Bouncy Balls!

I'm still tickled by the wondrous Antony last night at Warsaw. I have his albums but this was my first time seeing him live, and I'm sorry I waited so long. I had a chance to see him before his big time success with the most recent album, but blew it. Luckily, this concert seemed a kind of return to pre-'massive success' form for him, full of all sorts of queer weirdness like a song called 'bouncy balls,' a fact he himself remarked upon from the stage. I could not fucking belief that he actually dedicated "Fistful of Love" to Kevin Aviance. That bitch is just too much.

I don't think the hipsters really knew what a unique evening they were getting, what with James Bidgood in the wings and a surprise duet between Antony and Matmos on their song dedicated to him and his seminal (and I do mean as in semen) 1971 film Pink Narcissus. Its funny, halfway through Cocierosie's mediocre opening act, in which a continuous series of random ethnokitsch images of babies in indian headresses, unicorns, and kabuki masks were played on a loop, I began fantasizing that some porn would flash across the screen. Trust the boys from Matmos to deliver, with at least some soft core shots from Pink Narcissus which they projected over their set.

The whole thing was a fundraised for the Ali Forney Center which houses trans and queer youth who get thrown out of the home. Give them all your money.