(Youtube Direktpoe, via MeFi)
Quoth the raven, „Nevermore“. Auch Poe: Vincent Price liest The Raven, Christopher Walken ebenso.
William Shatner liest Edgar Allan Poes „The Raven“
What if… William Shakespeare wrote The Big Lebowski? Und Pulp Fiction?
Adam Bertocci ist Drehbuchautor, hat in „Star Wars: Revelations“ mitgespielt und tatsächlich einen Shakespear-Remix von „The Big Lebowski“ geschrieben, und zwar vom kompletten Film, soweit ich gesehen habe: Two Gentlemen of Lebowski (via Buzzfeed). I am not Master Lebowski; thou art Master Lebowski.
THE KNAVE
Let me not to the marriage of false impressions deny impediments. I am not Master Lebowski; thou art Master Lebowski. I am the Knave, called the Knave. Or His Knaveness, or mayhap Knaver, or mayhap El Knaverino, in the manner of the Spaniard, if brevity be not in thy soul nor wit. A Knave by any other name would abide just as well.LEBOWSKI
Have you employment, sir? Surely you hope not to pledge fealty nor till the earth in such roughly fashioned armour, invested in thy motley, clad as a jack-a-dandy on a Sunday?THE KNAVE
I know not; what week-day, friends, is this?
Dagegen höchstens ganz nett und auch schon älter, hatte ich damals in den Links: Zwei Szenen aus Pulp Fiction, als ob sie von Shakespear kämen:
J: Describe Marsellus Wallace to me, pray.
B: What?
J: What country dost thou hail from?
B: What?
J: How passing strange, for I have traveled far,
And never have I heard tell of this What.
What language speak they in the land of What?
B: What?
J: The Queen’s own English, base knave, dost thou speak it?
B: Aye!
J: Then hearken to my words and answer them!
Describe to me Marsellus Wallace!
B: What?
JULES presses his knife to BRETT’s throat
J: Speak ‘What’ again! Thou cur, cry ‘What’ again!
I dare thee utter ‘What’ again but once!
I dare thee twice and spit upon thy name!
Now, paint for me a portraiture in words,
If thou hast any in thy head but ‘What’,
Of Marsellus Wallace!
Beat Poet Dokus: „One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur“ und „William S. Burroughs: A Man Within“
(Youtube Direktbeat, via Underwire)
Gestern erschien „One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur“ auf DVD in den USA, eine Doku über den „König der Beats“, Jack Kerouac, der ein paar Bücher schrieb, durch die USA raste, hemmlungslos soff und rumvögelte, dann sein Opus Magnum „On the road“ auf einer aus zurechtgeschnittenen und zusammengeklebten Tora aus Zeichenpapier tippte, nur um hiernach dem Suff und den Depressionen zu verfallen.
„One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur“ erzählt die Entstehungsgeschichte seiner Quasi-Biographie „Big Sur“, die er während seines Niedergangs schrieb. Wann und ob die Doku hier in irgendeiner Form auf den Markt kommt, weiß ich nicht, ich habe dazu genau nix gefunden. Ihr wisst, was zu tun ist, hier die offizielle Website zum Film.
Und wo wir grade beim Thema sind, bei den Filmfreunden hatte ich vor ein paar Wochen die neue Burroughs-Doku „A Man Within“ gebloggt, hier nochmal der Trailer dazu. Auch hier: Keine Ahnung, wann und wie und ob die Doku in Deutschland veröffentlicht wird. I want something to shoot.
The film features never before seen footage of William S. Burroughs, as well as exclusive interviews with his closest friends and colleagues including John Waters, Genesis P-Orridge, Laurie Anderson, Peter Weller, David Cronenberg, Iggy Pop, Gus Van Sant, Sonic Youth, Anne Waldman, George Condo, Hal Willner, James Grauerholz, Amiri Baraka, Jello Biafra, V. Vale, David Ohle, Wayne Propst, Dr. William Ayers, Diane DiPrima, Donovan, Dean Ripa (the world’s largest poisonous snake collector), and many others, with narration by actor Peter Weller, and soundtrack by Sonic Youth.
The film investigates the life of legendary beat author and American icon, William S. Burroughs. Born the heir of the Burroughs adding machine estate, he struggled throughout his life with addiction, control systems and self. He was forced to deal with the tragedy of killing his wife and the repercussions of neglecting his son. His novel, Naked Lunch, was one of the last books to be banned by the U.S. government. Allen Ginsberg and Norman Mailer testified on behalf of the book. The courts eventually overturned their decision in 1966, ruling that the book had important social value. It remains one of the most recognized literary works of the 20th century.
Charles Bukowski war ein Geek!
Das Bild von Bukowski in mit einer Flasche Whiskey vor seiner Schreibmaschine ist sicherlich nicht falsch. Ich wusste allerdings nicht, dass er sein Spätwerk auf einem Mac IIsi getippt und ein Gedicht geschrieben hatte, das erstens „16-bit Intel 8088 chip“ hieß und in dem zweitens der C64 vorkommt. Außerdem fand er diese neue Technologie, die sich da abzeichnete schon super, dieses Dingens, mit dem er sofort und mit einem Klick Gedichte veröffentlichen könnte… dieses Dingens, dieses Internet. Holy fuck, der Buke war ein Geek!
On Christmas Day, 1990, Charles Bukowski received a Macintosh IIsi computer and a laser printer from his wife, Linda. The computer utilized the 6.0.7 operating system and was installed with the MacWrite II word processing program. By January 18 of the next year, the computer was up and running and so, after a brief period of fumbling and stumbling, was Bukowski. His output of poems doubled in 1991. In letters he remarked that he had more poems than outlets to send them to. The fact that several books of new poems appeared in the years following Bukowski’s death in 1994 can partially be attributed to this amazing burst of creative energy late in life. The Macintosh IIsi helped to enable this creative explosion.
Charles Bukowski and his Apple ComputerFlying in the face of the adage “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks,” Bukowski kept an open mind about new technologies. Although he wondered if Dostoevsky would have ever used a computer or if he would lose his soul as a writer, Bukowski quickly realized the substantial benefits of the Macintosh and wondered how he ever wrote without one, considering the typewriter archaic. In correspondence, Bukowski championed his computer to friends, stating that they would never regret getting one for themselves. Linda signed Bukowski up for a computer class, and he went willingly, demonstrating his eagerness to master the new technology. A short time later, Bukowski characteristically claimed that he had a secret, foolproof system for dealing with his computer’s many shutdowns and malfunctions, much like he had a system at the racetrack.
In general Bukowski kept abreast of new innovations that would further his writing. In a letter to John Martin, his Black Sparrow publisher, Bukowski mentioned the availability of a technology (the Internet) that would allow him to send poems instantly. The speed and ease of new technologies amazed, excited, and inspired him. When he first got a fax machine, Bukowski immediately wrote Martin a fax poem. In late 1992, Bruce Kijewski approached Bukowski with the idea of electronic books. Bukowski was intrigued. He wrote back, “Yes, you have a strange project: electronic books. It might be the future as more and more people find that the computer is such a magic thing: time-saver, charmer, energizer.”
Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer (via Cyn-C)
Nach dem Klick noch sein Nerd-Gedicht, muss ich selbstverständlich hier haben.
Gib mir den Rest, Baby…
William Shattner liest Sarah Palins Tweets
(Youtube Direktsarah, via Digg)
Vorgestern ging ein Video mit William „Captain Kirk“ Shatner durch die Blogs, in dem dieser Sarah Palins etwas, hm, entrückte Abschiedsrede als Gedicht vorlas. Das Video hatte ich „nur“ in den Links, weil Sarah Palin als abgetretene Gouverneurin von Alaska jetzt nicht sooo interessant ist, auch wenn Shatner ihre Abschiedsrede als Gedicht vorliest. Jedenfalls: Gestern hat er dasselbe nochmal getan – mit Sarah Palins Tweets.
Hier nochmal das erste Video mit der Rede:
Bearded Poetry
(Vimeo Direktbeard, via Malte)
Hier eine Bande bärtiger Männer, die Gedichte über Bärte vorlesen. Here’s my beard, ain’t it weird? Weird, indeed.
The Nightmare Before Christmas – Tim Burton’s Original Poem, vorgelesen von Christopher Lee
(Youtube Direktnightmare, via Tor)
Tim Burtons Gedicht zu „Nightmare before Christmas“, vorgelesen von Christopher Lee.
It was late one fall in Halloweenland,
and the air had quite a chill.
Against the moon a skeleton sat,
alone upon a hill.
He was tall and thin with a bat bow tie;
Jack Skellington was his name.
He was tired and bored in Halloweenland“I’m sick of the scaring, the terror, the fright.
I’m tired of being something that goes bump in the night.
I’m bored with leering my horrible glances,
And my feet hurt from dancing those skeleton dances.
I don’t like graveyards, and I need something new.
There must be more to life than just yelling,
‘Boo!’”
Animierter Edgar Allan Poe liest „The Raven“
(Youtube Direktpoe, via Neatorama)
Jim Clark erweckt mit einer Morphing-Software längst verstorbene Poeten zum Leben und lässt sie die eigenen Werke vorlesen. Hier liest Edgar Allan Poe seine Geschichte vom Raben. In seinem Youtube-Channel gibt’s noch jede Menge mehr animierte Schriftsteller und Poeten von Walt Whitman bis Robert Frost.
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
shall be lifted – nevermore!
Zombies, die Splatter-Haikus vorlesen
(Youtube Direktzombiehaikus, via Boing Boing)
Diese Zombies lesen blutige Splatter-Haikus von einem Zettel vor und spielen Saxophon, während im Hintergrund die Zombie-Apokalypse stattfindet. Das ganze ist zwar nur Promo für das Buch „Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry for Your Brains“, der Dawn of the Dead war allerdings noch nie so stilvoll, wie hier.
Perfect for zombiephiles, video game addicts and horror movie fanatics, “Zombie Haiku” is the touching story of a zombie’s gradual decay told through the intimate poetry of haiku.From infection to demise, readers will accompany the narrator on a zen journey through deserted streets and barracaded doors for every eye-popping, gut-wrenching, flesh-eating moment right up to the inevitable bullet to the brain.The book is illustrated with over 50 photos from the zombie’s point of view and designed with extra blood, guts, gore and pus!
Amazon-Partnerlink: Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry for Your Brains
