Apr. 9th, 2008

fr_defenestrato: (coroner)
[Sorry... for real this time... Please comment and NAME the movies, don't just tell me which numbers you know. Comments are screened. I'll unscreen comments with correct guesses and edit the post to list answers and the first person to get each one.]

1. "I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more." —The Godfather ([livejournal.com profile] paddbear)

2. "Always drink gin with a mark, kid. He can't tell if you cut it." —The Sting ([livejournal.com profile] bistet)

3. "Spiced wine... I'd forgotten Henry liked it." —The Lion in Winter ([livejournal.com profile] madknits)

4. "Well, I ought to! I spent the entire afternoon bumsening like mad with some ghastly old director who promised to give me a part. Gin, Miss Landauer?" —Cabaret ([livejournal.com profile] bistet)

5. "Assault with a gun and a bourbon and a sports car." (I'm thinking Google/imdb/Wiki-enabled answers don't count :)

6. "It comes in pints? I'm getting one." —The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ([livejournal.com profile] writerbear81, though several others said they knew it without naming it and I tend to believe them:)

7. "Every time he put the bottle to his mouth, he don't suck out of it, it sucks out of him until he shrunk so wrinkled and yellow even the dogs didn't know him."

8. "I'm pleased you appreciate fine wine. Have another glass." —A Clockwork Orange ([livejournal.com profile] glaucon)

9. (One-word version) "Vodka!" —The Breakfast Club ([livejournal.com profile] rozebud)

10. "We've spirits and beers. If it's something hot you want, you can have tea." —An American Werewolf in London ([livejournal.com profile] paddbear)

11. "One sip of Cinzano and I am in Italy!" —Bedazzled (1967) ([livejournal.com profile] rozebud)

12. "Now, I'll hold your hand when it's dark and you're afraid of the bogey man, and I'll tote your gin bottles after midnight when no one'll see, but I will not light your cigarette. And that, as they say, is that." —Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ([livejournal.com profile] bistet; I'm confident [livejournal.com profile] glaucon knew it as well, though he answered before I asked folks to name the movies.)

13. "One thing I do know, hoss: any damn fool can drink himself to death."

14. "The whisky! The whisky! Where is the whisky?" "It's in my little black bag, in the right-hand corner." —Animal Crackers ([livejournal.com profile] rozebud)

15. "My father'd burst a blood vessel if he heard you say that There's a big difference! Ale's sorta fermented on the top, or something, and beer's fermented on the bottom, or maybe it's the other way around." —The Lady Eve ([livejournal.com profile] rozebud)

16. "Its landlord was a retired alcoholic with military pretensions and the complexion like the inside of a teapot. By the time the doors opened he was assholed on rum and he got progressively more assholed until he could take no more and fell over about 12 o'clock."

17. "No flowers, no tequila? You're not gonna get a second date."

18. "I don’t know. It’s a hard grape to grow. As you know. It’s thin-skinned, temperamental, ripens early. It’s not a survivor like Cabernet that can grow anywhere and thrive even when neglected. Pinot needs constant care and attention and in fact can only grow in specific little tucked-away corners of the world. And only the most patient and nurturing growers can do it really, can tap into Pinot’s most fragile, delicate qualities. Only when someone has taken the time to truly understand its potential can Pinot be coaxed into its fullest expression. And when that happens, its flavors are the most haunting and brilliant and subtle and thrilling and ancient on the planet." —Sideways ([livejournal.com profile] coolbeans56)

19. "Yeah, a white Russian." —The Big Lebowski ([livejournal.com profile] writerbear81, though again, some folks posted on the original, pre-instruction post that they knew the movie but didn't name it.)

20. "I dont..." [staring at the shot that suddenly appeared in front of him] "... drink." —Orson Welles as Police Captain Hank Quinlan in Touch of Evil (a freebie)
fr_defenestrato: (struwwelpeter)
In which Wolfie gets us out of Iraq

Had Mozart lived another 20 years,
He doubtless had composed ten operas more,
Sonatas and concerti by the score
And symphonies to vex envious peers
And tutor rising stars (Beethoven's ears
In '92 were still in working or—);
Herr Goethe had persuaded him for sure
To set his lyric Faust. How many cheers
And calls of "Maestro!" more had he enjoyed,
Ama'd likewise of homens as of Deus?
How many more young parents had deployed
His tunes to stimulate a big-brained baby?
Who knows? Symphony 42—just maybe—
Had made a human of that fuck Petraeus.

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