Dance number from The Gang's All Here
Surreal.
posted by Mr. Carlisle at 8:18 AM
Thursday, April 24, 2008
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- Name: Mr. Carlisle
- Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
I'm a native South Carolinian and I attained my undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of South Carolina. I taught fourth grade for two years in the Mississippi Delta and two years at an alternative high school in Western North Carolina. I have been at Tigard High School since the fall of 2003, where I teach U.S. History and Psychology.
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19 Comments:
I think that it is very surreal.
I have a reason aside from the reason we talked in class about this video.
I think that it was created by males and that it had a sex appeal at that time. I mean think about it. Bananas, strawberries, young women...
It could have been like the can-can to some. (Can-Can used to be a sexual dance in the 1800s. Kind of like our strip clubs today.)
4:06 PM
For more Carmen Miranda, Donald Duck, and the parrot go here.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hRz-M30PcEU
4:14 PM
How...where..do you...
*shakes head*
*walks away from computer*
4:47 PM
N-Tohn,
You will find out next year if you are lucky enough to take IB US History with me.
5:05 PM
On my God! That is so creepy! Especially when they got in a circle with the strawberry girls. It looked like it was going to pop out of the screen and bit my face off! I don't see it as a sexual reference though. It's just bananas...
5:21 PM
Um...what?
I watched all 7 minutes that! 7 minutes of my life are wasted.
*Goes and cries in a corner*
5:24 PM
that is one of the weirdest things ever.
i watched 6 minutes of that...it was too long...
where do people come up with the idea that that would be a GOOD thing?!?
ugh.....hm...
7:17 PM
The part with the giant bananas caught me off guard, but honestly i've seen stranger dance numbers.
by the way, some random kid from lake oswego just emailed my dad because he needed to interview a vietnam veteran for his project that is due tomorrow. Half of me is like "GET YOUR OWN VETERAN, YOU JERK" and the other half is like "well, at least he got political rants and no personal stories".
7:41 PM
wow its amazing what people do to get money, seriously if that was produced today, it would be very very controversial
the lady with the tootie frootie hat!!
8:57 PM
It looked like they went all out.
I can't tell if at the end she was standing in front of a mural or she wore something that big on her head.
And it seemed like the fruit on her head was really fragile, since she didn't really move her head at all. Must have had a neck cramp by the end of the filming.
9:38 PM
UNITED FRUIT CO.
When the trumpet blared everything
on earth was prepared
and Jehovah distributed the world
to Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda,
Ford Motors, and other entities:
United Fruit Inc.
reserved for itself the juiciest,
the central seaboard of my land,
America's sweet waist.
It rebaptized its lands
the "Banana Republics,"
and upon the slumbering corpses,
upon the restless heroes
who conquered renown,
freedom, and flags,
it established the comic opera:
it alienated self-destiny,
regaled Caesar's crowns,
unsheathed envy, drew
the dictatorship of flies:
Trujillo flies, Tacho flies,
Carias flies, Martinez flies,
Ubico flies, flies soaked
in humble blood and jam,
drunk flies that drone
over the common graves,
circus flies, clever flies
versed in tyranny.
Among the bloodthirsty flies
the Fruit Co. disembarks,
ravaging coffee and fruits
for its ships that spirit away
our submerged lands' treasures
like serving trays.
Meanwhile, in the seaports'
sugary abysses,
Indians collapsed, buried
in the morning mist:
a body rolls down, a nameless
thing, a fallen number,
a bunch of lifeless fruit
dumped in the rubish heap.
by Pabloe Neruda
translated by Jack Schmitt
i cannot believe i just took the time to type all of that. i don't know, i just thought it was pretty tight. it's from the book Residence on Earth(1925-1935)
you should check him out. he was cool, he had like tons of girlfriends and was a communist
11:09 PM
i am so embarressed that i just added an e to the end of Pablo
11:11 PM
and even more so now because i just spelled embarrassed wrong.
11:13 PM
Great poem Roxy! Thanks for posting it. Good stuff.
11:20 PM
hmm...i won't lie...
i skimmed through it..
i just couldn't sit here and just watch them "dance"
i would have to say....
the worst video clip you posted on the blog Carlisle....
11:22 PM
oh you're welcome
i can't believe you check the blog this late
11:24 PM
-"Tuti-fruity hat": First problem.
-She takes lots of pride in her hat.
-Her banana playing skills are righteous.
-I feel like this might be closely related to a nightmare. Yet I am also led to feel I may follow her if she became the leader of a cult.. HAHAHA.. juust kidding.
-Nice banana choreography.
-I did feel a little hypnotized from the synchronized banana circle.
HAHAHAHA!! At [5:34] when they drop the bananas from the air there is one chick who falls backwards off the screen HAHA, the banana was just too much for her.
11:13 PM
wow. this video has taught me so much.
1. all latin women sit around on islands basking in the sun..that's why they are tanned to be the same shade.
2. when thier leader "the woman in the tutti fruity hat comes they praise her for she is the oracle the grand fruit. the bannana.
2. latin men all make money by playing music boxes and training mokeys to steal stuff from rich white people.
I shall adopt these fantastic lessons as my own way of living.. thank you Carmin.
3:51 PM
i think that this should be the Tigerette's next routine...hahaha
10:52 PM
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