Yep, you guessed it.

Amazing picture from Rockabaret



Well done, Francis

I should have more stills later, but for now, two pictures from my pre-performance art instillation - a live painting. The portrait now hangs happily on my wall, and the sitter will be taking it home soon for a small fee.






Photos : ©Jaxwood Photography
© Rockabaret 2007

EVENT:
Our Lady of Loretto
24 Fair Street
Cold Spring NY

Sept. 7-9 100th Anniversary Festival, music, entertainment, games, food. Fri. 6-10pm, Sat. 2-10pm, Sun. 2-5pm

SHOW:
The Royal Baritarian Puppet Players present The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson
Sunday September 9th, at some point between 2 and 5pm at Our Lady of Loretto - Outdoors

PREVIEW:



PRICE:
free!


Adapted by Elisabeth Haberstroh
Performed, Constructed and Designed by Fyodor A. Pavlov, Lawrence Gullo, and Elisabeth Haberstroh

Fending off those filthy republicans. Long Live the King!

I just nabbed some stills from the videos of my Dorian Gray theme puppet performance, inspired by the different sorts of puppetry I saw in Prague. The stills look great, I think.. I hope the video comes out good too!







More if you click on 'em.

Me as Fred Hughes in Xavior's Andy Warhol musical! Pictures by Suzi Livingstone. Check them out!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/froupster/sets/72157594397619054/

The real Fred:

Ulli, a truly amazing photographer, took pictures at Liza Night. Here's one of them.



Joel Grey, eat your heart out.

Ladies and "Gentle" men... Paul Saint Paul and the Apostles!!!



Yeah... this would be a great band photo if it weren't for poor Saint Theo being cropped! Ah well. It shall be the template for my first comic cover.

( More pics, with commentary )

"How about...psstpsstpsstpsst ...and then... psstpsstpsstpsst ...dental dam..."



I am a robot doll baby.

note to self: ask Xav if I can change my apostle name to Saint Valentine. I'm already nervous about using my real first name in this band. It's too kooky! And my character needs a backstory.. I'm hovering between escaping from a mental asylum (hardcore.. like Bedlam) or being the creation of a mad scientist. Cause nothing can go wrong if mad science is involved.

There is also an AMAZING picture of a drunken fan being pulled off stage. AND I AM BLOWING BUBBLES ANGRILY! OH man.. fat drunken slob. She should be out album cover. Not posted here because I'm too tired. More tomorrow if you behave yourself.

Yyyyeaaaahh!

( proof )


I want her to be my photo/art model 4 EVR.

The Artist woke one day to discover he had reached new heights of eccentricity. Answering the telephone at noon, he tried to mask his voice to seem as though he hadn't been disturbed from deep slumber. He peeled back his bedclothes to discover he'd been sleeping in the nude, next to two of his pens.

My body felt absolutely dead yesterday. It came to the point where I wanted to get out of bed, but physically couldn't. I need to take it easy on myself.

Yes. So. Friday. Incredible night at Goldsmiths college at a GBST History Month Event hosted by the lovely and dapper Gemma Weeks, at which the Hanky Panky Players were requested to perform. It was a tea party, and cabaret ( I of course indulged in both). and one of the best theatre experiences of my life. I felt a little ill (I couldn't eat all day) because of nerves, but it wasn't nearly as bad as usual, because I was well-rehearsed and had loads of faith in my fellow performers.

The line up was pretty amazing. Some solo singers, sexy and unique burlesque dancers, two theatrical troupes, Hazel's dramatic readings, and Lucy and my Oscar WIlde animation.

Now, we had been missing our Cecil Cardew for a while, and recruited someone from the other troupe (Boyfriend Robotique) to fill in. He did so with uncanny agility, making for a quite different and quite entertaining Cecil. In turn, I was asked to fill in for one of their wayward players, and did some incredibly last-minute character building, which seemed to go over quite well, but more importantly, was exceedingly fun! I played Roderick P Bruce, editor of P.S. I Love You Magazine, husband of Margaret Thatcher, lover of Elizabeth I, and Angela Lansbury's tempermental boss. (WTF?!)
Hopefully I can get some stills of that one, because it was (for the first time perhaps?) the bit of last minute performance that I was in no way frightened of, and found exhilerating.

Earnest (with the kind help of our two replacements, John Joseph and Mary) went over wonderfully! That Third Act was kindly documented by Alison.



I'm waiting for some more pics.

The burlesque acts, people. Amazing. I think that if someone asked me "So we're going to a burlesque show. Want to come?" I would reply, "Eehh... no. They never have the type of burlesque I like." I would be wrong about these. They were as if I had designed them to please myself! What do I like in my sexy?

1. Ballerina on point stripping down to a corset - CHECK.
2. Lesbian Master and Maid in which the master is dominated at the end - CHECK.
3. Man in vintage formalwear stripping down to tassles to live music provided by a crooning second man in a vintage tux - CHECK.

I wish I'd seen more of them, but they performed many times while I was changing. Everyone (especially the burlesque dancers) was so kind to me, and I made some wonderful and talented new friends.

Waiting for more images to show, but for now... have this.

( Impotence of Being Earnest Dance of Repression Animated GIF! )

Click for Pictures of Hanky Panky's Impotence of Being Earnest.



OMGWTFALGY.

Here are some choice moments from the rehearsal and tech setup of Oscar Wilde Night at Hanky Panky. I was behind the camera, so no pics of me, however, I hope to get a copy of the recording so i can take some choice performance caps.


"Mr. Xavior Roide. You do not happen to be an employee of the infamous Mollyhouse, the Purple Poppy, do you?"
"How dare you, my Lord, insinuate that I may be unemployed!"

( More Photographic evidence )

Much fun was had. The night was an alchemic balance of emotion, beauty, sorrow, laughter, surrealism, and absurdity.

Pictoral Evidence of the London Corpse Bride Event!!! ...to which we were late, but nevermind, Tim Burton was VERY bemused! Image Heavy.
( 2 Victors, 2 Corpses. )
AN ANIMATED GIF! Oh, you love me.



We unfortunately don't have any pictures of Nicky, the crazy Burton fans we met, or Tim and Helena. However, pictures might be sent to us, if we're good. I will probably do a comic of this event, as it was far far too amusing.

Tim Burton: (is nudged by his manservant, who points us out to him) Oh! (waves, laughs, blows kisses at us) Congratulations, you two!
(Tim and Helena get into their car. As they drive away, they wave out the window at us, gleefully, like children waving to their parents while being driven off to their first day of school)

It was the most adorable thing ever. *loves* I will be happy forever now.

And now....( Illustrated Harry Potter Weekend in Cold Spring )

Whew. Potter weekend is over. Thanks to all of you agin for helping out and making it awesome. It was so much fun and REALLY excellent for the store and the community.
To quote Mr. Higgins.. Thank GOD it's all over.

http://www.myfilestash.com/userfiles/HisMajesty/Dorianbloody.mov

Go look at it, it's only a few seconds long. Enjoy my inventive blood substitutes. Lucy: is this the sort of thing you need? If so, I've got the stealing one, the ripping heart, and one of me taking my gloves off. And a variation of this one from the side.

Went out to see Singin' in the Rain, and predictably (though no less wonderfully) fell in love with it all over again. Holy crap, that's a good film. And I realized there's even more sweet triumverate love subtext than I'd hitherto noticed. Aww! Honestly, that film is the most beautiful, sweet, and charming treesome romance film ever made, and that will ever be made.
Seeing it with an audience was so wonderful. There was APPLAUSE after Make 'em Laugh, happy sighs after Good Morning, and audible excitement when the Rain number was about to begin. (also the annoying things, like.. Yes, we KNOW it's Cyd Charisse, you don't have to tell us, man-who's-sitting-two-rows-behind-me. But those were few.)
I still don't know what the fuck it up with that Gotta Dance segment with the Random Ballet Squence That Makes Little to No Sense ((c)Gene Kelly) but it became more apparent that when they made the film, they knew it was pretty ridiculous to stick that in, and it just added to the spectacular element whilst also adding to the humour.

OK, the speech about Singin in the Rain is done for now, on this final note: Anyone want to come see it with me again on Saturday at 3.10? Anyone? If you're a student, I can get you in for 4 pounds. PLEASE GIVE ME AN EXCUSE TO SEE IT AGAIN.

Then, as our heating system is broken, I had to draw a bath the old fashioned way. I felt very very ill, so I needed a bath desperately. I filled up about three kettles and a huge pot with boiling water, then lugged it up in a bucket to the bathroom. Drawing my bath this way made the hot water ever so much sweeter, and the bath more enjoyable. I hope I get the chance to do it again sometime, because it was much more fulfilling than your average don't-have-to-work-for-the-hot-water bath. Aaah.

And that's when inspiration struck. And it struck HARD. And by the next morning, behold! A new lip synch video, this time with four seperate characters!

( view characters here. WARNING: contains possibly the worst drag i've ever done. )

The song I used was the Quartet: A Model of Decorum and Tranquility from the muscial Chess.
Anyone care to guess which character is which? (...without looking at the file names.....)

It turned out highly amusing, It'll make a good DVD extra some day.