Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Grim Fandango

With bony hands I hold my partner
On soulless feet we cross the floor
The music stops as if to answer
An empty knocking at the door

It seems his skin was sweet as mango
When last I held him to my breast
But now we dance this grim fandango
And will four years before we rest

Olivia
Grim Fandango

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

ZAZ

Rumack: Captain, how soon can you land?
Captain Oveur: I can't tell...
Rumack: You can tell me. I'm a doctor.
Captain Oveur: No, I mean, I'm just not sure.
Rumack: Well, can't you take a guess?
Captain Oveur: Well... Not for another two hours.
Rumack: You can't take a guess for another two hours?

Airplane! (1980)

Thursday, June 07, 2007

The Masque of the Red Death

Prospero: That cross you wear around your neck - is it only a decoration, or are you a true Christian believer?

Francesca: Yes, I believe - truly.

Prospero: Then I want you to remove it at once. And never to wear it within this castle again!

Do you know how a falcon is trained my dear? Her eyes are sown shut. Blinded temporarily she suffers the whims of her God patiently, until her will is submerged and she learns to serve - as your God taught and blinded you with crosses.

Francesca: You had me take off my cross because it offended...?

Prospero: It offended no one. No - it simply appears to me to be discourteous to... to wear the symbol of a deity long dead.

My ancestors tried to find it. And to open the door that separates us from our Creator.

Francesca: But you need no doors to find God. If you believe...

Prospero: Believe? If you believe you are gullible. Can you look around this world and believe in the goodness of a god who rules it?

Famine, Pestilence, War, Disease and Death - They rule this world.

Francesca: There is also love and life and hope!

Prospero: Very little hope I assure you. No. If a god of love and life ever did exist... he is long since dead.

Someone... something, rules in his place.

The Masque of the Red Death, 1964
Adaptation from E. A. Poe

Monday, June 04, 2007