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Comments (20)

  1. Doomsayer2001
    Doomsayer2001 says Speaking of homogeneous... the Cocteau Twins have a homogeneous look to them! lol I want a flying car! Or at least a rocket pack!
    Permalink posted 06/25/2007
  2. Groon
    Groon says I read somewhere that the director's cut was being released in the theater again this summer. If that's true, I am there! I missed it on the big screen when it first came out, but I won't miss it this time.
    Permalink posted 06/25/2007
  3. I am
    I am says Don't! For the love of God, Don't miss it again! I caught this flick at a cheap seat theatre in Trexlertown, PA. My buddy Kevin Mory and I rode our bikes to the mall to see it. Just like Star Wars, I felt as though it changed my life. It was around here I had read the Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451. PKD was next on my list.
    Permalink posted 06/25/2007
  4. Groon
    Groon says Watching this movie was partially what got me into PKD too (that and reading the back of Time out of Joint in a bookstore one time. Since then, I've basically bought and read every one of his books I could get my hands on, and only have a few more left to go. I love how his plots are such a reality bender. He had a way of just thinking of things from completely different angles.
    Permalink posted 06/26/2007
  5. kristiana
    kristiana says Um, hello, over here! One of my favorite movies, if not favorite. And I love Dick (as I've often been overheard saying and, ah, misunderstood). The other day I was toying with kinda a Dickish idea - that in the future, if one has no myspace/facebook type page, then does one really exist? Would we have to prove it? Hahaha! I still refuse to have either. Did you watch Waking Life? What did you think? I liked it. I really enjoyed - and got goosebumps - when they brought up that Dick story.
    Permalink posted 06/26/2007
  6. Groon
    Groon says Well, I guess you're existence would come through your MOG page, then. That's funny. Instead of the government issuing social security cards and birth certificates, each newborn just gets a web address assigned at birth! Haven't seen Waking Life, haven't even heard about it. What's it about?
    Permalink posted 06/26/2007
  7. kristiana
    kristiana says Web address assigned at birth, holy fuck, yes! It may not be that far off, haha! Oh, I will have to delete my mog page by then, Groon! It's a Linklater film, Groon, 2001. Animated and "rotoscoped". Philosophical. NOt everyone's cup of tea, but I thought it was cool. The dialogue AND the way it looked.
    Permalink posted 06/26/2007
  8. ciphermedia
    ciphermedia says "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time. Like tears in rain. Time to die"
    Permalink posted 06/26/2007
  9. Groon
    Groon says So similar in appearance to A Scanner Darkly, then? What a great film THAT was!
    Permalink posted 06/26/2007
  10. Rawkkiddoh
    Rawkkiddoh says Late to the party here, but will add Blade Runner is one of my all time favorites, might explain my love for Morrisey
    Permalink posted 06/26/2007
  11. kristiana
    kristiana says You got it , Jon! What an ending. Ok, I was going to make this joke before, now seems like the perfect time... Hope you don't mind, Hermes! Just a little fun!
    Permalink posted 06/26/2007
  12. kristiana
    kristiana says AND he's into A.I. people...C'MON! The replicants are among us!
    Permalink posted 06/26/2007
  13. ciphermedia
    ciphermedia says Ha Ha! Very funny Kristiana!! So true.
    Permalink posted 06/26/2007
  14. kristiana
    kristiana says ;)
    Permalink posted 06/26/2007
  15. Lizziegreeneyes
    Lizziegreeneyes says erm... I uh... like the Cocteau Twins ;)
    Permalink posted 06/26/2007
  16. Iren
    Iren says I love that movie... I also love pissing off the Starwars fanboys by naming it as the best Sci Fi film of the last 30 years....
    Permalink posted 06/26/2007
  17. Girlcrawl
    Girlcrawl says 'Androids, ultra-homogeneous societies', the philosophical concerns underlying Phillip K. Dick novels...I've just stepped into quite a deep discussion so I'm with Lizziegreeneyes: "erm… I uh… like the Cocteau Twins "! Am fairly certain though that Isa (my pup) is a replicant, but not complaining.
    Permalink posted 06/26/2007
  18. Cody B
    Cody B says The movie was very,very good. As far as the Big Brother-ish aspects of the Digital World, uum, I guess they are pretty much here. As far as replicants..no comment, I have to go get my joints oiled.
    Permalink posted 06/28/2007
  19. I am
    I am says Wow a ton of great comments. I see some of the future as info overload. We may get so involved with life on the net, and as tech advances, we may need to find some way to screen out the noise. Like a billion chattering monkeys. Do we evolve these filtering tendencities or do we upload the required software? The great and terrible thing about PKD novels are, they are plausible. There is a hint of truth and the possibility of the possible really scares the crap out of me and makes me fear for the future generations.
    Permalink posted 06/28/2007
  20. The Serenity Vortex
    The Serenity Vortex says Damn how could I have missed this post? Especially since I made this post..... "Blade Runner Blues Remixed – The Boy Flood vs Vangelis":http://mog.com/The_Boy_Flood/blog_post/92976 ....today! lol! I have kristiana to thank for pointing me this way. Blade Runner rules!
    Permalink posted 07/06/2007

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