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Re: Straight To Hell (Sex Stories)
A few years back I gave up a broom closet share on Seventh Street & First Ave and moved to a huge, two bedroom apartment in Park Slope with a plutonic gay male friend. (I only stayed there a year before deciding I couldn't deal with the commute and fled back to Manhattan). Anyway, my roommate and I agreed to have separate phone lines, and I used a pre-existing one in my bedroom. But my roomie had to have a brand new one installed, so he arranged for a NYNEX guy to come out on a Saturday...
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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: Displaced Radical Faeries
Remember too that last years may pole was forked into 2 points at the top....very eerie. It was so great to see someone experience Beltane for the first time. I know last year was just as magical for me. It truly is a recharge for me, creatively, spiritually and physically. I was told by someone last year that you get something different every year. I can see it now. This year was just as beautiful, strange, carefree, emotional, relaxing, exhausting, scary, stupid, and profound as last year...
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Re: Displaced Radical Faeries
Im here in the middle of a render wander at work and I was thinking of a funny thing that reminded me of Empress, (one of the several times i thought of her on the mountain) . Pinky, who is one of the most MAJOR and elder faeries (who I had the honor to hold hands with during the lifting of the May pole). was in the kitchen very late one night, I was about to take the long haul back to my tent but thought I would stop in the kitchen and get a snack for the way. When i arrived to my surprise...
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Re: BURNING MAN
i'm in portland now, but this seemed like the more appropo board to post in. my people are up to some SHIT!! huge art projects, domes, vehicles... oh my damn!! the hottest by far is kelly and his bus - he's adding two flame throwers to the back and putting an underlit stripper stage (complete with a pole!) on the hood. he's major! but straight. he asked us if we wanted to kick in for these projects. i laughed as i thought about the few dollars i have left and said, "well, if you want a...
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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: BURNING MAN
is this multiple name thing confusing anyone else?? texxx, goblin, rapist, hanson, rock'n'roll... i'm now taking suggestions in the simplification department. glammie sweetie, you described it oh so well. the only epic moment i think you left out was friday night's show at the el circo dome. sweeties... this dome is at least 60 feet across with a six-pointed star shaped stage that has fire going all around it. hel-LO! and if that isn't kabbalistic/alchemical enough for you... their final...
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Re: David Wojnarowicz - Artist
Gobs, David actually preferred the Eastern European pronunciation of his name, Voy-na-ro-vitch, but gave up on that early on and settled for War-na-ro-vitch. Tonya, interesting the Didion connection, as that "Lady Of The Canyon" and the L. A. connection influenced prominently in the late '70s mostly through my friends and those I had come into contact with such as Tomato Du Plenty, Exene, Chuck E. Weiss etc. and I spent an unusual amount of time there. Understand that Los Angeles was a very...
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Re: David Wojnarowicz - Artist
Hatches -- It was impressive to meet you, such a stately figure of consequence with a wise, yet subdued kindness. I hope you like the Jackie 60 Fashion Forward shwag, I apologize for the interruption in your stage performance last night (that was not my doing, ahem, Daddy - I much prefer being on the dance floor!) ------------- As I continue to delve into NYC in the 80s, I find more and more information about DWs work and the artists he collaborated with. Just when I thought I had a...
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Re: BURNING MAN
two for one if you're gonna trek all the way out to nevada why not swing thru vegas too and catch Showey in his new custom fit cirque du soliel spectacular?
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Re: Displaced Radical Faeries
I'm back Y'all Beltaine goes down as one of the most beautiful on record. Hush agrees, it was one of the most stunning. More sun then you could ask for, almost too much at times. I love that day. This year there was no DJ set up , it was decided to just use drums and no electronics. I must say that it made everything clearer somehow. Every year I am amazed at the spectacle that is created.The magic that can be evoked. After all the ribbons had been twisted around the pole and the drums were...
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Re: Displaced Radical Faeries
Yeah, Glammy, it seemed that Tracy only showed up for one day to make her star appearance at the No-Talent Show. What a diva. There are so many moments to speak of, but this year I've got to give my props to Miss Nature. She was serving up some kind of serenity sandwich with mayo & mystery on a chaos bun. Last years Beltaine Eve seemed to be about endurance --Antler and I standing in front of an everlasting fire while being cleansed by an endless pelting of gigantic rain drops, stripping...
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Re: Liquid Sky
...Has me howling, as usual! I didn't realize the Adele Bertei connection, but now come to think of it... I only really got to know Adele well post- Build Me A Bridge , but I realized she was a terror. She once kicked the queeny Pyramid bar-manager du jour, Peter Plourde right in the balls, when he suggested she should do something like pay some money for her drink or not hoover up coke from the bar surface!
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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)
When I lived in San Francisco, the hottest celeb guest to have at your party was the mayor. Which wasn't hard to do. At that time he was Mayor Alioto, with whom I shared a lawyer, as well as many moments with, in the law office's lounge, so it wouldn't have been hard at all. I remember thinking, "But why would I ever want to?" Who wants a mayor at your party? I also remember when Yoko Ono came to SF and announced she was moving there. Oh, the furor that ensued; finally a real life celebrity...
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Re: DV by Diana Vreeland
As much as I would love to say a fragrance topic would totally turn me out. I dare say many folks here are more the essential oil and "natural musk" types. I am amazed at how much body funk I encounter on any given night out on the town in NYC. Especially the gay boys. I think B.O. is the patchouli of the '04. BTW I do adore patchouli in summer time clinging to a hairy chested man. It makes me swoon. I posted eons ago about an isolated experience I had as a young teen with a friend of my...
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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: Beams to New Orleans
And now Barbara Bush with her "Aren't they lucky now" crapola. Sneering at the poor folk... don;t you love the "born with a silver foot in her mouth" commentary. As far as how "lucky" they are, here is a link I found concerning what the displaced are going through from a psychologst... whether they have hot meals or not! http://archivesdestan.blogspot.com/2005/09/cri-du-coeur...r-psychologists.html (Archives de Stan!)
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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: Mardi Gras in New Orleans 06: Krewe York
The reasons FOR Mardi Gras have been stated so beautifully in this bit from METROBLOGGING NEW ORLEANS that I'll just quote it and urge you to visit the pictures of Krewe de Vieux. Here's one of my favorite floats pictured below. http://neworleans.metblogs.com/ Krewe de Vieux pics at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonnodotcom/sets/72057594062966941/
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Re: Mardi Gras in New Orleans 06: Krewe York
I second that emotion seven, what a trip! I guess we should start at the beginning... Here we are, right after greeting King Zulu and torturing the tortured mayor, at the famous Cafe Du Monde having beignets. seven, The Empress & Basil Twist seven, Daddy & Basil Twist
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Re: Wendy Wild's Autobiography
Wendy loved trannie boys, she watched over them like a mother and her many daughters. I think it was the last Wigstock that she went to-on te pier-she came with an IV pole. Backstage she was ensconced in a folding chair surrounded by a bunch of pretty performers, some still in their teens, blessing them like the Virgin Mary. I am so lucky to have known her.
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SMack! XV Anniversary - June 3rd w/MASUIMI MAX +more!
Friday, June 3 at 9:00pm - June 4 at 4:00am Club Rebel 251 w. 30th St. New York, NY NYC's Premiere Multimedia Fetish Play Party presents: our Annual SMack! ANNIVERSARY - June 3rd, 2011 15 Years of Pushing the Envelope - New York City's most Longest Running Fetish Event! thanx to all of you for helping us get this far GET YOUR ADVANCED REDUCED ADMISSION TIX NOW!! : http://SMack-Fetish.Tix.com/ part of the NY Fetish Marathon IX : June 2nd-5th http://NYFetishMarathon.com/ -+-+-+ Multi-Zones of...
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Hurricane Irene on the Motherboards NYC
AS Hurricane Irene gets closer, Bloomy has called for the first-ever NYC mandatory evacuation - of "ZONE A" - the city's lowest lying areas, including Avenues B, C and D on some blocks, Battery Park City and more. Please make sure you know whether you...
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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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Dances of Vice - Monthly
Anybody planning to attend the Spring Ball this weekend? XXXOOO Z&S ---------------------------------- EVENT: Dances of Vice "Le Sacre du Printemps" Spring Ball TIME & DATE: March 21, 2009 - 7PM to 12AM LOCATION: The Montauk Club - 25 Eighth Avenue, Brooklyn ADMIT: $28 in advance (ONLY 200 TIX) - $30 doors - All Ages Dances of Vice celebrates the arrival of spring in a festive ball on the day of the Vernal Equinox, featuring the music flourishes of FERN KNIGHT (w/ guest drummer BRIAN...
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STIMULATE 9/18: 2 YEAR ANNIV w/COMBICHRIST DJ's Andy LaPlegua & Joe Letz!
Sept 18th (and every 3rd saturday) Xris SMack! & Mindswerve Studios present: S T I M U L A T E [ The Mind, The Body, The Dancefloor ] - Get your Monthly Fix! celebrating our STIMULATE 2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!! flyer here: http://STIMULATE-ME.com/partie...2010_Combichrist.jpg ADVANCED REDUCED ADMISSION Tix HERE: http://STIMULATE-ME.Tix.com/ ==== SOUND ==== Special Guests COMBICHRIST DJ's Andy LaPlegua (Combichrist, Icon Of Coil, Panzer AG, Scandy) - special BDay Set! and Joe Letz (Combichrist,...
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New Orleans Halloween 2009 - Endless Night XII
So sad we wont be getting to this due to Halloween's weekend placement (groan) but if you are going to NOLA for Halloween or live there, this is a MUST..SABRETOOTH presents...Endless Night Vampire Ball XII “A Night in Versailles”Saturday,...
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Chaos & Candy 8: UNHOLY NIGHT
Darkness reigns supreme in UNHOLY NIGHT, the eighth annual installment of CHAOS & CANDY, the holiday spectacular from Adam Dugas. This year, break out the fur and leather for a journey to the sunless regions near the North Pole. Heavy metal mayhem ensues at a magical gathering of creatures from Yuletide folklore and beyond including Krampus, Perchta and the Witch of Broken and Dangerous Toys. Naughty children get what they deserve! The roster of monster talent includes rock goddesses...
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Baby Dee's Stolen Harp
Hello Sweeties and Happy Birthday!I'm back again and looking for a handout as always.Somebody stole the harp I left in Belgium and I'm asking all my friends to help me find it. If anybody out there knows of any place in or out of cyberspace where it...
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Arias With A Twist
Two Gems Return Home! Created by Joey Arias & Basil Twist "a bejeweled cabinet of curiosities" After a triumphant six-year run in Las Vegas with Cirque du Soleil's Zumanity, Joey Arias returns to his true home, New York City. For the 10th Anniversary of the Dorothy B. Williams Theatre Basil Twist returns to his home at HERE. Two epic imaginations are unleashed to conjure a modern and intimate fantasy. Twist's signature magic envelopes Arias' legendary voice, transporting us to unpredictable...
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"Aladdin Sane" Live Tribute @ Duane Park - Wednesday November 27th Thanksgiving Eve
Michael T, Benjamin Ickies, and Twig the Wonderkid present a glamtastic tribute to the landmark David Bowie album "Aladdin Sane" with cast of downtown greats to bring you a night of glitter and magic Performances by Cici James, Christian...
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Off Broadway Discount Tickets to Kris Kringle The Musical
The Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036 kriskringlethemusical.com Friday, November 24 at 3PM and 8PM A Holiday Musical for the Whole Family Starring Tony nominees Cathy Rigby ( Peter Pan, Seussical ) and Pamela Myers ( Company, Into the Woods) with Andrew Keenan-Bolger ( Tuck Everlasting , Newsies ) and Kim Crosby ( Into the Woods , Guys and Dolls ) Kris Kringle The Musical lights up the stage in a new Christmas musical filled with memorable characters and unforgettable songs...
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Glamdammit : Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Glamdammit celebrates fifteen years of fist-pumping Rock N Roll, Punk anthems, and glittery Glam Rock along with live performances and a cavalcade of stars Michael T and the Vanities perform a Greatest Hits of Glam Rock covering such artists as David Bowie, Queen, Roxy Music, T.Rex, and other favourites The Rats of New York "Ramones-y, Husker-Du-ish Uptempo Punk" Tight Lipped "Packs a Powerful Punch to Your Sonic Face" DJ set by Twig the Wonderkid Hosted by nightlife icon Astro Erle More...
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Re: Dean Johnson - Death of a Legendary Legend
So true about the sex mags. I've been writing a lot for Playboy in the last few years and it's amazing how much freedom they give you to just write. They printed a 10,000 word piece about the murder of my brother-in-law in Detroit that no other mainstream magazine would have touched with a barge pole. The more "respectable" the magazine or newspaper, the less likely it is that you will be allowed to develop your own voice.
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Re: Hotels In NYC
I say you move back to New York, refurbish the old 'shack as Madame Du Sellars' Seaview Shanty Bed & Breakfast Emporium. It's a buyers market, apparently! Or just move back to New York period, because we miss you!
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Re: Arias With A Twist
There was and article in TimeOut about this starting on June 12th. We're so excited that Joey is performing his song with the Propellerheads, we've been wondering if that would ever see the light of day. We've been dying to see both Basil and Arias perform... Maybe we'll need to make another quick trip up. XXXOOO Z&S ----- Time Out New York / Issue 662 : Jun 4–10, 2008 Leaving Las Vegas After years in the desert, downtown legend Joey Arias comes home. By Adam Feldman IRREGULAR JOE Arias...
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Re: Arias With A Twist
Effigies and Aliens Cavort in a Cross-Dressing Wonderland By BEN BRANTLEY Published: June 19, 2008 Eat your heart out, Madonna. The chanteuses who play Madison Square Garden and football stadiums have never experienced the imaginative heights of spectacle with which Basil Twist surrounds Joey Arias in "Arias With a Twist," which opened Wednesday night at the newly renovated Here Arts Center. Mr. Twist is the inspired puppet master who, a decade ago, turned wet pieces of cloth into a Folies...
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Re: Arias With A Twist
One more reviewer singing praises. Can't resist. Arias With A Twist by Steven Sparling EDGE Contributor Thursday Jun 19, 2008 Fans of the underground odd and artful rejoice, for Joey Arias is back in New York. In Arias With a Twist, drag performer and singer Joey Arias has hooked up with master puppeteer Basil Twist to create a moving atmospheric swath of sound and vision. Arias channels Billie Holiday while cavorting in all sorts of bizarre, sometimes creepy, settings. He croons love songs...
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Re: Arias With A Twist
hey everybody i have fantastic news and i wanted you all to be the first to know.... ARIAS WITH A TWIST EXTENDS THROUGH DECEMBER 31 "Eat your heart out, Madonna. The chanteuses that play Madison Square Garden and football stadiums have never experienced the imaginative heights of spectacle with which Basil Twist surrounds Joey Arias in Arias with a Twist" --The New York Times "What Arias and Twist have fashioned is no less than an eye-popping, delightfully transgressive lysergic fantasia"...
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Re: Queer Artist versus The Artist who is Queer
"Bigotry" - a strong word. For such loaded statements you wield them so simply and absolutely. Apartheid in South Africa - that was bigotry. The fates of Matthew Shepard, Brandon Teena and countless others - that was bigotry. With social politics of power firmly in heterosexual favor I'm not sure I'd call a disinterest in straight artists as bigotry. Currently cultural theory supports notions that deconstruct the polarization of sexualities into straight and gay. Deconstruction of this...
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Re: Prince Harry vs. Prince William (Part 2)
Pretty clear who's the bottom. Photograph as subliminal slip, I think. Daddy's probably right though. The headline will read something like, "Royal Heir Impaled on Ski Pole -Coroner Takes Four Hours to Perform Rectal Extraction".
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Re: Prince Harry vs. Prince William (Part 2)
Harry can get impaled on my ski pole any time! You know just how to get me going, Seven. Yet I think you're onto something with the subliminal photo arrangement and coital positions. A foot-long chicken sandwich indeed ... - lecherous Lex
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Re: London Part 2
How bout a six foot one 135 pound, self-exiled German ex-pat, for maybe eight days every third month one year. Close enough for me. Especially with teeth clenched around a genetically enhanced strawberry lifted with the lips off the fruit and ice-cream drenched body of a pole dancer prostrate on the stage of Gomorrah.
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York: Part 3
It's past time to start Farewell Charming Old Paris , but at least that city is trying. When I was last there, Marc Jacobs' hideous Louis Vuitton had just infected the corner of Av. Georges V with a "super store," joining the likes of Adidas, Gap, etc. But then the city said no to H&M. It's a start. From today's NYT: January 31, 2007 Megastores March Up Avenue, and Paris Takes to Barricades By ELAINE SCIOLINO PARIS, Jan. 30 "” There was a time when the Champs-Élysées stood for grand...
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Re: Mardi Gras in New Orleans 2007 - KREWE YORK
This is me getting ready for the parade. I thought I was so cool this year because I decided to wear just ONE set of Mardi Gras beads. No tacky Bourbon Street bead madness for me. I would wear just one tastefull set of Mardi Gras beads that I had thoughtfully picked out. After the parade we stopped in the Cafe Du Monde for a cafe' au lait and some beignets. The waitress looked at my beads and broke into hysterics. "You got 'Princess Beads" on!" she laughed. "You see that crown?" "That's the...
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Re: Big Art Group Travelogue
If you're in Rome next week, this is the new show I'm creating with Caden Manson , Theo Kogan, Sean Pierce and Jemma Nelson. CINEMA FURY "THE SLEEP" ROME SEPT. 8 & 9, 2007 Kollantino Underground Via Georges Sorel, 10 00177 Roma, Italy Tel: +39 33 9730 1465 Cinema Fury: THE SLEEP reconfigures MP Shiel's manuscript "The Purple Cloud" with captured and recorded image sequences to critique the contemporary cultural landscape and environmental issues. In this genre classic written in 1901,...
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Re: I'm going to Hanoi for thanksgiving+ !
OK, here's more, as promised. First from our friend Drew: Unfortunately, hip and hanoi night life really don't go together. there is a minor gay scene, but it is very minor and mostly it is people who already know each other.. though really, I don't know this for certain.. I can introduce this person to people who might be able to help out in one way or another.. Now from the lovely Diane, who lived in Hanoi for 4 years and is the one who showed me around, as edited by me: Food: People have...
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Re: Dances of Vice - Monthly
This Saturday is the last of the Season. It will return in Fall of 2009. Note - The show starts @ 8pm this month. ------ EVENT: Dances of Vice "Les Secrets du Boudoir" TIME & DATE: May 16, 2009 - 7PM to 11PM (show starts 8:00) LOCATION: The Montauk Club - 25 Eighth Avenue, Brooklyn ADMIT: $21 (Adv) - $25 (DOS) - LIMITED QTY Find yourself dancing the night away with winking beauties clad only in flirtatious vintage dishabille and abandon yourself to vice at Les Secrets du Boudoir,...
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Re: The Pyramid Club Part 2 (aka I'm from normal parents)
well.... whoever the fuck it was ..... they also signed my checks so i took that as a note on just WHO's word to follow on the pyramid status pole of who's who ! B.B. was bought out soon after i came there. where he went i never knew. i did hear where he ended up though. too bad. see you soon ... back to class