Posts in the “HAPPENINGS” category
The Witches' New Year
by angeliska on November 3, 2009
Our Halloween began at twilight, as the last meager trickle of trickertreaters drifted off, leaving us well stocked with gummi body parts + mini almond joys for life. Or at least a little while, knowing the sweet-tooth of certain fellas (…)
GADJO DISKO – Glamour + Sickle
by angeliska on October 15, 2009
Here we go! Time for another Gadjo Disko! Are you ready? I am! Or I will be, just as soon as I make my headdress! The next one is this Saturday, October 17th 10pm-4am at The Cockpit, 113 San Jacinto (…)
Languishing in New York
by angeliska on September 16, 2009
(From the collection of Mark Dion and Dana Sherwood) I arrived in the city soundly, despite Mercury’s meddlings (delays, insane turbulence) and headed straight from the airport to the Hungarian House where my beloved Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band and (…)
Gilded Bats
by angeliska on August 20, 2009
I am finally beginning to feel halfway human again after le disko deluge, (yes more on that soon!) As usual, it’s not quite Thursday anymore– but c’est la vie! So many things have been happening lately that my heart feels (…)
Gadjo Disko – Glamour + Sickle Fashion Show
by angeliska on August 14, 2009
Sorry for any radio silence, kittens- I am so busy getting ready for this: Gadjo Disko Eastern Bloc Party is a throwdown ethnotechno diskoteka dance party with extravagantly spangled attendees rump-shakin’ to DJ Chicken Kiev and a bevy of acts (…)
Until the Sphinx Winks
by angeliska on August 10, 2009
I attended another 1929 party recently, and got dolled up accordingly- in a vampy-boudoir doll ensemble à la Theda Bara or Pola Negri. If there is any era I feel a total resonance with, it’s absolutely the late teens and (…)
Foot Patrol
by angeliska on August 5, 2009
Apologies for the extremely short notice, but if you’re anywhere near New York this week, I must entreat you to hie yourself into the city to check out Foot Patrol! They are one of my local favorite bands, known for (…)
Snakes + Leather
by angeliska on July 3, 2009
Recently we had a wonderful opportunity to spend some time with a very lovely snake named Sugar. Our friends Scott and Jen who are the founders of the Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata were married recently, and went to (…)
Disko Duets
by angeliska on June 15, 2009
Normally I don’t end up posting the Gadjo Disko photos here until just before the next one, for various reasons (mainly laziness!) but it was such a fabulous night, I just couldn’t wait until then! This ensemble was my favorite (…)
Scrapyard Honey
by angeliska on June 4, 2009
The other day we went out to the scrapyard. When your sweetheart is a blacksmith, this is a pretty common field trip. If you’re hunting for the perfect piece of metal junk or odd machine parts, then it becomes a (…)
