rm ([personal profile] rm) wrote2003-07-18 07:39 pm

i think i'll see this

Karen Finley. Yes, her. On 9/11 and Liza Minelli.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/18/arts/theater/18LOVE.html

She now applies this sensibility to everything from an evangelical account of the planes crashing into the towers to a sardonic consideration of the sadomasochistic quotient of living in an orange-alert zone. She also provides a cadenced rant about traveling through other American cities, where the coffee is lousy and the bars close too early, and a perversely poignant interpretation of the pop standard "Leavin' on a Jet Plane" as a hymn to all departures as anticipations of death.

[identity profile] sykii.livejournal.com 2003-07-18 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahaha. My mom just told me about this and I thought she was just smoking crack again.

[identity profile] rm.livejournal.com 2003-07-18 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
By the way, Megan and I just watched Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and are obsessed!

[identity profile] rm.livejournal.com 2003-07-18 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
We're having a gay day to makeover the apartment on Wednesday

[identity profile] sykii.livejournal.com 2003-07-18 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Just so you don't tweeze little kitty. But if you do, remember a) product goes in from the back and b) she's made of beef.

[identity profile] machiavellian.livejournal.com 2003-07-18 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Is this the same Karen Finley who told everyone to "lick it clean"?

[identity profile] rm.livejournal.com 2003-07-18 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Ayup.

[identity profile] coyotegoth.livejournal.com 2003-07-18 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"Speechless" is such a mild term at times like this.