will this stoner smile make do?

...to hide or accentuate the fact that Lindsey and I have a brand spankin' new act for a rather large show tonight, and I'm truly nervous-anxious-jumpin'jivin'-excited? Well, let's hope it does SOMETHING for someone!


The show tonight is a tribute performance honoring this year's lollapalooza. Every performance in both sets of this show will pay tribute to musicians either playing in this year's lollapalooza line up, or musicians who have headlined in the past. We had initally intended on reworking a Jimmy Cliff (who is playing this year) song for this act, but the producer from the troupe we're working with for this event requested that we make a rather wild act to Chromeo's song Tenderoni. We've spent the last two and half weeks creating a rather brightly colored number drawing part of our concept from the music video released for their song. Here's the Tenderoni video:



I'll say this much: we've managed to incorporate a giant ruffled pizza box, a bell boy cap, a rotary telephone, matching red ruffled bloomers and a boombox into the performance we have in store for viewers tonight....mama mia!

xoxo,
erin

ohhhh, the things that make me happy!

are the following, for today, at least:

the dead milkmen. (yesssssssssss!)


dinah washington. (oh, that voice!)


bea arthur (r.i.p., my queen!) on the pamela anderson roast (sooooo good!)


planning two new burlesque shows with my partner in fringed and sequined crime, lindsey. we'll be revamping our Peace Pipe act for the lovely ladies over at Vaudezilla for Broadzilla at the Exit, in Chicago, at the end of this August. And we're additionally working on a brand spankin' new act to Jimmy Cliff's "You can get it if you really want" off of the "The Harder They Come album", for Eve's Parlor's Burlesque-a-palooza, in honor of this year's upcoming Lollapalooza, also in August. Each performer for that show has to create an act based on a song by one of the musical artists performing at this year's lollapalooza, and Jimmy was our pick, so this should be quite fun. phewwww, i feel a workout coming...


and this lovely late 1940s/early 50s cable knit cropped sweater i had the pleasure of modeling for my lovely friend niki @ bombshellshocked vintage. fab!u!lous!


(don't mind the fuzz on my bum, the angora sweater she photographed me in previous to this totally shed all over my hot pants, wah wah.)

ahhhh, yes.