Burlesque! Bravura! Beats! 400
Cat.: Uncategorized24. January 2006
1| New Lost City - February Fourth
2| New Years Eve - Recap, Photos & Lost Stuff
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Saturday, the Fourth of February
Complacent Nation invites you to:
New Lost City
@ 69 West 14th St.
at the corner of 14th St. & 6th Ave.
Performances start at 9pm
and continue through sunrise
Details: www.newlostcity.com
New Lost City is one night of refuge for you, the dreamer, who desires a New York City as wild as it used to be. Lose your inhibition in the dark and sultry speakeasy - lose your religion with the lurid burlesque explosion - lose your virginity to loin-shaking sound growing from 40’s doowop to infectious break-beats. This is everything we never expected.
In the New Lost City we inhabit our myth…
A city of: Burlesque!
Gemini & Scorpio present seven feats of lost innocence including: The brilliant blonde bombshell Julie Atlas Muz, the fearless Amy G of the Daredevil Opera Company, the bare-chested wrangler Angelo from the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, the saucy circus stylings of the Wau Wau Sisters, and the scandalous Miss Tickle of the Bombshell Girls. All hosted by Sxip Shirey of The Luminescent Orchestrii. The Burlesque! begins at 9pm sharp, arrive early to see sights guaranteed to whip your cream.
A city of: Bravura!
Loud, dancy and full-flavored live music begins at 10pm on two separate floors featuring Gaijin A Go Go bringing a deliciously danceable mix of 60’s Japanese funk fantasy. Sxip!Matta will astound you with human beat boxing, industrial flutes, mutant harmonicas, regurgitated music boxes and other bio-electro sonic marvels. And the Vintage DJ is guaranteed to swing you with throwback doowop from the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s.
A city of: Beats!
After midnight the music turns sticky evolving from classic hip-hop to house to breaks as Camea [Clink / Clickhaus] dishes sultry ass-mashing [read: tech-house ] rhythms with live vocals by Rhiannon [The Shift / Subatomic Soundsystem], and Alex Dirttt and Anthony Parasole [Halcyon / All City] drop micro house and minimal beats. In the late night the Blackkat collective brings funky breaks and free tekno with dj Chrome, Jason BK and MadAro. All this builds into an intelligent techno crescendo from the masters of after-hours Wolf & Lamb.
In the New Lost City everything comes easy…
Roving acts help you find your way featuring costumes by C-Spot Designs, wooden sculpture and accordion blues by Thomas Beale along with spontaneous acts of sensual immersion currated by Akim Funk Buddha. Get cozy in: Bedouin tents and beds of roses installed by will (nation), 16mm classic film projections by Alien Resident from Amoeba Technology, and special drinks by Miss Elixir with well organized cash bar by Sari of Rubulad.
Where:
Nestled across three expansive loft spaces (and rooftop) at:
69 West 14th St. on the 3rd and 4th floors.
at the Northeast corner of 14th St. & 6th Ave.
$9: Advanced tickets available at:
http://www.newlostcity.com
(cheapest, best, guaranteed entry)
$15: RSVP at: http://www.newlostcity.com/rsvp.html
(cheapish but you may wait in line, tickets are better)
$20: Wander in off the street.
(a bit pricey plus a possible line, for those who fail to plan)
Brought to you by:
ComplacentNation.org, Blackkat.org, GeminiandScorpio.com, SxipShirey.com, Catalyst Rhiannon, Halcyon, C-Spot Designs, Miss Elixir, Wolf & Lamb, and The Illusion of Hope.
In this city of dark our visions burn bright, where if anything happens it happens at night.
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New Years Dream
This past New Years Eve a few hundred of you came through our home and studio for an extravaganza of light, sound and champagne abuse. The party bubbled into one of those epic nights teetering just beyond the brink of control. There were marching bands and singing preachers, a fire pit and film projections, champagne showers, fireworks and the rampant kissing of strangers.
Images of the melee can be seen at:
www.complacent.org/newyearsdream
For those that were here, we have found some lost items that
may belong to you or a friend:
- One pair of yellow lace panties.
- One blown glass “tobacco” pipe.
- One wallet belonging to Sarah Dukes Tunnel. We’ve been trying to get this back to you in less public ways but you are nowhere to be found.
- Several bottles of unopened champagne (we’ve finished them for you.)
- One confused French tourist.
Another important thing, our neighbor had a large metal letter “R” stolen from a sculpture in progress in the alleyway. We all do silly things when drunk, so we have already forgiven you but we need this back. Please respond to this message if you have it or know where it is.
If you conceived children at this event, feel free to name them after your hosts, Will & Charlotte.
Thanks for such a memorable New Years Eve.
Sincerely,
-Will & Charlotte