^v^ Art / Music auction ^v^
The archives have been unearthed from the crypt and in them are 7 inch records I released in the early 90’s! These are rare, very limited edition copies and there are just a few that we can spare to sell, so here they are, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity, hand signed.
1) Will O the Wisp Octopus, for example has an octopus etched on one side and the song on the other. Recorded with spooky singing saw in a very creepy time of my life where I lived in the ghetto in Brooklyn and had almost been murdered by a box cutter days before in 1994. One review of it was a girl who wrote in saying that she put the record on, then while it played got so spooked that she ran around the house locking all her doors and windows and was afraid to play it again!
More releases!
2) “Tardvark” The Cocktails collaboration with yours truly. Comic booklet included. Lots of singing saw, stand up bass, banjo, and love. It was recorded in a barn in Louisville (Thanks to Archer Prewitt and Robert Nedelkoff) and you can hear the barn swallows and echoes.
3) The Devil Made Her Do It: 7 inch with comic booklet. Autoharps ahoy!
The story of a young lass gone astray.
4) Grouse Mountain Skyride: Banjo, Fiddle and tap dancin’, Wow!
5) Mexican Crawling Poppy Seed: (A play on words for Mexican Jumping Bean) Side B is the “Golden Shoes” song that the award-winning animation was made from.
6) Gem In Eye: A wacky low-fi electro freakout we toured Japan with.
^v^ Current Events^v^
Meat Cake Compilation is my latest new release and I will be at the San Diego Comic Signing at the Fantagraphics table at 1:00PM Saturday July 24th. This is the only day I’m there. Otherwise you can get one on Etsy. If you order directly from me I can personalize it and add a drawing! Please leave a comment of the name you want if it’s different than the name of the person making the purchase.
^v^ Hand Book For Hot Witches ^v^
The uncovering of the 7 inches has made me think about heritage through song. There are so many folk ballads taught to me from my Great Grandma, Grandpa, Dad, 78 records, that I have stored only in my mind. This is the traditional way that these songs have been archived for centuries, and now one thought is to record them from memory and release them so they can be heard and carried on. In the 5th century B.C. the “art of memory” technique was invented by the Greek poet Simonides. He could recite long tomes and when a roof collapsed in Thessaly at a big banquet hall, he, being the only survivor, used his amazing memory to recall where everyone was sitting at the table so when the remains of the others were uncovered they could be identified.
In medieval ages, no one could read or write themselves notes, and no one owned any books or music, so it’s interesting to think of the way singing bards, and druids must have been regarded. Thirteenth century theologian Thomas Aquinas composed the epic tome, Summa Theologica entirely in his head and then dictated it from memory.
The Jewish Talmud, has been passed town through word of mouth for centuries and traditional West African griots as well as South Slavic bards can recall epics the size of the Bible through memory alone.
LOVE
DD
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^v^ Art/ Crafts ^v^
Vampire Couple Wedding Cake Topper or Statuette
5 1/2 inches tall cast in porcelain and hand painted, this can be used as a cake topper at a gothic wedding or as a fun statuette to place with love as a table centerpiece. You know what they always say, a vampire makes a house a home!
$30
Portugal Shell hand painted mermaid necklace
(with matching earrings) Shells collected on the beach in Portugal, one of a kind metuculously detailed mermaid painted with precision, strung with antique porcelain beads, Portuguese shells and antique pearls.
$30
Ghost Doll heart Shaped Box
6 inches in diameter. This is also a magic box with spells inside on how to see ghosts and how to rid yourself of ghosts so you can choose which one applies to you. The box can be used for jewelry or anything else later!
$25
^v^ Current Events^v^
Check me out in the new issue of Reviewer Magazine
!!SHOWS!!
July 9th Seattle, WA
Gainsbourg Lounge
July 10th Seattle, WA
Fantagraphics Books Art Show and Palm Readings
^v^ Current Affairs^v^
The Portugal tour was awesome and we were very well received at the art exhibits, comic book convention, music shows, book signings and parties. Vincent and I would like to thank the Festival Internacional de BD de Beja, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, all FNAC stores, Labirintho Bar, Casa da Animacao and Armazem do Cha. Everyone treated us extremely well.
We would also like to give a very special thanks to our European manager Manuel Espirito Santo and his beautiful partner Paula. Manuel single handedly booked us, directed us, translated for us, argued for us and pointed us in the right direction at all times even when we were stumbling upon rocks, but most of all, he made us laugh. He owns and operates a great store: Livaria Invicta Indie Arts @ Rua das Oliveiras, No 67 Porto, Portugal. Stop by if you are ever in Porto or checkout his blog at: www.invictaindiearts.blogspot.com
Portugal is like nowhere else in the world. It has the most ancient castles we went to one at Guimaraes which is called "the cradle of the world" because it is the oldest castle known in Europe. Some of the buildings there are so old their style originates from Muslim culture. The tiles are elaborate and strangely psychedelic and the streets are made from shiny black and white tiles in stripes. Also there were thriving arts communities where people painted their houses and had a magic garden. An art teacher from Lisbon brought me a hand knit shawl made by his witch mother and he brought a birthday cake made from walnuts he grew in his garden made into the shape of a nut-rabbit! The most amazing thing about Europe is they have government funding, which sustains amazing classy venues for art and artists! Check out my Facebook soon for more photos.
Love
DD
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^v^ Art ^v^
Etsy Sale items....
Go To www.damedarcy.etsy.com
Boys Moon Gaze Illo’ $20.
Vampire Tea Set $30
Portrait of Cary Grant $20.
^v^ Current Affairs ^v^
It's wonderful here in Porto Portugal, the events have been fantastic.
VI Festival Internacional de BD de Beja was really great. The Art show profiled many artists from all parts of Europe. The harmony of how the various styles went together was beautiful. My favorite animator profiled there was Regina Pessoa - she also designed Alice in Wonderland themed Port wine that came with a book, revolutionary and edgy in concept I am getting several of these for my friends and family to remember beautiful Portugal.
Today I went to Torre dos Clerigos, which is the highest tower in Porto looking out over the city. This looked like a century’s old sculpture mansion made to Jesus.
One thing I know is the Portuguese are mad for mosaics!
The streets are made up of small stones formed into intricate patterns like sea shells, and all the homes are made from colorful tiles each building with a different pattern. I collected shells from the beach and they looked like the same color palate and patterns.
The beautiful face of a building like a once lovely lady now with dirty hair and some teeth missing, but she still wears her priceless jewelry inherited from her great grand mother, though she is now old, too.
Me and Vincent at the train station in Porto
^v^ Current Events ^v^
TODAY June 8, 2010
Signing at Livraria Invicta Indie Arts
New Meat Cake Compilation Fantagraphics release
and other books and dolls available
7-9:00
OBRIGADO to Manuel and PAULA (Isabel)!
Dame Darcy’s Death By Doll
Music Performance Dates:
Porto Portugal
June 11th
FNAC Santa Catarina at 18h00
FNAC Marshopping at 22h00
Guimaraes Portugal
June 12th at 16h30
FNAC Guimaraes
Gumaraes Portugal
June 12th at 24h00
Centro Cultural Vila Flor
Braga Portugal
June 13th at 17h00
FNAC Guimaraes
Porto Portugal
June 19th at 22h00
Porto Portugal
June 18th- June 19th
Vincent D. Dominion and Dame Darcy's Birthday's
Hurrah!
Porto - Portugal
There are exhibitions of Darcy’s work at:
Labirinthu's Bar/Bookstore
From May 27th until June 17th
and
Livaria Invicta Indie Arts
Rua das Olviveiras, No 67
4050-449
Porto, Portugal
Through June 19th
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^v^ MEAT CAKE ^v^
Meat Cake Compilation just came out! To pre order this new release please go to:
http://www.fantagraphics.com/meatcakesc
^v^ Art/Crafts ^v^
!!New Originals from Jane Eyre, Frightful Faerytales and others. Also 2 new portraits: Pee Wee Herman and Clara Bow!!
$15 - $50
NEW! Valeria Drucilla Vampire doll
One of a kind handcrafted and hand painted, 25 inches tall,
See her skin glow in the dark! Watch her head spin all the way around
like in The Exorcist! She hangs from the ceiling or wall and... SHE IS HAUNTED!
$100.
www.damedarcy.etsy.com
NEW! Lavender sleeping mask
Hand sewn and silkscreened this silky sleeping mask has the calming
effect of lovely lavender, because it is stuffed with the petals of handpicked and dried lavender petals grown locally here in Oregon. Stretch
lace holds the mask securely but comfortably in place while you rest
Guaranteed sweet dreams for only
$15.
!!We are leaving for Portugal this Wednesday for the Beja Comic Festival and Death By Doll tour. The dates are posted below. Be sure to check out our good friend Manuel Santo’s new comic store in Porto Portugal. He has made this our tour possible. http://invictaindiearts.blogspot.com/2010/05/abertura-de-loja.html
^v^Hand Book For Hot Witches^v^
Lincoln/Kennedy Time spiral
The relation of events in a TIME SPIRAL rather than TIME
LINE; and the EXPLINATION of seemingly random COINCIDENCE:
KENNEDY HAD A SECRETARY NAMED LINCOLN.
We always assume that the “Time Line” is the logical way that time runs, however, this seemingly irrefutable fact is misleading. Indeed, time runs like an onion skin, a tree ring cross section or a movie reel. Yes, time does not run in a line at all but in a spiral.
A spiral in fact is one of the key principals to witchcraft and is found in something as large as a black hole vortex and as small as a sea shell. Previous events are assumed for future events to arise, the principle of cause and effect, and the idea behind physics and metaphysics, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This is not a line but an echo, and if we could see an echo it would look like a ripple and a ripple looks like, again, a series of rings.
It is inconceivable for any events to arise without a cause. But what is the source of this cause? If we had a reel of movie film, each frame representing an instant of time. The movie runs and one singular frame at a time is projected, the other frames have already been seen or are waiting to be seen and are in a place where they are waiting.
Unexpressed existence. This is where is all the unseen spirals of time are. Coiled up infinite and where we can assume they are stored for weeks, days and centuries, past, present, and future. If we were then to thrust a hat pin long ways through the film it would create a series of holes that seemed random but would align events.
This would explain the seemingly random coincidences that happen between poignant circumstances and coincidences in names and numbers in one's personal life and in history. Time/space continuum and being able to see all times/spaces through the holes made in the reel would occur during very euphoric or tragic happenings, the cause of extreme energy negative or positive.
ABRAHAM WAS THE FIRST NAME OF THE MAN WHO FILMED KENNEDYS MURDER IN THE LINCOLN
One of the most famous examples of this are the seemingly random John F Kennedy/ Abraham Lincoln assassination conspiracy theories which are wrought with matching numbers, dates , and names. Again, these are not random, but sewn together through the passion and trauma experienced like a skip in a record of millions of lives throughout the world, causing the pinhole in the film reel of time through the centuries.
^v^ CURRENT EVENTS ^v^
We're going to Portugal for a dreamy fun tour, we are so excited! Endless thanks to Manuel Santo of Invicta Indie Arts in Porto for setting up everything, his store is a wonderful eclectic mix of art and comics and anyone in the vicinity of Porto should check it out :)
Here's the schedule:
Beja Portugal
May 29th - May 30th
Saturday 29th Concert at 23h00 - Introduction to short movies and animation at 24h00
International Comics Festival Of Beja
Dame Darcy will sign new release of Meat Cake Compilation
published by Fantagraphics and other self published titles
Meat Cake Reissues #1 and #2 as well as Paper Doll Dreams and
The Penalty of Hope illustrated poetry book by Vincent D. Dominion
Also, fine art originals from comics and other drawings will be exhibited
Porto Portugal
May 31st
Art Exhibit at Labirithu's bar
Fine art originals from comics and other drawings will be exhibited
and one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
Porto Portugal
June 1st
Invicta Indie Arts
Dame Darcy will sign new release of Meat Cake Compilation
published by Fantagraphics and other self published titles
Meat Cake Reissues #1 and #2 as well as Paper Doll Dreams and
The Penalty of Hope illustrated poetry book by Vincent D. Dominion
Also, fine art originals from comics and other drawings will be exhibited
Porto Portugal
June 2nd at 23h00
Signing and music DD performance
at Labirinthu's
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
CD's available
GAIA Portugal
June 4th at 22h00
FNAC Gaia Shopping
DD music performance
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
CD's available
Porto Portugal
June 6th
FNAC Norteshopping at 17h00
DD music performance
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
CD's available
Porto Portugal
June 11th
2 DD music shows
FNAC Santa Catarina at 18h00
FNAC Marshopping at 22h00
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
CD's available
Guimaraes Portugal
June 12th at 16h30
FNAC Guimaraes
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
CD's available
Braga
June 13th at 17h00
FNAC Guimaraes
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
CD's available
Porto Portugal
June 18th - June 19th
Vincent D. Dominion and Dame Darcy's Birthday's
Hurrah!
Porto - Portugal
Labirinthu's bar
Permanent Exhibition on a Bar/ Bookstore from 27 May till 17th June
Porto - Portugal
Day 19 June
Armazém do Chá at 22h00
DD music performance
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
CD's available
Gumaraes - Portugal
Centro Cultural Vila Flor
Date - 12/06/10 at 24h00
DD music performance
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
CD's available
ALSO!!
If you happen to be in SPAIN!
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^v^ Art/ Crafts^v^
NEW! Portrait of Johnny Cash
Hand drawn black and white framed original illo.
9 X 12 inches. www.damedarcy.etsy.com
$45
NEW! Ghosty Doll: Avira Dusan
Her Czech name means airy soul or "spirit of the air."
This scary airy spirit glows in the dark and is 5 inches tall, hand crafted and painted with jointed limbs and will fit to haunt all your standard doll house.
$50 shipping included
NEW! Ghosty Doll: Gogo Skudakumoochooowte
Her Basque name means Guardian spirit while her micmac last name means "Milky Way" the spirits road. This spirit glows in the dark and is 5 inches tall, hand crafted and painted with jointed limbs and will fit to haunt all your standard doll house.
$50 shipping included. www.damedarcy.etsy.com
SALE! Half off! Nixie Eolande Doll
This Celtic faeiry is a violet flower of beauty and wonder. Her lavender hair and tropical bright colors are as fun and exciting as she is! Let her breathe the breath of summer into your soul. 5 in. tall $25
SALE! Half Off! Pinky Ponytails Doll
With her dark lavender eyes she gazes innocently up at you, all decked out in her pink beribboned ponytails and lacy summer dress, those anklets and baby pink shoes are just too cute! 5 in. tall $25
SALE! Scientific Polka Dot Freak Out Purse
science illo’ with White lace applique with jewels, beads, sequins
Black and white polka dot bow, antique buttons and blue ribbon
on baby blue purse
11in X 10in $20 www.damedarcy.etsy.com
SALE! Cosy Comix Purse
Aquamarine Lace Applique with a cameo on a silver purse
comix illos in pannels
10in X 9in $15
SALE! Mami Wata Mermaid Dream Catcher and Book To Record Dreams
Unlock the key to your subconscious and find the answers to anything you want to know. Mami Wata is an ancient African Mermaid Spirit that will guide you in your dreams, she will also help you remember your dreams when you awaken so you can write them in your dream book.
Kit Includes: Hand Crafted Mermaid dream catcher, Handmade book with pen included
History and information about Mami Wata Mermaid spirit guide inside.
$20
^v^ News Flash ^v^
Meat Cake compilation Due out this summer on Fantagraphics.
It's 227 pages with a forward by Margaret Cho! Compiles the first decade of Meat Cake comics, profiling my brain! It's coming out this summer and you will be able to get it at DameDarcy.com
!!I will be at the San Diego Comic Con to see you!!
^v^ Hand Book for Hot Witches ^v^
Challenges in your life are not your life itself.....
When you are going somewhere with single minded purpose, with all your heart and unflinchingly no regret, this is true happiness.
When things go wrong, it takes a lot of time to set them straight. But remember that things go right too, and when they do enjoy it! Life is like a garden, you plant the seeds of your dreams and hard work, weed out the bad things, water it with your tears and sweat. But there is a day when all you have to do is sit in the beauty which is the garden of your life and enjoy the wonder that is around you.
Separate the challenges that come into your life, from your life itself. Your life doesn't have to be a struggle.
The fact that we exist here in this world at all is a miracle. The dead feeling from being overwhelmed, over worked, and disappointed in life can be changed when you decide to change it by feeling instead the immense beauty and wonder that you're able to know, simply because you are.
Regard challenges the same way as figuring out a puzzle, there is joy in creative problem solving. Take as many breaks as you need to remind yourself of the privilege of just being alive and your life is truly amazing!
^v^ CURRENT EVENTS ^v^
We're going to Portugal for a dreamy fun tour, we are so excited! Endless thanks to Manuel Santo of Invicta Indie Arts in Porto for setting up everything, his store is a wonderful eclectic mix of art and comics and anyone in the vicinity of Porto should check it out :)
Here's the schedule:
Beja Portugal
May 29th - May 30th
Saturday 29th Concert at 23h00 - Introduction to short movies and animation at 24h00
International Comics Festival Of Beja
Dame Darcy will sign new release of Meat Cake Compilation
published by Fantagraphics and other self published titles
Meat Cake Reissues #1 and #2 as well as Paper Doll Dreams and
The Penalty of Hope illustrated poetry book by Vincent D. Dominion
Also, fine art originals from comics and other drawings will be exhibited
Porto Portugal
May 31st
Art Exhibit at Labirithu's bar
Fine art originals from comics and other drawings will be exhibited
and one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
Porto Portugal
June 1st
Invicta Indie Arts
Dame Darcy will sign new release of Meat Cake Compilation
published by Fantagraphics and other self published titles
Meat Cake Reissues #1 and #2 as well as Paper Doll Dreams and
The Penalty of Hope illustrated poetry book by Vincent D. Dominion
Also, fine art originals from comics and other drawings will be exhibited
Porto Portugal
June 2nd at 23h00
Signing and music DD performance
at Labirinthu's
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
CD's available
GAIA Portugal
June 4th at 22h00
FNAC Gaia Shopping
DD music performance
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
CD's available
Porto Portugal
June 6th
FNAC Norteshopping at 17h00
DD music performance
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
CD's available
Porto Portugal
June 11th
2 DD music shows
FNAC Santa Catarina at 18h00
FNAC Marshopping at 22h00
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
CD's available
Guimaraes Portugal
June 12th at 16h30
FNAC Guimaraes
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
CD's available
Braga
June 13th at 17h00
FNAC Guimaraes
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
CD's available
Porto Portugal
June 18th- June 19th
Vincent D. Dominion and Dame Darcy's Birthday's
Hurrah!
Porto - Portugal
Labirinthu's bar
Permanent Exhibition on a Bar/ Bookstore from 27 May till 17th June
Porto - Portugal
Day 19 June
Armazém do Chá at 22h00
DD music performance
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
CD's available
Gumaraes - Portugal -
Centro Cultural Vila Flor
Date - 12/06/10 at 24h00
DD music performance
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
CD's available
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^v^ Art/ Crafts SALE ^v^
The Following Etsy items are on sale for a limited time only, now is your chance!
1) Heart Parasite Purse
Half Off! $10.
www.damedarcy.etsy.com
2) Mystery of Love Purse
Now! $12.
3) Faeirydae Berry doll
Was $50 - now half off! $25.
www.damedarcy.etsy.com
4) Emily Bronte doll
Was $50- now half off! $25.
5) Sky Blueberry doll
Was $50- now half off! $25.
Romance Roses
6) Happy Twins Olive Purse
Half Off! Now $10.
7) Romance Roses framed Illo.
WAS $50 - NOW Half off! $25.
8) All Tea Sets
WAS $75. - NOW $45
9) Twin Candy Doll Necklace
Now $10.
10) Mami Wata Dream Catcher w/ book
Now half off! $25.
^v^ Hand Book For Hot Witches ^v^
From the bottom of my broken black heart lined with gold to yours.... I know things can get confusing, and especially if you are a weirdo and what you want from life is not normal then you may find yourself second guessing yourself. Even if you do not like to go in the sun or have never hiked in your life, you can imagine that life is like climbing a mountain.
Remembering the goal and looking towards the summit keeps you in focus, but from each new view point many extraordinary scenes can be observed in lovley detail.
Look past those fleeting concerns and activities that seem so urgent, and look into what you truly care about.
Write it down and look at your goal everyday, think of how it can be done rather than what is stopping you. The process is whats really important. Even your wildest fantastic dreams can be realized, and are never wrong. The reason you want what you want is because it is your divine destiny and you have this lifetime and a birthright to have it. Perhaps why you want it is because it is unfinished business from a last life, now is your chance!
Your friends and family are your guides and support system, also your mirror. Accept them for who they are and listen without judgment to what they have to say.
Spend some quiet time with your own best thoughts. Peacefully consider the goodness and value in your life, and feel the warmth that those thoughts bring, this way you can find peace in even the most sad or anxious times.
Treasure the moments of this day. Each moment is an opportunity to give more value and support to those things that matter most.
Keep yourself connected to what's truly important to you.That way you'll find fulfillment in all that you do.
Yesterday is History
Tomorrow is a mystery
Today is a gift,
That's why they call it THE PRESENT!
^v^ CURRENT EVENTS ^v^
We're going to Portugal for a dreamy fun tour, we are so excited! Endless thanks to Manuel Santo of Invicta Indie Arts in Porto for setting up everything, his store is a wonderful eclectic mix of art and comics and anyone in the vicinity of Porto should check it out :)
Here's the schedule:
Beja Portugal
May 29th- May 30th
Saturday 29th Concert at 23h00 - Introduction to short movies and animation at 24h00
International Comics Festival Of Beja
Dame Darcy will sign new release of Meat Cake Compilation
published by Fantagraphics and other self published titles
Meat Cake Reissues #1 and #2 as well as Paper Doll Dreams and
The Penalty of Hope illustrated poetry book by Vincent D. Dominion
Also, fine art originals from comics and other drawings will be exhibited
Porto Portugal
May 31st
Art Exhibit at Labirithu's bar
Fine art originals from comics and other drawings will be exhibited
and one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
Porto Portugal
June 1st
Invicta Indie Arts
Dame Darcy will sign new release of Meat Cake Compilation
published by Fantagraphics and other self published titles
Meat Cake Reissues #1 and #2 as well as Paper Doll Dreams and
The Penalty of Hope illustrated poetry book by Vincent D. Dominion
Also, fine art originals from comics and other drawings will be exhibited
Porto Portugal
June 2nd at 23h00
Signing and music DD performance
at Labirinthu's
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
CD's available
GAIA Portugal
June 4th at 22h00
FNAC Gaia Shopping
DD music performance
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
CD's available
Porto Portugal
June 6th
FNAC Norteshopping at 17h00
DD music performance
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
CD's available
Porto Portugal
June 11th
2 DD music shows
FNAC Santa Catarina at 18h00
FNAC Marshopping at 22h00
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
CD's available
Guimaraes Portugal
June 12th at 16h30
FNAC Guimaraes
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
CD's available
Braga
June 13th at 17h00
FNAC Guimaraes
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
CD's available
Porto Portugal
June 18th- June 19th
Vincent D. Dominion and Dame Darcy's Birthday's
Hurrah!
Porto - Portugal
Labirinthu's bar
Permanent Exhibition on a Bar/ Bookstore from 27 May till 17th June
Porto - Portugal
Day 19 June
Armazém do Chá at 22h00
DD music performance
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
CD's available
Gumaraes - Portugal -
Centro Cultural Vila Flor
Date - 12/06/10 at 24h00
DD music performance
Death By Doll ElectRococo songs and/or
sea shanties and freak folk banjo pickin'
one of a kind hand crafted dolls
all books will be available
CD's available
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^v^ Art/Fashion ^v^
All new one of a kind dollightful faeiry dolls are here to celebrate spring with you :)
Also, framed original illustrations from Jane Eyre, Frightful Fairytales, Meat Cake, and other graphic novels are available in a wide variety all for around $20!
Spring into fun and fancy fashion with the new one of a kind hand crafted couture purses.
Alice update...we sold many prints but when we sell a few more the wheel of fortune will spin and we will soon announce a winner, get a print today and be one day closer to the magical painting of your dreams!
The new release from our self publishing endeavor Dame Darcy publishing Ink. and To Have Done With (Press) is out now. Here is the cover of the gorgeous book. “The Penalty of Hope”, illuminations of the darkest dreams and stark realities, heartbreak, redemption and gothic purging. We can all relate to published like books of its kind with poems and 14 new illustrations by me. Get it while it's deathly cold. Thanks Vincent D. Dominion.
^v^ Hand Book for Hot Witches ^v^
Reflections on Japan
I loved doing shows in Japan, Press Pop flew me there a few times and the shows were great, I played in the Harijuku district of Tokyo in a rock venue with big windows looking over the endless neon skyscape. Amazing beautiful gothic lolita girls came to the show in hand made dresses with fabric printed with my comics, the weirdest thing was when teenagers approached me to sign a 7 inch I put out when I was nineteen called Mexican Crawling Poppy Seed.
I never dreamed I would see it in the future again like this. I now understand better the whole Japanese perspective and why comics, gothic Lolita and other music and things I do appeals to them. We are alike because we both understand the apocalypse, the whole “spooky cute” phenomenon that comes from their innate Dadaism and the collective psychic pain of an ancient culture that was violated by the atom bomb. Thus the whole Japanese thing of cute butterfly baby heads vomiting blood. Oh BTW something I noticed, everything there is made into a cutesy face. Hello Kitty has a billion morphed clones.
For example the cab had a little STD warnings guide pamphlet in it of a hello kitty/penis waving hello and telling you some friendly facts in Japanese. It’s also a little 20’s style Betty Boop/Acid trip to make everything have a cute talking face. Oh, and during Christmas there was a window display of Santa crucified with presents all around him.
3 letters for that... W O W
LOVE,
Dame Darcy
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^v^ ART/CRAFT ^v^
Dame Darcy Witch Craft Kits everything you need already assembled
1) A Magic Mirror to see your past life, 2) A spell to Now Fulfill Your Destiny, 3) After Bath Enchanted Body Powder to magnetize your true love ,4) Lucky Cat Cauldron for luck in anything you want , 5)Mermaid Dream Catcher and matching book to write dreams.
www.damedarcy.etsy.com
!!ALL DOLL JEWELRY ON SALE!!
www.damedarcy.etsy.com
COME SEE DEATH BY DOLL LIVE!!
^v^ Hand Book For Hot Witches ^v^
More about Mami Wata
Mermaids
The beauty and elusive mystery of mermaids will allure mortal imagination with it’s persuasion of sensual love eternally. Mermaids are the ultimate perception of femininity and untamed emotion.
A mermaid is a woman who is half human and half fish. She is the embodiment of transformation and alchemy. Half human and half Atlantian, she can reach into the ether of magic to manifest magic in reality. She is the go-between the two worlds. Her song is immortal. Girls who are on the verge of growing up feel like they are in a transformation stage when the fantasy of becoming a mermaid and having all the alluring charms of a woman but still being free from the bonds of society.
The oldest image in mermaid mythology is the goddess Atargatis from Syria, where she is seen in the form of a statue a woman from the waist up and a fish from there down. All sea goddesses reflect the sea's qualities. The sea can be gentle and nurturing or violent and deadly. The sea is alternately, beautiful, cruel, tender, loving, calm, or destroying, so too can be mermaids. On a broader scale, this is man's view of nature. The mermaid, a fantastic creature, is nature herself.
Mami Wata is another timeless mermaid from Africa known for excesses. She has an inhuman beauty, unnaturally long hair, and a pale, unearthly complexion. She represents all races and her hair is combed straight back from her forehead and described as straight, curly or kinky and either black or blonde. Her illustrious, enticing gaze only enhances her ethereal beauty. In many parts of West and Central Africa, when a lady is called "Mami Wata" it’s a slang term for a gorgeous woman, she’s basically being called a mermaid, what a great compliment!
Mami Wata deities are closely associated with water. Traditions on both sides of the Atlantic tell of people who have returned from the paradisiacal realm of a mermaid which may be underwater, in the spirit realm or both. The people who were captured usually while boating or swimming were released on a mermaid demand, it may be even as simple as not eating any more fish. Those who return are miraculously in dry clothing and gaze at the world with a new deeper spiritual understanding. Often these survivors in time grow more beautiful, their lifestyles more lavish and abundant, and their personalities more easygoing after the encounter.
LOVE DD
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Doll Parts Jewelry and Magic Words
^v^ Art / Fashion ^v^
Doll Parts! Get your doll parts here! Necklaces and other accessories made from 100% genuine doll. I would like to say no dolls were harmed in the making of this jewelry, and perhaps they were not due to the fact they are the undead/never alive in the first place/alive with the spirit of dolls.
www.damedarcy.etsy.com
^v^ Raffle Update ^v^
Since the last blog some prints have sold. Meaning that when we sell more we will be closer to doing the raffle and the lucky winner will be announced.
www.damedarcy.etsy.com
^v^ Hand Book For Hot Witches ^v^
Some Positive affirmations, magic words to manifest your heart’s desire
"My good is a perfect and permanent idea in Divine Mind and must manifest , for there is nothing to prevent"
"My endless good now comes to me in endless ways"
"Happy surprises come to me each day, I look with wonder and anticipate each gift that is before me"
"Let me never wander from my heart’s desire".
"As the needle in the compass is true to the North, what is rightfully mine is true to me. I am the North!"
These quotes and so much more are the wisdom and true tales of Florence Scovel Shinn
a lovely lady who was a spiritual teacher from the 1920's and who everyone should look to in times of doubt for eternal guidance.
Love
Dame Darcy
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Hey everyone :) remember when the raffle started for the Sailors Delight painting last Sept? How when enough people bought the $25.00 print they won a chance to win the painting worth $2000.00? Well guess what.....
Congratulations to Cecelia and Raymond C. York! From Pensacola Florida!
You won the raffle for Sailors Delight! We here at Dame Darcy.com will be sending it to you in a few days, thanks for entering the raffle and buying the Staircase print faerie blessings and magic wishes your way :)
NEW ALICE PRINT AND RAFFLE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR WITCHES SONG PAINTING
This painting, entitled "Witches Song" is valued at $1200.
For a limited time only you get a chance to win this painting when you buy
a hand painted and numbered "Alice" print. When 50 are bought we will do the raffle and announce the winner! Hooray!
WEDDING INVITE COMISSIONS ACCEPTED
My friends just commissioned me to do this wedding invite for them.
I loved drawing their dreams come true and am now accepting commissions for wedding invites. You can see an example on www.damedarcy.etsy.com
To contact me about your commission directly, please write me at damedarcy@damedarcy.com
NEXT! WEDDING CAKE TOPPERS! Also accepting commissions for them now as well :)
^v^ PDX Assistants LETS GO! ^v^
GENERAL ASSISTANT please contact me directly by writing PDX ASST. in subject line to damedarcy@damedarcy.com
damedarcy.com has started a new self publishing division, and I need help tying bows to bind the books, painting glitter rainbows , various and light mailing endeavors. Also, some doll crafting and crafting in general, simple sewing, Photoshop skills a bonus but not a must.
Part time is most definitely OK. I live in NE Portland if you do or have a car and or in my hood definitely a bonus as well, but again not necessary.
Please contact me directly by writing PDX ASSISTANT in subject line
PORTLAND OREGON BASED CINEMATOGRAPHER / EDITOR WANTED
DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAERIES? And D.I.Y. super stardom!
Please contact me directly by writing PDX CINE/EDIT in subject line to damedarcy@damedarcy.com
A profile of what we’re doing at DD.com:
Needed to document rock shows/events and to edit video blogs for damedarcy.com and 30 minute movies, music videos etc.
Final cut pro edits to be podcast, streamed, and downloaded off the site. You need to be able to make final edit into separate folders in the hard drive in Ipod format.
480 X 320 H264 code 1.5 megabytes per sec. with sound compressed header for internet streaming, which we will do to all the video blogs and 30 minute movies to upload to site.
Do you compress videos for streaming? It's key.
I have a way to do my own online TV network and tons of pre and post edited footage to put up on line. Let’s Go!
^V^ End Animal Cruelty ^V^
Farm Sanctuary is a place where mistreated animals can live in peace and be treated
kindly after a life of torture. As a vegetarian of 20 years I believe in this cause
because all life is precious and all our spirits are part of the mother.
I have donated art to Farm Sanctuary before so they can auction it to raise money
to help the animals.
My dear friend Maya Gottfried works with them on a close and frequent basis and just
got a children’s book published about the farm which part of the proceeds go to.
Here is the link. It is a wonderful cause and an adorable book. My friend Seze Devres
designed the site and she did a really beautiful job.
http://www.ourfarmbook.com
Congratulations to these lovely sisters and their wonderful cause and to the
animals who have found solstice :)
Love
Dame Darcy
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^v^Art/fashion VALENTINES DAY SALE ^v^
Get your honey a little sugar for little money!
Tea Sets down from $75. To $50 until Valentine’s Day only 3 currently left.
All handcrafted 5 inch dolls down from $50. To $30 until Valentine’s day! Get em’ while they’re pink!
And for lovely, decorative, comfort in bed: New Pillow Dolls, Lavender Sachet Sleeping Masks and other items under $20! (Bon Bon’s not included)
^v^Events^v^
Naughty Nautical Nite returns with “Goth As Fuck” The Slipper Room NYC Sunday 1/31/10 9:00-welcoming Jessica Delfino and Dame Darcy the twin daring duo on this darkest of nights!
^v^ Hand Book For Hot Witches ^v^
HOT WITCH CINDERELLA
Cinderella kneeled weeping in the dark garden, saying to herself “My name is Ella, not Cinder-Ella! I don’t belong in the cinders. I belong at that ball more than my evil step-sisters because I have a way better innate sense of style.
Those bitches are gonna get it for not letting me go to the ball, pretty is as pretty does, that’s what my Mother used to say, (may she rest in peace,) and even though they might have more money for fancy gowns, I have magic!”
A voice somewhere in the dark behind her interrupted her rant, “Did you say magic? Well here I am!” Cinderella turned to see her Faeiry–God Mother.
“Wow!” Said Cinderella. “I love your look!” For her Faeiry-God Mother not only had an elaborate glittering aquamarine baroque gown made from twall and toole, but she also looked supernaturally young, no older than 18 or so, and upon closer inspection, as Faeiry-God Mother held her glowing wand closer to her face Cinderella saw a striking resemblance to herself!
“Thanks” said Cinderella’s Faeiry-God Mother, “You like this dress, right? Well it will fit you perfectly because I AM YOU! And you can borrow it indefinitely! So let’s D.I.Y. Handicraft you some footmen from mice and a beautiful carriage out of a pumpkin so you can make it to the ball on time.”
And with a wave of the wand Cinderella was off to the ball, waving good bye to her smiling (but shivering) Faeiry-God Mother who stood in the dark garden wearing only her slip.
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^v^ ART/Fashion ^v^
Romance is already in the air, prepare for the lovely love day by getting a sweet valentine doll or doll tea set for you or your sweetheart, all one of a kind.
The 2010 Witchcraft Calendar has many exciting spells to try at home plus lots of offbeat holidays and fun facts about Witchcraft through the ages. It also has 2 bonus months and goes till Feb. of 2011.
^v^ RAFFLE ^v^
Don’t forget! Order one of these individually hand painted prints now and when we reach our goal of 100 sold we will pull one lucky name from a doll hat and the winner will receive a painting by Dame Darcy gallery valued at $2000.00. We are at the half way point so act now!
^v^ Hand Book For Hot Witches ^v^
Hello my beautiful goddess sisters!
As you all know, for thousands of years women of all ages (child to crone) gathered together in "red tents" during menstruation &/or new
moon time. Since they were more in touch with nature and the earth, they usually had menses around the new moon. I believe it was a
magical time to assist each other through the process of being a woman, garner wisdom that only women have to share, strengthen intuition, and shed that which was no longer needed.
This is a special new moon coming up, with a powerful eclipse that won't happen again for another 1033 years.
Please encourage your sisters in the EZ Bake Coven to gather in celebration of these events
Make dinner, talk and do crafts. Simply celebrate being with your magical friends!
Best Wishes and Magic Blessings!
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^v^ Art/Craft ^v^
The 2010 Witchcraft Calendar has many exciting spells to try at home plus lots of offbeat holidays and fun facts about Witchcraft through the ages. It also has 2 bonus months and goes till Feb. of 2011. This blog profiles the January pages and what they have to say as an example of the calendars eternal usefulness read on J
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Snuggly and fashionable scarves for guys, gals and ghouls: Get em’ while it’s cold!
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. To begin with I have created some beautiful fingerless gloves that are also a love spell so when you wear them it increases the potency of your current love or will attract you to a new and exciting romance! It’s a whole new invention “LOVES”
Valentines special is for the guys too, that’s why I have created an armband that lets him wear his heart on his sleeve (or bare sexy bicep) it’s adjustable and if you happen to be male it is a love spell to attract the witch of your wildest dreams.
Coming soon! Valentines dolls and doll tea sets! All one of a kind and all perfect for romance.
^v^ Hand Book for Hot Witches ^v^
January is named for the Roman God Janus, God of Doorways. He is often depicted with two faces, one looking forward, the other back. A new Years Knot spell: A long (3 ft) red chord or length of yarn symbolizes the life force and endless chord of time. Think of one wish you want to come into your life this year and starting from left to right tie 4 knots in the chord, spaced evenly. When done, open your front door while holding the chord in your hands. Feel each knot while thinking of your wish saying: “I hope, I wish, I believe, I receive.” Tie the ends of the yarn into a circle and hang on your front door.
The Quadrantid meteor shower is on the 3rd of Jan. Make a wish on a star! The 12th of Jan. marks Twelfth night, wassail: to be whole. The 13th is Russian New Year. The 16th is the Feast Day of Concordia the Goddess of harmony. Animal Blessings day is on the 17th Martin Luther King Jr. Day is on the 18th and is a day to make a vow to dedicate your time to a cause you truly believe in, and commemorate his spirit. Bread Basket Day is celebrated in Portugal on the 20thth and is a day that marks the relief from the plague. On Jan 27th 1845 Poe published The Raven.
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^v^ ART/FASHION SALE ^v^
NEW E Z BAKE COVEN CALENDAR(cy) 2010 with two bonus months till Feb 2011. Hand crafted only $10. Features Pagan celebrations, as well as spells and other fun things to try at home :) Paper Doll book, hand crafted as well and again only $10.
Two fine examples of Dame Darcy publishing ink's new hand crafted book releases.
Hey it's Christmas, it's the recession, so you know what that means... ALL ART/ CRAFTS
are being sold at HALF OFF!
Dame Darcy is selling Paintings, big fine art dolls and original black and white illos,
some are original illos for Alan Moore's Cob Web series on DC/Wildstorm circa 2000, as well as Meat Cake #9 illos from the story Alan wrote for Meat Cake.
All items seen on Etsy over $25. are now HALF OFF! www.damedarcy.etsy.com
^V^ EVENTS ^V^
Bring Back the Light Winter Solstice Music/ Ritual of the 9 muses at Berbati's
231 SW Ankeny St
Portland, OR 97204
(503) 248-4579
Mon 21st,
Featuring Dame Darcy and Charlotte Antique of Death By Doll
Jessy Montaigne of Magic Daggers
and other members of the E Z Bake Coven PDX Division!
9:00 on
^v^X-TRA COUTRE TWIN X-MAS DOLLS! Plus Baby Witch Perdida ^v^
Emma Espoir: Twin French Boudoir Doll
Laurali maven siren of the sea, she calls to you with her eternal gaze.
Solid glass head and hands backed with silver, aquamarine glitter makup,
black human hair. She is a boudoir doll 3 ft, 10 inches tall, glittering rainbow net fin and corset, layers of sequined aquamarine petticoats, pantaloons, pearls, and silver stockings and glittering aquamarine designer pumps.
Gallery Price $1400.
X MAS BLOW OUT PRICE
$700.
Ezmerelda Espoir : Twin French Boudoir Doll
Straight to you from the Spanish Main comes this magical sailor lass
Solid glass head and hands backed with silver, aquamarine glitter makeup, she embodies all the secrets of the crescent moon with her single tear bejeweled with a tiny silver heart.
Black human hair. She is a boudoir doll 3 ft, 10 inches tall,
Crocheted tri-corner captain's hat, layers of aquamarine silk, black lace pinafore overlay embellished with silk bound buttons, turquoise striped stockings with lavender mary-janes.
Gallery Price $1400.
X MAS BLOW OUT PRICE
$700.
IF YOU WANT TO KEEP THESE TWIN SISTERS TOGETHER AND HAVE BOTH $1200.
TOTAL
Perdida Baby Witch Doll
Lovingly handcrafted 5 inch tall black human hair green eyes, poseable. She dons a red velvet gown embellished with roses, jewels, an ancient magic key, pink ribbon, lace, and buttons. This girl has got it all! Green thigh-highs and black ankle boots complete her unique look.
all this dollyday love and cheer for
$50. Gallery price
X MAS BLOW OUT PRICE
$25.
1) Mermaid Triptych Painting
Acrylic, glitter and enamel, real shells
4ft X 4ft squared
gallery price $1800.
NOW HALF OFF $900.
2) Jingle Mae
Acrylic , glitter, and enamel
2 ft 2 inches X 1 ft 10 in wide (with frame)
Gallery price $1200.
NOW HALF OFF $600.
3) The Imperial Egg comic
3 pages
#1 Title Page #2 Murderous Hatred #3 Trick or Burn
Black and White pen and ink illo
gallery price $200 each
NOW HALF OFF $100. each or
BUY ALL 3 for $200.
4) T. Stories #9 Cobweb / Alan Moore /Dame Darcy
4 pages
#2 #3 #4 #5
Black and White Pen and Ink illo
gallery price $200. each
NOW HALF OFF $100. each or
Buy all 4 for $300.
5) Hungry Is The Heart Meat Cake Comics Story by Alan Moore
5 pages
#1 Title Page #2 London #3 Ben Woolenboy
#4 Specialists #5 High above
Black and white Pen and ink illos
Gallery Price $200. each or
NOW HALF OFF $100. each or
buy all 5 for $400.
6) Zombie Survival Test
5 pages
#1 Title Page #2 The Object #3 Slowly but Surely
#4 Coast Looks Clear #5 Doll-icious
Black and white Pen and ink illos
gallery price $200. each or
NOW HALF OFF $100. each or
buy all 5 for $400.
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NY Dame Darcy PAGAN XMAS SHOWS plus new art items
^v^EVENTS ^V^
Pagan rituals just in time for Xmas! Rock shows at art galleries! Lots of fun with red red red and green!
FRIDAY NOV. 4th 8:00PM
Black Feelings
Dame Darcy
Micki Pellerano
Golden triangle
LIVE WITH ANIMALS GALLERY
210 Kent Ave/Metropolitan in Willamsburg
Donation please at the door
SATURDAY NOV. 5th
Dame Darcy
Flaming Fire
Flaming Fire Presents:
"Eternal Christmas: A Yuletide Dreamland 2009"
@Temple of the Dying King
525 Atlantic Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11205
^v^ ART AUCTION ^v^
MEAT CAKE REISSUES ONE AND TWO NOW IN PRINT AND AVAILABLE FOR ORDER. All signed by Dame Darcy $18.00 each www.DameDarcy.etsy.com
REISSUES ONE compiles Meat Cake comics #1, 2 and 4
REISSUES TWO compiles Meat Cake comics #5, 6 and 7
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^v^ MORE ETSY LOVELIES ^v^
Burgundy wine sheer lace dress with silkscreened and handcrafted detailing of Siamese twins in white lace. Black sheer ribbons and more black lace detailing. Fits ladies sizes 6-8.
Hot Pink Lace lavender sachet with a loop to hang as an ornament, depicting a silkscreen of Strega Pez, the pez-dispensing witch that talks through her throat. Real mother of pearl heart shaped button, Pink silk heart Antique brocade on back. Hand crafted and one of a kind. Lovely lavender makes a calm and relaxing herbal scent anywhere you put it, use in drawers for nighties, or hang in closets to make clothes fresh. A perfect gift!
Hand Knit mini mermaid ruff with Victorian tassels and sheer ribbon. Cozy, versatile and fashionable, much more interesting than a scarf!
^v^ UPCOMING EVENTS ^v^
SATURDAY 11/14/09 SEATTLE, WA
Vinsantos (SF)
hosted by: Diva Le Deviant
6:00 Dame Darcy Films & Book Signing Meat Cake (Fantagraphics Books)
Book reading and More!
7:00 Palm reading at by Dame Darcy
short film by Miss Oblivious
SUNDAY 11/15/09 SEATTLE, WA
6:30 Lonesome Shack (seattle)
8:00 Death BY Doll (music) Dame Darcy's ElectRococo/ VamPirate band
Maureen O'Donnell (author of "Scar Flowers")
short surprise film screenings
FRIDAY 11/20/09
9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
The Jewel (a boat!)
Boarding from 9:00 to 10:00
E 23rd & FDR Dr. in NYC
Palm Readings by Dame Darcy
SATURDAY 11/21/09
Fort Hamilton
201 Sterling Dr. in Brooklyn
7 p.m. to 12 a.m.
9:30 Book Reading & Sea Shanties by Dame Darcy
SUNDAY 11/22/09
Montauk Club
25 Eight Ave. in Brooklyn
Sea Shanties and Banjo Playing
1:00 to 3:00
^v^ Hand book for Hot Witches ^v^
JOAN OF ARC
Joan of Arc found a sword in a field when she was 10. She believed this sword was given to her from God and that it signified that she should become a soldier.
Logic dictates that this sword did not descend from the heavens, but rather was thrown into the field by a wandering marauder or any other mundane scenario.
However, even if this sword arrived in the field by normal means, the fact that Joan found it and it represented to her the tool by which her country was liberated, still makes the sword divine, and divinely obtained.
It was Joan's inner strength and certainty that won her an interview with the Prince of France and convinced him to give her an army, horses and weapons, though she was only a peasant girl. Joan was fearless, she ran straight towards the dragon of her fear, and like the unreal thing which it was, it disappeared when she approached, leaving her only with courage and accomplishment.
Joan saw the Prince of France as her patron and as them both as equals under God, which they were.
After she won her battles, which she won by inspiring the men of her army who admired her courage but also were motivated out of a mixture of love for her and how she represented their country meaning all women and the earth, the definition of true chivalry.
But also, that she was a girl, she was an amazing soldier, but she was only a teenager.
Men twice her age, seasoned soldiers were inspired by her because they thought if a girl could do it they could do it too. Her victories made the Prince of France the King, and liberated her country.
In the end when she was captured by the Brittish and burned at the stake, for being a heritic and a witch, it was not because God had failed her, and not because she had failed God. Her faith was true and pure, divinely and directly connected to God and not the faith of the Patriarch Church.
Joan had been a faithful messenger and servant, it was her King that failed her, merely because she continued to take direction from God and not from the King. She never regarded the King of France to be her leader in the first place. It may also have perhaps been a slip up of ego on Joan's part, which is a reminder to keep ourselves in check everyday to see where our inner voice is coming from.
Regardless, she was captured and killed at the age of nineteen. She was recognized as a saint 500 years after her death and even today is one of the most remembered women in all of history, even though she was only a teenage girl.
Her life on this mortal plane was brief but bright, and perhaps only a short prelude to her eternal immortality. Shine on forever, Joan of Arc, and shine in all girls to make them truely driven and confident.
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^v^ MORE ETSY LOVELIES ^v^
Meat Cake Reissue ONE, which includes issues #1, #2, & #4, is no longer on preorder. It's here! As soon as you order, your extra special copy of this slice of Meat Cake history will be on its way to your home immediately.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31024615
Lovingly handcrafted, 5 in. tall, posable arms/legs, her skin glows-in-the-dark, one of a kind witch costume, ancient key included, individual secret spell trick or treat bag that only will be revealed when she comes to you or your loved one. She is named after a mystical Goddess of lore.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=32336971
^v^ VICE MAGAZINE ^v^
Vice Magazine recently profiled me with some fun little spells. Check it out! http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2009/10/30/casting-spells-with-dame-darcy/
^v^ UPCOMING EVENTS ^v^
FRIDAY 11/13/09
Capitol Theatre
206 E 5th Ave.
Olympia, WA 98501
Between Washington and Franklin
Downtown Olympia
Olympia Filmfest presents
7:00 Lisa Hammer's movies
8:00 Q & A
8:30 Death by Doll performance
To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=93684309577&mid=15a6794G4ba44a57G116ec8eG7
SATURDAY 11/14/09
Vinsantos (SF)hosted by: Diva Le Deviant
6:00 Dame Darcy Films & Book Signing Meat Cake (Fantagraphics Books)
Book reading and More!
7:00 Palm reading at by Dame Darcy
short film by Miss Oblivious
SUNDAY 11/15/09
6:30 Lonesome Shack (Seattle)
8:00 Death By Doll (music) Dame Darcy's ElectRococo/ VamPirate band
Maureen O'Donnell (author of "Scar Flowers")
short surprise film screenings
Lovely fully furnished room in shared craftsman house. secure wireless internet. Computer/printer available. Cable TV. Your own entry way, big kitchen, living room 2 bathrooms, washer/dryer. All utilities included , no deposit. Available Nov. 18th 2009- Dec 18th 2009. You can rent for 1 month. Conveniently located on Yellow line Max train in North PDX. Gay friendly! No pets/children allowed. $600.
Help Save A Wolf!
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All at DameDarcy.etsy.com!
Dolls, Dolls , DOLLS!
Halloween WITCH DOLLS 9 of them! 9-the number of transformation and magic.Welcome Haloween and the littlest members of the EZ Bake Coven.
Lovingly handcrafted, 5 in. tall , posable arms/legs, her skin glows-in the-dark, one of a kind witch costume, ancient key included, individual secret spell trick or treat bag that only will be revealed when she comes to you or your loved one. She is named after a mystical Goddess of lore.
Featured here is Aphrodite: Greek; Goddess of passionate, sexual love. Aphrodite will assist you in pulling loving energy towards yourself.
NEW HALLOWEEN TEA SETS AND DOLL TEA SET
Tons of new hand drawn tea cups and more. Each one has a fun halloween theme with witches, bats, crows, jack o'lanterns, and more!
Turn of the Century
A sexy spooky victorian Cabaret Variety freak show starring the irresistible temptress Dame Darcy, Courtney Love, Tiny Tim, Thurston Moore, and a cast of slinky sirens, salty sailors, sword swallowers, witches, contortionists, puppets, ghosts, angels and devils! Directed by the Queen of the underground Lisa Hammer.
This TV show was originally aired on Public Access in Manhattan at the turn of the century from mid 90's to early 2001. Then the bomb hit and we moved to LA... BUT WE'RE BACK! Back with a commentary and never seen before footage and acts! Hand-signed by yours truly.
^v^ FINE ART RAFFLE
Thanks Everyone :) The raffle is going strong and there have been over fifty orders of the print, so act quickly so you still get a chance to win the painting! See the action at DameDarcy.etsy.com
^v^ EZ BAKE COVEN ^v^
The EZ Bake Coven is finally beginning! We are in need of some beta testers to help us build the new Web site. If you are interested in being a part of our testing group, send an email to EZBakeCoven@gmail.com, and we'll be in touch.
^v^ CURRENT EVENTS
10/23/09 FRIDAY
Hott Deth
Death by Doll
Drats!!!!
The Know 2026 NE Alberta
Portland, OR
^v^ HAND BOOK FOR HOT WITCHES ^v^
Movie reviews....
I love costume dramas, surrealist and I guess horror and art movies. like the Forbidden Zone, I like silent films, apocalypse movies. My favories are Chumscrubber with Glen Close, Barry Lyndon by Kubrick anything by Kubrick except for Eyes Wide Shut (which was done after he died and they just used his name to sell this crap).
Anything by Werner Herzog, anything by Wes Anderson, (I know I'm a sap) any thing by Terry Gilliam, Anything by Todd Haynes. Michel Gondry does good contempory work, Spike Jonze does good movies as well.
I love those really DA DA Betty Boop cartoons from the 20's that cab calloway sings on, (The 30's were the 20's dark and sad twin you know) the best time in the world was 1927, besides 1999 (when we partied in NYC like it was...) The Marie Antionette by Girly Copola looks great but is less filling on plotline. My doll Isabelle loves it though because she doesn't care about stuff like content, she's a rococo fetishist.
Another movie Isabelle loves is Night Of The Hunter where Lillian Gish plays an old christian lady battling a dimented preacher with a shotgun while she sings a hymn in Harmony with him. This movie starrs a doll, thats why Isabelle loves it, she also loves Death Becomes Her because the ladies in that movie become dolls! Also, I love it because I loves me up some Isabella Rossellini , especially as a 20's flapper that lives eternal and has hundreds of young boy sex slaves. Wow!
Beauty and The Beast,...you know by the French director whos name escapes me right now. I think this version is from the 50's? It has a scene where as beauty glides etherially down the corridor the wall sconces of mens arms holding candles move to light her way.
Also I like this cute (but hippy) movie called Brother Sun Sister Moon about St. Francis Assi. Speaking of churchy stuff... The Devils by Ken Russell 1971. An account of the apparent demoniacal possession of the 17th-century nuns of Louden, climaxing in the burning of their priest as a sorcerer. There is the cutest cabaret scene in it where a georgeous gay boy plays the Venus Di Milo. This is also like the 1971 release of The Wicker Man. A lot of the best movies came out in 1971. Dark and psychedelic. This was a trippy time to be born.
The Blue Angel with Marlene Deitchrich is also a great Cabaret Film and is sorta like the movie Freaks I just realized. Also, I think Interview with a Vampire is the most hilarious movie in the planet! Just a laugh riot all the way through, (and another doll movie that Isabelle loves, she especially loves the scene where the little vampire girl cuts off her hair and is throwing a panty fit because she never gets any older, she also kills her nanny and hides her under her giant pile of dollies so she can keep feeding on her later ( the first time a giant pile of dolls has ever been used as a refrigerator in all of movie history). My bandmate Skippy brought that video over when I was sick one time and it made me feel a lot better.
Speaking of Vampire movies Valerie and her Week of Wonders is the best. Salem's Lot the most scarry. Herzog does a great Dracula too with Klaus Nomi (He is also the star of a documentary called My Best Fiend) and the one where William DeFoe plays Dracula is awesome ...Shadow of the Vampire.
I always draw the endless pages and commision designs while watching movies, and crafting. I tried to watch The Serpent and the Rainbow last night but it was too scarry cause I was home alone. I watched Gone with the Wind (which is a costume drama AND an apocalyptic movie all in one) over and over for a month one time. I just didn't care to see anything else. The spaghetti western The Good the Bad and The Ugly is a gothic americana apoclypse movie as well and old timey to boot! I want to see Let The Right One In but its apparantly with subtitles and I can't watch these kinds of movies and craft at the same time unfortunately, becaue alot of the best movies are not in english.
For more events, visit damedarcyblog.blogspot.com
Love,
Dame Darcy!
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^v^ ART/CRAFTS/SELF PUBLISHING <3
Vintage fun and frolic in a dark way with ALL NEW Meat Cake Compilation numbers 5 , 6, and 7 are now available at stores.lulu.com/DameDarcy, or you can preorder them on Etsy!
Newest to Etsy the adorable tea cups and doll tea set hand painted by yours truly, pink bat, roses, mermaids and dolls are all to be seen on these diminuitive dollightful dainties!
^v^ PALM and TAROT READING BY DAME DARCY, KNOW YOUR FUTURE NOW <3
$20 for palm readings or tarot readings. Now available at DameDarcy.etsy.com!
^v^ Interior Painting and Design <3
I have extensive experience in painting and am offering to paint the interior of your home as murals or to do a custom designed kids room.
I have celebrity clients such as Courtney Love, who I worked for painting her daughter's room. I also designed a stained glass window based on the characters from my comic book Meat Cake for Margaret Cho which was recently featured in New York Times magazine.
And much more... For examples of my work, and to see more of my paintings and art in general, please go to DameDarcy.com.
Prices are negotiable. For more information, email damedarcy@damedarcy.com and put INTERIOR PAINTING in the subject line.
^v^ FINE ART RAFFLE <3
Thanks Everyone :) the raffle is going strong and there have been many orders of the print, so act quick so you still get a chance to win the painting!
For $25 when you buy this limited edition (150 total) hand painted and signed by yours truly print entitled “Staircase,” which can be seen at DameDarcy.etsy.com, you will get the chance to win the painting (pictured in the third image) valued at $2000 entitled “Red sky at night Sailors Delight.”
When we reach the $2000 mark the winner will be announced and the painting will be shipped to the winner. Until then, updates on the raffle will be blogged regularly on DameDarcy.com.
DIY economy boosting 101, thanks for your support!
The print measures 8.5" x 11" and ships out in a cello sleeve with a protective firm mailer. The painting is acrylic, lacquer, and black glitter on canvas. It measures 32” x 44" and will be mailed out by a professional gallerist.
^v^ CURRENT EVENTS <3
9/27/09 SUNDAY
1 of 7 Launch party
Trees Resturant Pacwest bldg.
6:00 – on
free!
10/23/09 FRIDAY
8:30
Hott Deth
Death by Doll
Drats!!!!
The Know 2026 NE Alberta
Portland OR
10/29 /09 THURSDAY
DXD at the Woods
Josh and Charlotte
Moonshriners
Portland's newest music venue and event rental space
Located in the center of the historic Sellwood District
6637 Milwaukie Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97202
Served by bus lines 19 and 70
Tel: 503-890-0408
For more events, visit damedarcyblog.blogspot.com
Love,
Dame Darcy!
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Salutations lovely Darklings!
Here’s the all new and exciting multimedia events at Dame Darcy.com
Love<3 and Bats ^v^ DD
PALM and TAROT READING BY DAME DARCY, KNOW YOUR FUTURE NOW
$20 for palm readings or tarot readings
For palm readings, please scan and send the palm, fist with pink side down, and back of your predominant hand. Email it to damedarcy@damedarcy.com and put PALM READING in subject line. As soon as I receive your PayPal payment, I will read and send you your divination.
For Tarot reading send me an e mail with your phone number to damedarcy@damedarcy.com and write TAROT READING in the subject line.
When I receive your payment through PayPal, I will call you for an appointment to do your reading.
^v^ Interior Painting and Design <3
I have extensive experience in painting and am offering to paint the interior of your home as murals or to do a custom-designed kid's room.
I have celebrity clients such as Courtney Love, who I worked for painting her daughter's room. I also designed a stained glass window based on the characters from my comic book Meat Cake for Margaret Cho which was recently featured in New York Times magazine.
And much more... For examples of my work, and to see more of my paintings and art in general, please go to DameDarcy.com.
Prices are negotiable. For more information, email damedarcy@damedarcy.com and put INTERIOR PAINTING in the subject line.
^v^ FINE ART RAFFLE <3
Thanks Everyone :) the raffle is going strong and there have been many orders of the print, so act quick so you still get a chance to win the painting!
For $25 when you buy this limited edition (150 total) hand painted and signed by yours truly print entitled “Staircase,” which can be seen at DameDarcy.etsy.com, you will get the chance to win the painting (pictured in the third image) valued at $2,000 entitled “Red sky at night Sailors Delight.”
When we reach the $2,000 mark the winner will be announced and the painting will be shipped to the winner. Until then, updates on the raffle will be blogged regularly on DameDarcy.com.
DIY economy boosting 101, thanks for your support!
The print measures 8.5" x 11" and ships out in a cello sleeve with a protective firm mailer. The painting is acrylic, lacquer, and black glitter on canvas. It measures 32” x 44" and will be mailed out by a professional gallerist.
^v^ Miss KK & Dame Darcy Fashion designs <3
My dearest witch sista faeiry friend is producing a fancy fashion line using my illustrations as silkscreened design. to see this fantasy of wonder visit her Web site.
^v^ 1 of 7 fine art Fashion Project <3
I’ll start doing my series with 1 of 7 in October…theres a super fun launch party coming up in Sept 27th at Trees resturant in the pacwest bldg. 6:00-on
Until then heres the site: www.the1of7.com…and a little about the project …
1 of 7 provides a unique forum for artists to offer their individual and limited edition art to you only 7 pieces are produced and five are sold. Other artists and gallery can be seen online.
^v^ ADVENTURES IN SELF-PUBLISHING <3
Meat Cake #1, #2, #4, #5, & #6 are all available from stores.lulu.com/DameDarcy. Also check out the wonderful compilation of #1, #2, & #4 for the bargain price of $18, and look out for more compilations in the very near future!
^v^ DIY SELF HELP WANTED<3
PDX MOLD MAKER do I have a job for you!
I have a really great money making idea involving dolls (what else?!) but I need a mold maker. The idea will be revealed to the public as soon as they are produced. There is a big market for these kind of dolls and they are different than any other kind I have produced before (and no they are not the dirty life sized ones, so just get your mind out of the gutter little missy!)
If you or anyone you know is a Mold maker or fabricator please have them contact me directly at damedarcy@damedarcy.com. Please put “MOLD MAKER” in subject line. THANX PDX!
^v^E Z BAKE COVEN PDX PROMO STREET TEAM<3
We're still looking for more members of the street team. For more information, please visit damedarcyblog.blogspot.com
^v^ CURRENT EVENTS <3
9/9/09 WEDNESDAY
Death By Doll plays electRococo
At Side Show Speakeasy
Dantes 1 SW 3rd Ave
Doors at 9. $5
Watch the other cabaret and burlesque freaks freak out!
Thanks Noah Mikens !
9/11/09 FRIDAY
To have done with Presents:
The I’s Record Release Party
Dame Darcy/Death By Doll
And Benjamin Starshine
Slabtown 9pm $5.
http://www.Slabtownbar.net
9/27/09 SUNDAY
1 of 7 Launch party
Trees Resturant Pacwest bldg.
6:00 pm – on
free!
For more events, visit http://damedarcyblog.blogspot.com
Love,
Dame Darcy!
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^v^ART/FASHION <3
TONIGHT!
9/3/09 “FIRST THURSDAY PDX”
Art Opening by Dame Darcy and Tim Root
Live music by; Death By Doll
6 pm free at The Pony Club
625 NW Everett #105
Portland, OR
^v^ FINE ART RAFFLE<3
OK, this is soooo exciting! Whatever to the recession. Here's a way we can all afford the glamour of fine art …for $25 when you buy this limited edition (150 total) hand painted and signed by yours truly print Entitled "Staircase," you will get the chance to win this painting, valued at $2000, entitled “Red Sky at Night, Sailor's Delight.”
When we reach the $2000 mark, the winner will be announced and the painting will be shipped to the winner. Until then updates on the raffle will be blogged regularly on DameDarcy.com. DIY economy boosting 101. Thanks for your support!
Check it out at DameDarcy.etsy.com
^v^ 1 of 7 fine art Fashion Project <3
I’ll start doing my series with 1 of 7 in October…theres a super fun launch party coming up in Sept 27th at Trees resturant in the pacwest bldg. 6:00-on
Until then heres the site: www.the1of7.com …and a little about the project …
1 of 7 provides a unique forum for artists to offer their individual and limited edition art to you only 7 pieces are produced and five are sold. Other artists and gallery can be seen online.
^v^ ADVENTURES IN SELF-PUBLISHING <3
Meat Cake #1 #2 #4 #5 and now #6 IS BACK!
Watch as a zombie-werewolf made from wax seduces a witch who can only speak through pez with her own doll! Many a mermaid murder of many a gorgeous sailor lad, lots of wheelchair fin fun and grand guiginol gory glory! Meat Cake is the undead! Long live black ink Dada!
Also a compilation of Meat Cake 1, 2, & 4 together and available now on Lulu. All the out of print Meat Cakes are going to be listed here, as well as new book releases and Meat Cakes #17 on.
See the magic at stores.lulu.com/DameDarcy.
For the other Meat Cakes still in print please go to Fantagraphics books to order and look forward to a compilation released by Fantagraphics in spring 2010!
^v^ DIY SELF HELP WANTED<3
PDX MOLD MAKER do I have a job for you!
I have a really great money making idea involving dolls (what else?!), but I need a mold maker. The idea will be revealed to the public as soon as they are produced. There is a big market for these kind of dolls and they are different than any other kind I have produced before. (And no they are not the dirty life sized ones, so just get your mind out of the gutter little missy!)
If you or anyone you know is a Mold maker or fabricator please have them contact me directly at: damedarcy@damedarcy.com. Please put “MOLD MAKER” in subject line. THANX PDX!
^v^E Z BAKE COVEN PDX PROMO STREET TEAM<3
Ok, hold your horses (and fillies) here’s an idea that will be fun, productive , and exciting…
Anyone remember Victoria Woodhull? She was nick-named Mrs. Satan by the NY Sun in the 1870’s because she became such a predominant figure in DIY Womens Sufferage politics that she ran for president and actually came close to winning!
This is before women could even VOTE! How do we explain that? A pussy hair can pull a train is what Granny always said…
Here’s how Victoria and her pretty little sister Tennesse went from being traveling snake oil psychic kids to owning their own empire and brownstone on the upper east side…
First, they published their own Newspaper (sound like any one you know, I wonder if it had a comix section?) Next, they had lovely girls (and guys) peddle it on streetcorners as was the way to sell newspapers back in the day.
Todays version of this is flyering shows and posters around town, posting events on local blogs and events sites and sections and simply word of mouth among friends.
Lets start the E Z Bake Portland Promo Street Team together and change the world through the magic of art and music!
If you or a friend is interested please contact me at damedarcy@damedarcy.com and put “E Z BAKE COVEN STREET TEAM PDX ROXX” in the subject line thanx! I’d also like to have local Coven art/craft/music rituals and celebrate the solstices in style and set up more E Z Bake Coven chapters in other locals.
I’m working on the manifesto now, which I think will be an incorporative effort. Heres some of the events we will be promoting….
^v^ CURRENT EVENTS <3
9/9/09 WEDNESDAY
Death By Doll plays electRococo
At Side Show Speakeasy
Dantes 1 SW 3rd Ave
Doors at 9. $5
Watch the other cabaret and burlesque freaks freak out!
Thanks Noah Mikens !
9/11/09 FRIDAY
To have done with Presents:
The I’s Record Release Party
Dame Darcy/Death By Doll
And Benjamin Starshine
Slabtown 9pm $5.
Slabtownbar.net
9/27/09 SUNDAY
1 of 7 Launch party
Trees Resturant Pacwest bldg.
6:00 –on
free!
9/28/09 MONDAY
Dame Darcy speaking
at Pacific Northwest College of Art
2:00-5:00 Narritive Image class
Pacific NW College of Art
1241 NW Johnson St.
Portland, OR 97209
Phone: 503-226-4391
9/29/09 TUESDAY
Fever
Death by Doll
Valentines
Neighborhoods: Southwest Portland, Old Town
232 SW Ankeny St
Portland, OR 97253
(503) 248-1613
8:00
10/23/09 FRIDAY
Hott Deth
Death by Doll
Drats!!!!
The Know 2026 NE Alberta
Portland OR
10/29 /09 THURSDAY
DXD at the Woods
More info to be posted closer to event
11/13/09 FRIDAY
Shade Rupe presents:
Dame Darcy/Lisa hammer movies screened
W/ Q&A
Live music performance by
Death By Doll
Capitol Theater
www.olympiafilmsociety.org
206 5th Ave SE
Olympia, WA 98501
(360) 754-6670
* more info posted closer to event
11/14---15 /09 SAT/SUN
Miss Oblivious
Cabaret Fest. Seattle Washington
Death By Doll
DD Art show and doll movies
Also featuring Christy Kane!
*more info posted closer to event
^v^ LOVE LETTERS <3
Last but certainly not least, check out Mariah Aiyana's tattoo!
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^v^ ART/FASHION /MAGIC <3
Sexy Summer Man fragrance for men has gotten amazing response by all the guys!
It’s made from the leaves of Tomato plants and smells like a wonderful citrusy dark green summer. Many claim that it has helped their love life as well!
Check this out this magic love potion along with original illustrations, prints, dolls of all kinds, and much much more on my etsy site
http://Damedarcy.etsy.com……….Love Dame Darcy
^v^ MEAT CAKE COMIX OLDIES IN AN ALL NEW WAY <3
Hi everyone, Fantagraphics and I have a new deal, they are going to publish Meat Cake only as Graphic novel compilations.
They are continuing to distribute Meat Cake individual comix that they have in print.The ones that are out of print I now have the freedom to self publish again
Here are the issues that are in and out of print:
#3, 8, 11-14 and 16, 17 are all IN print, so #1, 2, 4-7, 9-10 and 15 are gone.#8 and #11 are both down to under 100 copies.
We here at Dame Darcy.com have created a account on Lu lu which self publishes books, so you can view them and then get multiple copies , preorder, and have them sent directly to you!
We are working on having them preautographed so when you buy them directly from me they are already signed, but we are in the process of this...just letting you know.
Anyway, we have issue #1 #2 and #4 available now, for $10 each and then a compilation with all 3 for $18.
Also, on Lu lu we will have the other out of print Meat Cakes then subsequently issues #17-on.
As well as fun bonus one off books illustrated by yours truly. Sounds great right? Because it is! It’s the new exciting world that self-publishing has turned to!
Here’s the link: http://stores.lulu.com/DameDarcy
^v^ CURRENT AFFAIRS <3
Death By Doll has a lot of shows coming up, also, I have a lot of Art + cabaret shows in general , its all very exciting!
HEY IF YOU OR ANYONE YOU KNOW IN THE PORTLAND AREA COULD DO PR FOR MY EVENTS PLEASE CONTACT ME AT: damedarcy@damedarcy.com
Fair exchange/compensation is welcome. Please put “PUBLIC RELATIONS” in subject line thanks!
Also, we’re starting a new Naughty Nautical Nite Cabaret in Seattle Washington! Wow!
ALSO, if anyone knows of someone in the Portland Oregon area who can do molds for small sculptures please send them my way. Please put “MOLDS” in subject line thanks!
And I am offering my new services for Art Nanny/Granny care ….see the end of blog for details, put “NANNY CARE “ or “GRANNY CARE” in subject line thanks!
^v^ CURRENT EVENTS <3
8/19/09 WEDS
Dame Darcy does mermaid cabaret sea shanties
Noah invited you to "SIDESHOW SPEAKEASY #12
Event: SIDESHOW SPEAKEASY #12 - at Lucky Devil this week
"JUST FIVE BUCKS!" cheaper than a Chinese lampshade!
What: Night of Mayhem
8:30pm - 11:30pm
Location:
Lucky Devil
Street:
633 SE POWELL
City/Town:
Portland, OR
battyshippodrome@gmail.com
8/22/09 SATURDAY
Dame Darcy/Death By Doll
Electric Orchestra Co.
Play at THE WOODS
doors 8 show 9 $7.
Portland's newest music venue and event rental space | Located in the center of the historic Sellwood District
6637 Milwaukie Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97202 | Served by bus lines 19 info: thewoodsbooking [@] gmail [dot] com
9/3/09 “FIRST THURSDAY PDX”
Art Opening by Dame Darcy and Tim Root
Live music by; Death By Doll
6 pm free at The Pony Club 625 NW Everett #105
9/11/09 FRIDAY
To have done with Presents:
The I’s Record Release Party
Dame Darcy/Death By Doll
And Benjamin Starshine
Slabtown 9pm $5.
Slabtownbar.net
9/27/09 SUNDAY
Launch Party
For Dame Darcy
Fashion Design
*More info will be posted closer to event
9/28/09 MONDAY
Dame Darcy speaking
at Pacific Northwest College of Art
11-5 pm self publishing workshop/lecture
9/29/09
Pacific NW College of Art
1241 NW Johnson St.
Portland, OR 97209
Phone: 503-226-4391
9/29/09 TUESDAY
Fever
Death by Doll
Valentines
Neighborhoods: Southwest Portland, Old Town
232 SW Ankeny St
Portland, OR 97253
(503) 248-1613
8:00
10/13/09 FRIDAY
Shade Rupe presents:
Dame Darcy/Lisa hammer movies screened
W/ Q&A
Live music performance by
Death By Doll
Capitol Theater
www.olympiafilmsociety.org
206 5th Ave SE
Olympia, WA 98501
(360) 754-6670
* more info posted closer to event
10/14---15 /09 SAT/SUN
Miss Oblivious
Cabaret Fest. Seattle Washington
Death By Doll
DD Art show and doll movies
Also featuring Christy Kane!
*more info posted closer to event
10/24/09 Sat
Hott Deth
Death by Doll with Drats
Comet Tavern
Portland OR
*more info posted closer to event
^v^ LOVE LETTERS <3
Dame Darcy ARTIST/NANNY extraordinaire
Hi I'm Dame Darcy, and I love kids! I have a lot of experience as a preschool teacher with a degree in child psychology toddler-through K (3 years) also I worked with teens/tweens 11-14 as a art school teacher ( 4 years), and the Faeiry-Godmother to 5 children!
References are happily and abundantly provided upon request.
I also do graphic novels and comics but I am skilled in various art/craft techniques. I'd love to teach your child art and do crafts with them after school, I also can do raw food and snacks and general childcare.
I live in NE Portland but can go to any vicinity in the PDX area. Rates are flexible and I am open to discussion :)
To contact me directly please email:
damedarcy@damedarcy.com please put Nanny Care in subject line
You can also visit Dame Darcy.com to see my art.
Thanks so much!
Love
Dame Darcy
Dame Darcy ARTIST/GRANNY CARE extraordinaire
Hello, do you or a loved one have an elderly parent or Granny that needs help cooking/shopping/basic cleaning/ and a little company? I would love to help them! I am also an artist that can do arts and crafts with you or your beloved and other fun activities. References are happily provided upon request :)
I mostly have experience in childcare, but I would also love to work with the lovely 70, 80, or 90-somthing scene as well.
People are people and I like to do work that gives to and nurtures the art in everyone’s soul.
I live in NE Portland but can go to any vicinity in the Portland area. Rates are flexible and I am open to discussion :)
To contact me directly please email:
damedarcy@damedarcy.com please put “Granny Care” in subject line
You can also visit DameDarcy.com to see my art.
Thanks so much!
Love
Dame Darcy
^v^ POLAR BEARS IN DANGER!! <3
Can you chip in just $10 to help save polar bear cubs? Unless our country takes action now, all of Alaska's polar bears could be wiped out by 2050.
These youngest victims of global warming need your immediate support. Even $10 will help NRDC in the critical days ahead as we fight to protect the polar bear both in federal court and on Capitol Hill. And best of all, your gift will be instantly matched dollar-for-dollar by a generous NRDC Trustee.
Please give whatever you can now by visiting https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Donation2?df_id=1567&1567.donation=form1
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Hey guess what?! Skippy and I are recording a new album and doing shows in the North West this upcoming late summer/fall solstice season, it's going to be a blast and a half! Here's the latest, don't miss the rococo-psydelic art/death rock fun!
Love you and witch-kisses,
Dame Darcy
*Dame Darcy/Death By Doll
*Gods Favorite Beefcake
*Lonesome Shack
Saturday 8/15/09
608 65th NW
Seattle WA Ballard area
Thanks to Miss Oblivious of Payne Creations
and Skippy Spiral of Death By Doll!
AND....
I made a new fragrance for men called Sexy Summer Man, it's made from Tomato plants that I grew in my backyard here in Portland Oregon. It it sooo delicious ...and you can see Skippy wearing the fragrance on my etsy store. ALSO! New Big 30 inch mermaid and Pirate pillow dolls! Super exciting! As well as Meat Cake originals available!
All this and more on....... etsy.com:
USERNAME: damedarcy99
Coming soon:
I'm going to self-publish/print on demand out of print issues of Meat Cake!
#1 #2 #4 are soon to be available individually and in a compilation. So exciting!
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Hey everyone <3
I just posted this in the Portland area because I'd like to do an art exchange for a car. Or if anyone out there has a suggestion of bio-diesel vehicles in the Oregon area that would be great too. The reason its worded so weirdly is because we also posted it on craigslist where I assume the general public doesn't always know in the know, you know? No? Ok, I'll stop. Anyway's hope you are having a faeiry-filled summer of rainbow delights :)
Lots of love, Dame Darcy
READ ON....
Hi, I'm a fine artist and I also draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm interested in doing an art exchange in exchange for a car for the equvilant for under $1000. I would ideally like a bio-diesel vehicle, but I am flexable.
I live in the Portland area, and I have examples on my site for interior design and paintings that I did for Courtney Love's childs bedroom, Margaret Cho's stained glass windows, based on characters from my comic book Meat Cake , Amobea records in LA etc. I can paint your childs nursery or make any room of your house into a fantasy. The original black and white drawings from my various books are available and I would like to exchange these or any of my paintings for the equivilant of the car.
To view what I'm talking about please go to: DameDarcy.com you can contact me directly there or through emailing:
damedarcy@damedarcy.com thanks! DD
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PHILADELPHIA – As Brat Productions prepares for the world premiere of
their Edgar Allan Poe-based production Haunted Poe (October 1 –
November 1, 2009), the company invites audiences to enter the world of
the master of the macabre with a special doll crafting workshop and
haunted cabaret on Thursday, June 25 at the Latvian Society, located
at 531 North 7th St. (at Spring Garden St.) in Philadelphia.
The two-hour workshop will begin at 1:00 p.m. and will be led by
artist and performer Dame Darcy. Workshop participants will craft
dolls related to the women in Poe’s life and stories, such as Sarah
Elmira Royster, Virginia Clemm, and Sarah Helen Whitman. Participants
will also have the opportunity to have their work displayed in the
production of Haunted Poe in October.
The cabaret, Murder Ballads, Shanties, and other Poe-etics, will
feature performances by:
Doors open at 8:00 p.m. and performances begin at 9:00 p.m.
The workshop fee is $25, which includes materials, light snacks and
admission to the cabaret. Cabaret-only tickets are $5. Tickets are
available online at hauntedpoe.com.
Just across the street, audiences can also visit the Edgar Allan Poe
National Historic Site, where Poe lived and penned some of his
best-known works from 1838 – 1844. The house is open with free
admission from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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Saturday June 13th, at Zebulon (258 Wythe Ave Metropolitan Brooklyn, NY) www.zebuloncafeconcert.com
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Hey All!
Lots of fun and exciting events coming up in June, particularly the Columbia University lecture I'm doing on Comix, can you believe it?! Also...
Check out the cute new stuff we just hand crafted on etsy, plus a haunted dress profiled, pillow dolls, comix, fine art, and much more...
heres my link, and my name on etsy is Dame Darcy 99 .... http://www.etsy.com/profile.php?user_id=6650631
Love and doll kisses!
DD
damedarcy.com is pleased to announce events in New York City and Philadelphia to celebrate the launch of the new website design.
• Sunday, June 7th, 2009. Noon. The Annual MoCCA Art Festival
Dame Darcy signs copies of her new graphic novel, Gasoline (Merrell) and her celebrated comic book, Meatcake at the Fantagraphics table at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art's annual show, this year at the 69th regiment armory in Manhattan.
Address: MoCCA Art Festival
Lexington Ave + 25th Street
New York, NY
• Wednesday June 10th, 2009 5:30-6:30pm
Columbia University and Jim Hanley’s Universe present a lecture on sequential art through the ages and the relevance of comix today. Also a book signing by Dame Darcy at the Butler Library room 523. Columbia University is located at 114th st. and Broadway.
• Thursday June 11th, 2009 Time TBA
WFMU live broadcast Dame Darcy music with friend Ben Smiley. Traditional and original Sea shanties on Accordion and Singing Saw.
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9 pm: NO YOU YES ME - organic circuit-bent noise with live illustration by Dylan Meconis (dylanmeconis.com)
10 pm: STAR ST.GERMAIN (thisisstar.com & myspace.com/oculama)
11 pm: MYRRH LARSEN (myrrhmusic.com) - full band with live illustration by John C. Worsley (openvein.com)
12 am: DAME DARCY (damedarcy.com)
SOMEDAY LOUNGE (somedaylounge.com) is at 125 NW 5TH, between Couch and Davis in downtown Portland. (map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=someday+lounge&near=Portland,+OR)... no cover, full bar, 21+.
AND FOR PEOPLE NOT IN PORTLAND: there is a live stream on the web at somedaylounge.com. people can watch the show at home from anywhere in the world & they absolutely should. ;)
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Hi everyone, exciting new events happing here in PDX.
STUMPTOWN COMIC CON ...PDX ROXX. I'll be signing books at the Portland Convention Center from 1:00-3:00 at the Fantagraphics booth. Also be there for the Trophy Awards at the Cosmic Monkey Saturday April 18th
DAME DARCY SEA SHANTIES playing as part of the Stumptown Music feastival at the Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th 11:00 Tuesday April 21st.
Also check out this awesome article about Margaret Cho by the NY Times Magazine where she is kind enough to profile the art deco satined glass window designs I did for her mansion of the Meat Cake Comic book characters--------------->click here to read
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I'm based in Portland Oregon, so if you are too, that's ideal, but nearby is do-able too.
If you have a friend who you think can do some of these things, like the tech but not the crafts or vice versa please tell them as well because these catigories can be split up among different people.
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Hey! Guess what!? Now that I have my magic necklace made from a golden and opalescent prehistoric shark tooth given to me from my mermaid witch blood sister Mara Haseltine who is the queen of all the mermaids I got a new book deal! Fantagraphics books will be releasing a new compilation of Meat Cake, I found out yesterday because of the necklace (which I got yesterday). Make sure and see The Watchmen. BIG SMILE and a wink ;)
also, here's the info for the upcoming show again I'll be playing Sea Shanties with my brother Matt Stanger and Gasoline graphic novel will be available ... see you there! Love Dame Darcy
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SOUND/RECORDING ENGINEER
I need someone who is familiar with recording equipment and sound to help me set up a recording studio in my basement. I am in a dark wave/sea shanty band called DEATH BY DOLL and we have acoustic instruments, I play banjo, we also use multi-layered trackings and synths, me and my bandmates have recently moved here from Manhattan/Los Angeles respectively and we need help for setting up a recording studio. If this works out I'll let you use the studio as well! I'm on a tight budget and need to know the best ways to do: power supply, sound proofing, etc.
I AM A PRO ARTIST AND MUSICIAN, THE SKILLS I CAN OFFER ARE MY ORIGINAL IE DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS THAT I SELL FOR HUNDREDS TO THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS INTERNATIONALLY THAT COME FROM MY COMIC BOOK SERIES ON FANTAGRAPHICS AND OTHER GRAPHIC NOVELS THAT ARE IN PUBLICATION, HOWEVER I CAN ALSO DO PAINTINGS IN YOUR HOUSE IE DESIGNS ON YOUR WALLS TO LIVEN UP CHILDREN'S BEDROOMS, ETC. PREVIOUS EXAMPLES ARE ON MY SITE IN THE INTERIOR DESIGN SECTION, CELEBRITY CLIENTS INCLUDE MARGARETE CHOW AND COURTNEY LOVE. I AM A NOTED PSYCHIC ADVISOR. I CAN GIVE YOU ADVICE THROUGH PALM READINGS, TAROT, DIVINATION, SPELL REQUESTS AND SPELL CONSULTATION.
SKILLS: publishing, art, music, film making, animation, crafts, sewing, horticulture, magic, tarot reading, teaching, events planning, doll crafting, child and elderly care, palm reading, psychic consultation.
We also will have a community garden and can share produce!
MASSAGE THERAPIST/ACUPUNCTURE
Ditto....
EVENTS COORDINATOR
Last year in NYC, I did a Cabaret at the Slipper Room called Naughty Nautical Night (NNN) We are beginning to coordinate NNN PDX @ the FEZ in downtown PDX as well as a series of daytime weekend tea parties. Definitely NNN and maybe the tea parties I could possibly pay, but it depends on self motivation and how many people show up at the events. The NNN involves; an MC, a DJ, Nautical-themed dancing girls and costumes, musical comedy, variety acts, burlesque, circus...stage hands, PR (real and virtual promotions) etc.
Job Description: deciding on themes, setting up dates for shows (bookings), talent coordination ie calling cast and crew, PR, providing PR to crew and cast to help ie delegating promotion. Again, there can be $ in this for you, it depends how well you do this job. For tea parties, same as above, but way less hectic.
CARPENTER
I have a 1902 craftsman house I live in, a door in the house won't shut, I need it fixed so the door can latch. That is my practical request, also I need help building bookshelves. My whimsical request is this...I have a crawl space that I want to put musical equipment in, but I want it to double function as a doll house for my doll, Isabelle. If you can do the door, but not the doll house, that's ok, but the door is a necessity and emergency right now. Thank You!
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All photos by Erin Lingle , thanks Erin!
Hey! The show at The Civilian art projects went smashingly well, Carol's work was beautiful and I loved all the DC characters that showed up.We had a super fun party at her restaurant afterwards, and a lot of my pieces sold. I loved DC and I stared at my Obama inauguration metrocard for the longest time, because it gives me hope and made me so happy to visit a giant pentagram with the black magic of ages being cleansed by the new awesome way that is coming for us all. The beautiful intricate doll castles and roman colosseum, and all the erodite population particularly how the guys there dress like business vampires and are from everywhere. DC has its secrets, everyone can tell, but Portland has it's faeiry secrets, hiding in little hollows and coves just on the other side of the mundane everyday world.
The fertile overabundance greenery taking over all other life forms and the constant rich smell of wet, dark, earth, it makes me feel like I'm left out of the greatest party ever and I really want to go. I will miss the fancy events in DC, here in Portland, and who will go to the faeiry inauguration with me?
The show is still up in DC if anyone nearby wants to check it out. I am honored to have been invited by Carol and Jayme , thanks ladies!
Civilian Art Projects
406 7th Street NW, Third Floor
Washington, DC 20004
202-347-0022
GASOLINE PRINTS AND STATIONARY FOR GIFTS! DD VINTAGE & COUTRE & ART!
* Art/Fashion Auction*
GASOLINE PRINTS COLOR AND BLACK AND WHITE. Also, FAIRY STATIONARY SETS!
As seen only here only on Dame Darcy.com hand signed prints done by Fiona on a 100 year old letterpress, fine quality paper
BATS Black and white prints for $20
MERMAID color $40
FAEIRY stationary sets are $15.
...and here is your info for etsy.com:
USERNAME: damedarcy99
Or: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6650631
Nico at Obscure Gallery is selling the LA fine art from the Gasoline book release, the shows went well and this one of a kind fine art is going fast. You can see the art and contact him at this link, again, a good idea for christmas and the art lover in your life. clairobscurgallery.com
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CIVILIAN ART PROJECTS is pleased to begin the New Year with two spirited solo exhibitions: Carole Wagner
Greenwood’s "Ghosts and Circumstance" and Dame Darcy’s "Gasoline.” The exhibitions will open to the
public January 9, 2009 and will be on view until February 7, 2009. Exhibition hours are Wednesday through
Saturday from 12 to 6 p.m. There will be an opening reception for the artists on Friday, January 9, 2009 from
7pm to 10pm with a free music performance at 9pm.
Civilian Art Projects
406 7th Street NW, Third Floor
Washington, DC 20004
202-347-0022
GASOLINE PRINTS AND STATIONARY FOR GIFTS! DD VINTAGE & COUTRE & ART!
* Art/Fashion Auction*
GASOLINE PRINTS COLOR AND BLACK AND WHITE. Also, FAIRY STATIONARY SETS!
As seen only here only on Dame Darcy.com hand signed prints done by Fiona on a 100 year old letterpress, fine quality paper
BATS Black and white prints for $20
MERMAID color $40
FAEIRY stationary sets are $15.
...and here is your info for etsy.com:
USERNAME: damedarcy99
Or: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6650631
Nico at Obscure Gallery is selling the LA fine art from the Gasoline book release, the shows went well and this one of a kind fine art is going fast. You can see the art and contact him at this link, again, a good idea for christmas and the art lover in your life. clairobscurgallery.com
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* Art/Fashion Auction*
GASOLINE PRINTS COLOR AND BLACK AND WHITE. Also, FAIRY STATIONARY SETS!
As seen only here only on DameDarcy.com hand signed prints done by Fiona on a 100 year old letterpress, fine quality paper
BATS Black and white prints for $30
MERMAID color $50
FAEIRY stationary sets are $20.
To order send the above payment to PayPal here's my acct: damedarcy1@msn.com and well rush deliver it for x mas.
(I would have started this sooner but I was moving, sorry everyone) Thanks Fiona! She does her own hand bound and printed books as well, and is
available to do high quality printing. Here's her info, she rocks: fiona@lettresauvage.com ...Thats LettreSauvage.com ...Tres classy!
We will continue selling these prints on Etsy and E bay after christmas and new deluxe items but order now for the first and original round.
These are limited edition!
Also...I am selling my original one of a kind coutre and vintage 100 yr old dresses on line! Dress to impress, worn only by yours truly, and maybe a silent film star who's memory lives on. ALSO! I'M NOT KIDDING THE VELVET DRESS IS HAUNTED! Check them out at:
E bay and Etsy Dame Darcy ,Here is the link for eBay:
http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/damedarcy99_W0QQ_dmdZ1QQ_ipgZ50QQ_sopZ1
...and here is your info for etsy.com:
USERNAME: damedarcy99
Nico at Obscure Gallery is selling the LA fine art from the Gasoline book release, the shows went well and this one of a kind fine art is going fast. You can see the art and contact him at this link, again, a good idea for christmas and the art lover in your life.
*Current Events*
Dame Darcy Booksigning for Gasoline Graphic novel.
(Also, Frightful Fairytales, Meat Cake and Tokyo release Dollerium)
6:00-on December 18th Thursday
Charles Boucher
CounterMedia
927 SW Oak St
Portland OR 97205
USA
Ph 503-226-8141
E-mail countermediabookstore@yahoo.com
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave.
Portland Oregon - $7
9:00 on Dec 18th
Perform songs of whimsy to rock your socks off!
Gasoline Graphic novels will also be signed and sold
*Current Affairs*
Dame Darcy.Com TECH HERO WANTED do you believe in Faeries?
I sent this out to Tech companies based in Portland (but not necessary). It sounds a little odd because I sent it to companies who are not usually familiar with artists or DD.com. Thus the original round of applicants were robots, square, and they sucked. I know you, dear DD.com friend and reader is not like this, so please forgive the undertones. But I also hope my dear faery friends (you!) know of some one to help in this crucial mattter. Then we can all have fun in the community center! La La La!v
*ART/Fashion Auction
http://stores.ebay.com/Dame-Darcys-Store
*Current Events:
The Sloan Fine Art Show was super fun and amazing. Thank you to everyone that came and to Alix and Tiffanie, it you made my art dreams come true!
*Hand Book For Hot Witches
WHAT HAS BEEN REVEALED
The truth is the blood and guts of ones soul that comes oozing out
when one has been smashed alive by God like a bug.
I found my own Hand Book For Hot Witches two days ago.
It’s called Confessions of a Pagan Nun, by Kate Horseley. I want to ask the publishers
if I can make it into a graphic novel because it rocks so hard and would be a wonderful
teaching tool for so many.
God gave it to me because I was in agonizing pain
and I asked for my life to unfold every moment and reveal the path to peace.
I was walking in the cold wind crying. I saw a pile of books and in a moment drew
my hand to the first one I picked. I practice bibliomancy, by asking the universe questions
and flipping through a book to land on the word or phrase in the book to answer the question.
This is like bibliomancy but with a whole book that every word of every page answers every question I can think of.
I have asked God for this before and I can practice Living every moment in the present because I learned how through Buddhism.
When in this practice, I notice the gifts all around me and magnetize exactly what I need and request.
I also keep my mind and options open to receive new gifts and lessons.
This book had been translated from a manuscript written first hand by Gwynneve,
a witch in the dark ages around 450 AD.The time when Pagans were beginning to be slaughtered by Christians.
Reading her writings is like having her sitting across from me as a friend,
telling me everything as if we were having a conversation.
I want to reach back in time to the 1500’s and give her a hug to tell her it’s ok.
Her words made it to the future and I will do everything I can to put it into practice.
This manuscript was revealed to me because we are now in another dark age,
where we can learn valuable lessons from her on how to go back to Paganism now that the patriarchy,
and industrialization has run its course.
The age of Pisces is coming to a close and the age of Aquarius is here,
this is what the Myans are talking about when they refer to 2012 being the end of time.
My best friends in New York are Jewish and Tibetan; both are races that know gentricide and injustice.
I know why I so deeply empathize and obsess on justice for these crimes against nature and family
because I now so clearly know my race has been brutalized for centuries.
Although I am white, I am not whitey.
In fact I am the cracker attacker!
I am the race of the Fae, or the “Bean Sidhe” as the book told me.
I can feel the pain of every forest burning, of every animal that goes extinct or is tortured in a factory farm,
every political prisoner, the fish choking in the ocean.
I feel them because I AM them, they are my race.
When I wrote my graphic novel Gasoline it came from this, but now I know I have to create
the utopian renaissance and rebirth out of the industrial dark ages we are now in.
I wrote about it in a book, but it has to manifest here in life first in the weird virtual
world of telecommunications and then in reality.
There is a place where particles of matter and waves are the same.
There are no words for this place, but it is where a Druid can breathe onto a stone and it turns to dust.
It is time to dwell and go to this place, to never forget where it is.
I have to go to Portland Oregon because of the strange combination of Technology
and the spirits of trees and how they both can help me begin a new society.
I have lived in a city with a population no less than 8 million because of the dreams and promises
that a metropolis has to offer. New Yorkers have to spend ninety percent of their incomes on apartments
they still think are too small, and they have the lowest breakup rates in the country because
there is no other place for the broken up with to move.
But I have now found that the limitations and dreams I accepted when I was younger
have either been realized or have been revealed to be delusional.
They have metamorphosised into a narrow and secret passage leading to an expanse of space
and liberation I had not realized existed. I now prefer peaceful surrender to noble battle,
for in peace is an eternal freedom one never has in war, though sometimes fighting is necessary for external freedom.
My disappointment is not bitter, because I once was with a companion who did not turn his back on truth.
In the book the Faeiry lady Gwynneve looses her witch mother to death by medieval worms.
Her mother was unrepentant and howled at the moon, carefully picking herbs from the forest
and had hair like a fine long black cloak over her tattered real cloak.
Her soul mate Witch Husband was slaughtered by Christians.
Although I have lost my witch husband soul mate, I find solace in knowing it at least has not been to death.
On our wedding day he promised to weave me a crown from his raven black hair to wear over my yellow faeiry hair.
He promised to raise our adopted daughters to be witches in paradise and never know the suffering of this patriarchy,
and to care for me even if I lose my mind. He said I’d get even more beautiful when I am old.
He recognized me from Atlantis where we used to live, and showed me his Druid tricks,
which he specialized in through education, ancient thought and technology.
He promised to help me use all this to make the movie for my book Gasoline if all the other promises of others failed.
I mourn over the loss of these promises now gone and the hope that burned bright with them.
I am not crying because I am being negative, as I have been accused, nor am I crying because I am being weak.
Being a robot devoid of Passion and able to turn off his emotions does not make a man stronger.
It takes more strength to feel.
But I now know there are two reasons I have no home and have been a wanderer my entire life.
I have to create my home, which I know how to do now, thanks to the brutal heartbreak and enlightenment
that has befallen me upon the release of my magnum opus and the loss of my soul mate at once,
and also because I am a Druid, who have to wander to learn and pass on their teachings.
A teaching and quote from Gwynneve for all the hot witches, from one Druid to another:
“And here I say that a woman can ally herself with men’s power as long as she has her youth to offer.
But when a woman looses her youth, she will regret playing that game.
And she will wish she had instead learned the art of druid or warrior to make those less wise respect her capacity for affection."
The definition of chivalry is for men to serve and protect women. It is an ideal and I believe is not entirely dead.
But when all else fails, women do not need to rely on men for protection.
And by the way, the only reason women ever need protection is usually from other men.
I am facing the patriarchy again now without my witch husband, I am weary of the inane games it forces me to play,
but I am thankful that though I no longer have my true love, I do have my friends and family so I am not alone.
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Greetings beloved reader and friend,
Now is the time I have prepared for over a decade, the exhibit for Gasoline original illustrations and book signing
at the Sloan Fine Art gallery in NYC, my adopted home since 1992.
It would be an honor to see you there.
Nov. 19th - Dec. 20th 2008
Sloan Fine Art
Opening reception 7:00-9:00 pm
Gasoline art exhibition of original
illustrations from graphic novel and Gasoline painting series by Dame Darcy
(Books will also be signed)
128 Rivington st.
NYC 10002
(212)477-1140
Also, here's where illustrations from other works are available, as well as some new items:
http://stores.ebay.com/Dame-Darcys-Store
Were switching things up though, so get it while it's hot :)
Also, Portlandites...Is that what you guys are called?
I found my first assistant, (thank Goddess) but I seriously need to get in touch with some one who understands
what were doing here with the DameDarcy.com site.
Ok, to be specific...
ANIMATOR: I am currently designing a spot for the History channel about the great depression for under a minute.
It has a budget and I can offer you money. However you have to contact me for specifics.
Have to start in Portland in December and get the intital design finished by the end of December.
The deadline for this project is the end of Jan. 09.
Here's the link for Golden Shoes, an animation that has the look and feel of what the client wants.
After working on this project we need to design logos and animated titles for the half and hour segments that
I'm designing for the movies, music videos, etc. to put on DameDarcy.com to podcast, stream, and download.
This can be paying once set up, ( you don't have to set it up, we have people for that).
Also, we can have fun times making collaborative animations if you want :)
If you or a friend fit this description please contact me at: damedarcy@damedarcy.com
with ANIMATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE in the subject line.
When you contact me please include your number and any links to your reel etc.
CINEMATOGRAPHER/EDITOR
Needed to document rock shows/events and to edit video blogs for DameDarcy.com and 30 minute movies, music videos etc.
Final cut pro edits to be podcast, streamed, and downloaded off the site. You need to be able to make final edit into separate folders in the hard drive in ipod format.
480 X 320 H264 code 1.5 megabites per sec. with sound compressed header for internet streaming.
Which we will do to all the video blogs and 30 minute movies to upload to site.
Specifics to be revealed when you contact me, but basically we get a lot of hits on DameDarcy.com and through this and other methods we are turning them into money which you will be part of.
If you or a friend fit this description please contact me at damedarcy@damedarcy.com
with CINEMATOGRAPHER/EDITOR in the subject line. Please include your phone number and any links to your reel etc.
Love and cinemagic to you :)
Dame Darcy
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Dame Darcy with Skippy Spiral of Death By Doll and Starla<3
Hey Everyone! So the Gasoline events on the west coast were awesome! We documented them and will soon have the site set up to do video blogs so you can see them firsthand :) Here's the current NY events:
Nov. 14th , 15th, & 16th
BIG APPLE COMIC-CON
Dame Darcy Gasoline Book Signing
Lecture &presentation
Nov. 19th - Dec. 20th 2008
SLOAN FINE ART
Opening reception 7:00-9:00 pm
Gasoline art exhibition of original
illustrations from graphic novel and Gasoline painting series by Dame Darcy
(Books will also be signed)
128 Rivington st.
NYC 10002
(212)477-1140
So, the Portland events are still yet to be announced, but what I do know is that I'M MOVING TO PORTLAND OREGON!
I am moving to Portland because I keep hearing it's witchy, environmental, liberal, cartoonist friendly, low overhead and higer standard of living, and my family lives there. I am really nervous and kind of scared because I never lived there before and I don't really know what to expect.
This move was not really planned for, but due to circumstances beyond my control is necessary.
I will still be going to NY and LA on a regular basis to produce my Gasoline Feature Film that is currently in the works, because the book is out now. BTW, it's half feral (D.I.Y) so if any one has any leads , ideas, or suggestions pertaining to film production please contact me here at damedarcy@damedarcy.com.
BTW, the original illustrations from Gasoline are available now... just contact the Sloan Fine Art Gallery listed below for negotiable prices. It's very exciting!
Also, because of my move I am looking for an assistant in Portland OR.
I know I'm always looking for assistants, a dyslexic Dame can't have too many, that's what they say...
Here's what were doing:
Some one with basic computer know how, I do a lot of scanning and some cataloging, also help with events promo,
doll crafting, and an assortment of other things.
Just contact me at damedarcy@damedarcy.com with : PORTLAND ASSISTANT in the subject line. Thanks :)
Also, a new documentarian/ cinematographer for the Portland events, and editing/compressing and uploading the video blog and various other
movies, shows and events. I love to work with you and your creative input too :)
Contact me with : PORTLAND CINEMATOGRAPHER in the subject line
Open to helping with school credits and/or job referrals and development/addition to your reel/resume.
Contact me at damedarcy@damedarcy.com
Plans for the upcoming year include making damedarcy.com into a funhouse!
Were going to have the most amazing community center know to man and fairy kind!
Games, radio, downloadable movies, live chat and link yourself to the EZ Bake Coven to profile your own amazing art.
Doll Game and Gothic Lolita Scrap Book! And all the shows from Naughty Naughtical Nite this year!
Plus much more...
Thanks and much love
Dame Darcy
Dame Darcy with Matt Groening at the San Francisco Alternative Press Expo
Dame Darcy reading Gasoline at the Royal T Maid Cafe
To see more Gasoline book signing/event photos, click here!
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To order the Gasoline Graphic novel or to see updates and future events for Gasoline please visit: www.damedarcy.com/gasoline.
Next I'm going to San Francisco with Dame Darcy to do more Gasoline book signings at the Fantagraphics Table showcasing the newest Meat Cake Comix.
Check it out Bay Area <3 Dame Darcy always say's she left her heart in San Francisco :)
Here's the San Francisco events plus an important message from DD's fine art representative the Sloan Fine Art gallery in NYC where original Gasoline illustrations will soon be on display at the opening on November Weds the 19th.
Doll love from your friend
<3 Isabelle <3
November 1st 4:00- 5:00
November 2nd 2:00- 4:00
ALTERNATIVE PRESS EXPO
San Francisco, CA
Gasoline Graphic Novel Featured
Book signing by DD as well as MeatCake #17
Fantagraphics Booth
The Concourse
620 7th Street
San Francisco, CA
Sunday Nov. 2nd 7-11 pm
ISOTOPE PARTY
326 Fell St.
San Fransisco, CA 94102
Gothic banjo pickin' jamboree!
Dame Darcy and friends at 9:00
Gasoline book signed by DD
ART EVENTS/AUCTIONS
In celebration of the release of "Gasoline," and the upcoming exhibition of original artwork from "Gasoline," Sloan Fine Art is making two incredible offers to loyal Dame Darcy fans.
Personalized Copies:
Order your copy of "Gasoline" through Sloan Fine Art between now and November 18th and Dame Darcy will personalize it with a drawing and her autograph at no additional charge. Shipping is also available. So wherever you are, don't miss this chance to get your own special copy of "Gasoline" personalized just for you by Dame Darcy. Contact Tiffanie at tiffanie@sloanfineart.com or 212.477.1140 to place your order.
Original Artwork:
Also between now and November 18th, offers are being considered to purchase ALL of the original artwork from "Gasoline." The entire set of drawings includes over 100 color and black and white illustrations. Any reasonable offer will be entertained. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to own the entire book as a collector's item or select your favorite pieces for yourself and then sell or give away illustrations as gifts. Contact Alix at alix@sloanfineart.com or 212.477.1140 to make your offer.
Alix Sloan
Sloan Fine Art
128 Rivington Street
(corner of Norfolk)
New York, NY 10002
212.477.1140
sloanfineart.com
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Hey! Gasoline Graphic novel release is in full swing for Los Angeles, check out our LA based events and it will truly be a delight to see you there!Also, for this weeks art auction, all new dolls, illos and much much more, get it while its hot :)
http://stores.ebay.com/Dame-Darcys-Store
OK, so I'll let you in on a little secret, we are redesigning the damedarcy.com site to be a whole new multimedia carnival/freakshow of fun and excitement. We are going to do video blogs, games , a radio station, tarot reading virtually and all kinds of new and exciting things.
I have a programmer and a web designer and video editor to help me with this. However I'm looking for someone who is involved in the video game industry from programmers to designers, we are able and willing to give you a percentage of the game. Please contact me at damedarcy@damedarcy.com
with DOLL GAME in subject line.
Also needed is an additional cinematographer who would like to shoot and edit various fun and exciting video projects we are in the process of making. I can and would love to help you with school credits if you are going to school for film.
Please contact me at damedarcy@damedarcy.com with VIDEO! LETS DO THIS THING!
In subject line.
Also, I am looking for additional assistants in NYC. Basically for photoshop, other light computer tasks, and being involved in the shows and promotion, as well as doll crafting and other sewing and crafting etc. If you can do all or any of the above we belong together!
Please contact damedarcy@damedarcy.com with ASSISTANCE in subject line.
We currently live in China Town Manhattan, but our lame landlord is saying he wants to sell our building (typical NY story) so we are looking to move to an apartment for under $1500. in the lower east side preferred but we are flexable. “We” meaning my boyfriend, my doll Isabelle, and I. Not my multiple personality or “the royal we” or whatever you may think.
Any ideas? Please contact me at damedarcy@damedarcy.com with
NYC APARTMENT in subject line.
OK, I'm in LA until Halloween to promote my new Graphic novel, here is the list of upcoming events! I will kiss you like a fruit bat when you arrive! (Or stay at a safe and friendly distance depending on your preference)
Love
Dame Darcy
Oct. 24th Friday 6:00-9:00pm
GASOLINE SIGNING & READING BY DAME DARCY
WACKO
4633 Hollywood Bl.
Los Angeles, California 90027
Oct. Saturday 25th A BIG DAY!
Bert Green Gallery
BOOK SIGNING
2:00-4:00 pm
Thanks to Metropolis Books
ART RECEPTION & CLOSING
4:00-6:00 pm
102 W. 5th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Oct. Saturday 25th 9:00-eternally
GASOLINE BOOK RELEASE PARTY & SHOW
Bar Sinister
1652 N. Cherokee Avenue
Hollywood, California 90028
Death By Doll
Gitane Demone (of Christan Death)
AAAA Bailbonds
Apocalypto/Gothic Lolita Themed Celebration
Book signing, DJ, and giveaway
Gasoline to best costume!
Oct. 26th Sunday
ROYAL-T MAID CAFE
2:00-5:00 Gothic Lolita Tea Party
for Gasoline Graphic Novel
Dame Darcy signing / reading
8910 Washington Blvd.
Culver City CA 90232
Please RSVP: rsvp_lolita@royal-t.org
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GASOLINE BOOK RELEASE EVENTS IN LOS ANGELES!
Hi Everyone! This Halloween is like my birthday, wedding, graduation and new born child all in one!
Yes, after 6 years of writing and illustration, Gasoline graphic novel is finally out and we have many festivities to celebrate!
If you are in the LA area, please attend :) also go to www.damedarcy.com/gasoline for
for more details on the book release and other events.
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ART/ Fashion Auction:
http://stores.ebay.com/Dame-Darcys-Store
Hey, new witch and faeiry dolls for the Halloween season, happy Samhain and Witches New Year everyone! It's the pagan Blowout!
*Also, illustrations one of a kind and carefully hand drawn by yours truely, you may remember them from past issues of Meat Cake Comix now they can be your's to frame and snuggle with at night.
*As well as new lavender sashet sleeping masks hand sewn and silkscreened with Meat Cake Characters, Scampi the Selfish Shellfish,
Strega Pez, Wax Wolf and the Siamese Twins, Hindrance and Perfidia.
*White Witch
She used to be a black witch but she went through the hard core darkness until she saw the light, so now that's why she's white.
But don't cross her because once you go black, you really never go back (same for cats)
*Scarves Hand knit with applaque of Silkscreened Meat Cake Characters because I am your granny and I love you!
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GASOLINE ART EXHIBIT
Bert Green Gallery
7:00-9:00 pm
Fine art original illustrations on exhibit from Gasoline Graphic Novel Dame Darcy Gasoline Painting Series & booksigning
102 W. 5th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Sunday Oct. 12th 9:30-11:00
The Other Venice Film Festival
Dame Darcy shows Gasoline Animation and Golden Shoes animation
Electric Lodge
1416 Electric Ave
Venice CA 90291
Oct. 18th 2pm
Dame Darcy signs DVD/CD & Gasoline
Dark Delicacies
4213 W. Burbank Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91505 U.S.A.a
We are located in Burbank near the corner of Burbank Blvd. and Pass Ave. (Look for Frankenstein on the sidewalk!)
'THE DEVIL'S MUSE'
Other star studded guests: Ramzi Abed, Lizzy Strain, Gidget Gein, Lenora Claire, Sarah Scott, and Amie Nicole!
Oct. 24th Friday 6:00-9:00pm
GASOLINE SIGNING & READING BY DAME DARCY
WACKO
4633 Hollywood Bl.
Los Angeles, California 90027
Oct. Saturday 25th A BIG DAY!
Bert Green Gallery
BOOK SIGNING
2:00-4:00 pm
Thanks to Metropolis Books
ART RECEPTION & CLOSING
4:00-6:00 pm
102 W. 5th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Oct. Saturday 25th 9:00-eternally
GASOLINE BOOK RELEASE PARTY & SHOW
Bar Sinister
1652 N. Cherokee Avenue
Hollywood, California 90028
Death By Doll
Gitane Demone (of Christan Death)
Apocalypto/Gothic Lolita Themed Celebration
Book signing, DJ, and giveaway
Gasoline to best costume!
Oct. 26th Sunday
ROYAL-T MAID CAFE
2:00-5:00 Gothic Lolita Tea Party
for Gasoline Graphic Novel
Dame Darcy signing / reading
8910 Washington Blvd.
Culver City CA 90232
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Ahoy Mates!
Haunted High Seas Cabaret at 9 pm at The Slipper Room, 167 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002 (Naughty Nautical Night) 5 dolla!
Sea you there me lovelies!
Dame Darcy
Art/Fashion Auction
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Hey all you Dolls and gents, check out the latest Dame Darcy original illustrations fancy fashion and fine art dolls on the eBay auction block this week.<3
I am doing the Dirty Czarina's collection. I would say get them while they're hot, but these dolls are hot $4-eva$ !!!!!!!
All one of a kind and hand crafted, hand painted faces, posable limbs hand sewn coutre dresses 5 in. tall to fit with all standard doll house furniture.
Dirty Czarina Queen Hyacinth Royal Ruler of the Throne of Dollerium esquire the I
(Queen Hyacinth)
All the royal ladies follow her fashion, as you can see this season it's silver silk with creme lace and opera length silver gloves.
She is ageless and priceless---well, almost priceless.
Dirty Czarina Countessa Narcissa Sucessor to the Throne of Dollerium of Kiss-a-lot Bite Town II
(Countessa Narcissa)
"Cissa" (as they call her around the palace) loves to bite the Queen's style. Though she does it like no other! Did they get a two for one stylist?
No, Cissa's gown is much different, don't get in too much of a snit, Queen. Her ravishing hair makes up for what she lacks in social graces.
Dirty Czarina Dutchess Drucilla Fae Maven Strega Bruha Ha Ha of Otherworld III
(Dutchess Drucilla)
Is she a foundling? Or is she really of the same royal blood as the Queen? This is a mystery that will never be revealed!
Are those faeiry markings on her face or is it earth from the forest? Her Royal corsetry and silver silk may be a deceptive guise for the elvin magic within.
Dirty Czarina Princess Penelope Tea Cup Catastrophy Descendant of Dutchess Drucilla IV
(Princess Penelope)
Such a proper and mannered child! Perfect in every way. Drucilla's lovley daughter. Part fairy but who is the mystery father? Another Fairy?
A sprite? Elf? Human? Was it immaculate conception or.......Demon !?
Dirty Czarina Baby Fiddle Dee Dee V
(Baby Dee)
Naughty Naughty baby! Those big blue eyes don't fool us, we know you know what you're doing!
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Illustrations of all kinds from Dame Darcy the Multimedia Chanteuse Maven of the new Mellenium
http://stores.ebay.com/Dame-Darcys-Store
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Other Venice Film Festival
Also, guess who got into the Other Venice Film Festival! I will be screening - Golden Shoes, and Gasoline during the Animation series on Sunday Oct 12. See PDF flier for more details.
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Current Events
Gasoline the Graphic Novel is being released now! I'm doing promotional events in LA and in San Francisco and the month of October to celebrate!
to see the events booked so far and all about Gasoline go to the Gasoline website: ----->www.damedarcy.com/gasoline. Pre-order your book today!
Because I'll be doing art exhibits at the Bert Green Gallery
Bert Green Fine Art
102 West 5th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
213-842-8574
http://www.bgfa.usa Opening 10/9/08 6-9pm
showing the original illustratios for Gasoline and Paintings in Oct and also a solo show of other Gasoline illo's (there are over 100 total) black and white and color with paintings at the Sloan Fine Art Gallery in NYC.Alix Sloan
> Sloan Fine Art
> 128 Rivington Street
> (corner of Norfolk)
> New York, NY 10002
> 212.477.1140
> sloanfineart.com opening: Weds 11/19/08 7-9pm
> I will not be working in my studio so it's available for sublet in the month of October-Dec. and possibly on (but share w/ me Janurary on and be super inexpensive!) We need some one soon so act fast because October is upon us with lightening speed! Here's the add we posted, kinda boring, but on Craigs list I'm in cognito, to keep out the weirdo's (little do the weirdos know they are IN HERE allready! Ha Ha.)
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$500, SUBLET Artists Studio
Amazing art studio for share with really nice, fun, creative, female artist! Lots of light, your own individual space and beautiful big easel and worktables to use. Ideally looking for another painter but other creatives are welcome.
Studio space is located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY by the Graham L stop. We are looking for someone to sublet Oct. Nov. and Dec. We won't be using the space much because we will have gallery shows running through these months, so you'd have the place to yourself most of the time. We are open to continuing to share the studio when we return. You can keep working there next year too upon discussion.
Walking distance to L train. Graham Stop. Artist's Work Space Only.
Showing now! $500. super affordable, all utilities included. Beautiful large Space.
Again this is an Artists workspace only, No Living, Thanks!
Contact Dame Darcy -------->damedarcy@damedarcy.com
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***GASOLINE SYNOPSIS*** Through the destruction of contemporary society emerges a world of extremes. Nihilism vs. socialism is the name of the game in a new time where magic replaces technology. From the rubble and chaos emerge few survivors. Among them, the Armbusters, (a whimsical family of orphaned witches) quickly establish a utopian community. They uphold their position of power by holding elaborate rock opera voodoo rituals revolving around the maintenance of their car, the only working automobile remaining after the great disaster. To do this, they must venture outside their walls of protection in search of gasoline, now more precious than gold. Their harrowing odyssey through a ruined but aesthetically mesmerizing landscape where nature has reclaimed everything, leads the Armbusters to the many conflicts within themselves, and pits them against the conniving nihilists that now lurk in the abandoned places of decaying urban sprawl. The new dark age is upon them. Their post-apocalyptic tale is one of hope, and through their trials, they learn to adopt a new way of functioning and are forced to change inorder to survive the hazardous and barren wasteland they now inhabit. Through their unique experience, they find many ways to accomplish the same objective, and are exposed to all of the choices and alternatives existing those they were previously blind to while caught up in a life of comparative luxury. Gasoline is a supremely artistic and entrancingly bizarre story with contemporary relevance and an ecological message. It provokes intellectual and creative questions, examines human fallibility, and shows us how we can live today, this moment, in harmony with the natural world. It is a perilous and visually stunning tale of danger and suspense, of heartbreak and redemption, of versatility, compassion, strength, and above all, the perseverance of magic and love.
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Love Letter/Current Affairs
I love Doug Stanhope! Long Live the Sarah J Palin Abortion Fund
Doug Stanhope is one of the smartest men around.
http://www.savingbristol.com Here's what he has to say, and he's the head of the of theSarah J Palin Abortion Fund Thanks for being a feminist Doug! And thanks Satanica for the link! "Never in history has a woman been under more pressure to keep an unwanted pregnancy than Bristol Palin. She is the teenage daughter of Alaska Governor & Vice-Presidential hopeful Sarah Palin - a conservative, Creationist Christian power-vampire and pro-life huckster who has put Bristol and her un-welcomed fetus at the center of a politico-religious crusade to stop her exercising her constitutional right to terminate the pregnancy. Rather than sit back and impotently bemoan Bristol's tragic, lonely circumstance, it is time for us - the silent majority - to unite behind this poor, imprisoned woman and save her from both a tyrannical household as well as the horrible nightmare of a forced childbirth. These are not empty words. I, Doug Stanhope, am offering you, Bristol Palin, the sum of 25,000 dollars so that you can abort your child andmove out of that draconian home. I have also set up a PayPal link so that others around the world can help increase this amount to ease theburden of starting out on your own at such an early age. I was once in a similar situation where I'd accidentally impregnated a girl and she had to make that same fateful decision that now faces you. It was easy for her - she didn't have a fascist, oligarch parent, the entire Republican Party or the sneering eyes of the Christian Right to contend with, much less a daft, puppet boyfriend who's just waiting forthe cameras to stop rolling so he can bolt like a gazelle. We made the right choice and rather than end up bitter rivals in court battles over custody or support, we are great friends who high-five over our decision and have all the free time and disposable income that young mothers never know. I now pay it forward and offer some of that money to you. You don't need to ruin your future in order to support the megalomaniacal self-promotion of a mother whose every action is rooted in a demonic ego and archaic superstition. Don't become victim of the same pressure that had your brother "volunteering" for duty in Iraq. Please consider my offer as time is of the essence. You don't want this child, the father certainly doesn't want this child and the world doesn't need another wailing mouth to feed. I empathize with the amount of attention, pressure and possibly out-right threats you are getting to give birth against your will and Iunderstand that at your age, you may go through with it no matter howmuch you don't want to. Either way, you have inspired me to try to make a difference. Even if you cannot take my offer, I will still use my money or money donated through this page to pay for at least one abortion for a disadvantaged teenage girl each year for the rest of my life in the name of your mother. And in my will, I shall have a good portion of myestate turned into the Sarah J Palin Abortion Fund that will help girls from all walks of life from destroying their lives and our natural resources by having children. You are not alone, Bristol. There are many of us out here who care. Please show Bristol you care by either donating or signing the guestbook to let her know that there is true love for her outside of her current surroundings.
UPDATE: So as to negate any rumor-mongering that I seek to profit from this, I have changed the link so that any donations will go directly to www.lilithfund.org, a group that assists woman who need assistance paying for abortions. And I'll raise my own offer to Bristol to $50,000 to keep up with the crashing US dollar."
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Hand Book For Hot Witches
Hey Everyone! Guess What? I did so many Hand Book Blogs and comics that I have a whole book pitch that I'm pitching with my agent now. If you have any suggestions of publishing companies to approach or connections please contact me and I'll have m people talk to their people! Thanks for supporting the sisters! Love always and truely, Dame Darcy
Hand Book For Hot Witches (A Field Guide For the Deflowered) Written and Illustrated By Dame Darcy Contact: damedarcy@damedarcy.com Combine graphic novel with a “how to” guide, add a dash of cook book and a fairy sprinkle of witch spell, wrap it all up with women's herstory and you have the Hand Book For Hot Witches. This is a girl's guide to the apocalypse. This book addresses the unique needs women have, and covers heavy issues like sustainable living once water, heat, and food have become scarce. It harkens back to an ancient time when women lead as the herbalist healers, nurturers and disciplinarians of the community. But also looks to the future and gives advice on how to handle crisis in a time of global extremes and addresses mood fluctuations and how to handle inner turmoil. Hand Book For Hot Witches addresses our need for self defense. It celebrates and acknowledges our inherant power of creativity, intuitiveness, and every females role as a conduit to the spirit realm. This guide book is for girl scouts grown up and facing the realities of surviving in the jungle of today's political society with complex ecological implications. And gives them simple answers through philosophy, skill, crafts and song to deal with these issues one step at a time through comics, fully illustrated step by step how to's, in depth text with spot illustrations and resource guide. Most of women's history is blotted out from the pages of society. Hand Book For Hot Witches recognizes and profiles “witches” who stood out of the crowd, changed the world and fought for not just the rights of women but for humanity and for justice. This book will help their legacy live on. There are many “how to” books, and post petroleum guides of how to live sustainably. The Hand Book For Hot Witches stands out from the rest because it has a unique view that addresses the needs of women. Although it brings up topics that at some times are hard to face, the visual style and literary sense of humor make these overwhelming concepts and problems easier to handle and thus easier to solve.This book is here to inspire individuals to make a change and inform them how to do it. It's also here to empathize with the current situation the world is in and does not ignore the symbiotic relationship that women have to mother nature. Respecting the earth is respecting womenkind, and respecting yourself. The information and insight within is something daughters, mothers, and grandmothers can all relate to, connect with, and remember. To proactively create a future so all girls can inherit a legacy. -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/7562257@N08/
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Swarovski crystal crazy, original illustrations, free the whale, and Graphic novel out in October
Art/Fashion Auction
I'm going swarovski crystal crazy!
Dame Darcy designs crystal chandlier tops for Jared Gold. Dolls with swarovski also brooches necklaces and other jewels!
One of a kind Featured Doll for this weeks auction:
Telemundo!
She's a spicy one! Hot pink see-through fishnet mini-dress and glowing lace. Whoops! Telemundo forgot her panties, how naughty! Well, that's what makes her a TV star! Approximately 6 1/2 inches tall to fit all standard doll house furniture, clay body, human hair, pose able, hand sewn dress and hand painted features.
Plus original black and white pen/ink illustrations from Meat Cake, and other Dame Darcy previously published works. Own the original for ever and one of a kind for an affordable price perfect for a gift and easy to frame :)
Go to-----------> http://stores.ebay.com/Dame-Darcys-Store to see it all! Thanks Tiffanie and Sloan Gallery NYC!
Current Events:
Gasoline Graphic Novel is almost borne! It's soooo exciting, events are lined up for LA in October and NY in November, also San Franciso and Portland in the works.
Gasoline is a post apocalyptic rock n' roll fairytale about a family of witches.
You may have heard this from me before, but now is the real deal. Its Out and its over 200 pages,
hard bound in Twall and gold embossed! Luxurious as always! Wink, wink.
Heres the link--------> damedarcy.com/gasoline
Death By Doll has a new album out! Our label is Emperor Penguin Recordings
www.emperorpenguinrecordings.com
Its sea shanties with yours truly on banjo + singing and
Naughty Naughty Nite was going to be in the Deatch Parade NYC this year but apparantly a “HUGE
HURRICANE” is suppost to hit NY so the entire event was null and void. Looking out the window today I see the sky being slightly overcast, if our parade isn't happening I want some serious thunder..
OK God?! Sheesh.
Next Naughty Nautical Nite:
Oct 2nd. Haunted Hi-Seas!
It's going to be a spooky one, batten down the hatches for the thrill of a lifetime!
Slipper Rm Orchard/Stanton in the Lower East side 9:00 five dolla
Jessica Delfino and Dame Darcy host!
Side note: Naughty Nautical Nite is soon to be released on DVD! My dear Jen Bee is the cinematographer and editor of this wacko project and it's soon to be released so just put that in your back lacy pocket. Sea shanties! Isabelle the talking (and kicking) doll! Musical comedy! Mermaids! Animated octopus! And sing -a-long with the bouncing helm experimental DA DA performance and oh so much more.
Down loads on podcasts will soon be available on damedarcy.com as awell as a video blog.
Love you!
DD
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Love Letter:
Free the Whale
It's really easy to sign this petition, and it's never too late for justice
As a mermaid and an animal lover vegetarian for 20 yrs, my heart really goes out to this whale.
Please take a moment to read about Lolita and maybe you will be compelled to sign the petition to free her...
From: Wild Dolphin Foundation
Date: Aug 22, 2008 10:27 PM
The 38-year-old killer whale has sparked controversy since she was first sold to Seaquarium for $6,000 in 1970 after being snatched from her family pod in Puget Sound — a practice now effectively banned there. Lolita's defenders decry not only confining such an intelligent marine mammal, but also the size of her tank, which is less than two of her body lengths wide at any point. "That's like living your whole life in your closet," activist Shelby Proie says.
As Lolita nears 40, there's a renewed push for her "retirement," especially as Seaquarium touts a new $5 million swimming-with-dolphins facility, making the rickety killer whale tank seem like a marketing afterthought. Activists want to see her moved to a sea pen, where it is hoped she might eventually re-join family. And the movement has gained some celebrity friends: Hollywood producer Raul Julia-Levy, son of the late actor Raul Julia, recently told Newsweek he was planning a benefit concert for Lolita, with Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent onboard.
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It better be soon. Lolita is elderly by captive standards. "She probably has another five years in there, at most," Proie says. "She's tired."
Seaquarium's management is underwhelmed. "There's nothing new to the story, from our perspective," says Michelle Palomino, spokesperson for the Virginia Key puddle collection.
Adds saccharine-sweet Seaquarium general manager Andrew Hertz: "Lolita will remain at Seaquarium surrounded by people who love and protect her."
Feeling masochistic and plum out of nipple clamps, Riptide decided to play Humbert Humbert. So we headed to Seaquarium and paid $43 for parking and entry, but passed on the seven-dollar Coke in a souvenir cup. After watching spandex-clad volunteers ride sea mammals around a tank to "Surfin' U.S.A.," we skulked over to Lolita's stadium. While the meager crowd mostly cheered the flopping whale, Wanda Campbell left midshow, trailing her young son. "It's just sort of sad, isn't it?" she said.
go here to read and sign the petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/lolita10/petition.html
There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary confinement " - Jacques Cousteau
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Sept 6th
NEW YORK
Naughty Nautical Nite is featured in the the Deitch Art Parade!
West Broadway between Houston and Grand in SOHO
6:00 on
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NEW YORK
Oct 2nd Naughty Nautical Nite
presents: Haunted High Seas!
at the Slipper Room
167 Orchard St
New York, NY 10002
9:30---on $5 dollars
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LOS ANGELES GASOLINE FINE ART EXHIBIT
October 9th 2008 Bert Green Gallery LA CA
102 W. 5th st. LA CA 90013
www.bgfa.us
gallery@bgfa.us
(213) 842-8574
Opening 6-9 Gasoline Books to be signed and sold, Original illustrations from books to be sold and paintings inspired by graphic novel.
Closing Oct 26th 6-9
Gasoline dreams have come true! It's cloth bound in Twall and gold embossed! Over 200 pages of illos and text.
Gasoline has an accompanying album by my band Death By Doll
LOS ANGELES
Dame Darcy Gasoline Graphic Novel Book release gala
at Bar Sinister Nov 1st (1652 N. Cherokee Avenue, Hollywood, CA)
Apocalyptic Gothic Lolita Themed Day of the Dead Celebration
Death By Doll
Haunted Pussy
Gitane Demon (Of Christian Death)
Book signings and costume contest to give away Gasoline to 3 people as prizes
Please visit the Gasoline website for information on how to order and events
damedarcy.com/gasoline
Presented by: Elizabeth Fraines PR and events coordinator
femina217@sbcglobal.net
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NEW YORK GASOLINE BOOK RELEASE PARTY
Dame Darcy Book release party Nov 6th 2008
Naughty Nautical Nite presents:
Gasoline
at the Slipper Room
167 Orchard St
New York, NY 10002
9:30---on $5 dollars
Apocalyptic / fairy themed Cabaret
Book signings and costume contest to give away signed book Gasoline to 1 person as a prize
Wine, Women, and song
Contact Jessica Delfino PR and events coordinator:
jessdelfino@yahoo.com
damedarcy1@msn.com
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NEW YORK GASOLINE BOOK SIGNING
Dame Darcy Gasoline Reading
November 11, 6:30-8:30
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby St, NYC, 10012
www.housingworksbookstore.org
suggested donation $5
CONTACT Chaya Thanhauser@housingworks.org
Housing WorksBookstore, fighting AIDS one book at a time
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NEW YORK GASOLINE ART OPENING
NY
Alix Sloan Fine art Gallery Gasoline book release opening
November 19th Weds 7-9 pm
closing to be December 20th.
Gasoline Books to be signed and sold, one of a kind hand drawn single page illos in some books.
Original illustrations from Gasoline to be sold and paintings inspired by the graphic novel, also music, and fun!
Contact:
Alix Sloan
Sloan Fine Art
128 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002
212.477.1140
sloanfineart.com
Love Dame Darcy
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Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner Naughty Nautical Nite and FINE art (and crafts)
This is my new link to the store that my gallerist made for me on line http://stores.ebay.com/Dame-Darcys-Store. I am soooo happy about this! Tiffanie did a great job and I really love how it looks. Thanks Sloan Fine Art :)
And oh my Gash do we have the weirdest Naughty Nautical Nite ever in store for you! The latest and greatest is also going to be albatross and ghostarrific, not only this but *musical comedy*Cute dancing mermaids*SurreAlisM beyond human Comprehension and much (maybe even too much) MORE! All on theLower East Side for your entertainment pleasure, yes, tha'ts Naughty Naughty Nite
at the Slipper Room Orchard and Stanton August 7th 10:00. $5 at the door and free albatross!!!
Sea you there mermaties wink wink
Love, your faternal twin hostessess,
Dame Darcy and Jessica Delfino
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Dame Darcy and Tori Amos, Comic Con San Diego
Hi you! Never forget, you are battastic ^v^
So the Comic Con is coming right around the corner, kinda like when you are running really fast and you can't see what's around the corner and some one else is running on the other side of the building and you crash right into each other, like a cartoon, but when it happens in real life it hurts for reals! Anyway, this time I trust it won't hurt, and I am going to be doing signings for a book I collaborated on with other cartoonists to illustrate Tori Amos songs called Comic Book Tattoo.
Saturday July 26th Tori will be signing at 11:30 AM I will be signing from 4:00 - 6:00 at the Comic Book Tattoo table at the Image Booth at 6:15 - 7:00 I'll be signing the latest edition of Meat Cake at the Fantagraphics Booth same day and again on Sunday at 12:00 noon - 1:00
The new Meat Cake reveals many magical secrets so don't miss this issue, NUMBER 17.
Also, mentally prepare yourselves for my latest Graphic novel to be released in the Fall, Gasoline, published on Merrell Books. Here's the pre-ordering info just out:
Gasoline by Dame Darcy
$24.95 hardcover
192 pages
ISBN 978-1-8589-4442-5
Available October 2008.
The information above is for pre-orders through your local bookstore or through on-linebooksellers .
(Bookstores and wholesalers to order via: Fax 800-351-5073 E-mail: orderentry@perseusbooks.com. Telephone: 800-343-4499.)
On July 30th I'll be doing another signing for the Comic Book Tattoo in Orange County at Comics. Toons, and Toys. I will do another blog with more deatils as to where and when. Then Batten down the Hatches Mermaties!
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Another Naughty Nautical Nite Cabaret be blowin cross yer mizzenmast on August 7th at the slipper Room NYC Orchard/Stanton in lower East Side. The new theme will be Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. Very exciting times to be had by all! Show starts 10:00 SHARP (as the point of me sword)
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***NEWS FLASH***
Look out! Dame Darcy's fine art is now represented by Sloan Fine art in NYC. We are in the process of starting an online store to auction Dame Darcy black and white and color illustrations and pages from Meat Cake at very reasonable prices ,also available will be one of a kind hand made chockers and broaches by DD and pal Satanica and limited edition T shirts and womens tops designed by Dame Darcy and Jared Gold with luxurious swarovski crystals! Questions, comments or comissions? Contact Dame Darcy at damedarcy1@msn.com.
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Death by Doll's New Sea Shanties Album: CABIN FEVER
Released on Emperor Penguin Recordings
CABIN FEVER is currently available for Download or CD at: www.emperorpenguinrecordings.com
Listen to a sample of CABIN FEVER Death by Doll's myspace: www.myspace.com/damedarcydeathbydoll
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July
26th
San
Diego, California
San
Diego Comic-Con
www.comic-con.org
San
Diego Convention Center
111
West Harbor Drive
San
Diego, CA 92101
Comic
Book Tattoo Panel
Saturday,
July 26th 11:30 am - 12:30 pm Room 6B
www.toriamos.com
COMIC BOOK TATTOO, a 480-page, full-color anthology adapting the themes
and ideas behind her songs into a lush volume of sequential art.
Dame
Darcy signing for "Comic Book Tattoo"
+
Meat
cake will be signed + new designs w/ Jared Gold, Dolls + much much
more at Fantagraphics book table.
www.jaredgold.com
www.fantagraphics.com
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FINE
ART
Dame
Darcy will be exhibiting paintings + original illustrations from
the GASOLINE graphic novel at the Bert Green Gallery in LA and the
Sloan Fine Art Gallery in NYC.
Bert
Green Gallery
Bert
Green Gallery
Dame
Darcy
October
9–October 26 2008
Opening
Reception Thursday, October 9th, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Bert
Green Fine Art
102
West 5th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013
www.bgfa.us
213-624-6212
(recorded info)
213-842-8574
(direct line)
+
Sloan
Fine Art
Dame
Darcy
"Gasoline"
Opening
Reception: Wednesday, November 19th, 7 to 9 pm
Exhibition:
November 20 to December 20, 2008
Sloan
Fine Art
128
Rivington Street
New
York, NY 10002
www.sloanfineart.com
212.477.1140
Darcy
is currently represented by Sloan Fine Art. To purchase all other
illustrations + paintings, please contact Alix at Sloan.
Alix
Sloan
owner
/ director
alix@sloanfineart.com
