Posts in the “MUSIKAS” 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 (…)

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Midnight Honey

by angeliska on October 22, 2009

“Gypsy Interiors is a series of portraits capturing the private world of these outwardly loud, vivacious people. Here he finds a rich and profound intimacy, hidden but exhibited among antique furniture, tapestries, paintings, religious images, china, staircases and mirrors, set (…)

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Rest, then

by angeliska on October 21, 2009

(via paperlilies) Fever dreams, strange passages, sleeping all day. Oh, I’ve been so ill! Again, a nasty bug has knocked me down- an unfortunate casualty of my poor candle, burnt at both ends. I’ve been flattened like a pancake under (…)

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Strange Season

by angeliska on October 16, 2009

One of the many things I appreciate about Texas weather is the constant mercurial shifting between extremes. Honestly! I am, in so many ways, a creature of habit. I can easily get bogged down in work and routines, so perhaps (…)

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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 (…)

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Magic Windows #4

by angeliska on October 9, 2009

Summer’s dwindling has brought the storms: this one was coming for me before I began my journey. I outran it in high-heeled boots, the wind lashing at my leftover locks, head newly half-shorn, walking through the drive-through at the bank. (…)

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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 (…)

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Octopus Honey

by angeliska on August 27, 2009

That and this on a rainy (!) night. The storm thrumbles and booms overhead, the little dogs shiver and quake- and me clickety-clack before a little late-night leftover scallops + gorgonzola grits from The Blue Dahlia, muy delicioso! Looking at (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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