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Re: Check out DIA while attending the Philip K Dick Fest!

Postby 82_28 » Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:44 am

Twyla LaSarc wrote:
It was through my hubby that I came to appreciate Dick. I'd read science fiction since I could read, but somehow had missed out on Dick's body of work. But better late than never--it really spoke to me, since I'd lived a strange life by then, among mobsters, other low-life and rich, corrupt men who all lived in a kind of parallel reality to most American's lives.


I'm glad your husband turned you on to his stuff. He's one of those authors I literally give books away just to get friends to read them. I even got my sister (who is very straight and not really into SF) to read his stuff, which she wound up liking...

Phil's work has been a huge part of my life. My first job at 14 was working in a library as a page. I got fired for reading. I'm pretty sure the book in question was 'Scanner Darkly'. For better or for worse, Phil Dick taught me about people, the inherent weirdness of life and mortality. I can identify with a life led in some parallel world to the one that is accepted as real. I dunno if I went there because I read Dick and Burroughs at an impressionable age, or if reading those authors taught me the inherent absurdities of life and the secret world that exists behind the veil of 'normalacy'. Either way, I am far richer for both the literature and the experience (which the literature helped me survive... :) ).


You said it right there, Twyla! So well said. And I also have so many PKD books that I will never ever see again. You're here in Seattle no? I know a few peeps who have expressed interest along with myself in starting a PKD club. I don't know how existentially fucked up such a thing would be though. PKD utterly changed however, how I view just about anything and guess what? Jeff Wells of all people too. And a little 9/11 and George Bush -- which are perfectly unconnected to PKD and the good proprietor of this site.
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Re: Check out DIA while attending the Philip K Dick Fest!

Postby Simulist » Mon Aug 23, 2010 3:11 am

82_28 wrote:PKD utterly changed however, how I view just about anything...

I've always wanted to ask you, 82_28, did you choose your user-name based on the year PKD died ('82) and the year he was born ('28) — or is that just a coincidence?
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Re: Check out DIA while attending the Philip K Dick Fest!

Postby 82_28 » Mon Aug 23, 2010 4:06 am

Simulist wrote:
82_28 wrote:PKD utterly changed however, how I view just about anything...

I've always wanted to ask you, 82_28, did you choose your user-name based on the year PKD died ('82) and the year he was born ('28) — or is that just a coincidence?


Oh fucking man! Somebody asked me that awhile back here. It freaks me out and had forgotten about it. Believe me if you want to, but my username is pure coincidence. The oddest thing about it, is that back when I was literally reading tons of PKD, is when I had three straight days of cash turn ins from my bar till of $82.28. Three straight days of the same amount. There may have been a day in the middle there that differed, I can't remember. The number popping up in succession freaked me out somewhat and ended up being branded in my head. But yes, pure, absolute pure dickian coincidence and had no knowledge of Dick's birth date or year of death -- I mean, sure I knew of the dates, but yes, pure absolute coincidence.

Fucked up.
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Re: Check out DIA while attending the Philip K Dick Fest!

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Mon Aug 23, 2010 7:19 am

justdrew wrote:anyone make it?

full story and pics at link...
Searching for reality at the Philip K. Dick festival
Searching for reality at the Philip K. Dick festivalLast weekend, hardcore Philip K Dick fans trekked to the high Rocky Mountains for a festival of Dickian dimensions. There were Dick scholars, biker bars, library lectures, Techgnostic side-trips with Erik Davis, and an epic, weekend-long attempt to define reality

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We took one really cool short side-trip to see some crazy rock art at an undisclosed location near the Utah/Colorado border. The paintings depicted strange space-alien looking characters with big eyes, wearing helmets, elaborate head gear, and/or antenna; the archaic Native American art was created sometime between two thousand and eight thousand years ago.


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Re: Check out DIA while attending the Philip K Dick Fest!

Postby Simulist » Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:25 pm

82_28 wrote:
Simulist wrote:
82_28 wrote:PKD utterly changed however, how I view just about anything...

I've always wanted to ask you, 82_28, did you choose your user-name based on the year PKD died ('82) and the year he was born ('28) — or is that just a coincidence?


Oh fucking man! Somebody asked me that awhile back here. It freaks me out and had forgotten about it. Believe me if you want to, but my username is pure coincidence. The oddest thing about it, is that back when I was literally reading tons of PKD, is when I had three straight days of cash turn ins from my bar till of $82.28. Three straight days of the same amount. There may have been a day in the middle there that differed, I can't remember. The number popping up in succession freaked me out somewhat and ended up being branded in my head. But yes, pure, absolute pure dickian coincidence and had no knowledge of Dick's birth date or year of death -- I mean, sure I knew of the dates, but yes, pure absolute coincidence.

Fucked up.

That's really fascinating, 82_28. I believe what you're saying.

If PKD was right about the real basis of the universe being information — living information — then it makes sense to me that this information organizes itself into coherent, associative "packets," which we sometimes think of as coincidences.
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Re: Check out DIA while attending the Philip K Dick Fest!

Postby Twyla LaSarc » Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:29 pm

82_28 wrote:You're here in Seattle no? I know a few peeps who have expressed interest along with myself in starting a PKD club. I don't know how existentially fucked up such a thing would be though. PKD utterly changed however, how I view just about anything and guess what? Jeff Wells of all people too. And a little 9/11 and George Bush -- which are perfectly unconnected to PKD and the good proprietor of this site.



Yeah, I'm back in Seattle after 20 years of trying to get here again- I lived and worked downtown in the late '80's and left to go back to my parent's home in IL to bear the summer of grunge baby I just escorted through his first trip to Pike's Market today. I was pleased to see the best still there- Left Bank books (Which my son asked to go to as soon as I explained what it was), The Chinese bakery with the best humbows ever, and Tenzing Momo, (although mercury in retrograde wreaked havoc on my attempted purchase- certain items are only availble for trade there, as it should be... :) ).

I could dig meeting up with some fellow Dickheads. I've been here for three weeks (moved in from B'ham) and still dealing with the move, let alone attempting to put in roots. I was lucky to find a job in 2 weeks. I dunno where you guys are but a meetup in downtown or Belltown would be easy for me since I work in the area. Feel free to PM me and let me know if anything comes up.

PS: I love the synchronicities surrounding your user name, Very cool.

PPS: Jeff Wells is mind-challenging in his own right. I've been reading this board for years, people come and go, but the discourse is always intelligent and, yes, rigorous. I miss the essays, but I appreciate his being a fairly active part of the board.
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Re: Check out DIA while attending the Philip K Dick Fest!

Postby justdrew » Fri Aug 27, 2010 2:29 am

while searching for old ad pictures featuring "NEW Dawn" dish-washing liquid, in support of our ongoing Iraq operations, I find that THIS exists...

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because Tessa's apparently been writing consumer product reviews on epinions dot com...
http://www0.epinions.com/content_278653472388
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Re: Check out DIA while attending the Philip K Dick Fest!

Postby 82_28 » Fri Aug 27, 2010 2:33 am

justdrew wrote:
because Tessa's apparently been writing consumer product reviews on epinions dot com...
http://www0.epinions.com/content_278653472388


You can't get more Dickian than this!
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Re: Check out DIA while attending the Philip K Dick Fest!

Postby 82_28 » Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:58 pm

Whatever happened to his robot head btw?
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Re: Check out DIA while attending the Philip K Dick Fest!

Postby elfismiles » Fri Jun 22, 2018 2:06 pm

Somehow I missed this last year:

Ingo Swann film panel for Philip K Dick Film Festival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qAqwA_5UPE

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Published on Jun 16, 2017
Discussion with Dr. Jacques Vallee, Dr.Harold Puthoff, Thomas McNear, Blynne Olivieri, Maryanne Bilham moderated by Daniel Abella on colleague and friend Ingo Swann, remote viewing, Consciousness, UFOs, Planetary out bounder experiments.


... and ... my interview with Tessa:

Mad World of Philip K. Dick, The Matrix, Men in Black, Unexplained Transmissions

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Published on Nov 14, 2017
Join Exploring the Bizarre hosts Tim Beckley and Tim Swartz
as they welcome back TESSA DICK wife of the great science
fiction visionary Philip K Dick (Blade Runner, Total Recall,
Man in the High Castle). SMILES LEWIS the founder of Anomaly Archives
(Houston, TX) bolsters the conversation which takes in a wide
variety of topics from PKD's "kidnapping" at the hands of the notorious
UFO Silencers, to Tessa's take on the anomalies experienced by
her late husband who saw our world as a computer simulation and
his ability to spin stories into alternate realities. He also warned us of the
police state in which we live and how on "some level" the Nazis won World War
II, and the Empire Never Ended.
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