☆ STARSAILOR ☆

this is about the book i’m currently reading lol

when you read something like this, you realize how much we’ve lost . . . philip k. dick’s books are so fearlessly themselves, however ridiculous. they’re fun! it’s all highbrow-lowbrow, which is my favorite thing something can be. you know?

for instance, movies like THEY LIVE and ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK are so creative and self-assured while existing as genre pieces . . . on the surface their plots are pulpy sci-fi / action-adventure, something you might even classify as “dumb” . . . and yet there is all this Stuff inside and they’re like no other movies that came before. it’s highbrow-lowbrow. it’s incredible! and that’s how i feel about PKD’s stuff. just pure unrestrained inventiveness for the sake of the song, because it’s cool and / or funny and has something to say. all good things are touched with this!!!

p.s. one time i made a t-shirt based on the cover of a first-edition copy of clans of the alphane moon:

i never printed one for myself . . . maybe i ought to do that now