WHAT WAS SAID: The Harvey Keitel character is explaining to Edward Norton’s character about murders that took place in Birmingham and Atlanta.
SUBTITLE: Even we have to move from Bominghan to Atalanta
WHAT WAS SAID: Norton’s character talks about how he “doesn’t think about this stuff anymore.”
SUBTITLE: I have got used to clam life
Norton’s character doesn’t use the word “calm,” but the person doing the subtitles might have intended to use it to paraphrase what Norton said. If so, I like how the transposition of letters into “clam” life implies a similar sentiment, i.e., Norton’s character’s life being somewhat slow and of minor significance, like a clam’s.
WHAT WAS SAID: It’s Chromalux.
SUBTITLE: This is carmax
And you know how positive blurbs are always splashed across a movie’s posters? I typically ignore them, but I noticed that this was the blurb on the cover of the bootleg DVD: “It includes the initial capture” (no period, in big red letters). It’s attributed to “The New Youk BBC TV.”
I also get my kicks from the Prime Minister’s Questions.
If you’re in New York the weekend of Sept. 22, check out the Come Out and Play Festival.
Also, crazy story from my friend’s blog about her boyfriend, who was sent to a convention last weekend. When he checked into his hotel, they gave him the key to a room that was already occupied. He saw a sleeping figure, panicked, and didn’t even close the door all the way in his rush to get back to the elevators.
He told my friend, “How are they gonna send me, a black man, into someone else’s room? I could’ve gotten killed!” Which, as my friend observed, is sad but true.
“You are the crispy noodle in the vegetarian salad of life.”
(And of course, it would so happen that other people have received this fortune and already posted about it online. Scooped again!)
