Burlesque le Paris

Burlesque has actually been around for a long long time. Early mentions in literature puts it roughly 350 years back or so. But this post is about Neo burlesque a remade romanticised upcomming of the glam and show days of the pre prehabition days of old America.

The feathers, the shoes and the glitter. It must be a titan of an upkeep. Was what I was thinking as I slipped away into darkness on the couch of one of the Burlesque dancers. But on the other hand that is kind of what makes the whole thing interesting. Like "Dita von Teese", famous burlesque dancer and former wife of Mr.Manson said. It's putting terse back into stip terse. To me its quite different from the stip teases or shows I've seen earlier. The version I enjoyed this night was more of a cabaret with tease elements. It was the show and the showmanship that the crowed enjoyed.

One thing that dawned upon me was something that was pre-shared to me by my girlfriend, was the mundanity of the girls physical, well health. While many premiere skilled strippers and pole dancers work hard on their physical attributes, often with the aid of artificial means these women where your very natural ordinary women. Well at least they looked like it.
Ranging from exotic, teasing to humorusly kitschy or uniquely inventive, they all put on a good show. Including the comedian/sexy hostess.

The crowd is in contrast to many other "sensual" shows around the world not all male and in fact there might have been more women occupying the plush seats of this illustriousness and elegantly simply little theater in the fancier districts of Paris. In Fact it was Stéphanie Portier who brought me here. Here is a clip with more info on French Neo Burlesque. Obs, it's in french.

Although the US was the birthplace of "Neo Burlesque" the French puts on a good show and shows some new and inventive styles too.  definitively recommend you to go see a show like this if your ever in Paris. Check out Burlesque Paris for more into.

Binge with a capital M

Those of you being families with Indonesia will know that there are some difficulties going to the movies there currently. When I first arrived I was way excited to go to the movies properly. The island in Thailand where I had spent my previous two months was too small to host a movie theater so I was looking forward to the big screen in Jakarta.  I was up for a surprise though. No big time movies where available. Apparently Hollywood had decided to not ship movies any more. But why!?
Turns out that the Indonesian government, always in need or tax money or bribe money decided to put some extra taxes in for the foreign movies. They claimed it was money that was going to support the domestic movie industry. Which by the way is in horrible condition. Movies made 15 years ago are way better than the crappy horror comedy (comedy part non intentional) movies that air today. They are so bad that parts of Indonesia ban then when they showcase their area in them. It seemed to be much confusion about what taxes or fees had in fact been put on these importers of movies. Eventually people seemed to conclude that if was a extra tax put on all distribution, which makes up of a very large part of movie costs in Indonesia.
I guess that's one way to really encourage pirating DVDs and downloading. I mean if it's the only way to watch movies that's what people will do. Good job Indo government.
Anyway getting out of J-town and flying to Kuala Lumpur, with a brief stop over in Bali, I'm again in a nation which likes movies. And not only are they available here, they are cheap too. There are also a range of different classes of movie theaters. The most interesting one being "gold class". Gold class is a theater class with really big and comfy sofas that serves food and drinks during the cinematic experience. of course the air con is way cold and thus you have blankets to boot.
So far I've seen Transformers 3D, the Green Lantern and X-men. Will definitively have a look at what else is available over here. Movie Binge here we go!