BENDING GENDER, BLOWING PONIES, MOODY EYES
Oh, yes, dearest darlings, there are things happening. Great things! Thrilling, melt-your-pretty-face-off-with-big-gay-awesomeness things! Things that YOU need to do. But there’s a drawback. A complication. Terrible choices needs must be made! MOST OF THE BEST THINGS THIS WEEK HAPPEN ON THE EXACT SAME DAMN NIGHT. I do not know how this happened. It’s not my fault. I’m just going to lay everything out here, like a lovely meat and cheese tray or something, and let you make your own damn gay club sandwich. I can barely manage my own lunch, for Pete’s sake. (Mmm! Sandwich!)
GENDER BENDER SING-ALONG
What could be more perversely enjoyable and ridiculously gay than a big sing-along featuring only numbers from bands and movies that muddy boring old gender lines? (Right! A flaming Elton John bush, but good luck finding one in THIS economy.) Three Dollar Bill Cinema launches this year’s Transgender Film Festival by giving you classics from Culture Club (duh), Victor/Victoria, Dead or Alive—even Twisted Sister!—and makes you belt them out in public, just like you know you’ve been dying to. (Don’t even fucking try to deny it.) Central Cinema, 8 pm, $9, all ages.
AND!
BLOWPONY
The deeply queer Portland pony party, Blowpony, comes north for one gloriously naughty night only. The Portland crew (DJ Airick X, Just Dave) joins our own Freddy, King of Pants and Double Duchess from San Francisco to make you GET UP AND RIDE, SEATTLE! It’s going to be really quite a filthy thing. The Eagle, 9 pm $3–$5, 21+.
AND ALSO TOO!
EIGHTEEN INDIVIDUAL EYES
The fact that they really only have eight eyes among them (count ’em! EIGHT!) doesn’t detract from the dark, deep, moody sounds that these incredible musicians (mostly lesbians, you know, not counting the drummer, who has a penis and is therefore disqualified) pull from their voices and guitars (and drums!), or how much I love them, or how much YOU should be loving Eighteen Individual Eyes, too. Get on it! Neumos,
8 pm $8, 21+.
COMEBACK
Okay, something good IS happening Friday: Comeback celebrates its eight-year-and-one-month anniversary. Or something. Just thought you should know. Chop Suey, 9 pm, $6 before 11 pm, 21+.
