Skidoo (1968)

John Phillip Law: Stash

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• Stash : Violence is the sign language of the inarticulate.

  Tony Banks : What is he talkin' about? Do you know what he's talkin' about?

• Stash : Man, how I wish I could be nothin'.

  Darlene : What?

  Stash : Nothin'.

  Darlene : Noth-ing.

  Stash : If you can't dig nothin' you can't dig anything. You dig?

  Darlene : You mean if I could be nothing, I would be everything?

  Stash : You dig! I mean like that's why the stablishment cats are not makin' it. They're diggin' the nine to five bag. Rush to the city. What's happenin' in the news instead of what's happenin' in themselves. You dig?

  Darlene : Now I see what you mean. Everything we need is right here inside ourselves.

  Stash : Hey, you dig! I mean like the vibrations are there, Dewdrop. You know I really think we could make it, you and I. I really feel we could make it.

• Geronimo : Speak softly.

  Stash : Xerox me, man. I don't wanna be misquoted.

  Geronimo : Peace! You were saying?

  Stash : Dig the, uh, Spirit of St. Louis, man. Yeah, like, uh, Greeley says, what's seven or eight Dukes of Windsor when it's uh Mona Lisa time, huh? Yeah, take a bow and arrow, and we're not getting any younger, right? So come in X-17. Over.

  Geronimo : Son of Norway, you're loud and clear. Cool as everything.

  Stash : Over and out.

  'God' : What'd he say?

  Stash : Oh, he says he'll have to get back to me.

  Geronimo : Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh.

  Hippie Guy 1 : Kidnapped.

  Geronimo : Who?

  Hippie Guy 2 : Mona Lisa?

  Geronimo : Yours.

  Flo : Darlene. They've got Darlene!

  Hippie Guy 1 : Calm.

  Geronimo : Bow and arrow. They're armed. But where?

  Hippie Guy 1 : Horace Greeley said, "Go west, young man."

  Geronimo : He did, and how far west? Windsor...

  Hippie Gal : Knots!

  Geronimo : Water, children, water! Seven to eight knots west of... What? That's the hole. X-17. Think. X-17.

  Hippie Guy 1 : X could mean "used to be".

  Flo : Seventeen! The old pier. Pier 17!

• Stash : Geronimo, this is Darlene.

  Darlene : Hello.

  Geronimo : This is Iris, and various assorted beautiful people.

• Tony Banks : [to Stash, dressed in hippie garb]  Who's your tailor, Sittin' Bull?

  Stash : Once more, man?

  Tony Banks : You heard me. Why do you go around dressed like that for?

  Stash : Hey, we can't all be undertakers, man.

  Tony Banks : Don't push me, punk.

• Darlene : What do you wanna be?

  Stash : Do you know what I want to be?

  Darlene : What?

  Stash : Nothin'. You dig?

• 'God' : What does a hippie want from God?

  Stash : A world were people can do their thing and not be hassled. Where nobody's uptight or paranoid about bein' together. So we can all groove and dig ourselves for what we are. Living things.

  'God' : Very groovy.

  Stash : Also, a safe place for butterflies. Organic supermarkets. Better bodies for women.