Cancan, Go-Go, Ballroom & Belly Dancing. Burlesque, Sideshows, State Fairs, Carnivals, Vaudeville, Circus, Trapeze Arts, Human & Animal Oddities. Things Stored In Formaldehyde, Pyrotechnics...ASSORTED RAZZAMATAZZ.
The Images, Ideas and Language of the American South. Art and Art-like Products, Record Players, Maps, Hand Puppets, Birds, Teeth, Trains, Sewing, Print Making, Industrial Letterpress, Book Making, Antiques, Taxidermy, Snowglobes, Old Pictures, Tintypes, Prayer Cards...and Squirrels - especially stuffed squirrels put in funny poses like playing cards or drinking beer. Hula Hoops. Fishnets, False Eyelashes, Fake Hair. Glitter, Make-Up, Strange Costumes. Satin Ribbons & Sundresses. Honky Tonks. Tent Revivals, Snake Handling, Feet Washing & Faith Healing. The Drive-In and The Tasty Freeze. Walking & Roadtrips. Coney Island & Niagara Falls. Telepathy & Hypnotism. Imperfection, Mystery, Sweetness, Nostalgia - as a Disease or Psychological Disorder. I really didn't feel sick, but now that they've said something...I think I have a fever.
Music
Calliopes, Pump Organs, Accordion - Tango, Flamenco, Klezmer, Eastern European Gypsy, Middle Eastern, Sicilian Funeral Music, Alabama Ghost Country, Church Music. Edison records...The hiss of 78s on the old Victrola and the crackle of 45s on the Zenith. The little birds and crickets outside my house. Train Whistles - But if it's a man whistling, Andrew Bird & Elvis whistle best. I love Jonathan Richman, Whiskeytown and The Old 97's. Minor Chords, Rockabilly, Hillbilly, Garage, 60's Girl Groups, Blues. Chuck Berry, Hank Williams Sr., Morrissey, 16 Horsepower, The Replacements. Slim Harpo, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Muddy Waters. Faces, Velvet Underground, Rolling Stones. Gill Landry, Beats Anitque, The Left Banke, JERRY LEE LEWIS, Beirut & Tom Waits...
Movies
All Fellini's movies especially "8 1/2" - Any movie with MARCELLO MASTROIANNI...
John Waters, 60's & 70's BOLLYWOOD!, R.E.M.'s TOURFILM, Jesco White - The Dancing Outlaw and The Godfather I & II- over and over and over and over and over...and over.
Television
I don't really have a T.V. But I liked Laugh-In, The Midnight Special, HULLABALOO, Hee-Haw, Soul Train, Fame. I think Taxi was the greatest show ever. I love old Saturday Night Live. I watch Dave Letterman and Conan O'Brien whenever I can. If it counts, I often go to The Belcourt Theatre with a bag full of quarters and watch Scopitones on the machine...
Books
Southern Literature - James Agee especially. Foxfire Books, Albert Camus. The World Atlas, Birds of North America, Freaks & Fire: The Underground Reinvention of Circus, Hobo by Eddy Joe Cotton, The Andy Warhol Diaries, Anything about Sewing or Crafting, Hank Williams: Snapshots From The Lost Highway...
Heroes
EL VEZ, Mary Huff of Southern Culture On The Skids, Kevin Bradley at Yee-Haw Industries, Sophia Loren, Mick Jagger, The cast of Saturday Night Live from 1975-Phil Hartman. The dancers at The Crazy Horse in Paris & their lighting guy, All people involved with promoting and maintaining Coney Island. Those who make Bob Fosse choreography look easy...
About me: NASHVILLE BURLESQUE REVUE, PANTY RAID!, IS TAKING OVER THE WORLD!!! And it's no wonder! This tantalizing troupe is an international sensation! They've toured the four corners of the globe dazzling audiences far and wide with splendiferous choreography! They've danced their way into your hearts and minds with their beautiful belly dancing & kaleidoscopic cancans! Why, just watching the girls shimmy and shake makes you want to go-go crazy!
What's more, Panty Raid!'s eye-popping parade of vaudevillian exuberance has seen success on both stage and screen. Yes! From the sawdust trail of the American sideshow to the modern-day, electronic flickerings of MTV's airwaves, Panty Raid! has a solid significance in American Burlesque.
In 2005, while still cutting their teeth as a two-year-old troupe of femme fatales, Panty Raid! ranked 2 in AOL.com's "11 Best Burlesque Attractions" in the U.S.A. Today, Panty Raid! has grown up to become a lipsmacking ensemble of terrifically talented performers, swirling the continents in a fantastic frenzy of dynamic dance and sophisticated style! God Bless America and her exhilarating ecdysiasts!
For complete bios, calendar, and photo gallery - visit www.pantyraidburlesque.com
A quote that really fits... "Pig Racing, Squirrel Tossing, Hamster Boxing, Mule Sniffing, Corn Dogs, Malt Liquor & Cigarettes... The 2nd Greatest Show On Earth." - Kevin Bradley, Yee-Haw Industries
Who I'd like to meet: People who make things. People who keep the show on the road. Pastie twirlers, sword swallowers, glass walkers, plate spinners, fire eaters, contortionists, dancing girls, ramblers, gamblers, four-eyes, snaggle tooths, hillbillies, hobos, singin' cowboys, vampires, record collectors, crafty beavers, print makers, everyday outsider artist types. Sweet and tender hooligans. The unhip, the misfits, the crazies and the displaced. Anyone with a Mayfield Brown Cow or a Grape NEHI to spare. The sweetest bittersweets - human honey- the ones who pull me along with them by my insides...
Come to Dr Sketchy's Pilgrims & Indian Session on Sunday November 15th when we have the lovely Lula Licious of Panty Raid! posing for your artistic enjoyment.
Forget sitting around the table with those people called your family eating dry turkey and watching grandpa take his teeth out and lay them on the table!
Come out to Dr Sketchy's and hang out with fellow artists, enjoy a drink or two, eat cake, draw pretty girls and celebrate the day those people on the mayflower came and stole this land from the people it belonged to!
We will, as always have great music, contests & prizes!
