Malneirophrenic Murmurings of a Neuromantic

another song I can't stop listening to this late winter/spring...
mmm italian electro meets ultrasex. conjures PSB when they weren't overpriced or Depeche Mode circa 2081.

work keeps getting more insane. sucks to be in an independent contractor-supported business when fuel is sky high!

it was lovely to see y'all at Murrz last friday ♥

the warroom is finally closing :( but i snagged plenty of dorky miniatures and a hella lotta vallejo paint to make a mint while i can.

sunday we went to JAWS nursery to look at all their crazy rare evergreens and HUNDREDS of turtlez in a dark basement tank. creepy! strangely no children around >>

mmmmm strangulation in waves. for those who remember, this is the aussie band who do that beautiful "girl and the sea" song i played at SMC several months ago...

Jupiter the Himalayan, Tybee Island, Sakura Matsuri with Dog Fashion show!, bird babies, Shin-chan, and plants from around the garden






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I know the sakura will all be gone by the time I return home.

this has been one of my fave songs this spring! Feat. Antony of Antony & the Johnsons, the video is a great throwback to 80s COIL-style bathhouse deckydance:

Hercules and Love Affair feat. Antony Hegarty

In February, we went to the Southeastern Flower Show, then in March, we went to the Botanical Gardens for the "Gargoyles in the Garden" Orchid display~~although the gargoyles and antiques weren't quite as plentiful as one would think.



( 幻想の花 )

From one of the Jan-Feb-Mar snowfalls we enjoyed in the ATL this year!



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http://www.e-o-water.net/
Der Zibet, Age of Punk, Ken Morioka
happy spring to all!

in case you have not guessed, i am a cancer baby, which means i have claws!a hard shell! and make a helluva rangoon. it also means - supposedly- i am sensitive and home-oriented.

this has been quite a week on the changing homefront, with sakurakurakura moving out to a swank midtown flat across from the fox *_* (ironically, the first apt bldg i ever looked at in town), and slumberjack and astounded departing downtown for EAV. paul is going to be touring the hell out of the west coast and apparently the uk until late spring, so i think i will just become an apartment nomad and make more random visits to make up for being rather unsocial this past year. and we have plans to take/make art and dammit russia and berlin and poland still await.

Interestingly, I did get an offer to buy my hou', WHICH THEY CAN HAVE flip this house style :D so i can move back to midtown with my 5/6-figure profit and hate on Trump's monstrosity. we'll see if the investors bite. if not, i'll hold out as the 'hood is about to be declared historic or some shit. the city recently put in a bike path on the side road-- painting OVER the leaves & pine straw on the roadside. so it is a rather ...shaky guideline.

oh..re:Trump. the Donald has decided to plunk down one of his grossly phallic facilities very close to where I used to live, and directly across from one of my dream high-rises. Now I cannot live there because I refuse to have to look upon such an irresponsible waste of wealth, architecture, and resources(the design incorporates a 6 story waterfall. have i mentioned, ATL is in a water crisis/severe drought/running out of water?).


xmas is a blur, but all shopping is done thankgodforonlineshopping and i am trying not to peek at the box Miss L has for me in the library >>. i am looking forward to a quiet new years with her overlooking (literally) all the drunken fools in ATL and planning a few trips hither and thither. but first, WALK HARD 8D. im so glad to know someone shares my sense of stupid humor GREAT JOB!. although Atonement looks like one of those "mal must see in miserable february" movies. and its going to be hard to resist Alan Rickman AND sascha baron cohen in Sweeney Todd despite my dislike of HBC/JD/TB.

much love to ladygrat for the card and tigerpal for the gorgeous calendar *_* and special ♥ ♥ ♥ to you.~ kisses on escalators make them not so scary :D

i am not doing a good job of reading/keeping up with lj, so holla if i've accidentally ignored you.

RANDOM cards will be issued next week~ be prepared!

last night sakurakurakura and i checked out the Zennubian teahouse in Castleberry...

it is a cool space to go and chill in, seating you on the floor amid neo-aZen furnishings. They have a juice bar and some vegan menu items and a slew of (durr) teas.
you get a little "amuse bouche" teacup with the tea of the day, and when they serve your pot, a little skewer of dried fruit is put into the cup to sweeten the drink (although the chem-mint toothpick flavour is not a pleasant taste :P). Honey is on the table as a sweetener, along with (for some reason?) bottles of italian sparkling water.

but $10 for a pot?! I haven't spent that much on a nonalcoholic quaff since seeing 1500 yen coffee in Aoyama. don't get me wrong, i lovvvvvvvvvve tea, and will pay,esp for something rare or unusual. but a lot of tea gets wasted here (i suspect) because even though you can re-infuse the leaves at least 2-3 times (more for oolongs & pu erh), they charge you $1 for water refills :X at least the food came in generous portions, although it wasn't as tasty as Cameli's vegan fare (how i miss that place!). for $6 i got the raw spring rolls, which were 4 big enchilada-sized lettuce wraps in rice paper stuffed with cuke, mango, and sprouts and covered in a cloying pomengranate-mango sauce that tasted like runny strawberry jam.

one of these days when im wondering what to spend my $ on whilst retired on the upper west side, i'd like to bring back to ATL what we've been missing since the fantabulous St. Agnes Tea Garden sadly shut its doors. it'd serve tibetan momo dumplings :6 and ridiculous Tokyo-envisioning-Paris style teacakes. and of course, we'd have peacocks. and polish chickens (up to 75 per the good city code).

have any ATL peeps been to No Mas? it looked awesome, with its courtyard and ceilings aglow in lanterns.

afterward, we went in search of Xmas lights and found the Tower of God annnnnd cyberbuck (my favourite piece of yard art EVER, a big mule-deer size effigy of a buck made of sticks and duct-tape) has a new red cellophane exterior 8O!!!

last weekend the New Museum of Contemporary Art opened...i want to go just to see these restroom mosaics:



The bldg was designed by Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa (working as SANAA), and it appears to have the same sort of etherealness to its outer skin as their gorgeous Dior showplace on Omotesando (but probably not the same hot doormen >>)

still, it will be odd to see such a pure structure helixing over Prince & Bowery.


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in other news, Santa's Ghetto, "probably the world's most low-concept art event" (wtf), has moved from Oxford to a former chicken shop just inside the 'security' wall in Bethlehem, across the street from the Church of the Nativity apparently. Artists this year include Souleiman Mansour, Banksy, Aiko, blu, 3D, eric the dog, and a slew of others. pics from the dividing wall are being updated mostly daily here.

update continued...beware celebrity vampire scientologists and not getting with the bucket

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slumberjack: i found my old cassette tapes of Howard Finster singing and preaching. plllllllllease make me a photocopy of the C.W. stuff ;-;

sorry to neglected friends...its been a crazy couple of months.
which means......pictures!
some of these are from Miss Liz's camera, as my camera is kaput as of D*C :X.
so here you have, pets!flowers!Nuwaubians!ZoeKeating!and Dragon*Con!

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In Niko's plan for world domination, at least.

10 hours of this for $61.

Amtrak Adirondack NYC-Montreal:
Natl Geographic Traveler Magazine "World's Top 10 Rail Excursions"

Between New York's Penn Station and Albany, the train follows the shore of the Hudson River, encompassing vistas of the of the Hudson Palisades, the Catskill Mountains and the U.S. Military Academy's imposing citadel at West Point. From Albany, the train visits Saratoga Springs - a resort with roots in the Victorian era -- then winds its way northward through historic Ticonderoga and along 50 miles of beautiful Lake Champlain's western shore. The Adirondack crosses the international border between Rouses Point, NY and Cantic, QC, calling at St. Lambert and, finally, Montreal's Central Station.


http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200008/ai_mark06014511/pg_1

viannin, call me sometime!

fans of the presets & daft punk take note of one of my new favorite songs! 8D
actually this gentleman will be playing with them on the never ever land tour (:P lucky australians)




from the album GUNS BABES LEMONDADE
(Nitsuh Abebe's pitchfork review here).

thank you scarfdisco! "my hand slipped into your hand, and it was awesome" is just perfect. ♥

Ms. L & I got a good laugh while watching Jackson Browne's 80s analogue video editing mess-come-cold war video of wonder, "Lawyers in Love." sadly its not youtub'd.

when i get depressed i cut my hair ><
this time, i let sakurakurakura do it as she tu-toned her hair (salon day at the house of Mal-Tecca!).
so the river of ebony is gone and now there are wispy things hanging over my shoulder...feels so much better but its very staticky right now.

i am still very behind on lj...if you are in need of me, maldorora at gmail dot com or txting the treo (aka Tre-age) is the best way.

the kiku exhibition is in its final weeks at the New York Botanical Gardens *_*
i have been bad and talking to booksellers about some imminent purchases before I return there >>

but not before i get those super hot miss sixty molly boots. and a new digital camera, as mine died a sad death in NOLA courtesy of an exploded battery.

hattie_mae, sorry to hear about your invasion. come with us to the next gun show?

Thrillpeddlers launch 8th annual Grand Guignol Terror Theatre Tribute

WHAT:
Shocktoberfest!! 2007: Maker of Monsters,
Thrillpeddlers’ 8th annual Grand Guignol terror theatre tribute

Special Halloween Performance on Wednesday, October 31

WHERE:
The Hypnodrome
575 10th St. (between Bryant and Division) San Francisco.

TICKETS:
$20 general admission; $69 for “Shock Box” seats (admits two).
www.brownpapertickets.com or call 1-800-838-3006
http://www.grandguignol.com
The Shocktoberfest!! 2007 Cast: Eric Tyson Wertz, Larkin Boero, Will Freitas, T.J. Buswell, Kara Emry, Aaron “Gonzo” Gonzales, Yusef Lambert, Heidi Wolff, Russell Blackwood and James Toczyl, joined during the run by special guests Aurda Wolfmann, Indra Lowenstein, Mike Spiegelman, Harmon Leon, Eddie Muller, Paul Mercer, Jill Tracy and Jello Biafra.

October 4 – November 17
The Hypnodrome, San Francisco


"As the popularity of Grand Guignol explodes on stage and screen, Thrillpeddlers Hypnodrome is “ground zero” for the authentic, visceral thrills of a live Grand Guignol horror theatre.


The influence of Grand Guignol, the century-old theatrical genre of on-stage terror and taboo, is stronger than ever as Broadway, Hollywood and pop culture historians bait audiences with allusions to it’s bygone thrills. But a true night of Grand Guignol requires many different elements beyond it’s infamous bloody special effects. “No theatre in the world recaptures the spirit of the original the way we do at The Hypnodrome,” said Russell Blackwood, Thrillpeddlers’ producer.

The form originated at Le Theatre du Grand Guignol in Paris, which traded on their theatre’s seamy Pigalle locale in a converted convent. An alternating bill of steamy sex farces and bone-chilling terror plays gave their audiences the unique thrill of a “hot and cold shower” theatrical experience – an emotional roller coaster of terror and titillation.

The trip down 10th Street to The Hypnodrome, Thrillpeddlers’ intimate SOMA performance venue, quickens the pulse just like peering down the dead end alley at Le Theatre du Grand Guignol once did. Once inside the Hypnodrome, guests are immersed in the cozy and crazy environment of a classic horror theatre complete with a Victorian funeral cortege, a working life-size guillotine and a sixteen foot high Satan from a carnival spookhouse.

In homage to some of the hallmarks of American scary entertainments, Shocktoberfest!! features glowing ghouls created through the low-tech luminous trickery of movie palace Spookshows from the 1940s and 50s. The Hypnodrome’s private “Shock Box” seats put a spookier spin lodge-grille, private trysting booths once featured in Parisian theatres, by adding special effects (a nod to the gimmicks of William Castle and fake spiritualists) and themed décor worthy of a haunted Madonna Inn.

It’s a gratifying fact for Thrillpeddlers’ founders Russell Blackwood and Daniel Zilber that the San Francisco-based company they began more than fifteen years ago is now in the vanguard of Grand Guignol production and scholarship. “When we set out to revive the stage tradition of Grand Guignol theatre, we couldn’t track down a single script from the old theatre company,” said Blackwood. ”Now we have nearly one hundred plays from the Grand Guignol repertoire to choose from, plus new ones written by Thrillpeddlers’ playwrights.”

Through sheer dedication and by forging relationships with Grand Guignol historians, like minded theatre artists, and even the great-grandson of the last director of the long gone Parisian theatre company, Thrillpeddlers became the purveyors of www.grandguignol.com, the best source of Grand Guignol information on the net, and the annual terror theatre tribute Shocktoberfest!!, now celebrating it’s eighth outrageous year. "

------------meanwhile, at the sheraton:

i haven't talked to the mr yet-- i wonder if he felt the TREMORZ last night.
the hypnodrome is so cool. they have a grand guignol theatre camp for kids!

i won runner up in our work halloween costume contest, dressed as a bollywood film star :D

and tomorrow sakurakurakura and i go to get our new baby:

or something to that effect!
I NEED A TREADMILL OMG
I can recreate my favourite youtube lolcat vid EVAR.

one day i will be able to read my flist ;-;
happy hallowe'en!

QT has pan de muertos!

slumberjack, ender2000, astounded, viannin: you are all RSVP'd for nakato's 35th anniversary bash on Monday Nov 5 (apparently the sake tasting turned into a sake tasting and not the formal anniv).

hello again after weeks of too busy/too traveling/too sick* for the internet :P

*i have been in somewhat of a depressive state but i will be shooing that away
with a flurry of goofer-dust kicked up amongst the waterlogged ex-votos at St.Roch's and a slurry of frozen irish coffee #_# at Molly's as I returning on the wings of migrating monarchs to new orleans tonight! so no worries.

you can see the mr perform at the anne rice wine tasting party thurs night (pirates alley at 8pm).tickets are sold out but you can still hang in the bar.

we are performing at the anne rice ball at the howlin' wolf in marigny sometime that night, probably close to midnight. i think there are still tickets left.

if anyone was planning on going to the Endless Night goth shindig, we can get passes/and or discounted tickets, just let me know.

i haven't read my flist hardly so forgive me if i've missed something. <3

scottopic: we are staying at St. Vins.

MR DARKNESS AND MRS MOONLIGHT aka Baron Sam'di (sakurakurakura) and Maman Brigitte (moi!) will be on the loose...beware!!

if anyone has seen an amazing embroidered yakuza-style pink satin jackets with a skeleton and flaming skulls on it, please let me know ;-;

NEXT WEEK: M.I.A.!

just came in from insane work travels; leaving again this weekend :P
my sincere apologies to those awaiting B-T goods: I will go through gmail Friday and refund shipping charges. PO has a date with me tomorrow afternoon!

my atari 2600 w/synthcart and lovely tweaks came in today 8D
sakurakurakura (theremin) and myself (circuit-bent atari and Imai's SOUND LASER raygun and deaf cat) will premiere the (RE:)tuned by time orchestra at the next eyedrum open mike.