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Lenora Claire

Scarlet woman of the Apocalipstick aka the Anatomic Bomb

About Me

I'm a Los Angeles based writer, glamour girl, performance artist-glass eater, and event producer. I've had my own sideshow cabaret called Apocalipstick as well as created and curated many art events including the "scandalous" and "mentally unbalanced" (according to publications such as The National Enquirer, Globe, LA Times, Los Angeles Magazine, LA Weekly, Variety, Bizarre Magazine TMZ , NPR, HDTV, Current TV, AOL News, Chicago tribune, Defamer,etc) Golden Gals Gone Wild show that featured erotic depictions of the Golden Girls. I currently write four columns for Frontiers Magazine (The Informer, Cheap Date, Home Fairy, and Boyfriend Material)the occasional feature, as well as celebrity interviews such as Elvira, Lynda Carter, John Waters, Julie Newmar, Bob Mackie, etc. I've also been known to model and appear in films, music videos, and on tv. Anything else you could ever want to know about me can be found at my website (relaunching soon)
Art of me by the amazing Glen Hanson..
Listen to me talk about my Golden Gals Gone Wild art show on NPR's Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me .
..Thanks Jason! Check me out as "The Muse" in the gorgeous Dean Karr directed video for Billy Talent's "Fallen Leaves". .. .. ..
I'm just now learning how to drive and I like to have big birthday parties with monkeys , moon bounces, and marching bands. I'm always up for an adventure as long as you warn me about what kind of shoes to wear.

My Interests

Joe Coleman, Alejandro Jodorowsky, glamour, camp, grand guignol, cult film, Apocalipstick, Marc and the Mambas, adam west, amazing delores, angelyne, austin young, boys in makeup, caligula, cha cha heels, circus, clowns, corsets, crispin hellion glover, cult film, david lachapelle, david lynch, disco bloodbath, disinformation, divine, dolls, drag queens, Elvira, glitter, hollywood babylon, jayne mansfield,glass eyes,joel peter witkin, john waters, jumping on beds, Kitten Natividad, klaus nomi, latex, leigh bowery, lenora claire, london, man ray, mannequins, Mark Ryden, min pins, mkultra, monkeys, new wave, oddities, Olivia, oscar wilde, parasitic twins, performance art, Pee Wee Herman, pickled punks, platform boots, playing tricks on people, puppets, robots, shaye saint john, sideshows,Serge Lutens, the bedazzler, the black dahlia, trevor brown, true crime, Tura Satana, udo kier, ugly babies, ultraviolence, uncle goddamn, underground art, vivienne westwood, warhol, Dali, The Invisibles, Japanarama, Orlan, Amanda Lepore, Jack Parsons, NLP, bad plastic surgery

I'd like to meet:

Artists, eccentrics, visionaries, counterculture cuties, a boy with style and integrity that can handle the spectacle that sometimes is my life, Robert Evans, John Paragon, Thierry Mugler, Pierre et Gilles, Patrick Wolf, and Thomas Noguchi. I've already met my greatest living inspirations Alejandro Jodorowsky and Paul Reubens, but I would have loved to have met Jayne Mansfield, Jack Parsons, Harry Houdini, PT Barnum, Serge Gainsbourg, Leigh Bowery, and Klaus Nomi.

My Friend Space
I have 48,167 friends.

Lenora Claire presents Golden Gals Gone Wild

Lenora Claire presents Merry Titmas

Thairin

Glen Hanson

James St.James

My sister Joy

Angus Oblong

Olivia

Marla Rutherford

Austin Young

Billy B

Pamela

Andrew Marlin

Ed Mironiuk

Jessie

Ray Ray

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Music:



Angelo Badalementi,Patrick Wolf, Kraftwerk, Klaus Nomi, Random 60's French pop one hit wonders, Divine, Antony and the Johnsons, Serge Gainsbourg,Marc Almond, Marc and the Mambas, MGMT, Figurine,DAF,Julie London, Shirley Bassey, Ursula 1000, Coil, Soft Cell, Ennio Morricone,Neubauten, Donovan,Ute Lemper, The Dresden Dolls,DAF, Tracy & the Plastics,David Bowie, Dead or Alive, Mum, Fadgadget, Steve Strange, Joy Division, Magnetic fields, Marianne Faithfull, Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo,Velvet Underground,Momus, Quintron, Shaye Saint John, Suede, London Suede, Pulp, The Tiger Lillies, Nina Hagen, Le Tigre, Xiu Xiu, Lunachicks, X-ray Spex, Neubauten, Pizicatto 5, My Bloody Valentine, Joe Meek, Ebola Music Orchestra, Ego Plum, Devo, This Mortal Coil, The Kids of Widney High,The Centimeters, Grace Jones,Boy George, George Michael, The Jam, early Mute records stuff, 60's euro pop, 80's synth pop, 60's soundtracks like Danger Diabolik and Barbarella.

Movies:

Santa Sangre,Sunset Blvd,Danger Diabolik, Nomi Song,The Forbidden Zone,Tarnation, Ichi the Killer,Caligula, La Dolce Vita, Faster, Pussycat! Kill Kill,Jetaime Moi Non Plus, What is it?,Torch Song Trilogy, Paris is Burning,Rubin and Ed, Whatever happened to Baby Jane, Barbarella,Bad Education, The Girl Can't Help It, City of Lost Children,Eraserhead,Showgirls, Polyester, Myra Breckinridge, Dr.Caligari both the original and the 1989 Jerry Stahl version

Television:

Eurotrash, Batman ('66) Wonder Showzen, America's Next Top Monkey, Disinfo TV, Oh! Mikey, So Graham Norton, The Queer Edge, Nip/Tuck, Golden Girls, Anderson Pooper, USA Up All Night with Rhonda Shear, Just Say Julie, and of course my show Apocalipstick (I'm working on it but I promise it's GENIUS)

Books:

Boobs, boys, and high heels or how to get dressed in just under six hours,anything on Houdini,Hollywood Babylon, Geek Love, Shock Value, Perfume,Crackpot, My Dark Places, Running with Scissors,Myra Breckinridge, Illustrated history of freak film, Against Nature,Disinfo, Feral House and REsearch stuff,the works of James Ellroy, Jerry Stahl,Emily Post,Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Truman Capote, Angus Oblong,Kenneth Anger, Sebastian Horsley, so many more...blah blah blah...ad infinitum

Heroes:

PT Barnum, Harry Houdini, Paul Ruebens, Myra Breckinridge, Leigh Bowery, Dianne Brill,Robert Evans, Jayne Mansfield, my Dad,Shaye St John.

My Blog

My bday party for French tv at the Houdini mansion

A few months ago I was contacted by producers at Canal Plus which is more or less the HBO of France regarding an upcoming five part series on Los Angeles that would run during our election time. Never...
Posted by Lenora Claire on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:59:00 PST

LA Weekly + Warhol+ Saying goodbye to a frenemy

Check out this awesome article on the WOW Gallery by Lina Lecaro in the current LA WeeklyIf you didn't have a chance to make it to the amazing opening reception for Warhol Dead at 21 at the World of W...
Posted by Lenora Claire on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:45:00 PST

My latest show + B(.)(.)BS = photos galore

Things have been so crazy I can't believe this is the first post I have been able to make about it, but Lenora Claire presents MERRY TITMAS was everything I had hoped it to be and more. I want to take...
Posted by Lenora Claire on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:26:00 PST

Because Jews throw the best Xmas parties

Merry Titmas art showCheck out this awesome interview Laist did with me where the show was named the most offensive in town"...
Posted by Lenora Claire on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:19:00 PST

Takashi Murakami takes a nap (with sexy results)

This has been one of those weeks where I remind myself that I really could never live anywhere else. A friend who works for Paramount invited me to attend the very first screening of the new Tim Burto...
Posted by Lenora Claire on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:03:00 PST

MTV covers WOW’s Just Britney show and quotes me twice

Just wait until Merry Titmas!!!MTV covers the Just Britney show. Featuring me, Perez Hilton, Chris Crocker, Plastic God, Jamie Boling, and Steven CorfeWith my first piece of it's kind. Big thank you t...
Posted by Lenora Claire on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:37:00 PST

Golden Gals makes TMZ, NPR, National Enquirer...

Whoa, I have all kinds of crazy things to report. As you may have heard everyone is talking about my upcoming show that opens August 11th at the World of Wonder gallery storefront at 6650 Hollywood B...
Posted by Lenora Claire on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:32:00 PST

Warhol stars & the Golden Girls

One of the things I love about living in Los Angeles is that when your plans don't work out for whatever reason, something equally exciting always comes along. Sure enough my friend James St. James (y...
Posted by Lenora Claire on Tue, 15 May 2007 11:49:00 PST

Giving the heartland a heart attack-Pigs in my blanket

A few weeks ago I was flown out to be a guest at the Feast of Horrors convention in Wichita, Kansas with my friend Gidget Gein Having never visited that part of the US I really had no idea what to exp...
Posted by Lenora Claire on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:44:00 PST

Magazine Queen

I've promised myself that I'd try and blog more as people are starting to treat things as though they aren't real if you aren't able to google them. A few weeks ago my article Beam Me Up, Hottie about...
Posted by Lenora Claire on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:19:00 PST