HAL, TRON, Xanadu and Spike Jones

"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.

"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:

• "The Best of Spike Jones", 74321 13576 2, BMG Music, January 1992
• "Spike Jones Is Murdering the Classics", 74321 13577 2, BMG Music, October 1988
• "Spiked!", 09026 61982 2, Catalyst, BMG Music, 1994
• "Louder and Funnier", HQCD 02, Harlequin, Interstate Music Ltd., 1990

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