So let's say you and your boyfriend invite your threesome buddy over to hang out and watch a movie. He's been busy rehearsing for a new play, and so you haven't seen him since July, and didn't do anything that time anyway. You'd think that since "go back to my place and watch a movie" has been code for "getting it on" since Beta was the format du jour, you'd be pretty good at determining which movies are good to run in the background. This isn't your first time at the rodeo, kid.
Barbarella is not one of those movies. While the soundtrack is wonderful for the horizontal mambo, occasionally you may look up at the screen and find Jane Fonda as an intergalactic spy riding a blind half-naked Angel across a tye-dyed sky or find her being eaten by wind-up toys with steel jaws while red-headed twins point and laugh. Or you might find her strapped in a Killer Orgasm machine.
NB: Despite the movie being rated PG, the video isn't worksafe.
And surprisingly, once someone catches a glimpse of a scene like that, everyone slowly stops paying attention and starts laughing at the screen. Fortunately though, everything worked out in the end, both for Jane Fonda and for us.
August 19, 2008
Here lies a most ridiculous raw youth, indulging himself in the literary graces that he once vowed to eschew. Now he just rocks out.