Hot Girls
So I attended the most interesting event I've been to since coming to Shanghai, a drag show! It was cool. I wasn't really sure what to expect, since my drag experience is limmited to what I've seen in Queer as Folk, the L Word, pride day coverage and Priscilla Queen of the Desert, but it was definitely unique. It was held at this tiny 19th floor bar somewhere in the city that I'm sure I've never been to before. It was small and smoky and full of mostly gay Chinese boys, and there were lots of turtlenecks and scarves, but it was a really comfortable atmosphere and pretty chilled out, and people kept saying "lala?" which means lesbian, and poor Jo, Cristine's new friend and the only one of us who could speak Chinese had to differentiate her gender to their ever-persistent questions. The performers were beautiful (well most of them) but there was one drag-queen who kind of reminded me of Emily Howard, the rubbish transvestite on Little Britain (PS, you need to download/watch this - it's a kind of cross between trailer park boys in a kids in the hall sketch comedy format, but British - it's hilarious). People kept laughing and putting money down her shirt, and I wondered if it was because it was supposed to be funny or if it was a little mean. I was assured that it wasn't mean, but I didn't find it funny (i guess I missed a little of it in translation). I really enjoyed the show, but left after only about 40 minutes or an hour because it was way too smoky and I had to work on my essay (which strangely didn't really get worked on - procrastination always seems to win!). Anyways, I'm sitting here in a coffee shop doing no more work than I did last night (so I decided to blog) and am counting the days until I get home - mostly because I need to know when I should start packiing - ie, the morning of the 20th (I leave that afternoon). Later!
posted by Jenn @ 5:08 a.m.
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