OH! Another thing ND told me about--X-Minus One

[likethebeer]

You can download basically all their shows (or a whole damned bunch of them, anyway) here: X-Minus One downloads. They're mp3s.

It's interesting looking at the abstracts about them. The guy who wrote them doesn't give some of them enough credit. But if you haven't heard X-Minus One, his statements are probably the way to go. As I told ND, "Yes, 'The Girls from Earth' [+ any number of these shows] is old-fashioned, but that's part of my enjoyment of these shows: if it's not a well-crafted story, I can enjoy the extreme sexism, implicit racism, and anti-communism (which at times battles furiously with racism)."

Still, there are plenty that are good. I haven't looked over all the abstracts, but there's "The Parade," which is creepy; "The Cold Equation," which is sad and brutal; "A Bucket of Air," which is considered a classic (it's kind of goofy); and, damn, "The Tunnel Under the World". I just looked back at the post I did about that one. There's not much info in the post, but man that freaked me out.

I listen to these old time radio things and I think about my parents listening to them as kids, or about somebody like Stephen King listening to them, and what they did to them.

Plus, X-Minus One has some of my favorite opening lines:

These are stories of the future. Adventures in which you will live in a million could-be years on a thousand maybe worlds.

I love the way they say, "Adventures in which you will live in a million could-be years on a thousand maybe worlds". They're so forceful with this conviction.

ANd, damn, mda and I were watching Forbidden Planet and we both hooked onto a moment in Star Trek: First Contact. In Forbidden Planet the main engineer comes up to the captain with a f*cked up piece of copper coil trying to figure out how to fix it. Same thing happens in "First Contact". Neither of us had caught it before.

yup: Forbidden Planet presages so much in modern movie sci-fi. Including technobabble.

Comments

They're so forceful

[regatomic.livejournal.com]

i always prefered alfred hitchcock's or rod serlings soft spoken approach,..:)

Re: They're so forceful

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Ah, but it's the "radio of the mind". That's one of the things I like: you make it up in your head, and there are no visuals to get in the way.

It's been a while since I've watched Hitchcock's show. Rod Sterling missed me a bit, we didnt' see it too much in reruns. The Night Gallery could be seen in our area, and those were darker and creepier than Twilight Zone. A little stomach churning in my afternoon-viewing experience.

movie sci-fi.

[regatomic.livejournal.com]

i have read many of the writers that penned these,..i'm going to break my NO downloading rule now,..o.0

Re: movie sci-fi.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

su-weet! Hope it doesn't disappoint. They're from the 1950s, that's part of what I remember.

doesn't disappoint

[regatomic.livejournal.com]

they won't some of these i recognise as stories i read in the pulps from early 60's, some of my first sci-fi,..;)