waste o time place

Lyon ended up being wonderful.
I was afraid and prepared myself for somewhat colder weather but instead it was warm for most of the time.
Warm enough to wear a simple dress and flip flops during the daytime.
I ate so much foie gras and yummy food too.

I'm so glad I ended up ordering the origami cranes online.
I don't know how we'd be able to prepare the stage with just the time we had available to us and just the idea of spending all that time in the hotel room playing with paper now just seems kind of dumb. Of course, in the end, it cost just as much to have them shipped over as it did to have them made. And then customs cost twice as much almost!

Amrita and I hung about 70 or so birds, then scattered the other 60 or so on the tables for guests to take with them. I kept about 20 for the show in London.  Lots of people took them how which was the idea as I didn't just want to throw away the ones left over.

These 2 photos were shot by Phoebus
http://www.phoebus-photos.net/
His shots of the event are pretty damn awesome.
Rather than just people posing, I think he really captured a really great feeling.
the party shots he took are here: http://www.phoebus-photos.net/BDS09/index.html


After the bondage show I had to change to announce the other show so I threw on the yummy outfit Atsuko Kudo gave me to wear and then grabbed the mic. Unfortunately, the one person who wasn't supposed to be near me was front n center as I jumped up on the stage and that kind of put me out of sorts. Then he totally turned his back and that was kind of rude since it was kind of obvious and everyone else was looking at the stage. All I kept thinking was how nice n heavy the mic was and it'd make a good clobbering tool, but then that wouldn't be professional, would it? Anyhoo, the rest of the announcing I did was from the TG booth where I danced around with allentg and VyktorNova the other DJ.
The rest of the night ended up being super fun and I stayed around longer than I planned to! I think I also drank a bit more JD than I thought I would but not too much! ;-)

The next day I checked out of the hotel and the day after that gothmarilyne and I treated ourselves to a much needed spa visit.
I'm not sure I should've gotten the skin peel thingy as I think it might have been too harsh on my calves. It felt like it burnt a bit and there were little bumps on my skin like i ran into a cheese grater.  Then the following day, while gothmarilyne ran her errands, Julien & I visited the zoo. Laurent Courau finally convinced me to visit the demeure du chaos so we went to check it out. JB gave us a private tour and then had a visit with Theirry Ehrmann. He ended up giving all three of us books and we finished up the visit with a round of Jack Daniels. ;-)

Then we headed into town for dinner at Les Demoiselles de Rochefort and it was super yum. I had even more foie gras that night!!
Oli de Sat from the Frenchy music group Indochine suggested the place. He's lucky it was really good cuz i said i was going to fly up to Paris n kick his butt if it wasn't - or at least I would when I got up there in December.


Eventually I had to leave Lyon. I almost didn't want to. The weather was too nice! But I did go back to London because I had to get ready for the Torture Garden stuff happening on the weekend :-)



:-)

marie kalista's man took shots of the event and i really like what he ended up with. seriously nice athmosphere and it seems like he just captured people at a party rather than expressly posing for the camera.

take a gander: http://www.phoebus-photos.net/BDS09/index.html

See all the birds? Those were used for the show with Amrita. I kept about 20 of them to take back to London for our show there this coming weekend. I placed a bunch on the tables for people  to take home.

into place that is.

things are slowly falling into place.

i wish they would fall into place sooner but maybe i just enjoy having do all this scheduling juggling.
sometimes people tell me i should have an assistant but i really don't know how they would be able to keep all the information straight.
all the different people i have to deal with and remember how i dealt with them before and how i met them, etc - all those little detail.

in any case, the best part is when the schedule starts to become more concrete and makes sense. everything becomes organized and then i can finally place other parts of the schedule on top, layer by layer.

Flying to London first, then up to Edinburgh, followed by Bologna, then Vienna, and finally back to London.

Sep 17-24 London ---------- need to organize a coule of shoots still
Sep 24-30 Lyon -------------- Bal des Supplices performance w/Amrita
Sep 30-Oct 06 London ----- London FetishWeekend/TortureGarden performance w/Amrita
Oct  06-12  Edinburgh ------ shoot shoot shoot
Oct  12-18  Bologna --------- shoot shoot shoot & maybe performance at Decedence
Oct  18-29  Vienna ----------- shoot shoot shoot
Oct  29-Nov ? London -------Torture Garden Halloween performance w/Amrita

I'm not certain about staying in the EU for November, although I do have bookings in December. Maybe best to stick around and fly back to the states after the Clinic Party... ?
I need to find out if i'm going to be booked for the China gigs *crossing fingers*

I do want to be in London for the Ryuichi Sakamoto concert November 29/30. I also want to be with my family either Thanksgiving or Christmas.

well a couple more shows have been confirmed for London at torturegarden  in October

the first one takes place during the London Fetish Weekend early October which will be a bondage show involving fire - a miniature version of the show i'm doing with Amrita in Lyon, France the week before at the Bal des Supplices party.

the second show will be at the Halloween Torture Garden party - this time a medical heavy rubber show with Amrita. It's going to be a big show too since the event will be the first Halloween at SE1. Need to get props from MedicalToys.com (convenient since i'm headed up there to shoot in a month) and I also need to pick up J-Lube too. hehe.

now just trying to sort out how many shows and which ones exactly!

here's a shot of the stage set up after fd_midori  left rehearsal
nice n clean n white - but not for long...

here's a shot from the sat nite TG show in london
me n fd_midori  in the background making a mess


london, UK
fotos by http://www.manolo-photography.com/

more at his link!

Well it's been quite some time since i've been to Berlin, I guess this year i'm making a visit with ropemarks  to perform at the German Fetish Ball & Expo :-)




I'm actually performing with Chantal for the main party. We've come up with something a little messy, a little wet, and a little bit full of OW (for me). Bob's going to sit this one out so Chantal gets to play with the ropes!

Then for the expo we've all got something fun in mind too of course!


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still need to write about the Tallinn party n post stuff -
soooon!!!

at
Club Von Überblingen
www.uberclub.ee

while you're at it
check out interview/article of me re:Fetish Freak party :-0
http://pidu.elu24.ee/

sorry, it's in Estonian :p