Joan Crawford and Little Edie attack Seattle/ Ghost Mattress
Last night, for Halloween, Josh went as Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale from Grey Gardens, and I dressed up as Joan Crawford.
Josh spent a lot of time putting together two costumes, one for performing Edie's dance at the end of Grey Gardens. I did more actual drag makeup than ever before. I learned to wax my eyebrows down, even. I had to remove my mistakes a couple times, before getting Joan's eyebrows good enough.
All that work, and we went to THE WORST POSSIBLE PARTY! I mean, it was not only boring and full of insulting frat guys and bitchy chicks, but NO ONE KNEW WHO WE WERE... EVEN AFTER WE TOLD THEM!!!
Quotes: "Are you Bette Davis?" "Nice costume, GUY!" (compliment ending with an insult from drag-phobic guy admiring poor Little Edie) "I'm really digging the eyebrows...who's Joan Crawford?"
I told Josh that the fact that we put more work than ever to look our least prettiest, and then taking these iconic characters to the worst party in town with not even one homosexual to recognize and love us....it was almost performance art!
Speaking of, Little Edie was going to randomly do her little dance from Grey Gardens, but the hostess wanted to make a big deal out of it. SUCH an undeserving audience, lordy! But, Edie was a fabulous performer, and Joan, who was only hanging out with her as a publicity stunt, is going to give her acting lessons!
Today, I was waiting for my new mattress to be delivered. I popped in Silent Hill, another based-on-a-video-game 'horror' movie. It's basically about a ghost town. I get the call from the delivery guy that they'll be here in 4 minutes. So, I bring my old mattress out into the hall and prop the doors open. I then see the big Sleep Co. truck, the woman with her arms open on the side. I go out, and there's no one around. The side door to the truck is open, but there's no one in the truck, behind the wheel, or in front of my apt building. I'm like, weird, just like Silent Hill! SPOOKY!
Eventually, I found them; they'd been mislead by the salesman, and were up on the third floor of the main building w/ my mattress!
...and that's the ONLY MEMORABLE THING about Silent Hill.... :-)
Tonight, we're gonna hit the Bus Stop karoake dressed up again. Who will we be tonight? We'll see!
(For more Joan and Edie pix, go to my and Anna Rexia's Myspace profiles)