ride boldly ride ~

last night's movie: El Dorado ~ the only john wayne movie i'll actually watch (because i love robert mitchum and james caan). it's a great script too. don't get me wrong, i like john wayne as a person just fine ~ he was a good egg. as an actor and a cowboy, not so much.



i hadn't seen this movie in years though i would consider it (oddly enough) a major influence for me as it mixed comedy and the old west in way i really dug. the film was just as i remembered it and a good time was had by all (except maybe McCloud and the ed asner character).

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( very long notes and an epitaph for my civil war novel that should come with the appropriate chat acronym for oh my god what was i thinking and now we must kill the thing to put it out of its misery as well as thoughts about what to do with the body )

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Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of El Dorado.

But he grew old --
This knight so bold --
And -- o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like El Dorado.

And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow --
"Shadow," said he,
"Where can it be --
This land of El Dorado?"

"Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied --
"If you seek for El Dorado."

~ edgar alan poe