text mixing
Sat, 2001-12-22 00:28
#1
text mixing
a friend was complaining about dj’s making music by sampling other people’s songs, saying “you wouldn’t get someone doing that with books would you?”
so the challenge is this: a club style re-mix of 2 pieces of literature. see what you can make.
AA Milne / Pinter
The Birthday Present
Scene One. A field.
Eeyore: I expect that it will Rain.
Roo: What?
Eeyore: Sooner or Later.
[Pause]
Pooh: I have Been Thinking and what I have Been Thinking is that the Problem might not be that it will Rain but that the Problem might be that I am Stuck and that I am Stuck Up A Tree.
[Pause]
Roo: Yes
Christopher Robin appears, carrying a birthday present. He sits and tears the wrapping slowly, to reveal a toy bow and arrows set.
Pooh: We are trying to Decide What The Problem Is and whether it is One Thing which is that I am Stuck Up A Tree or Another Thing which is something else
[Exit Roo]
Eeyore looks at the sky. Christopher Robin takes the bow and arrows and marches around the tree. Pooh hums a tune.
Bridget Marlowe ?
Can't be fagged to write it now, but I assure you it would have been very amusing and wry.
I hate to say this but it's not unheard of, there is a famous DADA cutup of Shakespeares sonnet "shall I compare thee to a summer's day". Obviously it was rejected by every literary critic of the time as a worthless piece of garbage, but still....
ah that's why the thread bombed....just remembered there's New Fast Automatic Daffodils too
Sex Pistols Vs. Handy Andy...'Never Mind Th Ballcocks'.
shakespeare/hornby
Much Ado About A Boy
the story of Marcus the Prince of Aragon, and how his adolescence becomes troubled when Princess Fiona takes him to live at the palace in Messina. Marcus plots to have his mother marry Will, the good for nothing but very wealthy Lord of Florence, but fails to take account of the effects of the daughter of Padua, the wild and wicked Ellie, who has a fit of violent despondency following the suicide of the leading court jester, Curt Cobain.
Rowling and Hemingway ? "Magic in the Afternoon"
Potter was just a kid, but he sure knew how to handle himself. How had he gone Voldemort ? Very gradually and then very suddenly.
Dragons were his thing. They were what drove him, drove him forward and drove him out of his mind. Sure, his wand had taken down a troll or two, but he wasn't going to be able to look in the damn mirror to shave and touch up his scar until he'd pierced a dragon. That girl with the brains still stabbed away in his memories, her and his best friend Ron. Behind his back. In his own invisibility cloak, given to him by the father he'd never known...



