{"id":16644,"date":"2015-04-14T01:19:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T00:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16644"},"modified":"2015-04-14T01:19:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T00:19:31","slug":"philip-k-dick-a-day-in-the-afterlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/04\/14\/philip-k-dick-a-day-in-the-afterlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip K. Dick: A Day in the Afterlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4cK2MPgAHRk\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pkd1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pkd1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Blade Runner<\/em> turns up in Nicola Roberts&#8217; television documentary but not for long. Back in 1994 it was still possible to discuss a popular writer by concentrating on the books alone rather than padding the running time with film and TV derivations. The BBC&#8217;s <em>Arena<\/em> strand excelled at these 50-minute biographies of significant cultural figures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4cK2MPgAHRk\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pkd2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pkd2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last time I watched this documentary was on a big TV screen in a house in Los Angeles. Stepping out into the California sun a couple of hours later was like stepping <em>into<\/em> a Philip K. Dick novel, a slippage between the real and the fictional that Dick himself might have appreciated. Among the luminaries discussing the author&#8217;s slippery narratives are Brian Aldiss, Jim Blaylock, Elvis Costello, Anne Dick (PKD&#8217;s third wife), Tessa B. Dick (PKD&#8217;s fourth wife), Thomas M. Disch, Terry Gilliam, Kleo Mini (PKD&#8217;s second wife), Tim Powers, Kim Stanley Robinson and Fay Weldon. There&#8217;s also video footage of Dick being interviewed in the late 70s\/early 80s. Watch it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4cK2MPgAHRk\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/04\/13\/blade-runner-vs-metropolis\/\">Blade Runner vs. Metropolis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blade Runner turns up in Nicola Roberts&#8217; television documentary but not for long. Back in 1994 it was still possible to discuss a popular writer by concentrating on the books alone rather than padding the running time with film and TV derivations. The BBC&#8217;s Arena strand excelled at these 50-minute biographies of significant cultural figures. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/04\/14\/philip-k-dick-a-day-in-the-afterlife\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Philip K. Dick: A Day in the Afterlife&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,20,19],"tags":[7190,1861,2588,822,7195,7189,7194,7193,795,667,1835,7191,7192,74],"class_list":["post-16644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","category-television","tag-anne-dick","tag-blade-runner","tag-brian-aldiss","tag-elvis-costello","tag-fay-weldon","tag-jim-blaylock","tag-kim-stanley-robinson","tag-kleo-mini","tag-nicola-roberts","tag-philip-k-dick","tag-terry-gilliam","tag-tessa-b-dick","tag-thomas-m-disch","tag-tim-powers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4ks","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}