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The Honeymoon Suite
Jul 07, 2015 - Juno Calypso
In May this year I booked a room for one at a honeymoon hotel in Pennsylvania. I stayed for a week, leaving my room only for the free breakfast and dinner, trying not to make eye contact with the newlywed couples swaying and embracing around me. I didn’t have any plans for what I was going to do. The only things I’d prepared were a suitcase of bridal lingerie and a bottle of body paint. I thought it would be a good idea to paint myself green from head to toe and make a video of myself dancing in the bath like a seductive lizard. This was one of those rare occasions that an idea appears fully formed in your head and you owe it to your imagination to make it come to life. When I looked in the mirror I felt like a cross between Ms Argentina from Beetlejuice and the gangrene grandma from the bath scene in The Shining. After recording the video I ended up spending two hours on my hands and knees trying to scrub green paint from the rough bath enamel so this video doesn’t bring back great memories for me but I think you’ll enjoy it.
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