The JD Set, a collective of four young documentary filmmakers, will be present at the screening of their first full-length feature Katy Perry Dumped Me for a Straight Girl during the Highlight Queer Film Festival. It is rumoured that Beatrice Krill worked as screenwriter on the project, but when asked The JD Set said, ‘we did dial her phone number. But she doesn’t really answer the phone. We bumped into her one night at a party and she was really enthusiastic about what we were doing. After that we lost touch. She has a credit in the film though. We called her ‘Fog, Mist and Wind operator’ even though the film is dominated by clear skies.’
Friday, November 12, 2010
Intervention or enough said?
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Really like paragraph of gossip-column-like text.
ReplyDeleteBut I must ask - coincidental fluke or intended pun? - do I really recognise the name of the green typeface correctly...?!!!
Yeah, Liz pointed out her song I kissed a girl:
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And I felt pissed off as I thought it was pretty homophobic, in its use of a same-sex kiss, but aimed at spoofing straight boy's fantasy and a straight girl appropriates it to do that - but more than that the lyrics are just plain homophobic - so I'm just saying back the fuck off Katy Perry, I don't like your song!
Maybe its how the song is so hetero dancing around sin/innocence - in the sense that naughtiness is part of the straight cannon, 'straight deviance' is able to be re-absorbed into the hetero slip-stream - but where does that leave same-sex 'deviance' - not only am I locked out but I'd feel totally embarrassed performing or playing this kind of thing out even as a loose fun temporary representation of some angle of my sexuality, as a lesbian woman. So my desires are placed outside and more than that my desires are weighed down by the gay shroud - and not in a good way, cause I want the gay shroud to work for me, not for someone like Katy Perry.
I kissed a girl
This was never the way I planned
Not my intention
I got so brave, drink in hand
Lost my discretion
It's not what, I'm used to
Just wanna try you on
I'm curious for you
Caught my attention
I kissed a girl and I liked it
The taste of her cherry chapstick
I kissed a girl just to try it
I hope my boyfriend don't mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don't mean I'm in love tonight
I kissed a girl and I liked it
I liked it
No, I don't even know your name
It doesn't matter
Your my experimental game
Just human nature
It's not what, good girls do
Not how they should behave
My head gets so confused
Hard to obey
I kissed a girl and I liked it
The taste of her cherry chapstick
I kissed a girl just to try it
I hope my boyfriend don't mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don't mean I'm in love tonight
I kissed a girl and I liked it
I liked it
Us girls we are so magical
Soft skin, red lips, so kissable
Hard to resist so touchable
Too good to deny it
Ain't no big deal, it's innocent
I kissed a girl and I liked it
The taste of her cherry chapstick
I kissed a girl just to try it
I hope my boyfriend don't mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don't mean I'm in love tonight
I kissed a girl and I liked it
I liked it
Acoustic Guitar - Magnetic fields
ReplyDeleteAcoustic Guitar,
I'm gonna make you a star,
Get your picture all over the world
Acoustic Guitar,
You can have your own car,
Just bring me back my girl
She always loved the sound of your strum
You made her think maybe I wasn't so dumb
She tends to faint at the sound of a drum
Cuz she's folk so play and maybe she'll come
Acoustic Gutiar, how lovely you are
With your inlays of mother of pearl
Be a good guitar and you could go far
Just bring me back my girl
She always said that you were the one
That could make her move her cute little bum
You understand where she's coming from
Which I obviously don't, or she wouldn't be gone
Acoustic guitar, if you think I play hard
Well you could have belonged to Steve Earle
Or Charo OR GWAR, I could sell you tomorrow
So bring me back my girl
You'd better bring me back my girl
"Hot Topic"
ReplyDeleteHot topic is the way that we rhyme
Hot topic is the way that we rhyme
One step behind the drum style
One step behind the drum style
Carol Rama and Elanor Antin
Yoko Ono and Carolee Schneeman
You're getting old, that's what they'll say, but
Don't give a damn I'm listening anyway
Stop, don't you stop
I can't live if you stop
Don't you stop
Gretchen Phillips and Cibo Matto
Leslie Feinburg and Faith Ringgold
Mr. Lady, Laura Cottingham
Mab Segrest and The Butchies, man
Don't stop
Don't you stop
We won't stop
Don't you stop
So many roads and so much opinion
So much shit to give in, give in to
So many rules and so much opinion
So much bullshit but we won't give in
Stop, we won't stop
Don't you stop
I can't live if you stop
Tammy Rae Carland and Sleater-Kinney
Vivienne Dick and Lorraine O'Grady
Gayatri Spivak and Angela Davis
Laurie Weeks and Dorothy Allison
Stop, don't you stop
Please don't stop
We won't stop
Gertrude Stein, Marlon Riggs, Billie Jean King, Ut, DJ Cuttin Candy,
David Wojnarowicz, Melissa York, Nina Simone, Ann Peebles, Tammy Hart,
The Slits, Hanin Elias, Hazel Dickens, Cathy Sissler, Shirley Muldowney,
Urvashi vaid, Valie Export, Cathy Opie, James Baldwin,
Diane Dimassa, Aretha Franklin, Joan Jett, Mia X, Krystal Wakem,
Kara Walker, Justin Bond, Bridget Irish, Juliana Lueking,
Cecelia Dougherty, Ariel Skrag, The Need, Vaginal Creme Davis,
Alice Gerard, Billy Tipton, Julie Doucet, Yayoi Kusama, Eileen Myles
Oh no no no don't stop stop............
wooo what is this? A Rachel O'Neil special?
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