sundries - brief, weird

[rm]

A way no office meeting should start:

"Does anyone have any issues they'd like to raise?"
"There are worms on the kitchen ceiling again."

I almost feel silly continuing this post after that. Because nothing else I have to say could possibly top it. Oh let's see: I had a meltdown at work today -- sobbing -- just too much to learn, too much to keep up with, expectations too high, somewhere where I'm isolated and tired. Now, of course, I feel completely embarrassed and ashamed about it, but wow, I needed that. I don't know.

At dinner tonight someone told me about "flounder stomping." IS THIS TRUE? PUTTING ON SPECIAL SHOES TO STOMP ON FISH IN THE MUDFLATS? Why, oh why?

You all are right about the opera, of course. It's boggling to me that _I_ was angling to wear jeans. Me! I just look so hot and so masculine in this jeans, they are my favorite thing ever. Alas. So, I'm going to wear my black suit, now it's a matter of shirt and tie -- flash colors, or white shirt with black tie with the fine silver stripe? Help me out! You all know the contents of my wardrobe anyway -- I post shirt pictures often enough.

Finally, someone on my friends list has just pointed me towards a 1970s porn musical. Not, a musical about porn. But a porn, that's a musical. This has broken my brain and raised more questions that I could possibly even consider sharing with you all, although odds are you can guess a few of them. Er, yeah.

Comments

[airspaniel.livejournal.com]

For Die Zauberflote, go with the colors!

And hey, if you ever want to, y'know, watch it... It's some truly spectacular laughs. I feel like my deep affection for the film explains a lot about me. To my detriment, possibly, but I can't be bothered. ^_^

[rm.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm Netflixing this shit as soon as I'm back to the States. I feel like it will serve as a central plot point in RPF I will NEVER EVER write.

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

Yes, colors!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Maybe then I do the pinstripe suit instead too. If I'm going to be loud, I'm going to be loud.

[jadasc.livejournal.com]

Is that "The First Nudie Musical," or some other show?

[rm.livejournal.com]

It's apparently called Fairy Tales and is from 1978.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Porn musical?

Musical PWP?!

What is it called? Where can I get it?! Do I want to?!

[airspaniel.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, tell me more. ^_~

But seriously, it's tons of fun.

[rm.livejournal.com]

NEVER EVER EVER. Although two drink in a bar and you will hear relevant tales of sordid fandom pasts.

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Sometimes a meltdown is not only appropriate, but necessary.

I'd say go with something deep red, but that's me, :).

I can believe that there was a porn musical in the 70's. It's breaking my brain, too, but I can believe it, :).

[airspaniel.livejournal.com]

Fairy Tales (1978)

Sorry to butt in.

[weirdquark]

But a porn, that's a musical.

I... kind of want to know what this is now.

I also vote for colors for the opera. Possibly especially since it's Die Zauberflote. And now I'm thinking about an article I read a while back about the rabid opera fans who would go in costume to Wagner's Ring Cycle. Opera should be a production for the audience too -- it's more fun that way.

[airspaniel.livejournal.com]

Deal. ^_^

[elusis.livejournal.com]

Did you hear the Radiolab about the Ring Cycle which had a bit about a fan who brings along food coordinated to various points in the story?

[humascot97.livejournal.com]

I've had meltdowns enough at work lately that the higher ups (specifically, my immediate boss, who is wonderful) have learned that if you don't tell me things in a certain way (my performance is off, etc) I will get excessively upset. Part of this comes from my being a bit of a perfectionist, so I have a tendency to magify even the slightest criticism, even if it's someone asking me a question.

Yeanh, the therapy hasn't worked so well. I'm trying to find a different therapist.

[mobobocita.livejournal.com]

There is also Alice in Wonderland.

[forest-rose.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Meltdowns at work are occasionally necessary, I find. I hope yours was cathartic and you feel okay now.

Musical porn? It is a wonderful world in which such things can exist ♥ x

[weirdquark]

I don't think so, but that is excellent.

[dangerpudding.livejournal.com]

That's what I was going to say.. I own the Alice in Wonderland one, because really - how can one not?

[merrycaepa (from livejournal.com)]

I have heard tell of a porn musical - allegedly a friend of a friend posses it (one? Is there more than one? Oh, God, could there be more than one?). Something about how it was softcore, so no explicit male nudity, and there's this scene where the guy's performing a song holding a teddy bear in front of his danglies?

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

It wasn't Cafe Flesh, was it? (Sort of the bastard child of Mad Max and Cabaret; ever bit as weird as it sounds.)

[rm.livejournal.com]

The most amazing thing about the responses to this post is how many porno musical seem to exist.

[elusis.livejournal.com]

The whole program was excellent and I'm not even into opera. It's here for anyone who might be interested.

[ophymirage.livejournal.com]

I'd say go with something deep red, but that's me, :).

That was my vote as well, with black/silver pinstripe tie. Ianto's shirt (which I'm betting you have with you) is extremely flattering to your striking coloring.

[contrarywise]

I don't recall Cafe Flesh as being a musical as much as having musical accompaniment in various scenes. OTOH, I can appreciate a porn film where there's an in-plot excuse for the money shots.

[tod-hollykim.livejournal.com]

A porn musical? with Irwin Corey? dain boke.

[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

Yes, I totally agree.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Yes, flounder stomping is real.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Flounder_tramping

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

Huh. I'll be damned.

I don't mind so much if that's how you catch 'em for dinner.

[atrophying]

Speaking from personal experience, it feels awfully strange to stand on a flounder.

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

I can only imagine! I used to fish for perch and walleye as a child, but we did that in the usual fashion - rod and reel and worms!

So once you step on 'em, how do you nab 'em? With a net, or do you just go in barehanded?

[deslea.livejournal.com]

Random pop-in to say, I was reading my FPage last night and Zach, looking over my shoulder, saw your picture. He said, "I recognise that person." I said, "You met her. She lived in Australia for a little while. You were only little." "Ooh, I remember!"

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

Here's an odd bit of random:

I was doing a Google image search for 'nosferatu BPAL' and this came up on page three:



(..with a link back to wordsofastory

Um.

Nope, got nothin'.

[thinking-lotus.livejournal.com]

A lot of things happened in the 1970s that can only barely be imagined now.

[malle-babbe.livejournal.com]

...and then there's catfish noodling (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Noodling).

[sanat.livejournal.com]

That's the one I was thinking of! I thought it was kind of fun! There's a certain whimsy in it you just don't see in porn these days, with a few indie exceptions I saw at uni...

[sanat.livejournal.com]

This. I'm gonna have to find the porn equivalent of Netflix for New Zealand, now. It was something like "GreenCine" back in the States...

[lyorn.livejournal.com]

Barehanded. Step on them so they can't get away, grab them and get them.

Used to be a really easy way to get dinner, back when there were lots of flounders.

[magnetgirl.livejournal.com]

I own it as well! It's hilarious.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you. This really touched me when I read it last night, as I'm on an adventure that's just as challenging in some ways right now, but way less chosen.

[rm.livejournal.com]

She does BPAL reviews. It was probably on the same page as one at one point!

[elainasaunt.livejournal.com]

I actually saw that in the theater once, in Lincoln, Nebraska. OK, it was an "art house," but still...

[lorem_ipsum]

"Does anyone have any issues they'd like to raise?"
"There are worms on the kitchen ceiling again."

D:

DDDD:

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

It's the only porn I've ever seen with an Impotence Song. What more need I say?