pitch 'n putt - it's bitch 'n slut

February 1, 2007 9:59 PM

Pitch 'n' Putt with Joyce 'n' Beckett - (alerts: YouTube & nsfw language. via Exploding Aardvark)
posted by madamjujujive (26 comments total)

surprise hit of the week. that was great!
posted by facetious at 10:05 PM on February 1, 2007

that was brilliant.
posted by nola at 10:06 PM on February 1, 2007 [1 favorite]

Nice.
posted by jouke at 10:09 PM on February 1, 2007

I LOLed.
posted by maxwelton at 11:21 PM on February 1, 2007

That didn't suck.
posted by homunculus at 11:24 PM on February 1, 2007

LOLFENIANS
posted by goetter at 11:46 PM on February 1, 2007

LOL JOYCEANS.

(that was great)
posted by sparkletone at 12:14 AM on February 2, 2007

Oh fuck that was pretty awesome. LOL.
posted by bobo123 at 12:59 AM on February 2, 2007

Big mickeys!
posted by Abiezer at 1:11 AM on February 2, 2007

Waiting for Godot...to golf. That was great, Thank you.
posted by FeldBum at 1:14 AM on February 2, 2007

Fecund in it's nuttiness.
posted by jimbaud at 2:25 AM on February 2, 2007

that was brilliant.
posted by shmegegge at 2:45 AM on February 2, 2007

that was pretty good!
posted by Mocata at 4:57 AM on February 2, 2007

Nice way to end a terrible week. thanks.
posted by milarepa at 7:04 AM on February 2, 2007

That was fabulous.
posted by winna at 8:12 AM on February 2, 2007

Gee, that one guy was really tee'd off.
posted by debralee at 8:42 AM on February 2, 2007

"Black pudding is very black today, Mother."
"Yes, it is black today, dear."
"Aye, that's very black tha' tis'. Even the white bits are black!"
posted by Smart Dalek at 9:01 AM on February 2, 2007

Great. Thanks.

from YouTube description: "Short film by Bórd Scannán na hEireann"

This was one of the funnier parts. I guess whoever posted this doesn't really know Gaelic.
posted by koeselitz at 9:04 AM on February 2, 2007

...by which I mean I mean "whoever posted this to YouTube."
posted by koeselitz at 9:05 AM on February 2, 2007

Heh, great fun, thanks!
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:53 AM on February 2, 2007

"all fecund in it's nuttiness." Heh!
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 11:07 AM on February 2, 2007

Good lord, I can't wait to use "fecund in it's nuttiness" in conversation.
posted by lekvar at 12:58 PM on February 2, 2007

Quite agreem. Bussave a sec. Walk a dun blink roundward this albutisle and you skull see how olde ye plaine of my Elters, hunfree and ours, where wone to wail whimbrel to peewee o'er the saltings, where wilby citie by law of isthmon, where by a droit of signory, icefloe was from his Inn the Byggning to whose Finishthere Punct. Let erehim ruhmuhrmuhr. Mearmerge two races, swete and brack. Morthering rue. Hither, craching eastuards, they are in surgence: hence, cool at ebb, they requiesce. Countlessness of livestories have netherfallen by this plage, flick as flowflakes, litters from aloft, like a waast wizzard all of whirlworlds. Now are all tombed to the mound, isges to isges, erde from erde. Pride, O pride, [thy prize!]
posted by languagehat at 1:15 PM on February 2, 2007

Thanks so much for this delightful post mjjj. The hilariousness of the film is wonderful. It haunted me all day yesterday. It encapsulates the richness of the world in all its vast, juicy complexity à la Joyce, co-existing simultaneously with the elegance of zen minimalism, the world beyond words à la Beckett. And the two are waiting for the mystical, unseen WB Yeats. Deep, lol!

"Short film by Bórd Scannán na hEireann" in Gaelic means a short film by the Irish Film Board.

A little more information about Pitch 'n' Putt with Joyce 'n' Beckett, directed by Donald Clarke .

Interesting that Joyce's daughter Lucia, was in love with Samuel Beckett, who was not interested in her.

Where Joyce and Beckett did hang out in Zurich, Cafe Odeon, but it wasn't so fancy at all in 1922.

Via the Exploding Aardvark link offered in the original post, I discovered Madamjujujive's astonishing del.icio.us page. wow. Joycean fecundity there.
posted by nickyskye at 11:33 AM on February 3, 2007 [1 favorite]

nickyskye: "'Short film by Bórd Scannán na hEireann' in Gaelic means a short film by the Irish Film Board."

Precisely. Presumably, they read the "Bórd Scannán na hEireann" marquee at the end and thought that was the name of the guy who did the movie. Ech, it could just be that the Irish Film Board actually got together and directed the short themselves. I don't know if that's what happened.

Internet confusion befuddles me. I'm done for now.
posted by koeselitz at 11:12 AM on February 4, 2007

koeselitz, Pitch 'n' Putt with Joyce 'n' Beckett was written and directed by Donald Clarke.
posted by nickyskye at 7:26 PM on February 4, 2007