Both;
in re: Siouxsie Sioux
Music - damned good. Imitation of Elvira - damned poor.
You will note that she
used to be an Elvira wannabe, but no longer. She's still floating about in the entertainment world, due to her voice, and a good thing that is. Our eyes can easily become, er.... ahem.... (*cough, cough*).... jaded. (Please don't hit me!) However, our ears can never get enough good music.
But they are both well over the hill, so judging them by their appearance isn't really fair anymore. Siouxsie still has her voice, but CP has to rely on schtick, and she's doing pretty good at it, but it will eventually fail. It has become even more "camp" than it was in the first place,
n'est-ce pas?
Where I'm coming from is that CP has an excellent sense of humor and timing, and turned a cheesy, almost tawdry, affair into an international phenomenon. I still maintain that she had fun doing it, she entertained a helluva lot of people (of both genders, I might add), and she acheived a goal that many, many people aspire too, but forever fall short thereof. (Meaning fame, of course.) That's the reason I envy her her skills, and exhort her as an example or role model in how to have a rich and fulfilling life.
Not to mention that she did all this while raising a couple of kids and a husband, and a menagerie of pets. Pretty slick doings, if it had been a man. I can't help but notice that women do it every day, and shrug it off as if it were nothing special. Yeah, right. I didn't see Elvis the Pelvis spooning strained peas into Lisa's little mouth while he was getting fat in 'Vegas.
(Oooh, am I getting serious here, or what? I better go check my medicine cabinet and see what I took this morning.)
In any event, the avatar looks good, and I have no right to complain (if it was somehow taken that way). After all, I'm not even courageous enough to put up my own avatar, now am I?
Speaking of which, I'm now open to suggestions on that little topic. Any suggestions? Or should I say, any suggestions will be cheerfully ignored!
Oddysey
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