Where in the world is Christel Escosa?

Sydney, babes.


It smells really really nice.

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Achtung bitte.

More pics of when Liz came to Berlin to see me last month.

Gas Masks


Being touristy


Buskers


Ice Cream eat and run. We TRIED to pay. TWICE. One ignored us and the other refused to take our money.


Ice cream face


Photoautomat


Liz was squatting outside it waiting for our pics to come out and got propositioned by a seedy guy...


...as I sat safely out of view in the pissy smelling booth.


Checking out the wicked market find that I generously gave up for her (I couldn't fit it in my luggage or wear it in 30 degree heat anyways booooo)


Atmospheric smoking in the city pic


Murgh face


SNACKTIME


Retro style weird fro hair. I don't quite remember what was even going on here.


Walking home we took shelter in another pissy smelling (phone) booth cause it was cold and rainy and we were drunk. Liz had the HICCUPS by then, so it was ALL OVER RED ROVER.



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On Old Fashion Film (part 2): LDN

Now for some of the London half of the roll...these make me feel mad homesick!!

A shot that LIZ took of Kip and Peggy from the PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART when I made her come along to interview them with me...I'm saving some of her other shots to post up on imyouare


Caught Ja'maie Babes in a bad moment, but I couldn't resist posting this cause I miss him so much!


Charlie Le Poo Poo, who is currently in Mexicoooo with Super Super magazine saying HOLA CARINOS to the CHICO LATINOS


The light was sooo pretty in the studio, Charlie had asked me, "Christel, can you sew?" "Yeah babes, I used to be a fashion student before I dropped out!" I shouldn't have said that. The piece he's working on was a little something something he did for Ms P-p-p-pokerface herself. I had to stand around for ages whilst he pokered my face and prodded and cut - my eyes out just about...All that aside, I LOVE this pic


Liz just reminds me SO. MUCH. of Noddy in this one:


Lizzie, datchu?


Photo by Sani


If Liz is Noddy, then maybe I could be Dinah?


CRUMBLE CAT and his mum Sani


Self portrait - killing film


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On Old Fashioned Film: NYC

You know it takes me aaaaages to get film developed. I dropped these off today (after picking up 2 pairs of boots from the shoe repairers...I found a huge crack in the platform of my most favouritest Opening Ceremony boots and was despairing as to whether I'd have to lay them to rest, but they were SAVED! And my Life with Bird boots also got a new lease on life as I'd been wearing the wooden clog heel away...THANKS MR COOMBS SIR!) and managed to score a sweet oversized, oh-so-90s faded denim jacket whilst waiting for the 1 hour processing to roll by.

This roll of film had London and NYC stuff on it, so again, a bit of a flashback. I do so ADORE film. I'm gonna split them into two posts; here are some of the pics from NYC...

From when I met and interviewed the ever awesome LEMONADE (<<--- click click to check their latest mixtape, single and some nice - if i do say so myself - individual portraits of the trio) boys at the Tribeca Grand in NYC


Chilling with Michael on our Central Park Lark, just before we jumped on some fixed gear bikes...


What can I say? I stopped traffic.


The little ching chong dry cleaner/laundromat down the street from Leon's place...soo cute


The pizza place a few doors down from the dry cleaners


The drug store across the street from Leon's. It always feels so wrong that they're commonly called drugstores in the US. But I guess that's exactly what they are...


In Leon's room


At the Tribeca Grand...taken by the CRAY-CRAY-PARTAY-BABY SANTIIIII!


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Some Leftovers

These are some Berlin left over pics that I haven't gotten round to posting til now...

I initially wanted to call this post 'The Sexy Way of the Princess and other Berlinisms' but decided it was too long.

So anyways, on the day that the first lot of these pics were taken, we realised midway after our liquid lunch that the reason why everything was closed on a Saturday was because it was reunification day!

God, this Alvin and the Chipmunks video below used to be SO epic in my mind and for some reason associated with Cher? Don't ask me why.



Anyway. Here are bits of my reunification day...

"David Guetta I wanna make heart to you I'm sorry I'm Felix"


"I love David sooooooooooo much (Guetta) heart"


Antiquitaten Schmuck


I remind myself weirdly of a a pair of fingers crossed in this pic.


YEAAAH!


An involved discussion


Street life


Hagen


Rumbled by some randoms at the Tommy Hilfiger party. Photo by LIZ


Shoegazing on the dancefloor


Bathroom


Scary green girls gyrating at the Tommy Hilfiger party as the N.A. side of N.A.S.A. was on the decks


Captain Felix. Photo by LIZ


LIZ cakes


PEACE. Photo by LIZ


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Hagen Daze

Our friend Hagen I enjoy as much as the ice cream. That is quite a statement.

Still good. Dunno about Felix.


The start of the graceful decline.


Love Parade.


The forehead kiss of death


Passed through Drunky Town and into Shit Face territory


Consternation


"Hagen, we need to get you out of Raquel's bed before she gets home, here, sleep under the cat's carpet on the floor."


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Holler, Berlin

The one photo I really want to post I am VERBOTEN to *cry*

Even though it would be a justifiable revenge for being pushed into a pile of trash only to tumble onto Shoreditch High Street's gutter resulting in a fractured ankle. My right foot hasn't got elephantitis no more, but it's still the wrong shape. THANKS LIZZIE, IT TOTALLY WASN'T FUNNY. BETCH.

Anyway, regarding the BEST photo in the world, I even tried to edit it in photoshop to protect the perpetrator *ahem LIZ*, but was strictly forbidden to publish it in any shape or form, edited or not. (EMAIL ME IF YOU WANNA SEE IT GUYS)

'I'm sorry I'm' Felix, Hagen, Ani and Liz' amazing trousers


Loading up, Felix and Hagen


Crazy cakes


Off Centre


Poke her face, please don't gang bang, innit.


Sliding down the wall during a photo session in the teeny little back store room?!


In the name of the David, the Kelly, the Akon and the holy Pasha, Ibiza.


Ani-cakes Skywalker


IBIZA 4 EVA


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Guetta-tastica

Where in the world am I? BERLIN, BABIES. So let's just start with this post shall we?

This pretty much speaks for itself. Hat courtesy of Felix 'David Guetta' / 'God' Niklas

S'more random shit

*WARNING*: I'm going to allow myself the self-indulgence of going on a very boring little ramble below. I'll try and keep it short.

So I know 'ennui' is a totally wanked up, pretentious kinda word, and probably not even the right one to use in my current mind state. I'm feeling a kind of self/world loathing these early wee hours of this morning. Is that, in it's way, the same thing as ennui? Hmm. Probably not.

Decidedly not.

Ok I'm done with my weariness at existence at 5am after a brief dip into Drunky Town (it was TRÉS brief, trusssst). Wow, I didn't even have have to try to keep it snappy! How succinct of me. Sorry, I'm adding this bit cause I really wanted to use the word 'succinct'. Anyhooz.

Here's s'more of that random shit like I said.

Just faffing about at various places...


Valley of the Dolls


He glued that shit on proper


Stox


The Regulators (I think?) at JCDC


House party FAIL (the party not the lifesize cut-out..though it kinda scared me everytime I walked past it)


I miss having elevators in apartment buildings and stuff.


Tall wall of sugar. And the Pick'n'Mix candy stand.


The floor where I was buying ice cream at. For some reason, wherever I buy ice cream, the people serving me always give me (freeeee) extra scoops - or at the very least extra big scoops - with a smile. Maybe it's cause I always complain (with charm, obviously) about how small the receptacle is.


"I LOVE YOU MORE THAN UNCOOKED FRIED EGGS!" Dangy.


Ja'Maie and Billie, beautiful tramps.


Goos (on the decks at Bar Fly) and me (pout face FAIL)


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AH. Exasperation. I think that's the word I was looking for earlier.

Glitter Poop

I to-ed and fro-ed for about 2 hours and then it took me another 2 hours to get there, but I made the final hour of the Girlcore Glitter Ball.

GOOS IS IN THE LONDON TOWWWWWN with Livia, so I couldn't miss his first night out.

I DID miss Peaches' set (which she admonished me for), missed getting my hair done by Charlie or nails done by WAH, missed Bisoux Bisoux, but I DID catch ISA GT who roccccckkkked the foooookin' HAUUUUSSSSSS

Peaches in the Bath House DJ cage


ISA GT (click click)


Jess and Charlie (who was doing hair) and his ginger ring - well I prefer to call it his Ranga Halo...


Goos helping Peaches onto the piano


Naomi // and her HAWT (OMG) SHOESSSSS


Naomi me and Emy (stolen from Emyyyy)


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