Sorry it has taken me so long to post a blog!! i got an iflip movie camera for my birthday and was totally addicted! my plan was to do frame grabs from the Iflip and little movies, but it took a really long time and i wasnt able to finish much. I do have a few photos here and there- And also wanted to announce that im  a great group show called "the Conquerors"-
featuring the works of Mark Bodnar, Mari Inukai, Bill McRight, and Bonnie Brenda Scott- the show is at Artspace in Raleigh North Carolina (birthplace of one of my favorite authors David Sedaris!) and runs from September 4- October 24th if your out there check it out!!!!  Lia Newman along with others worked really hard at putting this together! thanks Lia!!!

 We  flew out to Arizona for the closing party of Morgan's art show at at Perihelion arts

Greg Escalante and Annie A- on the plane ride out

it was super fun- their art walk is the biggest in the country! so needless to say it was packed!- Amy the owner of Perihelion threw us an awesome BBQ the next day where I had BBQ pizza for the first time- we also visited the Mesa Arts Center   what an amazing space!!!! If you are visiting Phoenix its a must stop destination!

i met these crazy people at the airport!

when we got back i was super excited to meet my new intern who was coming all the way from London- Miles Gavin- i was a bit nervous at first because on a whim i randomly agreed to let someone i met on the internet  stay with us for three weeks! But Miles turned out to be a perfect gentleman and a very talented artist . He had some really great ideas, and helped me tremendously!!  We also shared a  liking for macaroni and cheese,  mochi balls and horror movies!! 

Behind the scenes at a Morgan Slade Photo shoot-

Morgan's art show at Perihelion Arts in phoenix Arizona comes to a close this weekend. He was showing along side Richard Edson's "Beyond the Valley of the Microbops"  big portraits of tiny things! we weren't able to make it out to the opening because of the tour but were going out there for the closing party.

photo by Richard Edson - i want to kiss him on his nose, so cute!!!
For the show Morgan recruited the very talented and very beautiful ladies of Hairroin Salon to model for him. He was nervous to ask them so i did it for him- and they were like bikinis, mascot heads, were in!!! Hairroin owned by Janine Jarman is my favorite place to get my hair done!!! they are all super cool and don't give me a hard time about changing the color of my hair every time i go in!!!   if your looking for a place that can do anything check them out!!!!  champagne Friday's are always fun! !!!

 Hairroin's cute logo
we went out to Adele's the best costume shop in Hollywood and found a bunch of heads to brig to the shoot

thats my dear!

creepy!

the selection

King Tut chose his fav.

next the bikinis

then the fake tan!

Janine makes sure Irene doesnt have streaks!
Reyna Rodriguez grabs a snack and Blue and King Tut wish they were taller!
the legs of Irene Urias - bad dogs!!!!
from L-R- Reyna Rodriguez, Irene Uria, Shondra Leigh & Janine Jarman rule!!!

awesome!!!!!

grrrrrrrrr!!!!

the blur at the bottom of this photo is King Tut stealing Bikinis!

wise owl!

jared gold and myself at the snack bar

Irene, Reyna, Jared, janine, & Shondra

Blue even climbed the fence to get into the photo shoot!
some of the shots

works in progress

Trapped!

Morgan Slade hard at work!

if you are in Phoenix August 7 th come by and have a drink, Its also the opening of Bob Dob's new show "Black eyed Moiusketeers " Bob Dob rules- i once asked him how he got the name Bob Dod because he doesn't seem like the kind of guy that would go by an alias and he said that his real name was Bobby Dobby - his parents rule!!


painting by Bob Dob cant wait to see it in person!

Tomorrow we're going to be playing for  Shockhound TV in Hot Topic's Headquartes and then off to AZ and then i really need to get some art done or the folks at BSFA are going to kill me!!

Jarred Gold and Joshua Petker Fashion show!

The event took place July 30th at Club Social Hollywood- it was a collaboration between Designer Jared Gold and artist Joshua Petker, two humans i really admire! So i was flattered when Jessicka asked me to help host the event along with a ton of other super cool hosts , DJ's and entertainers (see list at Jareds website ). As a host i was required to hang around and drink Mohito's, I thought that  could handle that! The only sucky thing was that i forgot to bring my camera with a flash so i only got really crappy photos of the event!!! I appologize in advance-
mayhem backstage


trays of PBR's mmmmmmm


me and Joshua

Giddle Partridge , Rodney Bingenhiemer & part of Dave
My sister Sara (in the middle) and friends Rachel and Sherrie (L-R)


the back of someone- i really like the colors


Punk rock legend Don Bolles and Morgan Slade

heres pics of the runway show, sorry again for the crappy photos, the clothes were really outstanding, the hair and make up was amazing ( byt Hairroin of course!) and the models were stunning !!! these photos really dont do them justice! check out Jared's site for better pics!






because my pics were so bad my friends sent a few over to me!
These are from Clint Catalyst who was part of the evenings Red Carpet Riot Squad, and an all around stand up guy! (even if his pants wont stand up with him!!)
LilyLuLay, BeanerLaRue Clint Catalyst, and  OlgaKay. Highly reccomedned- BeanerLaRue's videos "Twilight High School Musical" and "Deena's Diet"

these photos were taken by "CuriousJosh" Reiss.-thanks Josh!
Josie Cotton, Jared Gold (the man himself!) & Clint Catalyst


Clint and adorable Audrey Kitching


Clint, queen of all things sparkly- Tarina Tarantino, and her husband Alfonso Campos

Killsonic lost their pant somewhere in the crowd!


 this photo was sent by Miguel Jose  who was on very good behavior that night!
Morgan slade, me, artist Doug aka Plasticgod &  his super sweet girlfriend (im a jerk for not remembering her name!!) and Coleen Duffy of world famous Devil Doll (check them out she has the voice of an angle even if shes a devil!)

next up- Morgan Slade's closing art show party in crazy AZ- behind the scenes at the photoshoot!

thanks for reading this!!!

last entry for the Miss D US tour

After a month and a half of Motel 6's and the 10 1/2 hour drive from Portland to Sacramento we were all really looking forward to staying at our friends and families houses on the west coast!! We stopped off at "Moriarty Mansion"  in Sacramento then we headed to a super fun bar  "Lost on Main" In Chico for our first show back in sunny CA-
the next night we were in San Jose,  at the Blank Club- where we met a bunch of cool people- Sonya Paz  who owns the  Sonya Fine Art Gallery, artist Peggy Perez


Death by Cupcake  one of Peggy's super cute pieces!
and a long time friend and Stanford radio DJ- the Big Chief- check him out sat 9-12 KZSU 90.1 fm


Girl in a Coma at the blank club- i wish my camera phone had a flash! i haven't been able to capture good photos of them live yet- they are crazy good and super cool!!


cover of  their new album trio BC

next day was Sacramento at the Fire Escape!- most of the guys grew up near Sacramento so almost  of our families showed up to this show and saw us for the first time! including my mom and sisters! thankfully they did not boo us!


sisters Sara Ruth me and my mom


statue in club i hate to think what would happen if you passed out here!

met up with some super cool people

Tattoo artist Gary Koblis, lil Chris of Legacy Ink Tattoo  and super cute  friends from reno

next up SF-
we didn't have to drive 10 hours to get there so we headed over to Sylvain's parents where his relatives from France were having a pool party!

Sylvains cousin Chloe and friend

  
 Lightning Bill Woodcock  takes time out to serenade them

we were all really looking forward to playing at bottom of the hill those guys rule!!! the sound guy cares if you can hear everything, and they feed you! plus all my best friends relocated to San Francisco about 15 years ago, and i miss them! (T-dowg, Eric, Jeremy, John sig) i got to meet up with all of them and also ran into Fashion designer Stacy Rodgers of She-Bible , punk rock icon- Blag Dahlia, good friend and awesome director/musician - Cecil b feeder   legendary rock photographer  Michael Zagaris    and many more- but the night got pretty fuzzy towards the end as i saved all my drink tickets from the whole tour for sf!!! we headed over to Nancy Katogo's  to stay the night  and pleasantly awoke to a full spread of breakfast!! thanks Nancy!!!!!!


lucky we were able to stock up for the long ride home!

Next stop Long Beach! Alex's bar in Long beach is always a good time!!! So many great artists musicians and writers are there! Also Alex's bar is where Fangtasia from True Blood is filmed, and even better Alex is one of the coolest guys around!
Adriane creator of  Lucky girl Handbags who made our awesome guitar straps was there-
we met up with Circus from the Shapeshifters  his brother Travis is an awesome sculptor -he sculpted my  Siamese bat buckle for monster buckles.
and Morgan Night from Devils Night Radio-, my good friend and favorite artist Helen Garber  and fiance/Gallerist David Desanctis  and just a bunch of cool people


Nicole, me, her step bro and artist John M Gill


awesome illustrator- M Fersner  her work above




Alex's bar has the best bathroom wall art ever!!!!!!!! sorry i don't know the name of the artist, but i love it!!!


and if you can get your hands on a copy of the Harbor Area "Rise and Fall"  there's a kick ass interview with Shepard Fairey in there!

next stop LA's Knitting Factory-
unfortunately, (or maybe fortunately since we were close to home) our van broke down . We had to take the bus over to the show in our full outfits. Our exit was on Hollywood blvd with all the Spiderman and Marilyn Monroe look alikes and though people didn't know what superheros we were supposed to be they took photos next to us anyways, silly humans!!
the knitting factory was super fun!!


GIAC from the backstage of the knitting factory, they rocked hard on  this night!!!!!

 it was good to see all our old friends again! Good friend & gallerist  Billy Shire whose also the owner of BSFA  and La Luz De Jesus   - Nancy and Spencer who have a super cool shop called  Brat-  photographer Miguel Jose (who was going shot crazy!!) Stylist and painter Roxanne Jitomore

painting by Roxanne

next stop- San Diego to Rock the Casbah (sorry couldn't resist)
we were just a few days before comic con and everyone you talked to was excited about it- the bouncer Ted Washington was eager to bounce out of the Casbah to prepare for his booth! SD

Donna by Ted Washington
we met up with Gitsie  and Glam  who are super fun!

Gitsie and Glam


Ricky and Ivana were in town to help awesome artist Roman Dirge at comic con

Viva Los Vegas

we stayed at the world famous El Cortez right across from the beauty bar where we were playing- i forgot how hot the nights were out there! The preacher from our wedding , bull rider and great artist Johnny Hansen  showed up with a bunch of peeps!


bassist sylvain , birthday girl and roller derby queen  Monica, Brent Engle, John Engle (aka) professor 8000%  photographed by Johnny Hancen.


Remember Wounded Knee by Johnny Hancen


art by john engle (aka) professor 8000% 

after the show we all headed over to the hotel to gamble! i won 20 bucks!!

It was a long drive to Phoenix the next day- we passed by the Hoover dam on the way there totally amazing!!!! it was far bigger then i thought it was the 30's style architecture was outstanding!



photos from the van window of the Hoover damn

Arizona has a really big art scene, and the people really come out to support it! We played at the Hollywood Alley in Mesa and it was super fun!!!

some super cool people who were there- Deisy, Danny, Kori, and Vince!

Amy owner of Arizona's best art gallery Perihelion Arts showed up, Morgan has a show going on  there now, and we'll be back in Phoenix next week august 7th for the after show party!

El Vaquero Muerto made me this super cool wrist cuff he hand carved it out of leather!!!!!!!!

 and we got to hang out with Aileen Duke- our good friend , back up dancer, and designer who had just moved to AZ a few weeks ago- with her Fiance Ryan and their baby Mason- the pit with the biggest smile! unfortunately my camera phone didn't get any good pics of them but here's one of her arm-

Aileen's arm with Miss D logo tattooed by Ben

the dessert is awesome, but really hot!!! we were super lucky that  The Mondrion hotel put us up for the last two days  because we did an Internet commercial for them , it was the perfect way to end the tour and leave us wanting more!
There were a bunch of cool shops and galleries all around the hotel- i love American Indian art- so much symbolism and tradition in every piece- i especially love Navajo and Zuni carved stone Fetishes and Katchina dolls.


not the best example of a katchina doll, but very cute!

our last show was in Tuscon and we were all super sad about it-   Girl in a Coma is like our family now,  Nina, Phannie, Jen and Ernesto you guys rule!!!! and we will be lonely without them!!!  if you haven't checked them out yet you really need to! so awesome!! I'm sure they will be coming to a city near you soon!


marquee for the last show of the tour :((

Well its finally over, so sad- but we all had to get back to work, where hardly anyone tells you your awesome on a daily basis and gives you free drinks.


40 shows and some live radio spots in two months!


we were very happy to see our two best friends- blue and king tut who gave us a very big welcome home dance!!!

I want to say a very big thank you to our awesome team -David Bason- Ray, Gary,  Ian, Joy, GIAC, Triple X records & Nickle and Dime records, and especially WC Moriarty whom we'd be lost without- also Schecter Guitars for sponsering us, or else we wouldn't have had anything to play on! thanks guys!!!!

Miss D and their Schecters

next up the Jared Gold and Joshua Petker fashion show-



sorry im a little late on posting these, this one took me sooo long to do to make sure i got everyone in there and i learned the valuable lesson of saving my files after crashing a bunch of times! the fashion show was actually last night and super awesome ill try to get a photos up by this weekend! and i promise it wont be so long!

thanks for reading this!!!
Liz

tour blog part deuce

Long Gone John has been a huge support to musicians and artists alike!!!  My first introducton to artist like Mark Ryden was on the covers of  Sympathy records. He put out our first two records and is the main reason we put together a band in the first place! Thanks John!
His house is somewhere between Seattle and Portland- with a breath taking view of the ocean on one side and the forest on the other- there was so much to see there we didnt even make it thorugh the whole house!! Haunted rooms, hidden tunnles &  secret passage ways, my dream house!!

(photos by either Cody, Ricci, Morgan or myself )

a stuffed pig and a bunch of dwarves greet you in the entryway!


in the living room a massive wall of mounted game heads


"aaaaaaahhhhhh!! the new miss derringer CD is out now!" is what i imagine she is screaming!
some of Johns amazing art collection-



now you know where all those famous Mark Rydens live!


Camille Rose Garcia- Love her!!!!!!


overload!! piles of cool stuff everwhere!!!!!!


 He had just finished installing his Morroccan light collection- amazing!


view from the bottom

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the bad seed never looked so cute!


view from one of his windows-


the man the myth the legend himself- Long Gone John- with his shell, rock and glass collection that spill out of every droor!


this is just a glimpse of the treasures of Long Gone John- speaking of which check out the movie the "Treasures of Long Gone John" by Greg Gibbs

I wish we could have stayed forever but we had to get to the next gig!
We made a gas stop once in Oregan- the only state that insists on pumping the gas for you- we took the time to explore-
inside the mens restroom-

(i think they are just messing with us here!)

the guys were super happy because the gas station sold switchblades! ....(boys will be boys!)

Ricci will cut you!

we played at the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland  (which looked like a really cool log cabin inside-)  where we met up with artist Heather Rose-

(some of Heathers Rose's awesome work!)
and one of my all time favs- Fawn Gehweiler - she recently moved from LA to Portland so it was great to see her!

some of her amazing work, check out more  at No Candy !!

Our CD was officially released a few days ago check it out if you have time- you can also stream the whole thing for a limited time free on  AOL's Spinner site

the shoe on the cover is a design from the famous shoe designer  Jerome Russo! Love his stuff and himself nicest guy around!!!!

well, next stop .... Going Back To Cali!!

thanks for reading this