Orbits of a deluded mind

Sleep When You're Dead has consistently had some of the hottest acts. The last show featured "Pyro Salto" with their amazing performances with comedy and fire.



You know you want to come down for more.

After a scheduling glitch cancelled the September edition of Sleep When You're Dead, I'm so seriously looking forward to this show.



Poster features model "Victorian Mourning" who I will be featuring in a set of photos next week.

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For those of us suffering from withdrawls since SWYD isn't happening tomorrow, perhaps this will appease the hunger pains.

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The Magic City Sirens are the resident burlesque troupe at SWYD. The only problem is getting them all together for a group photo except on stage. When given the opportunity to herd the cats together, I jumped at it. In fact, I climbed on top of a bar stool to get this group shot. The rest are curtain calls and candids from the June show.



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Pyro Salto is a graceful, energetic and certainly hot fire act from the Birmingham area. In this case, only half the duet was performing. Ladies and Gents, presenting “Spyder”



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Ladies and Gentlemen! Boils and Ghouls! Freaky Children of all ages. Come down and join us for Cirque Noir at Matthews Grill in Birmingham, AL Saturday 22 Aug 09 9p-2am. This is the best Goth/Industrial, Burlesque, Dance night in the region.



Don't believe me? Here's samples of revelers from the June show!
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This Saturday, at Matthews Bar and Grill in downtown Birmingham, will be this month’s version of the south’s hottest Goth/industrial/steam party. “Sleep When You’re Dead’s” theme for this Saturday night is “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” so come in your finest fairy wings, cloven hooves or with your faun’s tail in hand and enjoy the mayhem and fun. Festivities start at 9p & the shows usually get underway at 10p.





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Last month was an absolutely kick ass edition of Sleep When You're Dead. The next edition is this Saturday!





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I'm bad..

Back in January, I had the pleasure of attending Huntsville's self described "Absurdist Burlesque" troupe. Due to a backlog of photos and personal mayhem, I set aside the photos I took till April. That was when I finally got my other computer set up to write files to CD (again). I was going to give "Clementine" (the head of the troupe) a set of the unedited photos and be done with it. Then I forgot to take the CD-r with me to Lowe Mill for another month or so. Given this, I decided to do a complete, professional edit to the set and offer the troupe a set of high quality pics to make up for the delay. Since they do a themed show, here's the results for the old west based show "Wanted."



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Just when you might have thought burlesque had disappeared from my photo journal, I 've finally gotten the time to post these shots. This is a local troupe here in Huntsville. They're creative and energetic. Permit me to introduce you to the Betty Roulette Burlesque Company!

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