Edith Massey Magnets
Description: Edie and the Eggs were a punk/comedy/celebrity-exploitation band featuring Edith Massey, known for acting in several films by John Waters, founded in 1978. The band's name referred to Massey's character in Pink Flamingos, who had an obsession with eating eggs and romanced an egg delivery man. Massey sometimes wore her bizarre leather costume from the film Female Trouble during gigs.
Description: A friend nominated me to do the 10 day movie challenge on Instagram which had a simple directive: post an image, no explanation, from 10 movies that had an impact on me. I decided to draw mine and transform them into Victorian inspired patterns. My favorite films feature outsiders, outlaws, wierdos, inverts, eccentrics, romantics, bon vivants, and rebels. Films that spoke to the queer and camp sensibility brewing inside me long before I knew who or what I was. Films that I still quote and reference to this day with ease. Films that spoke to the person I was becoming or longed to be. Films that made me me. These films are always playing in the background of my mind because their surprising (and sometimes shocking) themes, characters, and ...
