Comments on: Pass the Popcorn: Xanadu http://jaypgreene.com/2008/08/08/pass-the-popcorn-xanadu/ With Help From Some Friends Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:03:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Matthew Ladner http://jaypgreene.com/2008/08/08/pass-the-popcorn-xanadu/#comment-1657 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:57:56 +0000 http://jaypgreene.wordpress.com/?p=520#comment-1657 Rob-

I’m going with the ironic distance technique in order to keep my man-card. I hope that all of you are buying it :-)

]]> By: Rob O. http://jaypgreene.com/2008/08/08/pass-the-popcorn-xanadu/#comment-1654 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:50:31 +0000 http://jaypgreene.wordpress.com/?p=520#comment-1654 This is one of those guilty pleasures that you keep tucked away in the deep, dark corner of your guy brain, never to be admitted in front of any of your buds, lest you sacrifice nearly every last shred of man-cred you ever had. You’d be hard-pressed to salvage your rep by saying that you only watch it because ONJ was hot – and she was! But maybe, just maybe, it’d help to mention that one of the muses was Sandahl Bergman, who went on to play the hottie warrior chick “Valeria” in Conan the Barbarian a coupla years later…

But that danged infectious ELO music just roots right into your lower monkey brain and you can’t help but tap your toes. Hard to believe Jeff Lynne hasn’t cranked much of anything out since the Willburys.

Thank goodness Michael Beck stopped trying to do movies after this!

]]> By: Jay P. Greene http://jaypgreene.com/2008/08/08/pass-the-popcorn-xanadu/#comment-1641 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:16:13 +0000 http://jaypgreene.wordpress.com/?p=520#comment-1641 Why isn’t Olivia Neutron Bomb, er, I mean Newton John, on roller skates for the finale? Everything’s better on roller skates. Maybe we should have education conferences on rollerskates. Even better, how about having schools where everyone is on roller skates?

]]> By: matthewladner http://jaypgreene.com/2008/08/08/pass-the-popcorn-xanadu/#comment-1637 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:36:48 +0000 http://jaypgreene.wordpress.com/?p=520#comment-1637 Brian-

There is no doubt that ELO were the unsung heroes of Xanadu. I’d be curious to know whether Jeff Lynne prefers it to be that way now. :-)

]]> By: Brian Kisida http://jaypgreene.com/2008/08/08/pass-the-popcorn-xanadu/#comment-1636 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:17:11 +0000 http://jaypgreene.wordpress.com/?p=520#comment-1636 Awesome. The Jeff Lynne influence really makes these songs work.

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