My fascination with J.T.

I've been fascinated by J.T. LeRoy for a couple of years - ever since I read Sarah. It's the Appalachian setting that I sort-of recognize from just growing up in Kentucky, it's LeRoy's own backstory, it's the bizarre raccoon penis-bone amulet. It's his whole look that morphed from this:
to this -weirder and weirder with the whole almost '80's culture club thing:


You just want to try to figure out what's going on in that crazy/creative/cool mind. So anyway - these last two pics are of him and Asia Argento at her directorial debut yesterday of his "The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things." He's just so bizarre..but then, so is she.