Fight Club Haiku
Soap begins it all.
Starts underground following.
Soap to end it all.
A Clockwork Orange Haiku
Violent, troubled.
Goes too far one night. Caught, changed?
I was cured all right.
Pulp Fiction Haiku
Quoting from scripture.
Calling on the wolf for help
It's royale with cheese.
Movies in Haiku is the brainchild of Toronto's Hugh Elliott. See more haiku typography at his Etsy shop and more movie haikus at his Twitter account. (Thanks to Amber Mac for the tip)
I was reading to Shel Silverstein to my son when I came across this uplifting tale:
The Little Blue Engine
The little blue engine looked up at the hill.
His light was weak, his whistle was shrill.
He was tired and small, and the hill was tall,
And his face blushed red as he softly said,
“I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.”
So he started up with a chug and a strain,
And he puffed and pulled with might and main.
And slowly he climbed, a foot at a time,
And his engine coughed as he whispered soft,
“I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.”
With a squeak and a creak and a toot and a sigh,
With an extra hope and an extra try,
He would not stop — now he neared the top —
And strong and proud he cried out loud,
“I think I can, I think I can, I think I can!”
He was almost there, when — CRASH! SMASH! BASH!
He slid down and mashed into engine hash
On the rocks below... which goes to show
If the track is tough and the hill is rough,
THINKING you can just ain’t enough!
In terms of pop culture, the opening ceremonies for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics was a showcase of Canada's most mainstream entertainment — Nelly Furtado, Sarah McLachlan and Bryan Adams — but it was the performance of We Are More by slam poet Shane Koyczan that captured the energy in the room.
An excerpt:
we do more than sit around and say "eh?" and yes we are the home of the Rocket and the Great One who inspired little number nines and little number ninety-nines but we're more than just hockey and fishing lines off of the rocky coast of the Maritimes and some say what defines us is something as simple as please and thank you and as for you're welcome well we say that too but we are more than genteel or civilized we are an idea in the process of being realized we are young we are cultures strung together then woven into a tapestry and the design is what makes us more than the sum total of our history
I can't find the performance anywhere as the International Olympic Committee, in its wisdom, is clamping down on anyone doing something ridiculous like positively promoting the games (nor is it available on the official sites either) but there is an earlier version available.
Rap battles as competitive French beat poetry, filmed as classic European cinema: "I'm gonna force-feed you like a duck... and make foe gras out of your liver. Cluck, cluck, bang!... Say bonjour to your wife."
Turns out this French version of Eminem's 8 Mile is a viral campaign from Stella Artois that also parodies Die Hard (Dial Hard) and 24 (Vingt-Quatre Heures), but the product placement is so subtle it's blink and you'll miss it. Très magnifique! (Link via PopTube)
