mademoiselle miscellany of jojo lazar

Bday week recap in paragraph puddles of verse. Cloudy audio hallucinatory re-memories of moments.

Monday 10/17 We WIREForester tumbled to Cynthia von Buhler’s Speakeasy Dollhouse/Spano’s bakery. Ribboned murder tea party baked goods, Catholic wake and Prohibition birth alongside statues of flappers and Marys with spray painted fright rabbits to follow down locked corridors. An alley to distract the medical commissioner, plague rats underfoot, sweet treats and a coffin curtained off. Slip out of your negligee. (It was a ball, i was accompanying Edrie and Mr. Walter Sickert, who is playing the role of The Undertaker.) It was a real soiree mystery piece of immersive immaculate dollhouse theatre, and it was delicious reunioning with the Sketchy’s/Naked Girls NYC contingency of tarot readers, neo flappers and lovely artists both in and attending the production.

Tuesday 10/18 (Photos by Chris Mcintosh) i solo ukulele lady’d at the everso talented bike chic-hott pants creative delightful Corinna Melanie’s backyard bonfire. i did some vagician vaudeville schtick and played some ‘coming out tiny-tiki’ tunes. much meta-heckling/giggling and losing of my cap! i also was performing after a fellow mono (ok, duo)-dreadlocked poet ;) A very warm audience, much hugs-for-zine-Niblets ensued. Always so flattered when people feel warmly/closer to me after a set. Truly grateful for the generous audience & photography!

Thursday 10/20 was my 127th Havisham-lette birthday and i don’t have any pictures. Perhaps i shall draw some from my imagi-memory…

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Above is one of the few SFW images from this past Sat., by Kate Black (castle party flickr set). Molly Crabapple knows what constitutes a True Soiree, and Cynthia von Buhler is the best-most decadent delicious lovely hostess ever. But we knew that already. who wouldn’t want to lose clothes and eat stuffed clams and smoke hookah in front of her artwork? (Thank you angels, you have twisty minds and an eye for beauty and i love my life a lot quite often.) Us Boston broken toys are crazy enough to drive down to NY saturday, party til 2-3am and then drive back so some of us cld work Sunday. Crazypants(less).

From my twitplixi stream, scandale! & Edrie’s twatpix.
& Cynthia von Buhler’s iPhone pic of me mid-White Rabbit/artsy photo shoot in her purple master bedroom. Metapictures. ok, delirious from lack of sleep this week. i may put up saucier ones on the tiny instruments’s tumblr. We have a new sub-genre now: Musical accompaniment to amateur party erotica photo shoots.

jojo, I dig your “anti-brow.” (-Young Dennis)

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me & Cynthia von Buhler’s “Show & Tell” !!! one of my most inspirational/favourite painting-installation-art(ifacts) in the world. in real life. at this party. i had no idea it would be there, i was just stoked to meet the lovely bday matriarch of magic/artist. gawsh.

And to have such beautiful photos from beloved Justin Moore? blessings. luckiest art wank in the world i feel like… (Justin’s Freaks! party pictures on flickr)

Edit’ddition: the keyhole peekaboo view as photographed by Scott Dakota

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you know, riding a 2-person carousel on the roof of a Manhattan penthouse suite in front of the Empire State Building Sat. night… like you do!
Cynthia von Buhler’s bday party/Amanda Palmer & Neil Gaiman’s engagement toasteroo and many other festivities. the army of toys were invited to play the super swanky/secret Freaks! themed affair. these are Terrorence’s photos of us. i’ve never been to a party where we matched the decor so thoroughly that it was “normally” dressed folks who looked out of place for once…(you can see mine & kev’s mad rabbit bowlers, too!)

y’know that CvB painting i’ve loved enough to steal the Communication Arts mag. it was on the cover of from my AP art class when i was in high school? (“Show & Tell”) it was present/installed at the party. pics of me with my eye to the keyhole soon soon…i’m party overhung in good and bad ways and very grateful for my life/art and bandmates/carnie beloved family troupe.

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this is not desperately recent, (8/24) but when one lovely decadent (and somewhat gothic among many other multi-adjectives—) multi-talented multimedia artists interviews another, you should read it. and i am very smitten with Cynthia von Buhler’s painting, “Show & Tell.” i guess i would say ‘in conversation with’ one of of my favourite paintings (Gabrielle d’Estrées et une de ses sœurs, which i just relearned is by an unknown artist!)

Molly Crabapple interviews Cynthia von Buhler for Chinashop, “Artstar: Cynthia von Buhler”

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