Something I need to research more than I have
My wife loves Dita Von Teese – I totally understand why, my problem is that I know why I understand, I just wish I didn't.
My wife loves all things Dita Von Teese. Whenever I think of her name I think of the word tease, I’m guessing it’s intentional. It must be. I’m not initiated, the first I knew of Ms Von Teese was when I read she was Marilyn Manson’s love interest. Does he have love interests? I don’t know him. I feel I’m writing in very short sentences, I think I do this when I explain what I’m thinking, putting into words my thoughts—which are all probably short themselves. That, is not my fault.
Anyway, from what I see from the outside, I think I like burlesque—I’ve been to Paris and walked past Crazy Horse, from the Mötley Crüe song, stood there awhile thinking “shall I take a picture”, I didn’t. I don’t take more pictures than I do take. And that’s easy to explain. I’ve been places and forgotten everything, been told I’ve met someone and because I’m there with my camera there’s no memory in my head. I don’t care mostly as my camera is my memory of most things, but like a navigation device in a car that takes you places—you don’t actually learn how to get there. Remember when you used to ask the time as a kid and your mum would just tell you to look at the clock yourself. That.
So burlesque, then. In my head it’s mixture of the Wild Wild West and Paris dancing with frilly knickers, high kicks, drinking shots and six shooters. It has that whole stripper image, but I know it’s not about that. It has that whole seedy bar image, but I know it’s not about that. I think about the can-can, but I really know it’s not about that… but it does have all that in it, in my head.
I should do a whole load more research on this subject and get out of my head what I think is in it. I think I’m going crazy.