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Re: BURNING MAN
burning man is fabulous. it can renew my faith in humanity. and as a "ritual junkie" i'm so into the neo-pagan/cyber-shamanic aspect of the whole effigy burning in the desert thang. (not to mention the mind-expanding psychedelics!!) i love looking out over "the playa" and fantasizing about a colony on the moon that would be just like Black Rock City. THOUSANDS of people all co-existing, all giving one another the freedom to create and live in their own realities, and LOTS OF ART!! it blows...
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Re: BURNING MAN
Well, it has taken weeks of thought on the issue to reach this decision, and it was tough, tough, tough...but after all the plans and arrangements, I've come to decide that I've simply got to attend Wigstock over Burning Man for the single and obvious reason: Burning Man will continue, Wigstock will not, and I've never been to Wigstock. I want/need that experience, end of story. However, Michael Alig at his height couldn't produce an event that could rival the boundless energy and creativity...
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Re: BURNING MAN
found an excuse to reactivate this topic... my camp crew has created a FAB website with message boards for discussing all of our logistic/artistic issues. woo woo fields funny to me that as i keep moving around the families and communities i hold close keep me tied thru virtual apron strings. hallelujah for the internet!! it's not too early to start thinking about this year's burn. anyone? anyone??
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Re: Displaced Radical Faeries
I am sorry this post is a long and scattered but since it is fresh in my mind everything came out all at once. My tenses are screwey, and my spelling is a bit off, so patience please... Hey Mom, You would have loved it all! I am by no means a camper, and I dealt with it just fine. I was afraid it would be 200 homos huddled around a habachi (sp?) cooking an eggplant, but they have the system DOWN! Meals are regular 3 times a day. People are asked to participate any way they feel...
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Re: BURNING MAN
I'm still spinning from the 10,000 miles I must have traveled in the last 24 hours. So I thought I would try to express some of the strange visions in my head. After driving a van for 10 hours straight, through the desert, buzzing on double shots of espresso and listening to bad radio so as not to drive off the road and into the abyss of darkness, I finally arrived in LA at 3 am. Took a plane at 3 pm and now I'm back in NYC. I'm sure Goblin will have many posts soon, but I thought I would...
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Re: Straight To Hell (Sex Stories)
D3.12.1-3. flesh We were locked in an underground cavern. There was some sort of starlet leading our decent. She had long brown hair. Straight, silky, thick, red highlights and parted in the middle, it was very seventies -- it was very seductive. She would stop sometimes and turn to see if we were still following her. Then she'd giggle. I'd have been scared I think if I'd been alone. But, although I could see no one else, I felt the presence of others. It was like that 'watching' you feeling...
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Re: Nightclub Disasters
The Granddaddy of all horrible club fires occurred in Boston at the Coconut Grove in 1942, killing 492 people. The fire was started by someone simply lighting a match in order to screw in a lightbulb. Most of the victims died from smoke inhalation, though locked exits were a factor. If such a tragedy can be caused by a match, how could anyone even dream of pyrotechnics? I have always been opposed to them, and still am to this day. Though fire-eating can be safer and more easily contained, it...
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Re: Nightclub Disasters
I found this tidbit, from theBostonChannel.com interesting, and not reported anywhere else - http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/2009042/detail.html Also read that each burn pateint's hospital bill will be in the $400,000-500,000 range. So the $500 saved on the insulation yielded a $20 million hospital bill, among other heartache and tragic losses not even measurable, a huge hit to the club industry worldwide, and so much more.
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Re: ARCADIA! Opening Night Gala May 30 at CBGB Gallery
Seven Thank you so much! Thank-you for taking the time and care to write it. Originally, we had worked out a deal to record in a professional studio one month ahead of the event for the CD however 1) sponsorship interest had dropped when we went to war. 2) In order to have done the CD in the studio the artists had to have their songs ready to go by March 1, March 15 at the latest. Although most of the show was cast mid-Feb. Folks were just not working that far in advance. Mia worked very...
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Re: BURNING MAN
I needed a few days back before I could post. It was a little crazy journey back but it was an amazing journey over all. This year I learned about faith and the way the universe works for you when your on the correct path. Not a small lesson to learn. As for the Veuve story..... As I was sitting on the top of the bus in my best desert punk realness...... I was amazed with the burn even more that last year. Maybe because we were so close that my eyebrows were singed, but it was so beautiful.
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
Thanks for the dialogue! Roman a clef always has been with us. 'Liaisons Dangereuses' is a great example. That book was a total scandal and banned when it appeared. The author was forced to write a book on the Joys of Marriage or some such drivel to clear his name. (That book was NOT a best seller...) In any event, what happened with Truman is he wrote in a 'fiction' (Answered Prayers) the details of a murder of a high society gent, by his wife, one of the grandes dames... The lady had...
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Re: East Side, West Side, All Around The Town
Thanks for posting the link, Randella. For all its hype about the new clubs opening, somehow this article was not very encouraging. The best thing about the article was reading how the local community board was -- for once -- powerless to stop all these clubs from opening. That's refreshing to hear, and more power to the new entrepreneurs who are trying to make a difference, forge ahead and reinvent the nightclubbing experience. David Rabin once again shows everyone what an asshole he is by...
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Re: Puritan Watch
Dr LAURA ... what a puritan... This was e-mailed to me, thought it was cute.. Laura Schlessinger is a US radio personality, > who dispenses advice to people who call in to her Radio show. On her > radio show recently, she said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, > homosexuality is an abomination, according to Leviticus 18:22, and > cannot be condoned under any circumstance. The following response is an > open letter to Dr. Laura, penned by a US resident, which was posted >...
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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: BURNING MAN
Havent had a chance to report on this years Burn. It's Fashion Week after all!!! not the same without our beloved Texx! -- I think that might have been part of the reason I went a bit overboard this year! trying to compensate! oh well, its the journey , right? here are two of my favorite art pieces.
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Re: Hattie Hathaway in Threepenny Opera
I'm trying to convince the actual, real Mack the Knife to attend but he keeps saying he's got another building to burn down. It is hard to press him while he's picking his teeth with a stilletto.
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Re: GWB and Catch 22
CATCH-22 IN ACTION -- "MORALS WAIVERS" granted to new army recruits... SOCIOPATHS rendered fit for duty... As per Catch-22.... If you can be declared insane, you are thereupon deemed unfit for duty. But then you're sent back to fly another mission... Why? .... So Yossarian refuses to wear his uniform anymore. He appears at roll call stark naked. He is asked why, and he replies that after one his airmen was shot up in the plane, and his uniform bloodied, he never wanted to wear a US Air Force...
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Re: But Darling I WAS a punk.
I just saw the tail end of that Don Letts docu! will def be watching it again on the rerun. Don was always one of the nicest, most sensible and even-keeled guys in those days-- often in the midst of total mayhem. And yes the reggae cross-over those days-- all the punk clubs played it, every band that could attempt that backbeat had a reggae-inspired song (the Ramones couldn't, bless 'em). And we loved the political content. This was before the homophobia became in-your-face. When will we get...
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Re: Adam Goldstone - RIP, VIP our beloved "mista bitch"
What we know so far about the circumstances around his death. He was at Burning Man, which he looks forward to all year. He fell and hit his head, thought he was okay, then a few hours later went into a seizure and died. This is being looked into by the Reno police. I was just talking with Paula, the Swedish Housewife, about the logistics of that, a dead body at Burning Man. We agreed that Adam would want to go in The Burn at the climax.
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Re: New and News, Part 6
Here's a hilarious editorial from Der Speigel today. If you are wondering what europeans are thinking right now about the end of the Little Bush Idiocracy. The article has a few good bellylaughs and is outspoken in a way US media gave up 6 years ago. When have you ever heard any US journalist rightly deem Little Bush as delusional, or in an emotional fugue, or disasociative? Listen........ Bush's European Disaster By Sidney Blumenthal The president's trip was a pageant of disdain, delusion...
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Re: Politically Incorrect VI
The bizarre thing about the whole case is that it WAS entrapment. Craig tapped his foot for crying out loud, hardly an action that threatens society. Another victim-less crime for the police to waste taxpayer money on while real crimes are being perpetrated. To make matters worse, this supposed "sting" operation, featuring cute trade as bait, happened at an airport of all places, a setting where surely more serious security issues abound. It's been depressing to watch talk show hosts...
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Re: Provincetown 2
By K.C. MYERS STAFF WRITER November 03, 2007 PROVINCETOWN "” With the town on edge after 10 suspicious fires in recent weeks, an arson occurred again last night, this time with serious consequences. The earliest suspicious fires were found in trash cans, then progressed to unoccupied houses or homes under construction, Provincetown Fire Chief Michael Trovato said. Until last night, the damage had not been extensive. Last night, one or more arsonists pushed leaves and other debris against the...
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House of Xtravaganza Ball 7/22 in Midtown
FATHER JOSE X. & THE ICONIC HOUSE OF XTRAVAGANZA IN CELEBRATION OF THEIR 30TH ANNIVERSARY "WRATH OF THE GODS & GODDESSES" BALL SUNDAY, JULY 22ND 2012 DOORS OPEN AT 8PM / BALL BEGINS AT 11PM XL NIGHTCLUB 512 WEST 42ND STREET, NYC ADMISSION: $30.00 AT THE DOOR ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE AT XL BOX OFFICE http://www.showclix.com/event/XBALL Other information: https://www.facebook.com/events/151075545016950 Photo above: DAVID IAN XTRAVAGANZA in 1988, photo by Johnny Dynell 18 YEARS OLD TO...
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Susan Tyrrell
Just saw John Waters " Crybaby" again last night on TV and had forgotten about the divine Susan "SuSu" Tyrrell. She was a true exotic beauty in her day too.LA Weekly November 2000By Paul CullemPhoto by Anne FishbeinIn late April of this year, after...
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CLUB USA
Back in the days when big clubs were a dime a dozen (Mars, Area, Palladium, Roxy, Limelight, Tunnel, Tracks, Sound Factory etc) I have to confess that Club USA, formerly located in Times Square, was one of my favorite all-time spaces. Though there...
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PROPAGANDA! 034: RAMI DEEJAY / MIKE FISHER / SAMSARA | Sullivan Room
Come see for yourself what makes the Electronic Dance Music world go round... The people, the vibe, the talent… SULLIVAN ROOM PROPAGANDA! 034: MIKE FISHER [Stranjjurr / Nurvous Records] www.residentadvisor.net/dj/fisher www.soundcloud.com/mikefisher Mike Fisher is a veteran in the world of dance music as both a DJ, Producer and Event Promoter. As co-founder and resident DJ of “Life”, Fisher has helped to establish one of Washington D.C.’s most esteemed parties, now into its third year. A...
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Female Rockers....
There are dominant female influences in music that we are well aware of. Artists like Madonna, Janis Joplin and Tina Turner have undeniably paved the way for countless women rockers of today, standing up as influences and icons to today's generation...
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Please Dont Die My Darling
Please don't die my darlingI can't bear itI need you here above groundI'm not ready for the astralon a permanent basiseven if I don't see youI need to know you're aroundI need to know your number'sstill listedI need to know your headstill layson a...
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House of Omni Epic Ball 4/5/14
So many of our visitors ask - Where can I go to see a real Voguing Ball a la "Paris Is Burning?" Delighted to share this one with you - it's convenient for Manhattanites and should be great fun! HOUSE OF OMNI 35TH ANNUAL ANNIVERSARY BALL
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Re: Politically Incorrect VI
Vehicle specs: * Recycled materials used: 100% * Domestic manufacturing content: 100% * Parts sourced from all of the US Big Four manufacturers (Ford, GM, Chrysler, and Studebaker) * Solid lifter 327 hybrid drive - will burn gasoline and rubber! * Meets all 1932 federal mileage, emissions and safety standards ********************************** That's what it's all about bitches, wake up and unlock your toolboxes!!!
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Re: The Supermarket of Style: The Danceteria Topic
Chi Chi you are still the one!!! I just recieved a copy of the DVD Danny Made of Red Light Night starring you and Chrysis and Leslie Tulips. I had chills watching it. I hafta get a friend to burn it and send it to you. Tonight www.danceterianyc.com starts an internet radio show every evenin at 8. Come give a listen and maybe Johnny wants a spin or two? Con Mucho Lovo,Alice
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Re: Movie Trailer
Jack -- Loved the trailer. Watched it 3 times. Exciting stuff. (Hope SG's implosion didn't burn you over much. I went on to work with Larry for a year on Film Movement. Major clusterfuck). Family -- yes, the trailer has prompted Flavine to peak out from behind the wainscoting. Love to Chi, Daddy, Hacthes, Kitty & all. Hope this finds you all well! Flav
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Re: Tammy Faye
I agree about the "Christian" thing Sweetie. The word has been corrupted. It's come to mean "conservative" which is ironic because Jesus was a revolutionary if there ever was one. When I think of the hateful "Christians" at Matthew Shephard's funeral with signs saying "GOD HATES FAGS" an "BURN IN HELL" etc. I wish I had a lightning bolt!
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Re: 2008 Presidential Elections: Who Will Lead America Next?
Whatever the outcome, the race is certainly the most exciting one of my lifetime to date. I mean, we have a woman, a biracial man, a Mormon, a populist conservative and a serial-marrying Republican transvestite running for president! A huge source of pleasure for me has been watching Giuliani waste away. I truly CANNOT STAND HER . And I love that virtually everyone on both sides of the aisle sees through her one-dimensional, historically questionable and tired 9/11 schtick for the hollow...
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Re: 2008 Presidential Elections: Who Will Lead America Next?
Lex I didn't know that about him lambasting the Chinese t-shirt ladies. I so value those shirts I bought on the street 48 hours after. One says "I Can't Believe I Got Out" which I love to wear in Fingernails NM, and "Evil Will Be Punished," an all-purpose garment for certain. Everyone I talk to out here about the election brings up Julie's cross-dressing as a definite sign of some kind of 'mental illness,' as well as having an accused/unconvicted child-molesting ex-priest on staff at...
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Re: 2008 Presidential Elections: Who Will Lead America Next?
Watching Giuliani crash and burn, slowly and steadily, has been an absolute JOY! It's like a gift from heaven and proves that eventually some people do get what they deserve!
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Re: Barcelona: Sammy Jo's Ai Caramba Adventure!
This was the "suggested" dress code I sent out: The Look: short shorts, mirror shades, powdered noses, sweatbands, terry cloth anything, satin everything, rollerskates (NO blades), middle parts, mustaches, poppers burn, doe-eyed innocence, and nosebleeds a la Boogie Nights. Everything I learned I learned from Jackie!
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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: 9/11 unfolds on the Motherboards: Waiting for the End of The World
Family, extended and otherwise: I'm sorry I've been out of touch. As you might imagine, in order to maintain composure and sanity, I've let myself become a machine, with short lists of tasks and functions to spend the waking hours. Via the TV, internet, the occasional newspaper, information is sucked in without much processing or reaction, just accumulation. Past the initial shock, watching the towers burn and crumble, I've felt very little. I'm maintaining while this city, this crossroads...
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Re: She-Devils July 20 - Jackie 60 FURTHER at CBGB Gallery
Wow! Thanks, Mommy for booking the Shiny Mamas! A treat indeed! Their lyrics are still going around my head! Beautiful crowd, dressed hot enough to burn in hell! Fab pics, Jade--mine will take awhile but I'll be sure to relinquish copies. Felt like home--just great to see everyone!
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Re: Verbal Abuse/The Poetry Corner
slash and burn I'm discerned and burned. I am changing, dont know anymore, who is that whore? I feel like a movie reel is this happening is it happeneing to me? I feel this I feel that sometimes feeling like a cat. Curious... whats going on? Interested... where am I I'm gonna be 26 whats with the trix and the games. What is my goal, my aim? I still cant spell or type too well Life feels like one big game
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Re: We Survived..Now What? Part 2
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, as LeRoi Jones, Amiri Baraka was living in Greenwich Village and had earned some repute as a jazz critic, playwright, and Late Beat poet. He also became close to the Black Mountain Poets Charles Olson and Robert Creeley. However, during the 1967 Newark Riots, he and several others were stopped, arrested and beaten by the Newark Police. In the ensuing trial, his poem, "Black People" was admitted by the prosecution as evidence that he was fomenting racial...
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Re: The Real Mrs. Plop
Please let your friend Nancy know I am not a professional therapist, but could lend a sound ear if she and her partner are experiencing trouble. I can't imagine being brought up in conversation at a party where I am a total stranger. I do hope my name created smiles, it certainly sounds silly, now doesn't it. I am not adverse to being called Virginia. PLOP of course is not my last name. The letters P.L.O.P have significance in my life. As for my global views, well I must have a topic to...
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Re: Blackout!
As I showerd yesterday, just moments after the power had failed, I had a very sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. Of course like most people, terrorism was the first thing on my mind AFTER rationalizing of course like most show trash that my Con-Ed bill was paid up. Seriously, I really had some very sobering thoughts while all alone in my bathroom, thinking very clearly that THurday "could" be one of my last days HERE. I thought very clearly about my life during the time in which I took...
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Re: Verbal Abuse/The Poetry Corner
who defines the mental aspects? of the neglect for reality in peoples terms? what about people who yearn.. whos souls burn.. with desire.. to retire.. the cage.. of reality to become.. removed.. to feel the rapture.. to be captured.. by.. visions.. of the immpossible...which is.. in reality.. possible.. words that work.. for the cause.. for the chains.. that detain.. the possibility.. of humanity.. how do I deal w/ my so called 'insanity'.. easily.. with my so called 'vanity'.. and then time...
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Re: Welcome to ArtMaker
Monthy Club Exhibit/Curation -- ArtMakerNYC-ForumFoundingDiscussions Year 2 From TonyaKnudsen.com I volunteer, as a true labor of love, to lead such a notion into reality and put it into motion, [[alone or with a co-curator, or assisting/accommodating an occasion other guest curators from ArtMakerNYC.com, who might be curious to learn about the process as a great many artists due/dew/do via the virtual-to-live and back again process.]] Time -- I have 2-4 hours one day a week to focus/curate;...
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Re: Paris Hilton & Nicole Ritchie
It's true. Aspartame tricks your body into some kind of state, forget exactly how it works, that makes you NOT burn fat. Sugar at least is burnable carbohydrate... Did you enjoy the new stories of her falling in the pond at the party she crashed, and the rhinestone cell-phone? She is the Party Monster of the 2000s.