emchy

Ok my birthday is less than a month away

and i like to do it up
especially since i am turning 35
yep here goes another milestone


so right now am at a loss for ideas

suggestions?

 

i really meant to get in the habit of posting here and i have failed when stress took over
giving it another for real shot.

things lately -
vagabondage played junkstock and it was awesome
rhubarb whiskey released an ep which rules and you can buy for $5
i started selling custom poems just for you for $20
i got laid off from my job
i started freaking out, panic attacking and generally being a neurotic freak
starting to feel better about stuff
and hoping to make it out to these cool things in august

-jug band music fest
-cotati accordion fest
-monsters of accordion show

alrighty and now i start with the regular posting here again
whew - glad we're caught up

Coming to you from the heart of the mission - Vagabonadge brings you the Big Gay Cabaret to celebrate the Homo Holidays! Come and enjoy an amazing array of fabulous performers making music and taking off their clothes and kickin it cabaret style in honor of Pride Month. The night is for anyone who is ready to get down and celebrate their queer family. All are welcome. Come rock out. Also - please repost and spread the word - it would be the most wonderful thing ever!


GET YOUR TICKETS NOW AT http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/68027

 

Featuring burlesque from Lola Vauntz! Poetry and accordions from Nomy Lamm! The erotic delights of Bearlesque! Foot stomping rowdy heartbreakin' music from Vagabondage! plus all the way from the Rust Belt the ruckus raising dixieland jazz clowngirl herself, Waltzing Matilda the One Beer Prophet.

The Big Gay Cabaret

June 5

doors 7:30

show 8pm

$10 - 20 sliding scale

The Dark Room

Mission @ 19th

Some delightful images and information from just a few of your performers....

( Some delightful images and information from just a few of your performers.... )

Nomy Lamm
An American singer songwriter and political activist. Lamm describes herself as a bad ass, fat ass, Jew Dyke amputee. We also know her as one hot shit accordion player and poet... welcome to the stage madame!



Lola Vauntz

Lola Vauntz likes to think of herself as a semi-naked comedienne. Her witty and wacky burlesque performances have audiences not just wolf-whistling but also howling with laughter.

Waltzing Matilda the One Beer Prophet
A train hopping, tough talking, sweet sounding, whiskey drinking accordion player from the Rust Belt, she's been known to swoon people along every coast with her talents. She's only in town for a bit - so be sure not to miss this once in a lifetime show.



Vagabondage
Your hosts and general social deviants are so excited to be putting this shindig together. A musical duo from a past that never happened – Vagabondage will usher you into a realm of accordion, guitar, kazoo, hindsight prophecies, and phone calls from dead lovers on sultry nights.

 

Come rock out with your favorite accordion playin shouty roustabouts at Maker's Faire

We're playing on Sat at 6pm

le w00t

it's a shame all of the classes to get the appropriate licenses cost over $1000
but i love driving a boat, love interacting with people and love driving
sigh

Duck Captains Wanted! Operate amphibious vehicle while entertaining passengers on our land & water sightseeing adventure. Captain the DUKW, give the tour, & be the STAR of the show. Full & PT positions earn hourly wage, tips & paid training. Fax cover letter & resume to 415-922-1336 or email employment@sanfranciscoducks.com. Candidates must have a 25 Ton USCG Masters License and will be required to obtain a CDL (Commercial Drivers License) with a P (Passenger) endorsement. We're looking for an excellent safety record and a fun & positive attitude. Have FUN at your job and a QUACK-TASTIC time with Ride The Ducks San Francisco!

so my love of dancing is no secret to most of you. get me out someplace where there is music and i start moving. god forbid it's anything swing like and i have probably pulled you onto the floor too. my bandmates often get the brunt of this since once i am cocktailed i get aggressive in my want of a dance partner. i like to think sweetly aggressive but still. so last night rooster had a surprise date planned. i got home to lilacs!!! that she got special ordered from CANADA!!! omg. amazing. then she made tasty salmon dinner with a cucumber, apple, avocado and butter lettuce salad and i did homemade balsamic dressing. all tasty happy we got in the car and she block by block directed me until we were at embarcadero. i guessed the new jarmusch movie but was surprised by Every Little Step. We had meant to see it at the SFIFF but missed it. It's the amazing doc of the origins of A Chorus Line and the subsequent revival.

So what you may not know about me and dancing. I was in dance classes from the age of five. In high school I was in a competitive dance troupe (2nd place state competition) and was actively dancing for about 4 hours a day 5 days a week. I was still a curvy girl but I was also one helluva and athelete. I also owned a beat up copy of the Chorus Line movie from the 80's that I taped off of someone's HBO that I watched easily 120 times. That's a low estimate. I wanted to grow up to be a dancer / performer on Broadway. Dance and music were all that mattered to me. But since I was still curvy, when I graduated and went to college (not in NYC) I gave up on that to be more responsible.

When I left Michigan (again not for NYC) I gave up even more. All I wanted for so long was to move to NYC and try to make it but I didn't see people who looked like me making this work and didn't want to live my life as a perpetual and delusional failure.

Yet the love for dance never left. Here and there when the $$ was around I have taken classes around town and though I am not in the athletic shape anymore - dancing makes me happy. Happy like playing the best song ever on my accordion. Happy like writing or singing a perfect song. It's the other part of me that I keep pushed down a little because to realize how much of it I don't do breaks me a little.

So we went and saw Every Little Step. And it was great. And it was normal feature length and I could've watched at least five more hours of it. All I want now is dance dance dance. I am still not 100% in my body around the idea since my athelete pieces just aren't up to snuff and it's weird that where my muscle memory takes me in terms of stretching, warm ups and yea the dance itself - my body can't do it now. Body betrayal and that brings up shame and sad.

But the dancing is so joyous. So happy. I am too broke to afford a class. BUT. If I plan ahead every lunch. If I don't buy coffee out and just swap it for water. If I watch where the other costs come from and hustle up some extra gigs here and there - I can make it work. I found a 2 hour session on Weds that I want to try to hit weekly. Honestly? If I could I would try and add this into three nights a week just to kick it off right. But once a week will give me the joy. I am going to try and just start. Even if I think the $$ isn't there because someone i trust told me to take risks and believe that you can ask for anything. So here i am. I believe the $$ or the barter or whatever needs to happen will come up.

I believe that I can go back to saying that I am a dancer and not that I was a dancer.
My body needs more activity to feel strong. Sitting in a cube is disintegrating me and only more real world action will undo those spine bending hours. If for a while all my life is is playing music and dancing while trying to get my performance career off the ground and by performance career I mean both making the bands active and successful and amazing, and collaborations with other accordion players, and i mean feeling in my body and in my skin for how i walk in the world.

I want my core to feel strong again. Both inside and out. This is one of the steps.

ps
since the smoking post i have not fallen off the wagon. thanks to those who are supporting that - esp mc_kingfish  for the unlit placebo cigarette the other night!

Vagabonadge brings you the Big Gay Cabaret to celebrate the Homo Holidays and the release of their first EP. Come and enjoy an amazing array of fabulous performers making music and taking off their clothes and kickin it cabaret style in honor of Pride Month. The night is for anyone who is ready to get down and celebrate their queer family. All are welcome. Come rock out.

 

Featuring burlesque from Lola Vauntz! Poetry and accordions from Nomy Lamm! The erotic delights of Bearlesque! Foot stomping rowdy heartbreakin' music from Vagabondage! plus all the way from the Rust Belt the ruckus raising dixieland jazz clowngirl herself, Waltzing Matilda the One Beer Prophet.

The Big Gay Cabaret

June 5

doors 7:30

show 8pm

$10 - 20 sliding scale

The Dark Room

Mission @ 19th

Some delightful images and information from just a few of your performers....

Bearlesque
Aw - our bear is shy. But wait until you see what's under all of that fur! Mrrow. I mean... GROWL!!!

Nomy Lamm
An American singer songwriter and political activist. Lamm describes herself as a bad ass, fat ass, Jew Dyke amputee. We also know her as one hot shit accordion player and poet... welcome to the stage madame!



Lola Vauntz

Lola Vauntz likes to think of herself as a semi-naked comedienne. Her witty and wacky burlesque performances have audiences not just wolf-whistling but also howling with laughter.

Waltzing Matilda the One Beer Prophet
A train hopping, tough talking, sweet sounding, whiskey drinking accordion player from the Rust Belt, she's been known to swoon people along every coast with her talents. She's only in town for a bit - so be sure not to miss this once in a lifetime show.



Vagabondage
Your hosts and general social deviants are so excited to be putting this shindig together. A musical duo from a past that never happened – Vagabondage will usher you into a realm of accordion, guitar, kazoo, hindsight prophecies, and phone calls from dead lovers on sultry nights.


 

i figure i might as well use the service to discuss the service

main reason i came over here is all of the many times i keep hearing that the current LJ owners may make LJ go away or at least be less reliable esp for the US customers. i have a lot of poetry, art and life up in this journal and worrying that it could go away at any moment makes me tense. i use this to relieve tension so thats a no win for me. yes i could use lj book to back it up but honestly - i suck at remembering to do that until it's too late and then everyone who is panicking has the servers jammed up.

secondary reasons.
1. the most shallow - i can use emchy which LJ would not allow since their user name has a six character requirement
2. less shallow - for what its worth they're a .org and based on open source models.
3. i already met some nice people that i like in the only community i have joined
4. vagabondage was available as a community name so we don't have to put up with the clunkier vagabondageband
5. a nice person got me a paid account - thank you nice person


reasons i am finding it hard to stick it out.

1. my pals don't seem to be posting over here although they are joining.... i've followed everyone back but it seems like all of the posting is still on lj
2. until we hit critical mass over here i am in LJ so much reading the flist to see how my peeps are that i forget to post here as the main place and so it's a self fulfilling prophecy since i am not posting here much either
3. while the architecture mimics LJ its just different enough to feel like i am relearning
4. my icons didn't port over - pout - some of those are lost forever to files on work computers

and thats the exposition on this for now...
we'll see how it works out

you know LJ is just such a habit - but i will get into the habit of posting over here and just using the handy dandy tools of win to populate the old cindymonkey space - that said - here was a sample from the weekends photo shoot

whee!



last night - well yesterday - as a whole was bad ass

vagabondage had another photo shoot (YAY) with our pal Steve. Steve also wants to make us a music video at some point - wahoo

this is my favorite pic from the shoot


then we got stuck in lots of traffic
punk made us all dinner
we went to the show - it was awesome
videos coming soon

i have some cds from the hobo love tour featuring a charming combination of songs from emchy (aka me) and the always amazing one beer prophet. if i was to set up a thingy with the paypal and the whatnot - would there be interest from my flist in buying a copy? it's a rare ep that won't have another pressing... let me know

xo