When it comes to dating, I have one rule. No girls with curly-haired Jew fros. I have one and I can’t handle the narcissism involved. But I do have a thing for Jewish girls. I don’t know what it is. Maybe it was the Jewish summer camp I worked at? (I had crushes on the counselors) This analogy might help. I am to Judaism, as BUGs (bi-sexual until graduation) are to Lesbianism. I’m a halfy. Kind of. Half of my family is Jewish, but I didn’t grow up Jewish. Really, I’m just an American mut that grew up with a curly-haired Jew fro and an attitude.
If you have a thing for Jewish girls too, check out this new Israeli/French film The Secrets, directed by Avi Nesher and written by Hadar Galron. It has an out of this world (my goy American world) story and gets my vote for best “coming of age” lesbian sex scene. I have a crush on the Anouk character - a French actress named Fanny Ardant.
This past weekend was filled with Electrocuteness. Saturday night I headed to Gray Area gallery to a special event - the kind where you need to be on some list and if you happen to be the guest of the real guest list person, than you don’t really know what is going on except that there is free wine, a fruit platter, and you are excited to be there to see Electrocute. We danced our retro dance moves similar to the moves in this new CSS video. Left Behind
For the cute in electrocute, check out their videos. Campy, colorful, and hecka cute. I have to come to LA for a Hot Situation with Electrocute. I’m drooling.
On the Beat from electrocute on Vimeo.
And last but not least, I’m officially stalking Hottub. I would love them to star in my Hot Situation - San Francisco (bay area) show. After I read an interview with them in the best of pride issue in the SF Guardian, i was brought to light tears. I swear. When I hear about girls kicking ass and owning shit - I get all emotional. And they did a photo shoot in Card burg. It’s such a Hot Situation. Check them out this Friday July 25 at 111 Minna.
Marriage, my mom and Yr Mangled Heart. Ya’ll don’t know my mom. Mother’s day is as important to her as Christmas is to a seven year old. She loves to Mom. Let’s turn ‘Mom’ into a verb for second. When it comes to gay civil rights issues, she adores Moming me and all my friends. She becomes Mom to the Max. Margaritas with Mom is the name of her therapy session that she holds for all my friends who’s Moms don’t talk about gay issues. So the morning same sex marriage was ruled a fundamental right on May 15, 2008, she was on the phone with me planning my wedding (I’m not engaged) and asking me if any of my friends were getting married (she wants to make sure she’s invited of course). Her compassion and excitement left me teary-eyed eyed but celebratory, and I spent the next 6 minutes dancing around my kitchen to the Gossip’s civil-rights anthem Standing in the way of Control (I played it twice).
I have several friends from college who have since gotten “gay-married” - these are same ones that introduced me to Gossip in college while taking women’s study classes and steadfastly listening to Riot Girl bands together. It was also the year we were of age to vote in our first presidential election - Bush won. It was a major bummer. Beth has said that the lyrics to Standing in the way of Control were written as a response to the United States government’s decision to deny gay people the right to marriage. She says, of the song, “Nobody in the States was that surprised or shocked by what Bush did, but it made everyone I know feel helpless and cheated.” Beth Ditto was one of our inspirations and idols before she was all that ‘famous.’ And I think Mom and Beth would have a riot together at a Margaritas with mom session.
Please enjoy our new episode of Rock-Star Guide to the Galaxy with Brace Paine of Gossip. It was produced in a celebratory spirit on the weekend after Mother’s Day and after another civil rights battle was won. Thanks for the inspiration Gossip! For more on the making of this episode visit the Rhapsody blog.
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