Yuval Oz captured some great shots of The Witkem House Band last week!
Nemo’s giant flakes are coming down fast enough to cover up everything I shoveled within minutes. It’s perfect snowman-making snow.
-ky
Greta (the dog) has been staying us for the past several days. She is not a friendly dog at first, but she’s warmed up to us all during this visit. She’s also overcome her extreme fear of stairs, at least on the way up. On our walk yesterday we passed an interesting solution to a giant and potentially dangerous hole in the sidewalk. I wonder how long it will stay like that.
-ky
Another awesome mix from Tin Mitch (aka Austin)
track list:
1. First Aid Kit - Winter Is All Over You (Baauer Remix)
2. Vanilla - This Time
3. Lapti - Private Private
4. Antwon - Livin Every Dream (Trackademicks Remix)
5. Big Boi - Mama Told Me (feat. Kelly Rowland)
6. Velour - Speedway
7. Ta-ku - BrokeAs
8. Ryan Hemsworth - BasedWorld
9. A$AP Rocky - Wild For the Night
10. Wale - Back To Ballin (feat. French Montana)
11. Rihanna - Pour It Up (RL Grime Remix)
12. Cat Power - Manhattan (feat. Angel Haze) (Ryan Hemsworth Remix)
13. Bondax - Gold
14. Shlohmo - Later
15. Jhené Aiko - Mirrors (J£ZUS MILLION Edit)
16. Giraffage - Close 2 Me
17. London Grammar - Hey Now
18. Wayward - Only Flaw
19. Frank Ocean - Pink Matter (Sivey Slow Burn Edit)
20. Bambino - The Death of Bambino
21. Evil Needle - One For Kennedy
22. Danny Brown - Lie4 (Kaytranada Remix)
23. Blue Sky Black Death - One Deep (Thuggin In The Abyss)
24. French Montana - Marble Floors (feat. Rick Ross, Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz)
25. Kaytranada & Sango - Down4U
26. Esta - Up Up And Away
27. Moods - Love Is Real
I’m performing an aerial dance solo in the CoolNY Dance Festival in DUMBO on Thursday and Saturday!
-ky
The Witkem House Band performing “Prince Nez” on February 1st, 2013
Last night the Witkem House Band performed our first show ever at The Muse in Williamsburg! We had a blast, and the audience seemed to enjoy our number, so expect more! Molly snapped some great action photos!
-ky
These are some of the tiny objects on the third floor that inspired the tiny milk carton gift from our houseguest. Occasionally we move things around to keep it interesting. The lock that the dinosaur hangs out on and the buddha’s nook are remnants from the previous owners of Witkem, who converted the top floor into a separate apartment. Lucky for us they didn’t do what happens in many converted brownstones - tear out the bannister and add a wall and a door at the top of the stairs.
Tonight I came home to gifts from our lovely house guest - chocolate and a petite milk carton to join the tiny dinosaur, doll, watering can, Buddha, and other diminutive objects that Mel and I have tucked into nooks around the third floor.
-ky
an early April 1st
On Friday night I found out that I have a week to create a piece to perform at The Muse’s Guerilla Gallery show. The piece is bringing to life one of the paintings in the show, and so on Friday night I started making a costume and brainstorming ideas with the house crew. 
We’ve come up with a dance/aerial number (I have this week to choreograph it) accompanied by the Witkem House Band! It will be their premiere!
As I was working on my costume Mel came down and asked why there was a giant poop in the backyard. I said “WHAT?!” and Mendel sighed and said that he hadn’t wanted to tell me about it, but if I wanted I could go out and take a look. It was freezing, so I decided not to. I was pretty pissed off - who or what did THAT to our backyard? - all the way through the next morning, even when it was pointed out to me that someone had written “POOP” in the snow in our yard.
I still didn’t get it. Talk about gullible.
-ky
