contest alert! contest alert! in conjunction with the recent, well 11.20.07, release of nirvana’s unplugged on dvd i got a copy to give away. so all you gots to do is leave a comment with your favorite movie quote that i may use for a later post headline. the contest will end on monday.
if it were the end of the world, i know i would be taking atlanta’s ben trickey’s pretty little wave with me. hell, even if such a scenario never plays out, i’m still holding it close just in case. trickey creates a pre-apocalyptic folk record that is akin to the calm before the inevitable shit storm. these climatic changes, at least in me, always instill a sense of dread and uneasiness and pretty little wave leaves you with the same kind of feelings. this is not a record that by the end you think every thing’s going to be ok, but it doesn’t leave you bummed out either, just kind of indifferent. which can be directly attributed to the mixed signals trickey and his band, the east atlanta honky tonk choir, give off over the course of the seven tracks that make up pretty little wave. a brief glimmer of hope does arise when he sits down at the piano for the last track “tangle” only to end abruptly, leaving the listener with no sense of closure as the last key is hit and the record ends. pretty fuckin awesome stuff.
prize fighter off pretty little wave
fire off pretty little wave
i dont know anything about caroline, but i do know i dig this song, which happens to be a remix of her song “all i need.” usually the glitchy, beeps and blips arent my thing, but there is something particularly intoxicating about her voice and the way it mingles in with the music. this track and nine others can be found on her murmurs mixes record. its only available through itunes and was released on tuesday, 1.8.08.
all i need (owen vallis remix)
sunrise off murmurs
where’s my love off murmurs
caroline myspace
if you think pj harvey crossed with a little sparklehorse might sound like your thing then you may want to check out miwa gemini’s this is how i found you. from what i have heard of it thus far, i must contend that its pretty cool. check her out!
this is how i found you is out on 3.18.08 in the us and europe, but for some reason is already out in canada.
whiskey moon in new orleans off forgetful oceans and other strange stories
charlie chaplin broke my heart off forgetful oceans and other strange stories
miwa gemini site
A few from Lebowski:
“Eight year olds, Dude”
“This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!”
“It’s a Swiss fuckin’ watch.”
Marian: “Why, you speak treason!”
Robin: (grinning) “Fluently.”
Adventures of Robin Hood.
From Christmas Vacation:
Eddie: “Yeah, I got the daughter in the clinic, getting cured off the Wild Turkey. And, the older boy, bless his soul, is preparing for his career.”
Clark: “College?”
Eddie: “Carnival.”
Clark: “You got to be proud.”
Eddie: “Oh, yeah. Yeah, last season he was a pixie-dust spreader on the Tilt-O-Whirl. He thinks that maybe next year, He’ll be guessing people’s weight or barking for the Yak woman. You ever see her?”
Clark: “No.”
Eddie: “She’s got these big horns growing right out above her ears. Yeah, she’s ugly as sin, but a sweet gal. And, a hell of a good cook.”
From Dr. Strangelove: “Mr. President, I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.”
“Klopek? What is that, Slovik?”
I don’t know if it’s worth five dollars, but it’s pretty fuckin’ good.
Gotta go back to the old favorite from “The Princess Bride”:
There’s a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.
“Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday.”
- Johnny on evolution in Naked…
“I once thought I had mono for an entire year. It turned out I was just really bored.” — Wayne’s World
“He must of thought it was white boy day. It ain’t white boy day, is it?” - True Romance
Marla Singer:
“I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school…”
From Fight Club
grinningly,
- DC
Who is that? Nietzsche? So you stopped talking because of Friedrich Nietzsche? Far out.
-Little Miss Sunshine
“It’s okay, I’m easy to forget! Just leave me behind…I’m only the fucking lead singer!”
Jeff Bebe (Jason Lee) in Almost Famous
“All you do is fuck our mother and eat our food; MOTHERFUCKER…FOODEATER!!!”
keanu reeves
“River’s Edge”
“I ham a good egg”
or
“We are a good egg”
“It’s your ass now, Compton”
Peter Boyle as JOE
Herman Blume: What’s the secret, Max?
Max Fischer: The secret?
Herman Blume: Yeah, you seem to have it pretty figured out.
Max Fischer: The secret, I don’t know… I guess you’ve just gotta find something you love to do and then… do it for the rest of your life. For me, it’s going to Rushmore.
“It says Balls on your forehead.”
—Garden State
“Baxter, you know I don’t speak Spanish!”
—Anchorman
“I will attempt to turn your robotic routines into poetry, written with the human body. Follow me, or perish, sweater monkeys.” - Sparky, Bring It On
Thanks for all the great music and links.
Mark Borchardt: “Last night, man, I was so drunk, I was calling Morocco, man. Trying to get to the Hotel Hilton at Tangiers in Casablanca, man. That’s pathetic, man. Is that what you wanna do with your life? Suck down peppermint schnapps and try to call Morocco at 2:00 in the morning? That’s senseless. But that’s what happens, man.”
“They didn’t have any bamboo umbrellas for the wine and now there’s snails on the food!”
Steve Martin in “The Jerk”
Jeremy Grey: You motorboatin son of a bitch! You old sailor you!
Wedding Crashers
Henry Sherman: Did you just call me Coltrane?
Danny Glover in The Royal Tenenbaums
“the heart is a very, very resilient little muscle”
- hannah and her sisters
“So just bury your head in the sand, and wait for your fucking prom!” - The Breakfast Club
Karate-man bruise on the inside!!
“I’m gonna need some pliers and, uh, a set of 30-weight ball bearings.”
–Chevy Chase in “Fletch”
I know about you and the teacher.
Mmm, I’m a little bit lonely these days
Piranhas? Really?
I was punched in the face. What’s your excuse?
Are you fond of that moustache?
Your mind’s as warped as your ear, Magnus
all from Rushmore
“Son, you got a panty on your head”
-Raising Arizona
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, “I drank what?”
the contest is now closed. thanks everyone! not one single fletch quote. i am both surprised and relieved. for i live and die by the fletch quote which is both lame and really fuckin lame. i will do the drawering tomorrow and will provide photographic evidence of the winner. again, thanks all!