by Keith Daniels

The first (and best) cello-based rock band, Rasputina, formed over twenty years ago in Brooklyn, New York. Based around founding auteur Melora Creager, the band has seen many members come and go over the years and had more drummers than Spın̈al Tap, but has maintained a consistent vision throughout. Their songs focus on Creager’s obsessions: historical oddities, fantastical theories, and the strength of women. The whole is tied together with her handmade aesthetic into an artistically unified production: from their album art to their stage performances (called ‘recitals’) to their music. Rasputina’s most recent album is Great American Gingerbread, a collection of demos and other rarities. Melora and I spoke recently about her songwriting method, her proudest moment, and how she keeps Rasputina fresh after two decades in the music business.

Read our exclusive interview with Melora Creager on SuicideGirls.com.

Glitch Suicide in Unmasked

• INTO: Zombies, freaks, glasses, girls, art, aromatherapy, anime, geekiness, corsets, vampires, vintage, horror, anarchism, nature, baths, cult flicks, comics, burlesque, calligraphy, bubble tea, cemeteries, Yerba Mate tea, supporting local business, kissing, almond milk, lotions & potions, feminism, diversity, sci-fi, mannequin body parts, flea markets. Books, different perspectives, conspiracy theories, awkwardness, bitter comedians, kinky porn, atheism, questions, revolution, action, science, thought patterns.
• NOT INTO: Conservatives, racism, misogyny, fake breasts, war, animal cruelty, materialism, people who are afraid to be themselves, repression, meat, religion.
• HOBBIES: Painting, bike cruising, dancing, walking, traveling, going to shows, making out, .applying makeup, philosophizing, writing, being kinky, drinking tea, fantasizing..
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Eyeliner, sneakers, hair dye, fruit, and lip balm!
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Cuddling kitties, walking, reading, rocking out, having sex, exploring my body, conversing, dreaming, cooking, watching movies.

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by Aaron Colter

graffiti noun : (1) a key indication of poverty, language of the people, costly vandalism, the most prevalent medium of art in the world, landmarks for violence, an expression that transcends the false constructs of race, and yet another segment of black culture to be appropriated, and at the same time demonized, by the white majority in America. (2) unauthorized writing or drawing on a public surface.

Growing up outside east Denver, I remember helping clean graffiti off the side of the church my family attended. It was back soon after we tried to wash it off the first time, and the second. After a while, we stopped doing anything about it.

I didn’t always like graffiti, but it always interested me. The act of carving one’s name on the surface of something physical, in secret, somewhere someone would see it someday – it’s primal, but a sign of self-reflection, intelligence even.

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by Mur Lafferty

SuicdeGirls presents the fifth installment of our Fiction Friday sci-fi series, Marco and the Red Granny, which is brought to you by SG columnist Mighty Mur a.k.a. cyber commentator Mur Lafferty.

Marco and the Red Granny is set in a not-so-distant future where an alien species, the Li-Jun, has transformed the moon into the new artistic center of the universe, where the Sally Ride Lunar Base soon gains the nickname “Mollywood.” These aliens can do amazing things with art and the senses, allowing a painting, for example, to stimulate senses other than sight.

In the previous installments, Marco, a writer whose career has long been in the doldrums, gets a surprise call from an agent he thought he no longer had, informing him that he had received an offer from Mollywood for a much coveted Li-Jun patronage. Keen to catch up career-wise with his ex-GF Penelope, who’d unceremoniously dumped him after being recruited by the Li-Jun two years earlier, Marco jumps on the next shuttle to the moon. Once aboard, he finds himself sitting next to a seemingly unassuming old lady called Heather, who turns out to be The Red Granny, a legend in Li-Jun’s reality show world for being a three-time champion of The Most Dangerous Game (which requires contestants to sign away the rights to their life).

We join Marco shortly after he lands on the Moon, as he settles into his new accommodations at House Blue. After a brief meeting with his new patron, a Li-Jun called Thirteen, Marco realizes he’s never been shown the terms of his employment. A sense of unease sets in as he prepares for the evening’s designated entertainment – a trip to see The Most Dangerous Game…

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by Alana Joy

Every week we ask you guys to show us your ink in celebration of Tattoo Tuesday: we choose one favorite submission each from Twitter and Tumblr and they win a free 3 month membership to SuicideGirls.com.

Check out this weeks winners!

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by Missy

Queens of the Stone Age frontman and the most rockin’ man in showbiz, Josh Homme, had an early morning call with me after a late night of partying to talk about life on the road, midgets, and his new naughty video for the single ““3’’s and 7’’s”” that premiered on SuicideGirls.

Read our exclusive interview with Josh Homme on SuicideGirls.com.

Exning Suicide in Dreamworld

• INTO: Music, strong coffee, honesty, sociopaths, body modification.
• NOT INTO: Children, wind, hair gel.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: Not being sober, friends, good weather, the beach, playing music, love.
• MAKES ME SAD: Roadkill, skipped CDs, people crying.
• HOBBIES: Guitar, painting, photography, music in general.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: My mother, my friends, my guitar, water, Chapstick.
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Staring into space.

Get to know Exning better over at SuicideGirls.com!