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Re: The Palladium
I know I said that I never liked The Palladium but that's not really true. I didn't like the "trying to pretend it's Studio 54" thing that permiated the first year or so. The Steve & Ian "VIP room to nowhere" sort of thing. (If it wasn't for Haoui Montaug running the door it would have been a TOTAL nightmare) but... I DJ'd there for many years and have to say there were some brilliant things about the place too. The tech for instance -lights, video, staging etc. was the best I've ever...
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Re: Mondo Internet (Part 2)
Anna Nicole-- Would you mind telling me how you found out about the site? I used to do PR for Elle magazine, and E Jean, the creator of that site, is their advice columnist. I worked with her to help publicize it months ago, but am curiuos where you may have seen it recently. Must have gotten some more buzz around St. Valentine's... xx
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Re: Miss Understood's Thailand 2003!
Help us all ....Miss Understood, the drag community of New Yark Sitie could greatly ben-e-fit from ya findin of this ole great thai secret for da fab outfits you be pull ova there in kathy lee gifford land.... could ya please pack one of the elderly people up in ya bag- slip him or her a roofie and pack'em up- im sure customs won't mind, and we could all let them live underneath grand central, or some slum with cheap rent, and have the the person soup up sum nice little frocks so us po gals...
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Re: Beams To Bobby Part 2
I'm really sure that's EXACTLY what "you was gonna write". Don't mind her Seven, she's just clearing a blockage. Anyway, tonight is the night! Can't wait to see you Mrs. Miller. here is the info if anyone needs it. CABARET MAGIQUE! Ass Master, Bobby Miller by Jamie Casertano
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Re: Michael Moore
Moore is Brilliant.... a great thinker who is proud to be American but is not guilty of speaking his mind and lifting the rug of society and showing the shit that governments are brushing under for years... Bravo to him for taking on the big corporations and the two faced bastards in power... Also big up to Oprah...she is really championing MM on her show so well done... to be honest i just think if you have a brain you would totally be behind him on his views.. its just a question of...
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Re: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory(c'mon! you knew i would eventually make this thread)
Columbus, the capital. ...mind you, this is but a temporary residence for me - i'm trying to get back to New York. ...& look at the bitch NOW! Rupaul "Wigstock:The Movie"
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Re: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory(c'mon! you knew i would eventually make this thread)
i see what you're saying, Lex...& i agree with you. ...but i still feel this will suffice. personally, i don't think the Dahl's wanted Manson as Wonka - nor the dark version of the story. ....also, something in the back of my FABULOUS mind tells me they opted for Depp(as well as Burton). ...& look at the bitch NOW! Rupaul "Wigstock:The Movie"
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Re: Swept Away part 2
right on. james and i were having a madonna conversation at the slipper room last saturday night. i put her in the same league as james brown -- miss saturn was hoola-hooping to j.b.'s "this is a man's world" and it brought to mind the number of different musical styles he has mastered. ultimately, we agreed that j.b., like johnny cash, has talent that's more real than madonna's, but when it comes to predicting, setting and mastering trends, they're both equal i think. unless madonna isn't...
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Re: East Side, West Side, All Around The Town
The Meatpacking District has now been granted offical landmark status by the powers that be. But with everything that once made that neighborhood interesting either gone completely or stifled by the tidal wave of bottle service assholes, does the title really matter?
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Re: Fashion, Sweetie
September 15, 2003 Tell Us, Doctor, What Is It About Models? By GUY TREBAY New York Times In 1953, Dr. Edmund Bergler, a New York psychoanalyst trained at the Freud Clinic in Vienna, focused his analytic intelligence on understanding that most sadly neglected field of human pursuits: fashion. The result was a book, "Fashion and the Unconscious," a matchless addition to the literature both of homophobia and of claptrap. Dr. Bergler was not the first to suggest that the will to hoax womankind...
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
I can say from first-hand experience that posting anything about Gary Indiana will get you hexed and you'll lose everything.... If you axe me, I think JT Leroy is an author with a brilliant publicity-generating mind. I like a few authors who are supposedly publicity shy, and if you don't like publicity you don't do things and stunts like JT Leroy. I think he learned a lot from Madonna when he met her --- he makes the press come to him while he pretends to despise the attention. Speaking of...
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
Around page 50-something I started to doze off, there was too much argot, hootin' and hollerin', and the magic realism wasn't holding intact. Neither was the vaunted "incest" stuff so awfully shocking to me. Anyone who does sex work implicitly is "permitted" to do so by their Mother or Father. Big wow. But as I read on and found myself in a somewhat overstimulated state. I started writing like crazy in my diary and realized... I had been seeded. My mind was racing (and still is) - the effect...
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Re: Party Monster - Michael Alig
I went to a lot or Alig's parties at the Tunnel. They were major, I really loved the invites in those days, boxes of candy, plastic tools, etc. I remember he put one of those huge inflatable carnival things that little kids would jump in on the subway tracks. I loved his outlaw parties even more, they were so anarchist in the best anti-social/social engineering kind of way. But I have to say that the Disco 2000/Limelight scene years after that was not as alluring to me. I could see the...
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Re: Party Monster - Michael Alig
I certainly agree that the film is supposed to be about one person and one story and that's totally fine. It's unrealistic and (from an artistic standpoint) inadvisable to try and portray everything and every scene going on during that time. The scope would be too wide and it would be confusing. It makes perfect sense for the producers to have focused on one aspect of it, in this case the Alig scene. What I meant by my comments about the diversity of NYC nightlife back then was that it's...
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
S'tan-- Just catching up on this topic, and I very much enjoyed your analysis of the book on 9/20. It's one of the best I've read yet, and I really am keen on your feeling that the book has a "fermentive" effect. It's a great descriptor... Because, though I've read the book just once, I've played so many parts of it over and over in my mind (in a way somehow different than any other book I've read)...I do feel that the acrid sights, sounds, tastes and odors have, and continue to, ferment in...
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
What the fuck have I done to my eyes but read every single one of the articles on "JC" Leroy at http://www.jtleroy.com/press/articles/Atheywrote.htm [For the uninitiate: 'JC' instead of 'JT' in our argot signifies "Just Come Out" as in 'somewhat clueless,' as in 'Just a Child,' as in 'Not Quite Hip Enough.'] And all I can say is: Why BOTHER over whether JC will produce again, or not? One writer even worried the artist was on the "Truman Capote Highway". Wasn't that the first dark example...
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
and read "Heart/Deceitful" on the way to Paris, and then the second time all the way back... 'COAL' assuredly is one of the most heinous things ever put to paper! How is the kid still living after that? And not a scrap of self-pity, moralizing, or whining through any of it. Too great. And the cigarette lighter torture? The mother should be in jail (if it's true)... but (as my father said as he lit another cigarette) "all great writers have terrible childhoods." So don't ask me to be good,...
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Re: Jo-Jo Baby - DollMaker
Have had Jojo on my mind, as well as Miss Gigi, and such positive energy has been flowing through me ... at the moments I have spent reflecting on these gallant souls. I have also been thinking of all the dark curve balls life throws at that artist and how the artist -- and only the artist --comes through. Jojo - such love I am sending you. And, know you are a hero, one to pull through life's difficulties and one forever to shine through. Zazoo and Satori, thank you for keeping us all in the...
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Re: Swept Away part 2
Have to say, Madonna's snagged herself another brilliant partner: Mount Sims, the LA-based electro outfit has remixed her new single, Nobody Knows Me. Super great and best cut yet from American Life. Tho did read sad item over the weekend about new madoodoo EP to be released later this month: "Madonna: Remixed and Remade" or something. Includes previously unreleased track from ...Bedtime Sories album, of all things. Calls to mind those nice old Morrissey lyrics...reissue, repackage,...
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Re: BEWITCHED
hmm. From TV Guide: BEWITCHING DUO: It's official: Nicole Kidman has signed on to star opposite Will Ferrell in Columbia Pictures' big-screen adaptation of Bewitched. But before you get too excited about this magical pairing, keep in mind that Nora Ephron "” who hasn't made a decent film since Sleepless in Seattle in 1993 "” is on board to direct. oh, and Sweetie, info from my last post was from Internet Movie Database IMDB
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
"But the debate over the idea of gay marriage has brought out concerns by one extremist end that it will lead to people marrying their livestock to Gay Gestapo charges of homophobic bigotry against those opposed to same-sex nuptials. Neither accusation is valid, so as an independent gay woman, I think it's time to make a few things clear. First of all, despite what you hear from the Gay Elite, there is not a consensus in the gay community about this issue. We do not all operate in the...
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
The extreme right is employing a number of faulty arguments in their fight against common sense civil rights. There are those who argue that San Francisco's mayor, Gavin Newsom, has ignored the rule of law, setting the stage for rogue public officials across the country to plunge America into a state of anarchy. (California's governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, used the word "anarchy" when describing the state of affairs in San Francisco.) What is next, these hysterical thinkers ask? Will the...
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Re: RIP, VIP - Chapter 2 (3/5/04++)
Sad sad news.... comedy writer Drake Sather 44, killed himself last wk (gunshot to the head) at his loft in LA.... You probably don't know him but you will know his work - The Larry Sanders show, Ed, Zoolander,SNL.... I had the pleasure of working with Drake and even took him to London once... he had the most amazing mind, real dry sense of humor...and real cute too!!!LOL So sad that this happened... [This message was edited by Anna Nicole on 03-16-04 at 06:03 AM.]
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Re: Displaced Radical Faeries
Just wrote my ticket to Beltaine @ Short Mountain in Tennessee. This is a first for me, but from what I've read so far from the boards I'll find my "place" (and maybe my faerie name). Anyhoo, now I'm shopping for those things to protect me at night from the many earthquakes, cats-eyeball hail storms, tornados, tsunamis, and sudden strikes of lightning. But seriously, my own personal energy for this gathering has begun to flow and I am truly going with an open mind and hope to fill it up with...
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Re: Puritan Watch
Lack of Rigor in the Right Wing Mind http://www.3ammagazine.com/nonfiction/2004/apr/rightwing.html ...See quotes under 'Got Issues'... This issue is becoming my mantra. When I was in college (St. John's) http://www.sjca.edu/asp/home.aspx learning the dialectic method, one was discouraged from opening any argument with "God says..." because no-one can absolutely prove "God" said it anyhow. It was considered an argument along the lines of "My Daddy says," and infantile. Particularly gratifying...
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Re: DV by Diana Vreeland
For some reason, Chanel No5 comes to mind, but I may well be mistaken.
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Re: Puritan Watch
throughout all of this be sure to mind media manipulation... as much as I love my media, there are times when you must look away...
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Re: My Night of 1000 Stevies 14 review
Sorry I was a little rough on you Jenny but we work very hard on this night. And by most accounts it was one of, if not THE best NOTS ever. It's hard to hear complaints like, "there was no sound to the video" and "the show didn't start till 10:15". I know clubbing is not your thing and to be fair the Jackie 60 experience is pretty advanced even for jaded New Yorkers. So I'll lighten up if you'll just keep an open mind. Don't be like one of those "Ugly Americans" who go to another country and...
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Re: ORANGE ALERT for New York City
YIKES! The link I left for a cartoon about Ashcroft and the Terror alert system has changed! That link now goes to the lastest Tom Toles cartoon. Oh well. never mind.
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Re: Swept Away part 2
Madonna Has Changed Her Name!!! Just came across this on the internet. Madonna has changed her name from Madonna to Esther. OMG, talk about making a giant cultural leap.. Isn't ANYTHING sacred anymore?? Yikes, all this name-changing going on has me thinking seriously about changing the name of my penis!!! Anyway, here's the news piece published today in the Houston Chronicle June 17, 2004, 9:41AM For `Esther,' `Madonna' is immaterial ANDREW GUY JR. Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle Madonna...
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Re: RIP, VIP - Chapter 2 (3/5/04++)
How choked up I got when I heard that Marlon Brando had died today. I felt an era coming to a close. He became such an eccentric and fodder for the tabloid mills, but he helped revolutionize screen acting in his time, marched with Martin Luther King at the March on Washington in 1963 (along with Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and others), protested the screen misrepresentation of Native Americans, and was a pure counterculturist. And Lex, I'll second that sentiment about him having been a...
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Re: Karen Black
Her cabaret act in "Gypsy 83" was mind blowing! I can't imagine it in real life.
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Re: Rice Queens - The Anne Rice topic
ANNE GETS HER BITCH ON FOR THE MEDDLING RICE PICKERS !!! Those Amazon.com critics trashing her latest book best be careful .... she might hex 'em! Check out the photo -- Love her quietly seething rage.
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Re: RIP, VIP - Chapter 2 (3/5/04++)
Kersh just sent me this... its to appear in the British press (independent I think...) 'He was the most important person in British music since the birth of rock 'n' roll' By Andy Kershaw It was like I had been hit by a hammer. Jenny Abramsky, the BBC's controller of network radio, called me and said: "I've got some bad news for you, and I think you ought to sit down." As soon as she said that, my mind just raced and in a flash, before she had said it, I thought "Peel's dead". John had died...
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Re: Puritan Watch
Stan you are THE WOMAN. And you read my mind .... I was about to post that horrible bit about the Bush administration's abstinence-only mis-education program. Love the princess story who loses her man because she knew too much! Hideous. Reeeeeeeaaaaally hideous.
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
Mao tse Tung did the five C's and then some. It is just another subterfuge to call NWO a management system. As originally instituted as a pragmatic social system it was just called Totalitarianism. The key component is as Comte wrote but in later studies was more specifically called "a closed inner world (of the individual mind)." There in effect is no such thing as an individual anymore. The highest crime is to have a 'private thought.' But the huge difference between the original...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
1975-1980: CHARMING OLD NEW YORK {This post was pre-recorded.} Johnny I remember that so well, but I do wonder why you all'ins thought we were so dangerous. We were rowdy as hell but I guess I was in my own world and did not realize how mad we appeared. I learned so much from Rene... and not just about 'brusquerie' if you will, trusting in your instincts and speaking your mind, but 'how to" make a bon mot out of it, so it hit home and couldn't be erased... He is my spiritual father but when...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
Farewell charming old lines outside of nightclubs! Finally, no more waiting around to get into all my favorites: Cielo, Spirit, et al. It's PartyBuddys! Yesterday's NYT had a fascinating story about a couple of alleged former Limelight habitues, who are putting their club-smarts to good use: PartyBuddys helps Joe and Jane Schmos bypass lines and gain instant access to VIP lounges at all of the city's top clubs -- for a fee. I am so down with the hire-a-paparazzo, too. A steal at $250/night.
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
And this from Musto: (FYI the "worst club" is our favorite, CAIN) Musto Rules!
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Re: Puritan Watch
Here's a sign of hope: some bible thumpers are attempting to run a series of ads promoting a new translation of the bible for "young people" and it's "written in today's language, for today's times." I'd love to see the lingo they use to describe the crucifixion..."J wanted to jus' go back to his crib, but his brothas made him hang-out-n-shit all day on this cross till he suffocated hisself or bled to def." Good for Rolling Stone for just saying no. Good for The Onion for saying yes!
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Re: RIP, VIP - Chapter 2 (3/5/04++)
Re: Hunter Thompson As often happens, Cintra Wilson put it beautifully in today's Salon
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Re: Conspiracy Theory....
wallis' future husband was tricked by the chancellor into saying parliament had to approve his marriage. had he not fell to that legal technical trickery wallis might be royalty, tho never queen. the kids should be happy, their father, prince charles, had the presence of mind to have pretty first wife while still in love with his future second wife.
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Re: Jonah Falcon
You know, I didn't realize that our little Jonah was such a big celebrity. I mean he told me he was but I guess I didn't believe it. I just read this article about him that was in Rolling Stone Magazine. Again, he told me about it but I never got around to actually reading it. It's pretty good. You go Jonah!
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
this place was a deserted store front with a door to the back hall that paul found and took me too after the bars were shut, you had to know where it was or it looked deserted on the outside. the down stairs was and old store and up the stairs had a big front room with pealing paint and a whole lotta inventoring with hands goin' on..... bobby, tried to go the the mind shaft once, with my boyfriend at the time, and he, well we, looked so preppy (no colon just the outfit), before you restyled...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
Thanks for the advisory Hatches. I figured after they closed to redecorate something of a downgrade was going to be on the offing. And it was the lesser of the East Block eateries to begin with. I haven't been to Polonia on 1st Ave. since they also cleaned up their facade. The food there used to be serviceable and the wait staff authentic but I am assumeing the face lift means another notch up in the bland spectrum for the fare. When I want some juicy poppy seed roll or a nice smoked herring...
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Re: SEX in Jackie 60
"In the corner by the DJ booth"!!! Where was I ? Busy talking to Anna Nicole probably. There are so many "Jackie Sex Stories", it's mind boggeling. Like the time I went down to the liquor room to find one of our handsome barbacks with a VERY famous super model. (He recently told me that they were still friends. I love that). Here is another one of my favorites... I was Djing and I needed a cocktail. So of course I avoided asking our famous coctail waitress Rose (for reasons obvious to anyone...
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Re: ACT UP
Yes, I definitely see your point about the media grabbing onto disparaging sensationalism (& maybe accidentally getting some good information out in the process). And I see all the good points above about media erasure of ACT UP and other direct action. But, oh dear, a good (gay) friend of mine (not that young, even, 31) just asked me to "remind" him, "what was ACT UP again?" He asked me if it was a 12-step group. --Compare that to this direct quote from Larry Kramer in his ACT UP oral...
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Re: SEX in Jackie 60
Ah, yes, the formative years...Daddy, I think I was 19 when I started there. My first year out of high school and I stumble into Jackie's. My memories are still tied to that high school mind and you know what those memories are like: Jackie 60 seems like part of my childhood. Did you know, Kitty saw me auditioning at Clit Club and asked me to come to Jackie's? I couldn't even drink for the first couple of years (this was during the Guiliani club crackdown and Kitty even sniffed my soda...
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Re: SEX in Jackie 60
oh this topic is making me want to go out....more specifically to go back in time and go out! I totally remember Chi Chi speaking of the Hasid or midget sign of a successful party. and if you got both in one night.....well sweetie, you've won! We actually got that spacific Click @ Fun Hasid to help bartend! thanks for that reminder S'tan! And Daddy , I'll let you tell that bathroom cam story , but Im sure I will have to add my own details, they are still clear in the retina of my...