sorry i haven’t been updating this– i’ve been reading the happy stripper in hopes that i can justify burlesque to you all and get a clearer idea of what i want to do, going to ricki mason’s embodied movement lab with and without jason, lots of ballet, listening to tons of bowie, going out in drag a lot, eating vegan and gluten free with the idea that restrictions breed creativity and generate responsibility, and internationally stalking the flamboyant olympic figure skater johnny weir with the intent of talking to him about alter egos, identity, gender, and fame. see the blog burlesque performer and sensational costume designer jamie von stratton wrote about my adventure and the adventure of the gaga-esque ensemble she lent me: http://jvonstratton.blogspot.com/2010/02/for-love-of-johnny-wier.html
if you follow my facebook (facebook.com/wiggy.starddust) and/or twitter (twitter.com/wiggystardust) then you already knew that and were receiving live updates probably to your phone via SMS as i did all those things. if you don’t, then you probably just think i’m a bit of a fuck up. you might think that anyway though.
seriously, though. i framed my adventure and mini-vaycay to vancouver as academic research and a performance piece– which it was, i had a reason to want to meet him, i had questions for him (although i got totally flabbergasted when we went to talk to him and mostly made dirty jokes), and i was in character the entire time (facillitated by the lovely va gina velvet, who was mostly in character and made it easier to be wiggy, but was also fantastic as herself –morgan elizabeth– and was a fun filmmaker/director to have on board) and i documented the whole thing, keeping my intellectualism up with the help of the epicly amazing margaret hayes, my personal wig stylist, make up artist, costume consultant, and documentarian. i have a feeling you’ll be seeing margaret in my thesis, playing wiggy’s agent --but it was also fucking fun! it was incredible what i was able to accomplish by following my intuition so to the T (funny how i dreamt i needed to be up there midweek, not knowing an impromptu press conference was being held wednesday…) and by shirking all my other responsibilities (the fact that everything came together told me i HAD to go, and the fact that i had so many to shirk in the first place told me i need to let most of them go til june)
anyway, it was super fab. i bumped into tivon yesterday and he was like, “whats up, how was the impromptu whirlwind thesis adventure?” and i think i said something like “OMG I MET JOHNNY WEIR!! and i don’t know how its relevant but it is….” and then spent the rest of the day going over footage from the trip, trascribing the parts of the press conference that were particularly relevant to what i’m interested in, watching his spot on larry king live, be good johnny weir, and getting giddy.
and i have my thesis idea. i don’t want to blog about it just now. but i will tell you all about it in class.
xo wigs
