HG2G

Sometimes you sit back and go into deep thought wondering what life is all about and you question the meaning of existence. Now is definately NOT one of those times. Life is about as senseless as it could be right now. Don't Panic! After the wildly self-contradictory radio series, a record album (of a storyline modified from the radio series), a novel (actually five novels forming the Hitchhiker's triology, with completely different storylines following some aspects of the radio series, some of the record album and some new ideas that few agreed were not exactly great), a television series (now it gets to complicated to track or explain), a computer game (dysfunctional to the same extent as the others), a stage show, a comic book and - get this - a towel, the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy has finally arrived as a movie.



Not that the movie is released in India, got it through the torrents, but it is hilarious! There are guide references that only fans can pick up, some even devout fans won't, and others to keep petunias happy by attributing the fabric of cosmos to their thoughts. I KNOW WHY! Lightsabres become "knives that toasts while slicing bread", "Deep thought II" becomes "iDeep thought" (Actually just "deep thought", but it has a mac logo on it)... a lot of the story elements have changed, Margathea is the planet the mice live on, not comission, Hulla Kalluva comes on board as another char that will further be explored in other versions (if only Adams would have been alive). They have found a better choice than Jim Carrey for the role of Beeblebrox. Pretty damn funny movie actually, after a production phase of twenty three years...




and guess what, Dawkings and Adams were friends! Dawkins too was an Adams fan - and I follow the works of both these people, so its nice to read. Adams also named the Pink floyd album Division Bell, and people with the video of the 1994 London Pink Floyd concert will spot Adams on the rythm guitar. Disaster Area in the guide, is actually Pink Floyd - said to be the loudest sound ever generated in the galaxy - a reference to the spectacly of Floyd shows.

Great man. Wish he were alive.