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October 30, 2005

CBGBs!!!!

This is what I look like singing at CBGBs! Slowly stripping off my gloves in the beginning of my "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" number. Albert Garzon of Ixion Burlesque accompanied me on piano!

Note: the two pictures from this post are stolen with the utmost respect from Viva's candid shots of the evening. You can see more of the event at her journal post here!

Wow. What a night! It was an absolute dream come true to perform there. It was one of those things on my personal "things to do before I die" list that I can now say that I've done. And the crowd? UNBELIEVABLE. I ended up staying to the wee hours hanging out with everyone afterwards...so many of you showed up and thank you!

I got to meet so many of you for the first time that I've been talking with on email...Elizabeth, Jinx, and Melissa of the mesmerizing red dress (with her honey)! I was so happy to be around so many amazingly creative kick ass people all in one place...!

The photography and artwork all together was mindblowingly beautiful with artwork from the dangerous Miss A.V. Phibes, Molly Crabapple (who also performed burlesque!), and Tyson McAdoo (wow!) and photography by Frank De Blase and Miss Viva Van Story, who had her picture of me with a gun in the leopard hotrod right under the CBGBs sign in front!

The sexy hotrods were provided by the NYC Rumblers (Cha Cha is was so good seeing you again ♥ !) and I also got a chance to meet va-va-voom pin-ups Christine, Cheryl, Jinx (with her sweet beau), and I got to hug my hot as hell friend, pin-up Dolly, once again. I got to catch Little Brooklyn, who did a hot hubcap burlesque dance that made me adore and worship her even more than I already do. Streetsy Desire from Big City Burlesque in Atlanta stopped by with her honey, Sid and made me drool over the her vintage burlesque finds in NYC (which is fine, because they become mine when they move in with me soon - heehee). The World Famous Bob glided in, kissed me and called me "Pony" which makes me completely melt every time. I then eskimo-kissed fabulous Miss Jen Dziura. Gorilla Bob even crashed the party in full costume. And I got to have a damn good time with some of the usual suspects...my partners in crime, Zina, Vogel and the dapper Burke Heffner. *Whew!*

What an unbelievable evening. Nights like this are the very reason I moved to this city. New York City is a perfect place for a dame like me!

This is me at the very end of my act. I actually remember this exact moment (surprisingly) because I had just sang the last note and dropped my feather boa. This is me in ticked pink burlesque happiness reveling in the utter fabulousness of this glittery city.

My heart is drawn all over your concrete.

xxoxoxo

Posted by Veronica at October 30, 2005 08:56 PM