EROTIKON: Scandal!

I started planning this burlesque show from Prague, after seeing Gustav Machatý's Erotikon, from 1929. It's actually happening in a couple of weeks, and I'm super nervous! I've never produced a show before. But I'm getting a lot of help from Tata's and the ladies, who seem to be excited about the theme, and the Rendezvous even ordered me a bottle of absinthe (or that which is branded as absinthe) to make a drink special: the Royal Absinthe Fizz. Champagne makes it fizzy! :)



My new act is princess-themed, because I had many princess fantasies while wandering through Praha. My colors are pink, silver and rose. ("Mah culahs ah blush and bashful!- Steel Magnolias). Half of it is to a Smiths song and the other half to a Hildegarde cabaret song from 1935. It's a shame I wasn't able to link up with the burlesque troupe in Prague. But it's fun being able to draw on my experiences there in a creative way, now.

Synch Fest

My coverage of Synch, a travelogue really, is up today at Resident Advisor! Hope you enjoy :)



The view from Anafiotika...my future summer home (in my dreams)!!

Athens and Berlin

It's going to take me a while (and a paid Flickr account) to get all my Prague pics online, but here are two sets for now:

Athens!
Berlin!

And here's what I've been taking pictures of since getting back:



It's my friend Lolita "Ta-Ta's" Valentino at her Big, Bad, Dirty and Pink Prom on July 2. She's looking glamtastic!

I performed my "John, I'm Only Dancing the Mambo" act, which ends like this...



(Photo by Chris Blakeley) I'm trying my best to hide my Pilsner baby with that vintage record!

It's Not Svickova

Behold! The mysteriously delicious dish:



This is the first and best of 3 servings of the Czech classic that I had in Prague, with Kim at Kolkovna one afternoon. What makes it so divine? Apparently, a lot of vegetables that go into making the sauce...and end up nowhere near the plate. :)

Back home now, my TV dinner of turkey with mashed potatoes and veggies will have to do, until I can muster the power to cook up a stirfry or something healthy (tomorrow!). My beer is also not the amazing Pilsner Urquell but a refreshing Pyramid Hefe, which I did miss. And thankfully, the Caesar salad I'm eating is actually one, devoid of a strip of bacon, hunk of cucumber, or other curious ingredient found in the various Czech versions.

I miss my Prague life already! I'll continue this blog for a little while by uploading some photo sets from Prague and travels, and then start posting again regularly in my old blog, Another Big Riot. If you want to keep up with me, check there. For a while it may not be as interesting since I'm mostly concerned with finding a job, sunbathing (the weather is glorious in Seattle!) and burlesqueing. That a word?

Here's a word to everyone that made my trip possible, and so fantastic. Thank you to: Mom and supportive family/friends/roomies, Steffen, the Post, Lucie, Pat, Christine, Sarah, Ross, Kim, Stephan, Evan, Min, Melanie, Nush, Sylvie, Andi Neate, Angello and Dino, Steve @ Fringe Fest, Nils and friends, and David in Berlin, Tami and all @ RA, Axel and friends, Alex in Athens, Aimee and Burak, the ladies who brunch, and the produce lady and Odkolek employees who kindly suffered my requests for fruit and baguettes every day. I think that's it! I met waay more people than I expected, and I hope to return the kindness if anyone is ever in Seattle or vicinity. Děkuji vám and much love.