'...and DON'T *bleep* IT UP!' -- the RuPaul's Drag Race thread

Meanwhile, Raja's got a new thing going:

http://www.newnownext.com/raja-web-show-makeup-tutorial-sutans-everything/05/2013/

AND a new single coming out tomorrow

i love watching raja do makeup.

i finished Season 4. Jesus Christ Phi-Phi was fucking CRAZY in that last untucked, I thought she was going to start pulling her hair out in clumps and hyperventilating. I mean, I felt awful that her household was so combative and horrible,that stuff about being put in the hospital was just sad as hell....but I don't think she realized that she was just spewing all that she had learned in that house all over sharon and willam.

the Dad Makeover episode I was kinda, well that was cool ...but the untucked was sooooo much better. Hearing those guys talk to each other about what they had learned, and how supportive they were of their queens was really moving.

AND I finally got my hands on Season 1

I wanna see a Bebe/Raja runway walk off holy cow Bebe was/is FIERCE. She didn't really register with me for the first episode or two, but when she came out in that leopard catsuit with the mega-wig it was over. Everything about her is just on point.

Love Nina Flowers, and Ongina too. Shannel is like her own season of Drag Race, man that girl has the ego of 10 drag queens jesus christ. I didn't really understand why Rebecca went as far as she did, she didn't seem THAT stunning to me.

Tammie! oh lord Tammie. I loved her aesthetic but you guys, I have never seen a more terrifying drag queen in my life. She looked like a possessed puppet. And how insane was it when Rupaul let her have it in the reunion? Omg. I was kinda surprised she didn't edit that out...so I guess I kind of love Ru more for leaving it in. That was some real shit.

so now I know all my herstory and I have only one thing to say

YOU CALL ME A LOSER? I DON'T SEE YOU OUT WALKING CHILDREN IN NATURE

:-D

I gotta say, I loved crazy Tammie. Wish there was more of her! Never saw the s1 reunion :(

she was in allstars iirc

Yeah, it was nice to see her there but she went home really early there too. Fly me to Mars! America's not ready. She had a song or two on YouTube that were just TERRIBLE.

The lipstick terrifies me

Meanwhile VG noticed this and the whole section about behind the scenes on the show is gold:

http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/78888785.html

i wanna get Willam drunk and find out what REALLY happened.

he just drops bitchy breadcrumbs wherever he goes, like Hansel and Gretel

Hell, even this season when they cracked down on the contestants security after my shenanigans, one of the top 3 girls smoked out with a producer who likes to collect the queens as friends like trading cards. That producer is still employed by them despite blasting me in social media and dressing in a way that I could only say emulates the dancing Fantasia hippos complete with ratty wigs

I just binged watched this season and omg why have I waited so long to watch this now I am fixated with Jinkx's mouth.

I know that every reality program needs a villain or a center of conflict, but I think all of Roxxxy beefing with Jinkx took valuable time away from Alaska, and what could've been wall-to-wall hilariousness just devolves into typical reality tv bickering.

Gah! Must go!

https://www.facebook.com/VarsityTheater/posts/10151469237565796

ZOMG yes, you need to be our ILX Drag Race emissary

Completely.

Meantime the latest Drag Becomes Him with Jinkx was great and apparently the NY reviews have all been celebratory, so hurrah!

yay!

Also Leee's point on how more Alaska would have been even better = A+. I still like how season 3 ended after Shangela's departure more on a note of fun competition instead of angst (at least until actual sashays away).

otm

Alaska was a legit fun, good-spirited competitor who could throw out the bitchy one liners without actually trying to draw blood like Roxxy et al

I do wish there had been more Alaskatimez, she's such a treat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfpojo_xcD8

Meantime, I was in Seattle when this went down but I had no chance to go. Ah well!

http://www.newnownext.com/jinkx-monsoon-as-american-as-apple-pie-in-freedom-fantasia-show-photos/07/2013/

Finished S4: I like Sharon, but Willam 4 ever, she pretty much sustains the early parts of the season -- her horse laugh is 2 DYE 4 -- and what an exit. HERE'S ONE FOR THE ROAD. (Working my way through Willam's Beatdowns, wonder if she ever gets around to making fun of this makeup toot.)

Now here is a challop: Phi Phi is pretty run-of-the-mill reality villain, I don't get the over-the-top vitriol directed at her? I mean, yes, she tries sabotaging her competitors (and the novel thing is it works once why because stupid), but everything else (e.g. picking fights, attention-seeking) is pretty tame stuff? I'm probably immunized to this sort of hijinks, especially when it's not directed to newborn kittens like Jinkx.

Anyway, just started S2, really amazed at the lousy production values over here: the soundtracked music mixed way too low, lots of dead air, vaseline on the camera lenses, most of the queens being earnest and not playing a Reality TV Character whenever they're on camera, etc.

BTW, is S1 worth tracking down?

S1 is definitely worth it - Bebe needs to be seen to be believed.

I had a problem with PhiPhi mainly because a lot of the attacks she levels at her competitors are really personal. Like it feels like she legit HATES Sharon and Willam, and is trying to really do damage verbally. I mean, she's young so maybe that's a lot of it, but especially towards the end of that season she just lost control I think and it just seemed incredibly ugly to me

Will do!

Having started with S5 and then S4, it's eye-opening to see the amount of fishiness on display in S2. That said, IMHO I'm fishier than Jujubee.

lol I love Jujubee

Pretty sure the only queen I'm fishier than is Phoenix.

hahaha

More a side question about Drag Race along the way but a great interview with Lady Bunny

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/03/lady-bunny-take-me-up-high_n_3672603.html

An old Coco interview, which explains her "good thing I'm Dominican" remark from the first episode: http://voices.yahoo.com/coco-montrese-classy-flair-12045288.html

Also, watching first season, I keep thinking that Bebe's last name is Neuwirth.

PS Nina Flowers 4ever.

Man that's a great interview with Coco there.

I wish Ongina could be my drag mother, I'd call myself Wongina.

Big ol' new interview with her Jinkxness

http://www.towleroad.com/2013/08/towleroad-interview-jinkx-monsoon.html

Finished S1 save for the reunion -- sounds like I should watch it for the SHADE OF IT ALL?

um YES

also Tammy lets loose

With that creepy creepy forehead/eyebrow combo of hers? <_<

"Downtown" Tammie Brown.

she looks like a depression-era homemade doll. she gives me nighmares

Oy, that headband covering Tammie's eyebrows doesn't help.

i like the idea behind what she's doing, and I love that era but she's just so terrifying with the lips & the scary eyebrows

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8hqnb0wPq1r1emlm.gif

This is why you need to see the reunion:

"You all called me losers and I don't see you out there walking children in nature." -Tammie Brown ...

She looks like an alien!!

I'm watching it right now! Shannel shaves her butt!

OMG Santino vs. Shannel.

shannel is kinda terrifying too, for different reasons

lol

OK Ru's speech in response to the Tammie thing is pretty powerful.

Also: Ongina b-boying!

yeah ru lost her SHIT with tammie.