Three Bad Jacks Live in Flagstaff TONIGHT! FREE SHOW!!

Just in case you haven’t heard yet,Three Bad Jacks are playing a free show tonight with Kats of Horror! That’s right, a free show that will be at the Monte Vista cocktail lounge! The show is 21+, starts at about 8 or 9 and I hope to see you all there!

Three Bad Jacks, National Train Days and Mother’s Day <3

Boy, this weekend was fun! Friday night my mom, her boyfriend, my daughter and I went downtown for the First Friday Artwalk. We spent most of the time during the artwalk at Birch Avenue Tattoo hanging out with my man and the other Birch Ave guys. All of the artists there are so talented and I love going in to look around when they hang new work. As always, there was good food, great company and a lot of “awww”s over Annabelle (my daughter). After hanging out for a while, my mom took the little one home and put her to bed while my boyfriend Jeff and I walked over to the Monte Vista.

Three Bad Jacks and Black Orchid were both playing that night and they were both awesome as always. It was great seeing Elvis, Adam and Reuben again. Earlier that day, Jeff “El Jefe” tattooed a flat-out amazing Joe Strummer portrait on Reuben and I’m glad I got to see it in person. It was even up close, as his tattoo work always is. They are all such nice guys and I really enjoyed hanging out with them again. It was a fun show with great bands, great friends and great bands that are friends!

Elvis, the lead singer and guitarist of Three Bad Jacks.

The next morning was an early one. We got up, I went and showered, got dressed, put my Annabelle in her cute zebra dress we got at Rockabilly Reunion and her mary janes, loaded my mom, Annabelle, Jeff and I into the car and drove to Williams for National Train Days. We met up with Jillian and her husband along with Kathleen and her boyfriend and went to lunch at Pancho McGuillicuddy’s for lunch. I had heard of this place before and that it was great but I still had some minor doubts about a mexican food restaurant that had a shamrock for a sign. After my first bite, I knew there was no reason to doubt that place, it was great!

Kathleen and Annabelle after lunch. 🙂

Annabelle at the restaurant being a cutie like always. Photo copyright Jillian Danielson Photography, she is so talented!

Once we were done with lunch we went over to the train station and got our tickets for the train which was a restored open-window steam train from 1923 that has recently been converted to run on waste vegetable oil, how cool is that?!

Grand Canyon Railway 1923 Steam engine train.

1923 Steam engine train that we rode on.

Me, my boyfriend and our little one waiting for the train.

Boarding the train.

Kathleen, Jillian, Jimmy, some guy in a cowboy hat we don’t know, and Michael on the train.

Miss Annabelle-y on the train.

Photo copyright Jillian Danielson Photography

Kathleen looking gorgeous as always. Photo copyright Jillian Danielson Photography

After the train ride through the beautiful pine forest, we walked
around for a while, wandered through Williams, looked around and took a few more photos that will be posted at a later date for top-secret reasons. 😉

My mom, my daughter and I while out looking around Williams. Happy Mother’s Day!

We ended the day pretty early since Kathleen had somewhere to get to and Jillian and her husband had a long drive home. I’ll admit, I was exhausted and felt more like a vegetable than a person at that point. It was a great day and I was happy to get to spend time with all of them. I was hoping to get some shots with Taylor Mahoney in as well since he was there but we must have missed each other in passing.  It was so incredibly windy that day and my hair was not having it anyway. I saw him and his girlfriend from afar at one point and we exchanged a wave Nevertheless, I am excited to see the photos they took that day and am looking forward to shooting with him again sometime soon.

Yesterday was Mother’s Day (obviously), I spent the morning at work and the rest of the day at home with my mom and my daughter. We did some housework, ordered pizza, watched a couple of movies and went to bed.

It was a fun weekend filled with great people and great music. I hope you had a great weekend and that you have a great week ahead of you!

Xoxo,
Melissa

Three Bad Jacks and Black Orchid at the Monte V – Friday May 6th!

For those of you who will be in Flagstaff this Friday for the artwalk, Birch Avenue Tattoo will be showing artwork so be sure to stop by, check out the new look to the place and say hi to the guys at the best shop in town! When you are done with the artwalk, stop by the Monte Vista lounge for a great rockabilly band, Three Bad Jacks as well as a great metal band, Black Orchid. It’s sure to be a great show with some bad ass rockabilly guys playing flaming instruments! If you see me out, feel free to say hi, I don’t bite. ❤

Ps, To those of you going to The Meteors show, have fun!! I’m bummed I am unable to make it to that one but Three Bad Jacks and Black Orchid are always great! 🙂

Lake Havasu Rockabilly Reunion 2011 (better late than never!)

Oh wow! I haven’t posted in a while! So, to pick up where I left off, Rockabilly Reunion in February was a ton of fun! (Read on, there are photos…) It was amazing that the Rockabilly Hall of Fame came out to cover the event since it is a smaller weekender. It may be smaller but it’s growing fast and I definitely see why they came out! The music was fantastic of course, I met so many great people, drooled over the cars, hung out with the lovely Kathleen Raye and entering the pinup contest was totally worth it. I didn’t win but I was a finalist, pretty good for my second contest ever! 😉 Congrats to Maritza Martini, Lisa Luxe and Maybelle Lee, you were all so sweet and looked flawless all weekend!

Booze Bombs were fantastic, just as I expected, and I am so happy they came all the way from Germany to play. Despite having seen photos and videos of Cash’d Out, I couldn’t get over how much he truly looked like him on stage. Not to mention, it sounded like we were listening to Johnny and June themselves. It was the last show High Rollers are ever playing, sad but what a way to go out!  Voodoo Swing, Rooster Coupe Deville, Deadbeat Daddies (haha, I love that name) and Bastard Whinos were all bands I had heard but hadn’t seen play before, they were all great live! Three Bad Jacks were bad ass as always and I’m looking forward to their show next month. How can a band that lights their instruments on fire not be bad ass? Last but certainly not least, The Moonlight Howlers killed it! Based out of Williams Arizona, this band should not be missed! If you get a chance to see them, do! They are all so talented, nice and Ariel (she is the drummer and sings too) always has amazing hair and flawless outfits. She is such a doll too!

While there, I shot with Cherry Club Photography and I am glad I did! They were fun, nice and professional. I am excited to shoot with them again. To see more of the photos we did, add me on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/melissa.misfortune

The vendors were great too. I got my new favorite jacket from Red Devil Clothing (I wear that thing everywhere and get tons of compliments on it), some kick ass Sourpuss and Rock Rebel stuff and got to meet Mary, the genius designer behind Vintage Suits by Mary! I looooooove her designs, they are so feminine, cute and sexy; I have my eye on so many of her suits! I feel great every time I put on the polka dot playsuit I got at the Reunion. It has a metal zipper, an adjustable strap done in the true vintage style (with buttons) and it has boning! Like I said, she’s a swimsuit genius.

Below are just a few candids and photos of the event (as well as the photos by Cherry Club Photography because wordpress is being lame), there are way too many to post here!

Best of Show – He totally deserved that trophy!

Best of Show

Three Bad Jacks lighting the drums on fire.

Dancing onstage next to the lovely Ariel from The Moonlight Howlers

Three More Days Until Lake Havasu Rockabilly Reunion!

With so many great events just around the corner, how does a girl find time to sit down and crack open a good book? Well, I guess the next book in the Dexter series will just have to wait a little bit longer…

Lake Havasu Rockabilly Reunion is just three short days away! My stomach is filled to the brim with butterflies over this weekend. I can’t wait to see one of my favorite bands, Three Bad Jacks live again as well as Mad Max and the Wild Ones and The Moonlight Howlers. On top of all of the great bands, vendors, the car show with 400+ cars, the carnival and the after parties, I am excited to be shooting with Cherry Club Photography and I hope to see you all there supporting me in the pin-up contest! If you’re in Havasu this weekend and have nothing to do, come on out! The whole weekend costs just $10, yes TEN DOLLARS, to attend and is sure to be a great weekend surrounded by great company.

Once I get back from Rockabilly Reunion, I have more photo shoots planned and 6 weeks to get ready to vend at the Lake Havasu Tattoo Show which is April 1st, 2nd and 3rd. There are so many new products, both finished and in the works that we are dying to share with you guys! I will be posting photos and putting things up for sale as soon as my new camera gets delivered.

Oh and one more thing, if you see me at the Reunion this weekend, at the tattoo convention in April or at any other events, come say hi! I promise I don’t bite. 🙂

Lake Havasu Rockabilly Reunion 3 – Feb 18th, 19th and 20th

Lately I have been incredibly busy with some very strange things going on in my life and I am so relieved things are settling down some so I can get back to blogging, working on the clothing company, planning photo shoots and getting ready for Lake Havasu Rockabilly Reunion. Happening February 18th, 19th and 20th in Lake Havasu City Arizona, LHRR is just 4 weeks away! It is just $10 to attend the whole weekend full of hot rods, rat rods, motorcycles (a new addition this year), a carnival, beer, pin ups galore, hair stylists, vendors, after parties and of course a great line up of bands. I am especially excited to see Voodoo Swing, Cash’d Out, The Moonlight Howlers, Booze Bombs, Mad Max and the Wild Ones, and Three Bad Jacks. I will be there the whole weekend and I have officially entered the pin-up contest. I am so excited to start working on my wardrobe for it this weekend! Can’t wait to get out of the cold Flagstaff weather and soak up some much-needed vitamin D! Hope to see you cats there 🙂

The whole band line up and full event information can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=174891249209179