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[orangerful]

So, as I mentioned before, my parents got me the complete Hitchhiker's Guide radio series for Christmas.  This morning I put disc 1 into my car stereo.  Talk about flashbacks.  I was obsessed with HHGttG during Middle/High School and still rank it as one of my all time favorite books.  I was so obsessed that I recorded the miniseries off of PBS and then transferred the audio to a cassette tape, which I listened to.  Then when my family went to England on vacation, I purchased the radio series on cassette.  So I'm very familiar with the content. 

Apparently, it is all stored somewhere in my brain because as soon as the theme music started to play, I knew every single word.  And I'm very weird - when I listen to music, I sing along; when I listen to radio shows, I lip-sync with it and sort of act it out.  Yeah, not the safest thing to do while I drive, but I'm a pro.  I'm so weird.  So, when you see those people talking to themselves in their car, don't assume they are on their cell phones.  They could be crazy people like me, lip syncing to HHGttG!!!

Also, the Guide is totally Wikipedia.  I mean, if you replace "Hitchhiker's Guide" with "Wikipedia" in any of the paragraphs, it usually works. It's more fun and practical than the more traditional resources and includes entries on everything you can think of.

And now, a few random quotes from the series because I love it so much:

Ford: Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Arthur: Very deep. You should send that in to Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

Arthur: Did I do something wrong today, or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?

Arthur: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.
Ford: Why, what did she tell you?
Arthur: I don't know, I didn't listen.

Marvin: Sorry, did I say something wrong? Pardon me for breathing - which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God I'm so depressed.  Here's another one of those self-satisfied doors.  Life, don't talk to me about life...

Arthur: ...is there any tea on this spaceship?

Comments

[faeriesfolly.livejournal.com]

Such an awesome series. I just re-read before Christmas. XD

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

I need to re-read the last 3. I have the first two embedded in my brain for all time...

[oppppp2000.livejournal.com]

still one of my favorites books, tv series, and I can live with the movie...I re-read or watch it seems about once a year...

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wasn't overly thrilled with the movie, but it could have been a lot worse. It's so fun listening to the radio shows again, it's like I've found some old friends!

[ekaterin24.livejournal.com]

What an awesome series, in any form (except maybe the movie, which I haven't seen in entirety).

Marvin was a hoot. I wish I had a quarter for every time I quoted, "Life, don't talk to me about life."

I had a friend (?) in college who was so much like Marvin--depressed and negative and even sounded like him--it was scary.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

yeah, I tried to avoid "Marvins" IRL. He can only get away with it because he's a robot.