Oct 18
Phil Comments: Coming up next on Radio Free Albemuth, the latest from Lynyrd Skynrd. But first, here’s the weather forecast.
Published 1988
Phil Comments: Coming up next on Radio Free Albemuth, the latest from Lynyrd Skynrd. But first, here’s the weather forecast.
Published 1988
October 18th, 2011 at 8:46 am
Yuck, albemuth. I hate egg whites. make exactly the same face as the blue guy when I have to eat them.
What?
October 18th, 2011 at 9:27 am
Bestselling author of “Blade Runner”? Electric Sheep are taboo are they?
October 18th, 2011 at 10:12 am
“Hmm, I wonder what Planet Earth is listening to on its headphones? ARGH! I didn’t think whale music could get so loud!”
October 18th, 2011 at 11:00 am
I don’t understand the perspective in this.
The giant headphones of Doom are behind the man in blue but the electric rays still look like he is standing inbetween them?
October 18th, 2011 at 11:19 am
Guy being tortured by radio messages from outer space? Sounds unfortunately like Dick’s world view…
October 18th, 2011 at 11:48 am
Due to financial difficulties, Rupert Murdoch never got to build his dream project: A giant stationary satellite that would beam NEWS OF THE WORLD directly into people’s heads.
October 18th, 2011 at 6:14 pm
The Weather Channel would be going into apocalypse mode over all those low pressure systems.
October 18th, 2011 at 7:51 pm
This reminds of the scene from Seinfeld when Elaine tries on that deaf guy’s ear piece.
October 18th, 2011 at 8:03 pm
Yep I’ve seen before. Death by stereo!
October 18th, 2011 at 8:58 pm
I’ve always been puzzled by the blue guy. Either he is blue all over and wearing nothing but a black blazer… or he may be wearing a blue jumper that blends in with his blue skin and makes him look as if he is naked except for the blazer.
October 19th, 2011 at 1:22 am
The iPod of 2057.
October 19th, 2011 at 1:17 pm
The Blue Man Solo world tour wasn’t the success everyone hoped it to be.
October 21st, 2011 at 7:47 pm
Video did NOT kill the Radio Star!
October 27th, 2011 at 2:22 pm
I have a few Panthers of this vintage, including PKDs, and love the covers.
Not, however, this one.
September 29th, 2015 at 12:16 pm
“Afro time, dear blue H!”
September 29th, 2015 at 2:13 pm
@anon: a man being forcibly permed and made to resemble blue sky? This is what happened when the mothership on those ELO album covers finally landed and released their mind-wiping drones.
November 14th, 2015 at 9:48 am
“Oh, that’s just great. We blow our entire FX budget on the ‘Roj Blake being tortured’ sequence, and now they tell me they’re only going to use an extreme close-up of his agonised face in the titles!”
July 12th, 2016 at 10:11 pm
Experiment VI: does a human-Smurf hybrid have a higher tolerance for 70s novelty records than normal?
July 13th, 2016 at 12:17 pm
When the Earth hits your girth and you’re blue like a Smurf, that’s al-Bemuth!
November 6th, 2018 at 4:59 am
And this is the soundtrack….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Albemuth_(album)
July 30th, 2022 at 1:50 am
@Hammy: silly me, thinking you were joking…
So here’s the the trailer for the movie, with some familiar faces, including a musical Canuck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB-6942-Wnk
(arguably cheesier than the book cover)
Which came first… the movie or the sound track?