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Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 ([personal profile] azurelunatic) wrote2007-08-25 02:56 am
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Annnnd ... away we go?

Yesterday was all kinds of crazy-fun. Myrrh has the same high heels that I was trying on that one time at the store and had to channel my inner drag queen. Related, there was trying on of a certain dress, a trip to the nail salon (pedicures!), supper, and an inevitable viewing of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar. It turns out Myrrh's camera and mine are the same; mine's just two model numbers up!

I have the directions sketched out here. I do not have "Sketchy Galore" on Fruitz (the iPod Shuffle), nor do I have any OK Go, but there should be some other things. Fun!

Next: hopping in the car (we're taking Myrrh's -- again, we've got nearly identical vehicles) and making with the ice and the water (and the power adapter) and going!
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2007-08-25 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
I smeared my nail polish when putting on shoes. This resulted in me explaining to the guy "I'm bad at being a girl!", because he was wondering why it was so funny.

[identity profile] lady-angelina.livejournal.com 2007-08-25 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"To Wong Foo" has been one of my "guilty pleasure" movies. >.> I know that it abuses stereotypes of gays and transvestites, but... damn, did Patrick Swayze and John Leguizamo look good as chicks (IMHO, anyway). ;)

Anyway, glad you and Myrrh had a lot of fun yesterday! :D

[identity profile] gameboyguy13.livejournal.com 2007-08-26 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I found it hilarious and not really stereotypical at all.

[identity profile] lady-angelina.livejournal.com 2007-08-28 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
*Nodnod* I didn't think it was that stereotypical myself until one of my friends who happens to be gay said that he found it to be so. It mainly had something to do with the image of drag queens driving across country in a classic car or somesuch. *Shrug*
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2007-08-26 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd say "celebrates" rather than "abuses", because it's not particularly implying that everyone is like that; it's just following a group who happen to be. A fine line, but I find a vast difference between incisively and warmly painting a caricature and displaying a caricature as being representative of the whole.

Now, those "reality shows" that pick out the craziest representatives of a fringe group and go deep into the crazy nooks and crannies of their lives and represent what they're doing as "the life of a $CLASS" -- now that's abuse.

And they did make that all-important distinction -- the one between transvestite, transgendered, boy in a dress, and Drag Queen. JD? Boy in a dress.

[identity profile] lady-angelina.livejournal.com 2007-08-28 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
Good points, all of them. =) As I mentioned to JD above, I was just concerned that it did seem stereotypical, etc., because of what one of my friends (a gay male) said about it.

If anything, I found the movie to have a very positive message overall otherwise. My favorite line? Domestic violence victim to Swayze's character: "I don't think of you as a man or as a woman. I think of you as an angel." ^___^
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