Meme Me

From the "tidying things up before the move back to 'Subdivided We Stand' department," it occurs to me that I never provided the answers to my little movie dialogue quiz from a few weeks back.  Here you go:

1. Leo, it gets me sick to think we gotta put up with some washed-up jaboni who's gonna be running around Central Park with his schlong hangin' out!
   My dear fellow, what I choose to do with my schlong is my business.
   How's business?
   Never better. 
   "My Favorite Year", which very well may be My Favorite Movie.  Julie correctly identified this one.
2. Can you get me off the hook, Tom? For old times' sake?
   "The Godfather", obviously.  I find occasion to use this line at least once a week.  Smokey and Julie came up with it.
3. How did you find America?
   Turned left at Greenland.
   "Hard Day's Night" as noted by JF and Julie.
4. Right. Oh, uh, you'll still be here when I get out?
   Cooler!
   "The Great Escape" -- only Julie got this one.
5. But -- what about my table?  Who's going to fix my table?
   I'm pretty sure there are only 6 people in the world who could identify this -- my college roommates and Julie, who has had the misfortune of hearing me quote it over and over again for the last 15 years.  JF and Julie get the credit, with bonus points to JF for recalling that it starred Seka.
6. Kneel before Zod.
   "Superman 2".  Smokey gets partial credit, and yellojkt gets full credit.
7. That's it. Out you two pixies go - through the door, or out the window.
   Aimee, Amy, and ma petite amie all correctly identified this as "It's a Wonderful Life".
8. He winked at me.
   Don't wink, kid.
   Amy and Julie got this one, from "Field of Dreams".
9. You don't have any friends; nobody likes you!
   Only Julie picked out Smeagol's inner dialogue from "Lord of the Rings"
10. Living here day by day, you think it's the center of the world. You believe nothing will ever change. Then you leave: a year, two years. When you come back, everything's changed. The thread's broken. What you came to find isn't there. What was yours is gone. You have to go away for a long time... many years... before you can come back and find your people.
    Nobody got this one, and it's a thoroughly pretentious pick on my part.  "Cinema Paradiso"
11. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.
    We're just the guys to do it.
    I thought this was the easiest one on the list, but only yellojkt and Julie got it.  "Animal House".
12. When I get big I'm gonna get a electric guitar.  When I get real big.
    This one was the toughest, I think.  I can't imagine too many of you have put yourselves through Neil Young's "Rust Never Sleeps", but JF has.  And you can, too -- I have it on DVD if you'd like to borrow.  A concert film from my favorite artist from my favorite of his many eras. 
13. You flatter me, Captain.
    Oh, how clumsy of me - I meant to accuse you.
    I thought Julie would come up with this, but only Smokey did.  "The Sound of Music"
14. I never look back, darling! It distracts from the now.
    It takes being the parents of pre-schoolers to recognize this little gem from "The Incredibles".  Julie got it.
15. We all know most marriages depend on a firm grasp of football trivia.
    Julie and yellojkt recognized this one from "Diner".

And now, a variation on the theme above.  I'm going to put my iPod on "shuffle," and then provide some lyrics from the first 10 songs that come up.  (One caveat -- I'll stick with songs that were actual hits.  I wouldn't expect anyone to know that "The people worked together, and they lifted many stones" is from Neil's "Cortez the Killer.")

This has the potential for real embarassment, too, given some of the humiliating songs I have on my iPod.  (*cough*HANSON*cough*)

1. Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade Says something like you and me babe how about it ?
2. Papa said oy if I get that boy I'm gonna stick him in the house of detention.
3. Tomorrow we can drive around this town, and let the cops chase us around.
4. If a ten-ton truck kills the both of us, to die by your side, well, the pleasure the privilege is mine.
5. Do you remember your President Nixon?
6. God damn, well I declare, have you seen the like?
7. Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from whippin' your behind.
8. I went home with the waitress, the way I always do.
9. We'll put our dark glasses on, and we'll make love until our strength is gone, and when the morning light comes streaming in we'll get up and do it again.
10. What if all these fantasies come flailing around?

Bonus points to whoever can correctly identify the source of the title of yesterday's post.

Comments

[deadlytoque]

2. Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy
10. REM - Losing My Religion

Also, I totally would've got "Cortez the Killer"! That song rules. I could listen to Neil play 9-minute guitar-wank songs all day! I have the Carrie Rodriguez cover of it on my mp3-walkman right now.

[Winner, Art Garfunkel Look-Alike Contest, McKeesport Branch]

The title of yesterday's post comes from "Sister Golden Hair" by America.

And song 2 is clearly "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard," Paul Simon

This is what comes from working for a classic rock radio station for four years.

Here's one for you:

11. My dog Sam eats purple flowers.

[Cynthia Closkey]

1. "Romeo and Juliet" - Dire Straits
5. "Young Americans" - David Bowie
7. "I Wish" - Stevie Wonder

I would have gotten #2 and #3; wouldn't have gotten #10 although I should have.

Still thinking about 4, 8, and 9, which are all laughing at me from the edge of my memory.

[Bob Braughler]

Artie Doppelfunkel -- no way in hades would I have gotten that one, even though I know that song pretty well. Or so I thought. I had to resort to the google.

[Mountain Mama]

#6 is "Uncle John's Band" by Grateful Dead--my favorite Dead song.

And your movie quiz? I don't think you said what movie #5 is from.

[Julie]

I was only able to come up with:

#2 - Me and Julio
#3 - Hey Jealousy
#4 - There is a Light That Never Goes Out (The Smiths)
#10 - Losing My Religion

[Bob Braughler]

That leaves #'s 8 and 9 still on the board. I guess I was being generous in calling them "hits" (along with 1, 4, 6 and 10), but they've all gotten plenty of airplay over the years.

And Mountain Mama, I've searched for years to find the title of that movie. It was classic. Seka walks into her living room, only to discover that her her table is broken. And by "broken," I mean literally sawed in half.

So she does what anyone would do in that situation -- she calls the table repair shop, who dispatches a couple of burly men to the scene.

30 seconds later, the doorbell rings, a few remarks are made about "having the right tools for the job," some bow-chicka-wow-wow music plays, and the scene ends with the repairmen leaving poor Seka boo-hooing over her still-broken table, and uttering the immortal line "But...my table! Who's going to fix my table" over and over the way that only a pr0n actress with a tenuous grip on the English language can.

[deadlytoque]

Oops, yeah, I meant 3, not 2.

[Frank]

#8 Lawyers, Guns And Money by Warren Zevon

#9 The Pretender by Jackson Browne

"nothing but blues and Elvis, and somebody else's favorite song"

[Artie Doppelfunkel]

Hey, if you close down "Masters of Gilligan," will Mike Madison have to write a post about how the Pittsburgh blogging scene is declining?

Also, will you ever reveal your true identity?

[Bob]

Frank -- all I can say is "No static at all...."

That's not necessarily one of my very favorite Steely Dan songs (although I do like it), but I think it might very well be the Steely Danniest of all Steely Dan songs. Fagan's vocal is outstanding on that one.

And Artie, I imagine that Mr. Madison and most everyone else would consider the shuttering of "Masters" to be a step forward for local blogging.

I would reveal my true identity if only I could be assured that it wouldn't have a negative effect on my dear Aunt May, who has been hanging on by the thinnest of threads since roughly 1964. She's had a rough go of it since Uncle Ben died.

[yellojkt]

I'm doing these without looking at the other answers:

1. Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits (not quite a hit but a fantastic somg off)
2. Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard - Paul Simon
3. right at the tip of my tongue
8. Lawyers Guns And Money - Warren Zevon (one of the greatest songs ever)
9. The Pretender - Jackson Browne

I think you stole my iPod.