I don't remember the Babylonians or Sumerians -my memory only goes back to the 1980s-hence the next click!
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THURSDAY, JULY 12TH
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CLICK + DRAG
EXPERIMENT 11: BUFFALO BOYS
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FUN
130 Madison St. at
Mechanic's Alley in Chinatown under the Manhattan Bridge.
10 PM - 4 AM
$5 with a flier or print out and $10 without.
21 and over with a valid ID.
http://www.clicknyc.com
The Click + Drag dynamic duo of ROB ROTH and KITTY BOOTS take
their inspiration this month from Malcolm McLaren's 1992 dance
hit and the style cult that it shaped, as dreamed to life by
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD at WORLD'S END. The shake-it-up mix of South
Bronx scratching and traditional square dance sounds ultra-right
again, just as MacLaren's hybrid melting pots of culture
foreshadowed the digital "borrowing" of this age. In Click's
re-inventive way, Westwood's iconic BUFFALO GIRL becomes a
BUFFALO BOY (who is actually a 21st century androgynous blend of
both, in the manner of visage star ROBIE, the invite covermodel
who presents his ELECTRO CABARET tonight.)
The sylist BOOTS, a gifted blender of periods and ideas in a
free-associative way, also pays homage to the cartoonish side of
BUFFALO by referencing the exaggerations of late-Eighties Club
Kid style - lunchpails, mixed-up hip-hop and everlast references,
sky-high platforms. This particular mix - World's End and Club
Kid, was influential in the twin NY and London scenes that fueled
and inspired BOOTS when she first emerged here. Club Kid eminence
and 2001 clubmaker LARRY TEE will perform with BADD INC. at 1:00
A.M. along with the lovely TOBELL VON CARTIER and IVE. Expect
some Buffalo in the soundtrack courtesy of DJs LOAD REZENHAND,
SAMMY JO and KATYA CASIO.
Strict Dress Code: World's End, club kid glamour, Buffalo Girl
vs. Buffalo Boy, cyberslut, fetish, gothic, post-apocolyptic,
sexy robot, glam nerd, leather, vinyl, rubber, genderhacking,
imaginative head-to-toe black or full period costume.
Absolutely no mundane clothing, business suits, athletic wear, or
fur, ever.