monday december 17th
angry inch
last night i went to the little yellow picture house down the road and escaped for a couple of hours, saw hedwig and the angry inch i liked how the two faces would spin all over the universe and meet up to be entwined in an eternal combustive kiss. it was so cool.
and hedwig was just lying on the bed saying, is that what sex is, is that what love is..when two people just become one person.
and he was meant to have his penis cut off and made into a vagina, but it all went wrong and he was just left with a mound of flesh and he called it his angry inch.
('long story short, when i woke up from the operation i was bleeding down there, i was bleeding from the gash between my legs.
my first day as a woman and already it’s that time of the month. but two days later the hole closed up the wound healed and i was left with a one inch mound of flesh where my penis used to be where my vagina never was.
a one inch mound of flesh with a scar running down it like a sideways grimace
on an eyeless face. just a little bulge
it was an angry inch' - lyrics from 'the angry inch' song)
wow. i'd just be all mopey about it and i doubt i'd be singing such groovy songs about it. i love the fact that the whole movie was a musical.
i don't really know how most people interpreted the film, but i thought it was about how if you like yourself, other people will too, and if you don't like yourself then no-one will. and how you have to change destiny yourself, and be strong, and be beautiful being strong.
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