Sickbed Meme

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Oh, man. Berit and I are very VERY ill. We can do very little but lie around, sleep, moan, complain, take warm baths, cough, etc. Yesterday, B had an increase of symptoms that required a trip to the emergency room and some antibiotics (conjunctivitis), and now we're hoping I don't catch that complication (and as my left eye is beginning to twitch and water, this may be moot).

And I have to go hold auditions for Penny Dreadful at 7.30 pm tonight. Fun fun fun.

So, anyway, there's a movie quote meme going around. No one tagged me, but I'm bored and achy so I'm joining in anyway. It started in the theatre blogs with Joshua James, and has extended to at least Isaac, Matt Freeman, Adam Szymkowicz, James Comtois, and Jamie thus far. I have been accused of being too good at playing this and identifying the quotes, but that's only really been with Isaac and Matt, where there's an overlap of tastes, it seems.

For in this meme, you find your 15 favorite films on IMDb and pull a quote from the file there, and see who can identify the movie. As each quote is identified, I'll check them off (this is actually from my top 16 films, as one of my top 15 had no quotes listed on IMDb). How many will people get of these, I wonder . . ?


1. I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do. Caught by Tom X. Chao - 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick

2. -- Is New York such a labyrinth? I thought it was all straight up and down like Fifth Avenue. All the cross streets numbered and big honest labels on everything.
-- Everything is labeled, but everybody is not.
-- Then I must count on you for warnings too.

3. You tell the truth about a lie so beautifully.

4. I've only a hundred guineas left to give you for I lost the rest at cards last night. Kiss me, me boy, for we'll never meet again. And Tom X. Chao picks up another - Barry Lyndon, also from Mr. Kubrick

5. You can't buy a bag of peanuts in this town without someone writing a song about you. Indeed this is from Orson Welles' Citizen Kane as noted by "GK" - Greg Kotis? Glenn Kenny? I can't be sure . . .

6. This is a close-up?

7. I put every damn pipe in this neighborhood. People think that pipes grow in their homes. But they sure as hell don't! Look at my knees! Look at my knees! And Tom X. Chao gets another: Eraserhead by David Lynch

8. Only the infinity of the depths of a man's mind can really tell the story. Cait Brennan gets it - Glen or Glenda? by Edward D. Wood, Jr.

9. Never underrate the wily Pathan. What we're going on to now is the wily Pathan, followed the use of and handling of anti-gas carpet. The Pathan lives in India. India is a hot, strange country. It's full of wily Pathans and they're up to wily things, which is why I always wear spurs, even in cold weather. Now, my advice to you is always to keep your rifle strapped to a suitable portion of your body - your leg is good. Otherwise, you'll find the wily Pathan will strip himself mother-naked, grease himself all over - slippery as an eel - make off with your rifle, which is a crime. Any questions so far, or can we take gas?

10. I'll see you in a year or two if I don't get shot. Finally grabbed by daveroguesf after a screening of Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show

11. We've met before, haven't we? James Comtois knows my Lynch love too well; this is indeed from Lost Highway

12. Now it's no longer the presence of God, but the absence of God, that reassures man. It's very strange, but true.

13. To you, I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the loyal opposition. Cait Brennan gets another - Stardust Memories by Woody Allen

14. Combined with economic advantages of the mating structure, it far surpasses any disadvantages in increased perversions. A final tran - An infinite translated mathematics of tolerance and charity among artificial memory devices is ultimately binary. Stimulating rhetoric... absolute. The theater of noise is proof of our potential. The circulation of autotypes. The golden talisman underfoot is phenomenon approaching. And, in the history of now, all ethos are designed.

15. I think that you'll find a little S&M will be necessary to trigger off a good healthy dose of hallucinations. And it's Cait once again who knows it - Videodrome by David Cronenberg

Okay, in pain again. Back to a warm shower and bath before I have to go off to auditions . . .

Comments

[daveroguesf.livejournal.com]

7. BRAZIL?

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Nope, sorry . . .

[daveroguesf.livejournal.com]

Not surprised, I suck at this.

Please feel better soon!

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

Well, I've got #8..."Glen Or Glenda"...13's "Stardust Memories," I think... and 15's "Videodrome". The rest are so familiar they're driving me bats with the thinking...oh, the horrible, tantalizing familiarness!

I hope you both get to feeling better soon...I've had the same thing and am finally almost over it after two hellish weeks.

[collisionwork]

Bravo, that's three down!

Including 13, which is the one I didn't expect anyone to get (I figured that might be true of Glen or Glenda?, too, but I spaced on thinking of you joining in).

Yeah, the rest would probably be familiar to another movie geek. Berit got 8 right, but that's only because she's forced to know these things by osmosis as she gets to know these movies whether she wants to or not.

[(Anonymous)]

#11 is "Lost Highway."

-James Comtois

guesses

[(Anonymous)]

I'm afraid I can only reliably get the first, easiest one: Hal, in 2001 (being interviewed by the still-extant BBC).

#12 I believe is from The Seventh Seal.

I will have to rack my brains regarding the others.
TXC

Re: guesses

[collisionwork]

Got the first, but not the second.

Re: guesses

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you, sir. I feel I know #12 from somewhere, but can't place it yet. Lest I appear insane, I should say that I know that the Discovery's all-controlling computer, HAL 9000, is not spelled "Hal," like Hal Ashby!

Another guess

[(Anonymous)]

Hold on. Is #4 Barry Lyndon?
TXC

Another guess

[(Anonymous)]

Hold on. Is #4 Barry Lyndon?
TXC

Re: Another guess

[collisionwork]

Ding! And the man gets it!

Another guess

[(Anonymous)]

Is #7 Eraserhead? I'm trying to think more along the lines of what your favorite films might be. And Barry Lyndon is your #4 favorite film of all time?

Btw, your blog crashes Firefox at home on my iMac (running OS X 10.4.8).
TXC

Re: Another guess

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Correct!

And I've been getting complaints about problems with the blog. I think it's been my recent reliance on so much video and images. I'm going to henceforth put those posts behind cuts, and maybe go back and do it to the past ones.

Though I wonder if it's just a Firefox problem.

Re: Another guess

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Oh, and no, Barry Lyndon isn't #4 of my favorites. The list here is (and I guess this might be a hint) alphabetical.

Sickbed Meme

[(Anonymous)]

I can't believe I'm first with the "Buy a bag of peanuts" line...it's from "Citizen Kane." Should I feel old, or be proud of my hearing?

GK

Re: Sickbed Meme

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Yeah, I thought that'd be among the first to be grabbed. Some of the others are obscure ones, even if from well-known films.

[daveroguesf.livejournal.com]

#10 is THE LAST PICTURE SHOW.

Screened just hours ago in San Francisco, with a nice post-show chat given by Peter Bogdanovich....and Cybill Shepherd.

[collisionwork]

Oh, lucky you! Well, that's one way to spot a quote.

since you gave us a clue...

[daveroguesf.livejournal.com]

...is 14 SCHIZOPOLIS?