February 05, 2010
Tour 2010
It begins again. The life of the traveling gypsy....
As I write this to you, I am hijacking internet somewhere nestled in the middle of nowhere in snowy, gorgeous Norway. We are more than a week into the European 2010 Key Tour and our comfy 1940s mint green double decker rolling house has traveled to so many beautiful cities. The tour has been a huge success - the crowds are fantastic, the fans are loud and amazing and well, Veronica's Kissing Army is in full battle world domination mode.
This morning, I found myself on the second level glass room above the driver's level which we affectionately refer to as the "tea room", and throughout winding small roads of the Norwegian countryside, I watched the sun rise. The colors pierced through the fluffy snow covered trees and lit up the sky - fiery orange and red. I was cuddled in my blanket, the only one awake, watching the world start to stir. In those quiet moments, I thought about how grateful I am for this experience. How grateful I am to be able to get on stage every night in cities all over the world and be able to meet so many of you.
My body is getting used to constantly moving again. We perform and then get on our bus and move while we sleep and wake up in a new place everyday. There are quiet winding roads and the busy autobahn, bridges, tunnels, and ferries. We take them all. We live out of our suitcases and one big flight case that holds all the crystal covered costumes, Victorian lace, masks and feathers. We soak up as much beauty in a place as we can muster because before long, the road will be calling, and we will be back into our moving home and onto the next city.
There is great comfort in the familiar faces in the audience....our extended road family. Seeing the VKA in the audience all dressed up, with banners and signs and all the screaming makes me proud and makes me feel at home anywhere in the world. You have been coming from all over and spoiling us with handmade presents and gifts of magic (songs you made, faerie figures, magic gypsy necklaces, pretty tarot decks and candles) and gifts of comfort (pretty soaps and teas, comfy socks and mittens) and even a gift for my dog Niney (pink rhinestone collar!). Your love and sweetness to me on the road just makes my heart burst with thankfulness. You remind me that this is truly living - being able to perform doing what I love every night on stages of the world and at the same time build solid, supportive friendships with so many of you. We get to experience this journey called life together. And what a fun, wild ride it has been lately! Here is a pic of my amazing Kissing Army UK waiting outside of Wolverhampton NINE hours before the show in freezing weather. This is how I was greeted as I came off the bus.....it was a damn good day.
Thank you for opening your heart to me. Thank you for packing out the houses every night that we play. Thank you for playing with us. Thank you for waiting in this shivering cold for hours ahead of doors opening, thank you for making the audiences loud, thank you for being so very alive, thank you for making this a gorgeous, fun and unforgettable experience for me. This is a time we will remember always.
We are creating this together.
And we have only just begun.
See you tomorrow, my Oslo Beauties....I am so looking forward to being in your presence once again.
Love,
VeVa
Posted by Veronica at 12:50 PM
January 24, 2010
Help Haiti with our New Shirt!
Are you ready to play the rat game with me, World? Look out! Because I'm practicing (obviously!)
Things You Need to Know Right Now:
1. AHHH! Check out my new pretty t-shirt custom made by one of my favorite artists, the amazing
Nana who transformed me into the Queen of Spades! The text says, "And on her lips...a poison kiss." Want it and want to help Haiti at the same time? Go here!
2. This is the LAST TIME I will be offering the puff sleeve babydoll shirts because they are discontinuing the style. I ordered the last of all they had (which is limited) to print a run of Pretty as a Pistol shirts, the original Kiss Me design shirts , and the brand new Queen of Spades shirts. If you have been wanting any of these shirts - this is your last chance to get them in the black puff sleeve babydoll t! Once these are gone that is it!
3. In true VKA gratitude - for EVERYTHING that is sold on Danger Dame from this moment until this Tuesday at 1pm NYC time when I board the plane - 10% of your order will go to Doctors Without Borders to help our Haitian Friends. Part of being VKA is to help serve our brothers and sisters throughout the world who need our help. So let's DO IT!
4. Once Tuesday, January 26th at 1pm hits, I will be taking the new Queen of Spades shirt and the Kiss Me shirt OFF of Danger Dame and taking them with me on tour - so US people - if you want one - get it now!
Please pass this on and let's make this awesome!
See you in London, Babies! Now back to packing....
Love,
VeVa
Posted by Veronica at 01:33 PM
December 31, 2009
Headed to 2010...
Me and Burke Heffner, my darling husband and co-conspirator in world domination at his studio....
I woke up this morning to snow falling and an excitement in my heart like something wonderful was about to happen. It's a brand new day. I checked my email and the first one I read was a letter from a VKA soldier halfway around the world in Latvia, named Amechi, who wrote me a lovely letter about how hearing my story inspired her to go for her dreams and as I continued to read, there was another beautiful letter from Kali in Norway who said that seeing me go after my dreams has inspired her to go after hers. I felt so touched by these amazing women and their stories of all they are accomplishing and they both, in turn, inspired me.
This made me know - without a shadow of a doubt.... that we are all in this together.
And we have fires searing our hearts with all the never-ending gorgeous possibilities of the future we want to create. 2010, my Darlings, means the future is now.
In New Orleans, I visited one of the oldest voodoo queens in town and she told me that 2010 would be one of our best years yet. That some kind of shift is happening, that people are stirring from their sleep with wide-awake dreams...
All of you reading this - every single one of you....I will never be able to express how much I appreciate you out there in the world living your dreams in all the ways you can. We inspire each other, my Friends. We feed each other. We have the courage to scream out our greatest dreams to each other and the bravery to make flying leaps out into the unknown to achieve them.
It is not something one can do on their own. It takes an army. A group of dedicated friends, like-minded dreamers and fellow travelers.....and here we are.
I chose this picture that Burke took two days ago in his studio because it shows the beautiful feather that my friend, Deotriese gave me in Amsterdam. It has become my lucky feather. In my mind, it represents all of you who have shared this incredible journey with me, those of you I have met and those I have not met yet, but somehow we have touched each other's lives. It is my medal I am wearing for you. It is the way I symbolically bring all of you on my adventures in the world. And to show you - I am fighting for you just as much as you are fighting for me.
My wish for this New Year is that we continue to break through the boring threads of "reality" and make our lives the things we have always dreamed of. That good and helpful people will cross our paths, that we will walk along this road with friends we will have forever and that one day, we will be able to tell the world that we did it.
Because we will.
It's happening already and we cannot be stopped.
The world is changing and we, as the dreamers, will find ourselves as the Kings and Queens.
Just you wait.
Meet you in 2010.
Love,
Veva
Posted by Veronica at 10:13 AM
