stolen comment

is it okay to steal comments? Here is one by John Cooper Clarke, the famous northern person. Is it really him? It was stolen from a discussion somewhere about films seen as a child and then seen again and being like different films and irreconcileable.

JohnCooperClarke 15 Jun 09, 1:23pm
. . . Another Sunday afternoon and my childish eyes were assaulted by a strange-looking film, all odd angles and feverish-looking faces. One man in particular looked downright insane, wearing a monk's hood over his burning eyes. It was only years later that I realised I'd been subjected to a screening of Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc, probably programmed on Irish afternoon TV because it was cheap... and the strange looking man was Antonin Artaud, who famously came to Dublin in the depths of a period of insanity and was deported for starting a fight in a monastery. It's conceivable that some of the people who ran into him during that trip might have seen him flickering in black and white in the corner of their kitchen years later.

Here is the man saying things in a shopping centre as bookend to a joy division performance, perhaps from "granada TV"



What films seen as a child etc? I remember some military scientists in a cave network with white people running around out the corner of the eye (of the military scientists) -- a cave mouth snake monster ate a lady. And the adult cinema section from the film "taxi driver" is very clear even now.

What favourite joy division songs? I opt for "Heart & Soul" and "Isolation"