I just noitced something wonderful last night while surfing the high seas of Bit Torrent. There floating amongst the flotsam and jetsam of the bad camcorder copies of the French version of the Bourne Supremecy, mis-titled copies of other recent releases, and and n’ar endless slew of porn and mp3’s of bands I’ve never even heard of… I saw mention of ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide Radio Series – New episode – episode 3’. Yeah right.. new episodes, some dork thinks the radio series recorded in the 80’s is new.. but then a minute later, there was another file… ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide – Tertiary phase – episode 1’… Tertiary phase? Is that just some ‘warez pirates’ moniker or is this legit.. ah what the heck, I’ll try it.
So last night I went to sleep in my hotel room with the laptop slurping down recent daily shows and this probably misnamed audio file. This morning after calling Emily i started it up.. yup must be the old version there’s that familiar Eagles tune, Journey of the Sorcerer, and there’s Simon Jones, the narrator of the original series saying the book title etc…. but then his voice modulates and he says ‘Tertiary Phase’. Huh? I don’t remember that.. especially near the title like that. Did someone edit the original books or something?
Then his voice starts really modulating.. is this file damaged? Does this audio player have problems with ogg vorbis files? No wait .. those are completely different voices mixed in there.. by gods… IT’S NEW.
I am very very very happy about this, that book was sufficiently warped and weird and I read all of them in High School where I too became rather warped and weird. I suspect my sense of humor was forged in part from these books, and the excellent radio productions I snagged at a Star Trek Convention in NYC back in 1985 or so. Anyways, suffice to say I plan to try to listen to all of these productions and will buy the CD version once it’s out. Hip Hip Horray!
What’s more.. they are even making a Film version of the book! Huzzah! Can’t wait.
Ok that’s my joyous rant for the morning. We now return you to the slow train wreck that is our current political landscape and reality. 🙂 Remember folks, we’re ‘Mostly Harmless’, let’s keep it that way.