So let it be written, so let it be done
I've decided to use the word "pornão" to refer specifically to the particularly hot brand of Brazilian stud porn that's all over the major free 'amateur' porn sites. I think the line between amateur and professional porn is blurring. Oh, and I've decided I like pronouncing Xtube as "Zhtoobé." You know, like Xuxia or Xeni Jardin. Xtube sounds like some retro future Stan Lee-invented transit system. And those poor bastards in the old new wave band the Tubes. They'll hafta live with being ex-Tubes for the rest of their lives. :-)
Ya know, now that I think of it, the Tubes appeared in a performance cameo in...wait for it... "Xanadu," Olivia Netwon-John's post-Grease, pre-Physical musical extravaganza that brought together Disco, Greek Mythology, 1980's Los Angeles, Gene Kelly on roller skates, weird hair, interdimensional/time travel, father-daugher relationships, animation, and the Electric Light Orchestra. The Tubes were featured in a sequence where Gene Kelly and his young protege describe their seemingly opposite visions for what kind of far-out roller-disco night club Xanadu would become. The protege, Sonny Malone (I'm not making this up), envisions...well, the 80's (he even says it..."hey, c'mon...this is the 80's!") where slithery dancers gyrate to the Tubes' synth brimstone.
Gene Kelly, of an earlier generation, does not endear to the idea and he describes his vision of a big Glenn Miller-style swing band fronted by an Andrews Sistersesque trio, whose featured singer is the ghostly sepia image of the girl Gene left band during the War...you know... the good one. The singer is played by Olivia Newton-John, who also plays the spacey hippy girl that Sonny is "dating." Is she...the same woman? No! Because she's not a woman. She's a muse. Who lives with her father, Zeus, who - with preemptive apologies to the peoples of the Book - is still God in this universe, thank you very much. And this God argues with his wife and has roughly the same dysfunctional relationship with his daughter that his brother Triton has with that Little Mermaid of his.
As Gene Kelly and Sonny Malone describe their visions of Xanadu, we see their delirious hallucinations made manfiest. It looks as though the screechy coked up New Wavers might never sit under the apple tree with the boozier swingin' homefront. But then, at the zenith of their reverie, young and old realize that, hey, music's music, where by the Tubes and the big band magically meld into the same song and performance to form - voila - the first onscreen mashup. If the Tubes, Olivia Newton-John, and Gene Kelly could bridge hedonistic ideals of 80's Los Angeles and the retro wholesomness of the new Reagan reality - maybe there will be peace in our time after all. All thanks to Zeus.
This moment of movie magic has even inspired live stage recreations.
Video link: http://www.youtube.com/v/bhAmHMHb0mc
Thanks to YouTube, Xanadu's, neon lights will shine. Mash 'em up, you get Xtube. Circle of life, Hakuna Matata, Tuesday's Wednesday. ;-) All together now... shake-a shake-a shake, tap-tap-clap-CLAP, left, right, "Xanadu!"
Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B7GUjlY-5Q
Ya know, now that I think of it, the Tubes appeared in a performance cameo in...wait for it... "Xanadu," Olivia Netwon-John's post-Grease, pre-Physical musical extravaganza that brought together Disco, Greek Mythology, 1980's Los Angeles, Gene Kelly on roller skates, weird hair, interdimensional/time travel, father-daugher relationships, animation, and the Electric Light Orchestra. The Tubes were featured in a sequence where Gene Kelly and his young protege describe their seemingly opposite visions for what kind of far-out roller-disco night club Xanadu would become. The protege, Sonny Malone (I'm not making this up), envisions...well, the 80's (he even says it..."hey, c'mon...this is the 80's!") where slithery dancers gyrate to the Tubes' synth brimstone.
Gene Kelly, of an earlier generation, does not endear to the idea and he describes his vision of a big Glenn Miller-style swing band fronted by an Andrews Sistersesque trio, whose featured singer is the ghostly sepia image of the girl Gene left band during the War...you know... the good one. The singer is played by Olivia Newton-John, who also plays the spacey hippy girl that Sonny is "dating." Is she...the same woman? No! Because she's not a woman. She's a muse. Who lives with her father, Zeus, who - with preemptive apologies to the peoples of the Book - is still God in this universe, thank you very much. And this God argues with his wife and has roughly the same dysfunctional relationship with his daughter that his brother Triton has with that Little Mermaid of his.
As Gene Kelly and Sonny Malone describe their visions of Xanadu, we see their delirious hallucinations made manfiest. It looks as though the screechy coked up New Wavers might never sit under the apple tree with the boozier swingin' homefront. But then, at the zenith of their reverie, young and old realize that, hey, music's music, where by the Tubes and the big band magically meld into the same song and performance to form - voila - the first onscreen mashup. If the Tubes, Olivia Newton-John, and Gene Kelly could bridge hedonistic ideals of 80's Los Angeles and the retro wholesomness of the new Reagan reality - maybe there will be peace in our time after all. All thanks to Zeus.
This moment of movie magic has even inspired live stage recreations.
Video link: http://www.youtube.com/v/bhAmHMHb0mc
Thanks to YouTube, Xanadu's, neon lights will shine. Mash 'em up, you get Xtube. Circle of life, Hakuna Matata, Tuesday's Wednesday. ;-) All together now... shake-a shake-a shake, tap-tap-clap-CLAP, left, right, "Xanadu!"
Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B7GUjlY-5Q
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