PvI#121: Meat Suit Dolls w/ Maddie Mutations

I love clowning.

I've always studied clown adjacent, and how I do my style of acting feels very clown, but I have yet to study it myself.

A lot of people say that.

Yeah.

And I'm intuitive enough to know, like, mm, this is a thing, I think.

Mm-hmm.

So clowning is something that's really calling to me and moving through me.

Another thing is, like, puppeteering.

So my antennae are out for people who are out...

Ha-ha, double entendre... who are out and, like, and doing it.

And I went to a Hollywood Fringe show.

I love Outfitter's Wig.

Anyone who is in LA, or anyone who is not in LA, who wants a really great wig, the oldest wig shop in Hollywood, on Hollywood Boulevard, open since 1969, creates all of the wigs for drag royalty, TV.

It's like an absolutely magical mecca that the owner is transforming into an LGBTQIA, like, performance incubator.

So I'm on the team that's part of that, and it's really fucking exciting.

And then so Bebe opened it up as a Fringe venue, and Maddie was like, "Hi, I'm weird.

I wanna play here."

[laughs]

And she did an absolutely incredible show called Doll Court that was happened in the middle of the wig shop.

And I was just agog, agog.

And whenever I meet a fellow unicorn like Maddie, I'm always like, "I need to work with you." Like, "I want to know how your brain works," and I'm on a personal mission right now of more merriment and joy as a form of, like, activism and artivism.

That's beautiful.

I like that a lot.

Yeah, I feel like a lot of people look at clown and see how free we are and happy we are.

Someone at the show, at the Doll Court show, said they were just crying at the end because of just the joy that they don't see that much in their life, that was just displayed.