Syd Barrett – No Good Trying
Roger Dean Miller – Where Have All The Average People Gone
Skeleton Crew – Stephen King
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
Traffic – Empty Pages
The Bamboos – Hard Up
Kai Winding – Time Is On My Side
The Pretty Things – Private Sorrow
Echo & the Bunnymen – Villiers Terrace
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.
Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker’s Guide (“A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have”) and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox—the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod’s girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.