Black diamonds, Joe Coleman, Alejandro Jodorowsky, glamour, camp, grand guignol, cult film, Apocalipstick, Marc and the Mambas, adam west, amazing delores, angelyne, austin young, boys in makeup, caligula, cha cha heels, circus, clowns, corsets, crispin hellion glover, cult film, David Bowie, david lachapelle, david lynch, disco bloodbath, disinformation, divine, dolls, drag queens, Ellie the magnificent min pin, Elvira, glitter, hollywood babylon, jayne mansfield,glass eyes,joel peter witkin, john waters, jumping on beds, Kitten Natividad, klaus nomi, latex, leigh bowery, lenora claire, little dogs, london, man ray, mannequins, Mark Ryden, min pins, mkultra, monkeys, new wave, oddities, Olivia, oscar wilde, parasitic twins, performance art, Pee Wee Herman, pickled punks, platform boots, playing tricks on people, puppets, robots, shaye saint john, sideshows,Serge Lutens, the bedazzler, the black dahlia, trevor brown, true crime, Tura Satana, udo kier, ugly babies, ultraviolence, uncle goddamn, underground art, vivienne westwood, warhol, Dali, The Invisibles, Japanarama, Orlan, Amanda Lepore, Jack Parsons, NLP, bad plastic surgery
Music
Angelo Badalementi,Patrick Wolf, Kraftwerk, Klaus Nomi, Random 60's French pop one hit wonders, Divine, Antony and the Johnsons, Serge Gainsbourg,Marc Almond, Marc and the Mambas,Figurine,Julie London, Shirley Bassey, Ursula 1000, Coil, Soft Cell, Ennio Morricone,Neubauten, Donovan,Ute Lemper, The Dresden Dolls,DAF,Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Tracy & the Plastics,David Bowie, Dead or Alive, Mum, Fadgadget, Steve Strange, Joy Division, Magnetic Fields, Marianne Faithfull, Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo,Velvet Underground,Momus, Quintron, Shaye Saint John, Suede, London Suede, Pulp, The Tiger Lillies, Nina Hagen, Le Tigre, Xiu Xiu, Lunachicks, X-ray Spex, Neubauten, Pizicatto 5, My Bloody Valentine, Joe Meek, Ebola Music Orchestra, Ego Plum, Devo, This Mortal Coil, The Kids of Widney High,The Centimeters,Jacques Brel, Grace Jones,Boy George, George Michael, The Jam, early Mute records stuff, 60's euro pop, 80's synth pop, 60's soundtracks like Danger Diabolik and Barbarella.
Movies
Holy Mountain,Santa Sangre,Sunset Blvd,Danger Diabolik, Nomi Song,The Forbidden Zone,Monster Squad,Tarnation, Ichi the Killer,Caligula, La Dolce Vita, Faster, Pussycat! Kill Kill,Jetaime Moi Non Plus, What is it?,Torch Song Trilogy, Paris is Burning,Rubin and Ed, Whatever happened to Baby Jane, Barbarella,Bad Education, The Girl Can't Help It, City of Lost Children,Eraserhead,Showgirls, Polyester, Myra Breckinridge, Dr.Caligari both the original and the 1989 Jerry Stahl version
Television
Eurotrash, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Batman ('66) Wonder Showzen, America's Next Top Monkey, Disinfo TV, Oh! Mikey, So Graham Norton, The Queer Edge, Nip/Tuck, Liquid Television, Golden Girls, Anderson Pooper, USA Up All Night with Rhonda Shear, Just Say Julie, and of course my show Apocalipstick (I'm working on it but I promise it's GENIUS)
Books
Boobs, boys, and high heels or how to get dressed in just under six hours,anything on Houdini,Hollywood Babylon, Geek Love, Shock Value, Perfume,Crackpot, My Dark Places, Running with Scissors,Myra Breckinridge, Illustrated history of freak film, Against Nature,Disinfo, Feral House and REsearch stuff,the works of James Ellroy, Jerry Stahl,Emily Post,Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Truman Capote, Angus Oblong,Kenneth Anger, Sebastian Horsley, so many more...blah blah blah...ad infinitum
Heroes
PT Barnum, Harry Houdini, Paul Ruebens, Myra Breckinridge, Leigh Bowery, Dianne Brill,Robert Evans, Jayne Mansfield, my Dad,Shaye St John.
About me:
I'm a Los Angeles based art curator, writer, glamour girl, performance artist-glass eater, and event producer. I've had my own sideshow cabaret as well as created and curated many art events including the "scandalous" and "mentally unbalanced" (according to publications such as The National Enquirer, Globe, LA TIMES, Los Angeles Magazine, LA WEEKLY, VARIETY, Bizarre Magazine TMZ, NPR, HDTV, Current TV, AOL News, Chicago tribune, Defamer,etc) Golden Gals Gone Wild show that featured erotic depictions of the Golden Girls and the Bettie Page Heaven Bound show featuring the art of Olivia. I have written over 200 published articles and have interviewed celebrities including Elvira, Lynda Carter, John Waters, Julie Newmar, Bob Mackie, etc. I've also been known to model and appear in films, music videos, and on tv. I recently had the honor of posing for the legendary artist OLIVIA making one of my teenage dreams come true. I'm currently working on my biggest dream, my very own tv show in development with Prudence Fenton (Pee Wee's Playhouse, Liquid Television) Anything else you could ever want to know about me can be found at my website (relaunching soon)
Lenora Claire cartoon by Glen Hanson from Lenora Claire on Vimeo.
Thanks to the amazing Marla Rutherford and the USA Network I'm currently appearing in a nation wide ad campaign called Character Project that includes posters in Vanity Fair and Variety, book, exhibition, commercials, and billboards like this one seen in Times Square.
Who I'd like to meet: Artists, eccentrics, visionaries, counterculture cuties, Robert Evans,Pete Burns, John Paragon, Thierry Mugler, James Bidgood, Pierre et Gilles, Patrick Wolf, and Thomas Noguchi. I've already met my greatest living inspirations Alejandro Jodorowsky and Paul Reubens, but I would have loved to have met Jayne Mansfield, Jack Parsons, Harry Houdini, PT Barnum, Serge Gainsbourg, Leigh Bowery, and Klaus Nomi.
I LOVE YOUU LENORA! It was sooo AMAZING to meet you! but it went TOOOO FAST!!!!!!!! I want to come up & see you when i get back from England! XOXOXOXOOXOXOX B
Hey Lenora! Just wanted to congratulate you on the Bettie Page show. Went to the closing...Awesome!Can't wait for your next show...Wishing you much success. Take care, ^^D^^
Loved the exhibition with Olivia's incredible Bettie Page paintings. I hope to make it back to LA again before the show closes. Olivia is SUCH a talent!!!
KLAUS NOMI ?! ok - thats cool. good to see you last night . inspiring to hear all thats going on with you ! makes me wanna get off of my lazy boy.cheers , jefferson
Angelo Badalementi,Patrick Wolf, Kraftwerk, Klaus Nomi, Random 60's French pop one hit wonders, Divine, Antony and the Johnsons, Serge Gainsbourg,Marc Almond, Marc and the Mambas,Figurine,Julie London, Shirley Bassey, Ursula 1000, Coil, Soft Cell, Ennio Morricone,Neubauten, Donovan,Ute Lemper, The Dresden Dolls,DAF,Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Tracy & the Plastics,David Bowie, Dead or Alive, Mum, Fadgadget, Steve Strange, Joy Division, Magnetic Fields, Marianne Faithfull, Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo,Velvet Underground,Momus, Quintron, Shaye Saint John, Suede, London Suede, Pulp, The Tiger Lillies, Nina Hagen, Le Tigre, Xiu Xiu, Lunachicks, X-ray Spex, Neubauten, Pizicatto 5, My Bloody Valentine, Joe Meek, Ebola Music Orchestra, Ego Plum, Devo, This Mortal Coil, The Kids of Widney High,The Centimeters,Jacques Brel, Grace Jones,Boy George, George Michael, The Jam, early Mute records stuff, 60's euro pop, 80's synth pop, 60's soundtracks like Danger Diabolik and Barbarella.
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