Oh Rose, thou art sick

vendredi, octobre 27, 2006

Odds'nEnds

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My chemistry test was way to easy today, it worries me. I was the first one done. That NEVER happened before. I kept thinking I missed something, but there really were only those questions I did, I asked the others. Guess there'll be calculating mistakes though, I'm good at those.

So I decided to catch a movie after, you know, to reward myself etc. (nah, there's just a lot of movies I have to see). I thought Hedwig and the Angry Itch was playing, but it didn't. So I bought a ticket for Forever. People sat and waited for half an hour and the movie didn't start. Turns out something happened to the technician and the movie got cancelled. They gave me my money back, a free drink AND a ticket for Shortbus, so I'm seeing that in about an hour (yes dear).

Also, I think the new trendy thing in alternative cinema is stuffed human beings. Having just watched Taxidermia last wednesday, that was the second one this year! It's silly.

Last Saturday I went to see Baby Dee in concert in the SugarFactory. She was pretty good, it was way closer than Toronto (I sat about a metre away from her) and she made more of an effort. She did loads of tragic songs on the harp, and about four funny songs on the keyboard (I liked the 'I'm just a kinky grizzly bear with a thing for Mormon underwear' best). Not much accordeon playing unfortunately, but she ain't really good at that no how. She looked a wreck as usual. Somebody in the audience said 'your voice is really low tonight', which she didn't hear so he repeated: 'your voice is really low'. To which she said: 'yeah I can't help that you know, I was born that way'.

vendredi, octobre 13, 2006

We are the Pipettes

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We went to see the Pipettes on Wednesday night. I just had chemistry practicum from 9 to 6 which was really exhaustive cause nobody knew what they were doing, but I managed to liven up for the evening. The girls said that some of us where under the impression that it was a gig, while actually, it was a disco! So we danced a lot and I took some pics while the girls were all sweaty. Except for the scary one that just didn't sweat.
I don't think I've danced like that since Montreal. I need to know more party people.


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Toor watches Doctor Who! See?

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Go watch the new Immi video. I said she was a butterfly didn't I?

Hermaphrodite

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In alchemy, the Hermaphrodite is a very important symbol. It has to do with the initial perfect beings, which were seven, maybe that's hermetic alchemy though. I'm too lazy to go look it up now. Maybe I'll edit this message later.

The point being, Genesis P-Orridge, whom I saw perform with his new version of Psychic TV, PTV3, is now a Hermaphrodite. A very scary one at that. Music is more rocky than before, and lots of plastic surgery going on in videos. As insane as you'd expect from him, now being Hir.

Porn for Lunch

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Lydia Lunch's new project 'Real Pornography' was absolutely amazing live! You can watch a bit of it on Youtube.
The need to believe in God is a pathological viral infection. Hihi! It's not completely the same as she performed it of course, but the idea of it is. There was also the part about women in covens, I think that's on her site somewhere, the popup --> The DEVIL is a WOMAN.
Anyways, she kept staring and pointing at women in the audience, and came really close to the front and as I was there it was an interesting experience. She said some very cute (what's the opposite of misogynistic?) things. Mhoehahahaha! Our sexmagick our sexpower..
Lovely.

lundi, octobre 09, 2006

She's lefthanded!

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See?
Dar was amaaaaaaaaazing (naturally). Me and Father went to a folkie show with Jeffrey Foulcoult, Caroline Herring and Darling Dar (as them Nields always call her in the booklets). Father bought a Jeffrey cd and I made him buy me My Better Self again cause I forgot to bring anything to sign and he's been using mine since the dawn of time so the paper cover has gotten a bit damaged. I liked the North American version better though, they switched the pics around here.
She played a whole bunch of songs (unfortunately not our request, but hey), starting with 'when I was a boy' and finishing with 'the ocean'. I'm not going to bother listing all songs, for you won't know 'm anyways, but suffice to say she didn't play all the regulars, 'Febuary' was really beautiful, I heard 'the Hudson' twice life which is quite unusual and she just told lots and lots of stories. The stories are almost the best part of Dar life. Besides her angelic voice she's really genuinely funny, and she had a lovely way of expressing herself. We got to know that 'the Blue light of the Flame' was for singer Rachel Bissex, for whom I saw a tribute show at Falcon Ridge last year. She died of breast cancer and Dar was telling how she was from Vermont and how when they'd meet they somehow always ended up naked together. It was really funny.
And then I got to meet Dar. Jeeeeeeeeej!!!!!!!! Dar! So I was waiting for some other people to be in pics with her and have stuff signed (including the lady above, who had some interesting special edition, I believe it was from The Green World), and then I asked if I could be in a picture with her too (ever the polite one). So she said of course, noticed my pentacle and said: 'Aw, I'm sorry I didn't play that one!' So I grinned and said 'That's ok, I wanted you to play Better Things though' (I ought to have said: 'I've heard you play that three times already', but oh well). Then Father took a picture but I wasn't smiling so I made him do it again and that turned out really lovely (yes I'm getting an enlarged print). Then I told Dar how I had meant to bring my This Town is Wrong cd and have her sign that but forgot it, because of that song with the Dad and teenaged daughter and the Dar concert (yeah I forgot what the song was called) - but she got what I was saying and said: 'Oh Yeah! You know, I didn't even know that until I read the booklet?!' So she asked me my name and wrote: To Rose, best wishes, Dar (funny smiley line).
Jay!