Kiss & Tell: Spring Fling:
Move D [Source, Workshop | Heidelberg]
Bryan Kasenic [The Bunker - Brooklyn]
Bethany [Kiss & Tell - Brooklyn]
Hostess and Photographer Seze
Extra fun added by Deanna
Wednesday May 22
7pm – late
The Panther Room
74 Wythe Avenue (North 12th Street entrance)
$10
Spring is in the air and we’re all feeling a little flirty. The ladies of Kiss & Tell are back with Kiss & Tell resident DJ Bethany, The Bunker’s Bryan Kasenic and Move D!
We will be breaking in The Panther Room, a new Williamsburg venue. We are quite excited to settle into our new home and sip some after work cocktails as we listen to vintage dance music records on a brand spankin’ new Funktion One sound system.
You just might hear: disco, ladies’ choice jams, space oddities, geigh haus!
Dress to impress in your finest floral frocks. Wear flowers in your hair or in your lapel.
More info on the Kiss & Tell site: www.kissmekiss.me
I found the perfect post wine tasting activity (besides napping): tutu shopping at Aubergine Vintage Emporium & Cafe – Sebastopol, CA!
view from our room
morning light
breakfast!
Monkeys!
Until today I have been very conservative about my purchases…. the Jes found a little store that perfectly matches my taste. There were so many affordable pretty printed silk and cotton dresses. It was fun to trying them all on. If only I could check eight bags!
Don’t worry I didn’t buy these ridiculous pants!
Jes and her personal tailor!
Read “A Woman’s Camera in a Woman’s World”
Lillian Bassman in Popular Photography, April 1951
Lillian Bassman in 1999, photo by Abe Frajndlich
Will Cotton
Crown
80″ by 68″
oil/linen
2011-2012
Mary Boone Gallery
Beth Beri as Marie Antoinette
Dame Darcy Alice in Wonderland drawing available here
She Likes Weeds by Tee Set
Check out the silly video
There’s a longnosed dirty old witch Witchipoo
She speaks a magic word called Shackabadoo
The smell of thousand herbs is hanging ’round the house where she lives in
It’s built on magic ground
There’s an all kind coloured smoke raising up among her stirring red brass magic pot
Her chimney means a lot to her for her coloured boiling brew holding snake tails but just a few
She likes weeds, they’re easy to grow
They are easy to grow, easy to grow in the morning dew
She likes weeds, they’re easy to grow
And they always are there, everywhere when she needs a few
But she also keeps a cat or seven and a miles far hearing screaming raven
A magic stick, a flying broom are just a few things that she keeps in her room
She likes weeds, they’re easy to grow
They are easy to grow, easy to grow in the morning dew
She likes weeds, they’re easy to grow
And they always are there, everywhere when she needs a few…
Photos by Alexandra Valenti www.alexandraintheforest.com
The ladies of Kiss & Tell like to listen to records
Recorded on Halloween by Seze.
download or listen streaming now
Phadra – Honeydewed Autumn
Kate Bush – Night Scented Stock
Alela Diane – Something’s Gone
Siouxie & The Banshees – Lunar Camel
Danielle Dax – Pariah
Ana Da Silva – Full Moon
Coil – Windowpane
Lene Lovich – The Wicked Witch
Orphans – Teenage Jesus & The Jerks
Hammerheads – Danielle Dax
Aphex Twin – Logon Rock Witch
Otto von Schirach – Zombie Halloween
Siouxie & The Banshees – Christine
Broadcast – Black Cat
Austra – Spellwork
Telepathe – Spellwork
Nouvelle Vague – The Killing Moon
Nina Simone – I Put A Spell On You
Lydia Lunch – Spooky
Ministry – Everyday Is Halloween
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I just read about the crazy sultry world of Christa Helm. Someone needs to make a movie about her eccentric life. Read her story on the From the Books of Exlibris blog
and here… The Unsolved Murder of 1970′s Hollywood Starlet Christa Helm
www.christahelm.blogspot.com
I can’t stop listening to “Says Elliott” by Sibylle Baier from her album “Colour Green” which was recorded in Germany 1970-1973.
Says Elliot by Sibylle Baier
I grow old I shall wear the bottom of my trousers rolled says Elliot
I grow old I shall wear the bottom of my trousers rolled says Elliot
days keep growing short, nights too
let us go then, you and I
and try to unlearn, says Elliot
he seeks for return and burns ancient love letters
let us go then you and I and lie by marble stone says Elliot
and put a record on the gramophone
Lie down dear
on the weed
Don’t weep dear
gayly clad
sadness is a radical quantity says Elliot
sadness is a long brown ribbon, says he
sadness is beautiful
I grow old I shall wear the bottom of my trousers rolled says Elliot
I grow old I shall wear the bottom of my trousers rolled says Elliot
Here is my new friend Jacqueline Withers’ fashion and hair blog. She is a hair color specialist in NYC. www.partyhaireverywhere.com
On Saturday we ran into Clark Warner and his wife Liz Copeland at breakfast. I finally met their adorable baby. A few hours later radio goddess and new mother Liz Copeland opened up the festival with a really lovely set of what she defines as baby listening music. Melodies from Air and Brian Eno and other ethereal treasures consumed our ears, as ravers of all ages started to show up for the first day of the festival. Other highlights of my day were killer sets from Nikola Baytala and Steve Bug.
Clark Warner and his baby in protective ear gear or maybe he is listening to death metal?
an adorable Lolita raver
more candy ravers
At night we threw the Detroit version of House n Home (my flyer). I finally had a chance to meet the lovely DJ Cassy. Here is the fist shot I took of her. She was all smiles during her amazing set. I wish more DJs smiled when I photographed them.
Photos by Seze Devres
