Rupaul's last mini challenge was a drag version of Samuel Beckett's seminal "Not I"

yes

Latrice Morhafuckin Royale

I couldn't possibly encapsulate the greatness of this queen, so two lovely gifs (found on this blog dedicated to her glory) will do:

recently i was mentioning Wittgenstein in a discussion

and specifically his idea at the end of the Tractatus, according to which "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." Subi just showed me this video, and I really think it is not possible to say anything about it.

Livin in the sunlight lovin in the moonlight havin a wonderful time

So wonderful to find these things. There's even a blog dedicated to his videos

Charo

Graffiti rock rocks!

Here's something I came across today; a 1984 pilot for a TV show that didn't air. I love the little hip hop dictionary and especially the colored lights on the backdrop. Also, check out Vincent "Prince Vince" Gallo around 10:00. FRESH!

LA LUPE

Here are two amazing TV performances by Cuban pop singer La Lupe. I don't know what she's saying but I'm sure her hand gestures are making atoms shake in a very unusual way. Sontag mentions her in a random list of "items which are part of the canon of Camp", featured in her wonderful 1964 classic, Notes on Camp.

Performance (is not) Art, made in India

Jason Kottke twitted this video as "the craziest thing you'll ever see on the web". i'm not sure I agree (it depends on your definition of crazy), but I do think it's pretty amazing, and actually very cool if read through the prism of the performative context. It has elements of early classic 1970's performance work that focused on endurance and pain (Abramovic, Pane, Burden, Acconci, etc.), alongside a more contemporary dramaturgy we know from performance recent work, and the circus-like presentational strategy; And of course, we cannot look at it without at least a hint of orientalism. Anyway it's super entertaining. I especially like the Indian Paula Abdul and her reactions. Enjoy!

Unintentional reactions turned poetry

This is like the 2 girls 1 cup reaction videos, only much, much better!

And speaking about unintentional reactions to audio-visual stimulation, I have to acknowledge these fantastic four:

Lauryn Hill age 13

cool

Go Roseanne!

A recent visit to one of the (boring) Based in Berlin exhibitions brought this video back to my mind. Israeli artist Asaf Koriat had a video there which was a split screen showing nine divas singing the American national anthem at the opening of the several super bowls. I found this as a good excuse to put one of my all time youtube favs here:



I'm still waiting for an opportunity to make the "Tikva" (Israel's anthem) version with Maya.

What's Opera Doc

In one of Bruce Labruce's rehearsals this February, the diva surprised us with this beautiful reference:



The wabit is sehr cool

I say war

She was too fucking cool