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1. World of Dreams – The Cake
2. Sally Go Round The Roses – Grace Markay*
3. Hide & Seek – The Feminine Complex
4. What A Way To Die – The Pleasure Seekers
5. Twilight Dreamer – Earth & Fire***
6. Little Sadie – Trees**
7. Beauty – Mad Curry***
8. Tuesday – Birtha
9. Hard Chargin’ Woman – Zephyr
10. Lottery – Rochelle Rosenthal & The Kickball Queen
11. No Warmth In My Life – Room***
12. People On The Highway – The Pentangle*
13. Number 33 – Jan & Lorraine**
14. God Bless The Child – Fifty Foot Hose**
15. Evening’s Child – Savage Rose***
16. Port and Lemon Lady – Goliath***
17. I Am And So Are You – Affinity***
18. Eli’s Coming – Affinity***

One of my many pipe dreams is to establish and all-girl psychedelic rock band. For now, a mix will have to vicariously suffice. It proved to be quite a challenge to compile, leaving out the “givens”: Janis, Grace, The Velvet Underground, etc. Sure, there were a ton of all-girl garage bands but an all-girl psych rock band was really hard to find. I guess I could’ve listened to more garage acts for nuances of psychedelia but I just got kind of exhausted searching for appropriate material. Also, the portrayal of many garage bands as novelties rather than rockers really bothered me. Not that these ladies didn’t rock out, but the wolfish selling of “gee whiz, a hot all-girl band” and/or the implied smirk “aw, girls trying to play guitars & drums, ain’t that cute” tainted the sound for me.

Once I threw out the all-girl criteria, I discovered a wealth of interesting vocalists, from jazz-influenced to folk to pop, and several albums worth some quality headphone-listening time (specifically Earth & Fire, Goliath, Savage Rose, Mad Curry and my favorite, quite possibly the best thing I’ve heard in awhile, Affinity [except for the lame cover of "All Along The Watchtower"]). This is by no means a de-femme-itive list; I’m barely delving into the niche. Gonna listen to this mix and the albums from each band a whole lot more because when I really like a song, I have to listen to it about a million times in a row before moving on to new material. Please leave a note if you have further thoughts or suggestions!

*via Spisce Animals
**Featured on The Black Months and Wyldeflowers mixes previously compiled
***via this person’s list of Post-Psychedelic Proto-Progressive Female Vocalists. I didn’t get to listen to everyone on here, but definitely some cool finds.

After a creatively dismal 4th Quarter 2010, 2011 is already off on a highly productive note. I’m really interested in listening to music again, constantly, which as a general pattern with me indicates that sparks are a-flyin’! Scroll down for some recent hair/make-up/photog woodshedding. [inspired by ZE Records' Mutant Disco vol. 1]

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1. High On Disco (LeBaron Edit) – Nytro
2. That’s hot (Instrumental) – Jesse Gee
3. Something’s Up (Love Me Like The First Time) – Wayne St. John
4. Having It So Bad For You (Edit) – Family of Eve
5. Hold Me Touch Me – New York Disco Machine
6. New York Apple Jack – Scott Davis And The Movements
7. You Can’t Have It (Instrumental) – Stargaze
8. What’s In It For Me (Cut and Paste) – Zalmac
9. Soul With Milk – Sumy
10. D.I.S.C.O. (Version Française) – Ottawan

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11. 1 2 3 Gimme Some More – D.D.Sound
12. Get Down With Me – Angelo Tinsley
13. Heavy Vibes (Club Mix) – Montana Sextet
14. Disco Boogie Woman – Rozza And Wine
15. Use It Up And Wear It Out – Odyssey
16. Manhattan Fever (Disco Tom Noble Edit) – Roundtree
17. Lift Off – Blush
18. Palace Palace – Who’s Who
19. Love Is In You (Pat Les Stache’s Cabana Re-edit) – Nightlife Unlimited
20. Dance To Dance – Gino Soccio

Not your run-of-the-mill “ladies of the 80′s”! A mix of energetic ItaloDisco and sweet Euro synth-pop. Be sure to watch the youtube links too, you won’t regret it!
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1. Upside Down – Vanessa (recommended youtube-ing)
2. Shine Up – Doris D And The Pins (recommended youtube-ing)
3. Menhungry – Maxine Dee
4. Instant Love – Sylvia Love
5. Color My Love – Fun Fun
6. Touch – Lori & The Chameleons
7. Kamikaze Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide – Rettore (recommended youtube-ing)
8. Get Back – Cockroach (yup, a Beatles cover)
9. Tenax – Diana Est
10. Telegraph – Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark (ok, so I snuck a dude in here, but he sounds so much like Debbie Harry! besides, it was the 80′s – not much difference back then)
11. Danger – The Flirts
12. Money Money Money – Michelle
13. Light Up My Heart – Angie St. Philip
14. I’ve Got To Find A Way – Zena Dejonay
15. In The Evening – Sheryl Lee Ralph (who was also a cast member of It’s A Living as well as many other TV shows and Broadway musicals over her long career)
16. Going Crazy – Lily Ann
17. Nobody Else – Karen Silver
18. Dancing Hour – Christine
19. Follow Me – Amanda Lear (recommended youtube-ing)

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Black Candy
Digital photographs and spray paint on rice paper
October 2008

This is the final concept of Black Candy. It is not so much of a diptych as a magazine spread-type concept. The idea was to, of course, make a poster-size painting for a blacklight art show, but also to evoke a strong emotional response from the viewer in the relationship between the photo and the painting. The photo, which is pixelated, amateurish, evocative, fleshy, almost like a film still, contrasts with the stark neon Pop Art minimalism of the painting, made even more vulgar – in the sense of naive ignorance and inappropriateness, not so much intentional offensiveness – by the fact that it is spray paint on a very lovely rice paper.

Photo outtakes and original paintings here.

This popped into my head as I was going to sleep last night. The best time for art ideas. It’s a Homer Simpson quote from one of my favorite episodes. Can you guess which one?

August 7, 2008
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