Me too. These admissions may put me in the hall of shame, but:
- I think the stuff ELO did for Xanadu was some of the best music they did
- When it was a Japanese import release only, I hoarded multiple copies on CD in case I scratched one
- I had a choice as a young boy: see Xanadu or Empire Strikes Back. I was a total Greek mythology nerd, so I chose Xanadu
- When I see a big mural (particularly on a beach in southern California), I consider roller skating into it, in case it’s a portal to Olympus
- Sandahl Bergman is really a muse. I’m convinced of it.
- I love Gene Kelly primarily because of this movie, and I love the subtext idea that his character was also inspired by Kira/Terpsichore, but due to the strange nature of the gods, she doesn’t remember him
- Don Fucking Bluth
- And speaking of Don Bluth: the moment when Sonny has been following Kira by turning into various animals, and Kira turns back into human form…Sonny is just hopping around as a bird for a second, and that brief beat where she picks him up but doesn’t turn him back is PERFECT tribute to the pattern of gods screwing with mortals and trapping them in animal form
