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About Me

One of the following statements is false:
I am over 5' tall.
I spent the first year of my life in Margate NJ; my first memory is of Lucy, the hotel shaped like an elephant.
I graduated Temple University Radio/Television/Film (Go Owls!)
I am an independent filmmaker and my titles inlcude AGENT 15 (starring Paget Brewster), LE JEU DE KINDERSPIEL (with those irrascible Duffy twins), MOUN OF TUNIS PRESENTS PRINCESS FARHANA/BOOM BOOM: HOT BURLESQUE MOVES FOR COOL CHICKS (instructional dance videos) and my feature length documentary THE VELVET HAMMER BURLESQUE.
As a Costumer, I have worked on films and TV shows such as POPULAR, THE PRIZE WINNER OF DEFIANCE OHIO and CHUCK.
I was the centerfold of Barracuda Magazine, issue 12.
As my stage persona Penny Starr Jr, I was First Runner Up of the 2004 Miss Exotic World competition.
I produce both VICTORY VARIETY HOUR ("high fallutin' low-brow") and CLUB SCHMUTZIG (dark, dirty den of bygone debauchery) at El Cid in Los Angeles.
I am the only award winning filmmaker and award winning burlesque dancer.

My Interests

Vintage lingerie, French New Wave, Weimar Berlin, the MÃ¼tter Museum, paintball, dancing and costume design.

I'd like to meet:

Flappers, Fops, Dandies, Puppets, Dolls, Indie Filmmakers, Costumers, Burlesque dancers. And Investor/Patron/Sugar Daddy types--seriously, I'm just waiting for the right producer to swoop in and exploit me.
Roger Corman, where are you when I need you?

Music:

Wagnerian opera, all bee-bop, glam rock, early punk, country western before 1970, heavy metal between 1975 and 1985, hip-hop over gangsta wrap.

Movies:

Brazil, Casablanca, 2001: A Space Oddessy, Clockwork Orange, Blade Runner, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Night of the Living Dead, The Hitchhiker (1953), Goldfinger, Forbidden Zone, Band of Outsiders, Alphaville, Auntie Mame, David Holtzman's Diary, Prospero's Books, The Hunger, Hard Day's Night/Help, Prince Achmed, Death Race 2000, Titus, Premature (doc), Sex Death & Eyeliner (doc), Modesty Blaise

Books:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K Dick, Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Complete Poems by Dorothy Parker (in particular, "The Passionate Screenwriter to His Love", "News Item" and "Two-Volume Novel"), Dracula by Bram Stoker, Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, all James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, Modesty Blaise by Peter O'Donnell, Something Wicked This Way Comes and Twice 22 by Ray Bradbury, The Hapless Child and The Curious Sofa by Edward Gorey, Pop 1280 by Jim Thompson, The Princess of Hollywood by Pleasant Gehman, Two Blocks East of Vine by Iris Berry, I Was A Teenage Dominatrix by Shauna Kenny, Voluptuous Panic and The Grand Guinol by Mel Gordon, Uncle Wiggley and Jackie and Petey Bow Wow by Howard Garis, Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffman, Raggedy Ann and Andy by Johnny Gruelle

Heroes:

Ida Lupino, PT Barnum, Edith Head, Hugh Hefner, Texas Guinan and Russ Myers

My Blog

Osama Bin Wooden

This was originally created for Puppet Terror--the show about anyone who's ever terrorized, or been terrorized by puppets, and by extention, dolls, clowns and ventriliquist dummies....
Posted by Augusta on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:48:00 PST

Our heroine, thusfar...

Last year--Divorced after 20 yearsBroke Leg--8 weeks on crutchesMy beloved 1988 Lincoln Continental diedLogic Board on 15" Mac Power Book diedProduced variety show at club that refused to advertise my...
Posted by Augusta on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:05:00 PST

VOTE for me! Send me to Viva Las Vegas!

I am entered in the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend Burlesque Competition! The top 6 gals with the most votes will have a dance-off at Viva this Easter, with the winner being crowned Miss Viva Las V...
Posted by Augusta on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:40:00 PST

My favorite dialogue

Some of the following quotes are my favorite because of their simplicity, because of what they imply in the "cut to--". Like Agar on F Troop insisting he is not going to wear a dress, he is not going...
Posted by Augusta on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:33:00 PST

Jesus Liked Loose Women or What I Did For Easter

Having just returned from a jaunt to Philadelphia to perform at the Adult Swim for Your Lives show, I jumped right into the car and headed for Viva Las Vegas, the big rockabilly festival in Vegas. I...
Posted by Augusta on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 02:02:00 PST

The Glamourous side of a Hairline Fracture

Well, now I know why no one walks in LA!Two weeks ago, I was 'bumped' by a car while crossing in a crosswalk. It didn't hurt, I didn't even scrape my elbow when I fell. I got up no problem. The dri...
Posted by Augusta on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:54:00 PST

Shanty Rock

In an effort to categorize something difficult to describe, I am hereby defining the following as Shanty Rock: Any music that features arcane lyrics and intricate arangements, which may or may no...
Posted by Augusta on Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:57:00 PST

Absinthe...

I'm so happy to hear that many of us are saying Fuck You to Prohibition by smuggling absinthe into this country. As everyone knows, you will not get to the Green Fairy--unless you have years of pro...
Posted by Augusta on Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:37:00 PST

Bye Bye Bricktops

This is a eulogy, for a dear friend, Bricktops at the Parlour club. When I first officially met Vaginal Davis, I was interviewing her for my Velvet Hammer doc. It was then she told me she was plan...
Posted by Augusta on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

TV's a Callin'

Hey kids-- I've been busy set costuming on various TV shows. If you don't know Set Costuming involves: setting the dressing room, making sure the actors put on all the wardrobe, maintaining them ...
Posted by Augusta on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST