two days ago, i was wearing a sundress and drinking iced chai in the garden district and absinthe in the french quarter ( Read more... )

getting my leonard cohen on at varietease on friday:

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Lula Houp-Garou: "Dance Me to the End of Love" from circus lemonade on Vimeo.
my labor day weekend was consumed by a jellyfish. tons of last minute things left to do before we leave for new orleans. no sleep. much coffee ( Read more... )

update pallooza:

i'm featured on the homepage of nbcchicago.com!
NBCChicago.com stopped by debonair last night to cover their neo-burlesque show, "no tell motel." (the stage is a platform decorated to look like a bed in a sleazy hotel room. fucking hipsters.)

and this morning, i'm on their homepage:

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incredibly overbooked lately. not enough time to live life, let alone blog about it. :)

i opened and closed the varietease cabaret show last friday.

opened with a hooptease to 1930's reefer jazz ("when i get low i get high" by ella fitzgerald):

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Varietease Cabaret (May 22, 2009) - "When I Get Low, I Get High" by Lula Houp-Garou from Vaudezilla ( Read more... )

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so, it turns out that the robots act WAS taped... and it's up.

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Varietease Cabaret (April 24, 2009) - Lula Houp-Garou, Coo d'Twat, and Gussie-Up Gertie from Vaudezilla Productions on Vimeo.
i'm happy we got documentation of it, but man, watching it made me a little cranky. it was like the murphy's law of technical errors ( Read more... )

so, a couple of pictures of our sci fi act at the varietease show turned up on mizzchicago.com, which as far as i can tell is a chicago-based paparazzi site...

*shrug* yay for free photos.


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Just got the Varietease photos of our epic sci fi burlesque act from BCJphotography.com. Unfortunately there are only a few, but they're great. Still, I wish there were more... these only tell a fraction of the story. I don't think it was filmed, either. But we're remounting it later this month and hope to get more shots of the other scenes.


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burlesque has turned me into such a magpie. i was never a glitter girl before. i spent the better part of 25 years refusing to wear pink. even bellydance didn't convert me, because i found my place in the tribal fusion camp- leather and tarnished metal, not beaded bedlahs ( Read more... )

friday afternoon, patrick picked me up from work (in the loop.) as we were waiting to merge onto lake shore drive, i saw two pigeons sitting on a concrete divider ( Read more... )