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A TASTE OF TASTE WITH...

PEACHES

🎤 Las Culturistas, 🩰 Florentina Holzinger, 👕 Aimless Gallery Latex, and more.

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November 18, 2024

Peaches (aka Merrill Nisker) is a Berlin-based musician. The electroclash legend’s been on the scene since the nineties and is the mastermind behind club classics like Fuck the Pain Away and XX AAA. Her iconic and transgressive debut, The Teaches of Peaches, was released over 20 years ago and laid the groundwork for countless artists who followed. She’s got a legacy so nice it’s been monumentalized many times, in book format and recently on the silver screen. In October, the Teaches of Peaches documentary premiered, and the Peaches Goes Bananas documentary premiered at Venice Film Festival. She tells us she’s working on new music, so stay tuned. Lucky for us, Peaches is here to tell us what she’s been into.

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Las Culturistas podcast with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang @lasculturistas @mattrogerstho @fayedunaway
I love Las Culturistas! It feels like hanging out with friends as I practice my active listening skills. Friends who love and critique culture with many cute and uncomfortable opinions. Realness and queerness!  I particularly love the recent episode “Rode Hard and Put Away Wet” with Harper Steele and Will Ferrell where they chat about their Netflix documentary Will & Harper. The doc is beautiful! A road trip that revitalized the relationship between the two friends after Harper's transition at 61. This film brilliantly and generously includes us in both struggles and joy, and focuses on so many topics - age, friendship, openness, privilege, mistakes, learning. This episode is next level - comedians showing vulnerability, grace, queerness, and still being funny and entertaining af!
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Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Fame (1980) Films
Real NYC sweaty, down and dirty films talking about suicide, excessive drug use, race, and sex in a way you just can’t show now. I was young when I saw both, and they have stuck with me not because of their catchy pop soundtracks, but because they are both deeply disturbing and gritty films!
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The Best Pussies in the World
My cats, Sad Jazz and Miss Vanjie. I have included a pic so you can know what I’m on about. I love their weird quirky personalities! They are strongly social, patient, and so different from each other. They give me so much joy - just look at them!
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Florentina Holzinger - @floholzinger
The most powerful, creative, dangerous, funny, and empowering work I have ever experienced, and I’ve experienced 5 different productions of theirs in the last 6 years.  A large performance group - always at least 10 to 30 female and non-binary nude performers. Wide range of ages and physically abled bodies. Elaborate stage and sound designs. Dangerous physical feats, emotional discussion, live body modification. Aerial suspensions with motorcycles, helicopters, cars. Fire, chain sawing, Houdini water recreation. Classic & contemporary art reinterpretations, trickery, reality and more! It’s exciting, important, palpable and inspired!  I’m not making this up!!!!
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Aimless Gallery Latex @aimlessgallery
They make unique latex wear with powerful messages like “Genitals Do Not Define Gender”. I have a shirt from them that reads “Protect Trans Youth” - it’s sexy, comfy & casual, which is a feat for latex wear. Aimless Gallery is a not-for-profit organization that donates to Trans Youth funds. 
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Muschikraft Beer @muschikraft
The only beer I drink. It's really tasty! I had no idea that in many countries it has actually been illegal for women to brew beer. Muschifraft breaks the mold! They also have alcohol-free beer. I love this statement on their website: “The entire process (of beer brewing) violates various laws from many countries like Russia, India, Italy, Belize, Madagascar, and the US (over 50 countries worldwide). Find it ridiculous? Good. Because the most illegal thing should be outlawing equality.”
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Hairy Multi-Boob Costume by Charlie Le Mindu @charlielemindu
Now that all my costumes are at my home, I can reflect on the last 25 years of wearing them. This is my most prized costume, a piece Charlie Le Mindu made for a show he did in collaboration with Crazy Horse in Paris. Crazy Horse is a cabaret show of sexy dancers that all have the same body type – an idea of “perfection”, but Charlie turned them all into multi-boobed glorious hair creatures! After the show run was completed, he told me that I inspired this work and gave me a one-of-a-kind costume from the show. It has four parts - a cone shaped, long blonde hair wig, long blonde hair wings, a silicone multi-boob bra, and a silicone boob thong. I love it for its playful critique on body image. I love using it performatively as an absurd reinvention of a strip tease in four parts. You might know Charlie’s work from his recent collaboration with Doja Cat for Coachella. Her brilliant dancers were tearing it up in his long blond hair suits. Note: Mentioning that Charlie was “inspired by me” is not to show how great I am, or that people want to make unique pieces for me, but to show how we are inspired by each other. Through sharing we open up a community and find commonality and purpose.
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Vulva Hand Soap
Handmade from real models and in various colors. They smell amazing. The owner's statement: “There has been a long time of shadowing this organ and we need to bring it to the light.”
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@artcanbreakyourheart - Boob Poof and Boob Side Table
This pop art piece makes me and all my guests smile. I love putting my feet up on my huge boobs! artcanbreakyourheart makes these and other handmade furniture pieces.
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Two pieces by Allyson Mitchell - both by Allyson Mitchell
Reclining “Lady Sasquatch”  First serious piece of art I ever bought. It is textural and just gorgeous - the "Lady Sasquatch" reclining in all her glory! This series was called Ladies Sasquatch and included life-like sculptures of these incredible creatures. About the Ladies Sasquatch art installation… “In an attempt to imagine different sexual currencies Ladies Sasquatch valorizes cellulite, dirty fingernails, tattoos, big butts, fangs, collectivity and collaboration. The creatures in Ladies Sasquatch marry popular culture, native iconography, and radical dyke culture to create a kind of queer utopian dream world.” Trucker Balls earring Allyson, along with artist Dierdre Logue are the creators of Killjoy’s Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House - a haunted house dedicated to the scariness that is Lesbianism. It was amazing, creative, and funny. There was one room that had “dykes” smashing trucker balls. I bought this gold trucker balls dangling earring in the gift shop. It's one of my favourite pieces of jewelry to wear.
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