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Fantasy And Obsession—Wonderland, A Roving Beast

February 16, 2010 by Clint Catalyst · 9 Comments 

At Royal/T Café, Store and Artspace

8910 Washington Blvd, Culver City CA

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The evening of February 4th, 2010

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was a hare-y sitch for photographer Dirk Mai, as captured by Polite In Public.

har, a hardy-har har—Umm, YEAH.  (How ’bout I spare you guys the slab of  Velveeta?  Sound like a plan?)

That’s what I thought…

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Chubby Bunny (L) and Yume Ninja (R) of Bubble Punch brought cosplay Correctness for us to look upon,

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Whereas Lenora Claire —another ‘repeat offender’ on this humble Dot Com—fully LET US HAVE IT with a mind-melding, retinal-shattering, hot hot hottt hairstyle!

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Oh! But what have we here? An adorable  Kat Lee , per chance?

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As a matter of fact, yes: yes it is, indeed… and in the haus with her band mate and business partner, the multi-talented Kaila Yu (L)!

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Our exploration of Correct Culture continues

with burlesque beauty Courtney Cruz sandwiched between an Alice duo… ♥

(while pssst! Here’s a little “JSYK,” if by chance you’re in the No instead of know):

The estimable Miss Cruz presents “tassle-twirling with a spin” at her once-a-month installment of The Devil’s Playground at Bordello bar. Described by journalist Erin Broadley as “Beyond traditional fan dancing and martini bathing,” the Devil’s Playground “integrates pop culture and niche fan favorites with the classic art of the striptease, modernizing burlesque with cleverly themed, character-driven performances like Video Game Girls, Comic Book Vixens and…Tails From the Crypt.” Known most recently for creating a disturbance in The Force for her Star Wars-themed bump-and-grind, it’s no wonder the L.A. Weekly deemed this Busty Storm Trooper’s resident troupe as Best Burlesque Club of 2009.

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Here, Cruz exercised control with chanteuse Jessicka Addams and Mia Vixen, one of The Devil’s Playground performers.

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Wait a minute.  I mentioned this was an art opening; didn’t I?

Oh-Kay.

Unfortunately, the gallery ran out of catalogs—so I can’t even credit the Kunstler responsible for the creation pictured above.  That being said, please allow me to segueway back to other deep and meaningful content, such as

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the photo booth fun I had myself…ditto, Ela Darling and The Dirkulous Maximus.

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Caught here on the other side of the camera is “Nightranger’s intrepid reporter Lina Lecaro,

whose years of  fearless ventures—from immersing herself deep in the trenches of trannies werkin’ the merkin to ravers wielding glow-sticks as if they were num chucks—have garnered her quite The Reputation.

Incidentally, Lecaro “dipped into the population” this eve not only for the sake of a newspaper word count, but also to celebrate the completion of her first full-length manuscript. (No, people: I didn’t say script. Leave those to your dental hygenist, who’ll likely have “something for you to look over” before the luxury of another kind of script gets written.  Oy.)

By manuscript, I mean book—of which her debut is titled
Los Angeles’s Best Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the City of Angels.  Its release date is May 1st, 2010

but why not go ahead and pre-order the betch?  Assuming you remembered to close out your tab at the bar last night, that is!   Such a hassle, retrieving one’s 16-digits on plastic The Day After.  Isn’t it?  [AHEM!]  I mean: So I’ve Heard.

“Besides: it’s not like I had a hang-over or anything!  It was more like…a lean-over.”   Yeah.  That was it—

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Clint Catalyst Interview In Imago Magazine, The “Fables Issue”

December 29, 2009 by Clint Catalyst · 1 Comment 

Issue Four (summer/fall 2009)

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Imago is distributed in Canada at Chapters and other fine booksellers.

“Flouncing About” — Spoken Word Text by Clint Catalyst; Narration by Pauley Perrette

December 11, 2009 by Clint Catalyst · 1 Comment 

with the aural fixations/visual manipulations of

P. Emerson Williams (from Veil Of Thorns)

the artwork of—and special appearance by— Joshua Petker

as well as portrayals by Dirk Mai and Julia Romanenko.

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Because ‘Participant’ Is Not An Award, And Life Is Not The Special Olympics

December 1, 2009 by Clint Catalyst · 2 Comments 

Truth of the matter is:

We don’t all get a hug for our efforts.

What we do ‘get,’ however, is Freedom Of Choice…

(though make no mistake: to not choose is—in itself—a decision).

A choice you’re hereby offered the opportunity?

Who gets an award (yourself, perhaps?), and

For what?

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But for those of you whom the terminally cute

is a constant reminder that human beings do, indeed, have a “Gag Reflex”?

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Go ahead and OWN THAT BITTER BILE

DOWN TO THE BONE!

Pictured above, at Hollywood’s latest haunt of legendary proportions, Mr. Black:

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Clint in the ‘Celebrity Lifestyle’ Issue of Wedding Dresses Magazine

September 9, 2009 by Clint Catalyst · Leave a Comment 

Fall, 2008

True, true: Not a publication in which I imagined I’d ever appear—

Which made seeing it on shelves at the grocery store that much more surreal and exciting!

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One Month. An Amtrak Train. First Class Cabins, and A Slew of Renegades…

August 12, 2009 by Clint Catalyst · 1 Comment 

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pull off the fabulous spectacle that is fashion. The pre-reqs are only that you get as many of your friends as you can to donate to
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Water-Color Hued Blood Will Be Shed! Click This Bounce-Out A.S.A.P.

July 14, 2009 by Clint Catalyst · 3 Comments 

For Ticket Information

~ To ~

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This Year

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MAKE NO MISTAKE: THE UNVEILING OF THIS MAD FASH MASH-UP

between

DESIGNER JARED GOLD

and

VISUAL ARTIST JOSHUA PETKER

will be a mind-melding, rump-rousing

RUNWAY SHOW and D.J. DEATHRACE

of L.A.’s hautest TREND-SETTERS, CULT ICONS,

RULE-MAKERS, RISK BREAKERS, and HISTORY-MAKERS!

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HOWEVER, UNLIKE THE INFAMOUS UNION STATION SHOW,

This event has yet to be announced to the ‘general public’–

as the venue capacity is 1/4 that of last time!

WHEN THE SPACES ARE GONE, THEY’RE GONE…

And when you click to see the stellar line-up for the eve?

Might as well set your watches to “Ready, Set… GO!

Each & Evert Name?  Hot-Linked, Heavy-Hitters

Seriously?


But Seriously…


HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

x o x o x

Clint

Photograph of Clint by Dirk Mai

L.A. Fashion Week: Party at BOXeight

December 27, 2008 by Clint Catalyst · 23 Comments 

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The Transformation of boxEIGHT: Ethereal Beauty Emerges from Kucoon Designs

October 24, 2008 by Clint Catalyst · 15 Comments 



Alright, so...
for an overview of boxEIGHT's "This Ain't Mercedes Benz Fashion Week" 

this last/past Season's Offerings (Spring 2009)
in L.A.,
Check it—

(Madness Courtesy of Altitude TV)

Clickity click for coverage of me "giving word" at boxEIGHT studios
with appearances from:
Peter Gurnz, Dirk Mai (formerly known as "Fingers Crossed"), Audrey Kitching,
Lina Lecaro, Sammy from The Kids, "G," and Vanessa Gonzales——
along with the work of Yotam Solomon, Brian Lichtenberg
and other high-octane fabulousness.

Truth be told, anticipation of Mr. Lichtenberg's show
is what got me "in outfit" and out of the house,
so I find it only apropos
to highlight his latest work
before transitioning into the next topic...


 
 

O.K., now that we've had a bit of
'the spandex strut' that has garnered Mr. Lichtenberg notoriety
(with good reason—-this show did not disappoint,
and those effing hats and headpieces still SLAUGHTER me...)
*~ Slaughtering, I say! ~*~ S-L-A-U-T-E-R-I-N-G ~*

Still, there's a shifting of gears // a bit of backstory:
The Altitude video was shot on Friday, October the 17th--
when I was (admittedly) full of more "piss and vinegar"*
than I was by Sunday eve.

*Thanks for the vernacular, granny.  MEAN IT!

I mean, c'mon: when do I deny the fact that I'm a dinosaur
among the (AHEM!) "scene"?

Consequently, my pal Gabriele and I
nearly "pulled a Frankenstein" and bolted after the Rojas show:
false eyelashes were wilting, and enthusiasm was becoming an act
as difficult to keep up
as the Chet B headpiece I'd tacked onto my noggin...

Fashion Troopers: Gabriele and Clint Await the Final boxEIGHT Show (Spring 2009)

Then—a moment passed, only to be eaten by the next:
a narcotic rush painted with such poetic visual precision,
we were consumed by it.

Kucoon Fashion Show/Performance -- Spring 2009 Collection
(Part One : the First Half)
Please forgive: this video clip kicks in once I'd rummaged through
my recycled rubber "murse" and acquired my little cam
in medias res,
as I wasn't, well...anticipating the need to record anything.
Hence, I do admit the reactions one might overhear 'off screen'
aren't exactly eloquent.
However, that's one of the reasons why I opt to express myself
via pen, paper or notebook
(be it college-lined or of the G4 ilk).
What often is a more animated, base manner
exploding like confetti from inside of me
Is but a temporal human response: those mannerisms/
histrionic outbursts and the like...

(Oh, C'MON already! In layman's terms?
Reminders that I'm a FLAWED HUMAN BEING
who entertains himself by being "ornery!"

Consider that my frickin' First Step or something.
All right?)

  

(…and Here’s Part Two of the Visual Treats)

For instance: theoretically,
If I were to "bum rush" the designers
backstage
for an impromptu interview...

my antics and semantics with
Sheila B and Andrea Spratt, the duo responsible for
the cornea-melting jewelry/design
under the moniker Kucoon—
well,
I'd be calm, mild-mannered and
an inveterate pro with technical equipment.
(Or at least that's how I'd intend it to seem
via a little 'revisionist re-write.')
Hyperbole, active verbs and sparkling consonants...
Why not chronicle life as colorfully as one sees
or makes it out to be?
And on that tip,
the rhetorical questions continue with a nudge
and a "Why don't you go ahead and hit up the personal site
of my latest favorite find among the 'newbies'
here in Smog City?"

www.kucoondesigns.com


There's nada there for the xy set in terms of PERSONAL "consumer consumption,"
(Love that Lily Allen!)
 but that by no means is an indication any gent with impeccable taste
will be at a loss in terms of visual stimulation.
Ya with me?
As in, "Hrmm, that'd look really great on ______________."

Everything moves with such heightened velocity this time of the year,
a person might as well start shopping now:
It seems like as soon as we scrub off the Halloween make-up and blink
it's already SANTA TIME
yet again...

Insofar as the 'stand out' piece among the site? 
The Amethyst Stalactite earrings are such stunners;
in an alternate life—one in which I have scads of dinero
and zilch insofar as student loans—
I'd buy a pair and turn one into a necklace,
the other into a brooch.

Fashion is all about fantasy, anyway—
here's but one of the ways mine come to fruition.

Bring on the images
and I'll find the words...

7 August, 2008, 07:49 am in “Fashion, Runway Shows”

August 7, 2008 by Clint Catalyst · Leave a Comment 


Phantasmic Little Pieces of Perfect…


7 August, 2008, 07:49 am in “Fashion, Runway Shows”


The official, factory approved, Jared “Good-as-but-Never-Fool’s” Gold video clip of his “Czarina” farewell show in Salt Lake City

featuring Audrey Kitching, Stevie Ryan, Dirk Mai (formerly known as “Fingers Crossed’), Deena Marie, and a somewhat familiar-looking dork who GAVE WORD as the MC

is up and ready to view on YouTube:

Any problems? (Well…with the VIDEO, that is!)

Rock the URL:

I’m tellin’ ya: this gent is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant…

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