(READ FIRST) What should the next Bomb After Reading THING Be?

@internetjames: Murakami would be awesome. I read Hard Boiled Wonderland and IQ84 and loved both. My vote for one of his books would be Wind Up Bird Chronicles.

@spraynardtatum: Listening Dan talk about Murakami would be insufferable! It must happen!

I really like the combination of book and movie. I feel it gives them more to talk about than "Oh it was cool when..." or "an example of this theme was..."

I'd love some Philip K Dick but I feel like the movies generally stray from the literature. So it would be interesting to hear about the differences between Blade Runner and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

But honestly, I'm sure whatever they choose will be great.

I think the discussion would have been more interesting if they had ignored the movie, and just talked about the book.

@dudeglove: You leave Screened alone! It was a beautiful dream that's been relegated to a 60GB archive folder, and it breaks my heart every time I see it there. I need Alex and Rorie to team back up and start a regular movie podcast again, as I used to have all my media needs covered by Whiskey Media related sites. Where do I go for movies now, huh? Nowhere. D:

As for the question at hand, stick to the movie/book combos. Sometimes I just can't get into a book, but I'm usually fine with sacrificing two hours for a movie. I imagine I'm not the only one who feels that way.

@dudeglove: The vast majority of television is a dumpster fire, I agree, and Screened wasn't going to survive without the other WM sites backing it up; "movies + interacting with funny people" is a website, while "movies + might as well be nothing" wasn't going to cut it. Poor Rorie. His herculean effort wasn't going to change that fact that most people were never going to care about part of the site, and that was really proven when it was sold off. Very few stuck around for faceless TV reviews.

I'll have to check RLM out, thanks. Something out there has to fill that void eventually.