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Topic: Quotes?
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Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted August 06, 2011 04:32 PM
Let's do the real quote:
"Sea-Fever"
I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.
I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.
(John Masefield)
This is a great poem: no unrequited love or flowers or fields of newly mown grass or other such drippy crap: it's oak and cast iron and oil lamps and the smell o' low tide!
-Aaaaarrrrrr!
It's the kind of literature Captain Quint would appreciate!
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All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted August 06, 2011 08:14 PM
You've put me to work Allan:
With a few slight revisions this poem can be brought on topic:
"Screen-Fever"
I must pull down my screen again, with a speaker on each side,
And all I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by.
And the lamp’s heat and the transport’s chatter and the popcorn we are making,
And I hope I get through all these reels with none of my splices breaking
And all I ask are decent prints with awesome sound and color,
For lately I’ve seen lines and specks and tones unduly duller.
I must go to Derann again, to ask them what they’ve got,
I’ve shelves and shelves and shelves of reels: it still don’t seem a lot.
And all ask are good machines that do not eat my prints,
But if they do, I’ve forums to, go ask to get some hints.
(There: NOW it's a quote!)
Coming Soon: Macbeth the Projectionist!
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All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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Allan Broadfield
Master Film Handler
Posts: 452
From: Bromley, Kent
Registered: Nov 2010
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posted August 07, 2011 09:27 AM
Excellent, Steve, but now you've put me to work!
With apologies to Edgar Allan Poe -
Once upon a midnight weary while I pondered with a query,
of why a person sends a note ending, oddly, with a quote,
suddenly I heard a tapping, now more like a rapping.
T'was the postman with a package now perspiring at my household door.
It was in the bleak December, this parcel, ordered in September
from whence I didn't have a clue, must have been long overdue
from Derran or place such like, now lifted from his trusty bike
and standing at my household door.
As he passed this unknown item from Derran, Jack or Steve,
I heard him mutter somewhat strangely;
"Tis more holy to give than recieve".
"What the devil, man" I cried, "What's the point you're trying to make?"
"There is no point", the chap replied, "I say it simply for my sake."
"Keep your quotes to yourself, I implore!
Pass the parcel and nothing more!
And if I want to hear your rants, most of which I think are pants, I'll ask permission so to say, though that won't happen for many a day!"
Galvanised, he stood erect, "This from you I don't expect!
I try to make my clients' day, by having something nice to say,
it doesn't have to be profound, it doesn't even have to sound
clever, wise or full of wit! Just don't react like a s--t!"
Thoroughly chastened, I waved goodbye.
He had a point, but I can't think why
he can't simply do his job without delivering a bloody epilogue!
End of rant and apologies to people who like to end their comments with a quote.
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