At this moment, other than sanity, we'd be interested in your looking at our pieces and maybe even buying one or thirty thousand (not really--Mac's fingers couldn't tie that many knots!)
We founded the Skeleton Crew Pirate Band in the early '90s and have been making pirate music ever since. Check out our MySpace site for more, or stay tuned here.
Our CD is available for purchase and preview on our other sites.
Movies
..This is "Blue Beard's Fancy," to celebrate the movie in the works by Mad Eye Mitch (see our friends). If your beard be blue, we have others to chose from, but Mad Eye has this one already in his treasure chest (without the model)!
Here's sample of the Calypso Carnivale Collection with a pinch of Davy Jones' Jewels thrown in. The latter pieces are inspired by the theatrically distressed wardrobe seen in the films--especially worn in POTC by Davy Jones' and his friends. No tentacles, yet, but these pieces look like they've spent a lot of time partying with Davy! This brilliant item might well have belonged to Davy's lady, with it's eye catching colors. It's called "Aurora Carnivalis.
We take "Movies" as a heading to include drama. Well when photo shoot was over, the Bard didn't want to take off "Alas, Poor Yoricks." Now that was drama! He does look rather cool for a plaster pirate (word is out that many of his plots were "borrowed." Say it isn't so, Bill!)
Television
"Monkey's Carnivale Ball"
We know it's not a TV show, but we're pitching it as a reality program. Monkees, get your acts ready!
Books
The PP website makes for ususual, if not classic, reading. Get an eye on how pirates pitch their products!
Heroes
"Shame! That's a PiRATE PRiMiTiVE lanyard/dangle/neckpiece/monkey's fist/hand-tied sinnet, not something to chew on!" Although, come to think of it, there isn't much bad he can do to himself! On the other hand, he'd better pay for it or we'll find a way! Sick Yellowedbeard on him, perhaps?
Come to think of it "Blood Lust" might do a better job of it!
"Crimson Discus"
Mac the Wife guards her (and her Captain's) hard work with a big pin, so ya better take a look and then Pay, Pal! Thank ye!
Some of us may know us from the Skeleton Crew Pirate Band. Thanks to a cannonball in our captain's (Mallory) back and the sinking of our treasure (we were swindled out of our house of almost 30 years and are about to walk the stairs into the abess), we are not performing live lately and at the rate we are going it will be at least a year. Arrragh! So for the time being we are CRAFTY OL' PIRATES makin' up wonders for ye to be sportin' on our off your craft.
"These be Pirate Made for the Pirate Trade." We make body adornments such as neckpieces, belt dangles, sinnet work and even cat tantalizers to please the pirate or the pirate at heart.
All are hand-made by Mac the Wife (that's me) with some beads made by the Captain (that's the Captain). We search all over for the likes of bone skulls, art-glass beads, mariner's cord and anything else we can fit around a neck.
But, although one piece is titled "No Noose is Good Noose," we are making what landlubbers would call jewelery--nothing bigger.
After playing outside the El Capitian Theatre for the opening of POTCIII, we decided we wanted some of the garb the actors were sporting. But we decided to do it on a small scale with neckpieces being the main goal.
We started doing it for ourselves and then others wanted them, too. Thus, with about 400 pieces completed, all hand-made, we find ourselves in business. These pieces feature monkey's fists knots as the crown jewels, and all have a primitive, nautical, piratical feel about them.
PS. I am rushing to get this all on line, so forgive typos and the like!
Oh! I forgot to mention that there is an almost private showing of some of our pieces under "View our Pics" which is under our logo at the top left! It's called, originally, PiRATE PRiMiTiVE Sampler. Anybody got a better name?
Meet "Hello Dali" aka "Marlings' Spike" which, has nothing to do with Dali, but a bit of surreal luck revealed this photo when Mac combined a shell, a eyeball candle and neckpiece N155. Silly, but it gives us a giggle. Hopefully some of the explanations of the pieces on the site will give you giggles, too!
Who I'd like to meet: Kindred souls.
We are happy to welcome our new friends on this new site. Since all are Top 40s, the setting is on "random" so that everyone fits in the tiny ship. We hope you'll enjoy "window shopping" with us!
Thanks for the ADD MATE!! Come on back and watch us plunder... I mean.. Grow... Update.. Something computer like, like that. Yours, Captain Charity Ann Rackham
