Bitches, they come they go Saturday through Sunday, Monday through Sunday yo'

What a busy week! I've performed every night this week except for Tuesday when I did the photo shoot at Coco de Mer for the event on June 19. The show is called "Calamity Chang Presents Spreading the Curtains at Coco de Mer" and I am SO excited about this show. This show concept is going beyond burlesque. I'm having a couple of classic burlesque acts, but the rest is veering towards erotica performance art. Goddamn, why didn't my parents send me to theater classes!? Oh wait, I guess they did send me to ballet class when I was six years old, but I bombed cause I was NOT a dainty, waifey child - I was more like a bulldog in a china shop, as they say. Ironically I only liked to eat meat when I was little, but now I prefer to eat vegetables.
A chronology of the highlights of this week:

• Sunday - Saw Rock of Ages! Was supposed to see it with Michael. Had a whole Sunday planned of playing "tourists". But the band had to rehearse for Beatles Burlesque and that night was the only night for them to all get together. So I went with my friend Jen, the only other person I know who would appreciate an 80's hair mental musical. That bummed me out a bit and maybe set me in a bad mood. Plus it was muggy and hot. And I am NOT a hot weather kind of girl!!! I want central air conditioning to follow me everywhere I go. So I got into a stupid fight with Michael over a misunderstanding and over-sensitivity on my part over something he wouldn't have any idea about. And I have this habit of storming off when I'm angry which I thought I inherited from my Mom cause she used to do that to my Dad all the time before they were married. He said they would be riding their bikes all happy go lucky down some leafy lane in rustic Taipei, Taiwan way back when, then suddenly she would get pissed over something he said and she would make a sharp turn on the next street and ride off into the sunset on her own. He says she has a bad temper, she says he should have chased after all and all would have been forgiven. Now, this piqued my interest so I asked a couple of girl friends who are in loving, committed relationships and apparently I'm not the only one who storms off when driven to madness - a lot of other girls do it too! Our reasoning was that we shut down emotionally and walking away from the situation is the only way we can cope with what's going on, and chasing us is a type of affirmation that we need to see from our partner that they have NOT shut down, that they in fact, are in control of their emotions and can rationally discuss things while we are having a fiery mental and lingual breakdown. Make sense? Well even if it does make sense, it's not constructive and I have to work on not doing that anymore. I think 99% of the time my ego and pride overwhelm me from making rational decisions and then it just becomes a Me1 Vs. Me2 infernal of too-proud-to-beg dialogue. Then I felt terrible because domestic bliss keeps me going and is what gives me the power to do what I do. People ask me all the time how I juggle having a day time career AND produce all the shows that I'm doing, and seriously the reason is because my emotional life is solid. This fight debilitated me for about 24 hours during which time I slept a lot and was so depressed. We did talk and worked things out and it made me so sad that I caused him pain. Bad Me2!
• Monday - Met with Rosebud to go over some ideas for the Coco de Mer show. The inaugural show will be myself, Rosebud, and Amber Ray. Had a really great brainstorming session with her, talked shop and boys. Later that night, happiness is restored! I went to Honi's show feeling happy and good and did my Red Priestess act. Maddy Mann and Lexi did a new number called "Samson and Delilah" and it's just sheer genius. They are so brilliant and I realized they would be great for the new summer schedule at Nurse Bettie starting on Wed, June 9!
• Tuesday - Michael shot me for the Coco de Mer show at the space where the show will actually take place. It was a VERY different shoot than what I'm accustomed to in the past. I had a real makeup artist do my makeup who was a friend of Michael's. At times things weren't going well, the vibe was wrong and I felt uncomfortable. But somehow it all worked out and we got 3 good shots in 4 hours. I absolutely LOVED the makeup. It transformed me and transformed the kind of shoot and image that came out. It went beyond anything I was expecting and is so much better. Afterwards I took everyone out to Cafe Colonial for food and wine. They have that pan de queso that I have NOT ever found anywhere in NYC since I lived in Bolivia. Yes, I've tried Mi Bolivia and I've scoured the bakeries in Queens, none of them come remotely close to the amazing mooshy, cheesy baked into the dough texture of this bread at Cafe Colonial. We looked over the photos while having our wine on the sidewalk in Soho.
• Wednesday - My Hello Kitty costume from china finally arrived!!! I am beyond stoked about this act to Steel Panther's song called "Asian Hooker"!!!!! I will debut it Monday June 6 at Honi harlows show. Heres what i look like in this amazing costume:
  
  
  At night, I did two acts at Runaround Sue's Shaken N Stirred party at The Delancey with Grace Gotham, Kita St. Cyr, and Scooter Pie. I've never met Scooter Pie before and I think she is absolutely adorable. I asked her to gogo for Beatles Burlesque on Monday night and she said yes!
• Thursday - Ticket to Ride rehearsed again this morning and they sound aamazing!!! There are some new songs that we added to the set list and (SPOILER ALERT!!!!) I am doing "Revolution" but Chinese style on Monday night. I am SO excited about this act because I am bringing back my first debut costume "China Girl" by Iggy Pop to "Revolution"! Then tonight was the Nurse Bettie show which is consistently packed and fun every Thursday. The last 3 weeks I've had a lot of Scandinavians for some reason! Swedes and Belgians too. They also do really well in the dance off competition even to Flo-Rida.
• Friday - Tomorrow night I have a meeting with another hot spot venue who wants to discuss doing a recurring show at their space. Then it's Reform School Girls show at The Slipper Room at 8pm. My old high school friend Kathleen who moved to Seattle is actually going to be here and spending the night. She has never seen me do burlesque since she moved away! I don't have anything else for Saturday and Sunday except for rehearsing and resting up for Beatles Burlesque on Monday! Oh, and I am ordering Indian food delivery one night. Why is that such a big deal? Cause my bowel system does not love Indian food the way my taste buds love it so I only eat it when no one is home for a good 10 hours. But I did invite Brassy to come over so poor Brassy...
  

I'm really tired now. Gonna go to bed. XOXO.