Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Grace Jones on Pee-wee's Xmas Special

I rented the otherwise absolutely dreadful Pee-wee's Christmas Special just to see Grace Jones. Hot outfit. Especially for a kid's show!
The commentary informs that the outfit was from a famous Japanese designer, and also that this unusual and excellent arrangement of Drummer Boy was from David Bowie, who Grace had met on a plane prior to the show and asked for advice on what song to sing.



... After watching a bit more: actually it seems that all the female participants in the show, pretty much, are wearing really daring outfits. Maybe that's what you get when you suppress sexuality: it gets some strange outlets.

Talking about such, Pee-wee Herman/Paul Rubens is of course famous for having his career ruined when he was caught masturbating in a porn theatre. It seems it offended somebody. Me, I would have thought that the lesson would have been that if seeing sexual acts performed offends you, don't go into a porn theatre!

By the way, so far as I recall, his movie Pee-wee's Big Adventure was funny.

7 comments:

doogie howser, md said...

Of course, that was in the days before internet porn - or at least in the days before that many people knew about it. He could have just been jacking off at home then and no one would have found out. He could still be doing Pee Wee's Playhouse.

Pee Wee's Big Adventure was I agree. A lot of people didn't like the sequel.

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Well, wikipedia claims he was mighty tired of the character anyway. Who knows.

Leviathud said...

Wikipedia may clain that he hated the character, but IMDB claims that Pee-Wee's Playhouse: The Movie is in production. I just hope they get all the original cast back. Its been far too long since Laurence Fishburn has doned his Cowboy Curtis hat.

Pascal [P-04referent] said...

What, all "SO the drama" just for touching his pee-wee while viewing a pornie? I bet if he weren't famous nobody would've even ratted on him. ):-P
And all this sicko focus on celebrities in even remote contact with kids or kid entertainment, systematically trying to catch them "red-handed" having normal, legal, "but shameful" ADULT interests and trying to presume of the absolute worst "until proven innocent"... If there were an automatic mandatory vow of chastity and asexuality, no family would ever raise more than a single child at once. Or they'd better hope for twins...

I've seen nude images of Surya Bonaly, former champion ice skating child, currently(?) star of the Disney On Ice show. She posed for the "better to go naked than wear fur" campaign (and she looks expectably great in this photo). I'd be PROUD to take my children to see her in her show. I already knew how friggin' talented she was, anyway, so she's A.O.K. in my book. ENOUGH with the madness already!!!
To quote a respectable Mother Superior in an old movie, talking about silly body shame: "What about Christ on the Cross, is he wearing a tuxedo perhaps?" How come a religion whose EMBLEM is officially described at Easter Mass as "he was nailed naked on a beam" calls the body's very image "shameful", or suggests that if he had been conceived by a non-virgin it somehow would've been "sinful" for that most pure mother?

Must be something Freudian, I see no other possible explanation. An unconscious, taboo, ineffable, OEdipean hatred for the Father figure of the God of Love.
What about [Genesis 1 : 27-28]?
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth"

Sounds to me like the classical judeo-christian God most officially deems sexuality okay, and that in fact He "blessed" it. Abundantly!
Or do they consider that the Earth is fully "replenished" today and that it's time to stop being "fruitful" altogether?... :-p
(Just you wait, the Aids pandemic will soon change that in the poorer, overpopulated countries.)

Maybe some masochistic bigots go into porn theatres PRECISELY to revel in the sick pleasure of being offended. "The most offending of it all, officer, is that... I'm SO ashamed to confess... it managed to turn me on!" Wassamattah, ya found what ya were lookin' for, dorcasse?

Yeah, suuuuure. Like that most dubious woman dragging her kid along at the wee hours before dawn, trespassing on people's lawns while spying inside their windows hoping to get offended at a random Joe up undressed. Or a random Jane? Hey, maybe that's why she filed a complaint: she was hoping for a lesbo peep-show to teach Junior, and got frustrated! ):-P

Bigots and Jehovah's Witlesses try to twist the Texts around to make it seem like God deems the naked human body and/or sexuality as ugly, shameful, or whatever. Well, guess what? I've READ them. That's NOT what it says AT ALL. Even the literal interpretation of those dusty old scrolls doesn't condone such primitive medieval self-loathing attitudes.

Get over your complexes, people: that's not what your constantly-mentioned God is about, and in reality you damn well know it.

Anyway, who would watch a pornie to get turned on? Me, I'm passionate about them because of the clever, creative plots and dialogues and the artistic value.
Still, methinks they're slightly overdoing it with the sex scenes, no?... It tends to distract you from the beautiful, supremely romantic storytelling and the deep philosophical message.
(Namely, "make love, not war".)
Stephen Seagall and Chuck Norriss ought to try being as deeply philosophical in THEIR movies. ;-)

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

"To quote a respectable Mother Superior in an old movie, talking about silly body shame: "What about Christ on the Cross, is he wearing a tuxedo perhaps?""

No, you must understand, if it's connected with guilt, religion, shame, and punishment, *then* it's OK!
If it's connected with fun, it's *not* OK.

Pascal [P-04referent] said...

Oh, right. OK, then.
I mean, NO! It's NOT okay AT ALL, of course!
Bad, BAD Jackie Chan!

A rather unusual and very dominant mother is yelling at her utterly terrorized and submissive little son:
"Come here, and remove all my clothes, you brat! RIGHT NOW!!! Remove my jacket! Remove my shoes! Remove my shirt! Remove my skirt! FASTER! And quit yer whining! Remove my pantyhose! Remove my bra! Remove my panties! Remove my necklace and rings, too!
That's it? You've taken it all off? Now listen to me, you darn cry-baby: that's the last ime, you hear me? The last time! I don't EVER want to see you wearing Mommy's clothes again!
Now scram!"

TC [Girl] said...

LMAO @ your "pornie" sexion, there, Pascal! LOL!! You're TOO MUCH!! :-)