i wanna get Willam drunk and find out what REALLY happened.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 June 2013 01:08 (ten years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 June 2013 01:09 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Louie Althusser (Leee), Sunday, 7 July 2013 06:10 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Louie Althusser (Leee), Sunday, 7 July 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
Gah! Must go!
https://www.facebook.com/VarsityTheater/posts/10151469237565796
― Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 18:00 (ten years ago) link
ZOMG yes, you need to be our ILX Drag Race emissary
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
Completely.
Meantime the latest Drag Becomes Him with Jinkx was great and apparently the NY reviews have all been celebratory, so hurrah!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link
yay!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
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).
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
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/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Louie Althusser (Leee), Saturday, 20 July 2013 19:38 (ten years ago) link
BTW, is S1 worth tracking down?
― Louie Althusser (Leee), Saturday, 20 July 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
S1 is definitely worth it - Bebe needs to be seen to be believed.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 July 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 July 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Louie Althusser (Leee), Sunday, 21 July 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
lol I love Jujubee
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 21 July 2013 00:22 (ten years ago) link
Pretty sure the only queen I'm fishier than is Phoenix.
― Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Sunday, 21 July 2013 07:23 (ten years ago) link
hahaha
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 21 July 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 August 2013 18:48 (ten years ago) link
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.
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 3 August 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link
Man that's a great interview with Coco there.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 August 2013 19:40 (ten years ago) link
I wish Ongina could be my drag mother, I'd call myself Wongina.
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Monday, 5 August 2013 04:31 (ten years ago) link
Big ol' new interview with her Jinkxness
http://www.towleroad.com/2013/08/towleroad-interview-jinkx-monsoon.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 02:37 (ten years ago) link
Finished S1 save for the reunion -- sounds like I should watch it for the SHADE OF IT ALL?
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 10 August 2013 21:40 (ten years ago) link
um YES
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 August 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
also Tammy lets loose
With that creepy creepy forehead/eyebrow combo of hers? <_<
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 10 August 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
"Downtown" Tammie Brown.
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 10 August 2013 21:53 (ten years ago) link
she looks like a depression-era homemade doll. she gives me nighmares
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 August 2013 21:57 (ten years ago) link
Oy, that headband covering Tammie's eyebrows doesn't help.
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8hqnb0wPq1r1emlm.gif
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
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 ...
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
She looks like an alien!!
I'm watching it right now! Shannel shaves her butt!
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:40 (ten years ago) link
OMG Santino vs. Shannel.
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:45 (ten years ago) link
shannel is kinda terrifying too, for different reasons
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:51 (ten years ago) link
lol
OK Ru's speech in response to the Tammie thing is pretty powerful.
Also: Ongina b-boying!
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:53 (ten years ago) link
yeah ru lost her SHIT with tammie.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link
Seriously, her message there is something I want to internalize. Pls teach this str8 boi 2 b feerce.
Who was it from a later season that clowned on Tammie's "walking the children in nature" line?
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
ru did :)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 August 2013 00:18 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzWDjQ5GbsI
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 August 2013 00:19 (ten years ago) link
...annnd Jinkx's show finally made the NYT in full
http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/theater/reviews/in-drag-for-90-years-vaudevillians-at-beechman-theater.html
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 August 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
An interesting thing catching up with all the seasons after watching Season 5 first is that Alaska has been haunting the show since the beginning in a very real way. I don't remember, but is the second season the only one where she isn't shown onscreen (whether in an audition video or in the audience cheering on Shannon Needles)?
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Friday, 16 August 2013 04:05 (ten years ago) link
And a neat Alaska interview: http://www.whatsuppub.com/arts_culture/stage/article_b7aea012-04f8-11e3-8e54-0019bb30f31a.html
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Friday, 16 August 2013 04:11 (ten years ago) link
Rupaul drives Henry Rollins to pick up some Clash swag.
Cryptic Willam tweet: https://twitter.com/willambelli/status/372178776748081152
― Shannon Leeedles (Leee), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link
I love just reading that in his professional Willam voice.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
I think so -- and haunting is right! (Haus of Haunt, after all.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 17:41 (ten years ago) link
My friend invited me to a drag show on Friday night and I just looked up who's going to be there -- Honey Mahogany's on the lineup!! :D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 August 2013 02:23 (ten years ago) link
Gods help me, I might be a fan of Tammie's now that I've watched some of All-Stars.
― Shannon Leeedles (Leee), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 04:22 (ten years ago) link