HAL, TRON, Xanadu and Spike Jones

[HAL control console]

"Open the pod bay doors, please, Hal"..."Do you read me, Hal?"
- "Affirmative, Dave, I read you."
- "Open the pod bay doors, Hal."
- "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
- "What's the problem?"
- "I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do."
- "What're you talking about, Hal?" ...
..."Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose any more. Goodbye."

"Earthman, the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for, and run by mice" ... "You see, Earthman, they are really particurlarly clever hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings. Your planet and people have formed the matrix of an organic computer running a ten-million-year research programme ..."
- Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
[Xanadu]
[Cover of "Spike Jones Off the Record"] "Spike Jones Off the Record:
The Man Who Murdered Music"

Jordan R. Young
Past Times Publishing Co.
ISBN#: 0-940 410-27-3

Spike Jones on CD:

"Thank you, music lovers"

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Björn Anger (ekabjan@hem.passagen.se) December 8, 1996.