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Deep Thought Life, Douglas Adams & Everything Episode 2: How to Leave A Planet Don’t Panic! We are back … Hey there Hitchhikers!! The Mullet and Dan are back to explore more of Douglas Adams amazing universe of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. Tonight they look at the first book in the series, and compare it to the BBC radio series and tv series.  Contact: The Mullet: @thelethalmulletDan Hadley: @the_spacebook  Give Lethal Mullet a listen:Website https://bit.ly/3j9mvlGIHeartRadio https://ihr.fm/3lSxwJUSpotify https://spoti.fi/3BRg260Amazon https://amzn.to/3phcsi7 For all Lethal merch:TeePublic: https://bit.ly/37QpbSc#douglasadams #deepthoughtpod #lethalmulletnetwork #spacebook #thehitchhikersguidetothegalaxy 

42 Podcaster and founder of Strong Branch Productions, Alex Kingsley - who has likely killed many celebrities (for legal reasons this is a joke) - joins Ally and Nigel to discuss the life and work of Douglas Adams: we discuss life, the universe and, everything, work outside Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams-like games, and what it must be like to clim Kilimanjaro dressed as a rhinoceros. If you liked the episode, please feel free to tell us about it! You can send your comments and suggestions to our podcast Twitter (@HyperfixationsP), or our Instagram (@Hyperfixationspod), and join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/NQJFFHgpgf Our guest Alex can be found And your hosts can be reached individually here: Ally - Twitter: @alleykat_, Instagram: @ally_k_keegan Nigel -  Twitter: @spicynigel If you would like to come onto the show to discuss one of your Hyperfixations, please feel free to reach out at any of the aforementioned social media. Thank you so much for listening, you rock! Intro/Outro Song: Strollin Along by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/strollin-along/339 Background Music: Commercial Bliss by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/commercial-bliss/345

Welcome back to the Manor!  As a special Towel Day episode (the day that commemorates that most excellent of writers, Douglas Adams, author of that wholly remarkable book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, we're talking about the four songs that make up the trilogy of songs that inspired aspects of the HHGTTG.  Plus, a wee bit of what we do to celebrate Towel Day (which is May 25th every year, this year being this coming Wednesday). Next week's episode is the start of our Monty Python series 3 arc. Get in touch with us at Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4pksr-a17e1a Or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twinterrorsmacabremanormeadmetalmayhe/ Or on twitter: @Terrors_Manor On Instagram: @macabremanormeadmetalmayhem You can also find our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, and I Heart Radio; pretty much wherever fine (and our) podcasts are aired. Image courtesy of: James

We're talking about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, one of my all time favorites that Paolo hasn't read until now. That gave us two very different perspectives: a core fan versus a "normal person" who's just read it. 00:00 Intro 02:11 Podcast update and plans 11:02 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 15:56 TV Show and movie 18:24 Douglas Adams 23:38 Hitchhiker's Guide - Impressions 34:16 SPOILERS 57:31 The message behind this book 01:09:00 Elon Musk's comment on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Links: Douglas Adams: Parrots, the Universe and Everything: https://youtu.be/_ZG8HBuDjgc 

Good News: The wreck of the long-lost Antarctic expeditionary ship, The Endurance, has finally been found! Link HERE.The Good Word: Some wonderfully awful Vogon poetry, by Douglas Adams!Good To Know: A genuinely surprising fact about stars and trees…Good News: Want to learn about parks in your area? Check out this amazing interactive map from the Trust for Public Lands, HERE.Wonderful World: One of the most amazing and unusual places in the world, Socotra, is the focus of an incredibly informative little video HERE.Good Company: Today would have been Douglas Adams’s 70th birthday! Watch this brilliant interview with him, HERE.Sounds Good: And watch some (pretty rough but still incredible) video of Douglas Adams playing onstage with Pink Floyd for his 42nd birthday in 1994! Link HERE.

How many of us stop to consider how much rock music owes to literature? Many of rock or folk lyricists of the 60s and 70s (and into the later years) were very well read. Many were students of English literature.Here are a few examples.Jim Morrison was a published poet. Chris Martin of Coldplay mastered Greek and Latin, Sterling Morrison, a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature, Rivers Cuomo graduated from Harvard University in English, Jeff Schroeder, Ph.D in Comparative Literature at UCLA.A couple of honourable mentions:Brian May of Queen, Ph.D. in Astrophysics,  Art Garfunkel a master’s in Math, Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine graduated from Harvard in Political Science.And then there were songs inspired by Literature:Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush based on the book by Emily Bronte. Pigs by Pink Floyd was inspired by George Orwell’s 1984 as was Testify by Rage Against The Machine. White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane was a shout out, obviously, to Alice in Wonderland. Sympathy For The Devil by The Rolling Stones was inspired by Bulgakov’s Master And Margarita and also by Baudelaire’s World by Rosemary Lloyd. Metallica’s For Whom The Bell Tolls is, of course, straight from Ernest Hemingway. And India’s mega band of the 70s, The Human Bondage got its name from the title of a Somerset Maugham book.Sort of puts paid to the whole under-educated, unwashed, drug-taking bad boys of rock. (Well, at least not the under-educated part evidently.)Our guest today on The Literary City is Bruce Lee Mani. He is frontman of the famous Indian rock band, Thermal And A Quarter and he runs the reputable music school Taaqademy.We talk about how his lifelong interest in words and literature shaped his songwriting.The piece of music you hear coming into the segment is Bruce Lee Mani, singing all the vocal parts, a cappella, of his songs, Tomorrow. At the end of the episode, another treat, Bruce performing The Kindness Of Strangers in a songwriter showcase. Here's the links:Tomorrow: https://youtu.be/eWSP-6VeVyI. The Kindness of Strangers: https://youtu.be/xJ9PCmfkZ94. Galatiqua. : https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=JBzAI8Fll74&list=RDAMVMJBzAI8Fll74WHAT'S THAT WORD?! - "ROCK N ROLL".Co-host Pranati "Pea" Madhav joins Ramjee Chandran in the segment titled "What's That Word?", or titled in whichever way Ramjee  screws up the title, to peel back the meaning of the phrase "rock n roll", the central theme of the episode.If you have a word or phrase you would like to explore, join us live on the show. Reach us by mail: theliterarycity@explocity.com or simply, tlc@explocity.com. Or, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bangaloreliterarysocietyOr Instagram https://www.instagram.com/explocityblr/If your word or phrase is selected, we'll call you.Join our Facebook group, Bangalore Literary Society. It does not matter if you are not in Bangalore. This group is for anyone interested in language and words.HELP EDUCATE A NEEDY CHILDThe Literary City encourages you to give to those children who struggle to get an education.  We ask you to contribute whatever you can to The Association of People with Disability. The link to donate is: https://www.apd-india.org/donations. Visit their site and take a look at the wonderful work they do and find it in your heart to, well, teach a child to fish.

Your hosts revisit the classic A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, and discuss how surprising it can be rereading a book in a different stage of life. Apparently Arthur Dent is only 30? We don’t don’t actually bring that up in the episode but Lilly is pretty sure he was middle aged when she read it in high school. Sara also brings up an atrocious example of tags on AO3 in this week’s Pet Peeve Corner.Thanks to the following musicians for the use of their songs:- Amarià for the use of “Sérénade à Notre Dame de Paris”- Josh Woodward for the use of “Electric Sunrise”Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

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Are you or a loved one suffering from a clear and concise understanding of your place in the universe? Well, then you need the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the only novel guaranteed to convince you that the laws of physics are mostly dumb and that lab mice have a pretty sweet gig if you think about it.

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