Friday, November 12, 2010

Intervention or enough said?




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.’


5 comments:

  1. Really like paragraph of gossip-column-like text.
    But I must ask - coincidental fluke or intended pun? - do I really recognise the name of the green typeface correctly...?!!!

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  2. Yeah, Liz pointed out her song I kissed a girl:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAp9BKosZXs

    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

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  3. Acoustic Guitar - Magnetic fields


    Acoustic 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

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  4. "Hot Topic"

    Hot 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............

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  5. wooo what is this? A Rachel O'Neil special?

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