Filed under: comedy, grotesque, music | Tags: $$$, bakhtin, barf, buffets, camp, gaga, grotesque, ha-ha, humor, hunx, peaches, queer, xiu xiu
Swiped this vid from Young Creature. Behold Hunx & His Punx engaging in communal binging! Behold the eroticization of food/eating as well as the funny irony of the song’s sentiment in light of Hunx’s delivery both vocally and performatively! Voila la comedie grotesque!
(Interestingly, there is a thing called a hunkypunk, a regional term (Somerset, England) for a grotesque carving of a squatting animal, not unlike the sheelanagig (see PJ Harvey’s “Sheelanagig” for an explication of this image in rock). Look at these…
a 'hunkypunk'
a 'sheela na gig'
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One wonders, is the comedic grotesque definitive of queer camp? I’m thinking Peaches, I’m thinking Xiu Xiu — both of whose videos tend to deliver their music with crassness and winks.
(See vids & read more after the jump…)
mildred pierce zine 