Black Cat Burlesque's Profile |
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New England's Most Infamous Burlesque Troupe and the World's Sexiest Monsters |
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| Age: | 37 years old |
| Sex: | Female |
| Location: | Boston, Salem, New York, and the Great Beyond, Massachusetts |
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| Height: | 0' 0" |
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| Last Login: | May 28, 2008 (92 days back) |
About Me |
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| Dedicated to putting the BUMP back into the night, Black Cat Burlesque has
been raising pulses, the dead and whole lot of hell since 2003. The bad seeds
of Boston Burlesque, this scream team mines the depths of their twisted psyches—blending
striptease thrills and spookshow chills to push the boundaries of the art form
and explore the dark, cobwebbed corners of neo-cabaret!
Subscribe to our blog to get all the latest news, gigs and gore "..Black Cat Burlesque, a troupe that adds fresh, creepy camp to the art form... .. also celebrate the burlesque revision of female beauty, which rejects the notion that women have to be thin, much to the delight of many women in the audience .."
"The Black Cat Burlesque is the Moulin Rouge of Hades. You will have one HELL of a good time." "That was some f*cked up shit!" Join the spooky fun at: Click to join blackcatburlesque If you are a band, and would like to be friends, please message us and explain why. We perform with a lot of live acts, but the band requests on MySpace have just become out of control and please, no comment images over 400 pixels wide! |
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My Interests |
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“Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.” Goya BCB's cauldron bubbles over with influences that include: Famous Monsters of Filmland, Edgar Allen Poe, Russ Meyer, Hammer studios, animation, comic books, the Misfits,Phantom of the Paradise, theatre of cruelty, LuchaLibre, Santo movies, Monster movies, Maxfield Parrish, Alice Cooper, German expressionism, Grimm fairy tales, Weimer Era cabaret, italian zombie flicks, European folklore, giant Japanese monsters, Edward Gorey, Monty Python, Grand Guignol, Lucha Libre, Joshi Puroresu, musical theater, Scooby Doo, the cartoon network, the candy aisle, and of course, mortuary science. |
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I'd like to meet:Monsters-at-large, Gorehounds, Screamqueens, Glamour Ghouls, Evil Geniuses, Russ Meyer as a Kung Fu Zombie, Mad Scientists, Masked Wrestlers, Rowdy Robots, and all those that love them."I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters. " |
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Music:Beat Cirus,Groovy Ghoulies, Los Straightjackets, Dresden Dolls, the Misfits, Thee Monkey Butlers, the Itchies, Electrolux, Gogol Bordello, Reverend Glasseye, Stereo Lab, Goblin, Theivery Corporation, Iggy and The Stooges, MC5, Baptist Generals, Scud Mountain Boys, Lightning Bolt, CRASS, Beat Happening, The Black Keys, The Mountain Goats, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The White Stripes, Old Time Relijun, The Meteors, gypsy flamenco, garage/rockabilly, "noise", opera, old sabbath, old metallica, misfits, slayer, ministry, godflesh and j.b.'s side projects, aphex twin, neurosis, unwound, karma to burn, pixies, gossip, air, man...or astroman?, fugazi, the fucking champs, cocteau twins, my bloody valentine, lush, bjork, old cure, belle and sebastian, herb alpert, the living marimbas, vic mizzy, henry mancini, apocalyptica, no-shadow kick, massive attack, louis armstrong, dan blakeslee, impala, satan's pilgrims, mr. airplaneman, elastica, tom waits, scissorfight, hoover, old iron maiden, john carpenter's halloween and the fog soundtracks, old halloween sound effect albums, Classic Soul, Ride, DJ Shadow, Brit Invasion, Eurotica, Small Faces, The Monkees, Stereo Totale, Paula Kelley, VU, Ennio Morricone, Dresden Dolls, The Guess Who, Guitar Wolf, Sleep, Beat Science, Thee Monkey Butlers, Air, Bollywood soundtracks, Zepplin, Godzilla soundtracks, Bobby Fuller Four, Vintage radio shows, NPR, Massive Attack, Salt-N-Peppa, Public Enemy, Soul Coughing, Imperial Teen, Aphex Twin, LL Cool J, 60's garage and psychedelic, new wave, tom jones, german cabaret songs, andrew bird, Arthur Lee and Love, MC5 and much much more! |
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Movies:Harold and Maude, The Black Cat (1934), Creature from the Black Lagoon and most of Universal Horror Movies from the thirties to the sixties, Hammer Films, Nosferatu, Martin, The Eye, Venom Warrior,Dario Argento, Mario Bava, Todd Browning, The Naked Kiss, Shock Corridor, Kill Bills, Barbarella,The Exorcist, The Russ Meyer Bosommania collection, White Zombie, Resevoir Dogs, Wild in the Streets, Zoolander, Best in Show, Sergio Leone Westerns, The Big Heat, 28 Days Later, Devil Fetus, Peter Jackson, the Something Weird collections, Blood Feast, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, True Romance, Parents, The Women, Jackie Chan before Hollywood got to him, Ginger Snaps, Lone Wolf and Cub, Santo and Blue Demon vs. Anything, Doomed Megapolis, TOHO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Television:“The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers.” “[After being asked what he thinks about people saying the 6th season of Buffy got a little too dark] |
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Books:"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell ”Oscar Wilde “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
“Farewell happy fields "Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame." “The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.” G. K. Chesterton |
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Heroes:“The monster was the best friend I ever had.” |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | Single |
| Children: | I don't want kids |
| Occupation: | The Bad Seeds of Burlesque |
My Pictures |
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My Blog |
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April 19th: J. Cannibal’s Feast of Flesh 666! |
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| Real-life undertaker and long time zombie fanatic J. Cannibaldubbed the King of Horror Burlesquepresents a gruesome banquet of midnight mayhem!
Free gory goodie bags will be handed out to all, and ... Posted by Black Cat Burlesque on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:14:00 PST |
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12/20 - Ghouls in the Garage! |
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| Click here for the event page
GHOULS IN THE GARAGE crashes TT's in Central Square on the Third Thursday of every month, digging up an orgy of mind-blowing tracks from rock's rawest cemetery!
DJs Ma... Posted by Black Cat Burlesque on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:54:00 PST |
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New Name, Same Night |
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| Ghouls Night Out is now Ghouls in the Garage. We're still spinning fierce 60s punk, garage, hard psych, psychobilly & scuzz&We're also adding more cult movies to project on stage and play by the b... Posted by Black Cat Burlesque on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:11:00 PST |
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Spooky Surf & Fearsome Females!!! |
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| Come on down for a wild night of spooky surf and gruesome garage from beyond the grave!!!
Shake your ass with Black Cat Burlesque as we rock out to the sinister surf sounds of The Ghastly Ones! T... Posted by Black Cat Burlesque on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:16:00 PST |
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Sept. 29th: Feast of Flesh V! |
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Black Ocean PresentsJ. CANNIBAL'S FEAST OF FLESHfeaturing the legendary classic EVIL DEADplus special guests BLACK CAT BURLESQUEwith live music by BAD ASHSaturday September 29 / Midnight / $10... Posted by Black Cat Burlesque on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:17:00 PST |
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Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School - June 10th |
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| While Devilicia's off to Exotic World in Las Vegas, J. Cannibal and Mary Widow are holding down the fort in Boston with a very special installment of Dr. Sketchy's. Come join us for an afternoon of fi... Posted by Black Cat Burlesque on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:11:00 PST |
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In Memory of Shawn Poirer, High Priest of Salem Witches |
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| We just found out that my beloved friend Shawn Poirer, High Priest of Salem Witches and one truly magical man, passed away this weekend (the official release by his best friend and business partner, C... Posted by Black Cat Burlesque on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:49:00 PST |
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Upcoming Shows! |
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| What is it they say in car dealership ads?...March Madness? The Spring Equinox is bringing a whole lot of Black Cat Burlesque and La Gata Negra goodness your way!
March 22, 2007The opening night... Posted by Black Cat Burlesque on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:13:00 PST |
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BCB is in (and on!) the Boston Phoenix this week |
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| The full article about the Boston burlesque scene is here (which was excellently written by Sarah Faith Alterman, who really gets it, probably because she's done it herself as well) along with some ot... Posted by Black Cat Burlesque on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:53:00 PST |
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The Demons of Sumerian Burlesque |
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| So maybe striptease is the NEXT oldest profession...........while I was checking out some ancient Sumerian and Mesopotamian mythology, I ran across the legend of the Descent of Inanna (Ishtar in... Posted by Black Cat Burlesque on Sun, 21 May 2006 06:08:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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