Mr. Romance
October 28, 2011 8:11 AM   Subscribe

In 1994, international super-stud Fabio Lanzoni released an album entitled Fabio After Dark. For the first time, his fans could hear his musing on love, romance and beauty any time they wished. Oh, and he sang, too.
posted by griphus (21 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
And now, this.
posted by MrMoonPie at 8:21 AM on October 28, 2011


And let's not forget that he got himself a haircut and has changed his name to Jon Hamm.
posted by Threeway Handshake at 8:22 AM on October 28, 2011 [6 favorites]




Have I ever told you folks about how my former boyfriend and I used to have a special sign language symbol like a pair of scissors (making our index and middle finger go the cutting motion) and that we'd use, most often strippers but sometimes on the street, that we had because it became too tiresome/obvious to say "I wish I had a pair of scissors to fix that problem" when we saw a hot guy with bad* long hair and we thought he'd be much hotter without it. It's one of the few inside jokes that I even share with my current partner.

For some reason, I thought of that reading this post.

On preview: Argh multitasking, I thought of it before Threeway Handshake's comment. But also proves my point.

* (Both of these men have had long-ish hair when we've been together, the former even when we first got together, so I'm not anti-long hair. just ridiculous or bad-in-other-ways long hair.)
posted by MCMikeNamara at 8:41 AM on October 28, 2011


Fabio After Dark is to Günther as ...oh god, I can't even finish that sentence, I feel ill.
posted by bitter-girl.com at 8:53 AM on October 28, 2011


oh god, I can't even finish that sentence, I feel ill.

That's normal and you're doing great...can you show us where the bad man touched your tra la la?
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 9:02 AM on October 28, 2011 [2 favorites]


He...he used his ding ding dong.
posted by bitter-girl.com at 9:02 AM on October 28, 2011 [3 favorites]


You know, every time I get a boring, typical email forward about how men are stupid, or obtuse, or care more about their genitals than their brains, or that their brains ARE their genitals, or think about how women could possibly think of us all like Homer Simpson or Peter Griffin or Al Bundy, I remember the popularity with women of the weird-looking dunderpate with bad hair, worse accent and seemingly not a single redeeming quality and I feel at least a little better.
posted by nevercalm at 9:03 AM on October 28, 2011 [2 favorites]


Fabio has aged into Evan Stone. Probably not as much stamina, though.
posted by Faint of Butt at 9:13 AM on October 28, 2011


...seemingly not a single redeeming quality...

I have to say that I am straight and even I would frame that chest above the mantle. And only half-ironically, at that.
posted by griphus at 9:14 AM on October 28, 2011


Whenever I think I Fabio anymore, I just laugh.

"The very idea of you!"
posted by mysterpigg at 9:16 AM on October 28, 2011 [2 favorites]


I heard Jill Sobule talking once about how she got him to star in her "I Kissed A Girl" video. Apparently he was nervous at the idea of condoning or encouraging homosexuality by appearing in the video and wanted reassurance that it was all just for laffs. "Oh... of course it is," they reassured him, giving each other nervous looks...

And the rest, as they say, is history.
posted by hermitosis at 9:18 AM on October 28, 2011


You are never ready to see Fabio.
posted by notmydesk at 10:07 AM on October 28, 2011 [3 favorites]


On the Fabio timeline, did this come out before or after he got hit in the face with a bird while on a rollercoaster? Fabio completeists want, nay need to know.
posted by drjimmy11 at 11:02 AM on October 28, 2011


Five years prior to the bird incident.
posted by griphus at 11:07 AM on October 28, 2011 [1 favorite]


I wonder if the seagull survived? I'm pretty sure he felt worse about the encounter than did Fabio.

I hadn't thought about Fabio for years until yesterday: I overheard one fifteen-year old boy say to another, "Are you serious? You've never heard of Fabio?" It made me wonder. Why should a fifteen year old boy not only have heard of Fabio, but have considered him an important conceptual entity?

This world is stranger than it appears to be. Of course, I just read the first forty pages of Murakami's new book, so how else could I feel?
posted by kozad at 11:33 AM on October 28, 2011


Fabio has aged into Evan Stone.

...who was in turn created by sending Ted Nugent to a spa weekend.
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 11:48 AM on October 28, 2011


And let's not forget that he got himself a haircut and has changed his name to Jon Hamm.

SON OF A BITCH. That has broken the pieces of my brain that remained after the statistics question.
posted by doyouknowwhoIam? at 1:10 PM on October 28, 2011 [1 favorite]


I have been looking for this album for years, since it was an oft-copied tape that made the rounds back when I was in college. "I hear a solo, and I think of a duet." "There is no timetable for us." Memories! Thank you.
posted by chowflap at 2:09 PM on October 28, 2011 [1 favorite]


Was this his only album? When I was last in Melbourne in January, I visited the Dangerfield clearance shop on Brunswick St. and the record that was playing was some excessively cheesy 808-driven minor-key R&B instrumentals, with some guy talking, slowly and breathily, about how he likes to romance/give pleasure to/make love to a woman over the top of it, with monosyllabic female backing vocals kicking in at strategic intervals. After hearing a song or two whilst rummaging through racks of shirts, I asked the girl behind the counter what the rather odd and kitschy music was, and she told me it was a record by Fabio she found in a thrift shop, and showed me the sleeve. I seem to remember that it had a dark background, though.
posted by acb at 2:41 PM on October 28, 2011


I'm late to the party but I have such an unholy love of this album that I could no longer resist the urge to comment. I made a Fabio After Dark tribute mixtape once upon a time.
posted by Sgt Howie at 7:23 PM on November 3, 2011


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