bloodthirsty demonness

kate bush vs. stevie nicks.

murmur — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 06:59:09 GMT

as a last minute thing, d. and i decided to go to a drag show last night at trannyshack, because it was kate bush vs. stevie nicks and how could we NOT? they had a siouxsie one a few years back, and i regret not going. anyhow, it was really good, especially the performance by u-phoria who did "the big sky" by kate bush. the lights were down and there many dancers, male and female, and they had body paint that was reflected in the black light, as well as fluorescent fabric hanging down, so they glowed against the dark. this one guy kept picking her up and spinning her around-it was perfect with the music, which is sort of exhilirating. "the big sky" is already a pretty uplifting song (i think) but the way they danced and u-phoria lip-synched was so amazing. both me and d. honestly got choked up. it was so fucking good. i really enjoyed this darker, very artsy kate bush medley too, and the "edge of seventeen" by stevie nicks because the drag queen was a great performer, and the faux back up musicians cracked me up and had amazing outfits.

i found this photo by emi photo for "the big sky", i wish i could find a video of it...

murmur — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:38:23 GMT

millie and i went to visit my dad over the weekend. we had the best time. lots of great talks and glasses of wine on the back porch with the chimes blowing in the breeze. so peaceful. he bestowed us with fruit and wine when we left. on saturday i had to go with my mom (and her siblings and in-laws) to my grandma de's house to go through her things (she's the one who passed away in february.) it was kind of weird to be there at first. i got this really neat old chair i've always loved, and am really happy to have it. it was her sewing chair that sat at her sewing table. i also got her sewing machine, which i am excited about because i've been wanting to sew some simple things, as i am not much of a seamstress.

when i was at my dad's, i went through a huge box of photos that had been from my grandma roseanna, of her family, and scanned a bunch.

my dad's family. he's the youngest, in the middle.

grandpa bob and grandma roseanna in toledo, oh:

according to the photo, this is 1970. this is my dad, grandpa bob and uncle bob (JR):

my dad and his brothers. he is in the middle. my grandma wrote something about this being a "very hairy" photo on the back.

these are my grandma's grandparents (i think) but i need to find out for sure. i really love these:

me and my dad at xmas when i was a wee bebe:

reading goals.

murmur — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:02:06 GMT

my goal (on goodreads) is to read 31 books this year. i've already read 16. ive been doing the goal thing since 2008, and last year was the first year i didn't reach my goal, so i am really trying this year. and my really trying, i mean reading easy to read and short books. no war and peace for me! ok actually, it wasn't intentional, i just got sucked into a cheesy series that are quick reads, but i'm off the series for awhile. i just finished the lover (ok, this was really short) and now i'm reading the stain by rikki ducornet. i'm only 2 chapters in, but it's really intriguingly surreal so far.

is anyone else reading anything good? i want to form a book group, but they don't really seem to last.

murmur — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:21:26 GMT

so, i went with m. to see pulp on tuesday. it was fab. i saw jarvis cocker solo a few years back, and he is consistently a good frontman. best dance moves and interesting banter. he kept talking about things like, "today is so and so's birthday" and would quote them. isak dinesen (whom i've never read) and another person who i am now forgetting. also, someone threw their bra on stage right before they played "underwear", ha.

in other news, i am getting more serious about planning my NYC trip in which i get to see my BFF and visit museums i haven't visited yet. hopefully the met, cloisters and/or natural history museum. i may even take the train to the mutter museum in PA, on d's suggestion. i've never been to PA except passing through on a train when i was 10 years old. yay.

Writer's Block: Bookmarks

murmur — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:34:22 GMT

last exit to brooklyn by hubert selby jr. that was awhile ago though. i've been reading fast-paced easy stuff all winter.

Writer's Block: A La Mode

murmur — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:47:33 GMT

a conglomeration of:

poison ivy rorschach
rose mcdowall
siouxsie sioux
lydia lunch
and iona from pretty in pink

that's all, off the top of my head.

Writer's Block: Party of Five

murmur — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:51:57 GMT

oooh i like this question a lot!

4 is not enough though! so mine would have to be:
alejandro jodorowsky
nina hagen
rose mcdowall
lux interior
anais nin
rowland s. howard
leonora carrington
yukio mishima
lydia lunch
georges bataille
carl jung
diamanda galas
blixa bargeld

ok i am stopping here, because i could go on and on.

BPAL.

murmur — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:57:12 GMT

as some of you know, i am a BPAL fanatic. they just came out with their lupercalia collection, which is the valentine's day scent collection, and many of my absolute BPAL favorites come from this collection. i always want to like halloween the best, but it usually falls second in line with yule in 3rd. this year i didn't even find ONE yule that i would buy a bottle of! normally i find at least one. for halloween i bought 2:

SONNET D'AUTOMNE: Shivering white musk with vanilla-infused white cocoa, amber incense, and dead, dry leaves.

& THE VAMPIRE BRIDE: Icy skin touched by a perfume of violet leaf, white tea, olibanum, elemi, myrrh, wormwood, crypt dust, and saffron with a dribble of blood red musk.

i almost ended up getting this one too, it's really nice: A NOCTURNAL REVERIE: Violet musk and oudh with black amber, ambergris, agarwood, black currant, dark musk, fig, and lavender incense.

for the lupercalia, i am going to get samples first:
BODY, REMEMBER: Profoundly sensual. The echo of caresses: raw black coconut, ambergris accord, ambrette seed, champaca flower, and sugar cane.
THE DOOM OF BEAUTY (i love the name of this): An opulent, bittersweet Renaissance-inspired fragrance: Hungary water, parma violets, and roseated oil.
ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA: Incomparable loveliness: the perfect rose oude.
THE ROSE IN THE DEEPS OF HIS HEART: Golden amber, red rose, frankincense, Egyptian musk, galbanum, and immortelle.

and these are from the shunga line (japanese erotic art):
BLOSSOMS IN SPRINGTIME: Vanilla bean and vanilla blossom, golden honey, antiqued amber, beeswax, copal, lotus blossom, and helichrysum.
THE HELL OF GREAT HEAT: Indonesian patchouli, tonka bean, red musk, natural hedoine accord, black opium, cassis, styrax, costus, oakmoss, frankincense, and kief accord.
MEDICAL PROCEDURE: (LOVE the artwork for this one. basically a nurse sex fantasy): Linen, tobacco flower, white sandalwood, and dragon's blood resin.
VARIETY OF PLEASING AMUSEMENTS: (love the artwork for this one too): Honey, leather, tobacco, and myrrh.

i think maybe lupercalias tend to work well for me because they are dominated by florals and "sexy" notes like honey, musk, amber, leather, and those are my favorites. halloween scents are often very foody and herbal, neither of which do well on me and yule scents are often piney and snowy, which also aren't my thing.

these are some of my absolute BPAL favorites, all lupercalias:
DIA: White amber, coconut, white musk, oakmoss, and tobacco flower.
DOLCE STIL NUOVO: Our interpretation of Dolce Stil Nuovo is a blend of rose otto, carnation, vanilla flower, lavender and jasmine with the clarity of crystalline white musk and the warmth of golden amber.
EBISU MAKING LOVE AS TWO OCTOPUSES LOOK ON: Oakmoss, skin musk, and nectarine.
ABHISARIKA: She boldly goes forth to meet her lover, heedless of propriety, intoxicated by love, and radiant with youthful, innocent passion: Damascus rose, African orchid, cream accord, and Kashmir musk.

next up i am going to make a longass post about my perfume preferences which i am stealing from absolution :D

Writer's Block: Trading Places

murmur — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:52:04 GMT

i'd want to be a man. any man. just to see what it's like.

chinatown.

murmur — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:31:21 GMT

we had a vegetable bun to tide us over before dinner

i love visiting stores in chinatown...it's weirdly therapeutic.

i was almost tempted to get these (i get cutesy bowls for cat food.)

yeah, i'm cooking.

murmur — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:09:41 GMT

so, i've been trying to cook a bit lately! i am not much of a cook, truth be told. i can make SUPER basic stuff, so even this stuff was kind of complex for me, but vegetarian times and vegetarian recipe books are my friends.

last week i made quinoa stuffed peppers:

they came out ok. i made more than i meant to, didn't have enough tomatoes and they were a bit bland, but not bad or anything.

then this week i made potatoes au gratin and it's pretty good:

the vintage zodiac bakeware i cooked this in (it's really olive green not black but i used my camera phone):

i want to make some bigass veggie soup this weekend. we'll see.

rowland s. howard

murmur — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:35:09 GMT

i love rowland s. howard, and have been thinking about him a lot lately. i guess the 1 year anniversary of his death is coming up soon, so sad.

gratuitous sebastian pics.

murmur — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:39:14 GMT

cozy pics of my bebe in which he sheds on my wool coat:

sebastian with dia de los muertos catnip toy!

murmur — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:20:01 GMT

i got this in a dorky online swappy-thing for DDLM. he loves it!

Writer's Block: Riddle me this

murmur — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 05:02:08 GMT

atheists and theists.

big sur, finally!

murmur — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:14:48 GMT

so d. and i finally got to go to big sur for the day. it was nice. we got picnic stuff in carmel, then drove to BS, went to the phoenix gift shop and walked around the big sur river inn, then went to andrew molera state park, which is a beach that you hike into. it's rockier than the other beach, and has much more driftwood. also, less people go there, so that's nice.

these driftwood forts were all over the beach. we sat here and ate our sandwiches and drank wine.

the bixby bridge.

the full moon peeking over the mountain.

pussy x.

murmur — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:18:01 GMT

this song came on shuffle a few minutes ago. it's so deliciously weird:

witch house

murmur — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:35:48 GMT

trying to give this witch house stuff a chance. i'm not feeling it. a friend insists that it isn't all the same though, and i will like some of it, based on what he knows i like.

i kind of doubt it, but who knows? i don't like anything that sounds modern-dancey. old-dancey is ok though. hard to explain. i think it's the percussion or synths that turn me off. percussion in the witch house i've heard and synths in a lot of electronicy pop stuff i've heard. oh and vocals. like cold cave. and ladytron. ecch.

also, i just downloaded spotify...whee, now i can see what all the fuss is about.

Writer's Block: Subtitles please

murmur — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:52:38 GMT

naked, heavenly creatures, picnic at hanging rock, the company of wolves, many argento films, many almodovar, many jodorowsky, juliet of the spirits, das boot, lots and lots and lots.

american remake: NO NO NO.

murmur — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:47:07 GMT

OMG i am obsessed with turntable.fm.

murmur — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:53:31 GMT

here's a photo of my little bebe kitty, sebastian. ok not a baby, he's actually pretty big and fluffy, but you can't really tell here.

he likes to lounge on the couch sometimes, and gets this dazed look on his face, so cute.

i've been trying to use my new camera more lately, and took some around the house pics.

flowers from last week:

books!

last night i went to a free acoustic set by mark gardener from ride as well as the premier of the creation records documentary. we got there late, because the website had the wrong time listed, so i missed all the stuff about the jesus and mary chain :( i loved seeing mark though...the closest i'll ever get to seeing ride! it was in this swanky hotel, and rob lowe was there?! it was puzzling. i did not enjoy the fancy-ness of it all, and the whole thing seemed out of place. i just had one beer because i knew it'd be overpriced. a stella was $8!!

i love this fucking song so much.

murmur — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 03:05:23 GMT

Writer's Block: Time to move on

murmur — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:05:59 GMT

pretty much just the beauty of this place, and it's proximity to the coast.

Writer's Block: Globetrotting

murmur — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:16:34 GMT

scotland! i want to go soooooo baaaaaaaaaaaaadlyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!

30 day song challenge - LAST ONE!

murmur — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:39:04 GMT

day 30 - your favorite song at this time last year

due to the magic of last.fm, i was actually able to figure this out quickly, because i'm sorry, but my memory isn't THAT good. the usual suspects, like bauhaus and sisters, but also...

and