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Ghouls Gone Wild: The Haunted Pubs Of Pioneer Square
Monday, April 27, 2015 10:44 — 0 Comments
I met Natalie (my Safety Monitor) at The J&M Cafe: a busy, wood and brass cantina beneath a crumbling tin-ceiling. It was the first stop on the Spooked In Seattle, Haunted Pub Tour and the first watering hole for the evening’s spirits. She wasn’t alone… a stocky-rockabilly was leaning over her table. Natalie can take care of herself, but I don’t like strangers and wasn’t sure whether I was going to have to deal with this guy all night. Thank god he was only the waiter, but there was a sinister aura about him that hinted toward the macabre. I’m not sure […]
Fuck More: A Liaison With Trannysaurus Rox
Friday, April 3, 2015 17:13 — 1 Comment
I caught my first glimpse of Trannysaurus Rox at their very first show, an evening of wonder and debauchery at The Josephine. At the time all I saw was a horsewhip held high above the crowd and later pieced that recollection together with another of a bearded-girl in assless chaps. I didn’t know who they were and neither did anyone else, but I knew they were worth looking into, so I got in touch with the lead guitarist and asked about meeting him at their next show… ASAP. He got back to me ASAP, saying that they were playing a show “TONIGHT” […]
The Head Of Nosferatu: An Interview With Artist Tony Hicks
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:58 — 0 Comments
In December of 2014 The Mourning Market hosted it’s semi regular bizarre at El Corazon in Eastlake, it was through this collection of eccentric curators and dark-artists that I was first introduced to the work Of Mr. Shamus Tinplate, AKA Tony Hicks of Tinplate Studios. He’s like a cuddly cross between Ming The Merciless and Professor Frink; using wire, Super Sculpey and Japanese mulberry-paper to create a bestiary of canned-cryptids, mummified faeries and teacups swimming with octosapien monsters. Inspired by 19th century Wunderkammers, Tony is now the proprietor of his own 21st century Etsy site, but you don’t have to follow him on Etsy to find […]
Love On A Bed Of Nails: An Anti-Valentine’s Cabaret Massacre – Poster Bot
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 11:48 — 0 Comments
Downtown Seattle, The Rendezvous, the night after Valentine’s. It was a perfect night for what the good people of Heart-On called an Anti-Valentine’s Cabaret Massacre. When I woke up the next morning it wasn’t because I felt rested. I felt sick. I didn’t have too much to drink, but had definitely indulged in way too much kummerspeck. Heart-On, hosted by Armatage Spanks, was a joint venture between Seattle performance artists and a New Orleans based burlesque troupe called Freaksheaux To Geaux (pronounced Freakshow To Go for those of us who don’t speak Creole). I didn’t know what to expect, but any self-described […]
Mutant Taxonomy: An Interview With The Fabulous Downey Brothers – Poster Bot
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 11:15 — 0 Comments
West Seattle is a No-Go Zone… isolated from the rest of the city, it’s natives endured a parallel evolution. West Seattleites are weird and make a fitting audience for the weirdest band in the world: The Fabulous Downey Brothers, a subgenus of the human species, unparalleled even against the characters of a Kurt Vonnegut novel. Delving into the dangers of Social Darwinism, I’m pleased to present Monarch readers with a Fabulous Downey interview, obtained at great personal risk during their show at The Benbow Room, a pirate themed restaurant/bar in the mutant haven of West Seattle’s Admiral District.Â
Here And Now: A Night At The Josephine†– Poster Bot
Friday, January 16, 2015 11:29 — 0 Comments
I’ve never had a very good working relationship with reality. I grew up in California. I was a latchkey kid. Rather than using my after-school freedom to bask in the warm Californian sun, my preference was to park in front of the TV and bask in the warmth of its rays. I watched a lot of cartoons and like the rest of my contemporaries I watched a fair share of 80’s teen movies: The Breakfast Club, Revenge Of The Nerds, Pretty In Pink… These films helped shape my imagination and it is an unjust tragedy that by the time I […]
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