Monday fluff: I feel young

[sabotabby]

I had no idea how atrocious the lyrics to this song were. I am only familiar with it through the version at the beginning of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and I actually thought it was intentionally funny and campy. I had no idea it was meant to be earnest.

Generation Irony, y'all.

On that note, I probably shouldn't watch Priscilla, Queen of the Desert again because I won't like it nearly as much as I did when I was 15.

Comments

[outcastspice.livejournal.com]

i liked it as much years later.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

You can read it as funny and campy, the intention of the author really shouldn't affect your fun!

Still one of the best movies IMO. I saw when I was about 12 and then again years later and it didn't lose it's appeal - Mitzi, Bernadette and Felicia are <3!!!!!!11!!!!!elevntyone!!!

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

I only saw it when I was about 28, because such things would not have happened when I was a kid.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

It's a regular family film, along with The Princess Bride. We recite Inigo and in Priscilla we sing the Abba songs together :D

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

That's a good sort of family to have :)

I can date exactly when I first saw The Princess Bride-- I was 26.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Yes, we're disgustingly harmonious and loving (despite the bickering ;P)

That's fantastic, I like Mars Attack! as well. Then again, it would take a lot for me not to like a Burton movie... mainly apes.

[lemur-man.livejournal.com]

I remember it from the first time around, when my only thoughts on it were:

1) Things a woman ain't s'posed to see? Like what, exactly?
2) Which 'Isle of Greece'? I happen to know there are lots of them, lady!

[misfratz.livejournal.com]

2 was the first thing I noticed. Seriously. If she's too damn stupid to realise that there was more than one island there, perhaps that's a better explanation for her whiny dissatisfaction than the not having omg teh menz and baybeez. FFS.

[lemur-man.livejournal.com]

It may also suggest that she actually hasn't been to any isle of Greece we may care to name, therefore

2)a) what else is she lying about?
AND/OR
2)b) she hasn't really been to her, either.

[sabotabby]

1) Someone in the comment thread suggested donkey shows. I'm not sure that anyone is supposed to see donkey shows, though.

2) Maybe she just went to the shitty one and that's why she's bitter. Is there a shitty one?

[rojonoir.livejournal.com]

2 - Lesbos?

"Oh, I've been to Nice and the Isle of Greece while I've sipped champagne on a yacht
I've moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo and showed 'em what I've got
I've been undressed by kings and I've seen some things that a woman ain't supposed to see
I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me"

I don't know if I ever heard the original, but I can help but hear Bob Dylan singing this in my head, oddly enough, sounding just like "Just Like a Woman":

[lemur-man.livejournal.com]

Well, there are ones that are overrun by tourists, ones that are overdeveloped, ones where they don't take care of their historic artifacts (pretty much all of them), ones with dirty beaches, ones where there's nothing to do ...

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

Somehow I had managed never to run into this one before. And I haven't seen Pricilla.

[snarkymuffin.livejournal.com]

i agree with the sentiment, don't watch priscilla again. like fight club, it's better left enshrined on the altar of the fourteen-year-old mind.

(although i do appreciate the ironic use of any atrocious song)

hope you don't mind me saying hi out of nowhere, by the way...i lurk around here occasionally, chuckling appreciatively at your wit.

[sabotabby]

I think I'd get offended at the Ping Pong thing. :(

Hi! Friended back.

[una-m.livejournal.com]

Oh god, yeah, the laughter was rather pointed at the poor woman, wasn't it? At least she jetted away and told Mr. Mail-Ordering Oppressor what he could do, though the filmmakers then shot themselves in the foot or closed themselves firmly back behind the fauxgressive door or whatever by suggesting that she'd trapped him into marrying her. And that he was such a goddamn "gentleman" through it all. Blah.

[una-m.livejournal.com]

Hrmm. Oddly enuff, I just watched "Priscilla" again for the first time since, uh, 1995? Or so. Lordy lordy. I am choosing to ignore the Greece thing and to interpret "woman should never see" as NO ONE should ever see... I was disappointed to learn, in my queer middleagedness, that so many of the film's jokes are old, old cliches. Still, if the songs aren't truly Evil, it could be remain a good hey-those-freaky-Others-are-people-too primer for the masses. I still choked up at Tick's son in their confrontation near the end, despite the anvils falling on my head.

/complicity