User Poetry - Page 16

zelda_pinwheel · 05-25-2008, 10:16 AM

thanks VR ! nice compilation. i've often thought that there are several threads i would like to archive... but i haven't done it so far, partly because most of them are still active (that's my excuse... pathetic isn't it). the absurdist ramblings (and i mean that in the very best way, obviously

) and dadaist rampages we've all been witness to / participated in here should absolutely be immortalized for posterity. in fact, i'm not sure that the ebook form (obsolete-able and transient) is the best adapted ; perhaps among our ranks there is a stonecarver, who could transcribe them in marble...

i do have a tiny request, should you undertake a revision in the future : i am quite flattered that you included my unassuming poem, but i would love it if you could also include marc and taylor's translations of it... i quite like the three of them together.

karma to you for the fabulous gift ! brilliant to have a little slice of portable insanity, to take with me everywhere (in addition to my own, i mean

)

GeoffC · 05-25-2008, 10:24 AM

Thanks VR for including my humble bits.

(ps. I think you missed the best story... the second one in the squirrel thread by NatCh
"Neighborhood Hazard
(or: Why the Cops Won’t Patrol Brice Street)") https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23124

vivaldirules · 05-25-2008, 01:05 PM

To my earlier posted ebooks of MR member contributions, I have added the requested posts (squirrels, translations, etc.), did a bit of editing, retitled the ebooks, and have added the statement "This ebook may contain material copyrighted by MobileRead forum members. All rights reserved." I don't have the slightest clue if that's a useful and appropriate statement or not. I have deleted the files that I posted earlier. I hope I haven't caused any grief by putting these files together and posting them - it certainly wasn't my intention to. If any of you (or the moderators) have any uneasiness about this, just let me know and I can either delete portions of them or just delete the files altogether. If there are no issues but you would like other postings added to these files (I was considering adding avatars but, again, there may silly copyright issues with that), just let me know.

GeoffC · 05-25-2008, 03:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

To my earlier posted ebooks of MR member contributions, I have added the requested posts (squirrels, translations, etc.), did a bit of editing, retitled the ebooks, and have added the statement "This ebook may contain material copyrighted by MobileRead forum members. All rights reserved." I don't have the slightest clue if that's a useful and appropriate statement or not. I have deleted the files that I posted earlier. I hope I haven't caused any grief by putting these files together and posting them - it certainly wasn't my intention to. If any of you (or the moderators) have any uneasiness about this, just let me know and I can either delete portions of them or just delete the files altogether. If there are no issues but you would like other postings added to these files (I was considering adding avatars but, again, there may silly copyright issues with that), just let me know.

I think it's a splendid thing you've done - hopefully the first of many

Now, who do you plan to approach to do the film....

Patricia · 05-25-2008, 03:29 PM

Hire Catherine Deneuve to play me, and tell her to remember her surrealist days with Bunuel.

zelda_pinwheel · 05-25-2008, 04:07 PM

instant classic.

vivaldirules · 05-25-2008, 05:08 PM

Classic? Are you kidding? A mega-classic. Personally, I can't wait for the part when Catherine (playing the part of Patricia) steps from her stylish sports coupe and utters those soon-to-be-famous lines:

Bread.
Milk.
salad.
Chickpeas.
Collect dry cleaning.

What drama!

zelda_pinwheel · 05-25-2008, 05:10 PM

especially with that delivery : so cool, detached even, yet you can sense the emotion under the surface...

Taylor514ce · 05-25-2008, 09:00 PM

Patrick Stewart for me, without the British accent and with a mustache. No wait, wait... Bruce Willis, only WITH a British accent. No, that doesn't work. Hmmmm... ok, the guy who will only ever be known as "Goose" from Top Gun, since he's bald now. With a mustache. He's got the perfect mix of lonesome loser and "I'm awesome once you know me".

If none of the above are available, then the flying dog thing from the silly 80's movie version of Neverending Story.

zelda_pinwheel · 05-26-2008, 08:26 AM

i vote for "the flying dog thing", because so far there's not nearly enough Dada in the casting. in that spirit, i propose that i could be played by a string of colored lights and / or a cardboard box. alternately, a hedgehog would be a good choice. of course, if Lauren Bacall ca. "The Big Sleep" is available, i'm not going to say no...

EDIT : or Capucine, ca. "The Pink Panther". if we're dreaming.

(cleverly avoiding the exercise of "chinese portraits" involving actors, since i can never think of any off the top of my head, much less think of a likely candidate to play myself.)

GeoffC · 05-26-2008, 09:06 AM

Directed by Peter Jackson, music by Michael Jackson and orchestra conducted by The Marx bros...
To be premiered in a dusty night-club near you, sometime in the past, the present, and the future; but definitely with a PG rating...

Definitely an Oscar looming...

vivaldirules · 05-26-2008, 09:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i vote for "the flying dog thing", because so far there's not nearly enough Dada in the casting. in that spirit, i propose that i could be played by a string of colored lights and / or a cardboard box. alternately, a hedgehog would be a good choice. [/I]

A string of colored lights in some scenes and a cardboard box in others sounds great to me, ZP (hey, it's Dada). But for PH, the flying dog thing just won't do - too dorky and definitely not Dada. I was thinking of a box of tissues on a roller skate. Not sure why.

zelda_pinwheel · 05-26-2008, 09:09 AM

i think the film should be directed by the Marx Brothers, the music should be by Michel Gondry, and the orchestra should be directed by Peter Sellers.

Palme d'Or at Cannes, no question.

vivaldirules · 05-26-2008, 11:33 AM

The Marx Brothers as directors - perfect! But I'm fond of John Zorn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zorn) to score the music. If you'd like to hear Dada written for a string quartet and performed brillianty then check out 'cat o' nine tails' here: http://www.jasperquartet.com/Media.html - I almost fell out of my chair in the performance I attended. It's something like listening to a montage of all the best scenes from a Tom and Jerry cartoon.

zelda_pinwheel · 05-26-2008, 11:34 AM

oh, john zorn, yeah baby !! him and the lounge lizards, in a joint effort (the lounge lizards love john zorn, it should work brilliantly) !! definitely.

05-26-2008, 08:26 AM	#235
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	i vote for "the flying dog thing", because so far there's not nearly enough Dada in the casting. in that spirit, i propose that i could be played by a string of colored lights and / or a cardboard box. alternately, a hedgehog would be a good choice. of course, if Lauren Bacall ca. "The Big Sleep" is available, i'm not going to say no... EDIT : or Capucine, ca. "The Pink Panther". if we're dreaming. (cleverly avoiding the exercise of "chinese portraits" involving actors, since i can never think of any off the top of my head, much less think of a likely candidate to play myself.) Last edited by zelda_pinwheel; 05-26-2008 at 08:48 AM.

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05-25-2008, 10:16 AM	#226
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	thanks VR ! nice compilation. i've often thought that there are several threads i would like to archive... but i haven't done it so far, partly because most of them are still active (that's my excuse... pathetic isn't it). the absurdist ramblings (and i mean that in the very best way, obviously ) and dadaist rampages we've all been witness to / participated in here should absolutely be immortalized for posterity. in fact, i'm not sure that the ebook form (obsolete-able and transient) is the best adapted ; perhaps among our ranks there is a stonecarver, who could transcribe them in marble... i do have a tiny request, should you undertake a revision in the future : i am quite flattered that you included my unassuming poem, but i would love it if you could also include marc and taylor's translations of it... i quite like the three of them together. karma to you for the fabulous gift ! brilliant to have a little slice of portable insanity, to take with me everywhere (in addition to my own, i mean )

05-25-2008, 10:24 AM	#227
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	Thanks VR for including my humble bits. (ps. I think you missed the best story... the second one in the squirrel thread by NatCh "Neighborhood Hazard (or: Why the Cops Won’t Patrol Brice Street)") https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23124

05-25-2008, 03:29 PM	#230
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	Hire Catherine Deneuve to play me, and tell her to remember her surrealist days with Bunuel.

05-25-2008, 04:07 PM	#231
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	instant classic.

05-25-2008, 05:08 PM	#232
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	Classic? Are you kidding? A mega-classic. Personally, I can't wait for the part when Catherine (playing the part of Patricia) steps from her stylish sports coupe and utters those soon-to-be-famous lines: Bread. Milk. salad. Chickpeas. Collect dry cleaning. What drama!

05-25-2008, 05:10 PM	#233
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	especially with that delivery : so cool, detached even, yet you can sense the emotion under the surface...

05-25-2008, 09:00 PM	#234
Taylor514ce Actively passive. Posts: 2,042 Karma: 478376 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: US Device: Sony PRS-505/LC	Patrick Stewart for me, without the British accent and with a mustache. No wait, wait... Bruce Willis, only WITH a British accent. No, that doesn't work. Hmmmm... ok, the guy who will only ever be known as "Goose" from Top Gun, since he's bald now. With a mustache. He's got the perfect mix of lonesome loser and "I'm awesome once you know me". If none of the above are available, then the flying dog thing from the silly 80's movie version of Neverending Story.

05-26-2008, 09:06 AM	#236
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	Directed by Peter Jackson, music by Michael Jackson and orchestra conducted by The Marx bros... To be premiered in a dusty night-club near you, sometime in the past, the present, and the future; but definitely with a PG rating... Definitely an Oscar looming...

05-26-2008, 09:09 AM	#238
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	i think the film should be directed by the Marx Brothers, the music should be by Michel Gondry, and the orchestra should be directed by Peter Sellers. Palme d'Or at Cannes, no question.

05-26-2008, 11:33 AM	#239
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	The Marx Brothers as directors - perfect! But I'm fond of John Zorn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zorn) to score the music. If you'd like to hear Dada written for a string quartet and performed brillianty then check out 'cat o' nine tails' here: http://www.jasperquartet.com/Media.html - I almost fell out of my chair in the performance I attended. It's something like listening to a montage of all the best scenes from a Tom and Jerry cartoon.

05-26-2008, 11:34 AM	#240
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	oh, john zorn, yeah baby !! him and the lounge lizards, in a joint effort (the lounge lizards love john zorn, it should work brilliantly) !! definitely.