”Character is plot, plot is character.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
I am ever-enchanted by other people, places and things, yet I am a decidedly boring person: I shy away from offering up my own biography or “Top 5 of Top 10” lists when presented with such requests. As I’m writing this, I have one eye on the door.
However, if you want to talk about Maya Deren’s filmic existence and off-camera metaphysical meanderings…or the progressive feminist undercurrents in RuPaul’s catchphrases and so-called competitions (Child…! Don’t you know RuPaul Charles is down with performativity as pedagogy? RuPaul’s Drag Race is a queering of The Real Housewives tropes!), then I’m your girl.
I love people–therefore I love the art of the story. Narrative. Otherworlds that are somehow familiar. Oneness.
In my thinking, creativity and spirituality are synonymous.
Entertainment, metaphysically speaking, has to do with entertaining yourself: noshing on and indulging in ideas that make you happy and/or bring catharsis. Entertainment is in essence a tantric release. To that end, no media is too “high rent or low rent” in my world.
Maybe it’d be best to tell you what I do. Finally.
In a “forever novice status:” I’m a writer, singer, beat-maker, guitar player (heck: musician.) and occasional painter.
You can find more of my meanderings at HerGlitter.com, here at Bitch Flicks, at GayAgenda.com, and the Huffington Post.
Feel free to connect with me by clicking here, or tweets are welcome @jayevajohnson.