Favorite quotes

[UKMikey]

No matter how major a writer it is, no matter how great the book, there always seems to be someone on hand who thinks he can do better, eager to take the story and 'improve' on it. "The book is the book, the film is the film," they will tell you, as if they were saying something profound. Then they make the story their own. They never make it better, though. Nine hundred ninety-nine times out of a thousand, they make it worse.

 

[Liquid]

Spitting Image was a satirical puppet show that was absolutely on the money in the late 80s and early 90s. The series one finale featured a reworked version of The Police's Every Breath You Take. The show's producers actually got Sting himself to sing the reworked version which was a serious protest song as opposed to the humour of the rest of the show.

Every bomb you make
Every job you take
Every heart you break
Every Irish wake
I'll be watching you

Every wall you build
Every one you've killed
Every grave you've filled
All the blood you've spilled
I'll be watching you

Oh can't you see?
You belong to me
There'll a bill to pay
'Pon that Judgement Day

For every empty plate
Every word of hate
Those you subjugate
Those you violate

I'll be watching you.



The clincher at the end that the song is from Death's point of view has always resonated with me very strongly. He's promising that those featured will also be claimed and that no-one is above Death's final judgement.

If you're wondering, the puppets featured in this order; Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Arthur Scargill & Ian MacGregor, Ian Paisley, Konstantin Chernenko, Robert Mugabe, Fidel Castro, Muammar Gaddafi, Erich Honecker, Idi Amin, Leonid Brezhnev, Adolf Hitler, Indira Ghandi, Ruhollah Khomeini, Pieter Botha and Konstantin Chernenko again.

 

[UKMikey]

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.