bur·lesque (n.)
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1 : a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation
2 : mockery usually by caricature
3 : theatrical entertainment of a broadly humorous often earthy character consisting of short turns, comic skits, and sometimes striptease acts
Saturday night i went to have dinner at the Pink Door in seattle for a friends birthday. Pink Door is an italian restaurant, i think a bit overrated, but still pretty good. It was completely packed though, which we couldn’t quite figure out until the burlesque show started around 10pm. Apparently there’s a show every Saturday night, and it’s always a different show.
It was definitely interesting, I don’t know that I really care that much about it that i’d go again, but it was something different you don’t really see all that often. 3 girls performed, one on a trapeze which they have in the dining room, doing essentially topless strip-tease with pasties while wearing (and then removing) old fashioned lingerie.
not much else exciting going on really.
Well, Jim, Nathan, Katie and I watched Million Dollar Baby last night which is a really good movie. I wouldn’t recommend watching it if you don’t want to feel sad at the end of it, but it’s very good and we all liked it a lot. Essentially it’s Clint Eastwood (cool) as a boxing manager/trainer who runs a boxing gym with his friend played by Morgan Freeman (whom i have determined should narrate all movies), and he takes on a 31 year old female boxer (Hillary Swank). obviously she doesn’t know much at the end, but she’s tough and stubborn and blah blah and then she gets good. but really it’s not about the boxing, it’s the relationships they have and all that good stuff.
But seriously, the sad thing - Katie apparently cried for the last 20 minutes of the movie because it’s bit heavy at the end. But she still liked it, and it is an excellent movie.
Also, invader zim is great.
February 3rd, 2005 at 5:55 pm
Whoah, you kinda just glided over that ‘essentially topless strip-tease with pasties’ thing… so you were not, as they say, EXPECTING a burlesque show? At what point did you realize it was to be burlesque? Do they announce it ahead of time: “Ladies and gentlemen… BURLESQUE!” — or did you just figure it out as the girls took off their bras?
February 4th, 2005 at 4:33 am
i wasn’t expecting any kind of show, especially not burlesque. we were having dinner and then at one point a somewhate attractive (but not exactly hot) girl wearing moulin rouge style lingerie picks up a microphone from the stage up front and says “It’s burlesque time!” well, she didn’t say that, but she did introduce the show. The main problem I had was that only one of the three girls that performed was really hot with a good body. But she had a very good body, which probably made up for the other two.
The others were good looking enough for people who don’t remove their clothing as a job, but weren’t really what you want to see when they’re stripping. Trapeze girl was good mainly because i’ve never seen anyone on a trapeze doing a striptease.
All in all it was interesting, and something fun to see, but if I want to see attractive naked women dancing, i think i’ll go to deja vu. it was worth seeing once, but i’m not exactly a fan.