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Immigration Hypocrites
Melania Trump’s parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs live in the U.S. permanently now because of chain migration after Melania’s visa expired and she STAYED HERE ILLEGALLY. She married Donald Trump and became a citizen. NONE OF THEM HAVE A DEGREE OR A JOB!
Thanks to Chris for shouting this out on instagram.
My New Sign
I keep forgetting to change. I hope my new sign will help me remember.
Ups And Downs And Inspiration’s Mysterious Upgrade
Looking back over the past several years of picture making it’s easy to see a pattern of ups and downs in my images, of cools and warms, of dim expressionless faces, formally presented in a mature and careful gray only to be followed by sun-lit periods of young and glowing toothy smiles. My diaries put this emotional see-saw into words – but I find that my pictures are a lot more fun to look at. My God! Could it be…I think it could…I’m only human after all.
Inspiration is a mysterious thing that comes and goes seemingly of it’s own accord. Somehow it magically allows you to work at a higher level. Officially, Inspiration (according to the Greeks – let’s go to source here) descends onto us mere mortals via a direct message (wait, they had twitter? – huh? ) from Apollo or Dionysus (The party God that makes you say, “I’m so drunk and I have the most amazing idea for some art right now”) or via a muse. The muses were sort of like ancient Halstonettes that would appear out of clouds of smoke from invisible smoke machines in order to get your artistic juices flowing. Usually they did this in flowey layered chiffon numbers a la Halston. There were nine of these girls, let’s see, there was Calliope, Terpsichore, then there was…the red headed one, and then blah-badee-blah and the tall one with the nose, and well whoever the rest were they were all totally gorgeous, but the most fabulous and inspiring of all the muses was called Pat Cleveland. That’s it basically it in a nutshell – a little ancient history there for you, kids. But the thing about inspiration is that these days, you never know who is going to let it loose on you. The muse thing is a very equal opportunity type of mystical occupation now-a-days. Example: James. He was trouble, but I have to admit – he really could inspire…
Go for it when it strikes – cause it sure don’t last.
Quite Simply A Very Peaceful And Psycho-Soothing Gif For Reflection
And then later after you’ve calmed down your sparkle ( I sparkle that fast) , you can watch more sad JUDY GIFS FOR HOURS AND HOURS !
D.ON-D2 //: Bacharach Sequence Engaged
You know, I’ve been all over this country in my life and no matter where I am people often ask me, “Is Dionne Warwick an alien?”
“Is Dionne Warwick an alien?” I say.
“Of course not! That’s ridiculous. Dionne Warwick is NOT an alien.”
“She’s a robot.”
That’s a well known fact in the business and in certain parts of New Jersey. Quite simply she’s a very talented robot with several wonderful hit songs like “That’s What Friends Are For” and this catchy Bee Gees collaboration:
Another Good Offering For The Well Off
from the mind behind VIBRATIONs
AMANGIRI – Utah
Please Explain
anybody?
Halloween Color Switch
Try saving the orange and black for Christmas.
I made these carefully colored creations a year ago for a dinner at Halloween time.
An apple corer helps to put the tapers in the punkins.
Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch Symposium 2015
Thursday and Friday, October 22 and 23
Morris W. and Fannie B. Haft Auditorium
Marvin Feldman Center, Second Floor
The fifteenth annual fashion symposium, Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch, will explore the creative links between Bartsch’s 30 years of sartorial self-expression and its influence on the global fashion scene.
Morris W. and Fannie B. Haft Auditorium
Marvin Feldman Center, Second Floor
The fifteenth annual fashion symposium, Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch, will explore the creative links between Bartsch’s 30 years of sartorial self-expression and its influence on the global fashion scene.
Twenty speakers will discuss the impact and the influence that Susanne Bartsch has had on fashion and nightlife. Speakers include Simon Doonan (Creative Ambassador-at-Large of Barneys New York), Stephen Jones (milliner), and Peter McNeil (professor at University of Technology Sydney and at Stockholm University).
Admission to the symposium is free!
Oct 23rd – 2-5pm
Dr. Ann Ilan Alter, “Costumes, Cross-Dressing, and Masquerades at Parisian Carnival Balls: Transgressive, Reactionary, or Fashion as Usual?”
Joey Arias and Dr. Peter McNeil, in conversation”
Zaldy and Dr. Valerie Steele, in conversation
Waleed Khairzada and Jessica Grindstaff, in conversation
Jeffrey Hinton and Billy Beyond (Erb), in conversation, followed by a screening of the film 80’s Is a Blur, by Jeffrey Hinton
Joey Arias and Dr. Peter McNeil, in conversation”
Zaldy and Dr. Valerie Steele, in conversation
Waleed Khairzada and Jessica Grindstaff, in conversation
Jeffrey Hinton and Billy Beyond (Erb), in conversation, followed by a screening of the film 80’s Is a Blur, by Jeffrey Hinton
Secrets of the Great Pyramid: The Pyramid Cocktail Lounge as Cultural Laboratory Curated by Brian Butterick aka Hattie Hathaway
Saturday October 17 – November 7th, 2015
Secrets of the Great Pyramid:
The Pyramid Cocktail Lounge as Cultural Laboratory
Curated by Brian Butterick aka Hattie Hathaway
Opening Night: CAFE IGUANA, Saturday October 17th, 6-9 PM
Part Weimar-era Cabaret, part Great White Way, with a dash of the Merry Pranksters and Happenings thrown in, CAFE IGUANA blended song, dance, poetry, theatre and gender-illusion into what was then a futuristic mix. The evening was held together seamlessly by its host, the late Ann Craig, channeled tonight by Heather Litteer. Performers will include double Obie and Bessie winner John Kelly, From Chicago, Alternative Theatre Mogul Kestutis Nakas, Non gender-specific Seattle burlesque giant Paula Now and more. PLUS Featuring a very interactive Jack Waters/Peter Cramer performance.
Howl! Happening: an Arturo Vega Project presents Secrets of the Great Pyramid, an exhibition paying tribute to the legacy of the famed 80s nightclub. Named for the bizarre stepped pyramid motif above the entrance of the bar, the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge became the epicenter of the nascent EV/LES artistic community and eventually sparked a cultural revolution in music, dance, theater, video, fine arts, performance art, activism, feminism and LBGT politics.
More than a reunion, a retrospective, or a forced march through niche history, Secrets Of the Great Pyramid shows how a simple cultural laboratory continues to resonate in Post-Millennial America.
Secrets of the Great Pyramid Opening Reception: October 17, 6–9 PM. Live performance: Cafe Iguana at 8 PM. The exhibition runs through November 7, 2015 at Howl! Happening, 6 East lst Street, New York. For further information visit howlarts.org or call (917) 475-1294. (See performance schedule at end of release). All events FREE.
Featured in the three-week exhibition will be a recreation of the legendary Pyramid bar; artwork and visuals from deceased trailblazers and working artists embraced by the Pyramid; ephemera and ancient artifacts; and a veritable three-ring circus of performances and other events that spotlight the enduring spirit of the club.
On December 10, 1981, Ronald Reagan had been president for less than a year when a group of New York art-school flunk-outs threw a party at a small Polish/Ukrainian dive bar on Avenue A in New York’s East Village. Ed Koch was mayor, the East Village was in flames, the street drug trade was rampant, and rents were cheap. First Avenue was viewed as the farthest east any sane person would dare to tread. The bar was called the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge; the party, On the Range. Within a few weeks, a simple excuse to frolic had transformed into a seven-nights-a-week venue—an epicenter of art, music, performance, and social change.
Included in the exhibition will be Art and Multimedia by:
Stephen Tashjian, Greer Lankton, David Wojnarowicz, Joseph Horatio, Julie Hair, Samoa, Trey Speegle, Deb-O-Raw C, Jack Waters, Peter Cramer, Laura Levine, Michael (London) Berube,Tanya Ransom, Alice O’Malley, Clayton Patterson, Jayne County, Connie Fleming, Chris Tanner, Keiko Bonk, Frederick Nunley, Aner Candelario, Lynn Grabowski, Antony/Blacklips, Andé Whyland, Nelson Sullivan, Marjan Moghaddam, Richard Oszust, Mark Rizzo, Scot Wright, John Kelly, Flloyd, Leslie Lowe, Tweed Theaterworks, James Romberger, Marguerite Van Cook, Tennavision, Dug Wah, Robert Petrick, and more TBA.
LIVE EVENTS:
Opening Night: CAFE IGUANA TRIBUTE, Saturday October 17th, 8 PM
Part Weimar-era Cabaret, part Great White Way, with a dash of the Merry Pranksters and Happenings thrown in, CAFE IGUANA blended song, dance, poetry, theatre and gender-illusion into what was then a futuristic mix. The evening was held together seamlessly by its host, the late Ann Craig, channeled tonight by Heather Litteer. Performers will include double Obie and Bessie winner John Kelly, From Chicago, Alternative Theatre Mogul Kestutis Nakas, Non gender-specific Seattle burlesque giant Paula Now and more. PLUS Featuring a very interactive Jack Waters/Peter Cramer performance.
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PANEL DISCUSSION: Sunday October 18th, 3 PM
Moderated by Hattie Hathaway… Panelists include Victor Mendolia (Anonymous? Productions), Kevin Malony (TWEED TheaterWorks),Hapi Phace, Kesutis Nakas, Paula Now, John Jeserun, Iris Rose… and of course more!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1003440906364557/
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WHISPERS TRIBUTE- hosted by Hapi Phace: Saturday October 24th, 8 PM
Conceived as a response to the gentrification and pasteurization of New York in 1984, Whispers was billed as “The Complete Suburban Gay Experience” and as a party for “hairdressers, display queens, theatre folk, fashionistas, florists, and sensitive straight people,” Whispers was distinctly tongue-in- cheek, featuring everything from the hanky code, to roller disco, Sixties kitsch, drag queens and kings and the fine art of the lipsynch.
Performers include Pioneering Experimental Theater performer Agosto Machado, Pyramid/Wigstock co-foundress Sister Dimension, Poet Kennon B. Raines, from Montreal, chanteuse quebecoise Marleen Menard, Hapi Phace and Hattie Hathaway, and, in a tribute to International Chrysis, Bobbie. PLUS: Bar dancing turns by Butch Icon Dee Finley and “The Painted Man”, David Caskie!
https://www.facebook.com/events/932933153420770/
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FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMME: Thursday October 29 7 PM
Including works by:
Disturbed Form Theater, Tennevision, Tom Rubnitz, Mark Oates, Nelson Sullivan, Tabboo!, Blacklips, Flloyd, Marjan Moghaddam, TWEED TheaterWorks & more.
https://www.facebook.com/events/934583589928031/
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LIVE PAINTING SHOW: SCOT WRIGHT- Day Of the Dead, Monday November 2nd 6 PM
Former Pyramid door person and frontman for the legendary 1980s Synth-Metal Band “Dem Vackra,” Scot Wright has turned his talents to creating angular, near-Rorschach water-colors of epic proportions. Tonight we transform HOWL! Happening Gallery into the artist’s studio, with Scot, his models (in various stages of undress,) and gallery-goers alike, invoking the spirits of those dear and departed.
https://www.facebook.com/events/434423053408159/
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CHANNEL 69 SALUTE- Wednesday November 4th 7:30 PM
LINDA SIMPSON’S DRAG EXPLOSION:
Despite a demanding career in publishing, Minnesota native Les Simpson found time to create the iconic Wednesday night bacchanal Channel 69 which featured DJ Dany Johnson and lasted into the 1990’s, while concurrently releasing My Comrade/Sister, a high-end Lesbian and Gay ’zine. Author of several plays, one time Time Out NY editor, and currently touring round the globe with a slick audio-visual presentation as Gay “herstorian” Linda Simpson.
https://www.facebook.com/events/934420673306981/
CLOSING RECEPTION/BLACKLIPS PERFORMANCE CULT TRIBUTE- Saturday November 7th 8 PM
Performers include Beaut (featuring Marti and Twinkle,) Flloyd, Kembra Pfahler (The Voluptuous Horror Of Karen Black), Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV legend Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Poison Eve and Craig Curiousity, Video Art by Antony and more. Plus the return of Aloe Vera!
https://www.facebook.com/events/762332697211464/
CAN’T BE THERE? Livestream Broadcast at http://http://www.howlarts.org/
Questions Questions, Honey. Please vote.
How To Keep A Pet Fox
Swan Eggs – A Quality Of Life Issue
It’s hard to do these things when you live alone.
Smile
Something Swinging from The Kim Sisters
Ready for the Week Long ABBA event? It’s COMING!!
tick tick tick
But for today – Please enjoy THE KIM SISTERS!!!
Joey Heatherton – Light My Fire
STILL the hottest Joey number ever broadcast. Que calor!
A Week-long ABBA Web Event is Being Scheduled!!!
A certain Euro-compatible voltage of musical excitement and anticipation has been zapping around our headquarters as we begin to envision and to schedule our biggest Web Based Web Event to date.
The Week-long ABBA Web Event presented by BillyBeyond.com™© and blue eyeshadow.
UPDATE: A date for our upcoming ABBA Week-long Web Event has been firmed up after nearly five unanswered telegrams from BBHQ to the Ledendary Scando Quartet. It is with great pleasure that we can now announce that this seminal (to some) WLWE ( Week Long Web Event ) will begin pretty soon.
ABBA – the original yabba zabba
ABBA – In the industry, the result of their inventive approach to the very sound of recorded music became a technique known simply as “Perfect Production.”
ABBA – Is it true they own Sweden? Find out during our WLWE!!!
ABBA®©™
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