[Misadventures in Taiwan]: it's a bitter little world

11/19/2005

it's a bitter little world

oooh i want this book! add this to my christmas 2005 wishlist that's not gonna get fulfilled.

Amazon book description: Everything you need to know in life you can learn from film noir. And everything you can learn from film noir, you can find in It's a Bitter Little World.

Sample quotes from Mad Professor:

Out of the Past [1947]
JEFF BAILEY/JEFF MARKHAM: I sell gasoline, I make a small profit. With that,I buy groceries. The grocer makes a profit. We call it earning a living. You may have heard of it somewhere.

Ride the Pink Horse [1947]
FRANK HUGO: Small fry. All your life you waste time worrying about small fry things. About a job. About a two buck raise. About getting a pension.

FRANK HUGO: Guys like you work all their lives breaking their backs, trying to earn meat and potatoes. You end up borrowing enough money to buy a hole in the ground to get buried in. Then when you get a chance to make some realscratch, what do you do, mice like you and Shorty? You ask for peanuts.

Force of Evil [1948] WALLY: What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.

this is my favorite quote:

Pitfall [1948] TOMMY FORBES: Is there anything you want me to do today, Dad?
JOHN FORBES: Yeah. Until my rich uncle dies, quit growing.

posted by g @ 11/19/2005 11:47:00 PM permanent link (永久連結)

Comments (留言€):

hey gem, its been awhile since u podcast! anyway keep up e good work

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friend from singapore : 24/11/05 02:30

hi.. actually i made a podcast yesterday but it's taking forever to post to my free podcast host (rizzn.net/ blipmedia).

i sent the mp3 in already but it's not yet posted in my list of podcasts. maybe in a day or two.

thanks for writing! =)

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