Collwen- Woman of varied worlds

Happy Thanksgiving! Here's what I did last night.

Rogue (Crüxshadows) and Millie NYC 2008 After the NYC show on 11/26/08 at the Pyramid Club in NYC (101 Ave A.) Yes, I wore white. I'm a rebel. I also left for NYC from work.

(because of Marnen's cousin getting married the last weekend), I should have the time/money to hit this- blacksun festival. It's in New Haven, which is where Sally (Bernie's girlfriend, Bernie being Marnen's dad) lives, so we'd probably have free crash space too!

And The Cruxshadows are playing. *bounce*

this was posted to the fansofthecruxshadows yahoo group:

I would be surprised if the band ever goes back to the Albion, or NYC in future tours due to what just happened there. For those that don't know. After the show at the Albion, Jessica went to the bar to get a drink, and when she wasn't looking, someone slipped a Rufinol ("Ruffy") into her drink. Luckily, they found Jess in time to take her to the hospital before anything could happen to her, though she was quite sick from it. As a result, they almost cancelled the Ithaca show at the Haunt, but decided to go on with the show anyways, but without Jessica. They were late as it was and when Rogue informed us of why, we were all ready to go down to NYC to try to find the bastard that did this to Jess. Let us all pray that Jess gets well soon, and that the person responsible gets what's coming to him.

Kevin

I hope Jessica (one of the backup singers/dancers) gets gell soon, and that no one else got the same nasty surprise that she did.

I also hope that bastard gets what's coming to him too.

After some transportation trouble (like my wallet falling out of my purse in Marnen's car and having to walk over a mile and into the Bronx to get to the college that he had a rehearsal at to get it, then taking the bus to get to the subway- instead of just taking the Metro North from Yonkers like orginally planned)... I went and saw MirrorMask down at the Sunshine theater on E. Houston..

Oh my goddess, it's an incredible movie. I am *so* buying it when it comes out on DVD.

I then had dinner in Chinatown at this little (and cheap) Vietnamese place on Mulberry... hmmmm chicken with scallions and ginger (and the ginger was in long julliened strips...). Then I stopped off where Marnen was playing his contra gig (on the corner of 7th and W. 13th) and touched base then got dressed (as a gothy cheerleader, with red and black leather floggers as my pom-poms) for the Cruxshadows concert.

After waiting forever outside of the club (I got there about 45 minutes before the doors were supposed to open, then they were a half hour-ish late in opening them. I got a chance to speak to the other people there around me. We were also outside of a homeless women's shelter, and a lot came out for smoke breaks and kept asking why were there and dressed up like we were.

The concert was cool. I actually got a chance to hear ego likeness, and they're pretty good. The club has multiple rooms and levels, but the actual performance area was really slow. Marnen got there in time to see the Cruxshadows start. I think it was the same set list as Albany, with a little mixed up (the final encore was Marylin, My Bitterness). I got pulled up on stage again, and ended up with a few hugs from Rogue after the concert (like getting off the stage, when he was passing by, and when I got the dvd box signed). I got a the DVD box that they came out iwth (Shadowbox). I'm listening to the audio disk that comes with it now

Pictures to follow.

I got home this morning (after crashing with a couple of SCAdians in the E. 15th street/Styuvesant Park area- one of the fencers was having a birthday party and they had an extra crash space, something that had been worked out as a possiblity after fencing practice on Wednesday).

Now I'm trying to stay awake a little longer so I don't end up falling asleep and waking up at 4 am and not being able to go back to sleep.

He's got a gig in NYC the same night, but the Cruxshadows aren't going on stage until midnight..

He has a dance gig about 15 blocks south of the venue, but the doors don't open until 10pm and the Cruxshadows don't start playing until midnight (so he might miss some or most of the Ego Likeness portion). It's at Albion . And since it's a dance gig (and he has a English dance the next day in NJ, he might even have his violin on him...

Ok... so I've been bouncing around about the Cruxshadows concert, and the book Ghost. And I've joined a discussion list and a forum for Cruxshadows...

and of course I mentioned the book.

I just got an email from the author. He's cool with the fact that chickipu_no_oni and I got the books in advance. And he's right now getting ready to go to the CXS concert in Nashville tonight.

Oh, PSA about Ghost. It's a bit graphic in terms of sex and violence, and kinked in terms of sex.

http://pics.livejournal.com/collwen/pic/00026hx4/

Good Gods, I looked good.... even after a 2+ hr concert and stuff.

At least, for those who appreciate someone dressed in Goth gear...