We meet up with Siren for a few very late night drinks at a secret watering hole in Downtown Los Angeles. This wild, stunning and highly spiritual woman is the winner of the first ever Ms. Downtown LA Beauty Pageant.
Citizen LA: It seems that people move to Hollywood, basically to use it and leave. Downtown LA does, in a sense, have the capacity for something like this to happen to it, but what I’m hoping, is those who downtown is attracting will make something good of it. So, what does it take to adapt to a city which can be very kind and very cruel?
Siren: I’d say that Downtown LA and I sort of vibrate. The essence of the city sings through me, revealing itself as a survivor. It’s a warrior who’s not going to allow itself to be taken down like the East Village. I was there in New York City. I’m sure I witnessed it for a reason. If there are enough people all at once who have the wrong attitude, it could seriously damage what we’re trying to create here. We have such a strong sense of community, such a strong ground, something that the outsiders want to be a part of. So, I think that whoever survives will be incorporated into this wonderful event. And, I’ll be here to give them their own little key to enter.
Citizen LA: It seems you were the right choice for the first ever crown.
Siren: I have to say right before I did move back downtown from NY, I started having visions about LA with oceans overtaking it and whales and dolphins being beached. I was being called back here for a very prominent sonic sort of tuning reason. I’ve gotta help people tune in, or whatever, but in order to do that, I need the people which now I have access to being the crowned Ms. Downtown LA, the MD motherfucka, doctor of divinity.
Citizen LA: I’m sure you feel a responsibility to the city who voted for you.
Siren: I was the class president of my school, with a purple Mohawk, mind you. I won that presidential contest by offering them truthfully what I could offer. Everyday was Halloween. I held crazy events all the time. I had students becoming teachers, teachers becoming students, cross-dressing; it was just craziness. I thought how wonderful would it be to make a city like this. I think it’s possible. At that point in time, I think it was a window into the future. Now we’re in the next phase and ready to continue to help people strive for something. We’re all in this together.
Citizen LA: Earlier you mentioned something about vampires?
Siren: As you notice, I am wearing a bloodletting, queen of vampire elders, ankh, sort of device. I also call it a tuning fork and I kind of find myself, here, returned to downtown as a tuning fork for the new era about to approach. So this is sort of significant in this whole new gate-keeping process.
Citizen LA: I honestly don’t think you’re referring to the Hollywood vampire thing or Vlad the Impaler. I think it comes from something a little deeper.
Siren: The real vampire draws on something much deeper and of a much sweeter essence than your blood, my darling. And that essence we call manna, or samadhi… It’s the essence of enlightenment; it’s an essence that, when you tap into it, you have a spiritual experience. My whole thing is get people back in tune with the tribe. There’s a vibrational gathering, a formula that happens within a sect of people, like those living in downtown LA. They’re all reaching this vortex; we’re all meeting up in this center here, and ready to make something happen.
Citizen LA: What types of places and social events would you like see developed in downtown?
Siren: We need a communal area, not a botanica, we have enough of those, and they’re in the wrong locations. One idea is to create a central point for the spirits to co-join and unleash itself as a ritualistic area, a place that could be used for readings or questioning someone’s path and having answers. Or having ritual for the full moon every month, which is what I do anyway! I think everybody should have that timeless sort of world where we can make anything happen, like manifest a snow cone in the middle of the desert, you know what I’m sayin’?
Citizen LA: I’m not going to argue with you. I’m in no position to argue with you.
Siren: I have to say the powers of manifestation downtown are now becoming like they are out there on the playa. It’s like, ok I want a giant organic chocolate chip pancake and then voila, there comes the bell and the angel comes running. You know, it’s happening, and I think we’re all having these experiences. I’ve noticed something very different in the way my creations have been working lately. Through certain people, some of the most wonderful creations are coming forth. I want to share that experience with people because I think a lot of people can really relate to that. I think people are feeling it, but they haven’t put it into words or consciously thought about it.
Citizen LA: Thanks for running in the beauty pageant and being such a good sport. Downtown LA really needed a wild spirit like yourself.
Siren: I wanted to thank everyone just for the energy and the passion and the creative intent that went into it. I didn’t get a chance while we were there since everyone was hung-over. Now’s my chance to thank the judges, the owners, the people, you are all so fabulous and so real and we were right there together, it was one perfect moment. It was magical, it was stimulating…it was ecstasy, it was just pure fucking wet, sweat and craziness. And that’s what makes something like the New Renaissance ready to happen.
Citizen LA: Any last words?
Siren: Hello human race, I invite all you animals into this moment with me to awaken from the seduction of domestication. Allow my penetration into your thought waves through sound waves to return to the relations of your preditorial nature. May they help you to follow the sounds because music is your maker.