I was running madly about the house trying to get everything done and going thru in my head what I have to do this weekend, and it occurred to me that if I went down to my office and did a blog I would get to sit for a few minutes, actually DO a blog and I could work it all out in my head.

So, what am I doing?

I will tell you about the Rowenberry jelly after we actually taste the stuff, but for now think Meg, in Little Women ( if you haven’t read it, you ought to, but to be nice I will tell you: Jelly Meltdown. Totally ) I may have to try again next week.

Tomorrow is Friday. After work, I load the PA and leave for a gig in Stillwater, I am playing with Paul from 7:30 to 11:30 at Charlies, an hour or so away from here. Then I go back to my little Witchy House on the Hill, hopefully by 1:00am, and sleep blissfully, waking refreshed by 6:00am.

My Boss is off somewhere ( I actually forget where ) early Saturday morning, so I make sure he is packed and ready and up and send him off to the airport, leaving the same time with two small girls ( who despite the threat of strong, if not severe thunderstorms , NEED to come to the Renn Fest with me ) and we drive to the Renn Fest, arriving, if all goes well, by 9:30.

Do some shows. Nine of them. Shows there are half an hour each. 5 are on the big stage for 1200 or so people. The rest area scattered all over. Shows at 10, 11, 11:30 , 1 , 2:30, 3 , 3:30, 4 and 4:30. Pray for rain. Can’t fiddle outdoors in the rain.

Leave at 5:00 with Paul and two small girls. Take small girls to meeting place with Girl #2’s parents. Go to Stillwater for another night at Charlie’s. Arrive before 7:30. ( if all goes well ) Play until 11:30, tear down PA and go to Paul’s . Sleep like the dead in his spare room. ( note to self bring pillows. Boys never have enough pillows )

Awake refreshed and ready for a new day, where are we at? Sunday I think. Go and do the nine shows once again. Drive to Paul’s and watch Serenity with Paul and the Sexy Librarian. Attempt to stay awake for one episode, as the purpose of this viewing is they are sure I will like it if I give it a chance. Go to sleep in newly pillow enhanced spare room.

Monday. Labor Day. Fest AGAIN. So cruel. Darn Holiday. Wake up . Not so refreshed. May re-consider my position on coffee. Sure, it tastes horrible but isn’t there something about caffeine that could be helpful today? Expect to have lost brain somewhere.

Do. Shows. All. Nine.

Done by 5, home by 7.

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Wake on Tuesday. Everything will hurt and I won’t be able to form complete sentences, but I expect to have , in spite of it all, a wonderful time playing for people.

Wish me luck and have a fine weekend yourselves!

Love and gigs, Lorraine

I’m sure by now you have all exchanged email addresses, birthdays and what not. Thanks to Mistress Mousey, Thingie Gift Exchange “Coordinator”, we have a few ideas to get you started. You can look at the article here: www.lorraineamalena.com/lamies.html
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Lorraine and I send each other little things all the time. This week, I sent her some skull leggings, only to find out she bought me the same pair but in black. I love getting your cards and gifts everyone. Thank you so much. Hey, WE LOVE YOU TOO! really really….

We’ve been thinking of ways to show off our merch and give our fans a few surprises at the same time. So, every month (or so) we will be sending out a LaMie gift package to one of you. This month’s winner is……….
Rebecca Wise

These are just little things to show how much we love our group of friends. These gift packages could include Swag from Hollywood parties, fashion shows, LaM merch, stuff from Malena’s closet, stuff from Lorraine’s gigs, etc. etc.

I’m having a blast btw. I found so much cool skull stuff the other day. I could have bought it all. I hear Fablo may be coming out here in the next month or so..YEAH! Maybe we could plan a webcam party! Until then, I will be sliding in and out of these corsets till they’re all photographed. There ARE worse jobs, I agree. Kitty is a great photographer.
I Miss you all!!
Malena

Oh..and Lenny, you’re autographed photo is on the way! Let us know when you get it.

Ok, I know I just posted this as a comment, but Lojo is simply too cool for just a comment, she needs her own entry, that women does ,so here you go….Go and say Hi, from me and Malena and the LaMmies…..

I am too tired after working and houseing all day to say much, but our rock n roll friend Lojo Russo has her own blog now and could use some friends, her music is magic and she taught me everything I know about performing, she has pics of me up on her blog , if you want to go and say hi to a traveling girl and hear some mighty fine music…

( she rides around with a Skeleton Beannie Baby all over the country, whom she talks to and writes songs to, she is one of us, trust me)

http://boosnews.blogspot.com/

Love and Boo,
Lorraine

Ah. Bed Blogging. Malena was right, this is truly the way to go, between Work and House and all these Gigs, I am beyond tired by this time of night, no Nocturna here! I’ll be asleep as soon as I hit Publish Post and before it goes up.

The coffee Table Fish tank is now up and running, complete with fish! Two Koi, two Fantails and one Midnight Black one named Malena! It’s lovely and every bit as wonderful as I thought it would be. I even have a fake correl reef AND a log with a skeleton hand.

Here are a couple of pics I like, both are from what Malena calls the ” Romance Room”, a lovely French table and Victorian chair, and then, my favourite, a late 1800’s Victoria ball and stick chaise, which sits beside my Lovsac. That’s me, like noone else. Nothing exactly goes together, but it all just seems kind of cool. MANY many thanks for the lightswitch covers, they are wonderful and working out so nicely! It was funny, today arrangeing things, I had the thought that I don’t know where anything GOES, and I am the one who gets to decide. Wonderful fun…..

The gigs last weekend were fun. Hot, and long, but I think I made a lot of people really happy, if only for a bit, and that, it seems to me, is why one should do them.

I can’t wait to do it all again this coming weekend.

I can’t wait until they are done so I can get back and see Malena, little bed bogging creature of the night that she is.

‘Night…

Blogging from bed,
Lorraine

Since my computer’s been in rehab, I’ve been using Miles laptop. I’ve discovered Bed Blogging. Sounds like a pesticide treatment or some B&D game, doesn’t it? Eeeehhh!
Ohh what fun I will have with mobil blogging. I can take our LaMies to the beach..
Fablo with her bad self just got a computer with a built in webcam. Ohh darling! The possibilities of that. I can just see myself giving all of you a vitual tour of the TEVES museum (a fancy name for our long hall way). Heeee he

Halloween is coming soon people! Everyone in the FX houses are working on their costumes. This frenzy no longer worries me like it once did. I now only work on my bean’s costume. I simply slap on a dress and a few accessories and everyone THINKS I’m in costume. It’s hillarious. Ha! Ohh last year I took my daughter to the mall, wearing no costume but a simple witch hat. Some of the people asked if I was employed by the mall and could they take photos. I’m telling you, LA does NOT know how to dress up. (except the art department) :)I love my town, but it’s true. Miles sculpted a character “based on” a ghost from the Haunted Mansion for his friend Chris. Chris makes custom teeth for movies like Bram Stoker’s Dracula. So, I’ll be getting a set of real vampire teeth out of the deal. (As nice as the porcelain caps you get at the dentist.) I’m sure Miles will have to remind me to take them out! Don’t want to scare my favorite little produce dude. Although Lorraine says he won’t mind. I will even be able to eat in them. Sturdy choppers! Of course, I will take a few dork shots for our LaMies.

Speaking of LaMies, Kitty brought a few merch gifts over to send out to you. So, I’ll put your names in a hat and send out the gifts! wehoooooooo. I LOVE sending little things. If I had time, I’d send everyone something every month. If I’m ever lucky enough to have an assistant as fabulous as Lorraine, it would be possible. Anything is possible with THAT woman! I miss her, BTW. Six weeks is a long time for us chickens. BegaahhhKKKK!

And for all you TEVES fans out there, Miles got his first copy of ‘The Demon Hunter’s Handbook’ in the mail yesterday. It’s an illustrated book in the same format as the Dragonology and Wizardology. I am so excited! He says he isn’t that happy with the quality of his work. (He always says that, trust me. He said that about Darkness, the Passion of the Christ, and and and..the list goes on.) No one in Hollywood is complaining, I tell him. He just keeps cranking out amazing stuff. Right now, he’s sculpting/designing IRONMAN at Marvel. I’ll get the release date for you.
Anyway, the book is a cool cult monster classic and there’s alot of new TEVES creatures in it, including ME!

It should be in the stores by October maybe earlier. (I’ll bet your recognize the succubus, and the…well you’ll see.) Yes, we all know I’m the biggest TEVES fan alive, or undead. Flamen’ baby!

Kitty’s photoshoot turned out sexy! She nicknamed us “Bunny and Bettie”. Ohh and Mimi came by too. She knows her stuff that girl. Thank you both for all your expertise. What I really wanted to do was make THEM up! Charlie’s Angels! But, we couldn’t bear to shoot without Fablo. So our 70’s Angels dream will have to wait. Alter Ego sent me some bad girl outfits, honey! Not “frenchmaid” bad, but “pull two guns from your garterbelt” bad. I stick to corsets and dresses and give the hardcore stuff to the buff babes. (For the visual safety of the world, trust me) They will be available for purchase by the end of September I assume. I can’t wait to show you!! It’s so strange to see photos of myself looking all sassy, because inside I’m just a midwestern drama nerd who tries not to snort when I laugh.
“I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way.”

Well, it’s about my bedtime…yep! 5 am. I’m starting to get sleepy. Well, not really but I’ll give it a shot. Wink!

Midnight Madness Malena

Quick post this morning to let you know about an unexpected gig that turned up for this weekend. Paul and I will be playing Friday and Saturday at Charlie’s in Stillwater, 7:30 to 11:30, if anyone in the Twin Cities is up for some music by the river. We would sure love to see you!

We will also be playing the next 7 weekends at the MN Renn Fest. And , no, you can’t come and laugh at me! No funny accents, no weird ” character” , not even very out of the ordinary clothes. I’m just me. Same me as anywhere else. We open for an act called ” Puke and Snot, who are very fun, and we play 5 times a day on the big stage.

I also play out there with Bedlam, which is me, Big Sexy, a guy named Mark and another Paul. We play 4 times a day at the Mead Booth.

( somewhere we have some pics from last year when Malena came out, not THAT was a fun weekend, I’ll ask her if she can fine them and post a couple )

9 shows a day between 10am and 5pm. And gigs at night.

Gigs are good. Money is good. Making people happy for many hours a day is good. It’s all good.

sigh.

Pray for me.

On a happier note, I spent my first night in my actual bedroom at the new House, as opposed to haveing my bed on the sunporch while construction was being done. A very fine thing that. We also got everything mostly moved yesterday, now I just have to figure out where everything goes, and what I still need.

I can do that in my spare time this weekend…

( oh, again, I slay myself!!!!! )

Love, music and moving,

Lorraine

The shows this weekend were, as ever, very fun. Saturday playing with Lojo Russo was amazing. SHE is a powerhouse of a performer, you think I am something on stage, this girl wrote the book. I had SO much fun and it was so fun to see so many people there, standing room only it was and we knew everyone in the room. We went from Irish, to Lojo songs, took a left into comedy, and wound up, uh, somewhere. The only thing that could have made the night perfectly perfect was if Malena had been on stage too. Someday, THAT is my deepest secret fantasy, Me , Malena and Lojo…( ON STAGE people! MUSIC!)

We had a friend come and hear us, she is here for a visit. She also got to go and see the County Fair, (where the main goal seemed to be don’t throw up) and a play (called “Watching Porn” the Hot Birdchick’s Husband wrote for the Fringe Festival) and back again to see a Lojo solo set this afternoon.

I told my friend, so when they ask out in LA what you did in the Midwest this weekend she could tell them “well, tried not to vomit, got taken to the same bar twice to see the same performers and saw a play about porn.” Doesn’t get any more exciting than this, folks! I don’t think she will be having anything like as cool of a time when she gets to LA, how can you top this???

(and Malena thinks SHE has fun, lying about in coffins, looking like an un-dead beauty queen of the vampires, hmmph! Try the tilt-a-whirl after cheese curds!)

(actually Malena loved the cheese curd experience out here, but could not seem to believe that the preferred way of eating them was not raw from the bag, but dipped in beer batter and deep fried)

(and oh, back to the Porn, Watching Porn was a really wonderful show! Many congrats to writer director Bill Stiteler writer and director, never thought I could listen to someone talk about porn for an hour and never stop laughing, hit of the Fringe it was!)

Where was I??? Oh….

My Boss published an essay I wrote about being a Personal Assistant over on his blog, you can read it HERE I was going to post in here as well, but that seems sort of silly. Malena said she would make a page where we could put up my essays and such things.

Oh, and yes, it is all true. And all in one day. Every day.

Love, Music and Porn

Hello LaMies! Kitty and I are recovering from a long shoot. Here’s some photos for you. We had a blast. More coming soon….

Here’s Kitty and I doing the twin thing….

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And THANK YOU Stephen! He’s the cute goth dude in the coffin. He’s one of my oldest friends here in Hollywierd and we couldn’t have done the shoot without him! Ok, now I’m off to hook up my new Frig. Yes, once again Fablo and I are doing the same thing on the same day. We never plan these things, that’s why it’s so odd. Lllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeee Yaaaaaa LaMies!
Your Angel of Death
Malena

Here’s a picture of yesterday’s Mangos of Love! ( Minus one , nice bath that )

Went to the House last night and Cleaned and cleaned, never did see so much dust and painting things, and then one a nicer note, arranged my skeletons in the new cabinet. Yes, folks, the skeletons are out of the closet! ( I slay myself! )

I like the Angel Dude who looks like he is taking a bite out of some sort of Spirit of Light!

That’s about all the interesting news for today except to say, Malena and I are often amused by the fact that our lives seem to run parallel so much of the time and we find ourselves constantly doing the same things, half a country apart. In case you all thought they were non-stop glamorous and exciting, let me tell you that today we are both up early , half a country apart, waiting for our new refridgerators to be delivered.

Love and skeletons,
Lorraine

Malena and Kitty no doubt had a fine time shooting corsets in coffins yesterday. I , myself, had a horrid migraine, I do hate them do. I spent the day in bed with an ice pack. Methinks they got the better end of the deal, witchy ladies! I do feel better tho today.

More importantly, for recovery, I got sent an entire CASE of football sized Mangos! Anne Murphy , I have said it before, you are truly wonderful! I amy finally have enough Mangos to keep me happy. I shall eat them in the bath, which is the proper place for Mango eating. ( tho Malena is not so sure about that one, I think she finds it silly, hee-hee ) Again, my thanks! You guys are the Best ever!

( Hmmph. I took a nice photo of them, but Blogger won’t let me uplad anything, guess we have to wait. )

Gigs this weekend! With Paul Score, our own Scored for Life, on Friday and Saturday at Charlie’s in Stillwater. Joining us on Saturday is , once again, Lojo Russo, one of the sweetest singers going, we never fail to have a blast and things get pretty comic at points. Lojo is not often in town, so if you can make it , do please come down. Promise it will be fun.

On the house front, the Worlery is covered is dust, with construction things and paint things everywhere. I get my stove and fridge tomorrow. And then have to spend time cleaning the place, the floor and carpet look great LAMinate wood floors are SO
the way to go. ( well, I mean if one is on a budget, hardwood oak looks pretty good too if one isn’t ) I am hoping to put Lojo up on Saturday after the gig, my first houseguest ( Malena doesn’t count as a GUEST )! ( wonder if Lojo will mind not actually haveing a BED, or dishes, or, uh, FOOD )

Love and Mangos,
Lorraine