I have a knack

[fancytalk]

I seem to have a knack for discovering freaky things. Things that make me shudder but still I continue to watch them because I can't believe that stuff like it exists. And I realize that there are people in the world who are stranger than I am.

First strange discovery happened Friday night around 11 p.m. as RTL and I were going to bed. RTL's nightly habit is to either a.) flip through the TV channels until she finds something suitable to fall asleep to or b.) ask me to check the listings on the other TV. Friday, RTL was flipping through the TV channels. Next thing I hear is "Oh my God! There is PORN on tv." Of course I had to look, I grab my glasses so I can see. Umm, yeah, there's a lot of full frontal stuff on the TV screen. Since we can't figure out what channel it is and why there is so much nakedness on a non-pay per view channel, I go to the other room to check out what this could be. None other than B-TV, Berkeley's Public Access Television Channel 28. And I, sick-headed woman that I am, click the record button because I want to find out if this is a mistake. Y'all knew I was going to do something like that so don't act so shocked.

RTL and I did a lot of fast forwarding through the 3 1/2 hours of weird stuff. Turns out the "porn" we stumbled across was a music video. I use the term music video lightly, there was a band playing and they were introduced at the end, but I don't think that MTV will be airing it anytime soon. Then somewhere in the middle we get a 2 1/2 hour documentary on 9/11. Then another "video" of nekkid people and guys wearing black smocks with "Long Live Sodomites" on the back. There was nothing on underneath the smocks. Good thing that we watched this on fast forward. At the end of all this, we discover that the group who filmed this has a website. For all you sicko's out there here is Crazy Site #1 and Crazy Site #2. curefreak, I wish you could have seen this because I think this may be the freakiest of all things freaky. The websites are mild comparatively.

Second thing is that I discovered a showing of Female Trouble with Divine on IFC. I love John Waters and his crazy off-kilter portrayal of life, but some things are better left unseen. I believed that I had seen most of John Waters' movies which prompted me to hit record for this one before I went to bed. I won't go into details, but the next time I get the crazy idea to hit record, someone remind me not to do that. I recommend this only if you want to up your quota of freaky things seen in this lifetime. Other than that, skip away quickly.

Comments

[curefreak.livejournal.com]

That web site is quite odd. I love it when porn masquerades as "performance art". Sadly for me I could never find that "Performance Art" course at university ;)

We have a foreign language channel here called SBS. It is notorious for showing mid strength porn, disguised as foreign art film (Another course I was unable to find *Grrr*).

One night I was reading and my Dad starts reading these subtitles. I was about 14 I suppose. He starts saying "Oh you breasts are so much softer than mine, but a little smaller but your nipples are bigger" and "Let me soap your hot wet region". My Dad is a right stirrer, so I kept saying "Yeah right, crap, now shut the hell up". I looked up to see two HOT women bathing and more together.

Got to support that foreign television I tell ya *GRIN*.

[yesimthegirl.livejournal.com]

Quite odd and very Berkeley. I never realized until living here how quirky Berkeley is. Now I know it is not a myth. I want the backstory on Frank though.

So the next time that you are in NY, I'm going to make sure that my performance artist friend is giving a show. No animals, just boys and girls.

Your dad sounds like a hoot! Torturing his son like that. How darling. ;P

Gotta love foreign television and the subtitles. We've got a children's show on the Chinese station here called "Mommy Daddy Take it Easy".