On November 29, Kevin was joined by @AronDej and @carcarr819 to live-tweet the roller-disco classic Xanadu. Here’s a log, complete with time-code for your home-viewing pleasure.

     

kevincarr: Turkey #10 is… “XANADU,”starring Olivia Newton-John, when she was hot and Kevin had a crush on her. #kevincarrtweetsturkeys #xanadutweet

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 00:10 – Retro logo with ragtime music. I feel like I’m watching the Muppet Show.

AronDej: #xanadutweet – 00:13 – Old fashion Universal logo. Pretty cool, actually.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 00:40 – Took less than 40 seconds for the disco music to start. Meh.

AronDej: #xanadutweet – 00:50 – What? A flying saucer? Does this have any significance (no, it doesn’t)

AronDej: #xanadutweet – 1:12 – Really? That looks like the title card of a bad early 90s video game.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 01:30 – This is the most musically bipolar movie already, and the credits aren’t even over.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 01:55 – Kenny Ortega choreographed this. the brain behind HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL and Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT.

carcarr819: #xanadutweet Choreographed by Kenny Ortega, long before his High School Musical days.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 3:40 – Lawrence Gordon? Wow.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 03:55 – Plot summed up… magic paper flies by drug-induced mural, and hot chicks come to life and dance. Yup, this was the 80s

AronDej: #xanadutweet – 4:20 – And there you are ELO… and…. what ever these things are.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 04:40 – I have seen this before, so I know what’s going on, but the people in 1980 must have been tripping during htis scene.

AronDej: #xanadutweet – 4:50 – Ha! The song is called I’m Alive! Get it? And they’re from a painting!

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 05:00 – Token black chick.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 05:20 – Token Asian chick.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 06:00 – If only this scene turned into a naked pillow fight or jello wrestling.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 06:50 – apparently ONJ couldn’t dance.

AronDej: #xanadutweet – 7:55 And the point of this scene…. is?

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 08:45 – Hey dude… Elton John called. He wants his glasses… and his sexuality… back.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 9:05 – You can see everybody in this movie became A-List actors.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 10:10 – Struggling L.A. artist… this is so original.

carcarr819: #xanadutweet Ever heard of “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.” artist dude?

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 10:40 – “Is this the same Sonny Malone that drives women crazy?” Naw… this is the Sonny Malone with three outstandingwarrants

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 11:20 – Button up that shirt, man. Your weasel is escaping.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 11:40 – My god… that photographer has more hair on himself than Robin Williams’ forearms.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 12:05 – The short-shorts on that hot dog vendor belongs on @PeopleofWalmart

AronDej: #xanadutweet 12:07 – Apparently that’s how popcorn stand workers dressed in 1980…?

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 12:40 – Gene Kelly??? Noooooooooo! You had a career once!

carcarr819: #xanadutweet And Gene Kelly as the clarinet player, ladies and gentlemen.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 14:00 – The drugs were so good in 1980 that no one cared whose bike you stole.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 14:01 – Why not just go with them? They seem perfectly willing to have sex with you.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 14:50 – This would be the perfect time for the JAWS crossover.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 14:52 – Listen guy, its not even worth it. Olivia Newton John wont even be popular by the late 80s!

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 15:20 – In a different movie, Gene Kelly would be a pimp trolling for new male prostitutes.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 16:10 – The chicks “love” the custom “eat hot dogs” paint job on a van? What kind of chicks are you talking about?

AronDej: #xanadutweet 17:00 – Apparently everybody in 1980 skated around abandoned buildings.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 17:50 – There is nothing cooler than a stalker lurking around an abandoned building in white tube socks.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 18:25 – Is that even Olivia Newton John dancing?

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 19:25 – When are they going to remake XANADU with roller blades and hip hop funk? I’m sure its’ been suggested.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 19:49 – “Say you come around here often?” Really original there, man.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 20:30 – Damn, I will say that ONJ was freaking hot c. 1980.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 21:40 – I don’t even believe that record producer’s beard is rel.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 21:50 – This sounds like the arguments the producers had over making many of these turkeys,

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 22:30 – This Tuesday/Wednesday discussion is almost as significant as the 2 + 2 = 5 discussion in Orwell’s 1984.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 23:50 – The record store is called “Platinum Palace.” A strip club down the road from me is called “Pure Platinum.” That is all

AronDej: #xanadutweet 24:40-ish A Glen Miller reference? That would fall even more flat today than in 1980.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 24:45 – Gene Kelly’s house looks like the bad guy’s lair in MOONRAKER.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 26:00 – Why does a two-bit clarinet player from the big band era have so much money?

AronDej: #xanadutweet 26:30 – Yup, because all songs from the 30s/40s have the production values and vocal techniques of a song from 1980.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 27:55 – Now he’s talking to the record. He’s batty.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 28:20 – Please cut the scene before Gene Kelly starts “remembering” too much and breaks out the lotion.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 29:11 – Good god.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 30:00 – Old Gene Kelly making out with young and hot ONJ… I just threw up in my mouth a bit…

AronDej: #xanadutweet 30:15 – Judging by Gene Kelly’s reaction to this, this is a normal occurrence for him.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 30:55 – I’m pretty sure this is just a brain tumor hallucination for Gene Kelly.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 31:45 – ONJ “dancing” alongside Gene Kelly proves again that ONJ can’t dance.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 32:00 – This scene can end any time, movie.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 33:00 – Well, that was UTTERLY POINTLESS! But hey, at least we got some good dancing & great song out of it, right!? No. Wrong.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 34:15 – That whole off-the-shoulder thing was sexy back then. Now we just go with the Lil’ Kim string bra & see-thru top.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 35:05-ish – Generally, calling the woman you’re trying to impress home a dump, doesn’t get you anywhere. But not with ONJ!

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 35:25 – this movie has all the logic of a Bang Bros. porno movie.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 36:40 – Even I don’t know wtf is going on in this music video sequence.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 37:00 – Great. Another pointless song. What the hell is the plot to this movie anyway?

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 37:30 – Did they just fly and then travel to the Land of the Lost? What were they taking in this scene?

AronDej: #xanadutweet 38:00 – Such creative direction.

carcarr819: #xanadutweet Never saw this movie before, yet I find myself able to sing along with the songs. I find this a bit disturbing, yet typical.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 38:15 – Is the fact that they “skate on water” symbolic? Or am I reading too much into it?

AronDej: #xanadutweet 38:20 – THAT DOESN’T EVEN MAKE FUCKING SENSE!

AronDej: #xanadutweet 39:00 – You idiot! You missed them completely!

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 39:00- I don’t know what I’m more impressed with…the leaps in logic, or the fact that @carcarr819 knows all the songs’ lyrics

AronDej: #xanadutweet 39:45 – Great. More creative direction and uninspired music.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 40:10 – “No! Its not me! Its somebody else!” That one always works!

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 40:30 – Where did their shoes come from?

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 40:50 – Nice matte painting. I wonder if it was painted by Sonny Malone.

carcarr819: #xanadutweet For someone who claims to like to eat too much to be a starving artist, he sure doesn’t mind pissing off his boss too much.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet Trivia… ONJ was 32 when she shot this movie. She looks great for 32.

carcarr819: #xanadutweet 42:10 What do you expect when you let an artist serve as your real estate agent?

AronDej: #xanadutweet 42:20 – Is it built over an indian burial ground?

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 43:20 – Holy crap. Another musical sequence.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 43:37 – This isn’t the 80s. Its that void of 1979 and 1980.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 44:40 – Why do all the guys in Gene Kelly’s 40s flashback look like Katt Williams in his pimpin’ stand-up routine?

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 45:25 – Thos are the ugliest back-up singers ever.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 45:30 – This movie has less of a plot than Teen Witch or even Gigli.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 46:30 – It feel like they just went to a gay dance club, said “we’re making a movie with ONJ!”, and made them do all this.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 47:00 – I am still mesmerized by the Bride of Frankenstein back-up singer.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 47:35 – This is what the cast of STARLIGHT EXPRESS did before resorting to crack whoring.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 48:14 – Holy shit. Its like he’s raping her without even touching her.

carcarr819: #xanadutweet 48:20 Yay! Creative camera work under the crotch. Just what I needed to make my experience of Xanadu complete.

carcarr819: #xanadutweet 49:00 So glad I was only 7 in 1980 and didn’t have to wear any of these “fashions”! Holy codpiece Batman!

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 49:10 – I will never look at a leopard’s ass the same way again.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 49:30 – DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN MY BRAIN IS MELTING.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 50:00 – Its like an 80s gay dance club ate a 40s WWII homecoming party and then vomited it onto celluloid.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 50:10 – “I haven’t been crazy for over 35 years!” Really? Didn’t you just have another brain tumor hallucination.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 50:35 – Whoa! Did Gene Kelly just suggest that he and Sonny Malone have sex?

carcarr819: #xanadutweet You’re becoming partners with a man you just met? In 2009, this would have SCAM written all over it.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 52:38 – …Today, almost as legendary is Florida’s Xanadu, world’s largest private pleasure ground.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 53:45 – “Opening night. Whatever you want, it’s on the house.” Well, I want a midget hooker to paint me with bull semen!

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 54:30 – Oh, so she’s frigid.

AronDej: @kevincarr Better yet, when the clock strikes 12, I wanna grab a slut and pee in her butt! #xanadutweet #jimparsonsisawesome

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 55:35 – Cue completely WTF-freak-out animation sequence by Don Bluth.

carcarr819: #xanadutweet 55:35 Oh good Christ! Now we’re animated?! I need a beer.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 56:30 – Holy christ. They didn’t… they cant… they have,

kevincarr: @AronDej This movie would be greatly improved with Jim Parsons. #xanadutweet #jimparsonsisawesome

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 57:20 – Imma let you finish, but XANADU had the best music video of the year.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 57:25 – Holy bestiality batman!

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 58:00 – Why is Gene Kelly celebrating with extras from STARKY & HUTCH?

carcarr819: #xanadutweet Ladies and gents: Xanadu-rated PG, Xanadu Tweet-rated NC-17

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 58:45 – How cold are ONJ’s legs? Not at all because she always has leg warmers. (Yeah, that was a lame tweet…)

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 59:25 – Why is there a jungle explorer outside the Glitz Emporium?

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:00:00 – I need those crotch curtains for my house.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:00:06 – ok. This is just too much for me. I need to eat something. NOW.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:00:30 – Gene Kelly is Pimpadelic!

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:01:00 – This is just like the shopping montage in PRETTY WOMAN… without the prostitute… sort of.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:01:40 – Believe it or not, but I do remember when these fashions and video effects were the shiz-nit.

carcarr819: #xanadutweet Costume designer: more of “I really don’t even know what to say at this point.”

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:04:00 – We need those parking signs… and a lamp shade

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:04:50 – “You kids go on home.” I’m going to stay here and have another brain tumor hallucination, then stroke out.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:06:15 – “I’m not as I appear to you.” Really?. Do you have a penis?

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:07:00 – Zeus is her dad…. of this movie was faithful to greek mythology, it would not end well.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:07:05 – Whaaaaaat? How did you do this multimedia voodoo?

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:08:25 – This may be the worst noir film ever. I am glad there was no spin off.

carcarr819: #xanadutweet 1:08:09 Oh, don’t be so dramatic Sonny. You’re acting like my 8-year-old with that fake fainting act.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:08:40 – She listed all these artists that were inspired by the muses, but she left out Tiny Tim’s Tip-toe Through the Tulips.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:09:20 – Wow… an artist really has a rainbow banner painted on his apartment wall?

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:09:24 – Olivia isn’t even trying to not sound Australian now.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:10:10 – Wow… Even I wouldn’t wear a shirt that ugly.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:10:20 – Wonderful editing. I also love how they’re just walking around for no reason.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:11:00 – What??? This editing makes no fucking sense!

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1;11:40 – I wish Sonny Malone had longer pants.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:11:45 – GOD MAKE IT STOP!!!!

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:12:35 – What a coinkidink! He found the very mural where Kira and her sisters first appeared… in a city of 15 mill peopel

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:13:50 – I think Sonny Malone just was resurrected in a Base Star.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:14:20 – My god… he’s in some bizarre magenta and orange hell!

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:14:30 – When does Tron show up and try to fight the MCP?

VegasWalkinDude: @kevincarr Are you in a place where nobody dared to go? Is the love that you came to know the one I call Xanadu? #xanadutweet

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:15:30 – Erm… Zeus is no omnipotent. He was just a horny bastard who had some wicked-ass powers.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:16:30 – You sound like an obnoxious teenage girl, ONJ.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:17:00 – I think Hera has the same brain tumor that Gene Kelly has.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:18:20 – More wonderful direction.

kevincarr: @VegasWalkinDude I am there with my leg warmers and roller skates and ugly Hawaiian shirt. #xanadutweet

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:19:30 – MOVE THE GODDAMN CAMERA! Where’s Michael Bay when you freaking need him?

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:19:35 – Were it not for these extended and irrelevent musical interludes, this movie would be sixteen minutes long.

carcarr819: #xanadutweet 1:19:55 Okay, we get it, you wish you were with Sonny. Do we need a whole boring song to express it? I think not!

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:20:30 – Olivia really does not seem to be enjoying this.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:21:10 – There’s more sparkles in this movie than a desert movie with Edward Cullen.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:21:30 – No… don’t… don’t even…

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:22:10 – So he opens Xanadu the night club, and it ends up being the set for ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW?

carcarr819: #xanadutweet 12:22:20 Was this REALLY the dream he’d been wanting to see come true since 1945?

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:23:00 – I would be both ashamed in in sheer awe of I was at this club.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:24:00 – The more chanting they do, the more I think they may be a cult. And ELO and Olivia Newton John are their gods.

carcarr819: #xanadutweet All that skating in different directions at the same time…that’s just a giant collision waiting to happen!

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:24:40 – It was only a matter of time before we went to split screen. If only Carrie White would come to opening night.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:25:00 – Jesus christ. Well, at least she looks good. But a tip… ONJ… lay off the tanning bed just a teensy bit.

carcarr819: #xanadutweet 1:25:00 I totally see Dirty Dancing and High School Musical moves in ONJ’s entrance. Go Kenny Ortega!

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:25:50 – Yes, that is correct. @carcarr819 and I are singing the Xanadu theme in unison.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:26:15 – Mimes on a tightrope! Kill them!

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:26:24 – This is both painful and wonderful.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:28:00 – If I recall, what follows is a huge musical montage with a massive ONJ costume fetish.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:28:30 – No. Just no.

carcarr819: #xanadutweet Headline: roller skating extra hangs herself in acrobatic stunt on the set of Xanadu!

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:28:55 – Mmmmmm… more leopard print ass shots!

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:29:00 – Wow… I mean… really? Just… wow. I don’t know whether to enjoy this, or be offended.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:29:45 – ONJ in leopard print mini skirt and thigh-high hooker boots? Thank you very much.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:30:00 – Just end it. Please. Just let all this highly flammable glitter catch fire and end it!

carcarr819: #xanadutweet RT @carcarr819: @AronDej At this point, I think we just need to go with it and pray it all ends soon!

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:30:35 – These are some of the gayest cowboys in the b.g. since BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN.

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:31:30 – I am beginning to wonder if this was Lady Gaga’s favorite childhood movie. Along with Labyrinth.

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:32:15 – Awwww…. Sonny Malone is left alone. Where will he find a single, available woman in L.A.?

kevincarr: #xanadutweet 1:33:10 – And the moral of the story is… it’s all about looks. And ROLL CREDITS!

AronDej: #xanadutweet 1:33:55 – Holy mother of god. That was astounding.

AronDej: #xanadutweet This and Teen Witch really are partners in cinematic crime.

carcarr819: #xanadutweet How many times do we have to hear the Xanadu theme song? Couldn’t they have found another ONJ song to play over the credits?

kevincarr: Watching the trailer for #xanadutweet, and it’s pretty astounding. My brain just melted.

carcarr819: #xanadutweet Xanadu spelled backwards is Udanax. Sounds like an anti-hallucination drug.

AronDej: #xanadutweet – I sincerely hope nobody with Epilepsy has watched this movie. Let alone this trailer.

kevincarr: Final thoughts on XANADU… I remembered it to be better. 1980 drug trip, though ONJ was pretty freaking hot in her outfits. #xanadutweet

Thanks to @AronDej and @carcarr819 for joining in on a late-night live-tweet.

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