Rare 1979 Philip K. Dick interview

Philip K. Dick interview

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[piwacket33]

30 credits at a local community college with a good gpa will nearly wipe out mediocre HS performance for most schools (other than Ivy league). If you can study up and pass the test get your GED and get the hell out of that mind-control environment. I never knew about the GED when I was in school or I'd have taken it in 9th grade and gotten the hell out of school. School is a brain-numbing, character killing creativity assassination experience that most people can do without.

[postmodern jerk]

Dick, like Socrates ,asked the right questions. He was a gnostic philosopher and a beauriful mind. Too bad he had to suffer so much for his art. Very influential and ahead of his time.

[armchairjourney111]

Freaky man

[EBZAKNL]

Van Vogt’s "World of Null-A".

[BelatedCommiseration]

Great interview. The interviewer lets Dick speak and allows him to digress with the occasional encouraging prompt. I find Philip K Dicks voice to be very soothing and rational...I almost believe he must have been in communication with something. I wish I could have a transcendant 'rational' being communicate with me, but I suppose it was only later in Dicks life he had that 'honour'. Nice to hear the nod to Burroughs too. I remember hearing Burroughs give a nod to Dick once (no pun intended).

[Toby Frith]

Charles Platt

[6thmissle77]

as most great artists do

[josh masnon]

What book does he say at 0.17.15 that inspired him?

[lanasrj]

I wish I could've met him, although we may both be too crazy

[unkleskratch]

anyone know who the interviewer is?

[scwt89]

"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."

[Randy Attwood]

I started reading PKD when I was in high school in the 1960s in a small town in Kansas. I knew the day the salesman would bring the new paperback titles into our drug store and thus I waited for Fu Manchu, James Bond, Sci Fi and Philip K. Dick. His writing exploded in my mind. I still have some of those original paperbacks in my six-feet of Dick on my bookshelf. I also introduced my son to him who sends my PKD books as he runs across them, which is rarely anymore. What a fascinating interview.