If–

It's one of Those days... and in a strangely sappy attempt to get my mojo back, I tried reading Rudyard Kipling's stiff-upper-lip poem If–.

It worked.

And it reminded me of these two videos, which I last watched a long time ago (last time I had one of Those days). First there's Dennis Hopper reciting the poem to camera for a German documentary



and then there's Des Lynam reading it while competing against some naff orchestral music and some brilliant typography.