I remember as a kid watching music videos (the one programme that wouls show them once a week... Welcome to Finland in the 80's...) and Divine's "I am beautiful" would play quite frequently. I was blown away, I thought she was fabulous! I didn't have a concept of drag, I just found her extremely interesting and realized she stood for something different from "everyone else".
I think the seed for facination for all things drag and queer was planted then.
Tonight 'I am Divine' is screening at Rakkautta&Anarkiaa at Andorra at 9pm and after that there is a drag show at Dubrovnik featuring, among others, my drag mother Lola Vanilla and Abortia Clinique.
I´ve been performing since 2010 and never dropped a pastie or tassel...until last night :)
Sinsational Spring Awakening was HOT! And I mean literally: we´ve had a heatwave in Finland, +30C for a week so every place is *steaming*. The venue was at the oldest restaurant still in use in Hellsinki so I´m guessing the AC is not really up-to-date (everything else is wonderful!) and the backstage was crazy hot! You had sweat running down your body even before you took one step! I was dying in my outfit - a full-sequined dress and that glorious Star Boa made by Fannie Annie (all fantastic 3 meters of it) and had to give up on my tassel glue: they just kept popping! Thank you Pepper for lending me your mat tape...but not even THAT could keep my tassel on during the crazy twirling in the cats-duo :D
One thing I have learned is that whatever happens on stage you just have to own it and keep on going. So I did, -boobs galore and just ripped the other one off as well in the end. Trying to cover it with one hand would have just made the whole coreo a mess. Besides: it´s just a breat right? Fun part was my mother and my step-dad were in the audience as were a lot of my colleagues from my day-job haha! Got a lot of cheers for a good attitude and I wan´t the only one who popped that night, my girl Tinker Bell and some others joined that club as well! WOOP!
Started packing for Vienna since me, Pepper and Lola fly out this Tuesday. CRAZY! I´m really nervous but very very excited! Right now I´m mostly worried that my bags will get lost on the way since we have a flight change in Riga...yikes.
Thank you Bettie Blackheart for last night! You´re one amazing power house of a woman <3
Just when I thought this week can´t get any better, you know with HBF and all, I get some pretty friggin´AWESOME news!!! I have been accepted to perform at the First Annual Vienna Boylesque Festival this March! To make it even MORE special, so has my darling Pepper Sparkles so Thee Dizzy Daisies are well represented :) AND my darlings Sir Willy Waterlily and miss Lola Vanilla are coming, too!!! A proper Finnish delegation haha!
There´s some amazing performers like Tigger!, Russel Bruner and Miss Anne Trophy and they are still announcing more but one of the things that got me (if possible) even more stoked is that I *finally' get to meet my Idol World Famous *BOB*, who is MC´ing the event! Gawd, I had to do 1,5h worth of weight-training tonight just to calm myself down!!! WOOP!!!! Thank you Jacques Patriaque for the honor!
Mondays. What can I say? Seldomly fantastic, this one finds me sick. I'm stuck in bed with a real sore throat and fever chills and hoping to be well by Wednesday due to a sportday-event at school plus of course I want to attend the movie premiere of my nephew on Thursday...So please Universe: werk with me here!!!
The tickets to Drag me to HEL are sold on Tiketti as we speak, and am proud that Thee Dizzy Daisies have a good representation there as both me and Pepper are performing! It's going to be a blast, a twisted cabaret so get your tickets now!!!
I hope everyone has had marvelous Holidays! If you are tired of stuffing do come see Willy Waterlily, Lola Vanilla, myself and Kiki Hawaiji shake and shimmy at Pineapple Paradise, restaurant Kokomo in Hellsinki this Friday the 28th of December! The event will be hosted my the wonderful and unstable creature of Paradise: Kiki Hawaiji! Doors open at 9pm!
Crazy times. Three gigs at three different parties meant one busy night for me and Lola Vanilla. But it was so much FUN! Thank you m´dear for being such a crazy, hardworking girl, thanks also to Jac who kept the train rolling!!! And congrats to Lola for coming 2nd at the Drag Queen contest last Friday in Hellsinki!
..."She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Lola L-o-l-a Lola lo-lo-lo-lo Lola " The Kinks, Lola...
