{"id":6505,"date":"2011-08-19T23:07:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T04:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=6505"},"modified":"2011-08-19T23:07:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T04:07:06","slug":"wig-in-a-box-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=6505","title":{"rendered":"Wig in a Box (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I skipped Zumba last night to watch <a type=\"amzn\">Hedwig and the Angry Inch<\/a> at the Orpheum with Brian and Angi (not sure what happened to everyone else =P).  It was totally worth it!  Hedwig is larger than life and is even more amazing on the big screen.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=2836\" >I had posted my favorite song from the movie, The Origin of Love, a few years ago<\/a>.  This time I&#8217;m posting Angi&#8217;s favorite.  Feel free to sing along.  She did!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kl07XuVRkHw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On nights like this<br \/>\nWhen the world&#8217;s a bit amiss<br \/>\nAnd the lights go down<br \/>\nAcross the trailer park<br \/>\nI get down, I feel had<br \/>\nFeel on the verge of going mad<br \/>\nAnd then it&#8217;s time to punch the clock<\/p>\n<p>I put on some make-up<br \/>\nTurn on the tape deck<br \/>\nAnd put the wig back on my head<br \/>\nSuddenly I&#8217;m Miss Midwest Midnight Checkout Queen<br \/>\nUntil I head home<br \/>\nAnd I put myself to bed<\/p>\n<p>I look back on where I&#8217;m from<br \/>\nLook at the woman I&#8217;ve become<br \/>\nAnd the strangest things seem suddenly routine<br \/>\nI look up from my Vermouth on the rocks<br \/>\nThe gift wrapped wig&#8217;s still in the box<br \/>\nOf towering velveteen<\/p>\n<p>I put on some make-up<br \/>\nSome LaVern Baker<br \/>\nAnd pull the wig down from the shelf<br \/>\nSuddenly I&#8217;m Miss Beehive 1963<br \/>\nUntil I wake up<br \/>\nAnd I turn back to myself<\/p>\n<p>Some girls, they got natural ease<br \/>\nThey wear it any way they please<br \/>\nWith their French flip curls<br \/>\nFrom perfumed magazines<br \/>\nWear it up, let it down<br \/>\nThis is the best way that I&#8217;ve found<br \/>\nTo be the best you&#8217;ve ever seen<\/p>\n<p>I put on some make-up<br \/>\nTurn on the eight-track<br \/>\nI&#8217;m pulling the wig down from the shelf<br \/>\nSuddenly I&#8217;m Miss Farrah Fawcett<br \/>\nFrom TV<br \/>\nUntil I wake up<br \/>\nAnd I turn back to myself<\/p>\n<p>Shag, bi-level, bob<br \/>\nDorothy Hamill do,<br \/>\nSausage curl, chicken wings<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all because of you<br \/>\nWith your blow dried, feather backed<br \/>\nToni home wave, too<br \/>\nFlip, fro , frizz, flop<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all because of you<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all because of you<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all because of you<\/p>\n<p>(okay&#8230;everybody&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>I put on some make-up<br \/>\nTurn on the eight track<br \/>\nI&#8217;m pulling the wig down from the shelf<br \/>\nSuddenly I&#8217;m this Punk Rock Star<br \/>\nOf stage and screen<br \/>\nAnd I ain&#8217;t ever<br \/>\nI&#8217;m never turning back<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Here&#8217;s the official quote from Brian, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what I enjoyed more &#8212; the movie or watching all of the clueless people leave in the middle of the movie.&#8221; There were a lot of older couples and other people who were offended within the first ten minutes of the movie (some within the first five) and just got up and left.  I don&#8217;t think they knew what they were in for.  LOL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I skipped Zumba last night to watch Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Orpheum with Brian and Angi (not sure what happened to everyone else =P). It was totally worth it! Hedwig is larger than life and is even more amazing on the big screen. I had posted my favorite song from the movie, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,303],"tags":[522,1220,232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6506,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505\/revisions\/6506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}