| ...as long as you spell my name right |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|10:13 am] |
A word to those who are referencing my stage name...
My stage name is: Ariyana LA FEY
...it is NOT "Le Fay".
To explain, to those who still don't see the difference:
Ariyana "The Fairy" aka Ariyana La Fée (En français)
Except few would know how to pronounce that. So I altered the spelling, to "Fey", which is the English spelling of that French word.
You can actually look UP "fey" in the dictionary and find something like this:
(this sample from dictionary.com)
fey
/feɪ/
–adjective
1. British Dialect. doomed; fated to die.
2. Chiefly Scot. appearing to be under a spell; marked by an apprehension of death, calamity, or evil.
3. supernatural; unreal; enchanted: elves, fairies, and other fey creatures.
4. being in unnaturally high spirits, as were formerly thought to precede death.
5. whimsical; strange; otherworldly: a strange child with a mysterious smile and a fey manner.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE fǣge doomed to die; c. ON feigr doomed, G feig cowardly |
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| PSA: AAA members, don't forget |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|09:59 am] |
...that you can use certain AAA offices for DMV services. Like registering your car.
There was no line, it was done in 5 minutes, and I was back on the road.
Man, I like it like that. |
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| and there was France, and there was a wedding, indeed |
[Jun. 29th, 2009|07:23 pm] |
I've been out of town, to France and back again, since Thursday last.
Yes. I really did go to France just for the weekend.
No, it's not how I prefer to do these things.
Yes, I have my reasons, which revolve around delayed gratification in other areas.
C&E are wedded, both in the state's eyes (last autumn) and in the eyes of the church (this weekend).
That priest was exactly the sort that I approve of. Rough translation for the Americans in the room ended with "She is not your maid, and you are not her slave." Hear, hear!
Trying to sing hymns in French that you've just been taught is amusing. I did it anyways, and held my own, I daresay.
Saying the Our Father as well. I've kept my booklet from the ceremony and I look forward to delving into it a bit deeper, translating for my own interest.
My signature is in the church rolls of a small church in Burgundy, as witness to the event. That's why I had to go, even if it was only for a few days. It's not often your friends in a foreign country ask you to come and act IN their wedding.
There was a lot of very good wine. Somehow, I didn't manage to bring any home (not for lack of trying).
There was a lot of very good food, great cheese, and one of those cream-puff towers that substitute for wedding cakes in France. Mental note: should I ever do such a thing, cream puff tower is the way to go. YAY cream puffs.
Despite a giant language barrier, people were unfailingly polite to me constantly -- so much so that I sometimes had to find the words to thank them.
I feel as though I've gone from having 2 crazy friends in France, to having a whole extended family/circle. While I wasn't really planning it this way, I feel like I need to actually get to a decent level of fluency for real now, and keep up with them.
C&E are talking about coming out for their birthdays later this year. I owe ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) eqe a longer trip to France next year. He's gotten the briefest scratchings of the surface in Paris, which was both a delight and a shame all at once. I've told at least 3 or 4 people to come to SF, and that I will care for them as they did for me.
...and all that said, traveling out of CDG during the summer can suck me. You know it's bad when the "Quick Bag Drop" line moves at the rate of your average customer service line, because nobody there seems to understand what "Quick Bag Drop" MEANS. *sigh* |
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| Followup: beach manners |
[Jun. 19th, 2009|08:21 am] |
It seems men who can't mind their manners at the beach is also a problem in Marin.
Except there, it's getting the community's hackles up. Good for them!
Marin Independent Journal Story
I can only hope that other beaches will also post information about whom to call in such cases.
Better, can I SMS the sheriff? ...caught red-handed takes on new meaning... |
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| Performance Madness! |
[Jun. 18th, 2009|03:53 pm] |
FRIDAY NIGHT! YES, TOMORROW!
Hubba Hubba Revue: SIDESHOW!
( flyer )
Join everyone's favorite carnival-barkers, Kingfish and Eddie, as they take you on a stroll through the Strange and Astounding Wonders of the Sideshow!
SEE! Burlesque performed by the sexiest circus-freaks and loveliest human-oddities ever assembled on a single stage!
THRILL! to the grinding goodness of the Go-Go Dancers of Mystery!
LAUGH! yourself silly before a comedy cavalcade unique in This World or the Next!
Sideshow Shennanigans and So Much More!
AT: DNA Lounge, 375 11th St, SF
Doors: 9pm, Show: 10pm
21+ with ID.
$12 advance;
$10 < 9:30pm;
$15 after.
( Performer List )
SATURDAY NIGHT!
Rathskellar | Foundry
( flyer )
"A mad scientist / horror cabaret of industrial burlesque."
AT: DNA Lounge, 375 11th St, SF
9pm - after hours.
21+ with ID.
$10.
( Performer List )
MONDAY NIGHT!
Hubba Hubba Revue: Uptown Club Edition
Hubba Hubba Revue returns to the UPTOWN CLUB this coming Monday night with a line-up guaranteed to put the sizzle in your Summer! Tell your friends, tell your neighbors, 'cuz it just doesn't get any HOTTER than this!
( Performer List )
still only FIVE BUCKS!
Doors 9PM, Show at 10:15PM
21 & Up w/ID
THE UPTOWN CLUB
1928 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland
(1 block from 19th Street BART!) |
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| GRR: dear men of the world |
[Jun. 15th, 2009|05:08 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  irritated | ] |
First: Shirtcocking is never an acceptable fashion statement, even on a nude beach.
Second: I am aware my body is well-cared for, you don't need to stare, for hours on end.
Third: "Subtly" fondling yourself whilst staring at me on the nude beach constitutes harassment.
Next time, I'm going to charge you by the minute, and if I catch you not paying up, there will be a supersoaker full of ice cold water waiting. That ought to deflate your fun. |
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| good weekend |
[Jun. 15th, 2009|09:27 am] |
a number of cancellations and plan alterations left a nearly free weekend. it was thoroughly taken advantage of.
-I slept in both days, as much as I wanted to
-eqe and I started working on plans for playa project
-then, we went to a party
-I cooked brunch on Saturday, and got brunch made for me on Sunday
-birthday party, complete with smoking, rum-soaked funeral barge^W^W birthday cake
-beachiness with eqe, and NO SUNBURN! YAY!
-clam chowder, escolar with giant white beans, key lime pie
-the joy of a shower that comes after the beach
-garden! |
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| Ask me a question: a meme I find reasonably useful |
[Jun. 13th, 2009|09:48 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  amused | ] |
I remember vividly maintaining close relationships by paper mail, writing letters and awaiting their return. One of the joys of new technology is the immediacy of communication we now enjoy, but it also creates a false sense of closeness. Just because you can send an email or post a comment in a blog, you think you know someone more intimately...because it seems like they are always "there" for you.
Sometimes this is actually true, these people are the ones who are truly our friends. Other times it is less so, and we trick ourselves into thinking we know someone just because we can read the words they choose to share with the world, or even a small subset of it.
That said, I invite you to ask me a question which you feel might help you understand me better. Something that should maybe be obvious, but you have no idea about.
As always, I reserve the right to answer your question at whatever level I find appropriate. |
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| I want those 2 hours of my life back |
[Jun. 13th, 2009|09:12 am] |
On a last-minute whim, eqe dragged me off to see Samurai Avenger: Blind Wolf.
I tell you, if this is what I get for cooking him a delicious dinner of heirloom tomato and basil pasta, with a nice chardonnay, I'm never cooking for him again.
For those wondering, the movie in question is part of the Another Hole in the Head Festival. Which neither of us knew until we'd bought tickets at the Roxie.
I have personally retitled this movie "Another Extraordinarily Long Death Soliloquy".
Here's the official blurb:
"“Sin City” meets “Kill Bill” meets “Grindhouse”—it’s a visual tour de force, and not your standard samurai flick! While camping in the desert, an innocent family is attacked by the personification of evil, Nathan Flesher. After unbelievable brutality, the father, who was witness to his wife and child’s murder, is forced to take out his own eyes in a scene so graphic you will squirm in your seat. The senseless killing of his family plants the seed of vengeance and Blind Wolf is born! Years later Blind Wolf returns as a master samurai. Flesher is about to be released from prison and has arranged for seven assassins to kill Blind Wolf. Deadpan narration adds sly humor to the slicing, dicing and the lobbing off of parts that splatter along The Blind Wolf’s path to revenge.--Mike Skurko"
It was determined afterwards that we probably should have gone to see Terminator. Yes, really.
I fully expect my life to be lengthened by 2 hours plus interest in exchange for that experience. |
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| booyah! |
[Jun. 10th, 2009|11:09 pm] |
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New grill pans? Successfully broken in. No more missing my hibachi -- I can do it on the stove now! |
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| Weekend-in-review |
[Jun. 8th, 2009|12:02 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  exhausted | ] |
Friday night: impress drunk people with mad fan dancer skillz and low-height aerials work. Did not die despite lack of rosin. Excellent.
Saturday morning: make it to Circus Center at 9am. Acquire new exciting bruise on upper inner thigh doing star-and-a-half drops. do one straight-arm straddle, and 35 pushups. feel like putty.
Saturday afternoon: Give Whole Paychecks money, take home too much food. Clean house in preparation for both housekeepers and girlfriends who are coming this week. Get aerial rig delivered home. Realize what time it is, curse, shower, and pack for...
Saturday evening: PEERS. Peach 1960's housedress FTW, complete with big(ish) hair. Make Prisoner jokes. Dance with people. Go home. die.
A dress photo
Sunday morning: wake up, shower, get txt from eqe. Brunch at racerx7's with eqe and his brother, drive to my.family's house.
Sunday afternoon: retrieve horse tack, fix parental units' computers wireless, take Mum for her first EVER pedicure (at age 64!). Get Mum addicted to footrubs and massaging chairs. Pink toes on me Mum FTW.
Sunday evening: drive back, visit valhenson's new place, eat curry, come home, post, now die. |
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| PSA: performances this weekend! |
[Jun. 5th, 2009|10:53 am] |
TONIGHT!
Saint James Infirmary 10th Anniversary Benefit!
Cirque X
Friday June 5, 2009
9pm-3am
Paradise Lounge, SF
21+, NO CAMERAS PLEASE
Advance Tix: $15 General Admission; $35 VIP
Door: $20 General Admission; $40 VIP
TOMORROW!
PEERS Secret Agent's Ball!
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Masonic Lodge of San Mateo
Doors Open: 6:45p.m.
Dance Lesson: 7:00 p.m.
Dancing Begins: 8:00 p.m.
Tickets: $20.00 at the door
all ages, photographers welcome |
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| PSA: performance calendar! |
[Jun. 1st, 2009|10:28 am] |
June is a big performance month for this busy girl!
This Friday I'll be performing on the aerial tissu at the St. James 10 Year Anniversary Benefit, Cirque X!
Cirque X
Friday June 5, 2009
9pm-3am
Paradise Lounge, SF
21+, NO CAMERAS PLEASE
Advance Tix: $15 General Admission; $35 VIP
Buy tickets now
Door: $20 General Admission; $40 VIP
If you miss me there, you can catch me 2 weeks later, doing aerial tissu at:
Hubba Hubba Revue, SIDESHOW!
Friday June 19, 2009
9pm-after hours
DNA Lounge, SF
21+, PHOTOGRAPHERS MUST BE CLEARED ***IN ADVANCE***
Buy Tickets
$12 advance;
$10 < 9:30pm;
$15 after
...and if that isn't enough for you, I'll be dancing *on the ground* at Hubba Hubba Uptown on June 22!
Hubba Hubba Revue: Uptown
Monday, June 22
9pm-midnight
The Uptown Club, Oakland
21+, PHOTOGRAPHERS MUST BE CLEARED ***IN ADVANCE***
$5 recession-proof dollars!
WHEE! |
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| PSA: Performing Tonight, HHR Uptown, Oakland! |
[May. 11th, 2009|12:37 pm] |
Hey there guys and dolls! It's the best entertainment deal around!
Hubba Hubba Revue, The Uptown Club edition
1928 Telegraph Avenue, OAKLAND, CA
$5 at the door, 21+
Doors at 9pm, show starts at 10pm
Tonight's lineup:
Rubenesque Burlesque! (sssh, don't tell anyone it's Juicy's Birthday!)
Vixen Noir!
Ariyana La Fey!
Dangerous Curves (with Dangerous Dan)!
Room For Cream!
Monifa!
Wiggy Darlington!
Sid Scenic!
Zip the What-Is-It?
Great drinks. A beautiful club. Pretty girls doing what you all love to watch them do.
Really, do I need to explain any more? |
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| Costume: Yellow Polka-Dots, bodice skirt and sleeves stitched |
[May. 7th, 2009|10:08 am] |
Last night the yellow polka-dot dress moved closer to completion.
The skirt fronts and backs are stitched together, and it is pinned at the bias side seams, and hanging overnight to do any stretching it's going to do.
The sleeves are stitched up and ready to be attached to the bodice. Probably 1 more night of work left, possibly 2 depending on how fast I feel like doing handwork. |
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| Hubba Uptown Next Monday! |
[May. 5th, 2009|01:35 pm] |
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| |  excited | ] |
The best Monday night in show business just got even better! Hubba Hubba Revue
returns to the UPTOWN CLUB with one of the biggest, most incredible shows
you'll ever get to see at recession-era prices! Heck, it'd cost you more money
to stay home!
MONDAY, May 11th, we've got:
JUICY D. LIGHT! (with Rubenesque Burlesque! --and it's her birthday, too!)
Sid Scenic!
Vixen Noir !
Room For Cream!
Wiggy Darlington & Vima Burlesque!
Ariyana La Fey!
Monifa!
Dangerous Curves!
(with Dangerous Dan!)
Zip the What-Is-It?
...and everybody's favorite drunks/MC's, Kingfish & Eddie!
All for a mere FIVE BUCKS!
Doors 9PM, Show 10:15PM
21 & Up w/ID
THE UPTOWN CLUB
1928 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland
(just 1 block from 19th Street BART!) |
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| Happy May! |
[May. 1st, 2009|10:45 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  happy | ] |
...at least it stayed dry here in the Bay Area until the sun was up a bit...
Thank your local Morris dancers for making sure the sun came up! |
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| Forgetfulness: a challenge to the world |
[Apr. 30th, 2009|07:43 pm] |
Take a moment, sift through your list of friends, and think of some amazing talent that one of them has (and no, I don't mean, think of one of mine. Think of one of ANYONE'S!).
Now, did you remember that talent only because it's the one they've most recently displayed in your presence?
Try remembering something else they're amazing at -- maybe something they haven't done in a while. Maybe something they really love doing, but that you haven't seen them do recently.
Now expand this to the rest of your friends -- what have you forgotten they can do?
If we always forget, people end up in little pigeonholes in our heads, stuck in the same rut, doing the same things, over and over again...without room for change, or growth.
It's the season of growth. Let your friends grow, and let your vision of them grow, too. |
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