100 quotes from 100 movies
You know those 100 best this and that of the movies lists? Here’s a parody version: 100 quotes.
Category: video and film
Rachid Taha, Ya Rayah
I’ve always liked Rachid Taha’s Ya Rayah. This live version isn’t as tight as the one on his CD but it is spirited and delightful just the same. The lyrics go something like this:
Oh departing Traveler, where are you heading?
Your journey is bound to failure
How many travelers before you
Have sought the path with similar results?How many cities and deserts have I roamed?
How much time have I wasted
Touring from one place to another?Oh lost one, no matter how much you run away
Your destiny will end in exhaustion
Time has passed you by
And you have yet to notice it.
There a several Rachid Taha links at Exploding Aardvark.
Any Road
George Harrison retrospective clips, with a bit of ukulele at the end.
What a performer
This show, A similar appearance by Dali on the quiz show I’ve Got a Secret is, strangely enough, one of my earliest memories. Maybe that explains something … Anyway, I asked my parents who this Dali was, and as I recall they said he was some kind of nut. One of the remarkable things about this clip is way John Charles Daly and the panelists talk — hard to image such language on television these days. Via Exploding Aardvark.
Thriller
As performed by inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, Cebu, Philippines.
The Dude Abides
It’s a Lebowski thing. Posters, t-shirt are available.
Eartha, 1968
I’m seeing an upsurge of interest in Earth Kitt lately. The following video is of her performance at Sanremo in 1968. 1968 was a big year for her because it was the year that she bravely ran afoul of the White House over the Vietnam war — I give the full story in my Book of Days. “Within two hours” of the confrontation with Lady Bird Johnson, Kitt wrote, “I was out of work in America.” That may be why she was in Italy at Sanremo.
Dramatic Chipmunk
Okay, he’s really a prairie dog. But he still can’t be resisted.
