Good Morning!

Due to a slightly bizarre and totally unforseen set of strange circumstances , we are not going be able to have our online Pah-te this evening. Malena and I are both very sorry, and hope that you all understand.

When we spoke this morning , and realizeed we were not going to be able to make this work on the last day of the month this month, as we had planned since Halloween, we came up with the idea that we should wait until the weekend of December 9th-11 , as I will be out in LA with Malena then, and you will be able to see us both on the webcam.

How does this sound to everyone? Perhpas Sunday the 11th , same times?

We are truly sorry to have to postpone , as we were SO looking forward to it!!!!!

Love and regrets,

Lorraine

It’s 3 am and I just got back from Beth’s 21st birthday. What a cool group of people! I felt so old…but in a good way. I spent my youth flying around modeling and singing. Now, I am the fairy godmother of LA’s cutest goth chics. Intuitive fashionista they are. I was the most casually dressed girl there too. (Sherpa, think of the possibilities. Mullie would die!)

When I arrived at The Cat and Fiddle, I was starving. After finding out their kitchen was closed, I had two choices, Carl’s Jr or Grocery store. My age was showing through when I chose to eat dates and mango juice. Everyone else was jugging down jager and tequila. And when you’re young, you can party till 4 am AND get to work at 8. I used to dance all night wearing 6 inch stilettos and a PVC catsuit. Now I’m still wearing the catsuit, I just make dinner in it instead. Miles doesn’t seem to mind.

I got to read a few minds while I was there. Of course I did readings at the club. What else would I be doing? The waiters looked at me a little funny and I didn’t even have my cards out. (Oh it could have been the 4 inch dead rhino beetle necklace with the skull beads) Haaaaaaaaa!

My guides told me someone would need a reading, and they did. I actually got a few answered prayers myself, although the person giving me the message had no idea. See how heaven works? Spontaneously yet perfectly planned. And girls!!! There were so many sweet guys looking for love. The old phrase, “All the good guys are either gay or married” isn’t really true. Well, it is and it isn’t. (In my book all gay guys are good.) So don’t give up single chicas. They’re out there, waiting for you. Dressed in their black jeans and skull t-shirts hoping some corseted diva will take them home to Mom. (We goth girls are yin-yang types. We dress sexy but at home we cook and sew and make home made cards to send to our Moma in law) Miles Mom is the best ever. I couldn’t have married into a better family. I love you M-a!
Well, that is all to report of my night in Hollyweird. Nothing like a little nocturnal magic to revitalize this witchy!

Our second monthly Halloween Cross Country Corset Convention or, online chat , as it it is sometimes called is coming up on Wednesday the 30th , this month. It will be at 6:00pm West Coast time, 8:00pm Central time and 9:00pm East Coast time.

Send us your Yahoo IM ID and we will add you to our list so you can get into the chat. Malena and I are going to rummage around Yahoo IM tomorrow and see if there is an easier way to go about this, but it might be the way to go this month.

We will have two webcams going, so we will each have to invite you to view the webcam, hopefully one can view two at once, otherwise , you will have to choose who to look at , her or I.

( Malena, are you going to wear a corset? That may settle the question, hee-hee )

Last month was a fine Halloween Party, it got REALLY silly and if Big Sexy, the Birdchick and Paul all show up…..Malena and I are WAY to innocent !!! ( well, me anyway, hee-hee, she’s a sassy little vixen ) Maybee we can actually get around to talking about music this time!!!

That’s about it for tonight. I am counting my calories, taking my walks and waiting for a snowstorm that is meant to be swirling on thru this evening. If we get snow this winter I am going to ski every day, the past couple years have been really dissapointing, snow wise and cross country skiing burns more calories than almost anything ( about a million an hour, based on how it feels )

Hope to see you online on Wednesday, where ever you are…

( Sorry so late for you, Scottish K!!!! )

Love and Snow Bunnies,

Lorraine

Gigs are done, for the moment, which is both great (I can sleep again) and not so great ( darn they were fun!! ) I think this trio is going to be playing out more, it was simply to cool not to do it on at least a semi-regular basis. My Boss thinks we should use a different name each time ie : Fabulous Lorraine and the …..which seems kind of fun.

( Mullie suggeested Fabulous Lorraine and the Wankers or Fabulous Lorraine and the Sheepshaggers, sweet, but maybe not , hee-hee )

Ideas????

I started my new food journal thing today. Gads it adds up quickly. For me tho, it is the best way to keep track of exactly how much I am eating. No more junk food on the way home from shows!!! ( another week of gigs and I will have nothing to wear! ) Went for a lovely long walk as well.

( I know, weird idea, it will never catch on with mainstream America, eat right and take some exercise every day. Personally I think I am onto something )

I have also been reading more on Malena’s site. Sometimes I forget how smart she is ( well THAT came out wrong! ) I mean I tend to think of her as my best friend and bandmate , and forget how much she knows about the mind , body and spirit connection and all such things. That was how I got to know her, some months before I got up the courage to actualy write to her, it was reading her essays and articles. I thought she was one of the most amazing women going. (still do)

Which is important, but more importantly, I want to LOOK as good as she does in a corset by BalticCon, so it’s back to work. ( or workOUT as it were, hee-hee, I need to sleep )

Next month I do get to go to LA twice. This makes my heart very happy.

( tho the velvet gowns , orngina and chocolate came as a bit of a suprise, but hey, I’ll go along with anything Nocturna comes up with ! These wacky Creatures of the Night!)

I hope you are all as happy, and I wish you a very good nights sleep….

Love and lullybyes,
Lorraine

Miles got a cool fan letter the other day. This dude had one of Miles’ demons tattooed on his back. WOW! Now, that is a serious fan, ah? We love him! I must say, before I met Mr. Gorgeous I was thinking of the same thing. However, it would be silly to tattoo a photo of myself (Nocturna) on myself. BUT! Anyone else who wants the Queen of the Damned on their back is more than welcome. Mwaaaaaa ha ha haaaaaaaa!

Lorraine will be out twice in December. We’re so excited! That means making potions, scarves, and doing full moon rituals (which consist of giggling in the courtyard dressed in velvet gowns while sipping Orangina and eating chocolate) But, hey if you do anything enough times, it becomes ritual. I guess that means I’m the sex magic diva too…

Speaking of foul mouthed salacious behavior, we are going to be webcamming on the 30th. Lorraine and I will figure out a time. Let us know if you have any requests.
I hear Bird Chick and Paul from FU will be joining us. That guarantees it will get out of hand. I’m the sweet shy one out of this bunch you know. Scary thought isn’t it? AND in order for me to crowd surf at Balticon, we need lots of people to show up. Yes, I do have lots of padding but I don’t want to use it. I need to save it for the corsets.
Music and Demonic crowd surfing,
Malena

This has been a really wonderful week. Thanksgiving was fine, actually Thanksgiving Eve, Wednesday night, the club was packed. I hadn’t thought of that , I went in thinking it would be mellow , kind of a rehersal, but , no , wall to wall people.

The rest of the nights have been every bit as fun, we are having a blast, Johnny, Mullie and I. We have been calling ourselves ” Fabulous Lorraine and Her Little Irish Leprechauns ” I could do this more often. I can’t remember when I have had more fun in a band.

( no, I meant EXCEPT for Malena, of course!!!!! )

One girl offered us $30 for every Johnny Cash song we could play, and went off to the ATM to make good on it. ( for $30 a song, my CAT will go up and pull out some Johnny Cash )

Someone else came up and gave me a 4-leaf clover and told me he loved my music.

Another girl said she had a bet on and if she could go up and strum the guitar for a moment, she would win two shots. ( she won them, but I am unsure she NEEDED them, hee-hee )

Fitz from Keirran’s, Paul from FU and a harmonica player whose name I can never remember all sat in at various times.

The music has been very very cool. Johnny on guitar, and Mullie alternating between guitar and bass. I have learned I like playing Beatles songs. ( Let It Be is maigc. I never knew that before ) I have learned Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson go over great in Irish Bars. I have learned that U2 is a blast to play accousticly.

Tonight is the last night, which from a sleeping point of view is a Really Really Good Thing. I keep waking up early in the morning, even when I don’t get to sleep before 4 or so, but even tho I am pretty tired, I will miss this gig. Hope it happens again soon.

What else? I am pretty brain dead gig head zombie-ish tonight and I have to leave for the club very shortly…Oh, I hadn’t actually known myself that Malena could both wear white and go out in the sun, as we see from her picture, she never does that around ME, makes me wonder what else the girl can do.

I think I’ll stick around and find out.

Love and music,

Lorraine

This year has past so quickly for me. Lorraine and I accomplished a lot in 12 months. We met, formed a band, decided on songs, hired musicians and artists and became best friends ALL over the phone…Basically. (We have been blessed to see each other about once a month. Yeah!)
As I was saying, I have a lot to be thankful for. For this one day I won’t worry about how countries are being fed “democracy” at gun point, how Arnold is planning to pull the plug on school funding, how hurricane victims are suffering with no food, how governments are being overthrown by men who were once allies, and so on and so forth. Today, I will think of how I can make a positive effect on this planet by my words and deeds. All I have to give is my talents and my values. I always hope they will influence someone in a positive way.

It has been so fun to write back and forth to all of you. Blogging has made it apparent to me there are many like minded people in the world who WANT to share their light with us. We thank you for that. This project has been so revitalization for me. I am constantly thinking of new things to make and do. Books, CD’s, etc. Lorraine is the grounded one out of the two of us. I say,
“Hey, let’s do a video in the graveyard where we turn into banshees and float into the night sky!” Then she says,
“Well, in order to make that happen we need X, Y, and Z. Let’s start with X Malena.”
And together we get it done.

There are no puffed up egos in this band. That’s why we get a lot done in a short time. Everyone works together, knowing their strengths and weaknesses. The studio was seamless, and from what I hear that is a rarity. h eeeeh heee

So, while you’re all gorging yourselves with turkey and cheesecake, remember how good you’ve really got it. Stop to tell everyone you love how special they are to you and how you couldn’t live without them. Then, eat some leftovers, type us a message and tell us how it all went.

I love you all
Malena

I am gigging on Thanksgiving. It’s actualy been one of my favourate times to play. By 9:30 at night, everyone is tired of eating, tired of family or trying to figure out WHAT they are going to do with the six cousin’s from the next state over.

Party Time.

And it’s the Tim Malloys. I have been sitting in lately for whichever Malloys can’t make it, sometimes it is Mully and sometimes it is Adam. This week Adam is off for a Holiday and it will be me and Big Sexy and Mullie.

( holding my own in THAT boy band is a challange, at least I look better in a mini skirt than they do! )

And the music is a LOT of fun. I love playing songs I have never heard and trying to figure them out on the fly. I love it when it works.

It’s sometimes even funner when it doesn’t.

I love not knowing what will happen.

I’d love it if you showed up.

Half Time Rec, Wednesday thru Saturday this week, with the Tim Malloys.

Love and Saw Art,
Lorraine

Ok, I don’t remember who asked me to dig up a baby Malena photo, but here you go. I was in 4th grade I think. Don’t you love the high fashion hair-do? I still have those cheeks too.

Our friend was over at the house yesterday putting a light in my closet. That meant we had to move everything out of Lorraine’s bedroom/my studio. Between the trips of moving clothes, He said, “Malena, are all your clothes this..well, spooky?”
I thought that was really cute. I didn’t realise how odd my wardrobe looked to the outside person. (The reason I needed a light is because all my clothes are variations of black) I like to call it, “The bruise pallette” All shades of red, purple, blue, black and green.
I can’t wait for Balticon so I can wear all this stuff. I wore a “casual little number” to an audition the other day and the PA said,
“Ah, you might want to dress up a little when you meet so and so.” I said, “Like this?”
I guess my dark purple snake skin dress wasn’t it. Nooooooo! He ehe
From now on, I am going to wear black pants and a waiters shirt..and flats. Most actors are short. I must seem like a Russ Meyers girl to them. And that’s really not what I want to portray, now is it. He ehee I’m more of a spiritual vampire looking creature who can act…and sing!

Lorraine will be gigging on thanksgiving. I on the other hand will be cooking for Miles and all our industry friends. Maybe I should make carrots wrapped in lettuce with a celery puree’! I’m always working on my figure too, but I say,
Let’s get crazy for just one day! Brownies and cheesecake for all! I’ll have to take photos of me in my black satin apron. So, eat, drink and be merry everyone. It’s only one day!