Last night I attended this performance art function called the Big Gay Peep Show at Highways. OMG! FUN! Amazing! Scintillating!When they admitted us to the black box, there was a single projection of a man's crotch, wearinng underwear, with little silver bird-ornament things sticking out of the top waist band. Just by looking at the crotch, you could tell, he was packing. It was also a fortunate turn of events that I happened to know to whom that crotch belonged. It was a certain nuns parts, so that was just completely entertaining, especially considering that it was HUGE PROJECTION. Then the show began, and her come Ian McKinnon, shrieking, wild faggot priest of the mysteries, a massive foam noodle cock with rainbow pubes, a cape of gay pride across his back, and a silvery head piece, a giant dome, with a large, coloring changing lit cock on the top, shifting through red and blue and green, as he revealed to us his secret fetish. Gay History! A Man on man daisy chain of figures and people from plato to harry hay, loving and longing and lusting and licking your mind and appetites for more. It was brilliant and amazing and glorious. GO IAN!!!Then, in a sudden turn, we had Corey, a delicious and curvaceous man of color, come out to talk to us of pretty and ugly. Life is Ugly he said. God is Ugly. Love is Ugly. All the messes and details and trust and frustration and temptation all thrown together, because pretty, pretty is a lie. Pretty is an illusion. He said this to us after dancing, moving his body, and seducing us into ease and appreciation with a familiar pop song, before he tore us all down, as he exposed and gave us a peep, into the deep dark trenches of his being.Then we had a piece called Pin up by DANCEGOOD DAMMIT!!! He came out with bunny ears, and a little cottontail, and a basket, shaking his booty for us, and wearing a cute little smile. Then from his basket he removes, clothes pins. Starting first to pin his clothing into tighter more revealing lines, he then begans to pin himself, revealing this mixture of pain and pleasure, as he dances, showing a kind of joyous movement, but the look on his face mixes from a cute smile to a bit of wide eyed suffering as the clothes pins dig in, and then pop off of his supple flesh, bringing only what kind of sharp pain, I can remember (from my own experiments back in the day). Then was Confessional by Jason Jenn. A combined media presentation, where in video Mr Jenn tells the audience of his youth and his messiah complex, believing his feelings of difference to be drawn from being a "Chosen One" and so his ensuing behavior of as child, where he rejected anything that was not "pure" or "good" and resisted all temptation, especially the temptations of the flesh. The video changed, and he was seemingly naked, under the moonlit backdrop of the Downtown LA skyline, he revealed that upon his arrival in Los Angeles, he began to pursue a life of diabolic behavior, seeking to understand sex and flesh and all the things that were taboo to him in his young life. As he spoke these parts, first he came out, dressed in white, with a white fabric gently wound about his arms, and a crown of gold painted laurel. It was really gorgeous, and as he pulled out feathers that he proceeded to play with, he showed that he was being angelic. When he began to speak of his dark thirsts, he revealed a trunk, hidden beneath black fabric, and from that trunk he took on the appearance of a devil, and then screamed his primal scream of release and satisfaction. It was then that he understood the need for balance, and that is own journey had been one of seeking balance from experiencing extremes, so he could know the middle ground between them.The next piece was called Outside, and with Khrys Fox. It was a strip tease, full of brazen, bravado, seemingly for all the audience to show strength and lust and bravery. The next piece, also by Khrys Fox, was called inside. To the raspy voice of Janis Joplin, singing "Take it!" he came out wearing a hospital gown, with a seemingly bloody mark over his heart, and then he removed his clothing, and open up a insulated container with a large animals heart inside. This he proceeded to cut up in thick pieces, and with a flower from a small bouquet, he handed pieces of it over to audiences members, some of whom I think were very grossed out by the displayNext was this dive into a critique of popular culture, especially popular gay culture. Presenting himself as a clear allegory of Perez Hilton, he came on to defend the pop icon of celebrity gossip and also to critique him, and the whole celebrity/showbiz world of interviews, shows, and exposes. Between having a discussion between characters on the film and himself in the theater, it was interesting to see this conflict between these two figures, especially in challenging Perez Hilton's claims to better the gay rights movement, even as he outs people, uses negative language about gay people and generally acts in a manner of the worst stereotypes of a gay man. A brief break from the seemingly intense drama of the evening was Eric Yu, who is an acrobat, and pulled himself up onto a swing bar, and proceed to flip and twist and suspend himself to the aw's and delights of the audience. He did a slight strip tease, although there wasn't much to remove, and watching his trained body go through these performances was something of awe and amazement. Did I mention he is going to be my future ex-husband?The Finale was Michael Burke doing his performance "Appropriated Penis Piece #1" where he first shares the critique of a colleague about his work, based solely on an interview he did with a university paper in the midwest, a collegue who happens ot have control over his continued employment. He then continued on to share with us his youthful excursions into what would become his homosexual life. It began of course with a much desired toy called "My Buddy" a doll (in essence) for boys. He longed for that toy, and when he got it, he realized that, if any of his friends knew that he had a this toy, he would be humiliated. At the same time, "my buddy" was being a metaphor for his dick. He would enter in commercial segments describing the doll, and how to maintain it, while he went through recollections of his young life, with the culmination being, when a boy from school, the rough and tumble and would rather melt his GI JOES then play with them normally came over to his house, and his "buddy" and had left out, in the open, for all to see, by his own careless hand. And after being worried about the reception, this boy, this playmate asked "Well, Do you wanna play with it?" and they proceeded to play with his buddy, all afternoon.Over all, it was absolute brilliant.
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