the oddest thing at Tower Records

[children&art]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 4:30pm

was in Tower over the weekend checking out the soundtracks and right next to them were all the "theatre" related DVDs. included was a DVD of "Puppetry of the Penis" - how odd i thought, that's kind of like porn, isnt it? sort of?

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 4:31pm

Well, I guess it is how you look at it . . . but it is/was a theatre piece.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 4:32pm

Apparently you've never actually seen porn.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 4:32pm

"Apparently you've never actually seen porn"

Or a penis.

[children&art]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 4:33pm

no i dont mean that. i know it was a theatre piece, and i know it's not sexual like porn, but it was just odd to see it stuck in between "Passion" and "Pirates of Penzance", that's all.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 4:33pm

Or a porn penis.

Posted: 3/28/06 at 4:36pm

There's art.

And then there's porn.

Sometimes people confuse the two.

[children&art]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 4:38pm

oh but i have namo; michael lucas and tom chase top my list.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 4:38pm

Pornography is meant to tantilize. Did it excite you?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 4:42pm

It's a THEATRE piece, c&a. Why is it so hard for you to grasp that it should be placed among the theatre DVDs?

[children&art]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 4:42pm

actually zoneface, seeing the "Hamburger" on the back of the box i got a little woozy and sick to my stomach, not tantilized at all.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 5:06pm

then its not pornography so deal it with.

[C is for Company]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 5:26pm

Haha, I can tell you something I'd find considerably A LOT weirder that happened at Tower Records, but I won't get started on that

[singingwendy]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 5:27pm

Did the show have a restricted age limit? Did you have to be a certain age to get in? Because that would be the only reason I could see it being placed somewhere other than the "regular" section...or that it wouldn't be sold to children. Although, I have to admit that I'd probably be taken aback by seeing it between the films you've mentioned....maybe it should have been closer to "Pippin"...LOL

[jacobtsf]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 5:37pm

Zoneface- I love 'shape of things'

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 5:43pm

The oddest thing is that it was between Passion and Pirates of Penzance, which means it was misfiled. I hate that. Alphabetizing is not difficult. You don't even need to be able to spell. The letters are all right there. People are lazy and have no respect for others.

Posted: 3/28/06 at 5:50pm

I saw the show in London long before it started twisting itself in NYC (I had to throw that in).

We should not be suprised that this DVD was not exactly in alphabetical order.

Puppetry has nothing to do with letters but all to do with length.

[alterego]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 8:03pm

Puppetry of the Penis began as an entertainment in the back bar of a pub in inner suburban Melbourne and should never have found its way onto any stage. And now there is a DVD? Good God!

[children&art]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 9:26pm

oh my god mister matt! i read your post and laughed out loud. i love it!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/28/06 at 9:30pm

Actually, I had comps to see it. And I went in expecting less than nothing. But ultimately what I saw was a roomful of people having to deal with male nudity in social space. This is not something that's particularly commonplace in the Puritanical '00s.

There were visual and verbal puns, clever as well as lame jokes. And there were two naked men. And there was an audience full of people confronted by issues of body image, "appropriate" or "inappropriate behavior," as well as an appreciation of and a focus on the human penis, which is very rarely seen in this culture, which is odd, given how much this culture is driven by the thing.

In short, I think there's a lot more going on with this show than I thought there was when I walked through the door to see it.