Girls! Girls! Girls!
First of all, I totally take back that comment about not having a social life. Because man, I haven’t slept at all this weekend. I should have said: “I just realized I have no typical social life.” After going to bed at 5a Saturday and working all day Sunday, I went out to The Burren to see Danielle & Teresa & Larry sing, and to let polite guys buy me cranberry & seltzers and to tell Hugh McGowan how much I enjoy his music. Then I got a frappe for Ry and went over to watch our Sunday night Elvis movie.
This week’s movie: Girls! Girls! Girls!
General plot: Elvis works on a boat he built with his father. Someone else owns the boat, but Elvis’s only goal in life is to own it for himself. His fisherman’s life is complicated with too many hot women, including a lounge singer at a club where he moonlights. It’s at this club that he gets in a fight with a drunk. The drunk’s date chases him out the door, spends the whole movie wooing him. Finally she buys him his father’s boat as a present, but Elvis says: “I earn my own money! I don’t accept hand-outs from no one!” We think he can’t stand this crazy chic, but he ends up marrying her, after manhandling her and very nearly getting it on on several occasions. I don’t remember the very very end because, well, I kind of fell asleep during the last five minutes.
Best line of the film: (Some girl to Elvis) “Scuse me, can you tell me how to get to–”
(Elvis, exasperated with women) “SCAT! SCAAAAAAT!!!”
Best accurately-predicted line of the film by Ry: (Lounge singer, to Elvis, after female love interest walks away) “What is she doing here?”
I don’t not recommend this movie. It was classic Elvis in the sense of making absolutely no sense, everyone’s personalities changing per scene and season, a suffient amount of homoeroticism, a couple good boat chases, and women going stupid over The King. As Ry aptly noted: “This movie is 12% great…But it’s also 100% terrible and 100% awesome…”
I’m going for 100% awesome. Which is a larger parallel to my life in general. ROCK!