by Daniel Robert Epstein
“I read everything, which is unfortunate because it’s probably corrosive to my brain and to my spirit. If you spend all day ready screenplays, something happens that’s profound and regrettable. Sometimes I want to do something that they don’t want me to; they’d rather have somebody who means more at the box office. My taste is without category. I don’t judge a script because it’s coming from a studio. I read it openly, hoping that there will be something in there galvanizing for me.”
– Holly Hunter
Nine Lives is a fascinating movie broken up into nine scenes that seem unrelated at first but as you continue to watch you will find that they are all connected sometimes by certain characters and always by themes of isolation and regret. Writer/director Rodrigo García makes it even more powerful by shooting each of these scenes all in one take. This is Holly Hunter’s second collaboration with Rodrigo García after the film Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her.
Read our exclusive interview with Holly Hunter on SuicideGirls.com.
Waikiki Suicide in Walk On The Wild Side
- INTO: Photography, art, music, traveling, pole dancing, squatting empty buildings, and laughing ‘til I cry.
- NOT INTO: Being steasdy in a place, city or country.
- MAKES ME HAPPY: Martinis, parties, traveling, open-minded folk, sun, the beach, dogs and warm people – I need ’em in my life!
- MAKES ME SAD: Empty conversations, wannabe-nevergonnabe people, noisy people, respectless mothafuckers, vivisection, civil war, poverty, the zoo, losing people I love!
- HOBBIES: Rehab.
- 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: My camera, my vynals, cigarettes, coffee, a bottle of water.
- VICES: Listening to loud music when I’ve just awoken, never being on time to appointments.
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: At concerts, and around my friends with a Corona in my hand.
Get to know Waikiki better over at SuicideGirls.com!
by Blogbot
Every week we ask the ladies and gentlemen of the web to show us their finest ink in celebration of #TattooTuesday.
Our favorite submissions from Twitter win a free 3 month membership to SuicideGirls.com.
It was an epic week in the #TattooTuesday Twitter-verse, so this week we’ve picked not one, but a total of 5 winners:
- 1. @SophioHill (Top Left) with her beautiful floral side piece.
- 2. @ellacumella (Top Right) with her super cute n’ colorful tyrannosaurus rex.
- 3. @JasonWallace13 (Center Right) with his bitter/better message, because there can be profound beauty in simplicity.
- 4. @genxgina (Bottom Left) with her “Heavy about everything but my love” lyric from “Swallowed” by Bush.
- 5. @3AN3v013R3V3R5 (Bottom Right) in honor of Earth Day with her reminder that we need to treasure the basics in life.
Enter this week’s competition by replying to this tweet with a pic of your fav tattoo and the #tattootuesday hashtag.
Good luck!
A few things to remember:
- You have to be 18 to qualify.
- The tattoo has to be yours…that means permanently etched on your body.
- On Twitter we search for your entries by looking up the hashtag #TattooTuesday, so make sure you include it in your tweet!
Check out the Tattoo Tuesday winners of weeks past!
by Alex Dueben
“Sometimes I fall very deeply in love with a character I’ve created.”
– Caitlin R. Kiernan
Caitlin R. Kiernan made a splash in 1998 when her novel Silk was released. Since then, Kiernan, who was trained as a vertebrate paleontologist, has written a number of novels including Murder of Angels and The Red Tree in addition to becoming a prolific short writer with more than half a dozen collections. Besides the dozens of magazines and anthologies she contributed to, Kiernan also releases Sirenia Digest, a monthly collection of “weird erotica.” She also was the regular writer for The Dreaming, the comic series which spun off of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman.
Kiernan just released The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, a novel that is arguably her best to date. The book centers around a schizophrenic woman, the new woman in her life, a nineteenth century painting, myth, family history, memory and truth, leaving one pondering what is real and what is not.
This month Dark Horse Comics released the first of five issues of a new comic series, Alabaster, which stars Dancy Flammarion, a character that Kiernan fans know from the novel Threshold and short story collection entitled Alabaster. For the uninitiated, Dancy is a young albino woman who has been sent by an angel to hunt monsters in haunted corners of the deep South. We reached Kiernan at her home in Rhode Island.
Read our exclusive interview with Caitlin R. Kiernan on SuicideGirls.com.
AnnaLee Suicide in Parhelion
- INTO: Living a good life.
- NOT INTO: Cars, television, cigarettes, meat, drinking culture, negativity, superficiality and people with no imaginations or desires.
- MAKES ME HAPPY: Reading and collecting books, drinking tea, solitude, ornithology and natural history, listening to the radio, baking cakes, my cat, pockets, mindpower, sleeping, the sea, old-fashioned museums, etymology, entomology, marzipan, walking and cycling, equality, understanding, compassion, passion, good manners, hermit crabs, olives, peace and quiet, the sky and meteorological phenomena, drawing, painting, churches, foxes, nature taking over man-made things, wall paintings, bees, stoicism, cats and dogs, cinema, hot baths, cooking and food (eating is the best!), gardens and wild places, lochs, rivers and anything wet, plants and trees, perfume, cardigans, grey, being a stranger in new cities, unusual encounters with other creatures, marmalade, moths, butterflies, fresh air, bioluminescence, collecting things, adding to the tattooed aviary, being productive, cold climates, wallpaper, mosses, lichens, positivity, sewing, film soundtracks, the changing seasons, red hair, pickles, whiskers and paws and cats purring, cephalopods (especially cuttlefish!). Ah, life is great.
- MAKES ME SAD: When my family are unhappy. How little we care about non-human animals, our planet and each other. People not living life as well as they could do. The fact that work, productivity and consumerism overtake life – I hate the way our society is structured. Wasting time, negativity, physical and mental illness, intolerance, cages, ownership.
- 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: A book, a quiet place, fresh air, hot tea, and of course music.
- VICES: Book buying, but that’s probably not too unhealthy. I am also addicted to expensive chocolate – that is ever so slightly unhealthy.
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: In a book.
Get to know AnnaLee better over at SuicideGirls.com!
by Blogbot / Photography: Zach Roberts
On the second Tuesday of each month, the ladies and gentlemen of Geek Girl Burlesque take over the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC for a night of naughty ‘n’ nerdy fun. April’s Geek Girl performance was dubbed “Pasties and Popcorn,” and paid tribute to some of the troupe’s favorite movies. The evening, which did indeed feature both pasties and bags bursting with popcorn, included performances inspired by classics such as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Sweeney Todd, Nightmare on Elm Street, Hocus Pocus and Saw.
The show was compered by Whit Leyenberger and Jilli Puff, who were in character as the under-age couple at the heart of Diablo Cody’s Academy Award-winning tale of teenage pregnancy, Juno. Perhaps the biggest surprise of the evening came at the end, when, after a quick costume change Jilli Puff returned to the stage as Penny Johnson from Dirty Dancing and revealed her bump was no stage prop while doing a turn appropriately enough to the tune of “Be My Baby.” Another highlight was watching Little Miss Rollerhoops, as Wednesday Addams, having a little too much fun with the disembodied hand from The Addams Family. Who knew The Thing could be so, errr, handy?
The next Geek Girl performance is on May 8th and will be steampunk themed in anticipation of the Steampunk World’s Faire, held May 18-20 at the Radisson in Piscataway, New Jersey, where the ensemble will also be making an appearance.
The Geek Girl Productions Ensemble
Little Miss Rollerhoops as Mrs Lovett from Sweeney Todd
Holly Ween as The Punisher from The Punisher
Kriv Scrivello as Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street
Esmerelda May as Oogie Boogie from Nightmare Before Christmas
Holly Ween as a victim of Jigsaw from Saw
Holly Ween, Little Miss Rollerhoops and Esmerelda May as Winifred Sanderson, Sarah Sanderson and Mary Sanderson of Hocus Pocus
Jilli Puff as Penny Johnson from Dirty Dancing
Jilli Puff reveals her Juno belly is no stage prop
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by Daniel Robert Epstein
“When I started in the 1970s I was only into music recorded before 1935. So I was a freak. I’m closer to some weird film/music nerd than like some punk or Goth.”
– Danny Elfman
When one talks about the greats in movie music composing the name Danny Elfman invariably comes up. His collaborations with Sam Raimi, Gus Van Sant and the creation of The Simpsons unmistakable theme song have made his name synonymous with great works.
However, it’s his collaborations with visionary director Tim Burton that has brought him his most acclaim. From his starring role in The Nightmare Before Christmas to his Oscar nominated score for Big Fish, their names have been eternally linked.
Now they have collaborated again on the score and original songs for Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride. Not only did Elfman create a wonderful and romantic score but he wrote and sang one of the best songs in the film, “Remains of the Day,” as the skeleton man Bonejangles.
Read our exclusive interview with Danny Elfmann on SuicideGirls.com.
