Friday with Douglas Adams
Playlist
Looking for a quote for Friday, I came across one by Douglas Adams and with his subtle, nerdy and always bright humor.
For Children: You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It’s quite a simple difference, but an important one. Friday comes at the end of the week, whereas a fried egg comes out of a chicken. Like most things, of course, it isn’t quite that simple. The fried egg isn’t properly a fried egg until it’s been put in a frying pan and fried. This is something you wouldn’t do to a Friday, of course, though you might do it on a Friday. You can also fry eggs on a Thursday, if you like, or on a cooker. It’s all rather complicated, but it makes a kind of sense if you think about it for a while.
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
“Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, screenwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist.
Adams was author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy, before developing into a “trilogy” of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime and generated a television series, several stage plays,
comics, a video game, and a 2005 feature film.”
(from Wikipedia)
The story so far:
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
So looking on the net for some info about this brilliant author, highly recommended to read, I discovered that he was a great music lover, so much so that he shared the stage with Pink Floyd for his 42nd birthday, as a friend of David Gilmour.
I found a mixtapes here, as the soundtrack for the first 3 books of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and starting from there I completed a rock pop playlist for what could be a
Friday with Douglas Adams and his most famous quotes.
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
I hope this playlist will intrigue you, get closer and make you discover the author Douglas Adams.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
And above all make you spend a pleasant and panic-free Friday.
God’s Final Message to His Creation:
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
‘We apologize for the inconvenience.”
Friday with Douglas Adams
Eagles – Journey of the Sorcerer
Porcupine Tree – Last Chance To Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled
Coldplay – Don’t Panic
The Postal Service – Against All Odds (Take a Look At Me Now)
Johnny Cash – Heart Of Gold
Radiohead – Paranoid Android
Tokyo Police Club – Citizens Of Tomorrow
Kraftwerk – Computer World
Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade of Pale
Morrissey – Ouija Board, Ouija Board
Secret Machines – First Wave Intact
Violent Femmes – Out The Window
Counting Crows – Insignificant
Screaming Trees – End of the Universe
Eric Burdon – Paint It Black
Pink Floyd – Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
Grateful Dead – Ship of Fools
The Beatles – For No One
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Learning To Fly
David Gilmour – Near the End
Paul Simon – Late in the Evening
Frank Zappa – Camarillo Brillo
The Clash – Lost in the Supermarket
Porno for Pyros – Dogs Rule the Night
Kula Shaker – Great Hosannah
Adrian Belew – Ampersand
A Perfect Circle – So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes
Lou Reed – Satellite of Love
Elliott Smith – Somebody That I Used To Know
Stone Temple Pilots – Atlanta
Morphine – Cure for Pain
Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond
