Friday Fancy: Werner Herzog’s voice
Here’s a fact: I like stories. I love stories. We’ve all had bedtime stories read to us as children, and as I’ve gotten older, it’s become, understandably, less vital that someone read me a bedtime story. But if I do need that little pick me up, Werner Herzog’s got the goods.
via lostateminor.com
Maybe it’s his gravelly, low voice. Maybe be it’s that clipped German accent. Maybe it’s the deeply inlaid sarcasm that drips from every word. I don’t know what it is, but I love it. My recent favourite is this clip, a reading by Mr. Herzog of the non-childhood, bedtime-story-parody, soon-to-be-classic ‘Go the Fuck to Sleep’.
Also fantastic is his reading of ‘Where’s Waldo?’. Who knew Waldo was such a sneaky bastard?
And Herzog’s reading of Madeline puts a whole new spin on this French orphan. ‘Children are next to sociopaths’ – indeed.
It is great. All of it is great.
Not to be a pain in the ole proverbial but this is the third time in as many days where Jezebel articles have heavily influenced DFC’s posts. Don’t get me wrong, for the most part I generally enjoy TMC articles, but I think seeing articles duplicated on two sites I visit constantly is a little irritating. Maybe more internet ‘footwork’ is required to create ‘original’ articles?
But then again maybe some TMC readers don’t visit Jezebel often, in which case I think some nod to Jez is required if a post on this site is heavily inspired by an article on that site.
Wow – first off, I’m very glad you read my articles so diligently, that’s very flattering. Secondly, I haven’t actually read Jezebel in a while – mainly because the new format is less appealing to me, and I’ve been reading The Hairpin and xojane instead – so I’m not sure which articles you’re referring to. In the case of this particular one, the first clip was filmed at the New York Public Library on Tuesday, and has been making the internet rounds, as these things do. If we’re following my research trail here, I actually saw the video on a lovely website called The Atlantic Wire, which is a newsy sort of site, and I found the video after reading another, very interesting, critique of a woman’s post-Zionist experience (also a very good read, if you’re interested).
As it turns out, there are things that tend to be hot topics of the moment, and therefore get discussed more often than others – and on more websites. It’s just the nature of information and popular topics of conversation. I’m sorry if you see subjects overlapping, but sometimes these things just happen, unfortunately, especially with popular internet videos. In addition, I tend to write articles a few days in advance, and then schedule them for publication, so unfortunately, don’t check what other websites are posting in the interim. Rest assured, I’m more than happy to give credit where it’s due, but this article – and most others I write, to be quite frank – doesn’t necessitate that.
Having read your comment Eccles, I went to Jezebel to investigate your claims. Although there was recently an article on “Go The Fuck To Sleep”, the approach of that piece was more from a feminist point of view (ie could a woman have got away with writing a book like that). This article is about the genius of Werner Herzog – other than a very tenuous link based on his reading of GTFTS posted above, I don’t really see the similarity here?
And as to your claim that DFC has “duplicated” 3 posts from Jezebel in 3 days, I would propose that your “evidence” is even more shady. Looking at what DFC has produced in that time there is, in addition to this post, a piece on the London Slutwalk and a piece on Chris Brown. I’ve looked and looked and can’t find anything even remotely similar on Jezebel. Care to enlighten the rest of us and put your money where your mouth is?
My sympathy, dear Eccles, if your hectic schedule of heroic trolling and internet douchebaggery becomes tiresome as you flick aimlessly from one site to the other, seeing similarities in articles, patterns in the wind and voices from the radio. As a long-term reader of TMC I have to say that even more tedious than any imagined content duplication, are the sporadic snarky and mean-spirited comments this site occasionally attracts – usually from behind the anonymous shield of internet, but not always as baseless and ludicrous as this.
DFC – haters gonna hate.
Eccles – Go the fuck to sleep.
DFC, I totally understand that trending subjects tend to be duplicated across numerous sites, I was only trying to highlight the fact that there have been few ‘original’ articles on TMC recently, as always I appreciate the time and effort that goes into a site like this but I would like to see more of the stuff that was prevalent in the early days. Regardless of whether the recent material was influenced by posts from Jez or any other site I stand by my last post saying new original stuff please. Btw if my last post was construed as me saying you duplicated articles than obviously I was not clear enough. I think I used the words ‘inspired’ or ‘influenced by’. I am a fan so my post was a suggestion.
@cyberbelch, if anyone’s a troll here it is you, I see no reason why you felt the need to stick your rude oar in, as DFC is more than capable of fighting her own battles. I find vitriolic and uncivil replies to genuine posts both lame and misguided and in most cases I tend to ignore them. I’ll go the fuck to sleep if you shut the fuck up. Deal?
The articles that I refer to are the Cannonball post, the Chris brown one and the one above, all which featured in some way on the Jez site prior to recent posts here. My mistake for thinking that they had in anyway influenced the posts here. That is all.
In all actuality – it’s fair for someone else to comment in response to your post, Eccles, nature of the internet and all that.
I see what you mean with the Cannonball post – I actually link to Jezebel at the bottom of that piece – but again, that post was written a couple of days in advance, scheduled, and then updated once with that link to Jezebel.
I have no idea what you’re referring to with the Chris Brown article.
And I checked out Jezebel – this piece actually went up before the one they have on Werner Herzog (this was published at around 1 on Friday afternoon, British time, and theirs went up at about 4/half 4 on Friday afternoon, American time).
I have to admit that I take great umbrage at your suggestion that the stuff we’ve been posting on here isn’t, in your own words, ‘original’. We write about things that interest us, and I guess women all over the world have some interests in the same vein, which is, again, the cause of the overlap. But thank you for taking the time to comment, it’s always useful to have a dialogue about these things.
First time commenter here, finally inspired to comment despite knowing not to feed the troll;
@Eccles – your point? It makes no sense. Your butt? It is hurt.
@CybetWhelp – *highfive*
@DFC – keep on truckin’
Praise where praise is due…
Great article DFC, and thanks for taking the time to explain your articles. I read this site alot, and I love it. Little bit of positive feedback there for you!
Just so you know!