Saturday Morning Music: King Crimson’s “Moonchild”

I’m posting this because it’s a great scene from a film (Buffalo 66) Chris and I realized last night that we reference in our daily interactions frequently (the “don’t touch me/span time” photo booth scene). Other ones we quote a lot are the Alec Baldwin car crash scene in State and Main (“So, that happened.”) and, from the TV realm, Monty Python’s “Anne Elk’s Theory on Brontosauruses” skit.

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UPDATE: Also, Ralph Wiggum. Lots and lots of Ralph Wiggum. Also.

Posted by Kevin K. on 01/16/10 at 10:59 AM • Permalink

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Goodfellas constantly and I’ll take the blow to the ‘ead. Whenever I play any kind of trivia game and don’t know the answer I say, Henri Bergson or underwater goats with snorkels and flippers.

Comment by Lawnguylander on 01/16/10 at 11:26 AM

I saw State and Main but forgot that’s where that came from! The Godfather a lot—“Now who’s being naive, Kay?”

Honestly, probably “Far Side” cartoons as much as anything—freshman year, my friends and I routinely greeted each other with “Howdy howdy howdy!” and my sister and I still make jokes about going to the vet’s to get tutored. And when I worked fulltime at the Reader, there was a period where everyone in the office (well, everyone who had seen Shattered Glass, at any rate) would respond to “Hey, can I talk to you for a second?” with “Are you MAD at me?”

And the requisite Simpsons, South Park and Python stuff as well. Oh, and Fawlty Towers: “Don’t mention the war!”

Comment by Oblomova on 01/16/10 at 12:23 PM

A certain phrase from the tail end of this one is a surefire perennial chez YAFB.

Disclosure: One of my Christmas presents was the remastered CD of King Crimson’s excellent album Discipline, which I already had on scratched and crackly vinyl and ropey cassette. Yes, I’m that old.

Comment by YAFB on 01/16/10 at 12:36 PM

I don’t know if this is the album I’d call greatest of all time, but the album I play the most is King Crimson’s Starless and Bible Black.

Office Space does seem to have a lot of cultural reference points. My favorite is the “pieces of flair” bit from the restaurant.

I don’t use a lot of quotes from movies. I do like to do Bill Murray’s dumb guy voices whenever possible.