ihavebeenfloated

It is clear that I must find my other half. But is it a he or a she? What does this person look like? Identical to me? Or somehow complimentary? Does my other half have what I don’t? Did he get the looks? The luck? The love? Were we really separated forceably or did he just run off with the good stuff? Or did I? Will this person embarass me? What about sex? Is that how we put ourselves back together again? Or can two people actually become one again?

– Hedwig

I, on a spur of the moment idea from last night, took Paula with me to see the Hunger Artists Theatre Co. perform Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Well that’s not all of it, either. She met my daughter as well, but that is a story for another day.

Paula didn’t know anything about Hedwig. She’d never seen, nor heard of the movie, so she was a literal virgin to it. To say that I was worried about her potential enjoyment of it would be a severe understatement. I mean, it’s not every day you take a date to a rock musical about a broken transexual who is angry-sadly in love with a rock sensation, who treats her boyfriend on stage likes utter shit the whole time. It’s a difficult subject matter. I wasn’t sure how Paula would take it all. I tried to prepare her as little as possible as I could without feeling like I was giving too much away.

Mostly, I asked, “How do you feel about cross dressers?”

“You mean this is like a drag show?”

“No, no… Jesus, nevermind, you’ll see.”

Well… She loved it. She thought it was awesome. I thought it was un-fucking-believable. I was worried that it wouldn’t do the film, John Cameron Mitchell, justice. Luckily, it did, and in spades. It was really, really good. Almost painfully good. Eventually I forgot I was watching a play and started to just think I was watching Hedwig up there, the real Hedwig, sing her heart out directly to me. It was really powerful.

Paula managed to convince me to get over my ridiculous fear of talking to performers I just had the shit rocked out of me by, and we chatted briefly with the guy who played Hedwig. That was very cool.

I highly recommend that you try to check it out. Gold Star Events has tickets at half price, plus a small service charge, so tickets come out to a mere $13.50 each. You cannot fucking beat that. Even if you don’t buy them from Goldstar, they’re only $20. Just call and reserve some tickets and that’s it.

I’m hoping to go next weekend, possibly next friday. I’d like to get together as many people as possible. Be warned, if you are a friend of mine, you will be getting a call from me about it.