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Re: RAGS ARE RICHES Costume Recycling 5/5 BOWERY POETRY
Here are the drop-off locations for RAGS ARE RICHES Please bring your donations to the following drop-off locations ONLY DURING THE DATES AND TIMES LISTED DOUBLE DOWN SALOON Wednesdays April 3, 10, 17, 24 and May 1 Accepting donations from noon-8 PM 14 AVENUE A (1-2nd Street) Leave with bartender ABBY or write "ATTENTION: ABBY" on the bag(s) HOWL ARTS OFFICE Thursdays April 11 and 25 Accepting donations from 3-6 PM 636 BROADWAY (at Bleecker St.) Suite 512 (Fifth Floor) Please call (212)...
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Re: The Jackie 60 BROWN PARTY returns 7/1 at The Black Rose
Thrilled about this! I'm one of the fools who didn't purchase Stevie ticket early enough & missed it. So this has just put a smile on my lips & some pep in my step
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Re: The Jackie 60 BROWN PARTY returns 7/1 at The Black Rose
Such a choice idea. I think there needs to be a manifestation on the corner of Washington and W. 14th too !
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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: ARCADIA! Opening Night Gala May 30 at CBGB Gallery
What a visual/aural/sensory overload was ARCADIA! opening night - there was so much to take in I think it will take a while to process. First, congrats in order to TonyaKnudsen for dreaming up the whole thing and working so many months to make it happen. Secondly, to my three co-producers Jade Barbee, Derrick and Mia I have nothing but admiration for the heaps of time and energy that you put into the process. My critical-eyed Emperor said that it is the best-hung show he's ever seen at CB's,...
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Re: ARCADIA! Opening Night Gala May 30 at CBGB Gallery
Tarot was such an inspired theme, and you all took it to places where I didn't know it could go! I wish I had got there in time for the 1st set. I especially liked the ladies of the Wheel of Fortune for their shambling goof-ball antics, their glitter, their costume accident & their mantra of "Repetition is a form of change." True! and it gave me insight into that card that I didn't have before. Also, Hattie Hathaway's devil routine & I didn't catch the name of the Wednesday Addamsy...
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Re: ARCADIA! Opening Night Gala May 30 at CBGB Gallery
On the top of my thank-you list are the names Jade, Mia and Derrick "” who put up with me week after week, let me be bossy on occassion, but always kept the momentum going, especially during those few dark hours when I found myself pulling my hair out! Chi Chi, thank-you so much for putting your confidence in me, when we started, you probably thought I could do anything, and (while I'm not saying that's not true) I know I may have shocked you with just what minor setbacks proved to show what...
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Re: East Side, West Side, All Around The Town
LUXURY LAPPING: Revenge of the Titty Bars? A resurgence of name brand Las Vegas-style strip bars in midtown seems to be signaling a new era of "respectability" for the titty-twirlers and for New York. Not quite as sleazy as their Times Square predecessors, these new clubs are sleeker, bigger and more corporate in their approach, but it beats having no titty bars at all. Does this mean the Big Apple's sphincter is finally loosening again after so many years of Guiliani's attacks? Or is the...
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Re: Oh, no, here come The Republicans!
"...Police and federal officials, who are gearing up to make sure convention protests are peaceful, showed off high tech police helmets equipped with cameras. The cameras will send live pictures to officers stationed at mobile command units. The system costs about $800,000, according to a spokesman for the Federal Protective Service. " The photo is not shown online, but in the paper paper (page 2) these crazy big helmets look like giant halos. Smile for the birdie. Gak. ...
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Re: I'm from normal parents (The Pyramid Club Topic)
Welcome to our community, David! OMG, I had forgotten about the Pink Flloyd massacre! What was the song? My memory comes and goes... I don't think there was a single person on our staff who didn't slap on a face, slip into something pretty and gallop across that stage... especially the tech boys like yourself.
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Re: I'm from normal parents (The Pyramid Club Topic)
hey daddy i'm doin great....glad you are still on the planet...where is that god-forsaken slurpy-face? i miss her even though she stole my pink floyd idea... anyway some of my best(and worst)memories of the pyramid were in the infernal "tech room", a sony trinitron,a couch,and mad debauchery... when i started as a busboy it was me,hattie, big ole coke dealer robin,bobby,burt,kitty...i didn't have a place to live and it didn't matter because we would all just pile into bed together at the end...
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Re: Wanted: Memories Of The Pyramid Club, 1981-1985
Please don't leave me out ! I've been lost but i found myself in Beijing 8 yrs. ago. I've cronc. the club scene here and have been dj-ing beijings biggest hio hop club bla bla bla... Don't forget about me ! The Pyramid .... as a whole scene in itself ...saved my sanity. I was hired by ( forgot his name) as stage and tech. person. but 2 days later he wanted me to be a bar dancer. it was then as i told him "that's not for me" ..that "hattie" after hearing the news...came to me and said...
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Re: Wanted: Memories Of The Pyramid Club, 1981-1985
Bobby Bradley... that's who hired me. That fuck almost got me BOOTED. I'll always owe you for hat hattie. David Tritt... What was the main topic of our "tech room chats" i'll remind you ....PUSSY..(who,what,when,where,why & how) next...it was "do u have any drugs"...i really need a dooooobie ! Except for 1 or 2 other tech staff (we were all stright ... no matter HOW much pressure from countless offerings of free sex by the same sex) am i an asshole to say such things ?) We had a great...
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Re: I'm from normal parents (The Pyramid Club Topic)
Hi Brain ! Hey david ! is daddy (larry t.) ? sorry...i just got here a few days ago... i don't have a clue who's who. anybody HELPING out the "new bbb's here ? Will be opening a club in beijing very soon. It would HELP alot if some of you former staff members would SAY HI ! David Ratt... i'm gonna kick your ass... for losing my phone # & address. You fuck ! Hattie ....is that you ???? Hatches ????? give me a break knuckleheads. I've been in Beijing for 8 yrs. i'm waiting ! well ??? Dana ...
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Re: Wanted: Memories Of The Pyramid Club, 1981-1985
Well you all were the best looking tech staff on the planet-- what did you expect? But seriously, everyone really loved you guys because you could take a piece of gaffers tape, a bit of mylar, a clip light, and a bent bobby pin from Bunny's wig and run a show that was technically flawless ! BTW I emailed you privately, Dana, I hope you check your Yahoo! account.
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Re: Wanted: Memories Of The Pyramid Club, 1981-1985
Excuse the gift for gabbing (i'll be good) It's nice to know.....that however small our "tech budget" was ..we were able to present a "multi media event" nightly using 'cardboard,broken 8mm & slide projectors, "a sealed beam pin spot" as a followspot and 3 mirror balls. I was shocked to see that here in China ... they are clueless to "inventive ideas" The clubs i've worked at here don't have professional staff. They press one button and the lights never stop. Nothing gets CLEANED (we...
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Re: Wendy Wild's Autobiography
Speaking of "JOHN SEX" (as they were very close friends anyway and i'm sure she won't mind this.) As a pyramid tech. Hatches would on ocassion GIVE the tech crew a bunch of "cassette tapes" from bands or acts that would NOT be performing at PYRAMID. I often took these tapes and "recorded live shows" One of which is a fantastic "john sex show & band" along with all the usual "audience comments" and i believe WENDY does make it on stage for a tune or 2. Just hearing their VOICES so clear...
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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: The Palladium
What a great topic. I just re-read it. I don't know if I agree with you nite porter, I think the best shows ever in Mike Todd were the nights that Tom Cruise used to go in that back tech room with his yuppie boy friends and... Oh, gotta go.
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Re: Wanted: Memories Of The Pyramid Club, 1981-1985
Hey Dana, sorry I haven't been on to say hi. The tech at Pyramid was amazing. You and David Crocker worked Miracles with NOTHING! I learned a lot from you guys. (I'm totally serious!) When we built JACKIE 60 and MOTHER, The Pyramid Club was our template. Especially in terms of staging, lights and sound. JACKIE 60 was always about performance (in a bathroom or on stage). Sometimes there were no working toilets but there were ALWAYS lights on stage. I remember doing sound checks with you guys...
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Re: Wanted: Memories Of The Pyramid Club, 1981-1985
You my dear are too kind ! don't stop now !!!! No really,,,, it wasn't any ONE person but the entire GROUP (along with all the "performers" of course) that made that scene so fun and BUSY. I think you posted a pic. with you and Mr. sex and another "girl". I remember you also... you were never a BITCH to us downstairs as some OTHERS could be (ie...Inter. N. Crisis on the rag, lipsynca at a soundcheck although SHE was professional and we loved her SHOWS) yea...lots of "queers" had their...
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Re: Wanted: Memories Of The Pyramid Club, 1981-1985
I was never a "BITCH" to you guys because I wanted access to the sacred "Tech Room". It wasn't much to look at but the vibes alone from that room could knock you out. If I remember correctly you guys had a key or a lock or something that kept EVERYONE out. It was genius. Forget about the club, tell us about "The Tech Room"! I bet Hattie never saw the inside of it! This is a pic I took of International Chrysis in 1986.
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Re: Wanted: Memories Of The Pyramid Club, 1981-1985
I remember all of you...well, most of you. And if Brian is Hatches then I have you to thank once again for letting me still come in after my father called you. I spent loads of time in the DJ booth...how come noone has yet to mention Ivan? ....and I spent time propped on the beer boxes next to the ice machine in the wait station, where Stephan named me "Queen of the May." I screamed when songs I liked came on. I mean high piercing screamed- like the girl in that "dont need this pressure"...
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Re: I'm from normal parents (The Pyramid Club Topic)
Dana, did the club in Beihjing open? It's Joshua, former staffer, and always a fan of yours, thought you were cool, even though we only overlapped for a spell. Hatches IS Hattie as far as I know. But Daddy I believe Johnny D whom I'm not sure you knew back then. (People: did I just break the rules by saying the above?) What brought you to China?
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Re: Wanted: Memories Of The Pyramid Club, 1981-1985
Near the end of producing Dominatrix with Ken Lockie (co-producer) and Stuart Arbright (the "band"), Ivan brought another performer to Ken, fresh from the Pyramid stage and the tech room to boot. And that was me. Ken and Ivan produced my 2 song "development deal" with Geffen's money. Through Ken Lockie I met one of my heroes, Keith Levene of Public Image Ltd. He later borrowed a mixer of mine. Ivan also produced the English language remake of Les Rita Mitsouko's "Marcia Baila". The...
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Re: Wanted: Memories Of The Pyramid Club, 1981-1985
daddy, you wanted glimpses of the inside of the tech room? I can give 'em . But be warned, it was usually pretty normal in there. Sometimes I'd walk in on one of the, uh, senior staff sniffing drugs. I'd walk in sometimes and the lighting/stage person (me: sound) would have two little piles of coke and direct me to sniff them. Much later we we talked about it and I realized this was meant to cut any motivation I might have to tattle. I did have sex in there once or twice. I guess overall it...
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Re: Wanted: Memories Of The Pyramid Club, 1981-1985
I remember the tech phone to the dj booth that was fixed to the stairs to the stage . . . and what a thrill it was the first time (and everytime, I guess) that I picked it up. How a screw up like me ended up being the emcee . . . that had a lot to do with Mark Oates. But that phone ringing meant "Showtime" Finally in the "Cuchifritos" or "Hapi's BackDoor" days (daze - it's all a grey (gardens) blur) the tech-phone broke and no one was there who could or cared to fix it. Probably someone...
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Re: What a wonderful night! (reviews of NOTS 17)
Thanks to everyone who came out - and turned it out - so splendidly last night for NOTS 17. Transitions are always difficult and the night was not without its glitches, but overall it seemed like a step up. The tech staff - indeed the entire staff - of Hiro was really on point, and that helped so much. Performance high points pour moi? Justin Bond tore the roof off, and Nicole Nicks' farewell performance to "Edge of Seventeen" could not have been more superb. The tryptch of heavy hitters...
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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: GHOSTLIGHT - Halloween 2011 at Theatre 80 - Show Schedule
We are so excited - first day of tech rehearsals done and it looks marvelous! Can't wait to share this with all the gorgeous friends and family that are coming!
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QUEER MEMOIR: CRUSH
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Sex Crimes Cabaret - Feb 17th at Galapagos
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GHOSTLIGHT - Halloween Night at THEATRE 80 ST. MARKS
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