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Re: RIP, VIP - Chapter 2 (3/5/04++)
am still in major shock about this.... I worked with John for many years but actually met him when I was about 16yrs old... He used to come to my house in Liverpool when he came up for the football match (soccer) and my mum used to make him dinner and he for some odd reason hebefriended me. I went on to produce and present at the BBC Radio 1 and was given an small office right next door to the office Peel,Walters and Andy Kershaw all shared in Egton House (BBC) which was no bigger than the...
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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: My own private East Village
I digress from E.V. fellas for Bonnie... Cute new restaurant ... in dah hood... Westville tiny space, great food. 14th btw 1/2nd. I think there's one in the West Vill. its very WeVill actually real decent grub. Me and the tyke have been going there allot..he danced there at the counter 'headbangin' to Joy Division then the Clash with the cute lil Jared Leto server boy... ahhh it certainly beats Chuckie Cheese for a 4yr old!
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
S'tan, please, the East Village 'art scene' was not about cashing in on the money? Let's not idealize it tooooooo much. Sorry to cast aspersions on many of your past and current aquaintances, but the EV 'art scene' was just the same catagory of ladder climbers Soho was ALL about. It's just that the EV 'scene' was the only space available on account of that olde arte world staple, exclusivity. Mark Kostabi is really the epitome of the East Village 'art scene' of the eighties. I'm not...
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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: The Palladium
Against all odds - Palladium was undeniably fun. No one believed it could be hip - it was just too big, but somehow it all pulled together. I saw some great shows there: Gwen Guthrie, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, El Grand Combo, Grace Jones, Debbie Harry, Joyce Sims, even Vanity 6! Sister Dimemsia DJ-ing in the Michael Todd Room. I used to wonder just how much extra insurance the club had to carry to have banks of televisions on hydraulic lifts spinning over the dancer's heads. The art...
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Re: RIP, VIP - Chapter 2 (3/5/04++)
Mr. T was kind of the last link to Neil Cassady, who the Beats tried soooo hard to make their adopted cartheif/Adonis. Thompson's 'first person journalism' was, as someone said here above, the result of his pissed-offedness. There was always an underlying sarcasm to his fumes, and I am sure he understood the deep veins of sarcasm's power. It seems obvious he wanted out, and anger can be a very powerful portal to getting back out in to the Universe. As with Cassady, Thompson's voice was an...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
I don't know the real deal at this building, but it seems more than a little disingenuous for this Rosenblatt character to use "the homeless" as a pawn in the thing. Ugh. Famed Punk Bar CBGBs Facing Eviction Mar 17, 4:43 PM (ET) By LARRY McSHANE NEW YORK (AP) - Hours earlier, Hilly Kristal joined rock's royalty inside a Waldorf-Astoria ballroom for the latest Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions. By the morning, though, Kristal sips a cup of coffee and pops an antacid as he considers the...
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Re: Wildlife In New York City
I liked this lonely little thread, so I had to post to keep it company. I read an article in the New York Press (that is right wing leaning paper, isn't it? I read with a hearty dose of skeptism so I am not accidentally brain washed by subliminals like in those Bush ads with the "rats" thing)that there is a bigfoot that forages at Fresh Kills on Staten Island and is called Trashsquatch. On a more mundane note: My landlord In Brooklyn set out poison to kill the rats, but it unfortunately...
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Re: Wildlife In New York City
Are these not sparrows? On sunday morning... it was real quite yet the sound of the birds from the back 'courtyard' area of my apt was so loud.. u would never believe i was in the middle of Manhattan ...So sad but for YEARS this courtyard area behind me is just concrete mess/junk yard.. soo wish that the folks who have that space would do SOMETHING with it!! Could be SO amazing.. am all excited to start shopping for my fire escape garden once weather picks up again... will go crazy in the...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
Hi Guys I am posting this event here too scusi if you have seen it in the WB category - This is an emergency tho - Bloomberg wants to turn Wburg into Battery Park City. I am too old and cranky too be forced from my home. I am also frightened of waking up to dicover I am living in a huge friggin Ikea surronded by blonde wood! Thank you all! March 30th: Rev Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery --8pm-- Cast the devil out of the developers! Bloomberg and...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
ah yeah, the fun drag acts at the Limelight, and the biggest mix of people you eva wanted to meet. used to order ameretto and cokes there. and we've got to get ourselves back to...... Le Jardin (sp), merlin's favorite dance floor in the early/mid seventies and the roof top deco garden space. before the flamingo, before 12 west. for at least one summer in the mid seventies there was this empty two story building in the west village, it was an after hours bar. a big trucked parked outfront to...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
Above the Trendy, the Down and Out By ALAN FEUER NY Times April 7, 2005 Knock at Room 18 on the fourth floor of 559 West 22nd Street and an old man in a watch cap stumbles to the door. "What am I doing here?" he asks, answering the question with a question. "I'm dying here," he says. His name is George Ullrich and, according to his own account, he has been dying here for almost 30 years. He lives in a small room, 10 feet deep by 10 feet wide, and in rooms all down the hallway, a piece of the...
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Re: Fashion, Sweetie
Someone emailed this to me, so Not sure what rag its from. Interesting, no?
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Re: SEX in Jackie 60
Sorry to disappoint, S'tan, but I never had sex with gnome. Though, when we first met he followed me, clad in my tattered Ripper Victorian finery, through the early morning streets of the Meat Market screaming in his high raspy gnomish voice, "Fuck me, fuck me!" Chi Chi yelled at him, "Get away you little gnome!" Hence his name. But I never knew about Gen at all! Joey, of course, if it had two legs, or even one, well... When we were working on turning "Bar Room 432" into Mother, for some...
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Re: Jo-Jo Baby - DollMaker
Jo Jo. So sorry to hear about your mother. I lost mine 6 years ago. It is hard but remember that she walks with the ancestors now and there is no barrier of time and space between the two of you . Stay well and peaceful and love to you and your family
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Re: Puritan Watch
ME TOO. That library is lucky to get any archival anything you deign to provide to them. I think, about the time it comes to pass that your building is demolished, I will pass by very late one night to salt the fallow property with a fair amount of pork. Or just nail some to whatever construction site fence they errect. It will in part be an homage to the 12 year old girl whose name means 'Full of Beauty' who, when developers demolshed the performance space known as the Gas Station on B and...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
This to me just reads like a movie its so unreal! BBC NEWS COVERAGE ------ Victims' desperation The New Orleans riverfront has been hit by a series of massive blasts, and fires are raging in the area. Details are sketchy, but the blast is believed to have involved a chemical factory. A large cloud of acrid, black smoke is drifting over New Orleans. The news came as extra troops were sent to quell lawlessness in the city, where thousands are stranded without food or water in Hurricane...
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Re: boy george
Why would you leave drugs out 'in plain view' when the police are knocking on your door. That is really too bad. Alligator, it does sound like someone ratted him out. I was just enjoying his interviews last night in "The Legend of Leigh Bowery"... my thoughts even then, sometimes it doesn't pay to live too long. When I was looking for space in NYC which now seems like a long protracted nightmare version of "NO EXIT" by Sartre... I found a fantastic place on a block between Center and...
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Re: The Return Of TRIPPLE XXX!
OK, you asked for it! And here it is again. Dean Johnson and James Coppola present The original TRIPLE XXX "The filithiest party in nyc" FRIDAY NOVEMBER 25th Siberia 358 w40th st. (btwn Eighth and Ninth) open bar 10 -11pm admission 20 dollars for more info: http://www.velvetmafiatheband.com Doors open at 10pm and space is limited so GET THERE EARLY! **********
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Re: Pete Burns -- Part 2
GREAT Article! ----- Inside the bizarre world of Pete Burns -- Jan 9 2006 PADDY SHENNAN on the weird and wonderful life of Big Brother's Scouse celebrity Paddy Shennan, Liverpool Echo ONCE seen never forgotten, Pete Burns used to walk around Liverpool wearing outrageous black PVC outfits, black contact lenses - and human bones in his hair. "Nobody was as wild as me. Some people used to laugh, but I knew one day I would show them all." This was the Dead or Alive frontman, now 46, talking to...
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Re: Grey Gardens At Irving Plaza
Hattie and Daddy! Happy New Year! Grey Gardens, for its short life was wonderful. The space was perfect for people and performances. Was it Justin who sang that "Evita" song from the rear balconey with a lone spotlight and a precious gown? There was always a nice, low-keyed crowd, and cheap coronas. But the war-time Emily Post was too anachronistic. I never agreed with your choices of excerpts. Morgan
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Re: The Palladium
I did TECH there for 2 yrs. That was a spooky space. as tech... we climbed all the time . there were places where nobody had been for 40 yrs. The staff were great... the mangament were royal ASSHOLES. No free drinks, no free friends on the guest list. it was like the nazi's running the whole thing right into the ground. Before it became "a club" i saw susie and the banshies,new yrs eve. with "the dolls" and many other bands. The club though will always get my upmost respect in the TECH...
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Re: Wanted: Memories Of The Pyramid Club, 1981-1985
i loved ivan ivan and still do although i have no idea where he's at these days. Ivan was a professional when it came to his dj job. almost always SMILED as he escorted you out of the booth (not u lisa lisa). btw... that hole was my "downtime before showtime space" and that hole got fixed because all those queers keep disconnecting the cables leading to the amps. and some dj's had lp's stored in there that went missing.....that wasn't like that for very long.... but "time" isn't my best...
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Re: My own private East Village
Sorry to digress from the dawgs here but just read that Trader Jacks is opening in the Palladium space... damm I wish they would just re-errect that Palladium building instead of more consumerism for the NYC kids... but if it is to be then am glad its Jacks... cos at least we will be able to get cheap wine... some good news for ya there eh Bonnie? U will need all that wine to take your through the end of that pregnancy no doubt!
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Re: mid-air
I HATE YOU GOBLIN!!!! That is so cool. I wanna be the first. Oh well, I guess I can still be the first to post from outer space.
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Re: My own private East Village
Recently we discovered the dog run at Stuyvesant Park, open only during evenings. My bat-earred Frenchie Napoleon loves how much room there is there, he ran around tonight with a Pug like he was on a race track. I don't care for the fact that it's all concrete, but apart from that I like the space and the mellow crowd. Sometimes I take him on little mini-tours where we hit Stuyvesant, then the dog run at Union Square, then we double-back to Tompkins Square Park. By the end of it he's usually...
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Re: Greece & Turkey: Athens, Istanbul, Mykonos, et al
Spent last night having dinner beneath the lit Acropolis, then tripped over drunk to the Gazi section of town where we hit several gay bars. They were lounges, one was called S-Cape and was all done up in palm trees and bamboo. Very Robin Byrd meets Vegas. We went to another small called Almodavar that reminded me of the old Wonder Bar space. Small, kitsch. The gay bars are located in this industrial section of town that was very cool, post-apocalyptic. A few good restaurants tucked in there...
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Re: Queers are the Blacks of the 1950's!!! Anti-Gay is on the RISE!!
Thank you for starting the topic, Sweetie. I, too, agree that we all need to be safe, visible and accounted for. There comes with those of us who have lived for a certain number of years a responsibility for our individual rights and freedom to move about in this world. True, those queer kids born post-1980 have been provided a buffer from some of the obvious acts of hatred that have bludgeoned our historical paths. It has still gone on, though...rampantly. Personally, I have two nephews...
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Re: The Cincinnati Connection
Take some big 'ol disco naps on Friday and come out with us to A.R.E. Weapons @ Junior for $5! WHAT???? Yeah, A.R.E. Weapons will be performing at the gallery space on Central Ave. directly across from The Mockbee. It's a little sketchy around that area, so watch your backs. Don't miss it, or you'll be sorry. Satori
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Re: Nina Simone
2) "Everybody's Gone To The Moon" The MESSY MESSY MESSSY Messy Bonnie Raitt used this Nina Simone song as the music to her stunning "Outer Space Christmas Number" at Cabaret Magique. A sad drunken Bonnie crawls through the stunned crowd as Nina sings, "Everybody's Gone To The Moon". (It's always "stunning" to see how bad Messy Bonnie is. I know it's suppposed to be bad but... it really is bad. Actually, it's more sad).
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Re: Nina Simone
Bonnie's space helmet was obviously "inspired" by the Boy George tribute to Leigh Bowery, "Taboo".
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Re: Adam Goldstone - RIP, VIP our beloved "mista bitch"
Thank you for letting us know about Adams myspace we often wondered why he wasn't on it we put up a bulletin Sept 3rd for him on our http://www.myspace.com/fifibearmyspace Sep 3, 2006 1:04 AM Subject: To Our Friend Adam Goldstone... Body: Adam passed away August 29, 2006 doing what he loved, attending the yearly Burning Man event he talked about often and encouraged us to go. He was at a place he wanted to be. We have known Adam since the early 1990's, he would always be at the same parties...
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Re: Nico
That must have been after she sprayed her blood from a syringe on the wall of my bathroom upstairs, horrifying my then-roommate, Layle. But I truly thought sangre real ! That apartment above the Pyramid later did a stint as a poetry/performance space in the 1990's, run by the poet Larry Jones, who, when he heard my story, named it "Cafe Nico."
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Re: Verbal Abuse / The Poetry Part 2
DAS IST GUT: iPod in hand, music endless going round, revolving like discs in a jukebox technology is fun, if it works properly music non-stop, and emails sent computer world in motion message board in cyberspace fascism in inner space and outer space censorship on the arts in an artist's space censorship on art in high places and fascist states funky cold medina, I say jazz and techno, rock 'n' roll house rhythms and tribal drums industrial kling-kling on sampled steal pipes punk-like...
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Re: SJ's European Tour 2007
Ok that's going to be annoying to have to rely on her for pics cause, well, she drinks a lot on tour. Is it because this account is new that I don't have the option to attach pics? ANy help is much appreciated... But I digress. KOLN- The night off in Koln we have the now traditional tour dinner where everyone on the tour gets together to wreak havoc on some poor unsuspecting restaurant. Due to the fact that our crew is mostly (all?) from the UK, copious amounts of beer are consumed and at...
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Re: What a wonderful night! (reviews of NOTS 17)
Thank you Anthony. There were MORE people this year than ever. It's just that it's a bigger more open space. Knitting Factory, Don Hill's and Mother all had more rooms but are smaller. We wanted to try something new and people seemed to like the space. More room to twirl. Of course the energy level is not the same as when you have 600 people packed into a space that holds 200. But you are right. This was DEFINATELY a transition year. I think we found a great space, now we just have to find...
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Re: What a wonderful night! (reviews of NOTS 17)
I'm so happy to have seen this party once again. Chi Chi was looking so pretty, and the crowd seemed like it was riding on air. I saw lots of old friends, made some new ones, took some pictures, twirled a lot and had a wonderful time, once again. This has to be the best party in New York. Thank you Chi Chi and Johnny for making this happen. That space was awesome, by the way.
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Re: What a wonderful night! (reviews of NOTS 17)
Thank you Chi Chi and Johnny for a lovely and FUN evening. You must be exhausted! I'm simply giddy with delight on the space, the performances, the CROWD, what a bunch of sweet wonderful adoreable people!
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Re: What a wonderful night! (reviews of NOTS 17)
A GREAT NITE!!!! thank you and from all the friends of Peter Haas of ohio it was soo nice you remembered him in the tribute. The new space rocked and my favrite shows were gypsy wilde and amber garbo. home now and still twirling thanx again
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Re: What a wonderful night! (reviews of NOTS 17)
Hi Chi Chi and Daddy, Thanks to both of you for your replies about my observations. I'm thrilled to hear attendance was up this year even though it didn't feel as busy. It was great to have some space to dance. I forgot about the whole 18-21 issue, so thanks for the clarification on where all the cute teen boys went. Well... they'll just end up being hottie 21 year olds when they can get back in again! (Hmmm... make mental note to self to hold 18-21 cutie-NOTS banned-boys party in my bedroom...
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Re: NYC 1st Ever Dance Parade!!!
And this may be a pet peeve of mine, but there is NOTHING that looks worse than being on a float full of pulsating dancers while talking on a cell phone. If you cant "Be Here Now" when you are rolling in a parade, you really should give up your space to someone who can.
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Re: What a wonderful night! (reviews of NOTS 17)
Well, I've been talking to LOTS of NOTS people and everyone seems to like The HIRO Ballroom for Stevie. Yes, the drink prices are a little higher and the bartenders were not my favorite bartenders in the world... but in general the staff, tech, dressing rooms and the shear size of the space makes it a winner. No place will be perfect but people seemed to think this was a step up for NOTS. Personally, I like it when you cram 800 people in a room that holds 200 people but that's just me.
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Re: HyperGender Burlesque
It's time for HyperGender again!!! The queer, twisted burlesque show presents Seven Deadly Sins on Saturday, June 16th. WOW Cafe Theatre 59-61 East 4th st starts somewhere between 9:30 and 10pm, seating is first come first served unless you politely ask us to hold a seat for you... late comers will be seated if space permits so if you want to make sure you are not sitting on the floor come early $10 unless you are a burlesque, drag, queer ... performer, for you it's $5 email...
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Re: Farewell Charming Olde New York, part 4
I went on a date on Sat - the geezer took me to Katsa - a morroccan tapas lounge - beautiful place. But filled up with B&T folks by 11pm (it ws a Sat!) But what shocked me more was the location bowery/Prince and how packed it was of a Sat night and how many lil spots there were there. Awful monster 'luxury condo's' but still allot of Bowery bums on the sidewalk - one was classic, in a beach chair with a small color tv playing a video game! - how he hooked that up and where I have no idea...
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Re: Dean Johnson - Death of a Legendary Legend
I am still trying to take this all in. When I heard that Dean had died I was in shock. I had literally just heard from him on My Space and he had written this wonderful blog a few months back paying tribute to me that he wanted me to see. It made me cry. I was touched and moved that I had made a mark on him. We were bonding and being sad together about CBGB's closing- that is where Dean and I met. He then went on to invite me to play his Fag Fest/HomoCorps there. We of course ran into each...
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Re: Dean Johnson - Death of a Legendary Legend
Dean must be thrilled that he got this much space in Page 6, and at the laughably outrageous tone of this item.
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Re: Farewell Charming Olde New York, part 4
Here's my short list of deserving artists who need free rent in New York, in order to stay put and maintain the Zeitgeist -- Julian, prepare for the moving vans. Foxy and Romy - 2 living spaces and a state-of-the-art Goodie office. They will dedicate the next Goodie to Julian. Verbal Abuse Magazine office (share with Goodie.) We will not dedicate the next VA to Julian. Chambers for Seven and assorted paramours. Seven will serve as sardonic Court Jester to curb selfish interests, and will...