This weekend : Friday, August 13th and Saturday, August 14th
Two Thousand and Ten A.D.
The roving, decadent, well-bedecked beast known as House of Usher nightclub is scheduled for a resurrection. Planned location of stated resurgence? The Uptown in Oakland, CA.
“…as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.”
________, please allow me to introduce . . .
Shawni Brothers : Proprietress of The Estate
Sir Xavier Haight : The Gentleman of The House
as well as
Vocalist/Founder of the critically-acclaimed darkwave project Malign
Cutting to the chase, with the swath of a switchblade: If you live anywhere in the vicinity of this _______ of delectable darkness: even a cursory glance at the gorgeous creatures that follow should propel you off your gluteous maximus and commence rifling through your closet.
Case in point : The hyper-hyphenate, obscenely talented, über-hottie known as Zoetica Ebb [ as pictured above ]. Of course, you could stay in tonight and lurk endless jpegs of her posted at Biorequiem, her home base among the internet ethers — and explore Miss Ebb’s prolific outpourings within the gorgeously rendered, glossy pages of Coilhouse — a love-letter to alternative culture, in the form of perfect-bound periodical — of which she was a co-founder.
L O O K † U P O N
T H E S E † L O V E L Y † L A D I E S
Nakoeth [L] a.k.a. ‘The D.J. Formerly Known As Fuchsia’: Esteemed Provisionist of Hand-Picked Auditory Delights, and Sorrel Smith [R], a Prodigious Talent of The Visual Arts Who Renders Her Paintings, Portraits, and Illustrations With Consummate Skill
Above this text, the look? Four words : I SEE NO FLAWS
Ryan Rosprim [L] of Kill Sister Kill with Mmm Hrmm ; Sure Is [R] . . . countless versions ago, though the
Sensual, Though Inherently Too Cultivated & Chic For One Dare To Describe As ‘Slutty.’
Sophisticated, Though With A Sufficient Accumulation Of Accolades; i.e., No Need To Be A Show-Off. An Infectiously Engaging Conversationalist—Perhaps The Most Charmingly Macabre Individual I’ve Ever Met, Actually. If you’re familiar with the photography of Eric Kroll, Steve Diet Goedde, Charles Gatewood, &/or Richard Kern (et al), you’ve seen her likeness: or rather, the image this anthropology major and multi-faceted individual chose to project at that precise moment in time.
A maestro of oil, Anna Noelle Rockwell‘s paintings explore the sublime intersection where the gorgeous and the grotesque intersect.
Gabriele : Conjurer Of Thunderstorms and Lunar Apparitions, Dark Liquidtrance Bloodscapes, Scrying, Writhing Vampiric Chasms, Stitch-Witchery Of Glamoured Fabrications, Brightly-Colored Tarot Playthings In A Physical Shape and Smash-Lit State Of Mind Like No Other, Cemeterial Moonlit Gloom, & Body-Popping.
No typo, that: Black Magic and Body Popping
A individual in the most wonderfully warped sense of the word, and a collector’s dream.
Though I Can’t Tell You If It’s From When He Was Or Wasn’t A ‘Prince,’
With All Certainty, I Concur With The Sentiment : Natalie? She’s Got The Look, Yes
Paris Sadonis: A Master of Multiple Instruments; A Painter, Performance Artist & Musician Known For Pushing Boundaries—Particularly With The Rotating Cast Of Collaborators in The Audio-Visual Pastiche He Both Created and Orchestrates : EXP. ‘EXPerimentation Without Limitation’ is a doctrine among the collective; ‘Catharticism Is The Key To Our Satisfaction’ is another.
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, 2007
