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I can remember when Lil' Alex was an amusing character to a lot of us. Around the same time, I enjoyed reading RAW and dipping into the conspiracy theorists once in a while and trying on their "reality tunnels" for a bit, just for the exercise.
Heck, I remember spotting Lil' Alex in A Scanner Darkly and being amused at the cameo. I thought he was doing it for the grift, meaning all of it - his Prison Planet movie, etc...
But a lot of this got very dark and metastasized over time, that's for sure. And, just as predicted, the right wing conspiracy theorists that were spending decades projecting their fears onto people like Clinton and Janet Reno are the ones that welcome the very worst transgressions of "Big Government", surprising almost nobody that has been paying attention to these types.
Hear hear.
Indeed. I wonder if he was hired as an actor - i.e. to speak a script - I mean he does have an interesting voice - or if he somehow played himself?
That said, I never really got that movie. Not interesting for me, too preachy.
The Midnight Gospel otoh...
It came at a really good time for me, since I had just finished reading most of PKD's stuff not too long before.
I think it was one of the more faithful interpretations of his work, IMHO. It might be the book itself was rather preachy to some, I don't know. I think he had experienced a lot of things when it came to drug use in his own life in California, and that is 100% reflected in the book...it seemed a rather unvarnished view of things.
Didn't PK Dick write straightforward novels most of the time? Is that his one "psychedelic" book? I remember a similar book by another author, and that one didn't click for me either.
PKD, straightforward? Most definitely not.
The term Dickian (or Phildickian) is a thing because he did not write all that straightforwardly. Kind of like the way "Lynchian" is used for certain movies...
https://philipdick.com/literary-criticism/essays/phildickian-a-definition/
I guess there's a reason why I never finished one of his books then.
But no disrespect, just a matter of personal taste.