Tuesday, January 17, 2012
You broke it, you bought it
Brrrrrtt...
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DAN: Hi Joe.
JOE: Hi Dan, how's it going?
DAN: Good, except I can't find any bloody coffee in this shop.
JOE: Which shop are you in?
DAN: The pound shop.
JOE: Ah. Of course, all the stuff in there comes from other shops which have gone into liquidation. So when you're shopping there, what you're buying is other people's broken dreams.
If he has a point, I don't see it. And I'm becoming increasingly desperate for coffee
DAN: And?
JOE: And coffee happens to be one broken dream that flies off the shelves pretty quickly.
***
Happily, one broken dream that hadn't flown off the shelf was the DVD of Merlin (1998), with Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, Helena Bonham Carter, Rutger Hauer et al.
Whenever I see such an impressive cast list, I'm reminded of Island of Fire, a poor Taiwanese film which featured most of the hottest actors of the time, as they owed the producer a favour for getting them out of trouble with the Triads.
After sitting through all three hours of the DVD yestereve, I felt that I'd pretty much got what I'd paid for.
Click
DAN: Hi Joe.
JOE: Hi Dan, how's it going?
DAN: Good, except I can't find any bloody coffee in this shop.
JOE: Which shop are you in?
DAN: The pound shop.
JOE: Ah. Of course, all the stuff in there comes from other shops which have gone into liquidation. So when you're shopping there, what you're buying is other people's broken dreams.
If he has a point, I don't see it. And I'm becoming increasingly desperate for coffee
DAN: And?
JOE: And coffee happens to be one broken dream that flies off the shelves pretty quickly.
***
Happily, one broken dream that hadn't flown off the shelf was the DVD of Merlin (1998), with Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, Helena Bonham Carter, Rutger Hauer et al.
Whenever I see such an impressive cast list, I'm reminded of Island of Fire, a poor Taiwanese film which featured most of the hottest actors of the time, as they owed the producer a favour for getting them out of trouble with the Triads.
After sitting through all three hours of the DVD yestereve, I felt that I'd pretty much got what I'd paid for.
Labels: BUNKA, CLAN, THE CREDIT CRUNCH, WORDS
