News Dec 31, 2010 at 8:55 am

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Oh and University of Washington beat Nebraska last night 19 to 7. When we played them back in September, Nebraska destroyed UW 56-21.
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Best ending ever. Thank you!
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Damned if I can figure out what you guys see in these videos. It must be a gay thing.
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@3: Yeah, I'm with you. I love to dance, and I love women who love to dance, but there's something off about this one.
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@3 No, it's not. I can't figure it out, either
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For me, enjoying Tengobaila is an exercise in imagining myself in her shoes, inventing a backstory to make perfect sense of years worth of videoed solo dances.

In my version, I'm a retired Vegas showgirl (from the lower-end rooms, the Riviera one year was the best I ever booked) living with my third husband the orthodontist, in one of those planned desert developments far off the strip.

No kids, a little volunteering here and there, sex once a week (on Viagra Thursday). I miss Tony Curtis, who used to live over by the golf course. I have a lot of time on my hands.
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@6, what a fantastic story. When's the movie coming out? I'd go see it.

I like this one better, because she's actually doing a little dancing here and there instead of just striking poses. But maybe striking poses is the point.
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See, Gus, I've imagined myself in her shoes as having grown up in a repressed environment, had a standard-issue marriage, and then bailed for the artist compound in the desert - housed in yurts, of course - to "express myself." I do a lot of adjusting of chakras, abstract impressionist paintings a la Pollack, and my children sit stiffly at the Thanksgiving table as I drink a little too much gin and upbraid them for being part of the Establishment.
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I love it! Her exuberance and joy communicate so readily through the screen! It is all too rare to be able to watch someone doing something they really really love doing. We should all be so lucky. Mas Tengobaila! Mas!
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TVDinner, I like your Tengobaila very much indeed.
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Clearly this movie needs to be The Tengobailas. How can we get these different versions together in one story?
12
Can we make them estranged twins whose internet video fame leads them to reunite for a double act dancing at a lounge in Palm Springs their elderly mom and dad are in danger of losing to the bank?

But the act alone proves not profitable enough so they do a little sister-act sex work on the side, catering to the rich-retiree crowd?
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@12: Gosh, I was kinda leaning toward conjoined twins, myself.
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@13, let's do conjoined, then, but can we keep the sex-workers-to-old-folks angle, please? If it's weird and saucy enough maybe we could get Dan to work his Scissor Sister mojo to get them to do a cameo performance for a very special episode using today's song.
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@14: You wanna watch that? Gus, are you all right?
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i like this sisters-reunited angle you guys.i think the sex work should be changed to running a dating service for the oldies, but i'm a terrible prude.
i did notice that the paintings in the background are sometimes different while drunkenly watching these last night. I like to think they're hers. also, the close-up of her smile have me completely won over.
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@15, I was just trying to be nice with your whole "conjoined" idea, even though that would make it impossible to cast unless we used CGI.

But yeah, to answer your question: I would watch that, and I am not right in the head.
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Remember those Chinese conjoined twins who were in the circus years ago? They each were married and fathered children...so I think your sex worker angle could certainly work, and doubtless there would be many people who would want to see it, including me, since I'd get to see your Hugh Grant hair for once, dear gus!
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@8 That was an episode of "Absolutely Fabulous"!
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Oh, but Canuck, I couldn't be IN it! I'd happily help get it going, but I'm much too camera shy.
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@12 funny, as i started staring off while watching that video my vision doubled and seeing the two of them in perfect choreography made it at least twice as awesome.
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Way to burst my bubble, gus...sheesh. And as far as your mental state goes, I am the proud owner of a large coffee table sized book on the Mutter Museum of medical oddities, which I keep hidden, as Mr. Canuck thinks I'm strange enough as it is...the point being, if you're not "right in the head", then neither am I...oh, and cheers! Bottoms up! Happy new year!
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I think the plot would work more smoothly (and the film a bit easier to cast) if they were twins separated at birth. That would allow a story line about how the separation occurred, and some nice backstory about their separate lives. There's loads of research on the startling similarities shared by separated twins. On the other hand, Carnivàle managed to use twins who were not conjoined cast in the role of conjoined twins. So it's not impossible. I just think separated at birth has some dramatic appeal, where conjoined has medical oddity appeal, which may be far more widespread than I thought it was. Could one of them be the ex-wife of an astronaut?
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Happy New Year, Canuck! And LuisitaPhD, you are definitely onto something!
26
Why thank you! So many possibilities for a separation at birth scenario.
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I love her! She's having so much fun with her dancing - y'all are just hating haters.

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