As 100% expected, "kitsch week" totally got away from me, but I plan on doing a few more posts like that soon. I took a quick day trip to Baltimore on Thursday to do some John Waters sight-seeing!
Divine's Grave
A close up of the painted nails. I also am unsure of what the "TATG" is a reference to, are there any Divine fans that have an idea?
A theater where many of JW's movies have premiered
JW's and Mink Stole's old house, Pink Flamingos was filmed here
Everyone knows how much I like flamingos by now, so this made my day
I'm a huge John Waters fan, so this was pretty much the best trip ever. I can't wait to go back and see even more areas related to his movies.
One of my best friends from high school was in town and stayed with me for a week! One of the best things we did was going to the Faberge egg exhibit at the VMFA! If anyone lives near Richmond, Virginia, I highly recommend going to see it! It will be there until October 2. I was expecting to see nothing but fancy looking eggs, but there were things like jewelry boxes, cigarette holders, animal carvings, etc. A lot of the items on display had an art deco feel. For whatever reason, I always thought of those eggs as being much older than they actually are. These were some of my favorite things:
I went on a sudden and short trip to Philadelphia, PA this weekend! Of course the first thing I did was check out a few thrift/vintage type stores. I didn't find much, but I did get a Dan Clowes comic, and a record recording of The Magician's Nephew from The Chronicles of Narnia.
If you are squeamish (especially about human remains) I suggest you click out of this blog entry NOW. I like this kind of stuff, but I know a lot of people don't, so there is your warning.
Maybe I'm a total creep, but if there's a museum that has abnormal preserved body parts in jars, a corpse that has been turned into soap, a 9 foot colon, etc. on display, then I desperately want to go. The place I'm talking about is the Mutter Museum. It's been around since the mid 1800s, and was made for medical research. I've wanted to see it for years, I finally got to go! My Mom knows the president of the museum, so we got a super-secret-behind-the-scenes tour! We got to see the "Cabinet of Death" in person, and the wet lab which has bottles and bottles of super disgusting things. I was delightfully horrified the whole day. Sadly, there were no pictures allowed (which is fine), but I also forgot to take some pictures of me in front of the museum. If you're interested, there are a lot of pictures online if you just google it. I loved Philly and would love to go back when I had more time and a chance to plan more things.
