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La JohnJoseph

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About Me

Full on second grade realness, in high heels.
What the Critics Say:

"Gender Provaocateur" (The Village Voice)
"Boylesque Wunderkind" (Next magazine)
"Britain's boylesque wonder...funny and harrowing." (Spiegelworld)

"A Joy and a wondrous visionary." (Dwayne Calizo; Co-director of the Experimental Performance Institute)
"Wonderfully bizarre." (The Liverpool Echo)
"International Cabaret Sensation." (ITT Magazine)
"Boylesque superstar" (HX magazine)
"You're the least athletic person I've ever met, but it's okay, you compensate. You're also the cleverest." (Gina Chaulklin; Intellectual)
"Positively skeletal!" (Ulli Richter; Personal Photographer)
"You look a bit like a nun." (The-O; Cabaret Artiste)
"You're very attractive, close-up." (Lewis Gill; Art Book Publisher)
"If we were the same size, I'd let you wear my clothes." (Tangerine Jones; The Brown Sugar Hurricane)
"You should crawl under a rock and die!" (Sequinette; Glamourpuss)
"I can not imagine you as a top!" (Rebekah Formica; Sham Fiancee)
"You look like Andy Pandy gone wrong." (Elayne Bryan; Mother)
"La JJ, hmm, er, well, absolutely." (Peter Alexander; Poet and Architect)
"I like some human beings, I like JohnJoseph." (Andre Karpov; Musician and Muralist)
"Young Icon" (La Hell; Academic)
"I do love you" (Piers Atkinson; Fashion Editor of Dis-Order)
"My Idol" (Jordan P Hunt; composer and arbiter of taste)
"You look like Margaret Thatcher in drag." (Gary Everett; Director of Liverpool's Homotopia Fesival)
"Nothing short of brilliant." (World Famous *BOB*; burlesque superstar)
"Possibly the most amazing set of representations of anyone I have EVER seen. Who I know. Ish." (Johhny Mallam; Historian and Fan)
"Blimey, you're making me redder than a borscht soup!" (Richard Andrzejewski; Performer and Designer)
"Our favourite daughter." (Rupert Smith; Novelist and founding member of The House of Homosexual Culture)
"It's hard to hate someone that pretty." (Gibson Cuyler; Artist)
"I only steal because of you." (Adrian Muniz; Writer)
"Kudos to the colors you bring." (Tigger!; NYC performance institution)
"I wish I was you." (Stevie Hanley; Artist)
"The new Queen in town." (KennyKenny; Downtown Icon)
"New Brit on the scene!" (Sharyn Jackson; GO! Magazine)
"I like your bottom." (Nick Hamilton; Architect)
"You're the closest thing to a man that has made me hard." (Burlesque fan)
"Him's a nice brother." (Suzie Age3; Younger Sister and Acclaimed Artist)
"You combine the eroticism of Bowie with the erudite aesthicism of Wilde" (Red Grrrl; Washington Burlesque staple)

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My Interests

Taking train journeys with handsome fellows, Boiled eggs, Fashion, Music, Performance, Boys, Art, Reading, Thinking, Shaving Peter Alexander's Pubes, V-Neck Sweaters, Weetabix, Liza Minnelli, P.S. I LOVE YOU, Anorexia, Bistrotheque, Ryan Styles, Making Pancakes, Alice Stanner's Dresses, Peanut Butter and Jam, Shoulders Sarcasmo, Drinking Tea, Dark Chocolate, Watching Dietrich videos on youtube, Washing Dishes for Composers and Sopranos, Pining, Pencilled on Moustaches, Stupid Outfits, Partying, Travelling, Kissing With Tongues, Dancing, Slippers, Dry Humping Joseph Keckler, Travelling.

I'd like to meet:

Marlene Dietrich, Joan of Arc, Beau Brummel, Napoleon, Sartre, Kate Bush, Alexander McQueen, Austin Scarlett, good spellers,good lovers and Lizaaaaaaaaaaa! Obviously.

Music:

BoyfriendRobotique, Electralane, Hole, Rosn Murphy, Judy Garland, Dalida, Uni and her Ukelele, Kate Bush, Madonna, Bowie, Dietrich, The Velvet Underground, Roxy Music, Morrissey, The Knife, Timothy Winchester, Kylie, Goldfrapp, 10 cc, Tears for Fears, The Prudence Sisters, Joni Mitchell, Mylo, The Boards of Canada, Piney Gir, PSAPP, The Magnetic Fields, Cilla Black, Bjork, Pattie La Belle, Annie Lennox, The Streets, The Cooper Temple Clause, Soundtracks, Liza, PSB, The Scissor Sisters, The Human League, Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV, Depeche Mode, Tori Amos, Janet Jackson, The Newly Emancipated Mimi, Doris Day, Amanda Lepore, Carl with Records, Neutral Milk Hotel, MargOH! Channing, Stefy, Lizaaaaaaaaa!

Movies:

Elevator Girls in Bondage, The Servant, Blow Up, Chez Hommes Rififi, Rope, Rear Window, The Swimmer, Cabaret, Breakfast on Pluto, 9 to 5, Hedwig, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Volver, The Warriors, Gilda, The Lady from Shanghai, Mildred Pierece, Sunset Boulevard, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorhands, Hello Dolly!, Paris is Burning, The Big Lebowski, The Cockettes, Filthy Gorgeous, Roma, Arthur on the Rocks, Girls will be Girls, An American in Paris, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Notes on a Scandal, Bad Education, Harold and Maude, The Lives of Others, Grey Gardens, Very Funny Cats 1, The film where Liza plays a dance teacher in the Bronx.

Books:

The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, Sarah, Touch, Cradle to Cradle, The Mandarins, The Miracle of the Rose, The Outsider, Midnight at The Palace: My Life as a Fabulous Cockette, Other Voices Other Rooms, A History of Modern France Vol II, The Turn of The Screw, The Uncanny, Fruit and Flowers, Brideshead Revisited, The Poetics of Space, Cezanne by Himself, Middlesex, Sister Carrie, Men Like That, The Berlin Stories, Nights at the Circus.

Heroes:

Joan of Arc, Quentin Crisp, Little Edie, Cezanne.

My Blog

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

San Francisco, I told you I'd be back! And Lord, in what style! Spooky and I drove up the Coast from LA, admiring the lush scenery and eating lousy food. When we made it to the city by the Bay we were...
Posted by La JohnJoseph on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:47:00 PST

So forgive me, these things I do

Santa Fe is pretty, and I need to scan the press clippings. Spooky and I stayed with our new pal Alberto at his pad, hung out in diners and generally acted like idiots ahead of our show at Wise Fool. ...
Posted by La JohnJoseph on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:55:00 PST

The Crying Game

I have been in Chicago, for the last week or so I think; keeping track of time has never been my strong point, the days run away from me like pistachio shells.I left New York in rather a state of disa...
Posted by La JohnJoseph on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:24:00 PST

Long ago, and so very far away.

That was the holiday season.Gigi and Gibson arrived at 5am on Christmas Day with three powdered wigs and a dog in tow. Brittany had just arrived back herself from her cross-country road trip, and we h...
Posted by La JohnJoseph on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:43:00 PST

Thorn in my side

I'm failing miserably at updating this with any regularity,usually because I am either to stupefied by what is happening to me to record it or because I am too hung over to remember. I will now attemp...
Posted by La JohnJoseph on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:29:00 PST

Ever since I can rememebr, you’ve been hanging ’round this joint.

I just got back to Williamsburg after an incredibly high brow week end with Glenn Marla, teaching a workshop at Bard College. We went up on Glam-trak late Friday evening, and discovered that even thou...
Posted by La JohnJoseph on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:51:00 PST

Wear a tall hat

I have to write this down because if I don't I think I'd doubt my memories later in life. This past week was, quite record breaking in terms of ludicrous scenarios and wild behaviour, even by the stan...
Posted by La JohnJoseph on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:16:00 PST

I love you, you pay my rent.

Another action packed week! Rehearsals, giant newspapers made out of cardboard, interviews with boylesque stars, an art parade, three shows, Liza Minnelli's "Results" for $2.99I made my rather wonky o...
Posted by La JohnJoseph on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:58:00 PST

Get Joan Rivers on the phone and order yourself a diamondzoid

Am I getting carried away with myself now? Two blogs back to back? I just had to write about yesterday's Golden Pastie awards, the ceremony that closed the NY Burlesque Festival. I invited Legs to be ...
Posted by La JohnJoseph on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:53:00 PST

Put your hands in, rip their hearts out.

Kiki and Herb are on their "Year of Magical Drinking" tour, I am on my "Year of Magical Inappropriate Touching" tour. This should have been expected starting as it did at a new gay bar in Williamsburg...
Posted by La JohnJoseph on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:02:00 PST