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Re: The Club Creatures - Zazoo & Satori
Ok... the setup. We were back in New York for the first time since '99... we had just gotten in that day,Settled in, and took entirely too long to get ready... We drove across 14th to share a cab with Chi Chi. (not knowing 14th was under construction.) Poor Chi Chi was waiting on a street corner for probably a half-an-hour... We got to the club maybe 10 minutes before you came on... Walk into an unfamiliar club, just to see our faces all over the monitors... We manage to skarf down one drink...
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Re: The Club Creatures - Zazoo & Satori
but my brother jay-jay and i have a gig.....we are the hilton sisters for halloween. and i will be doing a instalation for the club WHITE STAR. and performing with my bro and judging a costume contest...but back too my buddies zazoo and satori this is an art forum .....and you should see what they can do with a tupper wear bowl and action figures. It all good... i love their looks.... we go shoping sometimes when the are in chicago and we make fun of each other and what outfits we can make...
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Re: RIP, VIP
Next to Quentin Crisp, one of my favorite New Yorkers was an uptown girl whom I belatedly learned passed on. I was visitng the NYTimes obit section for the first time in many months and discovered Daphne Helman, had passed away this summer very close to if not on Warhol's birthday.) She was listed as a name on the bottom of the page but the link wasn't working. Later that day I was on the Motherboards in the Versailles section and was reminded of the RIP VIP which I've also avoided far too...
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Re: RIP, VIP
I just walked by Pat Field's 8th Street store and was almost in tears. It's all empty, dark & closed up with the windows soaped. It's so sad. There is just a little sign on the door that says "SALE". So many memories in that store. Decades of memories! Punk, New Wave, Paradise Garage, Ball House, Club Kid, Rave. And who hasn't worked there at least once? I knew it was coming but to actually see her closed is a shock. I know it's not a tragedy or anything, Pat is ruling the earth now with...
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Re: Jo-Jo Baby - DollMaker
it took a long time to make that silky jumbo and he is still not done ....but i do love him . he is the first in my line of club celb. and drag queens i want to do.....and as far as the only meddium i work in i do paint and sketch all the time , and do make alot of my clothes and lights and erotic landscapes made with castings of genitals .....it such hard work but i love it....cythia plaster caster was amazied that i do all my own fluffing. if anyone would love to model for one of my domes...
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Re: RIP, VIP
With his sometimes crackpot notions and radiant, ecstatic, vision of the holiness of being queer, Harry Hay refused to play the model homosexual EVEN IN THE GLOW of its conservatism, America "” which was formed via revolution, after all has always taken a certain pride in its radicals. Even so, America prefers to remember its history-makers in sanitized versions with none of the messy, often embarrassing flaws that are usually inscribed on the souls who take it upon themselves to change the...
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Re: RIP, VIP
I don't know if any of you remember him. He was a British club kid/artist who spent some time in NY a few years ago, around the time Susanne Bartsch got married. He had skulls built into the sides of his shoes, as well as on his headpiece. He told me he'd been a friend of Leigh Bowery's. Well, anyway, a British DJ told me he died recently. I was so sorry to hear about it, he was a very sweet guy.
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Re: Burlesque Queen MISS KELLY WEBB Loses Everything in Tragic Thanksgiving Fire- PLEASE READ
Hi all, this was such devastating news. Got a call from Rose Wood earlier who told us that donations of clothes/supplies for Kelly can also be left at The Chelsea Hotel c/o Room 724. Donations will be collected from there and brought out by cab as they accumulate. Please do not leave cash in that manner (bring it instead to the above club locations) but clothing, costumes, etc. She has absolutely nothing, so almost anything would help. Kelly is on the small side I would think no bigger than...
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Re: Please help us rename this Forum
Old haunts... Di Womb... oops sorry never mind Bygones.... Di Flowers in the attic... Di A place where I got ploughed... T The last sign I saw before I fell face down in the gutter.... T Clubs I spent all my money in... T I think I loved this club or was it the other one... T TnD but mostly T
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Re: Please help us rename this Forum
"I was on the list" "clubs of yore" "last exit to clubland" "Club Post Mortem" "Da roof da roof da roof was on fire" (just kidding)
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Re: The overture is about to start...
I came across this post quite by accident and thought Id bounce it up for history's sake and add a few grey eminence-like thoughts of my own. is the Empress' inaugural post right before the boards opened. A small group of us, maybe 25, were invited in beforehand to seed, and from that group came most of the early and original moderators. It is a great misconception about communities like this that they just happen - this post reminds us that our Empress had a good deal of it in mind when it...
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Re: Please help us rename this Forum
heard frequently on the pier in the early and mid ninties on any given Sunday morning from any number of club form, wig-wearing, platform-dangling, clothes-barely still-wearing, wandering wonder (of The World) ... "girrrrlll, last night, oooooooh, the only walk ah shame "
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Re: East Side, West Side, All Around The Town
I have two free one month membership certificates for the Dolphin Fitness Club at 94 E4th St in the East Village. Email me if you would like one. It's a nice new space.
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Re: Straight To Hell (Sex Stories)
Damn boys, with their unwashed hair and shabby, tattered faded Levi's, sauntering around the concrete jungle reminiscent of a slimy serpent slithering in between the cracks of right of wrong, black from white. Blood stained lips sucking the last haul from the butt end of a borrowed cigarette, flipping the nicotine stick with a snap of the wrist into the chaotic heart of a hectic intersection, legs spread eagle on a gravel sprinkled sidewalk, drumming a filthy boot on the ground to the sound...
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Re: The Viper Room
Well i liked Camaro/MetalShop nights there cause of the music..and it IS kind of seedy/sweaty and small and i like that kind of thing from time to time haha Club Cherry rocked too.
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Re: The Viper Room
Club Cherry was fun when we went back in 2000. When we went back in 2001, it was really tame. Apparently we missed a rockin queer punk rock night at The Gauntlet. We didn't even try The Viper Room because of it's current rep. XXXOOO Satori
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Re: 57 Varieties ( Club 57 Remembered)
My band, the Cuban heels played at "little" Club 57, opening for Patti Smith-Sam Shepard play "Cowboy Mouth". I remember a tangle of fuzzboxes at my feet. The best thing I ever saw there was a stripper called Lady Bug who had the most fantastic puppet theatres that she wore around her neck. A wonderful rhyming monologue done up by her bikerish (boy?)friend. Lovely, charming, beautiful sets, smart wordplay. Never heard from her again.
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Re: 57 Varieties ( Club 57 Remembered)
That was the best Club 57! I did one of my very first "performance art pieces" there. I was in art school (School of Visual Arts) at the time. I hooked up two big BORROWED tv sets to all of this electronic equipment that Laurie Anderson loaned me (God bless her). It was all choreographed to a disco drum beat with this drummer guy that I met in the park. He now has gone on to drum with hundreds of DJs in hundreds of clubs but believe me, that was the first time. He really didn't understand my...
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Re: Please help us rename this Forum
I agree with chi chi -i guess i should read "paper" magazine -i just thought "clubbed to death" was funny - but if it's not original or has been used elsewhere-we should keep looking-i like the word "unclubbable" but cannot think of a way to use it -i also like triggers suggestion "the club chronicles" kitty
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Re: Join us at Hooker's Ball 4 New Year's Eve
I am incredibly superstitious about this, resulting in my having done a countdown somewhere on Earth for the past 15 years - almost. The one year I wasn't onstage at midnight was 2001 - nuff said! That's why this year was especially gorgey as the stage was CRAMMED with people I adore, including you (and Flow of course) Betty, my hubs, Dolly, Lily, Amber and Eliza, Bootboy and Dale Devere, Andrea Bouzewah etc. I am rare among club folk because I LOVE New Years and particularly the countdown...
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Re: Please help us rename this Forum
The more I like "The Club Chronicles" suggestion of trigger's - simple, strong and not just about these clubs being over, but about their stories (or a few of them) living on. ps - Hi Trigger, wonderful to see you here!
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Re: I'm from normal parents (The Pyramid Club Topic)
I first met Miss U at the Pyramid Club (she won't remember). I transpired to the BANK on Houston. Loved the decor and back room where you could always find a "real' vampire! Where hav the real vampires gone? And it's not Second Avenue!
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Re: Party Monster - Michael Alig
Party Monster debuts this weekend at Sundance. There is glossy, half-page article in "V" Nov/Dec issue. Their facts aren't 100% correct... (I'm mentioned as an "original club kid" which I've never claimed to be for the record) but the promo shots that they used are sharp. XXXOO Satori
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Re: Please help us rename this Forum
OK, enough! I must insist that everybody stop loving Clubbed to Death right now. I mean it. And I pray I haven't posted too late to prevent it taking the honors. Frankly, as a nightlife expression it's been clubbed to death itself. For years. Trust me. However, I rather liked B. Domination's Club Salad, solely for its whimsy. And in that vein, I'd like to suggest Club Melt, because a little cheese always adds flava to the dish, no? No, but really, Trigger's Club Chronicles is very...
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Re: Please help us rename this Forum
In the "club"! clubs a gone gone "classic club"-s club sandwich - recipe -one slice of chi chi one slice of johny sprinkle with glitter and sandwich between to slices of the house of domination-if required add mayo!! still like club chronicles best
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Re: Party Monster - Michael Alig
Bridgette, I can totally understand why you'd be interested in the 80's/90's NY club scene. There was a lot of excitement, color, and creativity. What I find unfortunate is how much credit for this is being given to Michael Alig. The whole "Club Kid" thing was really an extension of what was first being done in small East Village Venues such as the Pyramid. Flloyd, Sister Dimension, Lahoma, Olympia, and many other freaks were doing their thing way before Disco 2000. When the small venues...
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Re: Party Monster - Michael Alig
When I was in 4th grade I used to draw swastikas on my books. I didn't really even know what they meant. It just felt "bad" and cool. I was so far removed from gas chambers and people suffering that it didn't really mean anything. (But it did get a reaction). It's like when people (like my wife) are obsessed with Jack The Ripper... I mean if you really knew Mary Kelly it would be different. (sorry Hattie, I know you knew her.) I think this Alig thing is a bit like that. I knew Angel. He was...
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Re: Party Monster - Michael Alig
I've never really understood how someone can watch "Party Monster" or have seen any of the other shows done about the murder and walk away thinking that Michael Alig is worthy of idolization or going to the extent of even almost worshiping him... I mean at the end of the documentary, James St. James even says that he's awful and has always been awful. Your dream sequences sound like how Nina Hagen speaks about her spirit inspiration Babaji. It kinda freaked me out when I read it. I don't...
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Re: Please help us rename this Forum
not for nuthin- but whoever thought of The Club Chronicles is a genius. Stephen- I got your email and am going to an art opening in your neck of the woods in early March and will send you the info soon.a
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Re: Miss Understood's Thailand 2003!
I'm staying in the Euro/Aussie slacker tourist area. It's cheap and fun, but pretty far from the gay strip. I finally found out where there's a gay club near here and I went last night. They actually gave me a little look up and down at the door,grilled me about ID, etc. I realized why when they decided I was okay and let me in. I was the only non Asian in the packed club! That's very unusual here...at least from what i've seen so far. There are some very mixed bars full of guys who want...
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Re: Please help us rename this Forum
...And you are absolutely right! And the new name is... Drum roll, please... The Club Chronicles. Thanks to EVERYONE who participated and to trigger for coming up with the new name!
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Re: Please help us rename this Forum
"Club Chronicles" has a nice ring to it. The name promises to tell stories of the past - and keep telling them!
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Re: I'm from normal parents (The Pyramid Club Topic)
Re: I'm from normal parents (The Pyramid Club Topic)
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Re: Miss Understood's Thailand 2003!
I've been to several of those Russian clubs to do a quick number for a birthday, etc. Unfortunately I've never caught the shows. I'm dying to go but I always work weekends. Are there any good ones on Thursday or Sunday? One club has approached me about doing a weekly drag show. If it happens, we have to bus you folk out to Brooklyn!
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Re: Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Ok ...here goes....(although I think u 2 are taking the piss out of me now! Can't help it if i worked in the industry in the 80s - how sad is that!) Nah Actually i never knew them!!! How about that! Although ran into them a few times... Tony used to live with Janet Street Porter (big TV executive in the UK)... From what I understood (and correct me anyone who knows different) the whole concept of the band was that all of them were rather square and blue colar in 'real life' and thought they...
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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: The Palladium
I was pushing my son in his stroller past the Palladium (site) yesterday...and ended up telling him about the club..(poor tyke is only 2 and is probably damaged for life with Mommies tales already).... cos i think it was a great time for me there... 1991, I had JUST arrived in NYC.. my first wk here (sent here by my job) didn't know ONE person here, had never even been here before.. first wk in, i was telephoned by Kelly Cuttrone (remember her! Where is she now) inviting me to a party (i was...
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Re: Miss Understood's Thailand 2003!
Last night went to Freeman, my favorite gay club here. They have an ever changing show 7 nights a week and every number is a group number. There's always a crowd. There's nothing like it at home. ******FREEMAN WEBSITE****** They do a lot of black girl numbers. Last night there was a "Shirley Bassey) and a "Diana Ross". They also do some numbers is severe fashion looks. One girl wcame out in black lipstick and and a sexy/gothy exaggerated black ruffly collar and did an Amanda Lear song. The...
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Re: Nightclub Disasters
Interesting. The loss of life in both instances was TERRIBLE. We watched the Long Island nightclub fire story on the TV outside last night at Webster Hall when the news was on. Here in NYC I remember the Happyland incident of years ago too, and how that marked the beginning of the "crackdown" era in some respects. And the Chicago matter -- the idea of actually being trampled to death is really horrifying. An additional sad result of these tragedies (albeit less important than the loss of...
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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
Just heard the club DJ and some of the bartenders among the missing in RI sad day
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Re: Nightclub Disasters
I've heard that the owners of the RI club may be charged with murder or manslaughter along with a host of other charges. I feel almost as bad for them as I do for the fire victims and their families. Their business and careers are ruined, and they have to live with the deaths of 96 people in their hearts for the rest of their lives. If it's true the band was using fire without permission, clearly THEY bear the responsibility and should face the consequences. I'm not saying the owners are...
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Re: Nightclub Disasters
are you serious Lex? I was gonna be @ Webster this Saturday but I couldn't go. I hope they dont come next week. You mean they had to escort people or something? You know....actually the club security level has gone down...I have some stories that I, unfortunately, can not share here with everyone. I mean, on one hand it is good to have a club check-up, on the other-it is so annoying!!! Just because something happened at some other club, now they will inspect everything. Is it just me or has...
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Re: Nightclub Disasters
No, Bridgette they didn't close the whole club. People who were already inside were allowed to stay, and the music and dancing and everything else continued as normal. Customers were not disturbed. But the FDNY-NYPD inspectors made us shut down the front door so no one else could come in. Top management was walking around all nervous, etc. At the end of it they found a few minor violations, but everything was pretty much okay.
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Re: Nightclub Disasters
The band Great White's performance rider contains no mention whatsoever of pyrotechnics being used during the rock group's current tour of clubs and small theaters, The Smoking Gun has learned. TSG today (2/21) obtained copies of the band's rider from two separate promoters who booked shows by the group during the past month. A copy of the Great White performance specs can be found below. A third promoter, Domenic Santana, told TSG that the band set off a pyrotechnic display without his...
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Re: Nightclub Disasters
It saddens me that so many people suffered in this R.I. tragedy. I'm with you, Lex, in that I feel for the club owners and what they're having to go through as well. The Station is a reputable place, those guys are really nice to work with. Bottom line, however, is they are responsible for the safety of their customers. I'm glad Darla posted the performance rider. The band and, more pointedly, their agents and managers should also be held accountable, and named in any court proceedings.