Vintage Christopher Walken

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Vintage Christopher Walken 

I am always fascinated by how one's appearance changes as one ages. We look they way we do because of our genetics *and* our life experiences.  I have a few theories about this.

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All SEAF, all the time.

With the deadline so close, I am devoting what little time I have available to be online to preparing for the close of the Call for Art and the jury process.

Call for Art - deadline looming!

Get thee to SeafArtist.com to register and submit your art to the Seattle Erotic Art Festival.

The jury fee is a paltry $15, purposely kept low as part of the Festival's mission is to support living artists.  Take a chance; send us your art.  3D and multi-media art are especially sought after.

"Bag is packed and I'm ready to go"

"I'm standing here outside your door..."

 It's way too early in the morning to tell you how incredible last night's LRS show was.  Only thoughts I have room for in my brain are "Don't miss your train!" and Me First & the Gimme Gimmes' punk version of "Leaving on a Jet Plane."

Why am I up this early, you ask.  I am catching the train to Portland to teach my Bondage Body Mechanics class at the Conservatory. 

Another show tomorrow- um, I mean, today.

I'm winding down from LRS rehearsal, waiting for the sugar and adreniline to work out of my system enough to sleep.   There were a few real moments of fear.  I had 2 people email me during the day to let me know they wouldn't be able to perform due to illness and another dancer show up with a hurt foot.  She's a trooper, though, as she is going to sing in the show.

Understudies are a rare thing in the Studio.  Mostly due to the fact that each performer is also the pregenitor of their act.  And so much of the art that is birthed in the Studio is of a personal nature.  Each artist and performer is keen to be the one to show off their art. I certainly don't mind waiting.

One of our artists broke her foot at the last LRS show in December. She did an amazingly dynamic monologue on a "shark board".  She gets bonus points and a smack upside the head for finishing her act after being injured. No one that I have talked to even knew that it had happened; she never even lost her composure or her lines.  She is back with an act that depends on her having a broken foot.  She's a nut and I am honoured to get to see her push through adveristy to perform.

One of our acts is a pair of lovelies who want a live run through of the act they are preparing for "Bang For the Buck!" which is coming up fast on January 30th.   Super hot!

My co-director and I are without a stage manager tonight, so we will be taking on those duties.  We have come up with pair of characters and costumes to make the set changes a lot more fun.  I don't want to give it away, so I won't say too much.  Let's just say it's a good thing her twin sister is in the military.

It's going to be a fun show! If you don't have Friday night plans, then come visit the Little Red Studio.   $25 advance tickets are available online until 6pm at Brown Paper Tickets.  $30 at the door.  Show starts at 9pm.

Maybe take advantage of the brand new dinner menu in the Little Red Bistro before hand.  The Bistro's new dinner options are 1/2 off this weekend only.  I have had the scallops plate which was divine!  The sauce was flavourful and mellow and the scallops themselves were not fishy tasting and the texture was perfection!

Thinking about my dinner tonight is making me hungry again.   I need to go to bed so it can be morning soon.  See you at the show tonight!

Warming Her Pearls

A dear woman from Texas emailed me this video.



The poem is evocative of the delicate balance of love and power exchange.  I want to wax poetic but find myself a bit too tired.

I'm back!

Thanks to a generous and talented man in my community, I have a working computer!  It's a laptop, which means I will be able to write the LRS programs during rehearsal, thereby saving much time.  This will most likely make the troupe quite happy.

What I have been wanting to post about is this:

Jessica Nissen is an artist with some interesting Rorschach based drawings and paintings.  One of the SEAF committee members (who knew her and ran an artspace with her almost 20 years ago) told me about her Ink Blot Wind Tunnel installation.  I went to check out the installation photos and went snooping around.  I fell in love with the whimsical and dark nature of the drawings. 

Ashes to ashes...

Looks like the browser crashing problem was an omen.  Now my computer won't boot up.  Every time I try to start it in "safe mode" it takes me back to the screen telling me I should really start it in "safe mode."  Those kinds of circles are not so much fun.  I prefer the jerking or the sewing kind.

I have someone who can take a look at it later this week.  In the mean time, I'll have to hang around at work after massages so that I can mooch internet time. Please be patient with me if you are awaiting an email response.

Anyone have a laptop they want to give away or sell for cheap?

Some days...

Vespa 150 TAP

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I got this link from the WetLeather email list and am now having fantasies of arming my bike. I don't need artillery that heavy, though. A bazooka that plastered bumper stickers that said things like "I don't use my turn signal because I am an idiot" and the like onto cars would do nicely.

this is what I was trying to do!

Donnell is a great writer. I have enjoyed every chance I have had to read his work. Whether his books, emails or the long threads in the online discussion group where we "met", I am sucked in, enlivened and moved. Even if sometimes I was moved to smack him upside the head. Over long months we developed a familiarity and once got the chance to hang out for a few days while he traveled through the PNW. Funny how easy it is to spend time with someone you have never met in the flesh after so much brain time. I love technology.


So, the links to the left will take you to Donnell's two books. Check them out. Buy them. Suggest them to other people. I want to see Donnell do well. He deserves it because of his talent, beautiful smile and bountious humour.

I'll not be twarted!

I have been having the hardest time all day long with getting a post uploaded. I think I finally have it all figured out. Or at least I think I do. If this post doesn't show up by Monday morning, then I am not as clever as I hoped.

A dear friend of mine, Donnell Alexander, author and journalist extraordinaire, got a short animated film "Dock Ellis & the LSD No-No" accepted in the Sundance Film Festival.

I have been attempting to make a post asking people to help him raise enough money to get to Sundance. They have a paypal option or, if you happen to be in Venice, CA next weekend, you can attend the big bash they are throwing. Here is part of the email I got yesterday:

While the short’s co-producers are honored to have been chosen, they have become aware that honor doesn’t pay the air fare. Or peak-season Park City rents.

To that end, Neille and Donnell will hold a fundraiser at their Venice rental on Saturday, Jan. 16. A $10 donation gains you admission to a night of top-flight music, prizes and a perhaps your fill of alcohol. (Some of you have been glimpsed in action, so they’re promising exactly nothing.)

What's your super power?

The Mean Man promises that he can always think of a way to make something, anything worse. This is what I think of as a super power: something you are consistently, often uncannily, good at naturally.

I'm not sure what my super power is. I am torn between two possibilities. One: I can make it better. Meaning I can find the bright side of anything and I can physically make people feel better. Or, two: my mutant ability to heal and resist injury.

A recent example of the latter is an inverted suspension by only 4 wraps of 6mm hemp rope. Not a Herculean lack of rope, but definitely not enough to be comfortable. It started as a horizontal, face up suspension. Not too strenuous, a bit hard on my neck. I was having a hard time staying connected with the Mean Man and asked for more touch and eye contact. Ever accommodating, he readjusted my leg and hip up-lines, lowered my chest so that my head was about two and a half feet off the floor and laid down underneath me. Neither the chest or hip harness were altered, making this a difficult position with all of my weight being supported at one point with so few wraps. We're talking quite a few pounds per square inch.

After he brought me down and the rope was off, an inspection of the skin that had been under the hip wraps showed minor irritation: red, a bit puffy and tender to the touch. By morning, I was left with a light red mark on each side on my hip, approximately 2 inches long. Now, two days later, you have to strain to see them. A bit unsatisfying to not have anything to show for a brutal scene.

So, I don't know. Mutant healing power? Or, always make it better power? Maybe I can have both!

Yay for Aerial class!

Finally got back the The Cathedral for aerial lessons with Beverly. The Thursday Drop-In class is perfect for me. I get a little bit of focused attention and the rest of the time I am on my own. This is great for conditioning and practicing. There is so much that I do in my aerial bondage acts that cannot be translated to any of the other apparatus; I have found that the tissu, sling, and even a bit of trapeze work, builds strength that translates quite nicely to when I am in the ropes.

Over the last few months, I had been attending only sporadically. All the holidays, traveling and performances have been convenient excuses. There are still a bunch of the same people, which is always nice to have familiar faces to welcome you back.

If you are interested in aerial instruction, give Beverly a call or email. She got me started and it's been a blast ever since!

Hard Point Assessment Class 1/22/10 in PDX

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Teaching in Portland on 1/23/10

The next class I am teaching is in Portland at the Conservatory and is half of the class I taught for Max on Dec. 6th. I am going to cover basic human anatomy as it relates to bondage activities and then we will look at some photos by the fabulous Jim Duvall. Yummy eye candy that is also highly educational!

Bondage Body Mechanics - Lecture & Slideshow presented by Sophia Sky with Jim Duvall

Saturday, January 23rd
$20 per person
3:00pm to 5:00pm
No RSVP necessary
NO LATE ARRIVALS

Class description -
Whether you use rope, chains or leather in your bondage, having a working knowledge of anatomy will help you increase your fun while keeping your bottom safe. With a photo slideshow for reference, we will discuss how the body responds to bondage, as well as how to work with the physical limitations that basic anatomy imposes on us. Learn how to lengthen your scenes by making challenging bondage positions attainable or more comfortable. Increase the intensity by making the comfortable more challenging with minimal effort and risk. This class is for tops and bottoms and appropriate to all skill levels and styles of bondage.

Also, I will be helping Jim Duvall present his class immediately preceding mine. I will be chiming in about the physiological processes of pain and sensation, as well as providing a bottoming perspective on one or two ways to process pain. Big day! Lots of fun!


Bondage For Sadists And Masochists by Jim Duvall

Saturday, January 23rd
$20 per person
Doors at 11:30am
Class begins at 12:00pm until 2:00pm
No RSVP necessary
NO LATE ARRIVALS

Class description - Pain. Pain is usually our bodies way of telling us something is wrong. I stimulates to instinctual reactions to avoid, flee, recoil and get away. A lot of S/m play begins with a mastery of pain and how to manage it and let it become some juicy, delicious, endorphin producing elixir. This workshop will be an effort to find the right types of pain for your scene and how to produce that with rope. We will talk about pain to avoid and pain to languish and wallow in. Ties that can cause endurance or gradual pain and those that will strike immediately. Everyone should look forward to exploring their sadism and masochism in this class. Tops will be given some new tools to inflict pain and how to help or hinder the processing of pain. Bottoms will be given some new ways to process pain and how to describe and negotiate for the pain they like.

Happy New Year!

Another year gone, making plenty of room for new experiences and fun! May your year bring you everything you want and more.