Scotland Yard Gospel Choir-er and noted local tortoise owner Mary Ralph was sitting down for an Abe Lincoln tattoo at the Hard Rock Hotel’s Lollapalooza hospitality lounge when Kesha was ushered in ahead of her (though Ralph reports that the singer ultimately chickened out). Ralph adds: “They locked down the place, perhaps so we wouldn’t notice she was dressed in scraps barely covering her private regions.” SCANDY!
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Male celebutante Har Mar Superstar (aka Sean Tillmann) has been back in the midwest, appearing at parties at Debonair Social Club throughout Lolla weekend and making an extended visit to his old home base of Minneapolis to work on projects new and old. He tells Gossip Wolf he’s joined supergroup Gayngs as a keyboardist for their European tour; his recorded debut with the band will be a forthcoming single that also features Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. Tillmann’s also been practicing with his post-high school band, Calvin Krime, for their upcoming appearance alongside the Melvins at the Amphetamine Reptile 25th-anniversary blowout August 28 and has a new project called George with Krime guitarist/popular Minneapolis hairdresser Jon Kelson. After all that, Tillmann will return to Los Angeles and continue work on Stitch ‘n’ Bitch, the HBO series he’s writing—and will star in—with Ellen Page and Alia Shawkat.
Local experimental drone duo White/Light (one half of which, in the interest of full disclosure, is the fiance of one half of Gossip Wolf), building on their run of shows as part of a “12×12” installation at the MCA in March, will curate a seven-month performance series for the museum starting in October entitled “Face the Strange.” The band insists that’s a Bowie reference, not a joke about NSA Craigslist hookups.
