"No other entertainer I've invested myself in has ever struck the balance between awe-inspiring technical proficiency and utter nonsense so well. She has the paradoxical effect of a retarded genius. I've repeatedly written about my obsession with ambiguous intent in pop culture. There's nothing more satisfying to me than something that doesn't announce itself as intentionally or accidentally hilarious, something that slips through that crack of decidedness and tickles my brain as it dissipates into multiple receptors."

"....she traveled on her upward trajectory during the late '70s and early '80s, like a witch who took a good half decade to learn how to use her broom..."

"...she was a one-woman non-stop show of extreme human behavior..."

"...she certainly predicted my interest (as well as the world's?) in the one-of-a-kind behavior that keeps even the glaringly untalented around on reality TV. There's something about her unpredictability and willingness to do whever the fuck that seems so relevant to my taste right now...."

- L.M. 5-03-2009 5:57 pm

- L.M. 5-03-2009 6:06 pm