This Sunday (May 13) on SuicideGirls Radio, LA punk rockers The Plexikill will be live in-studio. Moxi Suicide will also be joining us to add a little spice to the mix!
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The Plexikill formed in September of 2009. At the time, members included Alfredo Gonzalez (guitar/lead vocals), Steve Vallera (bass/vocals), and Chris Vargas (drums.) Current members are Alfredo Gonzalez, Steve Vallera and Rosie Gonce. The Plexikill’s style is straightforward, melodic punk rock without the “bubble gum” aspect, which is so common within the genre instead opting for some depth in lyrical content and singing about life and some social political issues. Some of the band’s influences include The Clash, The Jam, Stiff Little Fingers, The Buzzcocks, & Billy Bragg.
Alfredo was a founding member of the punk rock band Madcap who had two releases on SideOneDummy Records (Flogging Molly, Gas light anthem, The sounds). In 2011 Chris Vargas parted ways with the band to pursue new challenges in music on and off stage. Rosie Gonce of The Bitchfits joined the band as drummer.
The Plexikill recorded their first album in December 2009 with Nick Rucker and January of 2010 with producer, Donnell Cameron (NOFX, Bad Religion, The offspring), at Westbeach Recorders. Dubbed on a 2” analog machine and without the aid of digital enhancement, their debut “Taking the hard way back home” came out October 5th 2010 on Fallen Angel Records. The goal of this band is much the same as Alfredo’s former band Madcap; to deliver a great live show, all the time, every time, and keep touring. Peter Finestone (Bad Religion drummer 1981-1991) was quoted saying “The Plexikill is probably on of the best punk rock band to come out of the Eagle Rock/Highland park area in years”
Currently the band is in the process of recording their second full length which should come out at the end of 2012.
Above: (Left) OccupyLA’s First GA, October 1, 2011 / (Right) their special May Day GA, May 1, 2012. Both were at Pershing Square in Downtown LA.
We last had the folks from OccupyLA in the SG Radio studio on October 6th, 2011. Since then, a lot has happened for them – and the Occupy movement as a whole.
Back then, OccupyLA’s occupation of the grounds outside City Hall was barely a week old, and no one had much idea of what the future might hold. Certainly few outsiders would have predicted they’d be alive and kicking seven months on.
Though they lost their permanent encampment in early December, 2011, after a brutal police raid, you can’t evict an idea – and OccupyLA had a big one – to mark International Workers’ Day with a massive day of action.
The resolution, which was first tabled by members of OccupyLA in a General Assembly (GA) held in November 2011, was taken up by other occupations nationwide, and on May 1st thousands of people in well over 100 cities participated in the May Day General Strike.
Above: Many experience their first GA on May Day in DTLA.
In Los Angels, the day was marked with marches from the 4 Winds in the North, South, East, and West corners of the sprawling metropolis, which converged with other immigrant/workers rights protests in Downtown LA. A special OccupyLA May Day GA was then held in the evening in Pershing Square, where it all began.
By sundown, Pershing Square was packed, with many new and perspective occupiers experiencing a GA for the first time. The overwhelming sense of camaraderie emitted by the large crowd was palpable, as strangers were quickly united by a common goal and the process of radical and truly representative democracy.
The momentum of the movement (that most in the mainstream seriously underestimate) continues as the focus shifts to Chicago, with large gatherings and protests planned in honor of the People’s Summit, NATO, and the (hastily relocated) G8.
On Sunday, as OccupyLA encamps in the SuicideGirls Radio studio, we’ll be reflecting on May Day, celebrating the many triumphs of the movement, and talking about its future hopes, dreams, and grounded, pragmatic and attainable goals.
We’ll also be hearing from our good friend George from Occupy affinity group 99% Solidarity. He’ll be calling in from NYC to give us the skinny on the FREE Chicago bus trips the group is organizing to coincide with the various planned protests there later this month. For more details visit: 99solidarity.com/chicago/
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April 29th, 2012 by suicidegirlsradio | No Comments »
[Moxi Suicide in Marquee]
This Sunday (April 29) on SuicideGirls Radio, host Nicole Powers (SG’s Managing Editor) will be joined live in-studio by Moxi Suicide.
Moxi has modeled for SuicideGirls since 2008. She is a self proclaimed sexpert and a passionate advocate for gay rights and women’s sexual exploration. She enjoys seeing live music in her spare time.
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March 30th, 2012 by suicidegirlsradio | No Comments »
This Sunday (April 1st) on SuicideGirls Radio we have a real treat for music aficionados. SG Radio host Nicole Powers (SG’s Managing Editor) will be chatting with Buzz Osborne of The Melvins. He’ll be delving into his personal music collection, spinning tracks from the band’s new EP, The Bulls & The Bees, and giving us an exclusive preview of cuts from their forthcoming album Freak Puke.
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Guitarist, singer and songwriter Buzz Osborne is the founder and driving force behind seminal post punk band the Melvins, an outfit beloved by music fans that has defied definition for close to three decades.
The Melvins have just released a new EP, The Bulls & The Bees, which is free to download thanks to sponsorship from Scion. The band will be heading out on tour to support the new EP from April 11 to May 11.
Freak Puke, a new full-length album by Melvins Lite, a new incarnation of the Melvins that features Buzz, longtime drummer Dale Crover, and stand-up bassist Trevor Dunn (from Mr. Bungle, Fantomas and Tomahawk) will be unleashed on June 5.
March 23rd, 2012 by suicidegirlsradio | No Comments »
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This Sunday (March 25) on SuicideGirls Radio we’ll be talking nerdy and getting the skinny on the best ways to find love online. Co-hosts Nicole Powers (SG’s Managing Editor) and Darrah de jour (SG’s Red, White and Femme columnist and resident sensuality expert), will be joined in-studio by lifecaster, SG contributor, and computer dating expert Jen Friel and her co-hort Jenn Hoffman, a writer, blogger, entertainer and entrepreneur. The pair can be seen performing together in The Dirty Truth About Nerdy Girls stage show, which chronicles their hilarious adventures while looking for Mr. Right (and Mr. Right Now) on OKCupid.
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Join Jen Friel, Jenn Hoffman and friends for the Talk Nerdy To Me, Lover live stage show, The Dirty Truth About Nerdy Girls, on Friday, March 23 at 9:30 PM at The Little Modern Theater in Hollywood, CA. For more info visit: talknerdytomelover.com/stage-show/
Jen is a lifecaster and corporate sponsored minimalist. She went out on over 103 dates in 9 months while couch surfing for a year building her website and bartering social media to live. Consequently, she’s an accidental expert on online dating. You can read all about her ongoing adventures on OKCupid at TalkNerdyToMeLover.com/
As her blog states, Jenn is a “nerdy girl in a Barbie world.” She’s a writer and entrepreneur, and is the founder of GirlsIRL – an organization that brings female bloggers together with sponsorships, finance and other resources.
Jennifer grew up in Huntington, NY. After graduating from school at age 16, she earned her degree in Sociology and Communication from Arizona State University in 2001, and her MBA in marketing / organizational management in 2005. She also spent a semester studying literature abroad at Cambridge University in England.
Jenn started her career as a corporate publicist, then created Get Some Media, a PR and production firm focused on television and new media. In 2007 Jenn was picked by Donald Trump to be on his hit television series The Apprentice. She is also a host and face of Reality Wanted, the world’s biggest reality news and casting site. After The Apprentice, Jenn became a news reporter for NBC and a host on The Style Network.
February 24th, 2012 by suicidegirlsradio | No Comments »
This Sunday (Feb 26) on SuicideGirls Radio we have an outrageously awesome and bodaciously badass music lineup. SG Radio hosts Nicole Powers (SG’s Managing Editor) and Lacey Conner (our resident recovering reality TV star from VH1′s Rock of Love and Charm School) will be joined in-studio by industrial-pop princess Porcelain Black, wax ‘n’ Webslinger 4th Pyramid, and raucous hip-hop reprobate Mickey Avalon.
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_About Porcelain Black
“Everything that I do is a mix of light and dark,” says Porcelain Black. “The contrast represents my music, my hair, my personality.” Fusing hard-hitting rock roots with the sticky, pulsating beats of 2101 label head and producer RedOne (Usher, U2, Jennifer Lopez, Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, Lady Gaga), Black has created a sound she likens to the would-be offspring of Marilyn Manson and Britney Spears. “It’s industrial, dark, danceable pop,” she says. “Bad ass and positive.”
While visiting RedOne’s studio in November 2009 Black’s vibe and epic vocals made an instant impact. “I wanted to sign her on the spot,” RedOne recalls. “She reminded me of Joan Jett. She’s got it all: the attitude, the talent, the look. She can scream and do things with her voice that nobody can do. She is uncompromising in pursuing her own creative vision. She’s taking everything that’s old and making it futuristic and bringing rock and roll back in her own way.”
Now, signed to 2101 Records via a joint venture with Universal Republic Records, Black has just released her second single, “Naughty Naughty.” The song follows her successful first single “This Is What Rock N Roll Looks Like” Feat. Lil Wayne. Both tracks fuse roaring guitars with thunderous dance-pop, a vibe maintained throughout most of her daring, not-yet-titled debut. “Rock & roll is about attitude,” says the heavily tattooed singer, who was once asked by Courtney Love to sing backup when the alt rocker found her on MySpace under Porcelain and the Tramps. “We’re the kids that belong to the night, but just because you’re a badass doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. Rock & roll is about embracing people.”
_About 4th Pyramid
4th Pyramid is a MC/Producer/Songwriter from Toronto, Canada. Coming up the ranks as a producer and engineer, 4th Pyramid has quietly stacked credits for the Black Eyed Peas, members of Wu-Tang Clan, MF Doom, and Pete Rock, while licensing his own tunes with Sprite, Scion, and various feature films. Pyramid is also one-half of the DJ/production team The Sheen Bros, along with Cosmo Baker, and together the duo released their 2011 EP through Scion’s A/V label. In December 2011, Pyramid launched his own imprint, Silk Ivory, a boutique label that was quickly signed to Universal Music. 4th Pyramid will release his debut solo album, The Pyramid Scheme, on March 6, 2012.
_About Mickey Avalon
Mickey Avalon’s back-story begins on the streets of Hollywood, California. Raised by his heroin-addicted father, he began selling pot at a young age, a trade he acquired from his mother. In an attempt to clean up his act, Mickey converted to Orthodox Judaism in his late teens, an effort that didn’t last due to constant family tragedy.
After the deaths of both his father and sister, Mickey decided that he wanted more out of life. Having hit rock bottom after the breakup of his marriage, Avalon moved from Portland back to Los Angeles, and chose to make one final attempt to clean up his act. Shortly after his return, Mickey was befriended by ex-MTV VJ Simon Rex (aka Dirt Nasty), who encouraged Avalon to pursue his passion of hip-hop and even collaborated with him on some tracks. At the time, Avalon was staying in a sober living facility and had a strict curfew, so Dirt Nasty began passing out Mickey’s demo at Hollywood clubs, which helped Mickey develop a following among fans of the Los Angeles nightclub scene.
As Mickey’s popularity grew, he began to sell out clubs throughout California with his legendary live show. Soon after Interscope Records took notice of the guerilla promotions tactics and signed Avalon to the label. Through Interscope, Avalon released his now classic self-titled debut album, which showcased his unique rhyming style and indulgent lyrics. Inspired by his experiences on the streets with drugs and prostitution, the raw honesty of his songs immediately resonated with audiences. Fan favorites “Jane Fonda,” “Mr. Right” and “My Dick” quickly spread across the internet and mainstream radio, turning Mickey Avalon into a household name.
After years spent confined by industry red tape, Mickey Avalon has returned with a brand new album Loaded, which takes fans on a journey through the seedy streets of Hollywood. It is the soundtrack to one the most debauched tales of rock & roll. Filled with excess and exploding with sexual energy, Avalon’s music embraces decadence and celebrates its hedonistic glory. Mickey Avalon simply appeals to voyeuristic side of all of us that want to indulge, let loose and get Loaded.
“It’s a race to the bottom all around the world right now. Canada, Germany, the US, and the UK, as well as the rest of the EU, are basically locked in a race to see who can implement 1984 the fastest.”
- Cory Doctorow
“Omfgomfgomfgomfgomfg you have no idea how amazing you are!!!!!” was the exact turn of phrase used by my Twitter friend @EisMC2 when I told her I’d just interviewed Little Brother author Cory Doctorow and had returned with a signed copy of the book for her. Indeed it was @EisMC2 and her fiancé @JackalAnon who first turned me on to Doctorow’s epic updated spin on George Orwell’s Big Brother vision, which was first published in 2007. Uncannily prophetic, the novel serves as a veritable playbook for the Occupy movement, and with online pranksters turned hacktivists as its heroic protagonists, it is also an inspirational work for many Anons (hence the need for at least five omfgs). Combining an action packed and V-relevant plot with a solid historical perspective on activism, in retrospect, Little Brother may be considered one of the great civil liberties texts of our time.
The math, science, and sociopolitical commentary spun into the prose of Little Brother is pure genius, while the story makes for a gripping reading experience. As @EisMC2 puts it, Doctorow has a knack “for distributing the #Truth in a manner everyone can understand.” For example, during an expository paragraph regarding a key plot point, Doctorow also manages to simply and concisely explain how Bayesian mathematics (which puts the spam in your filter) is being deployed in an unscientific way to find “statistically abnormal” people to put under the security microscope – irrespective of whether they’re actually likely to have done anything wrong. Even if advanced probability theory isn’t your thing, by the time you’ve finished Little Brother, you’ll have a deep understanding of how this kind of statistical analysis – which government agencies routinely rely on to make policy and find targets in the war of terror – can be misinterpreted and manipulated with chilling effect.
Though set in an unspecified near future, much of the fictional dystopian world Doctorow depicted when he wrote Little Brother five years ago is now a reality (such as the indefinite detention of US citizens without trial or due process). It’s a tale of terrorism, society’s overreation to it, the psychology of fear, and the erosion of our constitutional rights. It also contains many elements occupiers will be all too familiar with: protests, out of control cops, pepper spray, tear gas, smoke bombs, police brutality, and a biased and lazy media “reporting” on it all.
For more on Cory Doctorow visit craphound.com/. A free copy of Little Brother can be downloaded under a Creative Commons license here.
A staged version of Little Brother by The Custom Made Theatre Co. is currently playing through February 25 in San Francisco. Visit Custommade.org for full details.
February 17th, 2012 by suicidegirlsradio | No Comments »
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This Sunday (Feb 19) we’re having a women’s writers’ retreat in the SG Radio Studio. Hosts Nicole Powers (SG’s Managing Editor) and Darrah de jour (SG’s resident post-feminist sex and sensuality expert) will be joined in studio by Love Junkie author and Writers on Fire coach Rachel Resnick and her frenemy, actress, comedian, playwright and author Lauren Weedman, a.k.a. Horny Patty (we’re told by Rachel that she had that nickname prior to her “cameo” in HBO’s Hung!). The two met online on a UCLA Book Proposal Writing course, and have been unhealthily competitive ever since. We therefore expect the claws to be out and the sparks to fly, so it should be a fun show.
When Darrah’s not steering the conversation towards the topic of porn or polyamory, and Nicole’s not banging on about Occupy, ACTA or the freakin’ NDAA, we’ll be more or less on topic, yakking about writing. That’s right. Writing. Like, books ‘n’ shit. Stories. Sketches. Plays. Real writing. Surreal writing. Automatic writing. Manual writing. And ghost writing. Since doing this shit is hard. Very hard. Like if you’re JK Rowling rich, fuck it, you should just pay someone else to do it and go get your nails done. Really. But if you’re not, and you’re embarrassed to let people even read your diary – not because it’s too juicy or cringe-worthy, but because it’s too dull – tune in to find out how to make boring shit sound fun, shameless stuff shameful (in a good way), and how to plain just make cool, uncool, and awesomely wrong stuff up.
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Rachel Resnick is the author most recently of the SoCal Indie bestselling memoir Love Junkie. Also the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick, her articles, essays and celebrity profiles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Marie Claire, Women’s Health, BlackBook and others. She is a contributing editor at Tin House, and the founder of Writers on Fire. She graduated from Yale, holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College, and lives in Topanga Canyon up the street from where Charles Manson used to park his bus. She once wrote, “I’m here for internal arson. Don’t touch me.”
Currently she is working on a new memoir, From Love Junkie To Culinary Virgin; and a forthcoming non-fiction anthology and writing guide, The Writers On Fire Reader: How To Add Adventure To Your Writing, And Your Life.
A groundbreaking, compulsively readable memoir, Love Junkie charts Resnick’s path from destructive love to intimacy, from despair to hope, and cracks open one of our more elusive and pervasive modern-day addictions. Looking back over years of failed relationships, Resnick identifies a lifelong addiction to love – an addiction to the unfulfilled fantasy of romantic bliss, marriage, and family, and to a string of sexual relationships that only carry her farther from that dream. As she peels back one raw layer after another, she must eventually confront the painful experiences of her childhood-and the difficult work of recovery that lies ahead.
She has taught in and lectured at major writing programs, among them UCLA Extension Writers Program, USC Professional Writing Program, Loyola Marymount, mediabistro.com, Cal Arts, Stanford, LACC, Chapman, Whittier, Emerson, Antioch, UC Riverside/Palm Desert. Resnick is also a seasoned public speaker and moderator who’s spoken everywhere from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books to Yale University symposiums to a UN-affiliated event. Slake nominated her for a 2011 James Beard Award, the M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing award for her culinary essay “Natural-Born Butcher.” She coaches privately with a select few each year; and runs Writers On Fire writing retreats and workshops in Hawaii, France, Spain, Italy, Uruguay, Desert Hot Springs and Los Angeles.
Resnick is a Literary Alchemist, “Transforming Your Deeper Truth Into Story.” Known as a motivational asskicker, she helps people achieve creative breakthroughs and change their lives. Recently she launched the Whole Writer Program, which takes a holistic approach to overcoming writing blocks both personal and technical. Writers On Fire addresses and integrates mind, body and spirit. “This retreat saved my life.” Ann Carli, film producer, music fairy godmother, and writer. She attended the first Writers On Fire at The Oasis retreat with a five-year-long writing block, and her health was failing. One year later, she’s halfway through a novel, her health and self-care have improved radically, and she’s returning for the second Oasis retreat Feb. 26-28. Come join!
After studying, writing and performing in Amsterdam for five years, Lauren returned to the States with a bang. Her first play, Homecoming, began as a 15-minute performance art piece that grew into a full-length show that ultimately toured with the Seattle Repertory Theatre. Later that year, Homecoming was featured at HBO’s U.S. Comedy Arts Festival and later found it’s way to New York City. The show also earned Lauren the honor of being published in Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2002.
The Empty Space Theatre in Seattle commissioned her to do her first musical solo show, Amsterdam (with music and lyrics by James Palmer), and then commissioned her next piece, a solo musical about fame and death called Rash (with music by David Russell), which was recognized by The Seattle Times’ Footlight Awards, with nods for both Best New Play and Best Solo Performance. Lauren’s subsequent show, Wreckage (directed by Jeff Weatherford) told the story of a woman haunted by a horrific lie told in college. After a successful run at the Upright Citizens brigade theatre in Los Angeles, it was selected for The NOW Theatre Festival at the Redcat Theatre.
Some subjects that Lauren has been attracted to in her solo works have been gay adoption, race, death anxiety, fame, stalking, lies, and women in the penal system. Bust, another Empty Space commission, is about her work as a volunteer in the Los Angeles County jail with the organization Friends Outside. It was voted Best of the Arts by The Seattle Times, Seattle Magazine and Boise Weekly. Her performance landed her on the cover of LA Weekly’s Comedy Issue, while her Bust playwriting garnered an Alpert Award.
Her newest show No..You Shutup was commissioned by Boise Contemporary Theater. It was featured as part of Los Angeles’ Redcat Theater New Works festival and is currently touring. Lauren’s work is political / absurdist / realist / physical-dance / situational and comedic with an overall goal of being a narrative solo work. With a background in improvisation, she develops her work on her feet, rarely writing down more than sound cues and rough outlines. Over the years she has become known for her character work and self-deprecating incisive humor that allow the audience to laugh and follow her into awkward, dark, human situations.
Lauren has contributed short stories to Slake magazine and Swivel. Her short story “Diary of a Journal Reader” was also included in Dave Eggars’ Best of Non Required Reading 2007. Sasquatch Books released her first book, a collection of comedic essays, A Woman Trapped In A Woman’s Body (Tales From A Life Of Cringe), which the Kirkus Review identified as one of the Top Ten Indy Books of 2007.
Lauren currently lives and performs in Los Angeles. She made her television debut on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart as a featured correspondent, and has appeared multiple times on Reno 911, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and True Blood. Lauren appeared on the HBO series Hung as Horny Patty, as well as opposite Eddie Murphy in Imagine That and opposite Steve Carell and Tina Fey in Date Night. In the spring of 2012 she can be seen starring with Jason Segal and Emily Blunt in Five Year Engagement.
Post-feminist sex and sensuality expert Darrah de jour is a freelance journalist who lives in LA with her dog Oscar Wilde. Her writing has appeared in Marie Claire, Esquire and W. In her “Red, White and Femme: Strapped With A Brain – And A Vagina” columns for SuicideGirls, Darrah takes a fresh look at females in America.
February 3rd, 2012 by suicidegirlsradio | No Comments »
This Sunday (Feb 5) on SuicideGirls Radio we’ll be learning How to Survive the Apocalypse with A Burning Opera, a musical extravaganza inspired by Burning Man, which is returning to Hollywood’s King King (Feb 21-23) after a successful run this past summer. SG Radio hosts Nicole Powers (SG’s Managing Editor) and Lacey Conner (our resident recovering reality TV star from VH1′s Rock of Love and Charm School) will be joined in-studio by Mark Nichols (The Burning Opera ’s composer), Daphne Vega (one of the LA producers), and a couple of the LA cast members.
Tune in to the world’s leading naked radio show for two hours of totally awesome tunes and extreme conversation – and don’t let yo’ momma listen in!
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About How to Survive the Apocalypse: A Burning Opera
Following a successful run in Los Angeles in the summer of 2011, How to Survive the Apocalypse: A Burning Opera is returning to the metropolis for a three night extravaganza of evolution and transformation. Inspired by the origins and ongoing mutation of the notorious Burning Man festival, the show –– which LA Weekly called a “rousing, mythic rock pageant” –– follows two newbies at the desert festival. Their story unfolds through shadow-puppets, projections, dancers, and a live rock ensemble.
The origins of How to Survive the Apocalypse lie in a Porta-Potty line at Burning Man in 2006. Ron Meiners made the comment to a friend that only opera could capture the multidimensional experience of the festival. Composer Mark Nichols, in line with his singer partner Julie Lewis, overheard the remark. As a stalwart figure in the Seattle music scene who had already written a number of demented pieces of musical theatre, Nichols loved the idea. Meiners brought in lyricist Erik Davis, a cult author and journalist who had been attending and writing about Burning Man since 1994. Davis in turn brought in director Christopher Fulling. With producer and creative advisor Dana Harrison in tow, the main team was assembled and creative obsession began.
How to Survive the Apocalypse: A Burning Opera was scored by Mark Nichols, with libretto by noted counterculture writer Erik Davis. Inspired by “the Burn,” the show combines rock opera, an electronic dance party, and a pagan revival show. The workshop version premiered in early 2009 at Stage Werx in San Francisco, and the Original Cast version ran in October the same year, with nine sold-out performances at Teatro ZinZanni.
San Francisco Bay Guardian theater critic Steve Jones wrote that the show is “both engrossing musical theater in its own right and a piece of art that truly captures the feel of the event and the Zeitgeist of its attendees.” Writing about the Ghostlight Gypsies’ successful production of the show in Los Angeles this past summer, co-directed by Nichols, Stephan Hues, and Julie Lewis, the LA Weekly’s Bill Raden raved about the show’s “anarchic spirit,” and described the show’s score as “a Hair-era musical vocabulary of R&B and acid rock by way of Kurt Weill.”
Today the project continues to evolve through the vision of Ghostlight Gypsies. The latest incarnation of How To Survive the Apocalypse takes place on February 21-23, 2012 in Hollywood at King King (6555 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028). The event is 21 and over. For more info and tickets visit: www.ghostlightgypsies.com/
The Original Cast recording of How to Survive the Apocalypse: A Burning Opera is available in the form of an abridged one-disc version of the show. The album was recorded and produced shortly after the 2009 Original Cast run. For more on the Original Cast recording visit: www.burningopera.com/
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About Lacey Conner
Given Lacey’s musical background, as well as her love for television entertainment, she has found a way to combine her two passions, by joining forces with Vh1. Lacey is best known for her villainous ways on Vh1′s hit tv show Rock of Love with Bret Michaels, as well as her role on Vh1′s highly rated show Charm School with Sharon Osbourne.
However, Lacey has many sides to her career. She is also a singer, song-writer, and bass player, and has toured the U.S. multiple times as a singer with Lords of Acid, and with her rock band Nocturne. Lacey’s is also a dedicated supporter of animal rights and has worked tirelessly in the field of animal rescue. In May of 2007, Lacey created Heroes K9 Rescue, an organization which rescues animals who are scheduled to be euthanized at Los Angeles’ over-crowded city shelters. Lacey is also an advocate of human rights, as well as the environment, and strongly supports many organizations that are involved with these causes.
Her new single, “The Stranger,” which Lacey wrote and performed, was produced by Anthony Mysliwiec (aka “Tadpole”) and recorded by David Rieley (godaveygo.com). The accompanying video, directed by Chad Michael Ward, features Aaron Rossi (of Ministry) on drums, Brent Ashely (of Wayne Static & Orgy) on bass, Meegs Rascon (of Coal Chamber & We Are The Riot) on guitar, and Trevor Friedrich (of Combichrist & Imperative Reaction) as the “lead Wolf.” Check it out here.
February 1st, 2012 by suicidegirlsradio | No Comments »
[Above L-R: Mariel, Darrah, Bobby, and Lacey]
This past Sunday (January 30), SG radio presenters Nicole Powers (SG’s Managing Ed), Lacey Conner (all round rockstar and recovering VH1 reality TV star), and Darrah de jour (SG’s Red, White & Femme post-feminist sex and sensuality columnist) were joined in studio by actress turned lifestyle guru Mariel Hemingway, and her partner, stuntman and fitness expert Bobby Williams. Together they have developed a holistic regimen, which they call The Willing Way.
The pair spent a full two hours in the SG Radio studio explaining their all-encompassing mind, body, and soul philosophy. Going from yin to yang, we discussed the importance of getting enough sunlight in your life (Mariel and Bobby like to watch the sun rise and set each day, though they avoid the burning midday rays), and how to keep darkness at bay. With her life having been touched by several suicides, Mariel spoke about how she battled her own depressive tendencies, and how she has empowered herself to find a sense of wellbeing.
This being SG Radio, there was also plenty of laughter, and lots of conversation on our favorite subject – sex. Thus, the first hour of our show was devoted to talk of orgasms – and the importance of having a healthy diet of them, in order to achieve a truly balanced life.
