This thing is absolutely inexplicable. It's some sort of cheesy Italian Catholic circus-thingammy, with out-of-tune music that cuts in and out, and so-called acrobats who look like they've been scraped off the streets of Rome. If this IS Rome, which it's not, I'm sure (in fact, I think it's somewhere in Brazil). I don't know what Novena Solena is, but I've found a few more of these videos which are along the same lines. There is one involving acrobatic angels with fur wings and crimplene gowns, and another one featuring little kids carting around bowls with live goldfish in them.
Exceptionally cheesy. All the comments (with a sample below) are indignant and blame Vatican II, whatever THAT is. You know that expression "so bad it's good'? This is so bad, it's bad.
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Fruit of Vatican II....people ignoring Fatima this is what we get. God have mercy on mankind!
Que grosería
Totally inappropriate and scandalous to say the least. All organizers and "priest" to be excommunicated asap .
This is total carnival of heresy.
Unreal. I really hope this was not a Roman Catholic Church or Roman Catholics doing this.
Just Evil.
Anh?
I want to freaking puke!! Why was I born post vat 2??? I can see why the orthodox do not want to unite with us!
yep, this makes me want to go bacK u__u
This is sick.
How horrible.
They were thinking Vatican ll with the liberal modernist evils.
Sinful and shameful. THIS IS VATICAN ll. Forgive them Father they know not what they do.
CAN NOT BELIEVED THIS IS TRUE, MAY BE A GRAPHIC DESIGN TRICK OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
Is this supposed to be Catholic or something? It looked and felt 100% pagan.
CHE SCHIFO, VERGOGNATEVI
El espanto.....
Why?? God, why??
Que coisa mais ridícula, abominável! Aonde vamos parar? Isso é missa ou é circo?
Aparecida clowns!
What r u doing? Brazil Stahp!
This one will have even non-traditionalist Catholics face-palming? What were they thinking?
I remember these things from, oh, probably my late teens (when, by the way, I was already married). But they did not die. They went on and on.
Not only did my kids watch Schoolhouse Rock videos (they were called cartoons then) in the early '80s, my GRANDKIDS were fairly recently subjected to them in school. I couldn't believe it - budget restraints, or what?
They couldn't believe it when I began to sing along with them, "Conjunction Junction, what's your function?" and "Anyplace that you can go, and anything that you can know/You know they're nouns/You know they're nouns". (For some reason I keep thinking of the Statue of Liberty part.)
These aren't particularly good, but they're nostalgic, and this one is nicely restored by somebody-or-other. It comes from one of those ubiquitous Facebook nostalgia pages that I increasingly spend my time on, wanting to distract myself from the impending Armageddon which will surely come if that evil prick in the White House isn't impeached within a year.
Come out, come out, come out and get your lovin' Now don't you keep me in suspense Come on, come on, we'll do our turtledovin' Sittin' on a backyard fence Come on, come on, The little stars are peekin' They're waiting for you to commence Uh-huh, uh-huh, I kind of thought I'd weaken Sittin' on a backyard fence
It may be just another little backyard alley Off the avenue But I can see a willow tree, a moonlit valley In the dreams I share with you Meow, meow, the kitty cat is cooin' He shows a lot of common sense He knows, he knows, there's always something doin' Sittin' on a backyard fence!
This is only one of my favorite numbers from Footlight Parade, a classic Busby Berkeley musical from 1933. Pre-code, obviously, though this number is extremely mild compared to the hilariously charming Honeymoon Hotel, in which almost every line is full of double-entendres. But the tune is so lighthearted and the players so delightfully comedic that they get away with it. I can't find a whole version of HH, so can't post it here, and lyrics alone don't begin to get it. This little cat number, much simpler than the other three Berkeley blockbusters in this film, is a sort of warmup for the orgasmic bliss of the movie's last half-hour. And believe me, it IS orgasmic, even though I've had a few revelations about Berkeley lately that have opened my eyes.
I've seen his choreography, of course - anyone who likes old movies has, and my impression of it was always "classy kitsch". But then I couldn't help but notice the grace and precision of his dancers as they played phony violins or pianos in exact unison, or performed water ballet so perfectly synchronized it was a little bit frightening.
It IS a little bit frightening to see all this intentional, mass uniformity, and it fascinated me to find out a bit about Berkeley's background. He wasn't a dancer or a choreographer at all, wasn't even in show business. He was a drill sergeant in the army during World War I, an expert at forming precise military patterns with human bodies. This was some sort of mad genius drill sergeant, of course, and some of his visions are much darker than I realized.
I've just sent away to Amazon for a boxed set with some of his best-known stuff in it, but the one I'm looking forward to the most is Gold Diggers of 1935. His version of Lullaby of Broadway is so spooky that it's hard to see it as part of a musical at all. It's almost like a horror movie, with the singer's face starting as a tiny white dot in the middle of total blackness. Then like some toxic death-lily it gradually blooms and blooms until it dominates the screen in a way that is nothing short of macabre.
The dancing in this number is not like normal dancing, believe me. This isn't tap. I don't know what it is, but it includes aggressive arm-thrusting movements that at first look weird, then violent, then - like something out of the Third Reich. I am not exaggerating.
Hitler was well on his way by 1935, as was Leni Riefenstahl, chronichler of Hitler's rise in the infamous propoganda film, Triumph of the Will. But I was astonished to learn that, fascist as his choreography looked, it was not Berkeley who was influenced by Riefenstahl.
It was the other way around. Riefenstahl idolized American film, and American musicals in particular. She could not have failed to be dazzled by a choreographer who could get a couple hundred identical human beings to move around a stage in exact unison.
Berkeley didn't have a happy life. He married and divorced six times, killed three people in a drunken car accident, and at least once tried to commit suicide. For all that, he lived to be 80 years old. Such longevity is not always a great blessing in a person like that.
But he left these weird artifacts with their disturbing overtones. This little backyard fence number is nothing - except for a dwarf running around in a bizarre rat costume, and the inexplicably weird "thing" that Ruby Keeler rises out of and dances around, a leering, winking, open-mouthed something that might be the moon, or something else.
I wanted to make an animation with that horrible little symbol on the "kill them!" notice that I keep getting. Though I've had it explained to me over and over, I still do not understand what "kill them" means. Do they mean "delete"? Why not SAY "delete"? If a page is unresponsive, WHY delete it in the first place? So I assumed "kill them" meant to nuke them absolutely, to wipe them off the face of the earth as if they had never existed. I could see a miniature mushroom cloud rising from my Facebook page and my blog (nurtured along for SEVEN years now!). I would be left with nothing but blankness, a terrible void. And I didn't even DO anything.
Well, what else COULD "kill them" mean? It had to mean wiping them out completely, or they would not call it that. And why, when the page's only crime was being "unresponsive"? I've gone on various sites that supposedly explained the "kill them" notice, and all they do is repeat, "if it's unresponsive, kill the page". There is software that keeps the notice from coming up that you can buy. But if you hit the wrong button - What happens?? As with almost everything else to do with computers, you're supposed to already know.They talk over your head in glib jargon that makes you feel like a pile of ignorant shit in seconds. I am still convinced that if you hit the wrong button, you are screwed. You will no longer have any trace of existence on Facebook, your blog or anywhere else. You will have "killed" the page or pages.
OK then, if it isn't that, explain it to me! In English! Don't just say, "well then, kill the file", expecting me to KNOW what it means, and whether or not I can bring it back from the dead! But dead means dead. Doesn't it? My animation is the usual jumping-up-and-down-on-each-other thing, but it's hard to do anything else with such a hideous malformation. When I first saw this notice, I literally gasped. It was EVIL and seemed to come out of nowhere. No one else I knew had ever even heard of it. The little symbol on it scared the living hell out of me. It was a whole new definition of ugly, and menacing. Why would would I WANT to kill my pages? Why? And if I do, can they ever be resurrected? I don't see what else this command could mean but total and permanent annihilation. You can't just kill something or someone for a little while. Killing is forever.
Bentley is the opposite, When we're going out, he dives into his carrier and looks out at us beseechingly, as if to say, "Take me with you!" All right, not beseechingly. He just looks out at us.
One of my more sadistic animations. As usual, people jump and down on each other a lot. Bambi it ain't, but it was still hard for me to do. Took forever.
A partial list of recent books with "girl" in the title The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes Don’t Judge A Girl by Her Cover by Ally Carter The House Girl by Tara Conklin The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey This Girl by Colleen Hoover The Windup Girl by Paulo Bacigalupi The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen The Girls by Emma Cline
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
Local Girls by Caroline Zancan
The Second Girl by David Swinson
All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
The Girl In the Ice by Robert Bryndza
Girl In the Afternoon by Serena Burdick
The Girls In the Garden by Lisa Jewell
The Girl Before by Rena Olsen
Little Girl Gone by Gerry Schmitt
Sarong Party Girls by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Radio Girls by Sarah-Jane Stratford
The Lost Girls by Heather Young
Girl In the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
The Girl In the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
Nowhere Girl by Susan Strecke
The Girl From the Savoy by Hazel Gaynor
Beware That Girl by Teresa Toten
The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund
Girl In the Shadows by Gwenda Bond
Girl Against the Universe by Paula Stokes
Girl About Town by Adam Shankman and Laura L. Sullivan Girl In Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
Girl on a Plane by Miriam Moss
The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa
Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman
Girl in the Dark by Marian Pauw
MY list of books with "girl" in the title"
Girl on a Spit
Girl on a Stick
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Girls Galore
Girls in Titles More Girls in Titles MORE Girls in Titles Girls in Titles Trilogy: Part Six Title Girls
Cash-Grab Girls
Movie Adaptation Girls Film Option Girls
Girl in the Purple Coat
Girl in the Pink Coat
Girl in the Maroon Coat
Girl in the Tartan Mackintosh
Girl in the Black Rubber Wellies
The Goose Girl
The Cow Girl
The Gorilla Girl
The Various-Species-Because-It's-So-Popular Girl
Concubine Girl Kinkubine Girl
Slutty but Somehow Still Classy Girl Sexual-Favors-Performing But Only To Save Her Life Girl
Girl Whose Sexual Escapades All Work Out In The End Because She Gets Married And Rich
Bondage Girl
Bandage Girl
Nurse Girl Cursed Girl
Literary Girl
Library Girl
Galloway Girl
Ghomeshi Girl
Tie-Me-Up-And-Hit-Me-Because-I-Like-It Girl
What's The Name of That Teddy Bear? Girl Road Kill Girl
Never Mind Why We Need It In The Title, It Sells Books So
Just Shut Up And Buy It Girl
Call Girl (Anything You Want)
The Fortune Cookie Girl
The Fortunate Cookie Girl The Unfortunate Cookie Girl
The Girl Guide Cookie Girl
The Vaguely Asian Girl The Blatant Exploitation Girl
The Strangely Enigmatic European Girl With Rosy Cheeks And A Weird Accent Who Turns Out To Be A Man (Not A Boy)
The Anything But WASP Because It's Boring Girl
(and oh, I'm so tired now and must lie down). POST-POST. I must stop researching this subject, because I just keep finding dozens and dozens more. The following list may or may not be satiric. Some of them sound just plain DUMB. The Girl With the Caterpillar Eyebrows? The Girl with the Funny Buttons? Jesus. Why didn't MY books get anywhere? I guess I'm just too old to be a whore. And too honest. This is, by the way, only a tiny fragment of the full list. Do ALL of these sell, I wonder? They must sell a hell of a lot better than my stuff.
The Girl Who Lived on the Moon, by Frank Delaney The Girl Who Couldn’t Smile, by Shane Dunphy The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind, by Meg Medina The Girl Who Dreamed of Ships, by Beverly Scofield The Girl Who Wears Gumamela Flower, by Heidy Ramos The Girl Who Loves Horses, by Diana Vincent The Girl Who Fished With a Worm, by Harry Groome The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, by Simon Mawer The Girl With the Dove Tattoo, by Brian D. McLaren The Girl With Hair Like the Sun, by Claire Mix and Aaron Miller The Girl With the Killer Heels, by Freddy Hansen The Girl With Borrowed Wings, by Rinsai Rossetti The Girl Who Would Be King, by Kelly Thompson The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, by Catherynne M. Valente The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis, by Elle Thornton The Girl Who Fell to Earth, by Sophia Al-Maria The Girl Who Gave Her Wish Away, by Sharon Babineau The Girl With the Golden Hair, by Greg Scarlett The Girl Who Was Blue, by Sally O. Lee The Girl With Chipmunk Hands, by Binks and Ruby Begonia The Girl Who Cried Wolf, by Robert Ferrigno The Girl With the Yellow Dress, by Giancarlo Gabbrielli The Girl With a Brave Heart, by Rita Jahanforuz and Vali Mintzi The Girl With No Name: The Incredible Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys, by Marina Chapman with Vanessa James and Lynne Barrett-Lee The Girl Who Blamed the World, by Cindy Mackey and Shirley Chiang The Girl Who Married an Eagle, by Tamar Myers The Girl With the Iron Touch, by Kady Cross The Girl With the Golden Parasol, by Uday Prakash and Jason Grunebaum The Girl Who Cried “Wolf!,” by Nancy Jensen with Nathan Swink The Girl Who Can’t Say No: Bound to the Billionaire, by Ashley Spector The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die, by April Henry The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust: A Memoir, by Noam Chayut The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis, by Julie Kavanagh The Girl Who Got Out of Bed, by Betsy Childs The Girl Who Wrote Erotica, by Angela Jordan The Girl With the Funny Buttons, by Roberto Di Falco and Silvia Hoefnagels The Girl With the Caterpillar Eyebrows, by Lisa Ditchkoff The Girl Who Bit Back, by E. Earle The Girl With the Sandwich Tattoo, by Dragon Stiegsson The Girl Who Wouldn’t Brush Her Hair, by Kate Bernheimer and Jake Parker The Girl Who Heard Colors, by Marie Harris and Vanessa Brantley Newton The Girl With the Cinnamon Twist, by Stephen Dennis The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy, by Cherie Dimaline The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: A Child, an Elder, and the Light From an Ancient Sky, by Kent Nerburn The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two, by Catherynne M. Valente The Girl With the Werewolf Tattoo, by Alexia Wells The Girl With the Electric Sunglasses, by G. Dawe The Girl Who Danced in a Blood Soaked Dress, by Craig Campbell The Girl With Nine Lives, by E. Earle The Girl Who Was Loved, by Annabelle Peep The Girl With the Thistle Tattoo, by Patricia Green The Girl Who Thought Too Much, by Rosa Edwards The Girl With the Pink Bandanna, by Roberto Di Falco and Silvia Hoefnagels The Girl Who Never Came Back, by Amy Cross The Girl With the Curves, by Iris Deorre
