the burlesque poetess(s)

Do please explore and enjoy some (of my) 28 Seeds photos & press! Then buy yourself a half-off ticket (discount code ERB)— to 1 of the remaining 6 shows before the pale horse arrives to take us.

*5 Questions with Somerville’s Burlesque Poetess, Somerville Journal By Auditi Guha (Wicked Local Somerville, April 24, 2012)

*The Burlesque Poetess: A Jewess with “Artitude”, Jewesses with Attitude blog at Jewish Women’s Archive. By Leah Berkenwald (April 24, 2012)

Above please see @DoctorOctothorp’s report that levitating poets did not in fact prevent the end of the world! Tis my apoca-girl scout Act I costume (flickr set). Yes i even hop in this play, while playing my Eleuke. / See also the offic’ show-preview pix by Hans Wendland (here are his flickr sets of photo-call night collection1, two, and three! for you to peruse)… hoozah for Hans making me look like a truly antiqued Havisham-lette with filter fun! (Do you like my floral fascinator i made from my recently ‘harvested’ dread and m’old zombielocks of yore? were just as dead when attached to my head ‘til ‘06 after all)

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OUR SHOW OPENS THURS! Holy asty-roid chucking deities, co-underoo scholars! Understorians of the steam-pocalypse? You have roughly a month to experience the magic, i do hope you’ll consider coming. ;)

jojolazar:

What happens when an experimental theatre co. launches into the ether of steam-crunk, a sea of squid ink in collaboration with Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken TOys, making beautiful mad sense of Earth’s last lost radio emanations…
The world is ending. Let’s die art.

Behold A Pale Horse!

April 19th - May 12th
Boston Center for the Arts | 539 Tremont St, Boston, MA
Wednesdays & Thursdays at 7:30pm
Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00pm
Sundays at 4:00pm

*** Tickets are now available at http://bit.ly/28seedstix ***

http://28seeds.org

(and our funded kickstarter, merci buckets! has more det’s/pretty things) So this is a thing. A thing i daresay that is axually happening and was born in a basement with teething walls, with much wine, close quarters and all for one of those madcap RPM challenges back in 2010! Madness i tells ya. i play a very unusual character. A future-past-meta-metaphorical-famous-not-me character called jojo The Burlesque Poetess. Strange indeed. Come see us, it’s easy to remember. We open on 4/20 or so. xo

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girlssoloud:

Why just look at these giggling mischevious cafe-lurking ladies
A look about them like absinthe secrets
Rrrisqué stylings of the hair, O
What a dull day without tea and something filthy
Scribbled in a purse-journal, then passed to your bestie…

Something exciting may be en route Loudling-fanciers. Stay tuned. Stay LOUD.

(img ~ Tea at Trianon)

NaPoWriMo 2012 antics are most definitely already underway (underwears?) with my co-cabaret verse slinger, Amy Macabre. It’s a thing, a thing that is happening that you can keep abreast of:

http://girlssoloud.tumblr.com/tagged/napowrimo/

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mlle:

Todah rabah much ahavah to *Leah! We’ve known e/o since we were 15 y/o punks!

{ via Jewish Women’s Archive’s blog, “Jewesses with Attitude” ! Gorsh. / The Burlesque Poetess reads “One taught the word diaspora before diaphanous” }

One taught the word diaspora before diaphanous

Hide the crown
Of matzo pyramid, kiss bitter herbs hello
Ransom Gramps later for green bills’ third eyes
Mash Charoset more, taste apple un-scarred

Careless whips, cat-tails ‘gainst knees
Because He split the sea for us
Under the Red waves of tablecloth
Napkins vanish, sometimes forty years (mica in the gums)

The river child rattles rust and hinges
We only think it’s a Bast cat
Ancient sculpture, Elijah’s staccato chisel tap
Is the sun-room unlocked? Tubers, bulbs

The one without mezeuzah
An artisan clay goblet of water
For Miriam’s thirsty bruised hip
The desiccated bellydance, Spring
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Unleavened Schadenfreude
For former captors, yet more bloody wine
Stick ‘em up, pops, let’s finish Seder
Pass the linen, Afikomen with ghost emergent
Burn-shaped face, is that Yitzhak? Yasser?

Present the prize
He has fed us manna
Next year in Glamsrael

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p.s. so, FYI the Ep-iolas & i filmed *THIS grannycore-in’ immediately after the above. Artathon, my hamsa bling gets AROUND. i heart my extended bandly family/friends. And our art-lives!

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mlle:

fuckyeaharmyoftoys:

http://www.facebook.com/events/317652318277243/

The Eschaton of 2012 featuring:

9pm Black Thai
http://www.blackthaiband.com/

10pm Sidewalk Driver
http://sidewalkdriver.com/

11pm Planetoid
http://www.planetoidmusic.com/

12am Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys
http://www.armyoftoys.com/

HOSTED by Mary Widow

Doors at 8 PM; Show at 9 PM; 18+

Advance Box Office Price $12
Tickets: http://bit.ly/wcW03u

I might be employing my pineapple-kele (Eleuke) using only 4 fingers on my fretting hand. Do not fret, old school burlesque poetess *cheeky* interruptions may ensue…can’t wait to see you at this absolutely nutto celestial end-times invasion of metal, ‘mazing music, glam, aliens, burly-Q and organized/hosted by the one and only Mary Widow! / This is also the TOys’s last rock-club rock-show for a very long time as we dive deeper/further/forever down the *28 seeds rabbit hole this month to open our theatrical s’experience w. the LAB on 4/20, biensur ;)

p.s. inkdrip afterlife pulp cover flyer of wonder by Walter Sickert, behold & enjoy!

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jojolazar:

My beloved villanelling vaudevillian co-loudling Amy Macabre made me (into) a delic’/debauch sounding tea!? How lucky am i. (image-label by amy, photos i believe both by Justin Moore)

https://www.adagio.com/signature_blend/blend.html?blend=20048

the burlesque poetess
created by: amy macabre
Sweet as a Victorian strumpet -er I mean crumpet- with just a touch of cheeky Parisian florals and chocolate dipped strawberry to make you say ooh la la! Honeybush vanilla, chocolate dipped strawberry Ceylon and just a bit of fresh sweet cream flavor!

This blend is inspired by jojo the burlesque poetess

Which lead to me super-belatedly learning my “what a dull day without tea and something filthy” poem-prelude (from ‘Commuting to make love’ commis’ for Mika!) had some tumblr-reblog-enjoyment action/traction when i wasn’t looking? anyhoo- neat!

P.S. DRINK ME.

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Breaking TOys tiddly bits (plz help your broken minstrels out in 2 polls?)

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for the record, mine ye olde neologism of Pornival (n.): implies the Walter Sickert portable carnival of possible/likely pornographic intent. emphasis on the portability and carnal carnival aspect of our tiny instrumentalist selves, biensur.

X please write-in & vote for Walter Sickert as best Artist in the Phoenix’s Best of Poll (put Janaka Stucky or jojo lazar for best poet if you feel like it! and Meff as best lesbian/leather hangout? haha) :
http://thephoenix.com/thebest/boston/vote/nominate.aspx?cat=arts#547

X February 1, 2011. “Walter Sickert leads a band of musical misfits.” by Brett Milano, The Boston Phoenix

…At their Somerville headquarters last week, Sickert and crew were busy laying out plans for next Thursday’s show at T.T. the Bear’s. This typically involves a few levels of prep. Stage director Helena Prezio has already scoped out the place for ideas, and she’s about to call in the “bunnies” — the 20-odd performers who augment the group on stage; they’ll be instructed to listen to the set list and come up with something visually fitting. Guitarist Meff, who writes plays in her non-rock life, contributes conceptual bits. And Sickert is always ready with songs that have characters and storylines. “I think we present a healthy dose of everyone celebrating everyone, so nobody gets creeped out,” says Lazar. “It’s perversion with a smile…”
How it grew from two acoustic singers to a full-blown revue — or a “pornival,” as Lazar calls it — makes more sense when you add in that Sickert is also a visual artist (the fantasy-inspired line drawings on their CDs and posters are his), that Edrie ran an art collective in Cambridge, and that both had creative friends who wanted to get into the act. “When the numbers grew, it just became like a baby’s head growing,” says Sickert. “Our fontanelle just fell into shape…”

haha funny moments of the quotes i’m attributed. gosh, i think some of Walter’s and my remarks got smooshed together (i’m only responsible for the Sex Pistols part of the first quote, but i’m overall crazy grateful for t/his representation of us!!!)

X POLL ENDS TMW 2/2/11! “currently running in 4th place for this new music poll amongst many great regional acts! Top 3 places get prizes and features in the magazine which is great for any Independent band. If you are a fan of the band, please to 1 minute to show your support by voting. thanks!” via @kevincorzett

http://newengland.thedelimagazine.com/poll/poll.php?category=4&adZone=29

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my page in The Starving Artist’s Diet collection i contributed to. thanks for including me, @jackodile! i wrote the piece 2 years ago as part of a bigger/multi-part poem that didn’t make it to my final MFA manuscript. anyhoo. photo is by Justin Moore : http://flickr.com/bdjsb7

(x-posted like whoa - mlle. - jojolazar.com)

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A note to dear neglected poetesss.tumblr readers,

i mean to catch up on the poem-a-day project weekly round-up/recaps/archives, until then you can catch ‘em as they come in on *Locksmithy livejournal. also, yup, i’m still crazy busy doing performancey stuff. solo, with the army of broken toys, and as half of the tiny instrument revue. i don’t mean to be a stranger :) i’m very pester-able w. ASK functions on all m’tumblrs, very best wishes in this divinely decadent new decade. onward, to debauch, at will!

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fuckyeaharmyoftoys:

jojo, kevin, edrie (a steampunk family) by Steampunk Family on flickr.

for group-(un)logic, narcissistic band mentality vanity-reasons fuckyeah!armyoftoys now exists. i clasp my witchy hands in your general locksmithy direction!

for those of you newbies to the burlesque poetess(s) tumblr (hi! welcome!), when i’m not spamming the creative writing directory i play tenor ukulele and a shiny set of skeleton keys in this crazy carniexperience. it’s sensual.

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mlle:

burlesque poetessin’ w. the BRoken TOys (calendar x-posting everywhar) what you MUST know is that we’re playing the after party for the finale of Amanda Palmer’s EVELYN EVELYN tour at the House of Blues June 19th. and that for a few dates of our Magical Tentacle tour, i’m going to be la petite openeuse act. hoozah!

myspace.com/armyoftoys has the full calendar for tour below, with more links

Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken TOys will be appearing…
THIS FRIDAY! May 28, 2010, 9pm - Club Passim, Cambridge, MA (Mem. Day Campfire)

*and after our set a bunch of us are trailing after mr. Corzett to Plough & Stars for THE TRABANTS surf jam music like you didn’t know was still playing live amazing-ness. 10:30pm-12:30am, that’s a lot of music in one night! come play! » FB event

June 4, 2010, 8pm - ARmy of BRoken TOys STEAMSHIPKILLERS cd release w. Jaggery! Boston, MA » FB event

MAGICAL TENTACLE TOUR!
(OPENING= yours truly, bowiekele-ing & burlesque poetessin’ atcha garters!)

June 5, 2010, 8:30pm - Through the Keyhole at YogaWorks Soho, 359 Broadway @ Grand, NY NY » fb event
June 6, 2010, 8pm - L’Etage, Philadelphia, PA
June 8, 2010, 9pm - Palace of Wonders, Wash. DC (i’m OPENING!)
June 9, 2010, 8pm - Wildflower Cafe, Bethlehem, PA (i’m OPENING!)
June 10, 2010, 8pm - Block Island Music Festival, Capt. Nick’s Rock ‘n Roll Bar, Block Island, Rhode Island
June 11, 2010, 8pm - Slainte, Portland, Maine (i’m OPENING!)
June 17, 2010, 8pm - TALE at Galapagos Art Space w. What time is it Mr. Fox? in Brooklyn, NY
June 19, 2010, 10pm - House of Blues for Finale of Evelyn Evelyn Tour (!!!), Boston, MA

July Armory Residency, Somerville, MA

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