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~~February 18th, 2006~~
~Underworld's 7th Annual~
My Bloody Valentine- Gothic Beauty Pageant
Ms & Mr Spooky 2006
$200 Cash & Prizes for the Winners
~Theatrical Performance by: Dominion~
Cover: $10
Drink Specials all night
Doors @ 9PM
Underworld's Traditional Vendors:
Photographic Tendencies
www.photographictendencies.com
Artwithlatex
www.artwithlatex.com
Wearable Latex Art!
Madam Fatima Psychic: Tarot and Palmist
and her protege'Faery Wing reader of fairy cards.
Sponsored by:
Tre' Ridings
Siren Summer
ArtWithLatex
Judges:
Anita Star(Ms. Spooky 2005):
Anita is a model and has worked with musicians; Kid Rock, Supavillain, and Psychonaut75.
This dark vixen has done videos with Danny Stygion as seen in the "Dominator" video.
She was also voted "Miss Fetish Ball" 2004.
http://anitastar.com
Breye 7x(Provision):
Having been a promoter and DJ in Houston since 1996
and a member of Industrial/EBM/Synth acts - UNI,
Bamboo Crisis, & Provision. Breye 7x is no stranger to
the Houston Scene. His former Houston nightclub "The
Cellar" spawned some of Houston's finest scene DJ's
including, Underworld's Pthalo, and Austin; and Bone
Church's DJ Question?
His own unique fashion style, self described as "New
Romantic Industrialist" won him Runner Up at the 6th
Annual My Bloody Valentine Gothic Beauty Pageant.
http://provision-musik.net
Siren Summer:
Is a professional model and make-up artist residing in Austin, Texas.
With 10 years experience as a model she has worked with over 50 photographers.
Her image has been featured in many magazines as well as concert/club posters, CD covers and comic book art.
On-line she is well known as an alternative model among the Gothic community and
has worked with designers and photographers from all over the world.
She is also the owner and designer of subkult klothing (http://www.typografix.com/skk/)
gaining rave reviews in the Austin Texas fashion community. In her spare time she is a
cable TV host for the music based Austin access show rawtime. ( http://www.rawtime.com/rawtime-welcome.htm ).
Interviewing such bands as VNV Nation and The Super Suckers.
Jason F.(Mr. Spooky 2005):
A familiar face in the Houston Club Scene and part of the DareWare Production Team.
He has worked with Mistress Persephone and many other performers in the Houston
Fetish Scene.
Xavier Hate (formerly of Malign):
Along with being a founding member of the SF band Malign that produced hits such as
Skin and Lye, he was one of the former co-owners of the club House Of Usher in SF.
Now residing in Texas with his wife Shawni, also a former co-owner of House of Usher, they
will be working with The Dead Bang crew @ Underworld.
3rd Female Judge:
Will be picked randomly from the audience by a ticket drawing
at 10:30pm. So get there early and get your ticket at the Front
Door to enter to be a Judge.
Judging:
This year the Judges will pick
4 Females and 4 Males
right on the stage.
There will be no scoring this year.
Then the Audience will select the Winners
by Audience Response.
To Enter:
**Email: gothicbeautypageant@hotmail.com
-Come out and join us in celebrating our 7th Annual Pageant-
We will have several Photographers out and about taking pictures
as well as ENVY Magazine (http://www.envyhouston.com)
http://underworldnightclub.com
http://numbersnightclub.com |
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| This is going to be fun :) Hope to see you there |
[Jan. 25th, 2006|11:34 am] |
Judging by Ms. Spooky 2005 Anita Star, Mr. Spooky 2005 Jason F., Model/fashion designer Siren Summer, Breye K of Provision and X of Malign.
$200 Cash & Prizes for the Winners
~Theatrical Performance by: Dominion~
Cover: $10
Drink Specials all night
Doors @ 9PM
Vendors:
Photographic Tendencies
www.photographictendencies.com
Artwithlatex
www.artwithlatex.com
Wearable Latex Art!
Sponsored by:
Tre' Ridings
Siren Summer
ArtWithLatex
**To Enter email: gothicbeautypageant@hotmail.com**
**********Deadline February 10th, 2006************
www.numbersnightclub.com
www.underworldnightclub.com
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[Oct. 10th, 2005|01:28 pm] |
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Staying home sucks. I'm not healing as fast as I should and it annoys me. I'm also not a fan of pain killers and question why famous people get hook on them. They suck! I have a good selection to choose from and all of them make me sleepy and more tired. My biopsy comes back Wednesday. If its good then all I have to do is get my immune system working again and not over do it. If it's bad than its radiation treatment. Yuck! That doesn't sound fun.
I'm really looking forward to feeling better and having energy soon. This last year I knew something had been wrong for awhile. I thought it was my anemia just getting worse. I had been sick monthly and was having a headache everyday. I was taking sleeping pills nightly because the headaches made it impossible to sleep. I'm a tard for not going to the doctor, but I have no insurance so I always seem to make up a excuse not to go. It got worse while I was on my buying trip in Las Vegas and I was forced to go to the doctor when I got back to Texas. The Doctor also said I have TMJ from stress. Why is it that stress will actually destroy your health. I have had so many illness related to stress it's just dumb. So I have to keep myself calm. Fun! I'm going to say no to muscle relaxers. They frighten me.
Tomorrow I go back to work, although my doctor thinks I should wait until Thursday. I've been gone 9 days in a row and before that I was gone 5 days with the first surgery. Plus I caught the flu. So returning to work is much needed. Thank god for vacation pay or I'd really be screwed.
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) isfetapep likes his new job. It couldn't have come at a better time. It's strange how small Austin is. He got the job with the help of one of my friends and come to find out, one of his bosses is a customer of mine that I've know for 2 years. This has helped a lot and he has been able to understand the need for medical insurance. Plus this guy is cool as shit so isfetapep gets along with him really well. I'm just hyped that he is making such a good wage, and with my income we should be doing really well after paying off a few debts.
We got a new car. Nothing fancy, but it's a Ford Taurus and runs really well. We took a loan out and with the remaining amount we got a few repairs done on it.
Monica just called me about the Club Deville fashion Show, I guess I'm modeling for Legs Diamonds again, which is cool because I had fun doing it last year and seeing it on PBS. Seems like they have more models this year, including friends of mine. So I'm sure it's going to be one big party and more like hanging out and not just modeling.
Okay I'm only updating because I feel like shit and am sick of laying in bed. However this has been a great diet and I lost 6 pounds. That's a cool way to look at it. I'm too lazy for eating disorders these days.
Brandi is bringing boston market for isfetapep and I. Maybe we will eat it at our new tabel that we got. I'm such a nerd. I got the coolest placemats for it. Every since _astrolabe_ moved out we have been decorating like cazy. He was a great roomate, but it's hard to force your taste on someone else so we didn't do much to our home. isfetapep and I are so much a like that it hasn't been an issue with decorating. I revamped some bar stools I got at the thrift store and they are hella cute.
Okay. I'm going to lay down for a while before Brandi gets here.
I flaked out of providing Style Cup with designs. It was just at a bad time for me and I had too much going on. Hopefully they will contact me next year.
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[Oct. 9th, 2005|09:33 pm] |
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Well I guess I should update after my minor health scare
The Doctors described my tumor as "ominous with dark shadows" Recalling the meaning of ominous from my goth poetry days, I named the tumor Bela Lugosi. After high medical cost,and lots of pain, I am glad to say that Bela Lugosi is dead.
2 surgeries, the flu and one tumor removed, I am slowly on my way back to better health.
I have felt like a train wreck for over a month and am looking forward to not being in pain everyday and doing the things I miss and love.
It's been hard to say no, to work and my over active social life and force myself to stay in bed and get better. I have a guilt problem and have this strange outlook that I should go to work no matter what, but I've looked out for myself and forced myself to say no to work and friends.
I'm lucky to have Monica working next door to me and as one of my best friends, she took me to the hospital at 3 am. Took care of me while on diladid and helped me pay for my prescriptions. donnathedead kept work from going through a major system failure. Let me borrow money and was there for me when I needed it. She also planned a fashion show and pulled it off without any chaos. brandileigh brought me soup and jamba juice, and took me to the doctor among other things.
I am thankful for having the coolest 3 best friends in the world! xoxo I owe you guys!
isfetapep, has been amazing. He has been there for me so much and is the most supportive person in my life. xoxo
Average Jo's fashion show was last night and although people tried to talk me out of it, I still produced it with the help and work of donnathedead. It was hard to stay from 6-10pm and I went home and thought I would die from pain. I was unable to take my meds at the event. It was all for a good cause and it was refreshing to work with Average models/everyday people instead of the normal, often difficult models.
At the show someones name was brought up, which lead to another name and I was told that I had been the subject of someones journal. I wish sometimes that I wasn't informed of these things. I like my small bubble and rarely like to think of anything else. I would like to say that I don't discourage anyone from education. My hatred for UT is due to my friends not having the skills to find a job in their field. Campus rape, and designer tuition prices. I have worked with tons of interns and have seen their eye for creativity smashed. I have also watched friends like etourneau_vert finish school and unable to find work. donnathedead is a graduate from there and my other friend Monica is currently attending there, and they have no issues with my opinion. It is only that...my opinion. If I didn't want others to succeed I wouldn't state the following advice: There are other schools in Austin. I think majoring in costume design is a better way to learn skills and history behind garments. It also provides better job placement. I think Fashion design is about making boring suits for JC Penny or working as a machine for some other designer. It's just what I have learned and viewed. It isn't meant to offend anyone else. As far as New York goes. I said one thing to a friend and you've read in to it. I'm not trying to discredit anything. It's a hard city. Friends like iamsam4eva and lifelikeblood have both lived it and I just stated that I was proud of them. Some people return with skills and make it work, others stay. Once again this isn't directed to you at all. Any open issues you have with me, I'm sorry that they are still causing you inner conflict. Not to be rude, but you are not part of my life or interest. I have other things I'm aiming towards. I've changed and I care about other things and people. I pulled my site and limited my designing because I was doing it all for the wrong reasons. I was no longer creative and happy, I was just trying to keep up, to save face, and to compete. Something that once made me happy turned into to being paranoid and stressed out. I don't care where others go with it. I use whatever talent I have in teaching others and having fun.
Anyway enough of that. Just wanted to kill any drama before it starts out of no where.
ok I'm feeling like shit so I am going to retire. night night
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[Oct. 7th, 2005|10:25 pm] |
I'm producing the blackmail segment tomorrow with the help of Sarah Kay and Brandi.
Come out see it!
Saturday October 8 | 3rd Annual Regular Jo Fashion Show
6pm - 10pm
This event features the funky fall fashions of South Congress and the Fabulous Four Legged Friends in search of permanent loving homes from several different local animal rescue groups. Emceed by Kinky Friedman. This will be the fashion event of the year.
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[Sep. 10th, 2005|07:53 pm] |
Thanks for all the get well wishes. I feel like crap, but I think this will be easy to get through.
Last night was the UT fashion show for ATX. Yeah I'ts rude to say but OMG what a nightmare. Even the nicest people seemed to think it was all crap. I saw dresses pinned to bras with huge quilting pins showing, hems that were so uneven that's all you saw. Busted zippers, I'll stop there.
The Event was poorly planned and the models were typical frat brats that had no idea what they were doing. I felt like crap and only did it because I love Sari.
Sarah Kay and Monica modeled also, so it was the 3 redheads and we made the best of it. We ran as soon as we could and I went home and hung out with Monica and Joel for awhile. I think Sari did a great job and hopefully we did't make her mad with all of our remarks, but we think she is too good for that type of event. :D xoxo
Work was ok. The A/C went out and that kind of sucked, but other than that it was good.
Kurt and I are thinking about going to youth brigade tonight at emo's. Then it's off to rawtime.
I'm going to take a nap. |
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[Sep. 7th, 2005|08:09 pm] |
I've missed a few days of work due to a slight possible cancer scare and a minor surgery that will have to be done. I feel like total crap and really need to return to work. I can not afford to not be working. Although the doctor said to take a few days off and rest, I'm going to try and go to work tomorow.
Things are up in the air and I still have no idea what is going on. However Kurt is thinking positive for me and taking care of me. I hope its all just minor stuff. I have the coolest boyfriend in the world. I keep telling myself to breath and not to stress out.
I'm suppose to model in our interns fashion show friday, but I'm not sure if I will be well enough. Hopefully she won't be upset. I did donate her a bunch of fabric *wink*
and know she will do a great job.
ok I'm dizzy. I'm going to hem some pants and lay down and play video games. |
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| This was forwarded to me by my friend Katie. It's up to you to agree or not. |
[Sep. 6th, 2005|09:03 pm] |
but a very interesting point of view either way.
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An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State
An Objectivist Review
(Don't you wish the right people could read this?)
by Robert Tracinski | The Intellectual Activist
September 2, 2005
It has taken four long days for state and federal officials to figure out how to deal with the disaster in New Orleans. I can't blame them, because it has also taken me four long days to figure out what is going on there. The reason is that the events there make no sense if you think that we are confronting a natural disaster.
If this is just a natural disaster, the response for public officials is obvious: you bring in food, water, and doctors; you send transportation to evacuate refugees to temporary shelters; you send engineers to stop the flooding and rebuild the city's infrastructure. For journalists, natural disasters also have a familiar pattern: the heroism of ordinary people pulling together to survive; the hard work and dedication of doctors, nurses, and rescue workers; the steps being taken to clean up and rebuild.
Public officials did not expect that the first thing they would have to do is to send thousands of armed troops in armored vehicle, as if they are suppressing an enemy insurgency. And journalists--myself included--did not expect that the story would not be about rain, wind, and flooding, but about rape, murder, and looting.
But this is not a natural disaster. It is a man-made disaster.
The man-made disaster is not an inadequate or incompetent response by federal relief agencies, and it was not directly caused by Hurricane Katrina. This is where just about every newspaper and television channel has gotten the story wrong.
The man-made disaster we are now witnessing in New Orleans did not happen over the past four days. It happened over the past four decades. Hurricane Katrina merely exposed it to public view.
The man-made disaster is the welfare state.
For the past few days, I have found the news from New Orleans to be confusing. People were not behaving as you would expect them to behave in an emergency--indeed, they were not behaving as they have behaved in other emergencies. That is what has shocked so many people: they have been saying that this is not what we expect from America. In fact, it is not even what we expect from a Third World country.
When confronted with a disaster, people usually rise to the occasion. They work together to rescue people in danger, and they spontaneously organize to keep order and solve problems. This is especially true in America. We are an enterprising people, used to relying on our own initiative rather than waiting around for the government to take care of us. I have seen this a hundred times, in small examples (a small town whose main traffic light had gone out, causing ordinary citizens to get out of their cars and serve as impromptu traffic cops, directing cars through the intersection) and large ones (the spontaneous response of New Yorkers to September 11).
So what explains the chaos in New Orleans?
To give you an idea of the magnitude of what is going on, here is a description from a Washington Times story:
"Storm victims are raped and beaten; fights erupt with flying fists, knives and guns; fires are breaking out; corpses litter the streets; and police and rescue helicopters are repeatedly fired on.
"The plea from Mayor C. Ray Nagin came even as National Guardsmen poured in to restore order and stop the looting, carjackings and gunfire....
"Last night, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said 300 Iraq-hardened Arkansas National Guard members were inside New Orleans with shoot-to-kill orders.
"'These troops are...under my orders to restore order in the streets,' she said. 'They have M-16s, and they are locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill and they are more than willing to do so if necessary and I expect they will.' "
The reference to Iraq is eerie. The photo that accompanies this article shows National Guard troops, with rifles and armored vests, riding on an armored vehicle through trash-strewn streets lined by a rabble of squalid, listless people, one of whom appears to be yelling at them. It looks exactly like a scene from Sadr City in Baghdad.
What explains bands of thugs using a natural disaster as an excuse for an orgy of looting, armed robbery, and rape? What causes unruly mobs to storm the very buses that have arrived to evacuate them, causing the drivers to drive away, frightened for their lives? What causes people to attack the doctors trying to treat patients at the Super Dome?
Why are people responding to natural destruction by causing further destruction? Why are they attacking the people who are trying to help them?
My wife, Sherri, figured it out first, and she figured it out on a sense-of-life level. While watching the coverage last night on Fox News Channel, she told me that she was getting a familiar feeling. She studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Chicago, which is located in the South Side of Chicago just blocks away from the Robert Taylor Homes, one of the largest high-rise public housing projects in America. "The projects," as they were known, were infamous for uncontrollable crime and irremediable squalor. (They have since, mercifully, been demolished.)
What Sherri was getting from last night's television coverage was a whiff of the sense of life of "the projects." Then the "crawl"--the informational phrases flashed at the bottom of the screen on most news channels--gave some vital statistics to confirm this sense: 75% of the residents of New Orleans had already evacuated before the hurricane, and of the 300,000 or so who remained, a large number were from the city's public housing projects. Jack Wakeland then gave me an additional, crucial fact: early reports from CNN and Fox indicated that the city had no plan for evacuating all of the prisoners in the city's jails--so they just let many of them loose. There is no doubt a significant overlap between these two populations--that is, a large number of people in the jails used to live in the housing projects, and vice versa.
There were many decent, innocent people trapped in New Orleans when the deluge hit--but they were trapped alongside large numbers of people from two groups: criminals--and wards of the welfare state, people selected, over decades, for their lack of initiative and self-induced helplessness. The welfare wards were a mass of sheep--on whom the incompetent administration of New Orleans unleashed a pack of wolves.
All of this is related, incidentally, to the apparent incompetence of the city government, which failed to plan for a total evacuation of the city, despite the knowledge that this might be necessary. But in a city corrupted by the welfare state, the job of city officials is to ensure the flow of handouts to welfare recipients and patronage to political supporters--not to ensure a lawful, orderly evacuation in case of emergency.
No one has really reported this story, as far as I can tell. In fact, some are already actively distorting it, blaming President Bush, for example, for failing to personally ensure that the Mayor of New Orleans had drafted an adequate evacuation plan. The worst example is an execrable piece from the Toronto Globe and Mail, by a supercilious Canadian who blames the chaos on American "individualism." But the truth is precisely the opposite: the chaos was caused by a system that was the exact opposite of individualism.
What Hurricane Katrina exposed was the psychological consequences of the welfare state. What we consider "normal" behavior in an emergency is behavior that is normal for people who have values and take the responsibility to pursue and protect them. People with values respond to a disaster by fighting against it and doing whatever it takes to overcome the difficulties they face. They don't sit around and complain that the government hasn't taken care of them. They don't use the chaos of a disaster as an opportunity to prey on their fellow men.
But what about criminals and welfare parasites? Do they worry about saving their houses and property? They don't, because they don't own anything. Do they worry about what is going to happen to their businesses or how they are going to make a living? They never worried about those things before. Do they worry about crime and looting? But living off of stolen wealth is a way of life for them.
The welfare state--and the brutish, uncivilized mentality it sustains and encourages--is the man-made disaster that explains the moral ugliness that has swamped New Orleans. And that is the story that no one is reporting.
Source: TIA Daily -- September 2, 2005 |
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[Sep. 5th, 2005|06:19 pm] |
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Back from Vegas and I need a vacation from Vacation. Vegas is a draining city. I don't see how people can live there. The bars never close and you can drink all night. Not a healthy way to live. Market was a pain in the ass, just like I thought. It was like shopping in a thrift store, trying to find those few good things in a pile of trash. The Convention center is more than 200,000 square feet of convention space and is next door to the 3.2 million square foot Las Vegas Convention Center...and we walked most of it. It was all cheap knock off victorian, boho, and 20's. Lots of revamped stuff, but done badly with plastic beads,poly lace and sequins. We did find some great stuff, but it took a clear head and lots of thinking. By Wednesday night when isfetapep and brandileigh and Rob arrived I was dead. We had plans to go to Tokyo au Go:Go in the Krave Lounge but we were all way too tired. We ended up gambling in the hotel casino at the hilton and eating bad hotel food. Thursday was the last day of market. I didn't plan on working the entire last day, but I knew I missed some things and I went back and walked the show. I did find a few things we had missed. We filled some last second orders and I was out of there by 3ish. I rode the monorail with isfetapep and brandileigh and Rob to the strip. We gambled in casinos and ate lots of food. brandileigh and Rob were getting tired so we went back to the hotel. I should have rested, but I know how I am, if I was to rest I wouldn't get back up. isfetapep and I decided to walk to The Riviara and check out this 99 cent menu everyone talks about. The casino had charm in a ghetto kind of way. We ate greasy food and isfetapep played black jack..like always he was up and then down. We went to Circus Circus...only because I wanted to see the fear and loathing in Las Vegas spots and to pay my respects to 2pac since he was shot there. We went back to the Hilton to get ready. We went to SACRILEGE at City Lights Bistro. It was like a time warp and in a bistro that I guess they hold a goth night at once a week. It was sad and I think we were laughing and having too much fun to make friends. We left the crowd of 20 people and went to The Double Down it was fun. It reminded me of Casino without the food. Friday we went to blvd. mall and ate at corn dog 7. We are such dorks and no longer have that in Texas. Then we went to Excalibur did more gambling and Rob played poker for 4 hours. Then isfetapep , brandileigh and I went to Mandalay Bay I know that place pretty well since that is where the first day of market is always held, but I never had time to really enjoy it. We ate at The Rum Jungle after that we went back to the hotel and took a cab to Fremont Street brandileigh and Rob were tired and left so isfetapep and I went to The Beauty Bar When I was there in Febuary they were not open yet, so it was cool to finally get to go. It has to be one of the best clubs I've ever been to. We had a blast and I think it was one of my favorite things we did while visting Vegas. When i go back I will be making it a point to go again. I met some strange people. We didn't get back to the hotel until late. We gambled some more and went to bed. Saturday, Brandi and Rob had a early flight so we checked out, saw them off and isfetapep and I walked the strip for almost 6 hours, going into malls and casinos. I think we walked almost the entire strip and had a blast. We got back to Austin at around 12 am dropped off out bags then got ready to host rawtime. It was hard since we have been moving non stop for days with hardly any sleep. The show went very well. I worked sunday half alive but managed to sell a lot.
So basically we won $300 bucks then lost it all. Didn't rest much but had a blast. Vegas is pricey and cost a lot of money to visit. Some how we barely survived. I think we had $20 when we got back to Austin. Yikes!
Hurricane Katrina is very upsetting, My best wishes to Candice & Robyn of Trashy Diva (go shop the website!) http://www.trashydiva.com/ I'm wishing the best for them. I'm also hoping eveyone else I haven't heard from is okay.
In other words. Former co-worker and Owner of secret oktober needs your help. Please read below:
Dear Friends,
Recently there's been a wonderful and delightful addition to Secret
Oktober's family. Cassandra Davis and her husband Ross Hartshorn, the
owners of Secret Oktober welcomed their first child, Juliet, into the
world on July 7th, 2005. While Juliet's birth was quite a blessing,
it was also quite early. Juliet was born three months prematurely at
1 pound and 11 ounces. While Juliet is doing fine, and is expected to
improve with time, her delivery came with a great deal of special
needs. Cassandra and Ross were on vacation in Southern Illinois at
the time of her birth, and encountered some unexpected costs during
their visit. While thankfully insurance will cover a good portion of
the costs, it unfortunately didn't cover everything. In this
instance, Cassandra and Ross' friends have decided to come to the
rescue and help these wonderful people out. We're holding a benefit
in their honor in order to help with the costs of little Juliet's
care. At the moment Juliet is staying at Children's Hospital in St.
Louis. Hopefully, she will be able to return to Austin to continue
her care here.
What we ask of you?
Please attend a silent auction we are holding in order to raise money
for them. You may simply attend the event, bid on an item for
auction, or just simply donate items for auction, especially if you're
a business.
If you choose to donate, please set a minimum bidding price if you
wish. Any items not bid on will be returned to you.
The event details:
When: Saturday, September 17, 2005
Where: Elysium Nightclub, 705 Red River, Austin, TX 78701
Time: 7pm to 10pm
Donation at the Door: $5 (all proceeds will benefit Ross and
Cassandra)
Elysium does have a full bar, and will be open for business during
these times. Later on that evening, you are welcomed to stay for the
duration of the night. For those who cannot attend the event, there
are other ways to help out. We've set up a pay-pal account for Ross
and Cassandra. You are welcomed to donate any amount for anything
helps to solvent23@yahoo.com.
If you have any questions about the benefit or further information,
please feel free to contact Mary Milton at Secret Oktober 462-9217 or
Ginger Vaughn 731-8535.
Thank you,
Kurt starts his new job next week and I couldn't be happier.
So this week I guess I'm going to get things ready for Pink Salon. Monica wants me to put a collection in there, so I need to get cracking on it. For now I'm going to go rest. |
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[Sep. 4th, 2005|04:47 pm] |
I'm mainly writing this for myself so that I can keep track of my life, but if you are reading this be prepared to be bored.
Work has been consuming most of my time and I've been really tired lately. My boss is pregnant with twins and has given me more responsibility in running the store. She isn't able to be around as much and once the babies are born I'm sure she will be busy with parenthood. She is so strong to be doing this. And with twins!!! Sometimes I step back and look at how my job has changed since the days of sitting behind the counter reading a magazine. Sales profits have raised, merchandise has tripled, as well as a full staff of employees for both stores. Traffic on So Co has gone up in the last year. The sister store is doing well and I have learned so much in viewing the start of a new store. There has been major growing pains and lessons learned the hard way. It's all been very interesting and frustrating at times.
We had 2 UT interns over the summer. One was an extremely creative girl with a perfect eye for fashion. She was great with using color and texture and I really admired her free spirit of putting things together that didn't seem to go at first glance. She was able to think outside the box when designing. However due to the lack of proper job placement and design skills in the UT fashion department, she changed her major and decided to be a plastic surgeon. I know she will be great at it and it is a more realistic choice considering how we have all witnessed fellow friends, interns etc unable to find work or keep a clothing line steady. However I hope she still tries her hand at fashion, because although her knowledge of sewing needs improving, she is a great designer (she can just pay someone to make it ha ha) and has to be one of the most creative designers I have ever met.
The other intern was adorable. Shy and Conservative. She had once worked in a costume shop and had acquired amazing skill and was very time efficient with finishing garments. However she was caught in the marketable garbage that "they" try to feed all students. It was cute to watch her try at being daring and inventive. My boss had me teach them construction of a corset. Quality of grommets, boning, lining and 3 different ways (that I know of) how you can make a corset. I think they picked out an overly difficult pattern to start with, but the finished products were great. My Boss taught them pattern making, draping etc and they made dresses for the blackmail label. They ended up being really cute dresses, but they did learn the hard way, how much linen shrinks when you wash it. :( One of the intern’s designs will be in a fashion show at red rum Friday, September 9 for the ATX Magazine Fashion Show. Myself, Monica and donnathedead will be modeling for her.
I'm such a dork and am always sad when an intern leaves. I need to get over that. ha ha
I'm such a mother hen.
Some where in my spare time I have agreed to do some work for Boudoir Queen http://www.boudoirqueen.com/ teaching her seamstress the construction of certain garments. I love teaching people new things and always end up learning in the process. I have no idea where the time to do this is going to come from. However I really need to makje more money. I have a lot of medical problems that I need to focus on.
And I launched my top-secret hat collection...bahaha
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2005-08-05/xtra_string_all.html
In the relationship department, things are great. isfetapep and me are a little too much a like, but that is my only complaint. It is refreshing to actually be in a fun relationship. We have been together well over a year and are a few months shy of living together a year. We have had a lot of hard times, but we are both able to deal with it, seeing as how nothing has ever been easy for either of us.
He has been working at Whole Foods, but has now been hired at a high tech job that is going to be paying VERY well.... which means I may be able to cut down on working so much and actually go to school. I want to go to beauty school and produce a small clothing line.
Monday I leave for market. I'm taking an employee who's major is fashion merchandising. She has expressed interest in being a buyer or a sales rep, so I think this trip will be great for her. I have mixed feelings about market. It's a love /hate thing. I can say it is one of the most tiring, draining things I have ever experienced. My boss is unable to go, so there is some nervous pressure going through my mind, but I've done well at creating relationships with vendors and I know our customer like the back of my hand (the only thing I am confident about) I'm predicting fall fashion will be Victorian Goth and Hollywood starlet inspired. Lots of vintage inspired jewelry. So with this in mind and if all that I have researched and read is correct, I should be fine. If not...I will curse WWD and Vogue. The key is keeping the trend better than the mall. Clothing you wont find in chain stores. isfetapep and brandileigh are meeting me in Vegas and we are going to hang out till Saturday evening. A short vacation,isfetapep and I have been playing this trip over a year. I'm looking forward to actually getting to spend time with him. Woohoo |
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ummm yeah I am a hat designer. ok
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2005-08-05/xtra_string_all.html
Conceptual and photo styling: Stephen MacMillan Moser; Hair and make-up: Deborah Carter (Pink Salon); Model: Kimberly Wasik (Agence Talent); Gorilla: Walter Heymann; Gorilla suit: Lucy in Disguise; Dress: Ramonster $110, at Vivid; Jewelry: Baby Jane's Texas Icons earrings $65, and bracelet $380, at Blackmail; Hat: Summer Lawson for SubKult $168; Shoes: Destroy $106, at Creatures Boutique; Location: Austin Motel (Special thanks to Dottye Dean) |
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| "DID YOU SEE WHAT GOD JUST DID TO US?" |
[Jun. 21st, 2005|11:32 pm] |
"God didn't do that, you did it. You're a fucking narcotics agent, I knew it. That was our cocaine you pig! Fucking pig, swine, whore!" okay enough movie quotes. Name it and you get summer brownie points.
I'm trying to update this thing more.
I found 2 hobbies that helps me with stress and isn't as annoying as sewing. Last night Brandi came over and we made morbid soaps. They rock and I'm so good at it. I brought them down to soco today and everyone had a fit. So I guess I'll make them and wholesale them in my spare time. I also have been making jewelry, which I also rock at and there is no stress involved. So aside from hosting the cable show, I finally have things to relieve my stress a little. Managing 2 stores in a popular shopping district has made me a little stressed. I like my job and love the idea of being able to sell things I make there if I want. Going to market and buying is also great, however the stress level is almost killing me at times. I also get a little stressed when items I order at market never come in, because the people never even produced the designs due to not enough orders, so then I'm rushed to order from another vendor because we need merch for the season. My boss hired donnathedead today, she really likes her. This is going to be great because I know I can count on her to show up and have work ethic. woot! I love our new UT interns, they have been a big help and I think they are learning a lot about fashion, design and business, haha some good some bad. I have tomorrow off, but I have to deal with the "problem" and I'm worried, but I know it will be fine. I just keep telling myself I'm lucky to be alive and that it wasn't worse.
After work donnathedead,and me went to freebirds to meet up with planet_trash, action_city, isfetapep. It was a little mini-birthday party for planet_trash (hope you had fun and liked your gifts!) then isfetapep and I went to Joel and Monica's to watch the real world. *shudders* gawd those people are retarded brats. However it was cool to see the paintings/art from the store hanging in their house along with other stuff from the store. Monica gave me some clothes, we acted like tards and then went home.
I'm crossing my fingers that isfetapep gets this job he sent his resume to. He has a good job now, but this one would be around $20.00 a hour and I could go to school and do a lot of things I've been putting off.
EEP! Can't wait until this weekend. It's gonna rock.
Oh and I should have warned you all, These rawtime video files are huge, so unless you have a fast connection it may suck your will to live. Check them out and let sarah and I know what you think. xoxo
supersuckers
http://www.rawtime.com/video/ssint.wmv
heres the Murphy's Law Interview
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[Jun. 21st, 2005|12:41 am] |
Wow this week has been better than last. Last week I thought my life was over and went through some very hard times. I'm lucky to have a understanding boyfriend, great parents who aren't rich, but can be very kind with advice and a handful of wonderful friends that I would be lost without.
Saturday Kurt and I hung out with Monica and Joel, gawd those guys are crazy fun! Sarah Kay came by also. Rawtime went well. It took a while to get into it, but it ended on a good note. I'm just so tired from working all day saturday and then doing the show and working the next day.
If anyone is interested in our SuperSuckers Interview it can be viewed here. http://www.rawtime.com/video/ssint.wmv
It was so hot outside that afternoon, we look like crap, but it was a fun time
heres the Murphy's Law Interview
http://www.rawtime.com/video/mlint.wmv
Dave did a great job with editing and camera. Hopefully The Warp Tour Interviews in Dallas and the VnV Nation one will turn out as good.
Our UT interns are doing well at work. Another than fashion history and small sewing projects I haven't really been able to spend a lot of time with them, not like our last 2 interns. Hopefully Gail will be back at work soon to help.
Sarah Kay is working again tomorrow. hahaha I dragged ya into it :P
then its
freebirds with donnathedead, planet_trash, action_city, isfetapep |
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| blah im tired! |
[Jun. 18th, 2005|09:12 pm] |
Thursday Monica and I had a girls night...she dye my hair, it turned black but we fixed it. It's red again. I always have a blast hanging out with her, so it taking longer to fix wasn't bad.
Friday I hung out with Monica after work for about a hour, Kurt and I were suppose to go to emo's to met up with her and Joel, but we were too tired from work. I got my ass kicked at uno, had a few drinks and crashed.
Tonight Kurt and I are going to the epoxies and aquabats. Hopefully we will get to see
action_city, bettierage, donnathedead, planet_trash, all there. Woot! Then its off to host rawtime.
Tomorrow donnathedead is working at blackmail...I always drag her into things!!!
Next weekend is going to rock. Judas priest in SA, then Social Distortion in Dallas!!!
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| this is so dorky,,,,stolen from batty |
[Jun. 16th, 2005|06:48 pm] |
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Reply to this post, and tell me one reason why you like/love/adore me, and I will reply with the same. Then put this in your own journal, and spread the love. |
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| MORE PHOTO POSTING.... |
[Jun. 16th, 2005|04:02 pm] |
photos of isfetapep's (coolest boyfriend in the world!) birthday fun, last week.....We had a blast and are thankful for our amazing friends. Thanks to everyone that came out for Kurt's birthday...and everyone that helped us out last weekend. xoxo
isfetapep action_city and myself
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