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Provincetown :: Wednesday, July 23rd 2008
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Dina Martina. Photo by David Belisle.
Check It Out!
Dina Martina is Back Strange as Ever
By Kahrin Deines
June 29th, 2007
There’s no doubt about it, Dina Martina is off the rocker creepy. But she’s also cute and lovable in some strangely irresistible way. Her shiny apple cheeks, her smeared smile, her pitifully poor fashion sense, her wrecked mind. It’s kind of like how you can’t help but love it when somebody trips and does a good old-fashioned, limb-twitching face plant.
| It’s like she’s an ambassador from some parallel world that has a lot of the same structures, but they’re all slightly askew, just like her haphazard application of lipstick. |
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Yet, Dina doesn’t fall, and she really doesn’t seem to exist as a human in the same physical world that the rest of us navigate. It’s more like she’s an ambassador from some parallel world that has a lot of the same structures, but they’re all slightly askew, just like her haphazard application of lipstick.
Among the more famous examples of this seeming world warp, is the manner in which Dina speaks. It’s the English language all right, but not quite as you’ve ever heard it before. She’s a big proponent of pronouncing letters her own way – in particular, g as in Dina’s “jift parade.” Words, too, have a way of ending up in the oddest combinations.
But it’s not just Dina’s wordplay that makes her bizarre and funny as a face plant, it’s also what she says and what she does. She wonders why there are so many Mexicans in Spain. She is concerned about starving children, the monster that is pink eye, and water levels rising because of global warming, the solution for which she suggests involves taking water from the beach and flushing it down a toilet. And she sings warm fuzzy pop songs very off key. She even juggles plastic shopping bags, quite gracefully in fact.
It’s all very weird and yet somehow familiar. It’s as if Dina, who goes about everything with a simultaneously infectious and disturbing optimism, is a kind of clownish cultural portrait. Materialism, imperialism, ignorance, me-me-me-ism – it’s all there in some surreal and hilarious fashion. And it feels so good to let Dina make you laugh at the face in the mirror.
As Dina would say, “Check it out! Check it out!” It’s truly “off the charts!” Dina Martina performs Wednesday through Saturday at 9 p.m. at the Vixen. The Vixen is located at 336 Commercial Street. To find out more or to buy tickets, go to www.ptownvixen.com or call 508.487.6424.
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