Rare Philip K Dick interview

[jessemaurais]

The community needs to know that the spirit of PKD has reasserted itself as the hypostasis of information found on several YouTube channels.

[russell7771181]

dont forget Billy Meier!

[AbitVain]

ive just done reading blade runner aka do androids dream of electric sheep . just mind blowing book . any ideas of what i should get next i was thinking maybe ubik ?

[peacemaker707]

from PDK

for me, I suggest his master pieces: Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly and VALIS

[buckfushes]

valis!

[russell7771181]

just finished ' the divine invasion' as of today - is great - the ideas are far reaching, also biblical notions being turned on their head in very funny ways - anyway would recommend it :)

(ubik is great too of course - but maybe a little extra confusing - even for dick - but if thats what you want then go with that - i think ubik was a big hit in france apparently - perhaps for the extra surrealism i suppose )

[Honestinwilkesbarre]

Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep? was the story's original title, so the aka should be Blade Runner.

[Officefan2]

I think Ubik, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch are his best books. But then again I haven't yet read his short stories (and some select novels). I would recommend Ubik and and story collection.

[Wanderlustus]

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, and as someone else said, VALIS.

[Graph101TNT]

I agree with peacemaker707... They're masterpieces for a reason! - If you enjoyed D.A.D.O.E.S though, I'd recommend the Minority Report!

[i742]

Ubik is very different from what you are reading now. Ubik takes lots of time to pt togheter its pieces. I suggest The man in the high castle, the short stories series that includes Minority Report and we can remember it for you wholesale (Total Recall adapted movie).

[hippotoast]

I've on the second chapter of The Man In The High Castle at the moment and have to say I'm finding it rather tedious. At this point should I simply abort? I've read Ubik and DRDOES and rank them both in my top 10 favourite books of all time.

[AbitVain]

just done reading blade runner aka do androids dream of electric sheep . the film blew my mind but the book ! something els . i really think pkd was a great ! Mind really people like that just blow my mind make me want to brake losse . any ideas of what book i shoud get next ?

[AbitVain]

phillip is my hero love him so much wish i could of meet the guy !just done reading Do androids dream of electric sheep aka blade runner . Any idea what i should get next im finking of maybe ubik ?

[archipankrator]

Buddha is in the park

Siddhartha sleeps but is going to awaken

the time you have waited for has come

[sharpasaneraser]

ahhhhhh, are you being surveiled, tommy pallotta? you should be so lucky...you're all a bunch of paranoid muddafukkers...wait...what was that?

[LeSPOCK]

Thanks for this sharing !

[fehercsongor]

This is taken from the Scanner Darkly DVD. I like it.

[Honkyrappa]

A great writer.

[donkeygoeslive]

is this from the blade runner ultimate edition? pkd is fucking brilliant. our friends from frolix 8 is superb

[DanielBowden1975]

The greatest writer in the history of planet earth.

[gizmoris]

The greatest so far.

[shakezula1123]

that guy @ 0:48 is richard linklater (also the same guy at the ending of waking life, he directed both waking life and a scanner darkly.)

[sotool76]

pkd was a genius.

the following books are essential reading.there will never be another like him....

the 3 stigmata of palmer eldritch

valis

ubik

do androids dream of electric sheep ?

the man in the high castle

and the biography

i am alive and you are dead : inside the mind of philip k dick

[larrypearce2]

Yes, PKD is a genius. I Disagree though with your recommendation of "Electric Sheep" as I find it an over rated work. "Martian Time Slip", "A Maze Of Death", "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" are conceptually superior and are stronger in terms of story structure.

"Electric Sheep" is to PDK what "Stairway To Heaven" is to Led Zepillin.

[killuminatiTOS]

not sure about genius maybe one to many drugs but he was definatly a creative writer and i give mad respect for him. And didnt 'do androids dream of electric sheep ' become blade runner which was a fckin ace film as was total recall and minority report which was also from his stories.

[MrHoppybunny]

damn id really like to read those books but i cant find them online

[cuttoothom]

What a genius this man was!

[GordonMorrice]

Phil is currently living his life again with subtle changes, as he is listening to his Daemon more often this time.

[Skeksis27]

the guy at 0:48... Who is that? I'm sure it's the same guy who features in Waking Life...

[1HitKnockYouOut]

It's Richard Linklater.

He is the director of both Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly.

[JiffyNo0b]

I think you're right. The guy at the pinball machine at the end.

[1trojan1]

linklater, the director of waking life and a scanner darkly.

[SmerkNomGool]

Among the greatest 20th Century writers!

[misterpeaky]

The best of the best! :-)

[LuVmE2dEaTh]

THIS MAN IS A GENIUS! HANDS DOWN!

[earlemartin]

I wish the full original footage of that interview was available to watch somewhere.

[smeghead116]

Philip K Dick was a genius. "VALIS" is possibly the greatest novel I have ever read. The amount of thought he must have put into each of his stories is mindblowing, especially considering how many he wrote.

[Allmouth]

A good book to read about Phil is "I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey Into the Mind of Philip K. Dick" by Emmanuel Carrère. I read it and found it really amazing. He is a great author and I think he makes a good account of Phil's life and the events in the world that helped shape Phil and his work. Get into it TONIGHT, in your own time zones, of course.

[TarantinoQ82]

philip k. dick is a fucking genius. unfortunately science fiction is so underestimated and except a scanner darkly and minority report there is a lot of superficial sci-fi novels and movies out there. the problem with philip is when you once read him you cannot read anything else.

[amindbody]

Dick is one of my absolutely favorite authors.

[GrampawUniverse]

very Interesting things here

[benj545]

I would recommend the film as an educational tool to treat people with problems with addiction. Lessons can be learnt by this man's life story. It's a great shame and waste that he was unable to continue writing after his own drug problems.

[GFetton]

What the fuck are you talking about? He wrote some of his best stuff after he quit drugs. (A Scanner Darkly, for instance, along with Flow My Tears, Valis and so on)

[Boogiepop100]

Yes, I agree. All the stupid anti-drug propoganda is for idiots, but the movie/book truly depicts what a few ways of having fun can do to you, from first person perspective.

Long live PKD, the prophet of the 21st century.

I just love him. The only person in the entire world that I feel I can relate to- and I was born seven years after his death...

[Nightrelic]

Interesting. I found what you term, "anti-drug propaganda," the list of names of people he knew who were permanently damaged (including himself) or died from drugs, all friends of his, one of the most moving parts of A Scanner Darkly. It gave the novel and its anti-drug message so much more impact.

[hammy311]

onemorepromethean(.)com

[gerrardgay]

is phillip here

[AScann3rDarkly]

I'm a former student of Tim Powers (David in VALIS), fellow writer and good friend of PKD. He has no idea what the break-in was all about, but he doesn't think it was the government. He was also convinced that there was absolutely nothing wron with PKD, but he began to go a little wierd just before the VALIS era. One day he called up KW Jeter saying he could forive peoples sins. Jeter got pissed so he forgave his cats sins instead then called Tim Powers to tell him all about it.

[PhillipH903]

I've read A Scanner Darkly, DADOES, and a lot of his short stories. The man was a genius ahead of his time. It's fucked up that someone so incredibly talented was so poor.

[xemnox]

Was he poor? In VALIS he had plenty of money to splash around (which is semi-autobiographical).

[Boogiepop100]

It's only in the last years of his live, (yeah, around the Valis era) that he could allow himself stuff such as new car and well, drugs. Too bad he didn't live to enjoy the royalties of Blade Runner.

[faranby]

ive felt that way aswell that homelesness or a lifestyle free of social constructs would usher in a sense of freedom that feels so distant sometimes that is until i read an article that numerous states in the u.s. had begun rfid chipping the homeless allegedly to lower crime rates witch sounds rather suspect to me beta testing is more like it this movie was so good! cant wait to read the book

[hannibalsloat]

V.A.L.I.S

[wainstallsboy]

It probably wasn't the government who broke into his house, just a junkie after something valuble to sell for drugs! As for Dick, all said and done he was an inspired thinker, but was it just the drugs taking control? Pushing him forward by a century or so, it does happen.

[KenshinSephiroth666]

Dick contradicts himself... alot.

[PhillipH903]

such a brilliant guy

[mulukchuwen]

ya know, i'm under the conviction that the paranoia that dick mentioned, such as the gov breaking into his home and stealing his files, is an inspiration for some to be "homeless". the government cannot trace you easily w/out a license, green card, license plate, home computer, or any other registered address, technology, or id--all of which cost money. i've gone paranoid myself over those issues and without reason as well.

[sloeber]

You can only think of one thing at a time, so turn that paranoia into something more productive ;p

[alifia23]

Sure. THE HUGO AWARDS. AND MORE::::::::: THEY ARE NOT PARANOID;:

[alifia23]

How interesting.

[TGseason10]

Thank you! I just finished reading the book!

I watched the movie like a year ago.

[aannkk]

why is there a bunch of number the show up under "try this" when you type his name in the search bar? weird.

[atrios28]

awesome ... thanks!

[oblique65]

sci-fiction is fuckin great. the genre is able to explore a lot of deep concerns dealing with the human condition. like the existance of god, human emotion, humanity.

sci fiction is great, it is totally philosophical.

[djflowerpower]

he's my hero. "The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" is the most important novel of the XX century. Maybe the best ever written.

[LoudTristero]

That's my second favorite novel of his (that I've read so far, and I really only just started). But my absolute favorite is Ubik. That book was INCREDIBLE. It completely blew me away.

[ksusha99]

super!!

thanks for this material

[kbake60]

pkd is the savior for the mad or insane

[LucidQuest]

wow great post and fantastic interview :)

[stallwort]

- was kid wandering around bookshop 30 yrs. ago - "geek-y" looking guy hands me copy of "Dr. Bloodmoney" - bought it, went home and read it in one sitting - - whatelseistheretosay - thanks muchly for posting this interview - Dick was the greatest.....

[AliaK77]

thanks for posting this

[AlexisMontan]

Awesome footage! Thank you!!!!!

[dowling1981]

Yes, Alexis - this interview reminds one of a sonnet by Julius Veneratti, don't you think?

[MikhailMarx]

The world is absurd.

[TONYDANGERtv]

(some) people are absurd in a beautiful world.

[crazycatfguy]

Google operation chaos.

[daltabaix]

philip k dick, the greatest

[ubik8]

Have you seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? It's one of the most Dickian films I've seen. Surely, someone will attempt to make Ubik into a movie at some point. Thanks for posting the Vid - I love Dick!

[Hippodemus]

Apparently -- if you search here for the ComicCon 2007 clips at the Blade Runner panel -- Ridley Scott's interested in making The Man in the High Castle.

[chuckieegg]

I love that film!! It's amazing, but I never thought of it as Dickian until you just mentioned it; it's to do with The Philadelphia Experiment and the Montauk Project - The Montauk Project is pretty Dickian now that I think of it :-)

[devilluffe]

lol dickian

[WickedNemesis]

This is from the special features on A Scanner Darkly. I love Philip K. Dick: A Scanner Darkly, Paycheck, Total Recall, Miniority Report, and Bladerunner!

[SquirrelsFromHell]

don't forget the newest one, "Next" (feat. Nicholas Cage) based off of another of his books

btw i love all his work, his books are awesome and they make great movies :P

[Majellanz]

Wicked, you appear to love his movies anyway... only ONE of the listed movies retains the same title as the book or short story on which it was based.

[southernsoftie07]

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50 are on crack

45 are having sex

5 is reading this

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[Drillshine]

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[Darkplayer85]

DONT READ THIS!

tomorrow you will find 1 million dollars on the sidewalk if you post this on at least 5 other videos but if you dont you will die in seven days

[HyperVonVandalits]

please don't read this!

I'M NOT WEARING ANY PANTS!

Now that you have read this (which I told you not to, you boob!) a man named Richard Simmons will come into your house when you least expect it and dance until you die.

Unless you're good with a fire extinguisher, repost this message in three other videos and I'll wear pants.

[AndyBumdrew]

I hate this chain bullshit, it's so childish. It is not in any way compelling, but a tragic attempt at achieving (put bluntly) a boring goal. The goal being: To convince loads of other fools and simpletons like yourself (HyperVonVandalits) to re-post that un-witty piece of shit you left here, repeatedly so that it reoccurs all over YOUTUBE. You've wasted my life, and you've wasted your chance to express yourself so badly.

[canaan13]

You are all being watched by the Vast Machine. Are you connected to your Personal Security Device? Fight terrorism while you sleep.

[algoyo]

I'm reading Galactic Pot Healer at the moment. It's fantastic. Love reading PKD. My favourite is Martian Timeslip. Loved seeing this.

[pathdaly]

Dont know if you have read it yet, or how many you have read, but my personal favourite is Time Out Of Joint. I can read it over and over, I KNOW the result, but I NEVER tire of it!

[MKB2814]

In the long run, PKD will be seen as a reflection of our times and will transcend the genre he is categorized in and become a great literary figure. Certainly a prolific writer, if sometimes incoherent, but always lucid in the context of social alienation and in challenging reality.

[guitarboy22j]

Why does the genre of science fiction need to be "transcended"? No one says Shakespeare "transcended" fiction, or that Joan Didion "transcends" non-fiction.

[Littlegh0st]

I think it has to do with being a sub-genre. Hopefully any of the less snobby people really just mean that it touches on themes outside of science-fiction, that people other than sci-fi fans can relate to/enjoy it. But yeah, it definitely does have a condescending ring to it.

[schnotzarella]

No, it's not a case of "needing" to transcend anything. "Genre" is just a term created by the publishing industry to categorize the various (heretofore defined) forms of writing. Dick's early work catered to that, but his later stuff doesn't really fit into any "genre."

[w0rldpeace]

what happened to the robotic PKD? I heard it was stolen.

[alien8ted]

I've heard they're doing a film of Ubik next year, can't wait! It's awful that PKD is so highly regarded now, but when he was alive he hardly made a cent and was forced to live on dog food. He saw the paranoid future we now inhabit.

[kelgrayson]

Philip K Dick was without doubt, one of the best authors of the 20th century, regardless of genre.

[cheldoglover]

This is cool...the great man talking on film...love it!

[BrainOcho]

nixon was a dog.

[doublemandala]

The deal is, the Dick had to take Amphetamines to churn out all those stories in the 50's and 60's. Writing was what he loved to do, but to pay the bills he needed speed to push him to write those 40+ books and short stories. The pay of a writer, even of his stature, is not high if you are not a best seller.

He is and was a genius, especially "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch". I hope they don't make it into a movie.

[PhakeDC]

RIP Philip K Dick. I'm a fanatic fan of his literature.

[iamarapgod]

i love pkd and have read about all of his work. these people know nothing of it, beyond a scanner darkly

[slhamlet]

Who's the cute chick?  Is that one of Dick's daughters?

[angryguy3000]

that's a good question, I wondered about that too. Anybody know?

[GlobalHuntMan]

Wow, that's a good guess. Yeah, that's Isa Dick-Hackett. Wait! How do we even know what you said was a blind guess? Have you been seeing any pink lasers lately, or did you perchance inadvertently happen to say a few words in Greek? Did you ever notice that a David-Bowie-like rock star made a movie whose contents were characterized by the same themes which hallucinations you had were centered around?

[GlobalHuntMan]

In the recent past, have you found you're only attracted to women who look exactly like Linda Ronstadt?

[Swindlersfist]

RE: joemo75:

"...soaking yrself in drugs..."? Oh, you scholars.

As a PKD fan the more appropriate comment would be the question of the chicken and the egg. Which came first, the paranoia or the drug use (his soaking in them being entirely debateable)? And as for the sadness, unless you're one a neglected family member, what's yr beef? Without that "sad" paranoia, we'd have absolutely no PKD to be cheering or poo-pooing.

[joemo75]

He was clearly paranoid. That's what soaking yourself in drugs will do to you... How sad

[Rolandzebub]

Yeah, how sad - the guy only won 3 Hugo Awards, 5 Nebula Awards, had seven movies made based on his stories, has 44 books still in print, and is widely considered one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time.

What a wasted life. I'll bet it can't compare to joemo75's "straight-edge" accomplishments, cuz drugs are bad, m'kay?

Anyone who isn't a little paranoid these days isn't paying attention.

[redmarch]

Burned. Well said.

[clashcityrocker84]

haha, awesome

[jeroid]

He burned so very brightly...

[GolemXIV]

one of the best authors ever

[toxicnun666]

Thanx a lot for this video.

[Magik57]

Cool stuff