Comments on: In Der Mude http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/in-der-mude/ David Cairns' wilfully eccentric film blog Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:00:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: “I’m in love with a German film star…” « SHADOWPLAY http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/in-der-mude/#comment-1471 “I’m in love with a German film star…” « SHADOWPLAY Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:14:48 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=281#comment-1471 [...] a few days remain for you to enter our Fritz Lang songwriting contest and win the film of your dreams*! To kind of get you in der mude, I’ve knocked up a jaunty [...] [...] a few days remain for you to enter our Fritz Lang songwriting contest and win the film of your dreams*! To kind of get you in der mude, I’ve knocked up a jaunty [...]

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/in-der-mude/#comment-1418 dcairns Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:18:24 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=281#comment-1418 Wow. And it's only Tuesday. Wow. And it’s only Tuesday.

]]> By: djp http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/in-der-mude/#comment-1414 djp Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:29:05 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=281#comment-1414 This is all your fault...:-) THE BALLAD OF CHRISTOPHER CROSS (with apologies to all concerned) Well my name is Chris Cross And I feel at a loss Been a lowly book-keeper for years And I wed sweet Adele Who has made my life hell And it's driven me almost to tears When Johnny hit Kitty I felt full of pity So much so I laid him out flat Then I ran to the cops Cause I'd busted his chops But dear Kitty was knocked out at that I told her I painted And she nearly fainted As dollar signs flashed in her eyes While I fell besotted With Johnny she plotted I was too naive to realise So I got her a flat With some finances that I embezzled at night from my boss There my paintings I stored Cause Adele had abhorred My artwork as frivolous dross Then a dealer came round And thought he had found In Kitty an artist supreme And Adele's ex appeared Hadn't died as she'd feared It had all been a Dallas-like dream But then Johnny and Kitty Behaved intimitty I saw them and became deranged So I acted impulsive Did something repulsive Now my life will forever be changed... (c) 2008 Daniel Prendiville This is all your fault…:-)

THE BALLAD OF CHRISTOPHER CROSS

(with apologies to all concerned)

Well my name is Chris Cross
And I feel at a loss
Been a lowly book-keeper for years
And I wed sweet Adele
Who has made my life hell
And it’s driven me almost to tears

When Johnny hit Kitty
I felt full of pity
So much so I laid him out flat
Then I ran to the cops
Cause I’d busted his chops
But dear Kitty was knocked out at that

I told her I painted
And she nearly fainted
As dollar signs flashed in her eyes
While I fell besotted
With Johnny she plotted
I was too naive to realise

So I got her a flat
With some finances that
I embezzled at night from my boss
There my paintings I stored
Cause Adele had abhorred
My artwork as frivolous dross

Then a dealer came round
And thought he had found
In Kitty an artist supreme
And Adele’s ex appeared
Hadn’t died as she’d feared
It had all been a Dallas-like dream

But then Johnny and Kitty
Behaved intimitty
I saw them and became deranged
So I acted impulsive
Did something repulsive
Now my life will forever be changed…

(c) 2008 Daniel Prendiville

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/in-der-mude/#comment-1413 dcairns Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:52:41 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=281#comment-1413 Wow, what a vague and shifty synopsis! "Claudius sets a fiendish trap but Hamlet also does something and, as a result, stuff happens." Wow, what a vague and shifty synopsis!

“Claudius sets a fiendish trap but Hamlet also does something and, as a result, stuff happens.”

]]> By: djp http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/in-der-mude/#comment-1412 djp Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:28:56 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=281#comment-1412 Leave it with me - I'll have my agent call yours... In the meantime, the IMdb synopsis for Lang's SCARLET STREET contains the following gem:- "Chris sees this as a way to go to Kitty permanently but discovering her in the arms of Johnny, Chris does something impulsive, and his future days are affected by his actions in the most dramatic ways." We've all been there, ducky, but no-one's filmed our lives yet...:-) Regards, djp Leave it with me - I’ll have my agent call yours…

In the meantime, the IMdb synopsis for Lang’s SCARLET STREET contains the following gem:-

“Chris sees this as a way to go to Kitty permanently but discovering her in the arms of Johnny, Chris does something impulsive, and his future days are affected by his actions in the most dramatic ways.”

We’ve all been there, ducky, but no-one’s filmed our lives yet…:-)

Regards,

djp

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/in-der-mude/#comment-1411 dcairns Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:51:07 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=281#comment-1411 I'm hoping for great things from you, DJP! You can always find Lang plot synopses on the IMDb if you need inspiration... I’m hoping for great things from you, DJP! You can always find Lang plot synopses on the IMDb if you need inspiration…

]]> By: djp http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/in-der-mude/#comment-1410 djp Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:08:51 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=281#comment-1410 "the urges are boilers and the voices have stoked 'em..." what a brilliant line! "I wish I'd said that" "You will, Oscar, you will..." Regards, djp “the urges are boilers and the voices have stoked ‘em…”

what a brilliant line!

“I wish I’d said that”

“You will, Oscar, you will…”

Regards,

djp

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/in-der-mude/#comment-1406 dcairns Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:44:05 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=281#comment-1406 That could work for quite a few of his films! Be great over the credits of The Big Heat. That could work for quite a few of his films! Be great over the credits of The Big Heat.

]]> By: David Ehrenstein http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/in-der-mude/#comment-1405 David Ehrenstein Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:53:23 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=281#comment-1405 <B>"Through early morning fog I see visions of the things to be the pains that are withheld for me I realize and I can see... that suicide is painless It brings on many changes and I can take or leave it if I please. I try to find a way to make all our little joys relate without that ever-present hate but now I know that it's too late, and suicide is painless It brings on many changes and I can take or leave it if I please. The game of life is hard to play I'm gonna lose it anyway The losing card I'll someday lay so this is all I have to say. suicide is painless It brings on many changes and I can take or leave it if I please. The only way to win is cheat And lay it down before I'm beat and to another give my seat for that's the only painless feat. Cause suicide is painless It brings on many changes and I can take or leave it if I please. The sword of time will pierce our skins It doesn't hurt when it begins But as it works its way on in The pain grows stronger...watch it grin, but...suicide is painless It brings on many changes and I can take or leave it if I please. A brave man once requested me to answer questions that are key is it to be or not to be and I replied 'oh why ask me?' 'Cause suicide is painless it brings on many changes and I can take or leave it if I please. ...and you can do the same thing if you please."</b> “Through early morning fog I see
visions of the things to be
the pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see…
that suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
I try to find a way to make
all our little joys relate
without that ever-present hate
but now I know that it’s too late, and suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
The game of life is hard to play
I’m gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I’ll someday lay
so this is all I have to say.
suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
The only way to win is cheat
And lay it down before I’m beat
and to another give my seat
for that’s the only painless feat.
Cause suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
The sword of time will pierce our skins
It doesn’t hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger…watch it grin, but…suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
A brave man once requested me
to answer questions that are key
is it to be or not to be
and I replied ‘oh why ask me?’
‘Cause suicide is painless
it brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
…and you can do the same thing if you please.”

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/in-der-mude/#comment-1404 dcairns Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:28:31 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=281#comment-1404 Beautiful! And I bet Eddie would have sung his lungs out with it. And what the hell went wrong with Delroy Lindo anyway? Beautiful! And I bet Eddie would have sung his lungs out with it.

And what the hell went wrong with Delroy Lindo anyway?

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