Tagged With "Filthy Rich"
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
Join the OWS Maid Brigade for more anti-capitalist street theater! As corporate powers externalize their costs, ordinary people are forced to clean up the mess. From oil spills to bank bailouts, corporate money-making schemes have us working as round-the-clock maids picking up after criminal profiteers… NO MORE NICE On MAY DAY , we will take the streets in classic maid costumes—modified however we see fit—and spread the message that we are sick of cleaning up after capitalism and corporate...
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Re: Straight To Hell (Sex Stories)
Wow! What a fab story to wake up to. Portland is such a rich city, so many interesting people. Were you at any of the parties we did in Portland this past year? http://www.queenmother.tv/outandabout/pony.html
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Re: Miss Understood's Hi from Thailand
BUTT WIPING...new topic Mommy? So I don't want you all to get the impression that's it's all this gritty street thing. I was just hanging there to experience the realness. Today I did the flashy mall thing. There is this big cluster of huge flashy malls full of affluent Thai teenagers. While there are a lot of American fashion chains, there are also some great Thai designer shops. There's lots of Japanese influence. The American fastfood places are all there in a cluster (KFC, Starbucks,...
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Re: Miss Understood's Hi from Thailand
Have you ever noticed how bad travel articles in magazines an newspapers are? They are all formatted around overpriced packages. Even here, if you pick up a free (advertiser funded) tourist guide or map, it is full of listings for things that are absurdly overpriced for what things cost here. This place is so gorgeous that there's not much more the pricey places can offer you. You don't need a pool with a crystal clear ocean in front of you! A simple, lovely, Gilliganesque bungalow is about...
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Re: Miss Understood's Hi from Thailand
Missy, Just so you know. The "Rich Hippie Look" is back. Bergdorf's is featuring sequin & rhinestone Tailand Tourist Tee shirts for Spring / Summer. (I mean the real street tourist tee shirts). You may want to bring some back to sell to girls going to Studio 54 on Saturday.
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Re: DH and the Fishsticks
Hey all, we made it to London, 3 hour layover and then...home. Jade- we perform to DAT tracks. no live band.But a lot of the songs are remixes for nightclub dates. Wait till you hear about the Hong Kong show! Bill Clinton and this water sweetie. We brought Jaiko and Viva to Hong Kong to perform with us because the venue was so huge. It was an enormous convention center built in the harbor,huge stage, 2 huge projection screens,lights....yadda yadda. The whole thing was so sick. We performed...
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Re: Rice Queens - The Anne Rice topic
Though I may get caught up in the foppish romanticism of the vampyres, I have never found them to be my sexual turn on. However, I do find Michael Curry- Rowan Mayfair's beau, husband, and father of her child in the Witching Hour- to be the total dream(boat); he was the one who had to wear leather gloves because otherwise he could feel all the emotions within the objects touched by those before him. Who wouldn't want a 48 year old curly-haired rich Irish construction worker daddy who is...
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Re: Rice Queens - The Anne Rice topic
I have many great things I wish to accomplish today (as every day). But I wanted to share my copy of Pandora with Mother's Rice Queens -- especially in timing with this coming event. This book means a great deal to me. In addition to it's amazing beauty, the purchase of it taught me one of the most valuable lessons in my life with regards to appreciating the quality of my life. Like most actually, I grew up quite poor. The year before I went to college (1989), my mother made $2000 for the...
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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: Miss Understood's Thailand 2003!
I have a weakness for that look! sexy, rich, college, jewish boy'esque Gi-Gi
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Re: Miss Understood's Thailand 2003!
I wouldn't exploit him like that... besides, I have no way of uploading a photo here. (Hey moderator, if you're out there, can we keep this going instead of starting a part II? I'll be hope in less than a week, it seems silly.) Viet Nam is significantly more poor than Thailand. Still, people seem to function quite well. There's just so many people... and children, trying to sell you gum or some other thing, that it gets a little upsetting. Don't get me wrong, it doesn't look like a Save The...
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Re: Miss Understood's Thailand 2003!
Having lived in Miami for almost a year, i think i went to the beach about 4 times. 3 times at night. Sorry, they have not came out with the spf 284 that i would need to wear.....the sun would need the shades i'm so white... The state of how the US lives is amazing, espically since i got to know alot of people from latin america that just came here recently, and how different things are in every way from here to there. But,there's a big catch 22 about the rich and poor vs. the who's right...
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Re: Miss Understood's Thailand 2003!
I know it's time to end this blabbering, but I just need to tell you about yesterday. Yesterday I really realized how wealthy we are in the US. See, I love slumming it in the street markets etc. and getting everything that's authenitc and cheap. But there's a real luxury circuit here that I'm pretty out of touch with. Like if you want to spend the $15-$20 for a meal that you might spend in NY at Yaffa Cafe, you can eat in some real swanky place equivilent to a $100 meal at home. I just don't...
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Re: Michael Moore
Watch the crowd as they decide how to react in the kodak theatre. watch the crowd as they decide how to ridicule MM, acting startled at first. Watch the crowd as they gain momentum against the speaker. there is a similar fear in the eyes to those famous and rich people, that one sees in th eyes of those around sadam, like they must behave and say and do the right thing or else. that natural thought and gut reactions are not possible. such honesty would only reveal the lack of power any of...
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Re: Party Monster - Michael Alig
I saw it today. I don't know what to think. It definitely wasn't bad, but I can't say it was good either. I thought MacAuley Culkin was irritating, if it was just Seth Green it would've been a much better movie. For those who know the story (or lived it), the only reason to see the movie was for the recreations of the club scene "back in the day", but as Z&S pointed out above those scenes are pretty much quick camera pans across a dark room with an indistinguishable glimpse at a few...
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
Despite the attention he has willingly or unwillingly gotten, I for one love his books. I compare him on some levels with Hubert Selby Jr, for his knack of depicting the lowest depths of humanity with some sort of beauty. Personally I have witnessed similar creatures growing up in the midwest with southern roots and alot of white trash on one side of my family. I am able to "smell" the carpeting in the motel rooms and feel the grimy toys he drags from new home to new home. Sarah to me was a...
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Re: Party Monster - Michael Alig
Michael Alig: Macauley Culkin Angel: Wilson Cruz Tobell Von Cartier: Todd Bridges Codie Ravioli: Leonardo DiCaprio Olympia: John Malkovich Richie Rich: Jonathan Taylor Thomas Amanda Lepore: Melanie Griffith Astro Earl: Joaquin Phoenix Michael Musto: Carrot Top Lahoma Van Zandt: Danny Bonaduce Larry Tee: Crispin Glover Princess Diandra: Chris Rock Queerdonna: Drew Carey Chuckie: Amy Sedaris Patricia Field: Elaine Stritch Kabuki Starshine: Winona Ryder Kenny Kenny: Alan Cumming
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Re: WICKED- Amazing Book and a Mesmerizing Musical
So I'm reading Wicked now (after finishing off that ho, Sarah!). So far I'm really enjoying Wicked. Such rich use of language and funny characters. Clicking my heels 3 times, LEX
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Re: Puritan Watch
Par for the course... And I think we owe them a very deviant reception. Whaddaya say to resurrecting the BROWN PARTY??? And I wonder, who pays for these Broadway show tickets anyway? June 8, 2004 Broadway's Best Shows Too Risque for Republicans By REUTERS Filed at 9:43 a.m. ET NEW YORK - Gay puppets, transvestites, assassins and a pedophile child killer piled up Tony honors on Sunday but those shows will be shunned by Republican delegates at the political party's convention in New York this...
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Re: Rice Queens - The Anne Rice topic
Hatches I went into Amazon.com too, to try to read that stuff and couldn't locate it. Can you tell me where to go, hons? Love your comments... Anne's "Dickensian" principles in truth put her on the side of the bad guys in those novels - the rich folk, who run industries that trample the little guys! Lexx your edit works 'cause you made it all one sentence; concision is her #1 problem. Putting 'slander' at the end of the sentence is better too, as I agree her use of "urinal" is a dangling...
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Re: Puritan Watch
This is a long two page article from the NYTIMES but it is spot on target regarding some aspects of the mass delusion being incubated by the Little Bush Idiocracy. And it took some backbone for Rich to write it. Curious as hell though that the Times put it in the Arts section and perhaps it is a little delusionally symptomatic that an article about censorship in the news is written about for a cultural context. The main point though, that the political administration in power proclaims that...
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Re: Puritan Watch
I think Frank Rich is a good writer. I enjoy his columns. (and I LOATHE Peggy Noonan, the WSJ's columnist he mentions) Scary implications though.
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
What artist would not like to make a living doing what they love to do? I don't understand your contempt for those who are able to. If it makes you feel better, I do not believe that most of those painters are rich at this moment, but even if they were, this would not make them a bunch of whores. If they are now getting media attention and a place in history, that doesn't make them sell-outs. The Soho art scene was crowded then, and getting way too blue-chip and over-valued. The fact that a...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
Dearest S'tan, actually I am not in any trap at all. If a person loves something creative that they do, or anything else, they don't have to make a living off it. That is not an idealization either, it is a fact of being alive. And in the 'art world' making things rich collectors buy means you are making things that necessarily flatter the tastes and opinions of those collectors. That act has nothing to do with being a creative person, is the opposite of creative freedom -is actually a...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
The "Only Money vs. Only No Money" thread here made me think of this... Odd that about 28 years ago I was having a very similar discussion one day in a loft on Mercer Street owned by a cocaine dealer friend of my brother's who had laundered his money by buying up a great deal of that neighborhood. Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word had come out the previous year and someone was playing a then-unreleased demo of a song by Joni Mitchell, composed as a response to Wolfe (The Boho Dance.) Naturally...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
Though I haven't actually been there and just might not as my evening clothes are growing cobwebs, Cain sounds just as bad as all the others: http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/41467347/new_york_ny/cain.html?cslink=roundup_name_noncust&ulink=roundup__roundupentity1-1_1__0_profile_5_1 "For the women who love fur and the men who love them" - seriously! I'd like to direct a sleazoid version of Partybuddys. Venues will include the Cock (where I will leave the women standing outside), the...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
Speaking of farewell, this charming property is available for sale right now in Tribeca for only $1,800,000. Here is the description: "Handsome corner Tribeca Loft Building with a rich cultural history. Filled with light from fourteen windows per floor. North & West exposure, exposed brick, exposed beams. All new systems throughout. Former home of (guess...) Country kitchen, vintage tiled bath, two additional full plumbing risers, finished with architectural concrete and Beechwood 5"...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
surprised to hear all this seven, as it would appear in print photo magazines that 'fetish' is the 'new' sex. like foam and underwear parties used to be. you can play all day (whatever that means) and not get......... tintilized to death? we were all spoiled by the mix that happened at Click+Drag and nothing has replaced it. so those pretending-to-be-serious is all that is left? and please don't be surprised that the rich ones dress the best, it's like the ugliest ones are always the most...
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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: 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: Puritan Watch
What I will be looking for in the demolition are the Pompeiian Walls meticulously painted over a period of four months by the artist Madeline von Forester, with the aid of yours truly and several others of our company. I love them to death... and though I didn't want to say it at the time, I've heard the reproduction of Pompeiian themes is notoriously bad luck. Hence a volcanic eruption of money-grubbing shit has washed over us. But I am not buried (yet.) When they pull it all down, we are...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
There actually were plans for strengthening the levees by the Army Corps of Engineers and they were ready to do it, but bush cut funds to the project and diverted them to Iraq, where significant numbers of Louisanna National Guradsman were also diverted. Everybody is criticizing the administration, the MSNBC crowd, the conservatives on CNN, even the FOX Cable News. Today I read that even Newt Gingrich was yelling about how if this is an example of how the Homeland Security reacts to homeland...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
I love Jimmy Breslin for his piece today in Newsday : NY Newsday OpEd I also love Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu and NOLA Mayor Ray Nagin for their firey speeches in DC and NOLA, respectively. Never before has the disparity between rich and poor, and black and white been so plainly and painfully illustrated in this country as in the Katrina aftermath. And the rest of the world has been observing this fiercely. In today's Times comes this bit about this inequity right here in Manhattan In...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
Published on Thursday, September 8, 2005 by the Wall Street Journal Old-Line Families Escape Worst of Flood And Plot the Future by Christopher Cooper NEW ORLEANS - On a sultry morning earlier this week, Ashton O'Dwyer stepped out of his home on this city's grandest street and made a beeline for his neighbor's pool. Wearing nothing but a pair of blue swim trunks and carrying two milk jugs, he drew enough pool water to flush the toilet in his home. The mostly African-American neighborhoods of...
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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: Provincetown
all gays are rich and young, it would appear on logo, they only do five star hotels on their travel show. it's too much like mtv. it's weird as a mature man, to see how many children are hired as backup dancers and talk show hosts and how seldom anyone is ever over 25 on television. where are the shows with a cast of ugly men on them any more, like Barney Miller?
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Re: Greer Lankton
i can only go by what greer told me.this is my truth.i have not told any lies.the family may hate me for still feeling this way....o-well.my truth is seeing her whole life in a dumpster,sad. i will keep the wedding dress as i know what an artifact it is to prove this.and i'm not making it rich saying any of this or off of any artwork i have,they are all relics to me .i can never have that time of my life back....and i miss it.i have never been able to have that patnership with anyone like...
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Re: Verbal Abuse / The Poetry Part 2
wrote this tonite... -neon bomb- and the light flickered there for years burning a hole inside of the hole hanging from a thread called "reality" emotions unchecked flourishing in the rich soil of the soiled 15 minutes of shame buried deep within the pillows and wood the walls would talk if they could nebulous confusion overides the self-induced haze escaping intrusion another dark phase when you trust the beast enough to leave your home talk to a stranger and touch again... the flickering...
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Re: New and News, Part 6
I luv this article in the UK Daily Mail.. it's SO AbFab! It's so funny - if it weren't all true! Anyone else wanna join Class War with me? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.ht...id=1879&in_a_source= Some tidbits - Diary of a billion-heiress Life of luxury: Yuki Oshima-Wilpon Yuki's whole lifestyle is funded by her billionaire father, a Japanese financier. MONDAY: 11.50am One of my two protection officers, Richie, knocks on the bedroom door to wake me. Although I didn't...
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Re: Verbal Abuse / The Poetry Part 2
IN HELL (an improvisation): I can't understand why I'm watching Grease when I really want to go out and do shit But once again Mother Nature is on the rag What a bitch she's become quite like my mother in the old days acting cold and blowing a fierce wind farting her fierce frigid sting in my face red and chapped and raw and tired I just can't bring myself to brave the cold night But if I went out I feel so right I feel good and feel so fine But I have no cash since it was stolen by some...
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Re: Madonna: Swept Away, part IV
And don't get me wrong... I'm not saying that she invented this generation (or invented anything for that matter). But she did tune in to it. There were lots of people doing lots of different things in the eighties. Her thing stuck. But she's not the only one. I think Donald Trump is just like her. He tuned in to the zeitgeist. The shameless self promotion, the obsession with celebrity, the whole famous for being famous thing. He's made millions (supposedly) using this glossy TRUMPed up...
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Re: SJ's European Tour 2007
Oh Pickles, that was rich! A press conference? I never had a press conference with old people! and CHOPPED: OK, now I get it. So that's why you got chopped in Naples. Pay it no mind. DJ politics in Europe can be FIERCE! (as you know) One time I got chopped down to a 15 minute set. The Empress and I were thrilled and just partied the night away. Resident DJs there find it VERY hard to give up one minute of their precious DJ time. In Europe (as you know Pickles but I'm filling in the readers)...
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Re: Dean Johnson - Death of a Legendary Legend
I knew Dean as did many through the years via performance and always viewed him as an exotic spider - gorgeous and terrifying. The physicality alone was a phenomenon. When told 'his body could not be identified for a week' ... I made a bad black-humor joke - "What fool couldn't identify THAT body?" I only got to know the man personally very recently as a result of doing editorial for our Verbal Abuse #5. Dean's submission was a masterpiece of concision, mordant wit and insight... I barely...
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Re: Farewell Charming Olde New York, part 4
On Curbed.com they have something called "SchnabelWatch"... the artist Julian Schnabel has built a freaky pink fake Italian palazzo on West 11th and the river... claimed it would be an artists' community, "the rebirth of the salon." Then sold it off to standard boring money-men... http://curbed.com/archives/2007/10/03/schnabelwatch_chu....php#reader_comments Who then just try to flip it for more millions. http://www.curbed.com/archives/2006/12/05/schnabelwatch...his_convenience_.php It's not...
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Re: Dean Johnson - Death of a Legendary Legend
Thank you Dominick for a little more insight on the situation. I figured if Dean was REALLY throwing wild sex parties in DC for rich saudis there would have AT LEAST been a FLYER involved!