Let's Talk About Sex:
This is the SuicideGirls Radio Show you've been waiting for. This Sunday we'lll be getting down and dirty with not one, but two of the world's leading sexperts: the iconic adult film star, author, producer, and sex educator Nina Hartley, and Roxana Shirazi, author of The Last Living Slut, the first book on Neil "Game Guru" Strauss' imprint Igniter Books, which we're told "makes Pamela Des Barres's I'm With the Band read like a nun's diary." Tune in to SG Radio this Sunday June 6th (10 PM til midnight) for two hours of uncensored, unadulterated sex positive talk.
Listen to SG Radio live Sunday night from 10 PM til Midnight on http://www.indie1031.com/
Got questions for Nina Hartley and Roxana Shirazi? Then dial our studio hotline digits this Sunday between 10 PM and midnight PST: 877-900-1031
Busy on Sunday? Then find all our podcasts at http://suicidegirlsradio.blip.tv/ and listen at your leisure.
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About Nina Hartley / SexWise
Nina Hartley is the star performer of over 700 Adult Videos. She has co-produced and created more than 20 'Guide to Better Sex' Videos, is the author of the book, Nina Hartley's Guide to Total Sex. She has won every major award in the Adult Entertainment Business, and has appeared on Oprah and other major shows to promote sexual expression and defend sexual rights. Nina has dedicated her life to 'Sex Positive' living."
As one of the most influential people in the entire arena of sex and sexual expression Nina Hartley recently launched 'SexWise with Nina Hartley' - a community dedicated to better life through better sex. Sexwise is an online community created by and hosted by Nina herself for the sole purpose of helping everyone and anyone live the life of their dreams by pursuing Sexual Mastery.
Inside SexWise.me members get access to Nina like they've never had before. Each week she produces members only content including an interactive online TV talk show where members post web cam questions and chat live with Nina and her star guest. Every week she contributes a column on hot topics within the community - adding her input and knowledge into the ongoing discussion about 'Sex Positive' Living. Members also get her daily musings on her blog and access to the 'Private Ask Nina' forum where members can get advice and council directly from Nina herself.
The community is full of sexually aware and accepting people, but SexWise with Nina Hartley is about more than just having great sex, it's about having a great life outside the bedroom too. "I have enjoyed my life so much directly because of Sex Positive living and it's been a life long dream of mine to create a place where adults can have real conversations about sex.
For more information about how SexWise with Nina Hartley can and will change your life for the better and to download your FREE copy of Nina's eBook simply visit:
http://www.sexwise.me/.
About Roxana Shirazi / The Last Living Slut
Honest, provocative, and vividly written, The Last Living Slut is the memoir of Roxana Shirazi, who was raised traditionally in Tehran. After her family spirits her to the West in flight from the Iranian Revolution, Shirazi is led far astray by the sound-and the sex appeal-of rock and roll. Caught between her sexual appetites, passion for music (and musicians), and fear of being a bad seed, Shirazi bares her soul to offer a raw account of her life as an eager-to-please rock groupie.
With appearances by members of Guns N' Roses, Mötley Crüe, Velvet Revolver, and many more, The Last Living Slut is a moving memoir of growing up in the political turbulence of Tehran; an unflinching portrayal of teenage cultural dislocation in London; a backstage romp that makes Pamela Des Barres's I'm with the Band read like a nun's diary; and a white-knuckled tale of jilted love and brutal revenge.
Shirazi authored her first book, on the street kids of Sao Paulo, at age 14. She resides in London where she gained a masters degree in fine arts. When she's not hanging with the band, she lectures university students on gender theory and the concepts of poststructuralist feminism. Find out more about Roxana at:
http://www.myspace.com/roxanashirazi
http://igniterbooks.com/
This is not my finest moment as a photographer. I merely offer this image up as proof that the incident I describe during my Justin Halpern / Shit My Dad Says interview actually happened (indeed it occurred moments after this snap was taken).
Anyway, those that enjoy bathroom humor should click HERE.
My SG buddy Heathervescent helped instigate the feathered anarchy that was the International Pillow Fight Day celebrations in DTLA.
For more images of the fluffy fun hit my International Pillow Fight Day photo album.
Put my bunny ears on and hopped over to the Echoplex on Friday night to see Gram Rabbit play tracks from their amazing new album Miracles & Metaphors. Those who missed the band when they were in SG Radio's studio a couple of weeks ago should check out the podcast of our show here.
Gram Rabbit will be SG Radio's guests live in-studio this Sunday (10PM til Midnight PST). Our furry friends from Joshua Tree will be giving us an exclusive preview of their amazing new album, MIRACLES & METAPHORS, and will no-doubt be eating lots of lettuce and carrots.
Gram Rabbit will be touring to promote the new CD starting April 1. Check out the video to the bombastic first single off the new record, "Candy Flip" (above).
The Rabbits are back with a vengeance. Adjust your furry ears and get ready!
Listen to SG Radio live Sunday night from 10 PM til Midnight on http://Indie1031.com
Got questions for Gram Rabbit? Then dial our studio hotline digits this Sunday between 10 PM and midnight PST: 877-900-1031
Busy on Sunday? Then find all our podcasts at http://suicidegirlsradio.blip.tv/ and listen at your leisure.
And don't forget to follow us on Twitter at: http://Twitter.com/SG_Radio
And friend us on Facebook and MySpace.
Had outrageous amounts of fun in the SucideGirls Radio studio on Sunday with Rich "Bushman" Koehler and Dan "Seat Up" Epand from Nico Vega. Much respect goes out to singer Aja Volkman for putting up with the boys' well dodgy personal habits and for being our best ever call in whistler.
Missed out on the fun? Catch the podcast HERE.
Joined the venti latte branch of the coffee party today, a grassroots organization that aims to combat the madness of the tea party movement. Find out what it's all about HERE, and be sure to make your presence known on their Facebook page.
Was Manifesting Equality on Saturday night.
Hope it works!
Can't believe anyone can be pro-Prop H8te in 2010.
That kind of philosophy is so last century, never mind last decade.
It's about time primitive minds evolved.
Thanks to Jon Stern for the images.
Down The Rabbit Hole With Camille Rose Garcia
SuicideGirls caught up with artist Camille Rose Garcia at the opening of Down The Rabbit Hole, an exhibition of the original art from her latest project, a reimagining of the illustrations that accompany the text of Lewis Carroll's classic children's book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Though the March Hare, the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse were unable to attend the party at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Los Angeles on Saturday night in person, Hollywood funnyman Robin Williams did make a somewhat unexpected appearance. Curiouser and curiouser, it transpired that Williams, who was kind enough to pose for the photo with Garcia above, is a huge fan of SuicideGirls. "We love the SuicideGirls," said an enthusiastic Williams, before posing for the snap.
Earlier, we'd spoken with Garcia for an in-depth Q&A which can be found in our interview section. After talking about the visual vocabulary and inspirations behind her Alice illustrations, our conversation turned to a core SG topic: body art. Below is an outtake from this interview in which Garcia talks about her own tattoos and her art as it appears on other people's body parts.
Nicole Powers: I notice on your website you encourage people to use your art as inspiration for their tattoos. All you ask is that people send in snaps for your tattoo gallery. What kind of photos have people sent in?
Camille Rose Garcia: I've seen a lot of really great ones. It's pretty cool seeing other people's interpretations. I think some of it maybe is the scale thing. Like I made this painting one time that I think was about three feet by six feet and [a woman] had it tattooed on the back of her calf - the whole painting. I thought, "Wow, that's amazing that it even looks good." But it did. It looked really cool.
One guy got both full sleeves of a mixture of my work, and I thought, "That's really cool. That's really dedicated." It's always really exciting and fun to see what people come up with because they'll mix the pieces up and rearrange them, which is sort of like a William Burroughs cut-up style.
NP: Tell me about your body art.
CRG: I need to get some more because I don't have nearly as much as one would think I would have.
NP: Who gets to do art on an artist?
CRG: That's the thing. I have one that I got, and I guess the guy was so nervous because he knew of my work and what I did. So he was nervous, and then I'd sit there and be like, "Oh, maybe I don't want that much color," like micromanaging everything about the color. Next time I just have to let someone do what they're going to do and not even look. I'll probably have a shoulder piece done so I can't watch. This was on my arm so I could site there and watch, which is not a good idea.
NP: If you're allowing someone to put their art on your body, then you have to surrender at some point to their vision.
CRG: That's why I don't have that much yet. Because that's the difficult part. They'd have to be an artist that I admire I guess to have it done.
NP: Do you have any ideas of what you'd like next?
CRG: Well my first idea was that I'd like I wanted to have both of my arms be all different birds, kind of thematically all from nature. But now I've been re-watching some of the old cartoons that I really like, the early Max Fleischer, Betty Boop, Koko the Clown. I was thinking maybe a montage of some of my early inspirations from when I was a kid, but I don't know how those would work together. This is the problem too. I sort of like over-think the whole theme of the whole project.
NP: Over-conceptualize?
CRG: Yes. I over-conceptualize how it will all work together.
NP: You need to just get drunk and throw a dart at a tattoo shop wall and go with a design picked that way.
CRG: I know. That's what I need to do, somewhere really bad like New Jersey. I'll get a Tasmanian Devil.
NP: An exercise in deconceptualization.
CRG: Yes, releasing the control.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, featuring the illustrations of Camille Rose Garcia, is available from Amazon.com and all fine bookstores. For more info go to CamilleRoseGarcia.com/
