“Someday we will be famous and rich and get a massage from you”
This is just one version of the silly myths about my massage business. One doesn’t have to be rich OR famous to get a kick-ass, deep tissue and/or relaxing massage to soothe your mind, body and soul.
“Normal person getting massage by Dr. Dot ^
I have massage assistants all over the world and we have good prices. If you come to the Dr. Dot assistant closest to you, it will be cheaper then having them come to you. Having a massage in your home naturally cost more, this isn’t Domino’s pizza ok?
If you want a rub down, just let me know. If you happen to live in NYC or NJ I could probably massage you myself, but if not, one of my tried and tested and very much trusted massage assistants will sort you out.
Click HERE to see my assistants and scroll lightly over the flag next to their name to find out their location…
I have them in the following locations:
Helsinki, Hartford, Berlin, NJ. NY, VA, MD, Philly-PA, FLA (Miami and Tampa), Boston, All over CT, Dallas, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Zurich, London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Dublin, LA (and OC), Paris, Vancouver, Dallas, Albuquerque, Toronto and the list keeps growing.
I was walking around Berlin the other day and couldn't believe my eyes. You know they take this open mindedness a bit too far sometimes, I mean, just look at some of the Architecture….
But then again, my blog is sometimes too "open minded" as well…
It is with tears in my eyes (and all over the keyboards) that I write the words, my dear friend Petra lost her fight with cancer last night
^ Petra Iris and Petra ^
^ Petra ^ Billy (Smashing Pumpkins) & Me
^ us two with Manny (ex Stone Roses)
^ Iris and Petra ^ Happy times.. Petra and I out in Berlin
I am brutally beating myself up mentally because I wasn't there for her at her bedside. The last time I saw her was October 28th, the day before I left back to the USA. I went to her house and saw her and her twin sister, Iris. I gave them their belated birthday presents and I gave Petra a massage. She was really ill and when I said good bye I burst out in tears, as I knew in my heart there was a chance I would never see her again. Fuck! Life is short, show the people you love how much you love them, don't wait.
Petra was a Libra, a sweet, caring fun person. An optimist, never saying anything negative about anyone,ever. She lived life to the fullest, even up to the end. I want to post some things below, images of things she loved, things she had pictures of in her cool, hot pink and red bed room. She had a red shag carpet, hot pink furniture and heart shaped lights all around, pink curtains and a fuzzy red chair, her room screamed Rockabilly. Here are some of Petra's favorite things, Heaven has just inherited a new Angel … 🙁
Petra LOVED ELVIS and the Beatles too
And oooh how she loved Sex and the city! We watched it together many a nights..
^ Petra has tons of these
< Petra loved the Lord of the Rings books and films and wore one of those rings
^ Petra knew Johnny really well, but never bragged. She adored him, says he is super kind and fun.
Going to bed now, will rub my puffy eyes to sleep. Now I am faced with another decision, go to Atlanta on Wednesday to see my family as planned
and then fly to Berlin on Dec 1st or change it all around and go to Berlin now. Not sure when the funeral is yet, I hear it can take weeks in Germany.
All I know is Death don't no mercy…
"Well now death don't have no mercy in this land He'll come to your house and he won't stay long Look 'round the room one of your family will be gone Death don't have no mercy in this land" Hot Tuna
I had only been in Berlin for 24 hours and was already massaging the amazing Stereophonics. I wasn't even close to catching my breath or unpacking, but nevertheless, not tired enough to turn down such a gig.My friend Quinner, whom I've known since 1992 is on tour with them. He invited me to come rub everybody down. I have never met this band before and certainly wasn't familiar with their music. A friend of mine from the UK told me “they are as huge as Coldplay! Go see them!”. I was so tired from my jet lag, I was really not in the mood to go anywhere, but dragged my tired ass to the Columbia Hall anyways to see them all.
Glad I did. What a great bunch of people. The management was sweet as pie and so was the band. The singer, Kelly has an incredible voice, rough and strong, super powerful. It was a sold out show and the place was heavin' with Brits who live in Berlin. I could hear every song perfectly from my massage room. I didn't see much of the show, as they smoke so much in Berlin, the air makes your eyes blood red within minutes. The band was not amused at how smokey the place was. It's so ignorant when people smoke at concerts, the smoke kills the singers voice and makes it hell.
^ Kelly and I (slap that arrogant look off my face k?). You can see my Leopard Bra, how cheesy..
Anyhow, the bands main members are Kelly Jones (singer/guitarist/song writer) and Richard Jones (Bass). They come from South Wales (yummy accents!) and have been friends since like the 3rd grade (that's what Quinner told me anyways). The drummer is from Argentina and is called Javier Weyler. The keyboardist, Barry, is from Manchester and had gorgeous eyes, like most Mancunians by the way…. I didn't take his picture though, slipped my mind, too much going on.
^ Richard (6 feet of fun)
After the show they all got a massage and we hung around havin' a laugh and what not. The roadies were in and out of the dressing room and even they were cool. One of the cool things about being in Berlin is that when bands pass through, they are usually on their way to another country and they give me certain things that they can not bring across borders, loads of small change and other goodies… YAY!
I know, it's taken me ages to finally write my Mariah blog. I just landed not even a week ago back from 6 weeks in Berlin (not much fun as I had to move).
Now that I am home, of course I am swamped with much more work than I normally have, and those of you who know me, know I burn the
Ever heard of Good Charlotte? If not, read their Biography because it would take me too long to explain who they really are. Just know, they had all of the females between the ages of 14 and 21 excited last night in Berlin. Moist and screaming. Well, not all females. Jasmine and her girlfriends for some reason “dislike” this band. I was always curious, why do they dislike them so much? Then I realized, you couldn’t have hate with out a tad of love in there somewhere. I mean, you really have had to love or care about something in the past in order to whip up such a strong emotion as hate, know what I mean?
Petra is doing so well, she is actually on tour with Good Charlotte as their German tour manager (most bands have a main tour manager and one from each country they tour). She called me to come massage the lads and I gratefully accepted. They played at my old Berlin stomping grounds, Huxley’s Neue Welt, a club in Kreuzberg that was closed down for a few years, but is now open again and looking (and sounding) better than ever. I have seen so many shows there in the past, Oasis (where Noel and Liam got their first EVER massage in their life from yours truly) Iggy Pop, Blur (snobs!) Hot House Flowers, Andrew Strong, Van Halen, Steve Vai and it goes on and on.
As soon as I got there, the singer, well, one of the singers (there are two, and they are twin brothers) wanted a 90 minute rub down asap. His name is Benji and he is a cutie. 25 years old, from Maryland, but lives in LA when not on tour. He has amazing tattoos all over which kept me entertained. He wasn’t offended when I told him Jasmine and her gal pals hate his band. He laughed and said I should call her to invite her down to the show, that maybe she would change her tune if she saw them live. I think Jasmine is just into older groups like Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Beatles and Nirvana, so she just doesn’t take too kindly to new groups.
Benji allowed me to photograph his awesome tattoos, as words just couldn’t do them justice, feast your eyes on these
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
That’s Benji Madden ^ (sweet heart and super polite to his fans!)
Then I massaged Joel Madden, Benji’s twin brother. I was surprised when he said he was the singer. Oh, two singers, got it. Hey, I have only seen one of their videos and not even the whole video at that. I somehow think they were relieved to meet a girl who didn’t know all of their songs and whole life story. There were HOARDS of young screaming girls lined up out side the venue when I pulled up by the way. Joel had a 40 minute massage and had to be told a few times by his other tour manager to wind it up, as it is ‘show time’. I know he would have wanted a two hour massage, he was diggin’ it!
Joel Madden Good Charlotte
^ Joel = fine!
DOH! I only found out when I got home and googled them that Joel and Benji are twins. Makes sense now that I think about the similarities. They both had Irish flag tattoos and are both 25 and from Maryland and from the audience (yes I watched a few songs to see what all the screaming was about) they kind of looked alike on stage. Now I get it, duh! lol
^ Paul, the bass player holding a home made gift (a sign with his name on it) from a German fan
After the show I massaged Paul, the bass player. He put on “Dark side of the moon” on his lap top during the massage. Gorgeous images kept appearing on his lap top, all of which he took with his own camera. He is an amazing photographer! The tattoo on his right arm (well, you can’t see all of it) is a Salvador Dali image. He didn’t seem to mind that people kept walking in and out the room during his entire massage. Nice disposition on that guy. I was massaging his hand and someone knocked and said “can I come in” and I said, “sure, just givin him a hand job” we all burst out in laughter. Love pushin’ that envelope.
I didn’t have time to massage everyone in Good Charlotte this time as they were leaving shortly after the show (only had time to massage bass player) to drive to Sweden. Must be a wicked long drive!
^ Billy Martin, guitarist of Good Charlotte
Towards the end, I got to chatting with the other guitarist, Billy (don’t shoot me if I got his name wrong, I am a Zappa/Beatles/Zeppelin/Floyd fan after all! I said ” hope you aren’t offended, but you look like you are a member of Marylin Manson’s band”. On the contrary, he took that as the highest compliment, he “LOVES MM!”.
While Good Charlotte was on stage ( I did see SOME of their show) I massaged the opening act called “The Explosion” a punk band from Boston. Nice guys. A few of them were so thin; I could have broken them in half if I wanted to. I am sure you will be hearing more of The Explosion, they rocked! And I want to thank them for letting me scam all of their chocolate from their dressing room. They didn’t want it (obviously they don’t eat anyways) and I told them I need it as a weapon to bribe Jasmine 🙂 You gotta do what you gotta do.
Anyhow, yesterdays blog took me more than 4 hours thanks to DIAL up hell, and this is heading towards 4 hours too, so I have to stop and get to bed. Good Charlotte asked me to come to Hamburg (which is a 3 hour drive from Berlin) this coming Sunday to massage them again, but I doubt I can go as I have to move on Monday to my new flat (shit hole). I do have a great massage assistant in Hamburg anyways, Maren. When I offered her to the tour manager, Mark, he said “no, we only want you!”. By the way, Mark is sweet, calm and the most polite tour manager (besides Petra 😉 that I have met in a LONG time. Not bad on the eyes either. All in all, it was a great night, in every way.
I love it when I am backstage in Berlin and I am introduced to the band and start chatting and they all get this look of wonder on their faces and say “wow, you speak great English!” lol. I like to wind them up a bit before I tell them I am American.
Help, Berlin is growing on me again! Yikes! Maybe cause I know I am just passing through (?)
Happy Turkey Day- even though I am in Germany and no one celebrates it here, I still organized a chicken oriented dinner for Jasmine, Alicia and myself. Then, Petra
I finally found out when the 5th Wheel show will air on TV. Way back in August ( or was it September?) I filmed for HOURS and hours with the producers and other contestants of the 5th Wheel show in Manhattan.
You can read about this way back in my blog. But anyhow, if you want to see it:
It will also be aired on TV on March 1st at 1:00am, so really, if you stay up late (until 1am)
Petra LOVED ELVIS and the Beatles too 
< Petra loved the Lord of the Rings books and films and wore one of those rings
