I was cruising around You Tube and found this blast from my notorious Past. This a comercial we made for PETA about 6 years ago. I was soo blown away that it was up On You Tube. Of course this pre becoming a Faerie. At this point i was still a hungry actor . Andy **** directed this and what i discovered was that when Andy and i got creative together we kind of went nuts. Like for instance i wasnt supposed to have lines. but we started improving and before Elvira had even made it to the set we had already changed the entire script. LOL Needless to say when the final edit came down I was on the Phone with Cassandra (Elvira) and I said well what did you think of the comercial? and she said "You totally upstaged me you b.....h! " She was just messing with me of course. Shes a good friend. It was dream working with Elvira on a actual shoot .One of my favorite memories
Fabulous! 4004 veiws on You Tube and 30 positive coments. Im soo happy for this, AS its not something im out there promoting heavily at all. Its all grassroots support of people from here and my contact list on my email. Enchanted Folk alone i think is singularly responsible for the word getting out there. Thanks everybody! Love you all! The futre of the Diaries is looking pretty darn bright. ! Thanks Be Drew and all the Enchanted Folk! Your the best.
The new episode of Orchid Lament Diaries is up on You Tube. I had allot of difficulties getting this one done as the weather has been very cold. and its hard getting actors and crew to come play in those conditions. I think this one is worth the wait though as it is the Premeire of two of two memebers of the The nerw Wryd Family comedy group. Alix Elder and IVY Noir .Both of which turned in some fab performances. The next video will introduce two more of the comedy group. Barbara Elder and Nadoo.Absolutely brilliant in every way. What im loving about this is the young energy that is comming to Faerie Its very exciting. SO with out further prattling on my part. .........
I know that folks have heard me talk about the Living Fae that are americas underground Female Impersonators. but As i was cruising through You Tube tonight I started finding video of some of the most amazing Faerie Queens in existence. . It probably is that im a little biased seeing as I know most of these girls. but this does not detract from the fact that are each and every one Enchantresses in motion.
Allow me to digress for a minute as it is my blog and self indulgence seems to be almost mandatory in this medium in which we are swimming. I did my first darg show at 14 Yupo thats a professional drag show in a dive bar In downtown denver The owner was sleeze bag and he let me and completely underage friends perfom there because we drew custoimers. and trolls cruising for young boys drank allot. Any way from the moment i hit that stage I knew that this all i ever wanted to be A Drag Queen. I know i know Some might think that i was setting my goals a little low but truth is i could have played in that ugly little dive looking fabulous forever. The faerie glamour that is woven in a good drag show. completely transcends the enviroment I didnt know that i was weaving enchantments of course I was a niave kid. But finding oneself in drag show in a ugly watering hole is like finding a star burning in a deserted alley way.
Now of course this feeling would not last as good things in life are transitory at best. and one night after a show I was attacked in the parking lot and beaten by Fag bashers. The broke mu nose and and my jaw and messed up my face pretty bad. My days of being a pretty little faerie Queen I thought were over. I didnt return to the darg stage for more than a decade.
Then as adventures carried me to LA I found myself outside the Queen Mary Show lounge in Studio city .California. My friend Barb had talked me into dressing up in drag for my Bday and we went to the drag show for my Birthday. Stepping into the QM .Was the most emotional experience of my life. I had forgotton how vital Drag was to my life. Like warter breathing food and glamour! How could i havew gone so long away from all this. How did i live?
From the moment i enteed the club the magic surrounded me and the most extrodinary things imediately began to happen. Now keep in mind im one of maybe hundred cross dressed an\d Tg people there that night. but firt the waiter comes up and starts treating barb and i like we are royality. he served a free round of drinks saying Welcome Home Barb turned to me and said ,"Do you know him." I had never met this guy in my entire life but amoungst our kind we recognize our fellow fae imediately. Then the bartender comes out from behind the bar and gives me a copy of transgender magazine called Girl Talk. Then the show began. I was swept up in the pagentry and glamour of the thing imediately and in particular this one Female impersonator In particular Dolly Levi. I had never seen anything like her on stage before. At one point she danced in a costume lit with hundreds of tiny white lights while colored flood lights lit the costume and I swear I cried on the spot. It was soo beautiful.
Then something extrodinary happened Dolly grabbed me and pulled me on stage to dance with her while she impersonated Cher. and when the audience applauded I understood that I had been a fool for years living in fear. This was my element i needed to be what i was no matter what the pain or consequences. At the intermission Dolly came out and introduced herself and we talked and took pictures together .
When i got ho,me the spell was still on me. I started a painting of Dolly In her lite up costume and the next night i went to the dressing room of the QM and gave it to her. WE have been bestfriends ever since. Two weeks after that I was working a DJ at the biggest internet radio station in the world at the time in full drag then I was working at the Queen Mary and I swear one thing happened right after the opether and i was fully emersed in the faerie magic again.
AS Butch Ellis used to say to our mostly straight audiences on Saturday night "I see youve come to watch the faeries Dance.! See there no such thing as a serious drag show WE weave a magic as old as the Dionysius .we are the high priestesses of the of the temple of Afrodite Thats why if one ever wants to see a faerie In all her finery and glory one need look no further than your local Drag Show. WE are there and we will send you home feeling Enchanted. Thats been our function for thousands of years. I see faerie folk wearing those I Believe T shirts all the time and i just think How wonderful. but Drag Queens dont need Teashirts to remind ous of Faerie magic. WE simply are! If this sounds egotisical I dont mean to be what is supposed to be is an invitation to come Dance with us and become your own changling child again.
To wrap this digression up about three years after i went to work at the QM Guess what. I was again attacked by Fag bashers and again they messed me up bad. but this time The next day I put on my makeup and went to work. I couldnt feel a thing I was unstoppable. at that moment was when I finally understood What Faerie Glamour is.
Now with that out of the wya i thought i would create a mini youtube drag show for you starting with one of my favorite Faerie Queens the Fabulous Vanity Halston and company. A little note about vanity. When vanity getsinto the music I have seen her do back flips off tables into the splits i have seen her get so charged up she has run out of the club around the building and comein a different entrance.again She is raw sexual power and passion in motion but this i have never seen her do before and i was impressed. Not surprised simple in awe.
