Calpernia Addams Diary

Calpernia for LifeWorks Mentoring and Open Artists with Open Arms

http://www.openartistswithopenarms.com http://lifeworksmentoring.org Listen to actor, activist and musician, Calpernia Addams speak on youth, LifeWorks, and mentoring. Calpernia coached actress Felicity Huffman, in her Academy-Award nominated performance as a transgender woman in the film Transamerica (2005)-which calpernia was also featured. Additionally, Calpernia performed alongside Jane Fonda, Glenn Close, Salma Hayek, Alicia Keys, & others in a production of The Vagina [...]

Calpernia Sings “Amado Mio” from Gilda

Hey kids, I’ve been working up new songs for my upcoming Halloween Eve performance at Miss Kittys this Friday, and ultimately for my new weekly “Unreal” show beginning on Fridays at West Hollywood’s newly-made-over-for-performance Hamburger Mary’s. Here’s a preview of my version of “Amado Mio”, indelibly performed by Rita Hayworth in “Gilda” (a movie that [...]

Selene Luna Performs “Callin’ It Out”

Cal-pal Selene Luna is featured here in a clip from the San Francsico performance of her amazing one woman show “I Don’t Care Anymore“, performing the song I was lucky enough to get to write for her, “Callin’ It Out”! And here’s her dancing to the eponymous Phil Collins hit:

Great Moments in Rock and Roll Comic: Calpernia Edition

Cal-pal Selena Martinez was kind enough to come and see Jer Ber and me perform our musical cabaret/play “Transfixed” when we took it to San Francisco a few months ago, and she has narrated her experience to comic artist Joel Orff for his “Great Moments in Rock and Roll” series. What a double honor! Check out [...]

Calpernia Teams With Shepard Fairey & Celebs for Equality Project

Join FAIR and Homotracker for the official launch party of “The Shepard Fairey Equality Project” on the roof of the Andaz West Hollywood on Thurs Nov 12th to benefit marriage equality and see twenty of the celeb-customized prints unveiled… Shepard will be DJ-ing, media and VIP’s abound, OPEN BAR, valet available, and one of the best [...]

Bad Questions to Ask a Transsexual: 1,000,000+ Views!

How exciting! “Bad Questions: The Director’s Cut”, my sassy improvised comedy video telling rude people how I feel about their questions, has reached over 1,000,000 views! Combined with the original, longer cut’s 300,000 views the concept has 1,300,000+ views! Not bad for a transsexual topic. What really kicked it off was YouTube’s surprising decision to [...]

Art From Mila and Jayna: Calpernia Eats the Bell Witch’s Soul

My musings yesterday on letting go of childhood fears in the face of adult realities attracted the keen imaginations of the fantastically talented girls over at the Transponder podcast, Jayna and Mila Pavlin. Everyone knows them for their insightful podcasts over at trans-ponder.com, but I also really connected with their artistic side when I followed [...]

I Hate the Bell Witch, But I’m Not Scared of Her

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“Paint (NSFW Dirty Mouth Preview Mix)” – New Calpernia Song!

(If you just gotta have the preview mix NOW, I put it up on my Music Page and on PayPal for 99¢. Help Sister Calpernia get some more Sweet Tea vodka and cosmettix! ) Hey kids! Just putting up a preview of my new song, “Paint”. I’m writing several new songs for my new live show at [...]

See Calpernia Solo Musical Set at Miss Kitty’s Oct 30th and 31st

Hey kids, come see me do some NEW music in a solo set for the ULTIMATE depraved and debaucherous Halloween party at Miss Kitty’s Parlour, Oct 30th and 31st at the Dragonfly on Santa Monica at Wilcox Pl. Facebook event link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=179845192677 LIMITED NUMBER OF PRESALE TIX AVAILABLE BY CLICKING HERE [...]