Marking Territory

Hi! I'm alive.

So I was laid off from my quick cash job. Pretty much the best thing ever. Didn't really like the job and it has given me the opportunity to live the gypsy lifestyle. I am currently blogging from a tent just outside of Roswell, NM. Why am I here? I'm selling fireworks. It's pretty fucking sweet.
There's a tv and Xbox with dvds. What's up The Adventures of Pete & Pete? Mini fridge and a Foreman grill.
So far I have survived a thunderstorm and a moth plague. It's hot and humid during the day but that's ok because it is a hell of a lot better than sitting in an office or trying to sell furniture.
I'm taking the time to get some reading and hooping in.
This down time is precious.

This shit is whack, yo!

Banks. Credit cards. Late fees. Monthly maintenance fees. All of it. 100% whack!  I totally could have done without them. 

I’m on the hunt for a new bank. I am no longer getting direct deposit so Bank of America is debiting my checking account $8.95. RUDE.  To a new bank I go. It’s either Wells Fargo or Compass. Both offer checking accounts with no monthly fees and customizable check cards. But Wells Fargo is a national bank while Compass is not. What to do? What to do?

I still have yet to get back into that highly motivated state of mind. I feel like loafing around when I get off of work. Eight hours on your feet suck! I can’t wait for this job to be over. Bah!

I got a lot of thinking and planning to do in the coming months. A huge yard sale is in order. I’m getting rid of everything except some clothing, makeup, some books and jewelry. Everything else must go. Stay tuned for the yard sale date.

I need to work on new routines. I want to get a veil poi or voi routine in the works. I also need to work on a bellydance piece. I also need to work on a bellydance piece for a show on the 27th of this month. Fun fun fun!

Enough bitching.

Have some cute.

More pictures!!

     

All photos by Elizabeth Greene and you can see the rest of the performers pictures here. Elizabeth did a fantastic job!!

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Man I’m behind. I started a as I like to call it “quick cash” job. Just something to pay the bills and fund other business ventures. It’s a nice temp/summer job at a furniture store that is going out of business. Totally glamorous I know. But my co-workers are a rag tag bunch of gypsies, transplants and maybe thieves of the non bitchy and backstabbing type. Yay!

Have you ever had one of those days were you have a lot to do but you don’t want to do them because it’s your day off? That’s today.

Here’s to me trying to get back on track.

Speaking of furniture…….

The Greatest Tits Pics

 

Photo by Chris Slocumb.

I love how he named all the shots “crazy”. HA!!

More of me undressed to come.

Your Life Will Never Be the Same

Burlesque Film Opening This Monday (5/18) at the Guild Cinema
A WINK AND A SMILE

May 18-21 ( Monday - Thursday) 3:30, 5:30. 7:30

Director in person at the 7:30 shows!! Plus short live performances by  BURLESQUE NOIR!
Dir. Deirdre Allen Timmons - 2008 - 91m An intoxicating mix of private thoughts and public behavior, A Wink and a Smile exposes more than the human body by putting gender, power, sexuality and social identity under the glittery spotlight, as it follows the lives of ten "ordinary" women who do something extraordinary – learn the art burlesque dancing and striptease. Through their adventures, we see how a homemaker, a reporter, a doctor, an opera singer, a taxidermist and a college student, join the American cultural revival of burlesque, as it moves from fringe fascination to mainstream obsession, engaging a world where performance art and showgirl spectacle, music, theater and sensuality crash into over-the-top glamour - a world where many want to go, but very few dare. Here's the trailer.

ETA: Windows Live Writer Pwns when blogging.

(Film synopsis taken from Guild Cinema website)

I need to learn how to hoop dance!

I need to learn how to hoop dance because:

1. It’s an amazing workout
2. It’s fun
3. I want to eventually do fire hoop.
4. When I saw the Suicide Girls burlesque show there was this really cute girl doing burlesque piece to Elvis while hooping. It was damn good and the only really good thing about that show.

Good thing there’s a group here in Albuquerque that specializes in hooping. Yay! They meet every Sunday at 11a.m. at Bataan Park, Lomas and Amherst - next to Walgreens.  I know what I’m doing next Sunday morning. Join me!!

Now, some hoopers!

 

LOOK AT HOW FRAKKING TONED SHE IS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Excuse me while I mop up the drool from my keyboard. Gah!

 

I really want to get the Hoopnotica dvd when I get the moneys. For the time being, I will gladly enjoy my Sundays in the park hopefully getting some one on one instruction for free.

Bonus : How to make your own hoop.

People of Earth

I am going to give you advice. Take it or leave it but its good advice. Stop focusing on all the shit around you. Your life is shit because you are just focusing on the shit. Stop it. Be grateful for a lot of things in life but quit with the shit focusing. God damn. Its your life. I'm only saying it once.

Christina Aguilera to star in ‘Burlesque’

It’s official. Christina Aguilera has confirmed to play a burlesque dancer in the film “Burlesque”. The film is written by Steven Antin, brother to Robin Antin of Pussycat Doll fame.  Yeah.

My gut reaction to this project is to automatically dismiss it. I don’t like Christina or the Pussycat Dolls. I don’t really think of the Pussycat Dolls as a burlesque act. They just sing in their underwear. I don’t get it. The plot sounds like every stripper/hooker with a heart of gold movie out there:

“Aguilera will play an ambitious small-town girl with a big voice who finds love, family and success in a Los Angeles neo-burlesque club that appears to be right out of Bob Fosse's "Cabaret."”

Hmmm.  Sounds a lot like Flashdance and Showgirls. Nomi was from a small town too. All she wanted to do was be a dancer. And look at all the shenanigans she got into!!

Let me guess, she falls in love with her manager, but SURPRISE, he turns out to be a scumbag.  After some shaming, fall from grace, she receives help and redemption from her “family of dancers” played by the Pussycat Dolls. She falls in love with the only man to ever believe in her ,an audience member who frequents her shows, and live happily ever after. Awwww.

I can’t wait to snark this. Please, pay me to see this.  I can only hope it is as LOL worthy as Showgirls and somebody gets pushed down the stairs. 

I know. I know. I’m prejudging something that could be great. Who knows?  But I have a tendency to roll my eyes at any  watered–down project Hollywood lays it’s hands on these days.

Burlesque Inspiration : Bollywood

 

Madhuri Dixit-Nene in Khalnayak

If I could live my life like a musical I would want it to be a Bollywood movie.  Every time I needed to proclaim my love for my boyfriend or need to pray for rain, I want a fully choreographed eight minute long dance sequence complete with women  dressed in gorgeous  saris and lots of drums!!!!!!!!!

I absolutely love the picture up top. It’s from a movie called Khalnyak . I haven’t seen it yet but I loooooove the dance sequence.  The song is called '”Cholie Ke Peeche Kya Hai” which means “What’s behind the blouse?'”  I want to wear that outfit everyday.

I will dance on a train.

Go rent Lagaan right now!! It makes the game of cricket interesting.

Burlesque Noir has a Bollywood themed piece called “Saggy Paneer” but it’s not loading on Youtube. :( Rude.

Instead, pictures to inspire!

We’re the dancers.

Hi, I’m gorgeous.

Video made of win. Bollywood disco done right by my girl M.I.A.


The original song which M.I.A. sampled. It's made of LOL!