I'm Just Sayin'

*shudder*

Ok so. . .there's a Russian trance DJ that I really like. . DJ Feel. His mixes are excellent.

You have to kind of surf around to find his stuff. . .so. . .I opted to check out the site for his label.

And this is what comes up: http://radiorecord.ru/cgi-bin/rotate.pl

I don't know what that thing is saying, 'cause it's in Russian . .DUH.


But ya gotta admit it's creepy.

( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

 must read view this when I get home.

http://www.sundancechannel.com/videos

We recently upgraded to a paid account (thank you, dear Art Pimp) so I'm new to posting pix into our blog. I've figured out how to adjust size so that I can post larger than the LJ default but what about photo quality? I am seeing a lot of loss in quality of the images I post ... I'm guessing due to compression. But I see pix on other people's blogs that look sharp as a tack. How do you do that? Are you hosting the images elsewhere?

The first First ever meeting of the Photo Club at the Center For Sex & Culture. Me seated in center, Robert Lawrence on the floor in the cap. Photo by Michael Rosen.

I got to spend a good deal of quality time visiting with Michael this trip. I also got some time to chat with a couple of other photogs friends. It feeds me to have friends in my circle who are substantial artists in their own right. The time we spent visiting & talking was really good for me. I need more of this.

This will be fun! Especially since it'll just be a couple hours after I land from London. Jet Lag makes monologists goofy!
Please feel free to pass it on.
Let me know if any of you plan to attend.

What: Midori as Guest Monologist at the San Francisco Improv Festival with USC Troupe, Second Nature

When: Thursday, July 24th. 8pm

Where: The SF Playhouse Stage 2, 533 Sutter San Francisco, California 94103

Cost: $20

Info: http://sfimprovfestival.com/

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A few of the work safe ones up front... and the rest aren't safe. I was the stylist for this so all I have for photos are my snapshots. I think I'll send some of the behind the scenes stuff off to the crew at TheFetishSaloon.com to add to their blog.

Yes, this is a photo of water. If you look carefully you can see Survalan in her cheese cake pose.



The boat house



The field


What I saw from the basket of the cherry picker.





Let me know if you want the spicier photos too.
(ok, now really good night.)

This was a very fast and a really intensely busy (and deeply sleep deprived) trip to London. I really love this city... and I don't get to enjoy it's summer enough... sigh... I wish I had more time here.

Keeping busy has been good for keeping my mind and heart from dwelling in grief. I wonder how I'll feel when I get back home. When I call home I have to stop myself from asking "so how's Grrr?"

I landed last Saturday. The flight was delayed 2 hours so by the time I got in it was too late to go to Kew Gardens as I had planned. They have a great canopy walk among their tallest trees for the summer. Unfortunately I didn't get to go at all this trip and the canopy walk will be down by the time I return in October.

Sunday: Up by 6am. So I had at least 7 hours of sleep on top of jet lag. Journey by train to the far east end of London and get picked up by my ride. Then we drive out through beautiful country side to Essex. I'm there styling and rigging for www.thefetishsaloon.com. The location was a farm... rolling green hills, a late, boat house, bunch of geese, small apple orchard, a tractor barn, a mechanic's garage.... Lovely place. I've been going to London regularly for over a decade now, but I really haven't seen much of anything outside of London - so this was a great change of scenery for me. (I know - some of you wonder why I've not seen much beyond London and why don't I just do it. It's not that easy. My teaching and performing gigs are at night. That means that any personal time I might have has to be within return distance to Covent Garden, SEOne, or where ever in town. Then I need to build in time for transit across this massive city and time to prepare for the class or show. Taking extra days off is difficult as that means other teaching jobs elsewhere won't happen. Life of the freelance, right? It's a good thing that I really enjoy London.)

Worked with a really nice first time model. All the crew spent the night out there and returned to the farm to shoot with the same model and another gal who joined us. I'll post photos of that in a separate post with a "not safe for work" LJ cut. worked on 4 hours of sleep.

Monday night, back into London with the execs from the web site. Midwifed a meeting with them and some of my talented friends over dinner.

I get back to the flat around 11pm (Turns out my friends back at the flat I'm staying at had an improptu weekend long play party and I missed out!)

I get a call that the product promotions rep for the big presentation at Coco De Mer wants me in for a meeting the next day at 10am. I get this at 10pm. Yike. I get an e mail that Coco De Mer needs class descriptions for the new class by morning. Also news to me. Double yikes. I have a deadline for my article for SocialKink.com Triple Yikes. I stayed up waaaay late. So late it was early. I got to sleep at 5:30am and had to wake up at 7:30am. 2 hours of sleep. Oh goodie.

The article turned out pretty good. I'm taking my "Beyond Twisted" class and making it into a series of columns. I'm pretty happy with it.

The class descriptions are pretty good to. Launching two new classes at Coco De Mer in October. I'll have the popular classes of JoyStick Secrets, How to Eat a Peach, and Sensual Whip - but we're adding "Rosy Cheeks: Beginner's Guide to Love Swats, Spankings, Paddle and more" plus "Bedroom Burlesque and Seduction for Beginners: Wiggle, Jiggle, Take It Off with Confidence!" Women Only."

(more soon. I'm very tired now so I'm going to bed. Woo hoo! I'm actually getting almost 6 hours of sleep tonight!)

Here's a photo from my airplane window. Perfect banking maneuver across the West End, The Eye, Tower Bridge, Tate Modern and of course the Thames.
The cloud parted and framed it like a painting.

Minimum wage is just $6.55 and thats an increase?
That will barely buy you a gallon of gas these days...

Aparently McCain thinks that women should be baby factories with no choice in the matter. Nice. Using the pill and / or condoms doesn't always protect against pregnancy. Some women can't take the pill. (Like myself.) Until I was allowed to get my tubes tied I was unfortunate enough to have condom issues several times. I lucked out most of them, but thankfully I had the choice when I didn't. Otherwise I'd have a 12 year old child and my life would not be as it is now. I'd be more like my friend "JT" who didn't have a choice because his girlfriend decided to keep it. He's miserable. He's been miserable for many years now. Frankly the idea that McCain thinks its ok to force women to bear children is unconscionable. I'm not even ok with the fact that women can force men to be fathers.

I will never vote for anyone who is that misoginistic.

 I made such a good dinner tonight. 

To kill the depression I must start and finish a task. Tonight I choose to make a decent meal. I choose greek. 

It was a challenge getting this task complete. I wanted to lay down on the couch and just sleep, do the usual thing, close my eyes for a few hours, wake up, ask R to take me out to eat and then perpetuate the unhappiness.

Instead I explained I was going to make dinner after I figued out what we were having and pulled my cooking light cook book off of the shelf and starting looking for orzo. I wanted orzo, of course I found a great recipe. What goes with orzo came to mind right away. 

I thumbed through the meats and found Greek stuffed steak. I thought how hard could that be? Ha. How hard could it be??? 

It was lovely. I changed a few things out for ease. I don't have a meat tenderizer at home so I used meat that was already tenderized and the super market didn't have pickled pepperoncini. 

The flavors wer so amazing. I made enough for lunch tomorrow and can't wait to eat it. Of course I started so late that we didn't eat until almost 10.

I don't know if I'll ever defeat my depression but I know right now I feel ok, I'm not sad and I accomplished a task. 

My goal is to stop eating out, eat in, not give up taste, reduse fat, and not comprimise flavors. I believe it's doable.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2008063610_webfishpedicure22.html

hhhummm... 

I ask you, do they look like evil herbivores?




They do however have freaky long tongues.

The day after travel is always my moving through molasses jet lag day. I've taken my walk in the sunshine (I read that walking in the daylight helps adjust your internal clock ... figured it's worth a shot) & am now sitting with a cup of gazpacho, some iced tea & a grilled onion & bacon bread from Blue Ribbon. Cats are in attendance (as are clouds of cat fur, 10 days worth of summer shedding. I'm trying to ignore that), fans are on high as I try to re-acclimate to summer. Much as I like SF I think I like being back someplace where you don't wear jackets & scarves in July.

A few of the high points of this trip, in order:
TA-ing for the 1st ever level 2 Rope Dojo.
Fresh peaches! And black apricots. And corn & all kinds of produce, the likes of which we do not see here in NYC.
Finding time to make photos with whittles for the first time in years. We shot in a planter Edsel (photo in my last post).
Having enough friends in the Bay Area to invite folks over for a birthday picnic & having dear friends who'd lend me their lovingly tended back yard & help me grill things for the afternoon.
Getting to spend time with friends I never get to see as much as I'd like, fd_midori, sfracerx, pantryslut, black_pearl_10, imnotandrei, whittles, sterlingsf,  rope_guy & of course all the others who are not here but who I enjoyed having time with just as much.
Meeting more of DeLano's family & finding out that we like each other.
Hot tubbing with DeLano under the stars in San Diego.
The San Diego Zoo. I got to feed a giraffe! Yay, me!
Playing with my new point 'n shoot & taking trip snapshots everywhere. I'll try to post more later.
Shooting with JD of the Knotty Boys & his lovely girlfriend. They were generous & passionate & beautiful & I hope to get to know them both better & shoot more.
And ... finally, teaching the full version of my Chasing the Erotic Portrait workshop for the brand new Photo Club at the Center for Sex & Culture. What a great way to end a trip. It was a totally gratifying experience & left me eager to find venues to teach it again.

Thanks everyone who helped make this trip great. I miss you all already & hope to be back your way soon

Seriously. .not trying to be snarky here. . .I'm curious.

Anybody using it? What's the point?

I'm just trying to understand what "advantage" there is to little tidbits of info letting the world now what you're doing every 7 minutes. But I also know that it's very popular right now. Maybe someone can shed some light on this for me.

Oh and I just finished a Dunkin' Donuts black coffee 3 minutes ago.

Hi.

hope all is well in lj land. 

I'm getting better, should be in bed. and yeah that's all

This is a great, and rare, offer. With these prices and their assistance you could own for about what you pay in rent. Consider it your 401k plan...

Just be careful about choosing the 10% for an unrenovated unit. Renovations have hidden costs and take a lot of time. Have them do the math for you to see what it would really cost to do or hire out your own renovations.

_________________________________________________________


Live Historic Puts Artists First

Live Historic has recently purchased an enclave of stately vintage buildings on Capitol Hill known as the BelBoy. Situated one-half block south of Pike between Belmont and Boylston, these homes will be available to purchase as affordable condominiums.

Before bringing the BelBoy for sale to the public, Live Historic is offering these studio and one-bedroom homes to the arts community at discounted prices, with financial assistance opportunities.

Because we recognize that personal and individual style is important to you in creating your living space, we will also offer artists the choice to purchase their home with an un-renovated interior at an additional 10% discount.

To preview and understand just what we are up to, you are invited to a great party at Pravda Studios - 1406 10th Avenue between Pike and Pine on July 30th from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. We will describe our vision for the arts community, feed you and take you on a tour of what we hope will
become your home and community.

There will be representatives available to help you understand the buying process and what kind of financing options will work best for you.

Please go to www.livehistoricevents.com to RSVP and see a gallery and price list for the BelBoy.

We look forward to seeing you and telling you about this great project we hope you will call home.

Live Historic
__________________________________________________________

Chris Wetzel / Marketing / office: 206 436-0285 / mobile: 206 282-7177 / fax: 206 770-6265
Live Historic | It's vintage (made better)
www.livehistoric.com <http://www.livehistoric.com/>

I'm trying to compile a song list... an inspiration list for a class I'm creating...

Tell me some of the best songs for private dancing and stripping for your lover. It would be really helpful to know the artist / song name / album / version or remix. Even your impression of the moves. (like "slow and sensual", "hard grinding", "trashy stripper fantasy", "50's burlesque babe", etc...)
Do you have a link to it where I can listen to it?

bring it on!

I can't stop watching this - I had to steal it!

This is a great, and rare, offer. With these prices, and their assistance, you could own for about what you pay in rent. Consider it your 401k plan...

Just be careful about saving the 10% for an unrenovated one. Renovations have hidden costs and take a lot of time.

Anna


Live Historic Puts Artists First

Live Historic has recently purchased an enclave of stately vintage buildings on Capitol Hill known as the BelBoy. Situated one-half block south of Pike between Belmont and Boylston, these homes will be available to purchase as affordable condominiums.

Before bringing the BelBoy for sale to the public, Live Historic is offering these studio and one-bedroom homes to the arts community at discounted prices, with financial assistance opportunities.

Because we recognize that personal and individual style is important to you in creating your living space, we will also offer artists the choice to purchase their home with an un-renovated interior at an additional 10% discount.

To preview and understand just what we are up to, you are invited to a great party at Pravda Studios - 1406 10th Avenue between Pike and Pine on July 30th from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. We will describe our vision for the arts community, feed you and take you on a tour of what we hope will
become your home and community.

There will be representatives available to help you understand the buying process and what kind of financing options will work best for you.

Please go to www.livehistoricevents.com to RSVP and see a gallery and price list for the BelBoy.

We look forward to seeing you and telling you about this great project we hope you will call home.

Live Historic
__________________________________________________________

Chris Wetzel / Marketing / office: 206 436-0285 / mobile: 206 282-7177 / fax: 206 770-6265
Live Historic | It's vintage (made better)
www.livehistoric.com <http://www.livehistoric.com/>