Well, back from tour! Had a warm portland welcome in the wet, wet streets. I'm writing to you from fuel cafe, after an unsucessful try at getting some bike repairs done. Bike Farm is closed, and Community Cycling Center on Alberta proved to be not awesome at all. Oh well there's always tomorrow! Today is for tea and daydreaming in the rain.
Tour has been really, really lovely! Lots of hot days in the car listening to Josh read Miranda July stories, lots of landscape changes, awesome shows and new and old friends. I'm currently writing from Albuquerque, In our darling friend Billy Jo and Christopher's magically arranged home. We've been awarded a down day or so, as our Santa Fe Show fell through. We play tonight at Winning's coffee, and tomorrow may visit Albuque and busk in Santa fe. Oakland and Davis were amazing, playing beside Oakland's sweetest, Maple Rabbit, KinKin, and Wisdom Tooth. We all swooned pretty hard and later Drove back across the Bay Bridge to see Foxdye rave out in a ballet studio. Also, Josh and I got stuck inside an elevator with The Club Pina Colada
I've been with limited internet and with heavy shoulders of work to be done, sun to be snagged as soon as it can be, hearing love trampling my ears and ending up in the distant parts of my winterchasing flying squirrel injecting dream self, playing with trinkets. Two nights ago I compounded earthly things into a suitcase or two to head out for adventures with bands and friends around the country. I'll be playing music and touring with with the lovechild projects of Colleen Johnson (Twig Palace) and Joshua James Amberson (Letters), Amina Kirby (DJ Foxdye). It's such an honor to play with all of them on this tour. We've not had too long to work together, but it's starting to come together, bells and buckets in my basement. I'll be playing with my other blessed trio,
Overcome By The Power of Love
This saturday at
Info later, I guess.
Here's the tour dates with Letters and Twig Palace
April 28 - Tacoma
8:00 Greg’s House w/ Letters, Takhoma, Clash Valian 4107 S. 7th St. Tacoma WA 98405, Tacoma, Washington
April 29 - Seattle
The Bread Factory
Terrordactyls, Sundance Kids
May 1 - Olympia
Alamingo
Pine Knot Box
May 2
PORTLAND
May 3
DAVIS @ the Persimmon House w/ Letters, DJ Poppet
May 4
OAKLAND tba w/ Letters, Wisdom Tooth, Maple Rabbit, Tall Grass
May 5
ISLA VISTA @ Biko Co-op w/ Letters, Daniel Francis Doyle, Ketchup
May 6
LOS ANGELES @ Historical Monument 157 w/ Whitman, Letters LOS ANGELES, California
May 7
PHOENIX @ The Trunk Space w/ Letters, Stephen Steinbrink
May 9
ALBUQUERQUE New Mexico@ Winnings w/ Letters
May 11
SANTA FE tba w/ Letters SANTA FE, New Mexico
May 12
LUBBOCK @ Bash’s w/ Letters
May 13
AUSTIN tba w/ Letters AUSTIN, Texas
May 14
NEW ORLEANS
Actually, go here for the updated and Return (We drop off the heart of twig palace and make our way as letters.)
Aaron Campbell and James Chasse are just two of the recent individuals to have their lives stolen by the Portland Police Bereau. On March 22, they killed again. An emergency response was formed and a group on protesters marched to the East Burnside Precinct. That was only the beginning.
Police Violence has been running rampant on our communities for too long. Enough is enough! Next steps will be discussed at tonight's meeting. See you there and spread the word!
When I was a kid, my dad was always rambling about how good Bananarama was. I was always like "yeah, it's cool." but now, I understand. Pretty genius pop songwriting. And really goofy babes.
The judge and the jury, they all the put the blame on me. Only you can set me free, because i'm guilty, guilty as a girl can be I stand accused of love in the first degree
Hello friends, How are you? have you recieved an early spring, if you're in the great pacific northwest? If so, yay!
This has been a very weepy week, but will hopefully make me a more understanding person. I need to remember to speak and try to ACTUALLY FEEL with love, patience, and not to build walls to avoid pain or hard work.
Trials! This week I made lots of small fascinator combs, read some zines, hustled, traveled more than I intended,snuggled and relaxed with olympia and seattle friends, went to some shows and a square dance, ended up on the kitsap peninsula, learned how to apply eye makeup from my mother, thought and wrote extensively about female performance, wondering if this new-feeling, different interest in presentation is a trap, and that i will soon only stare into a mirror working on my face like edie sedgwick, making everyone two hours late for events? I don't think so, and also it coincides with a high point in body confidence, and heavy processing and conversations with other people about their presentation and gender.
I turn 23 this weekend, and I want to feel more excited than I am. From the time that i was maybe 12, I always thought that 23 was going to be a really lovely year. Horoscopes say as much, in my opinion.
They say this is the pisces year for sensual pleasures, music and dancing and making love and eating.
As for music, I listen to Donna Fargo and Lee Hazlewood. Dancing, not so much. Eating, nothing really tastes right. Making love, I'm a touch depressed to even try.
I'm applying seasonally to Dollywood. If i get hired I will take it as a sign from my patron saint dolly parton and move to pigeon forge, tennessee. So please pray for or against in your own preference and let's see what happens.
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Coming of age is my jam, thus i read this book. In this summertime novella set in the 1970's, lush in descriptions of summer, sweat, and the thin lace between girlhood and teen leg lengthening run deep. Pretty weak plot, but pretty.
I first read this comic book in a bathroom on division street, while I perched on the closed toilet seat and brushed my teeth before bed. There is a lot of pinball played, and it is filled with a general sense of cozy friend-dom and just hanging out. very cute. I think this is also the person who made the McGriddle Defense zine, the food fiction zine that shocked all who read it at the Portland Zine Symposium (and many others around the world, to be sure.). I'm glad things like that sure do still exist, and thank you. Actually I'm kind of anxious about you clicking that last link, because it froze up my browser, but It's worth it. I had no clue what a mcgriddle was before reading that zine, and It's two pancakes with built-in syrup, mean, cheese, and egg. Can you believe it? Also on the blue skies above us blog, a nice synth + punk laden winter mix called Wintermute. Download that here.
This zine is so charming. It's a quarter size hand-bound mini treasure. I have a few issues from last year, and each one is so different- just the Writer, Miss Delphine following her bliss. May it be a little doses of history, interesting photos, found things, this new issue is sure to be nice and a half!
Valentine's day. I love it. I pretty much tune out everyone that starts saying why it sucks. Greeting cards, capitalism, diamonds, institution of relationships. - blah, blah, blah. If something REALLY BAD happened (I.E. Death, a serious dumping, injury, terrible breakthrough, bad acid trip) I am willing to listen, but let's not trifle with this holiday. It's dedicated to a bunch of wild martyrs one of whom would illegally marry people, it coincides with Lupercalia, is an excuse to make heart shaped objects, eat heart shaped food, make your friends sweet (heart shaped) notes, wear sexy victorian clothes (that may or may not make breasts appear heart shaped), potentially have sex by candle light, and scream "happy valentine's day!" at midnight on 02/13/2010.
As for it being a capitalist holiday, I'm not going to be spending a dime! As for the importance it puts on traditional relationship models...Most years I spend with a group of friends, once a friendly booty call, and one year i had two valentines and OH did we eat a bunch of fancy food and party. This year, i will be spending the actual holiday with my sweetheart, but only because i love valentine's day so much and she's really hot. WIN! The thirteenth I will be crashing bikes into one another during minibike winter, and dancing at a house party.
In finland, It's just a friend's day. This can easily apply to anyone with friends. <3
Henry was half covered with a sheet, and he was near crying. He said there are two types of people these days, ones who've been spit out the other side of violence and understand what it means to say "never let me go" and those who never think about the need to look for grace.
This is why we close our eyes while kissing: we instantly need to brand certain close ups onto the underside of our eyelids. We need certain portraits to burn and flash whenever we blink when we're alone.
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I'd slept in this room with tonio our first night together, never undressing. It was more of a clutching, my astonished inspection of how thin he was, and his embrace of me at first was so ferocious I seemed to be underwater and breaething through a straw that pierced the surface. There was a package of condoms near expiration left over from a love affair i broke into fragments over, but when I mentioned them, Tonio said, I don't like you like that but, if you would not mind holding me. The war in Angola had left him an orphan adrift, one of the earth's totally fucked. I quit my usual anxious wondering what was supposed to happen next, until i had a sense of being pressed whole to the inside of him, and I let that print of myself there for him to carry around , and his physical weight sank inside my ride, where it expanded so he'd stay trapped in the barred cage of my chest.
This book offers one thousand ways to say please don't go. <3
Rave princess, Math Wiz, fashion icon, musician, dj, and part time juggalette Carnie Jerkwater has revolutionized songs about magic with her new song "I love Unicorns", which you can find on her myspace. Be prepared to have glitter shoot out the base of your spine, 'cause When you're hanging with a Unicorn Every day is Gay Pride.
If anyone ever hurt the empress of birthdayland, I'd mess them up
Winter is fine and fancy, with lots of travel. My toy shop job ended, rubber boots make the rain more bearable, and Portland is brimming with music, various talks, radio shows, and garden variety parties.
Tonight I am going to see Typhoon and Y La Bamba at Backspace, 115 NW 5th St., Portland, Oregon 97209. it should be awesome. It sure is fun to explore new music!
In other music, This week, Miss Foxdye is having an album release for M4G1C47 G71MM3R1NG R41NB0W that can be purchased at ms.valerie park
A new Resume of charm post, thanks to my charming roomate Wesley, for allowing me to use his computer. December has been off to an amazing start, having awesome dreams, adventures with heart friends, reading awesome books (Women and water, Menustration and Jewish Law. Vintage valentines, The book of The saints) and, believe it or not awesome, working at a rad toystore downtown. (mostly cutting stickers off of strips! fun!) and tonight, making crafts and catching up on blogging. To do so, we'll start with Polka Dot Dot Dot, the magical trio hailing from around the country. Their show at Rontoms in portland was so tight , and i'm dying to see them once more. (not to mention that we all had an awesome sleepover, and decadent breakfast the next day!) Go see them at their midwest and southern dates.
http://www.myspace.com/thepolkadotdotdot
I reccomend listening to "nijewel" on their site, my favourite track of the album, syzygy, might be one of the most swoonworthy songs of all time. (and then the cosmos coalesced, in a starflecked sweater vest. You told me your name, it came from men who made trains, and i was wide eyed. You told me the ground, is where the rail got that sound, and I was undone)
Also, dearest Amina Foxdye just released the third issue of her zine, Sugar and Heartstrings. Totally reccomended! Go ahead and order it from my favourite distro, Ms. Valerie park.
Tomorrow, In art, during portland's first thursday, There is a faux rock poster show at Floating World comics. Many awesome artists are hanging, and of the few i've seen, the posters are swell.
And finally, my band Overcome By The Power Of Love has a few recordings posted, which we will have a huge release party in seattle, and hopefully portland for.
My advice; get a friend to hold, it's sunny here, but certainly chillier.
Shine on, Danielle Warhola
And signing out, one of time's nicest songs, and how i am feeling very frequently.
