Obsessed, I tell you!
With one line — one line — from a movie we saw last week. Or actually, part of one line from this movie. Amazing movie. Scary genius movie. I haven’t even entirely processed it yet. I’m not naming it so you can guess it if you want. If you’ve seen it, uhm, I’m pretty sure you’d remember it. It’s not just the line; it’s the voice. The voice is key. Trying to do the voice — “a sort of cross between Sean Connery and John Huston,” MB says — is now consuming him. And his best friend. And now …. me.
Just today, MB said, “I swear. The highlight of my day these days is when I talk to M and we do the voice.”
And I totally get that. I do.
So we’re in the car and MB’s cell phone rings and his face lights up. “It’s M!” He answers the phone and I can hear M — I can hear him from the passenger’s seat; he’s that loud — greeting my husband, not with hello, but with this:
“If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and –”
MB joins in:
“– I have a straw — hahahahahahaha!”
Then I’m laughing, trying to do the milkshake line, too. And now we’re all laughing about it, insane, for several perfect minutes.
Right now, it’s all about the voice and the milkshake line.
That’s the blessed mania that’s keeping us afloat.
It is sad that I know the movie from the quote and I haven’t even seen it. I want to but will wait for video. Some are saying it is 2008’s “I wish I knew how to quit you.”
I’ve only heard us saying it — it’s true — but there could very well be a “milkshake” train and we’ve just climbed aboard it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCCdZmHk5Fk That is where I first heard/saw it. It stuck with me because I thought “how odd for a movie like that to talk about milkshakes”.
Not for nothin’, but DDL is a GEEEEENIUS. Give that man a truckload of Oscars, STAT! His whole body of work has been amazing. Movies? Not so much. But his work has been riveting.
And the youtube thing made me laugh so hard I verped.