Eddy's in the space-time continuum
Jun. 16th, 2006 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bending_sickleHave been playing the Hitchiker's Guide game again. Managed to get as far as successfully feeding the dog that crucial sandwich. Alas, I got killed. I was told I talked a lot for a corpse...
Ford: "Life," he said, "is like a grapefruit."
creature: "Er, how so?"
Ford: "Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast."
"It goes like this. Let's see now: 'Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.' That's it. It's what you pray silently inside yourself anyway, so you may as well have it out in the open."
Arthur: "Hmmm, Well, thank you - "
Old Man: "There's another prayer that goes with it that's very important, so you'd better jot this down, too."
Arthur: "OK."
Old Man: "It goes, 'Lord, lord, lord...' It's best to put that bit in, just in case. You can never be too sure. 'Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen...' And that's it. Most of the trouble people get into in life comes from missing out that last part.'" - Old Man Oracle's prayer given to Arthur Dent
Found a website with screenshots of JPhoneix as I was looking for picture of this scene. There's some hilarious quotes of his too. (I actually lol'ed.) Some might even be iconized.
"Forget the Oscar nomination [for Gladiator]. The real pinnacle is that I'm playing an animated character in a Disney film. Isn't that the greatest? I play a native American transformed into a bear. Don't call me a leading man. I don't care about that. I'm a leading bear. I am content!"
"I think that you try the best that you can, but we're all selfish, we all want something fabulous for ourselves and want to make it. I know people that are like, 'I would never do one of those Japanese commercials for a million dollars, two million dollars.' Screw you. Goddamn right I'll do a commercial for two million dollars. Are you high? Fucking-A, I will. I'll do it for two million dollars and then what am I going to do tomorrow? I'm going to do something good with that money. That's how I see it."
From Movieline: "I look down at the face of the scale and it's like, YOU LIAR!" - Ye source of LOL.
"In Spanish, leaf — I think, if I'm right — is hoja, and eye is ojo, and garlic is ajo. And so I would confuse them and I'd introduce myself as Garlic all the time and... as you can imagine, it didn't work out so good." - And lo, there was another LOL from on high.
From Cosmopolitan: "When you become satisfied, you stop fighting, and I like fighting. "It means that I'm constantly progressing and evolving. I'm never satisfied, and hopefully, I never will be."
"I don't try and make girls pronounce my name. I just tell them to call me kitten." Ok, maybe this is because I'm Spanish and therefore hispanophone, but Joaquin isn't really that hard to say. it's just "hwa" and "keen". See?
"I once had a Catholic girlfriend, but she wouldn't share... um... physical loving." And the cute yet accurate euphemism goes to...
"My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession."
In other news, I went to the train station at 4:15 for the 4:30 train which finally arrived at 5pm and took 1:45 hours instead of the almost-one-hour it usually does (or the 40 minutes it used to take). So I walk in at 7 pm and find a note from my uncle saying he's gone for the weekend. Ergo, all alone.
No, haven't checked out gradschool sites yet. Gonna watch Momo instead. Got that German level exam coming up.
PS: Am almost completely sure that what I've got on TV (German-dubbed) is Escape from LA and I am really sure that the uber-bad-guy is being played by Raul Julia. Except that I can find no such record. Do I really have to wait for the credits?
PPS: Touchy little shipper, ain't she?". I was just commenting to help Anon's failing memory.
PPPS: I'll go to bed, I swear, but first:
"Do you want to hear a Stephin Merritt Mr Punch song? Do you want to hear Claudia Gonson pretend to be Angela Lansbury in Sweeney Todd? What about hearing a demonic Mr Punch singing along? You do? Well, click on http://www.fabulist.org/archives/2006/06/future_bible_he.html"
Brought to you c/o Neil Gaiman. If you can find "The Tragical Comedy of Comical Tragedy of Mr Punch" on the online BBC radio, give it a listen. Freaky-creapy. (Think it's down, though.)
Ford: "Life," he said, "is like a grapefruit."
creature: "Er, how so?"
Ford: "Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast."
"It goes like this. Let's see now: 'Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.' That's it. It's what you pray silently inside yourself anyway, so you may as well have it out in the open."
Arthur: "Hmmm, Well, thank you - "
Old Man: "There's another prayer that goes with it that's very important, so you'd better jot this down, too."
Arthur: "OK."
Old Man: "It goes, 'Lord, lord, lord...' It's best to put that bit in, just in case. You can never be too sure. 'Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen...' And that's it. Most of the trouble people get into in life comes from missing out that last part.'" - Old Man Oracle's prayer given to Arthur Dent
Found a website with screenshots of JPhoneix as I was looking for picture of this scene. There's some hilarious quotes of his too. (I actually lol'ed.) Some might even be iconized.
"Forget the Oscar nomination [for Gladiator]. The real pinnacle is that I'm playing an animated character in a Disney film. Isn't that the greatest? I play a native American transformed into a bear. Don't call me a leading man. I don't care about that. I'm a leading bear. I am content!"
"I think that you try the best that you can, but we're all selfish, we all want something fabulous for ourselves and want to make it. I know people that are like, 'I would never do one of those Japanese commercials for a million dollars, two million dollars.' Screw you. Goddamn right I'll do a commercial for two million dollars. Are you high? Fucking-A, I will. I'll do it for two million dollars and then what am I going to do tomorrow? I'm going to do something good with that money. That's how I see it."
From Movieline: "I look down at the face of the scale and it's like, YOU LIAR!" - Ye source of LOL.
"In Spanish, leaf — I think, if I'm right — is hoja, and eye is ojo, and garlic is ajo. And so I would confuse them and I'd introduce myself as Garlic all the time and... as you can imagine, it didn't work out so good." - And lo, there was another LOL from on high.
From Cosmopolitan: "When you become satisfied, you stop fighting, and I like fighting. "It means that I'm constantly progressing and evolving. I'm never satisfied, and hopefully, I never will be."
"I don't try and make girls pronounce my name. I just tell them to call me kitten." Ok, maybe this is because I'm Spanish and therefore hispanophone, but Joaquin isn't really that hard to say. it's just "hwa" and "keen". See?
"I once had a Catholic girlfriend, but she wouldn't share... um... physical loving." And the cute yet accurate euphemism goes to...
"My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession."
In other news, I went to the train station at 4:15 for the 4:30 train which finally arrived at 5pm and took 1:45 hours instead of the almost-one-hour it usually does (or the 40 minutes it used to take). So I walk in at 7 pm and find a note from my uncle saying he's gone for the weekend. Ergo, all alone.
No, haven't checked out gradschool sites yet. Gonna watch Momo instead. Got that German level exam coming up.
PS: Am almost completely sure that what I've got on TV (German-dubbed) is Escape from LA and I am really sure that the uber-bad-guy is being played by Raul Julia. Except that I can find no such record. Do I really have to wait for the credits?
PPS: Touchy little shipper, ain't she?". I was just commenting to help Anon's failing memory.
PPPS: I'll go to bed, I swear, but first:
"Do you want to hear a Stephin Merritt Mr Punch song? Do you want to hear Claudia Gonson pretend to be Angela Lansbury in Sweeney Todd? What about hearing a demonic Mr Punch singing along? You do? Well, click on http://www.fabulist.org/archives/2006/06/future_bible_he.html"
Brought to you c/o Neil Gaiman. If you can find "The Tragical Comedy of Comical Tragedy of Mr Punch" on the online BBC radio, give it a listen. Freaky-creapy. (Think it's down, though.)
