Daily Dialogue — August 16, 2010

“I put on some make-up
turn up the eight-track
I’m pulling the wig down from the shelf
Suddenly I’m Miss Punk Rock, star
of stage and screen
and I ain’t never…
I’m never turning back!”

 — Hedwig (John Cameron Mitchell), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), screenplay by John Cameron Mitchell, book for the musical play by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is song lyrics in movies. Hedwig and the Angry Inch suggested by Josh K-sky.

Trivia: The story depicted in the song “Origin of Love” is from Plato’s “Symposium,” in which Aristophanes gives a speech about love being a product of the need to reunite with one’s other half after being split into two, as punishment for conspiring to usurp the gods of Olympus.