Feb 12
“You still don’t understand what you’re dealing with, do you? … Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.”
Aug 30
“Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony; it is the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.”
-Werner Herzog
Aug 05
“Now that’s what I meant when I said I got the story from the mother. You see, when the mind houses two personalities, there’s always a conflict, a battle. In Norman’s case, the battle is over—and the dominant personality has won.”
-Dr. Richman (Simon Oakland)
Psycho
Aug 03
“You tell him! You tell him I’m coming!
Tell him I’m fucking coming!”
-Wilson (Terence Stamp),
The Limey
Jun 18
“Y’know my father thinks I’m lazy ‘cause I ain’t got no career
And my mother thinks I’m crazy, and my sister thinks I’m queer
Ah, but if you think it’s easy, man, you just got no idea
I’m a 3-legged dog on the roam.”
- Firewater,
“Three Legged Dog”
Jun 11
“You’d do anything for the price of a hit,
But the image of you as The Wild Boy is a bucket of a shit.
You coulda been a diamond, if you weren’t such a clown.
But you’re not even cheap cut glass, baby—
you’re so down.”
-The Flesh Volcano (Foetus & Marc Almond),
“Slut”
Jun 10
“But I stood my ground, there on the lecture platform at the World Science Fiction Convention, and I repeated the heretical words that had sent them into animal hysterics:
“Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurantist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brain to purée of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I’ll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!”“
-Harlan Ellison, noted pugilist
1979
Jun 04
“His name is Arch Hammer. He’s thirty-six years old. He’s been a salesman, a dispatcher, a truck driver, a con man, a bookie, and a part-time bartender. This is a cheap man, a nickel-and-dime man, with a cheapness that goes past the suit and the shirt; a cheapness of mind, a cheapness of taste, a tawdry little shine on the seat of his conscience, and a dark-room squint at a world whose sunlight has never gotten through to him.”
- Twilight Zone, “The Four of Us Are Dying”
Rod Serling
Jun 04
“Am I strong? Listen, bud I got radioactive blood Sure I get into some strife But at least I made myself a life I admit I was obsessed By that magical caress Of that girl who commands Everybody else’s hands But I’m now not the man She’s in someone else’s van.” - Foetus, “Slung”
May 28
“Still, to this day: never punched in the face. Imagine that? I’m pretty much a pantywaist. I don’t say this to be self-deprecating, I just, y’know, don’t have much of an opinion of myself. I’d much rather be like you guys, y’know, bar fighters and big swingin’ dicks, taking care of shit. Sadly, this is it, this is: you know, it’s disgusting. ‘Thanks God! Dogpile a piss-poor physique on top of a small cock and hereditary alcoholism. ‘Preciate it!’
I’m babbling. I do that drunk.”
- Rip Reed, Lawyer (Jason Bateman),
Smokin’ Aces
