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About Me

I'm an Amazonian goddess, the Benevolent Empress Of The Desert (thanks Pamita!), and a rock 'n' roll graphic designer, photographer, writer and all-around great gal. I'm currently the Listings Coordinator for the awesome alt-weekly Las Vegas CityLife .I own half of the t-shirt company Shuttlecock Ink . I was a DJ at KUNV during the infamous and award-winning Rock Avenue days, which means I've been involved in the Vegas indie-rock/punk scene since 1990. I'm out of retirement now and occasionally you can find me spinning with my awesome, all-grrl punk-rockin' DJ sisters the Beauty School Dropout DJs , and the fabulous Bargain DJ Collective with whom I hosted 11 insane Punk Rock Bingo nights at the Double Down Saloon before the gaming control board told us we had to stop.
Despite my mother's best efforts I have always been weird. My poodle has a mohawk and to frighten people I tell them his name is Travis Bickle, but it's really Boscoe (after the dog in One Crazy Summer) and my Pomeranian is El Diablo, but thanks to Korby everyone calls him Pedro now. I drive a convertible because I love the open road and the wind in my hair, or as Drew Barrymore said in the film Poison Ivy, "One day with the top down is better than a whole lifetime in a box."
I dislike cold, tomatoes, racists, that freaky baby corn, airplanes, slobs, mayo, cockroaches, conservative politics, rotten customer service and liars.

My Interests

Halloween, Punk, Rock n Roll, drinking Jack Daniel's, pinball, hot rods and muscle cars, tikis, waffles, bingo, setting things on fire, haunted hotels, using my AAA emergency vehicle service to rescue my friends, weird games designed by the Transogram Company, roadtrips, mixing up classic cocktails, ghost towns, roller derby, photographing tattooed people, poodles and driving in reverse ala The Dukes Of Hazzard.

I'd like to meet:

Absolutely no one... however, I do admire people who will take off their shoes to prove a point.

Music:

The Clash, Ramones, X, Young Fresh Fellows, Afghan Whigs, The Replacements, Sinatra, Dino, Decendents, Nashville Pussy, El Orbits, Sebadoh, Lazy Cowgirls, Wipers, Modey Lemon, Husker Du, SOB, Flash Express, Louis Prima... just about anything and everything not in the mainstream.

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, High Fidelity, Night of the Lepus, Harold and Maude, Trust, Happiness, Rock n Roll High School

Television:

I LOVE my DVR!... therefore I watch a lot of crap.

Books:

Alice In Wonderland, The Little Prince, almost anything by Kurt Vonnegut or Lester Bangs. Often I just read odd-ball books loaned to me by others.

Heroes:

All the fabulous women who are actively trying to make a difference in our messed-up world.

My Blog

Flight

Fight or flight.That's the phrase bouncing around in my head these days.I generally choose flight, as long as airplanes aren't involved.I'm supposed to be a lover, a nuturer... but that freedom has be...
Posted by Poizen Ivy on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:57:00 PST

Teeth

Over the weekend I woke up in such a fright I had to touch my teeth with my finger to ensure they were still in my mouth. I hate nightmares like this and I seem to have them fairly often.An online dre...
Posted by Poizen Ivy on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:04:00 PST

Dragsters

My first cover story!Growing up fast Drag racing isn't just for men ... or adults. Women -- including girls like Shyann Desa, below -- are picking up speed by "POIZEN" IVY...
Posted by Poizen Ivy on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:14:00 PST

Absinthe

Lookie! It's my first cover story, or at least it's my first story that's on the cover!L'heure verte Is absinthe green the color of the new Bohemian Happy Hour? by IVY HOVER REST ASSUR...
Posted by Poizen Ivy on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:41:00 PST

Feverish

Lately I'm been having crazy, fever dreams but even though I've been sick I don't think I've had a high temperature.Last night I dreamed than Angee and I found a magical, red goat in her backyard and ...
Posted by Poizen Ivy on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:30:00 PST

Crawl

I've discovered that in addition to drinking, I really like writing "Crawl," CityLife's drinking column. Here are some of my latest....We're drinking stars It's time to toast -- and get toast...
Posted by Poizen Ivy on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:42:00 PST

12 Bars of Xmas - FINAL SCHEDULE

12 Bars of Christmas - Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007Fremont Street area, from Main Street to NinthGet your drinking shoes ready! 12 stops in just over 6 hours.Come one, come all! No RSVP required, just show...
Posted by Poizen Ivy on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:56:00 PST

Compositions

Here's some snips of things I liked writing in 2007....Miss DerringerDark and theatrical -- that's the cheap and easy way to describe this double bill of Berlin's IAMX and Miss Derringer. ... IAMX is ...
Posted by Poizen Ivy on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:46:00 PST

NY77

Comedian Patton Oswalt blogged about VH-1's broadcast of the documentary NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell; read it cuz it's everything I meant to say about it a couple months ago when I watched it.The o...
Posted by Poizen Ivy on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:42:00 PST

Outsider

I wrote a Halloween Crawl column ("A-maizingly drunk: Rural recipe for Halloween fun: whiskey, vast cornfields, chainsaws") about Glendale and Overton, Nevada. Someone out there has found offense in e...
Posted by Poizen Ivy on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:50:00 PST