Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Subotai


N WIND 20 TO 25 KT WITH GUSTS TO 30 KT. WIND WAVES 5 FT. NW SWELL 6 FT AT 7 SECONDS... SUBSIDING TO 3 FT AT 8 SECONDS.
Conan: What gods do you pray to?
Subotai: I pray to the four winds... and you? Conan:
To Crom... but I seldom pray to him, he doesn't listen.
Subotai: [chuckles] What good is he then? Ah, it's just as I've always said.
Conan: He is strong! If I die, I have to go before him, and he will ask me, "What is the riddle of steel?" If I don't know it, he will cast me out of Valhalla and laugh at me. That's Crom, strong on his mountain!
Subotai: Ah, my god is greater.
Conan: [chuckles] Crom laughs at your four winds. He laughs from his mountain.
Subotai: My god is stronger. He is the everlasting sky! Your god lives underneath him.
When Conan came out in 1982 I was 21...
I distinctly remember seeing it with some friends...
One of whom did not surf...
This friend offered a negative review after the film...
We turned to look at him and someone said...
"What? It had Gerry Lopez in it...that's enough for me."
I don't remember who...
Maybe it was me...
Because that's what I was thinking...
I still think it kicks ass...
And then there's this:

3 comments:

twin said...

Are those crayons Arnie's wielding?

Wave Farmer said...

Those are light sticks...duh!

ras said...

holly shit! I never noticed that that was Lopez! I have the original pulp paperback of this story writen by robert jordan. it's great.

I'll have to go out and rent that movie now to see it in a different light.