There was a time when my friends and I would recite this incantation from the movie Excalibur at the slightest provocation (in my own phonetics):
Anhaal nathrak Uth vos bethod Dothial tienvay!
I've come to find that this line was constructed from Old Irish:
In Old Irish:
AnĂ¡l nathrac...
I enjoyed watching Lawrence Olivier in Shakespeare's As You Like It tonight. Certainly not Olivier's best work (filmed in 1936 it was actually his first on-screen performance of Shakespeare) but having never read the play or seen it performed before I have to say that at the least it held my at...
Sometimes there's just no way to do something unless you know somebody. Seeing an advance showing of the Lord of the Rings, the Return of the King would have been pretty much a fantasy but for my buddy Seth. Thanks, man! Seth was kind enough to extend his extra tickets to my brother and myself,...