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Re: Tom Murrin AKA Alien Comic
Thank you for starting this topic Hatches.. Tom Murrin / The Alien Comic was our own Lipstick Traces from the Dadaists, a direct line from the Cabaret Voltaire to the stages of 8 BC, LaMama, Jackie 60, PS 122 and everywhere that really mattered in between. If you knew Tom or had ever seen one of his performances, you will know what a loss this is. From the entire Jackie Factory family, deepest condolences to all of his many fans, family and friends.
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Re: Tom Murrin AKA Alien Comic
I like this Trav S.D. post on Tom's death, on Travalanche http://travsd.wordpress.com/20...12/r-i-p-tom-murrin/
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Re: Tom Murrin AKA Alien Comic
Before ever knowing of Tom's contribution to performance art, I first met him as my neighbor when I lived on Ridge street with Faux Pas yeargo ago. Always smiling, always encouraging, always making the effort to support our fledgling careers. A wonderful man. Thru the years I learned of his performances and had a great conversation with Penny Arcade about him and what he gave to the downtown performance scene that soon travelled all across university campuses and was soon called "performance...
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Re: Tom Murrin AKA Alien Comic
Alien Comic was a brand name decades before art marketeers and every aspiring stage denizen wanted to be one.For a long period of time it seemd you could not pick up a local publication with event listings and not find Tom there. That is the mark of a true creative resource, just his ubiquitessness, and it reflected the tremendous output of the fellow, the widespread respect he had built and the eagerness of the audience to want more and more. Also, now, it is like we have to remind...
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Re: Tom Murrin AKA Alien Comic
Oh god no. This is horrible. He was such a sweetheart and a brilliant man.
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Re: Tom Murrin AKA Alien Comic
An informal wake for TOM MURRIN aka ALIEN COMIC will take place on Sunday, March 18 from 5-7 pm in the garden of St. Marks Church in-the-Bowery. A larger memorial is planned around the full moon of May or June. Please visit this Facebook page for more details: http://www.facebook.com/pages/...omic/147238605322461
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Re: Todd Tomarrow
I am quite stunned by the sudden passing of my Blacklips confrere, Todd, AKA Lulu. She was a true original-- drop-dead gorgeous in drag, with an impeccable comedic timing which she really honed during her Blacklips tenure-- not to mention her wig-styling & makeup skills... Really one of the best-- if not THE best. I can still recall, with a smile, her portrayal of the dissipated and jovial Queen Louise XI in both "The Red Shoes" and "Hunch" (Blacklips version of The Hunchback Of Notra...
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Re: Rice Queens - The Anne Rice topic
First of all let me just say the Vampire Chronicles are GORGEOUS. So sensual, and when reading the passages in Queen of the Damned involving Armand and Daniel (the human interviewer of Interview) I still get so hot that I have to throw down the book at some point and jack off. I confess I've only read the first three: Interview, The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned. Of these three, Queen of the Damned is my favorite, because its like those special issue comic books where all the...
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Re: The Club Creatures - Zazoo & Satori
I have enjoyed for some time (as a lurker!) "This week's brit gossip" in the New and News topic in the The Versailles Room Forum ... In fact I keep a PopIt! going for this topic, just to read "This week's brit gossip". To learn you are from Ohio makes this even more interesting ... Do you know Drew Cary or Mimi? ;-) I've just been poking around ... http://www.theclubcreatures.com/ You two are just too creative ... Last night, I printed your topic to read at the bar. This is not as hopeless...
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Re: Mondo Internet (Part 2)
I wouldn't be insulted by a Brit ad using drag... you have to understand in the UK the drag or pantomine dame tradition has been 'acceptable' for YEARS...Its totally in main stream media all over... which country would make Julian Clary or Lilly Savage household names with their own talk shows whos guests are not gay or aimed to gay audience or just comical mockery... just aimed to general audience and often covering more serious topics... In the US drag is used much more for comic effect in...
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Re: RIP, VIP
But for a few exceptions, I find the chronciling and passing of lessor knowns way more fascinating then the lives of generic stars of the day. Harold von Braunhut, Seller of Sea Monkeys, Dies at 77 By DOUGLAS MARTIN Published: December 21, 2003 Harold von Braunhut, who used comic book advertisements to sell whimsical mail-order inventions like Amazing Sea Monkeys, tiny shrimp that pop to life when water is added, died on Nov. 28 at his home in Indian Head, Md. He was 77. His wife, Yolanda,...
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Re: Fashion, Sweetie
Wow, have I ever been out of the loop. Here's an alleged trend that I have never - ever - heard of before, and what's more, I can't say that I've even noticed many (any?) of these gals around town. As a recovering goth, I'm appalled at my own ignorance. Where ARE they hiding in NYC? March 13, 2005 Gothic Lolitas: Demure vs. Dominatrix By LAURA M. HOLSON New York Times IT did not take long for Twinkle Lam to realize that she had a problem on her hands. For the past 10 months the 23-year-old...
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Re: Kenneth Anger
Lucifer, Arisen A quintessential San Francisco story, starring charismatic musician/murderer Bobby BeauSoleil* *with underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger, cult leader Charles Manson, Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, and the Straight Satans motorcycle gang in supporting roles SF Weekly November 17, 2004 By Lessley Anderson Bobby BeauSoleil bounds into the visiting room at Eastern Oregon Correctional Institute in Pendleton, Ore. His 5-foot-10-inch frame is thin, but he moves with a...
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Re: Wanted: Memories Of The Pyramid Club, 1981-1985
Hi Lisa Lisa, I also went to 103 and nightbirds after a night out. I liked Nightbirds, it was more grungy(?). 103 sometimes had too many people that would come and gawk at the strange downtown people,, in other words,,,tourists from New Jersey. I didn't know this person but I would always see CC from the clubs at 103. I sort of knew Tom at Nightbirds, I would go there many times by myself after a night of clubbing, eating and reading a comic, my mom never let me read at the table at home,...
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Re: HyperGender Burlesque
Tonight, Saturday, at 10pm HyperGender attacks yet another fun topic - villains! Some are imaginary cartoon villains like Cruella De Vil and Maleficent (presented by Pandora and Jz Bich), some come from comic books like Typhoid Mary and Joker (presented by Agent N and Lady Coco Larue), some are literary villains like Lolita (presented by Jezebel Express), others are historical characters like Bloody Queen Bathory (presented by Belle M. Baudelaire), or those often accused of villainy like...
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Old School Benefit
To begin and end the world as we know it... A veritable who's who of NYC performance promises to be on parade for 4 action-packed nights in the style of the original PS122 Benefits. Expect the unexpected as the LES Lounge comes alive at 6pm nightly...
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Zuni Mountain Sanctuary - High Mountain Desert Delights
Ahh, my Motherboarding Family! Greetings from New Mexico! I began a road trip in February, ended up here (my fourth year visiting), and have signed on to stay here through the next year with trips back and forth to NYC. Zuni Mountain...
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Tom Murrin AKA Alien Comic
It is with sadness and a heavy heart that I pass along this info... Tom Murrin AKA The Alien Comic died this morning in hospital from cancer after a stay of a little more than a week. Tom was a ground-breaker, an influence and an inspiration...
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Russ Meyer R.I.P.
King of the funny skin flicksSeptember 22, 2004BY ROGER EBERTRuss Meyer is dead. The legendary independent director, who made exploitation films but was honored as an auteur, died Saturday at his home in the Hollywood Hills. He was 82, and had been...
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David Wojnarowicz - Artist
A man buried in sand with only parts of his face visible. Two halves of a loaf of bread sewn together. Someone wearing a mask of the poet Rimbaud against various backdrops in New York City, sometimes just standing there, sometimes masturbating,...
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Yaoi and gay comics
Hello!For the anime geek squad who preferred boys kissing, Japan gave forth yaoi. And it was crap.(mostly)So the women decided to fu*k that noise and do it themselves.The links below are artistic sites created by talented young artists whose primary...
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A CRUCIBLE - A Queer New Play This January
Perfect Disgrace Theater Proudly Presents Brian Bauman’s A CRUCIBLE @ The Wild Project Pregnant Catholic School Girls Destroy American Theater A CRUCIBLE follows the drama club at Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception high school as it sets out to stage Arthur Miller's classic play, The Crucible. Conflicts erupt when ideas about sexuality and contemporary performance begin to influence the young performers and their approach to the production. The young women and men, fueled by a passion for...
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NEW PLAY THIS JANUARY - Heather Litteer aka Jessica Rabbit Domination Stars!
Perfect Disgrace Theater Proudly Presents Brian Bauman’s A CRUCIBLE @ The Wild Project Pregnant Catholic School Girls Destroy American Theater A CRUCIBLE follows the drama club at Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception high school as it sets out to stage Arthur Miller's classic play, The Crucible. Conflicts erupt when ideas about sexuality and contemporary performance begin to influence the young performers and their approach to the production. The young women and men, fueled by a passion for...
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A Crucible - A Queer New Play This January
Perfect Disgrace Theater Proudly Presents Brian Bauman’s A CRUCIBLE @ The Wild Project Pregnant Catholic School Girls Destroy American Theater A CRUCIBLE follows the drama club at Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception high school as it sets out to stage Arthur Miller's classic play, The Crucible. Conflicts erupt when ideas about sexuality and contemporary performance begin to influence the young performers and their approach to the production. The young women and men, fueled by a passion for...
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The HOWL! Arts Project 2009 Benefit Performances In September
HELP (HOWL! EMERGENCY LIFE PROJECT) OF THE ACTORS FUNDis a wonderful new community resource created to support artists who have made or continue to make their careers in NYC's East Village and Lower East Side and are in need of emergency...
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Hattie & Hapi, The Ancient Ones, Go Clubbing
Fri & Sat Oct 5 & 6 2 nites only! They dug them up and dusted them off! And now they are "going clubbing" HATTIE HATHAWAY and HAPI PHACE hit the boards one more time to host "Avant-Garde-Arama Goes Clubbing" with photo installation by Ande Whyland Video by Nelson Sullivan DJ music by Dany Johnson Click here to visit the PS 122 site! AND STARRING SPECIAL GUEST STARS Friday, Oct. 5th: Alien Comic David Ilku "Nelson Sullivan Goes Clubbing 1985-1989" Duke Lafayette Rose Wood "Nelson Sullivan The...
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Ute Lemper
Just saw Ute's cabaret act at Cafe Carlyle tonight. Singing Yiddish and French and German and Broadway songs, with a decided emphasis on Kurt Weill. The Bowie-esque quality of her readings of her own songs I expected. The debt to Lotte Lenya for the...
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Galerie Project & SUM Label Present: BirdsMakingMachine (US Debut), Anthea, Dana Ruh & Special Guests 8/30
Galerie Project & SUM Label Present: BirdsMakingMachine (US Debut), Anthea, Dana Ruh & Special Guests 8/30 FACEBOOK: [url] https://www.facebook.com/events/265882666951259/ [/url] TICKETS: [url] http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?622736 [/url] 21+ // $30 Presale // 2PM--Late // Secret Location in Brooklyn // We're thrilled to announce our hotly-anticipated, end-of-Summer gathering: a special day-into-night marathon party featuring a roster of international underground...
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Hunter Gatherers
Duo Multicultural Arts Center 62 East 4th Street Limited Engagement from March 3 rd through March 28 th playhousecreatures.org STARRING: Emily Dahlke, Joseph W. Rodriguez, Megan O’Leary and John Russell HUNTER GATHERERS is a pitch black comedy that begins with one couple’s annual dinner get-together with best friends. The evening begins with an animal sacrifice that quickly descends into more sex, violence, deception, wrestling, and dancing than at previous parties. It’s an ominously comic...
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Re: Jonny McGovern
Heads up, this is tomorrow. We're going for sure. From papermag.com SATURDAY, JULY 11 GIVE A SHOUT TO WORD UP! wordup@papermag.com Posted Jul. 6, 2009, 12:14 p.m. ET JONNY MCGOVERN'S HOMOLICIOUS COMEDY BIRTHDAY CAKE! BY JOSEPH ALEXIOU Not too long ago we interviewed comedian and Gay Pimp Jonny McGovern, and we got tales of the late night performances, fabulously decked out nightlife superstars and sexy gogo boys. But for the folks who don’t have the stamina to stay out until 5 a.m. and catch...
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Re: My own private East Village
I always gag when I see Chico do one of those pop celebrities Miss U. The one of Selena was especially bad. Ech. It makes me think he does that lazy comic book style just to fit the kitschy sentiments, or he doesn't even care about the subject he just does those types because he thinks everyone is in to them. And no one cares about Lady Di, Mother Teresa or Selena in the EV. There are much more rigorous aerosol artists around, check out the huge mural on the corner of 2nd and A. I will give...
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Re: Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School
Well, when I started Dr. Sketchy's, I advertized it on alot of illustrators communities. People started writing to me to bemoan the fact that there was nothing like that in Salt Lake City or Viriginia or wherever they lived. So, I wrote a tutorial on how to start your own. Within a few months, I had five branches. I sat down with a lawyer, wrote a licensing agreement that spells out their obligations and what they have to do. Fast forward a few months. I get a book deal for Dr. Sketchy's. Me...
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Re: Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School
Dr. Sketchy's Anti- Art School June 28, 3-6pm $10 ($15 for a table) The Lucky Cat 245 Grand St, btw Driggs and Roebling Williamsburg, Brooklyn www.drsketchy.com Dr. Sketchy's is what happens when cabaret meets art school. Artists draw glamorous burlesque girls, compete in contests, and win booze and prizes. Hosted by Molly Crabapple and John Leavitt. This week, burlesque queen Fem Appeal brings your geek out with a tribute to Uhara of Star Trek. 50% of this session's profits will be donated...
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Re: Jamaica
I must say I am LOVING this Hurricane... i know its terrible but we're all really riding this like a rollercoaster. It's now at the point where as I type i hear endless crashing of roof tiles and trees crashing. It's wonderfully wild in a majestic cinematic shipwrecked kinda way... the fine heavy rain just lashes against the windows like thick waves. Of course the front desk bwoy is as camp as Christmas and squeels an clasps his hands after each crash. It's a small hotel so it's wonderfully...
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Re: 2008 Presidential Elections part 2
IT'S ALREADY STOLEN Investigation by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast released today Don't worry about Mickey Mouse or ACORN stealing the election. According to an investigative report out today in Rolling Stone magazine, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast, after a year-long investigation, reveal a systematic program of "GOP vote tampering" on a massive scale. - Republican Secretaries of State of swing-state Colorado have quietly purged one in six names from their voter rolls. Over...
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Re: RIP, VIP - Chapter 3 (10/21/05++)
Bettie was like the Einstien of 20th century sexuality. Here's the NYTimes' obit, the quote at the end says it all. Bettie Page, Queen of Pinups, Dies at 85 By ROBERT D. McFADDEN Published: December 11, 2008 Bettie Page, a legendary pinup girl whose photographs in the nude, in bondage and in naughty-but-nice poses appeared in men’s magazines and private stashes across America in the 1950s and set the stage for the sexual revolution of the rebellious ’60s, died Thursday in Los Angeles. She...
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Re: Proposition 8: Gay Marriage Ban
via Jackie Beat's blog: Saturday, November 08, 2008 NO GAY MARRIAGE? HOW ABOUT NO GAYS!? Current mood: neglected Category: Life That's right, Breeder -- GAYS ARE GOING ON STRIKE! Yes, we Homosexuals here in sunny California -- the epicenter of not just mainstream entertainment, but the porn industry to boot, are going on permanent vacation! And you know what that means... No more amazing haircutting, hairstyling and/or hair-coloring. This is especially troublesome for the many Black women...
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Re: CLICK+ DRAG updates
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THURSDAY OCTOBER 11 CLICK + DRAG EXPERIMENT 14 THE LATEX SUPERHERO +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FUN 130 Madison St. at Mechanic's Alley in Chinatown under the Manhattan Bridge. 10 PM - 4 AM $15, $5 with invite before midnight/ $10 after. 21 and over with a valid ID. http://www.clicknyc.com Now that the barricades have lifted in Chinatown, Click + Drag returns for "The Latex Superhero", a night of shiny hero worship and fantasy. We urge you to polish...
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Re: Absolutely Leigh Bowery
Something I always forget to post... A great Comic called "Hairy Mary-Bubblegum Drag Manga" By Craig Conlan http://www.craigconlan.com/ He has this wonderful character, Ms. Lips a giant robot cat who likes to wear high heels. Reminds us a lot of Leigh Bowery with a dose of Divine for good measure. XXXOOO Satori
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Re: bibliophile
Barnes & Noble 18th St. Presents S e x W o r k e r L i t e r a t i "The literary equivalent of thong panties" -- New York Times Thursday, Sept. 26th, 2002, 6:30PM Performances, Readings & Discussion DAVID HENRY STERRY, TRACY QUAN, VERONICA VERA SEX WORKER LIT, AS DESCRIBED IN THE NY TIMES, IS THE NEWEST WAVE, COMBINING GRITTY URBAN REALISM WITH THE TIMELESSNESS OF AN UNDERDOG SURVIVING... DAVID HENRY STERRY is the author of the best selling memoir CHICKEN: SELF-PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG...
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Re: pete burns
A comic from Japan... We love this mostly because when we handed it to Pete to sign, he said "OH GOD! Where DID you dig this up? I tried to block it out!" LOL
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Re: Words we love:
Snatch is more of a London expression whereas "up North" in Liverpool there are some fabulous expressions for a girls 'bits' .... mainly MINGE or MARY Always liked to hear my mates ask me is I was out on the town last night "floggin me Mary"... has such a nice refined ring to it... The other great one is if someone is a la Courtney Love (who DID used to live in Liverpool) is... "a dirty minge"....or another word which I like "SLAG" (Check out British comic magazine "The Viz" for the comic...
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Re: Words we love:
Slag generally means Slut it the most divinely gutteral of senses! Ahh the eloquence of the British tongue... Still my very fave thing of the early 90's was a cartoon in the British "Viz" comic which then came out as a book and video... called The Fat Slags about Northern Birds (like meself!)... going out almost naked at night and stuffed like sausages into size 10s..drinking and cursing and shaggin every bloke in site... the end of the night would be a portion of chips (fries) on the walk...
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Re: Prince Harry vs. Prince William
Royal icebox Queen Elizabeth is furious over security breaches at William's birthday party that allowed some crackpot comedian dressed as Osama bin Laden to enter. If only she knew of my unsavory ambitions .....
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Re: Wigstock 2003 and post-Wigstock events
I had a great time at Wigstock. I performed in an amazing number, it was a beautiful day, I had lots of friends around me. But, I must say that as I milled about the backstage at Wigstock and looked out into the audience, I felt that there was a certain vitality missing. Not having been at a Wigstock before, I can't really know that anything was missing, but I could feel a gap where a power and strength and purpose once existed. NONETHELESS, I thought it was a great day and even more great...
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Re: The TABOO topic
She's just caught up in the trend A-list stars have been moving towards for some time now, 'branding.' The ultimate form of self-commodification. The idea is, if you start as a stand up comic, get a few C or B movie roles, snag a talk show host gig, start a magazine, then it means you can be a Broadway producer too, and next have your own cosmetics line, psychic phone site, amusement park (RosieLand?) etc. To pull all those business scams off you mostly have to have a management company and...
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Re: Yaoi and gay comics
Love this as well. Thank-you. Kristen, are you simply a fan or do you have a comic of your own? ... and if a fan ... just wondering, if you know any of the artists personally that you've posted about? Yes, always curious and always wanting to learn more. ;-) Tonya