Mannnnn! Fablo’s got some skills! While she was here she showed me how to cook some amazing, and I mean amazing dishes. Let me put it this way, She cooks as well as she plays the violin. And that’s a tall order. I’m making chinese food, indian food, persian food. You name it. Miles is eating like a KING thanks to Fablo.

I hear Miss Fabulous is going to play some of her new tunes at the cons. (Yes, she writes them in her head!) I asked if I could get the sheet music to this AMAZING violin solo she wrote, and she replied, “Ah Lasse, It’s all right here in my head” No doubt about it, Lorraine has the gift of fairy music.

Since I live in this vast metropolis of silicon and souvenirs, it’s nice to hear of her small town Irish Pub tales. Of friends playing together till dawn, old and young. Of neighbors knowing your first name. Of going 40 MPH in rush hour. Of the postal workers speaking english. I kid I kid.

And now, she’s going to leave all that and move to Vegas. “Yes, it’s Fabulous Lorraine in Feathers ladies and gentleman. Malena has even made her a bodysuit out of a dead peacock!” Naaaaaaaaaaaaa! She’s Wayyyyyy to classy for that. Besides, if she yearns for fake trashy glitz, I can always take her to West Hollywood.

Yeah! My Lover just got home from Japan today. He bought me the coolest goth coats ever. One is Drag Queen fabulous with a three foot train and sleeves that hit the floor. Yes, I’ll take photos soon. My next Alter Ego shoot is coming up soon. I’ll be sure to take some photos in the “JapGothRock” outfits for my LaMies. They call the goth girls GothLoli in Japan. They look like Dolls…really! Miles said they all talk with these cute little voices too. Can’t wait to go over there! They’d LOVE us in all our Gothic Splendor. You hear that Fablo? Cali tour is first though! Mistress Mousey and I are getting impatient.

Fablo rocked the house last night, again. I’ll grab some photos and post them. Lorraine will LOVE the blackwidow tights he gave me. Yeah! Balticon baby. Hey, if nothing else it’s an excuse to sing and dress up. The rest is gravy or chocolate.. he hee
I LOVE PRINCE!

I’m listening to Prince tonight. Can I just say that he is such the music genius? Yes, he is! I WILL meet him someday. I modeled to his music for over 10 years. He inspired me to “shake it” like no other. I just love that little sexy man! (I wanted to wear his clothes and sing with him) No that they would fit me, amazon that I am. Prince covers…Hmmm. Well, he one of those musicians that you can’t top so why bother. What do you think? It would give me a chance to dance though. LOVE TO DANCE. Fablo got a little taste of my dance-o-rama this last week. But, to get the full effect we MUST hit the clubs. LA clubs rock because you can wear ANYTHING and be cool. You can be drag queen fabulous or surf dude grunge and no one looks twice. hhhaaa. Can you see me in grunge? NOT EVEN! There’s only one style for this LaMie.
GothRockDivaFabulous!

Hugs and Kisses

Malena the Prince worshipper

I am off now for the airport soon, and then when I land off to a gig, which starts 20 minutes after I land, what a rock star! I am playing with the Tim Malloys at Kieran’s in Minneapolis tonight, always a fine time, but, somehow, I really don’t want to leave today.

It’s always hard to leave, as much as I want to get home to my cats and my work and my family, but some leavings are harder than others. The sun is shinning today, my nocturnal creature of a best friend is still sleeping peacefully ( which is going to change shortly, I need a ride here ! ) and there is still so much music to do!

We had a lot of fun, shooting with Kitty, and shopping on Santee Alley, making practice tapes , web confrencing with you all , and cooking strange muffins. It’s seems to be strawberry season here and if you drive down the right twisty roads there are people selling strawberries as big as your hand and as sweet as sunshine.

Soon I will the sad-about-leaving feeling will change into the anticipation-of-going-home feeling and I will start to think about how fun playing the club will be, and how nice it will be to get woken by excited cats 15 times during the night and how much I need to get done back in the frozen north….

But that hasn’t happened yet and for the moment, at least, I wish it all wasn’t Now, tho it is a weird feeling to miss Here and miss There, equaly as much , at the same time.

Enough pre-tea morning rambleing!

What is, is, is the lesson here, and I am off to rock tonight.

After I wake the sleeping dead.

Love and Travel and Missing Friends Everywhere,
Lorraine

Hey LaMies! Webcam party from my house tomorrow at 6 pm (LA time), 9 pm east coast. Now, having said that I can get down to the good stuff. Kitty, our manager/merchandising genius/photographer did some great pics of us last night. I’ve convinced Lorraine and Kitty to let you have a peak. I think they turned out ROCK STAR fabulous. ..Like a mix between Nikki Six, Heart, and Prince. Oh yeah! Lorraine was such a good sport. Check out miss Fabulous in all her peacock splendor.

I did her/our make-up. Doing makeup on someone else is always fun. I can do mine in 10 minutes. The 3 Gaiman assistants had a blast last night. (I am an honorary “GA” because I’m undead. Hee hee)

We went to Santi Alley in the Fashion District today for LaM merch. If you’ve always wanted Fablo hair, you WILL have it at Balticon…and on the webstore. We found great colored extensions attached to a barrette, some cross rhinestone bobby pins, fishnet gloves, and all sorts of Glam Goth Goodies. You’re gonna love it. Our perfume came while Lorraine was here as well. We’ll have two fragrances..one that smells like Fablo and one that smells like DEATH..oops, I mean me. NOTICE the bracelets I’m wearing! They will be available very soon on the site. Semi-precious stones with metaphysical explanations and all! ONLY $12.00!!!!!! (We’ll also have the necklace and earrings to match) Kitty doesn’t mess around. Check her out with her bad self!!

We’re feeling Diva-rific today. Kitty and Lorraine look so beautiful.

I’ll try to model some merch tomorrow at the webcam party. Lots of spooky cool things happening at the TEVES house this week. More photos to follow..hey, we’ve have 1, and I mean 1 hour of sleep in the last 28 hours. We’re dead. Lorraine is asleep already. See and talk to you all tomorrow. Wehooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
LOVE YA!
Madame M

Hey! Did we show you this photo?
How about this one?

Okay, now it’s Lorraine’s turn to share some words of ahhhh..wisdom.

Lorraine here….St Pats. Gig. Long Gig. Good. Next day. Gig. Shorter. Very good. Brain Come back soon??????? Got on plane. Where am I now? Nice here. There’s a nice girl in a corset and fishnets who says she will pluck my eyebrows and sing to me.

Love and goodnight,
( what the heck was my name again???? )

Well, here it is 12:30 and I’m getting revved up. We are picking out our clothes for the photo shoot Tuesday. Lorraine is sitting on her bed as I show her outfits. She is saying things like, “Ahhh, for you right?” and I say,
“No babe. The conservative one’s yours.” and she replies with fear…”That’s conservative?”

Hey, a little lip service never hurt anyone right? So, how about a little virtual fashion show for our Lamies? Yes?

Annnnnndd coming down the runway is the fabulous Lorrarrraine GAAAAARLAND! Ladies and gentleman. In her Hollywood geisha kimono and corseted capris. Are the capris or pants? Who really knows. She’s so short…oh, just to me. I’m an amazon.
She is wearing the pants (outfit) tonight.

This is my little frock. I like the skirts and the heels. Lorraine likes to wear school girl skirts when she plays but I said, “Babe, you can’t sit like a BOY on stage if you’re wearing a skirt.!!!” So, she’s going to try wearing pants. ….so she can sit and fiddle in privacy so to speak. She’s trying to get used to the idea of me making her into a peacock tomorrow. Begaaauck! (via MAC cosmetics.) I wish I had fancy hair extensions too. You see, I’m trying to convince Lorraine of my haute couture plans before she rests up and gets her brain back enough to disagree. So far all she’s said is, “Just pluck my eyebrows and you can turn me into anything you want” Hey, she could wake up as a mermaid, a small piece of sponge named Bob, or a rock chic gone wrong…who knows now that Kevin Aucion is dead. Did I spell that right?, anyway, he was a make-up GOD! I am all alone in the make-up world now. Hey, channeling is an option. I am a psychic by day.

Oh, the top photo is of my favorite things. The skull clown doll is a music box that plays, “Funeral March of the Marionettes”
Lorraine gave it to me. The photo of the two little girls is me and my sister. I’m the fat baby in the photo. The pearls are from Fablo too. The clock is my great grandmothers. So, now you get a little slice of Malena’s House.

Lorraine is still laying down. sometimes she says things like, “ok” and “Wow” and “Yeah, that sounds good”
I will be in her shoes tomorrow as she shares her own version of the events of the evening…come morning. Oh LaMies, this trip is starting out with a bang. I’m off to get more clothes. (Lorraine now knows how a mannequin feels at Nordstroms)

Tomorrow Miss fabulous is going to be here. I wrote her an email tonight telling her to pack her sassy pants and a revealing shirt for our photo shoot. Lorraine is so good to humor me in these glamorous endeavors. She assisted me on my last alter ego shoot and found that modeling is more than just “standing there and looking pretty”. You have to turn your head a certain way, suck in your gut, stick our your butt (hey I’m starting to sound like a rap song), stand up straight, don’t blink and above all else…Look relaxed. As you saw from the last sexy photo, she’s getting the hang of it. Sexy thing yo! I tried to add a photo, but blogger is possessed by natzi demons. Tomorrow I will add it….If she will let me.

Hey! It’s 2:30 am, no wonder why I am so awake. I’m trying to get on a day schedule for Fablo, but no luck so far.

Oh yes, it will be a week of grueling fun for Miss Fabulous. Mwaaaaa ha haha. Singing, dancing, shopping, modeling…hey sounds like real life fun to me. And the web cam conference…hm. How about wednesday? I’ll have to check with Lorraine but we WILL find a time that suites us all. Hey! I’ll wear the gladiator helmet and Fablo can wear the Mummy hat. Nnnaaa. The matrix coat with a patent leather corset and thigh highs. Now we’re talkin’. Lorraine said guys were paying her something like $20 a song tonight..to keep her on stage. To bad my green panties didn’t make it in time. Then she could have given them a safe moon. I wrote, “shake your $ maker” on the butt with a sharpie. We’ll have to take a photo for our LaMies. Although, I doubt either of us will be wearing them at the time. To bad!

On another note, I just have to say…SHERPA, aka Hans the bodyguard is a great catch. Yes, we need to hook the dude up. He’s so cuddly..hence the nickname SHERPA!So if you’re a sane and single girl between the ages of 21 and 35 and you see him with the Malloy’s, go up and give him a BIG kiss. Tell him Malena sent cha. I’m sending him a Nocturna t-shirt this week with Fablo. Vogue it out baby! Yeah!

The LaM undies will arrive next week. So, look for them on the site. Then you can pull your pants down at our concert and say, “Whose the diva now?!” just kidding, but hey I’ll bet Sharon the hot bird chick would do it. Right? Man, if I had half her confidence, I’d mow right over Madonna. (Just might do that anyway. She’s getting old) I kid, I Kid!

We sure love all you LaMies. Thanks for staying loyal and visiting with us crazy people.

In answer to the question ” Is it possible to play a 13 hour gig on St Patricks Day” I would say, well, yes. Tho it aint’t pretty. The last six hours or so will get rather surreal, and , speaking for myself, one needs some serious Melissa Etheridge for the ride home. ( try SKIN and LUCKY )

I can tell you that the pain involved will get bad, but that it will go away after a while, and you will enter a place where there isn’t anything much besides set, break , set, break…..At times you will think, food , water, food ,water…..Is that chocolate?

I can tell you that it is your audience who will give you the strenth and the energy to make it, and it is your friends, and the people who come to see YOU, ( you know who you are tonight ) and who stayed with you, that gave you the strenth to make it thru this. They are the ones who made it wonderful, and magic, and weird and wild and wonderful. Who made it possible. I thank you. All of you who where there and with us.

Driving home I had thought of a lot more to say. Now, not so much.

I think I’ll call Malena and ask her to sing me to sleep, our Nocturna will be up. And I will get up tomorrow and do another gig, this one four hours.

Walk in the park , that one.

Happy St Pats to you all!

Love and weariness,
Lorraine

Cats and Rabbits, would reside in fancy little houses….
LA is sunny and wet. My wildflowers are sprouting! Yeah! I love LA weather.

Guess what? Lorraine will be here on Sunday. Yes, we are working on Balticon stuff for all of you. I got new samples of the Nocturna shirts today. We’re planning a full on LaM party of Malena proportions. I hear Balticon is having a Masquerade. Costumes and ME go hand in hand. I’ll bring the make-up and spiderwebs baby! Check out the Balticon Blog for details.
http://community.livejournal.com/balticon/
Is anyone bringing a video camera? If so, WE LOVE YOU! If not, we love you anyway. hee hee Ohh what evil plans we have brewing in our brain. Yes, that’s brain, not brains. Lorraine and I even had the same dream last night. Yeah..Wouldn’t you like to know! Hey, webcam conference anyone? I’ll talk to Miss Fabulous about when.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnd on a different note, I need a piano player! It will be a Jessica Rabbit goes Goth kind of gig. Lots of oldies and blues. NO LaM music though. That’s saved for when Miss Fabulous comes to town. If anyone (in LA) wants to play backup for me, email me and I’ll set up some dates. Yeah baby!

So that’s about it for my jazzy blog this evening. I’m off to find Miles. He’s probably out howling at the moon again…or ripping his jacket to shreds. Hey, a werewolf and a vampire? It works!

Music and Magic,
Malena

One of the things my Boss was grumbling about as he left last week was how Spring had come to our part of the world, and how he was going to miss it traveling.

It seems Winter is having the last laugh today. This was what I woke up to this morning and it hasn’t stopped all day. They say 12 to 20 inches with more possible, it blows so hard you can hardly see anything. Good thing I had planned on satying in today and a Very good thing it’s not Friday, which as you all know, is St Pats Day.

Can’t wait to get back to LA! Ah, the sun, the warm………

Now I am going to start digging out the Prius.

See you in the springtime,

Love and snow,
Lorraine