Comments on: There Will be Milkshakes. And a Great Soundtrack. http://mkmeyer.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/there-will-be-milkshakes-and-a-great-soundtrack/ Politics, Law, Film, Food, and Everything In Between Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:30:00 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: gatos http://mkmeyer.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/there-will-be-milkshakes-and-a-great-soundtrack/#comment-17 gatos Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:40:35 +0000 http://mkmeyer.wordpress.com/?p=92#comment-17 http://www.kottke.org/remainder/08/02/15025.html The milkshake line from There Will Be Blood came from a transcript that PT Anderson found of the 1924 congressional hearings over the Teapot Dome scandal. Anderson concedes that he's puzzled by the phenomenon -- particularly because the lines came straight from a transcript he found of the 1924 congressional hearings over the Teapot Dome scandal, in which Sen. Albert Fall was convicted of accepting bribes for oil-drilling rights to public lands in Wyoming and California. In explaining oil drainage, Fall's "way of describing it was to say 'Sir, if you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and my straw reaches across the room, I'll end up drinking your milkshake,' " Anderson says. "I just took this insane concept and used it." http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/?p=1959 http://www.kottke.org/remainder/08/02/15025.html
The milkshake line from There Will Be Blood came from a transcript that PT Anderson found of the 1924 congressional hearings over the Teapot Dome scandal.

Anderson concedes that he’s puzzled by the phenomenon — particularly because the lines came straight from a transcript he found of the 1924 congressional hearings over the Teapot Dome scandal, in which Sen. Albert Fall was convicted of accepting bribes for oil-drilling rights to public lands in Wyoming and California.

In explaining oil drainage, Fall’s “way of describing it was to say ‘Sir, if you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and my straw reaches across the room, I’ll end up drinking your milkshake,’ ” Anderson says. “I just took this insane concept and used it.”

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]]> By: mercurial scribe http://mkmeyer.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/there-will-be-milkshakes-and-a-great-soundtrack/#comment-16 mercurial scribe Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:51:12 +0000 http://mkmeyer.wordpress.com/?p=92#comment-16 I REALLY want to see this movie but being preggers limits what I can see without being severely affected or bursting into tears... But maybe I CAN withstand the soundtrack... I do need some more writing music in my library! I REALLY want to see this movie but being preggers limits what I can see without being severely affected or bursting into tears…

But maybe I CAN withstand the soundtrack… I do need some more writing music in my library!

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