seduction, scintillation, and sweet scandal, fashion, anti-fashion, design, crafting, costume, fire eating, cabaret, burlesque, drag, magic, vaudville, go-go, speakeasy, gender play, subversive social science, death-defying feats, literary perversions, surprises, pushing your limits, being famous, being anonymous. Keeping myself from being a stereotype of myself. Setting traps for later enjoyment..
Octopussy by Don Spiro
Music
the bands I never really started... i.e. the gay straits, snackture, the power of palmer, wench and a mench...
Movies
In the Mood for Love, Henry and June, Secretary, Cinema Paradiso, French Twist, Nightmare before Christmas, Rosemary's Baby, Time of the Gypsies, Fantastic Planet, Amelie, But I'm a Cheerleader, Waking Life, Harold and Maude, This is Spinal Tap, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Love & Anarchy, Gummo, I Heart Huckabees, Freaks, Nights of Cabiria, Underground, I Am a Sex Addict
Television
ok...guilty pleasure...Project Runway!
Books
Story of O, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Picture of Dorian Gray, anything by Anais Nin, Public Sex, Brave New World, Gender Trouble, Space Time and Perversion, Street of Crocodiles, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, The Ethical Slut, The Great Gatsby, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Cocktail Waitress, Exhibitionism for the Shy, Tropic of Cancer, The Clothes Have no Emperor, Lolita, Roald Dahl books, Rent Girl, The Technology of Orgasm, A Wrinkle in Time (and the rest of the series)
Heroes
Anais Nin, Zorita, Gypsy Rose Lee, Oscar Wilde, Madonna, Jane Bowles, Dorothy Parker, David Bowie, Marlene Dietrich
About me: I love drunken tree climbing, the perfect last bite, old photos of my parents. I fear baby corn. I don't hate Sean Penn as much as I used to. I once got my head caught in a ceiling fan. I don't have a favorite color anymore, but they are always vying for my attention. I'm passionate about finding the natural extensions of things and following them. I'm a maker and shaper of things... I love new challenges, so please try to stump me!
Here's one story...
Rose Pistola is a solo practitioner of "Vintage, Modern and
Death-Defying Burlesque." A classic beauty with a twisted sense of reality, gender, and sexuality, this gal is like a trip to the beauty parlor on acid, a trip to the whorehouse with grandma, or a trip down the stairs. You may find her in many of the indecorous and holy joints around the city and beyond... "To entertain the company of Rose is to lightly roll your heart over shards of broken glass, to enthusiastically draw small abrasions across your soul and fall slowly into the sea of salt, to orchestrate your own demise one dance at a time and crumbling to your knees beg for more, to.....well you get the picture."
I'm a costume and tiny hat maker, and I also have a line of costume inspired clothing and haberdashery for sale about town. For more info, just drop me a line!
Who I'd like to meet: Rebels, troublemakers, wallflowers, experts, savvies, queers, show offs, someone to clean my room... People who don't harbor preconcieved notions, and can ignore first impressions once in a while. People who can fool with the best of them, but whose hearts are true.
People who appreciate good theories as well as good shoes.
People who can get into a good clean debate or a down and
dirty tussle.
At Little Minsky's (with Tin Cup Serenade)
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Basement Burlesque at Benders... I swear I didn't burn it down!!
come check out my clothing and my boyfriend's photography on display at the live art gallery: 151 potrero ave. in san francisco, 94110 food, drinks, music, vendors!!! this sunday july 12th from 5pm to 9pm!!!
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARLIN! MAY YOU HAVE MORE THEN A SPECIAL DAY. CAUSE YOUR SPECIAL...MAYBE I'LL SEE YOU AT KITTEN ON THE KEYS, *SAVE A DATE* ON FEB 15TH AT MAMA CALIZO'S.I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU LIKE IN FOREVER. I HOPE LIFE IS TREATING YOU LIKE THE QUEEN YOU ARE! LOVE YA BABY, SATANS ANGEL LEGEND OF BURLEZK!
love to you from Crete, beauty. great adventures to share, indeed. i miss you sooo much. it's been too long... i'll be back in september... let's connect. xoxo
Hiya Rose! I've got 2 shows on the 3rd and a big one on the 8th (w/Julie, Dirty, Bambi, Bunny Love & Sealboy). Oh, and my actual birthday on the 7th plus a casual b-day celebration on the 4th. I'll put May stuff on my calendar soon. Stay in touch! xxxTigger!
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