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The thing to remember about stripping in a vegetable costume is this: YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MANY LEAVES.
Reason 1: You lose them faster than you expect. I chose my music partly with an eye for speed, and wound up with 2:48 of brassy, sassy fury, and I went onstage disciplined and focussed and fully intending to pace myself….and then, I don't know, the crowd and the yelling and the rhythm, yeah, blame the rhythm, but leaves start flying and at the 2:02 point I've shed all the leaves my stubby little Tom Servo arms can reach. Which is especially bad because of
Reason 2: Leaves are where the money gets put! I'm out the price of a triple-espresso because I couldn't keep my cash where it got inserted. And damnitall, I may not be a woman in clown make-up drinking an entire bottle of what looked like bourbon without pausing for breath once*, but still, I earned that cash.
*God, I love the Burlesque Revival folks.**
**And the Handstand Command. In fact, that whole night rocked.
Reason 1: You lose them faster than you expect. I chose my music partly with an eye for speed, and wound up with 2:48 of brassy, sassy fury, and I went onstage disciplined and focussed and fully intending to pace myself….and then, I don't know, the crowd and the yelling and the rhythm, yeah, blame the rhythm, but leaves start flying and at the 2:02 point I've shed all the leaves my stubby little Tom Servo arms can reach. Which is especially bad because of
Reason 2: Leaves are where the money gets put! I'm out the price of a triple-espresso because I couldn't keep my cash where it got inserted. And damnitall, I may not be a woman in clown make-up drinking an entire bottle of what looked like bourbon without pausing for breath once*, but still, I earned that cash.
*God, I love the Burlesque Revival folks.**
**And the Handstand Command. In fact, that whole night rocked.