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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: Adam Ant
You "opened up" Wham? I thought those girls were already spread WIDE open! Maybe Billy just experimented in his youth. That novel/movie is supposed to be autobiographical. From the Web: (b. 1954) Half-Pakistani British novelist, screenwriter, and essayist and a paragon of the modern multicultural intellectual. Kureishi made his mark with the pair of screenplays he wrote for director Stephen Frears: My Beautiful Launderette (1985) and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987). Before Launderette,...
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Re: Beams To Bobby Part 2
Princess Ra/ No, no black gowns just yet but I would look divine in one, I am at least a size 6. I appreciate your posts sooo much, LOVE Daddy/ What extra pounds? I've seen your icon picture on the boards and I want that same tummy. But I am eatting like a horse and starting to gain some weight. I miss you very much too. And Mommy. LOVE LOVE LOVE Stan/ Balducci's has shut down??? It is the end of the world. But not before that rat basterd Bush does his part to help it. Thanks for your...
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Re: Zette, The Topic
Synchronistically, the day after I finally started this topic, the following arrived via email, regarding Zette/Bernard's performances at Pat Field events at Area. Zette/Bernard emailed it to Scott Ewalt as research for the Pat Field book, but reveals so much about Zette and what was her and his genius, I thought Id share it here..
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Re: boy george
the finest thrift store chic that was, and my best attempt at copying the cover of the album...the rat you all refer to is a police cap with brooch applied dead center for glam effect, and the hideously colorful hanky was my attempt to tsjuz up the outfit!
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Re: boy george
OK, I too owned a rat wrap and wore eye make-up. Here is one of my '80's record covers. (It's a little beat up) Designed by the way by the brilliant Nick Egan. He did Culture Club, Bow Wow Wow, Malcolm McClaren, Hazy Fantazy to name a few. Nick is actually how I met George. (He's Nick & Ellen in the Book) Anyway, here it is. Have your way with me. If you guys can put up embarassing pics I guess I can too. That wig was pink by the way. I wish I still had it. It was genius.
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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: Party Monster - Michael Alig
Y-U-C-K. It was a curiosity, but how awful. Terrible script, WORSE acting. A total embarassment. What was up with Macauley's "gay accent"? And the rat sequence at the end?? I half-enjoyed the book. I went with no expectations, so at least this wasn't the let down that it could have been, but still... And Christopher, I used to agree about Macauley...but now his lips have a more-odd puffiness to them that I just didn't find alluring.
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Re: I'm from normal parents (The Pyramid Club Topic)
Awwwww David... I certainly don't ever want to lose touch with you again either. I am very eager to hear more stories. That post was perfect because I used to always joke at the time-- with Greer and Hapi in particular-- that we should put up a card table at Port Authority bus terminal, right next to where those blue robed nuns used to stand, to welcome America's children into our wicked web. Little did I know that Ms. Langkton actually was doing that. I have one of Greer's few...
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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: 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: Farewell Charming Olde New York, part 4
Well my fave places are the couches of my friends!!! Once I stayed with Chrysis and we woke up to a giant rat pushing all the kitchen ware off the shelves! At Rick*s apt. I woke up to a mouse crawling up my leg! At Tony*s apt. a rat ran up my arm when I opened the garbage can! Those damn rodents follow me everywhere!!!
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Re: Greer Lankton
Beautiful piece about Greer by David Rat http://redcentpublishing.blogs...10/05/david-rat.html
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Re: Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School
Dr. Sketchy's Anti- Art School September 13, 3-6pm $10 ($15 for a table) The Lucky Cat 245 Grand St, btw Driggs and Roebling Williamsburg, Brooklyn www.drsketchy.com Dr. Sketchy's is what happens when cabaret meets art school. Artists draw glamorous alternative models, compete in contests, and win booze and prizes. Hosted by Molly Crabapple and John Leavitt. This week we have two truely extraordinary models. Coney Island performer Nik Sin (who stands 3'9") and showgirl Pandora (standing 6...
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Re: Another Sammy Jo Joint (Mo' Better Barcelona)
I was walking Casanova by Sammy Jo's house last night and as he was pissing on the side of Sammy Jo's building, right before he chased a big rat into the doorway, I noticed that Sammy's building is a Fallout shelter. What the hell does that mean in 2008? Are there really cans of beans stacked up in a little concrete bunker in Sammy's basement? Is that where we should all run when the big one hits? Sounds like a party. I imagine you must be getting pretty homesick for your apt. Pickles. Who...
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Re: Another Sammy Jo Joint (Mo' Better Barcelona)
Reminds me of a song... I grew up with a bomb shelter dug beneath the house. It was made by Eisenhower innocence was the cost.... Ah the good old days of collective angst. But what about the rat, Daddy? Casanova get a snack or Sammy Jo get a new room mate?
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Re: Postcards from New Orleans
The Wifi Report Well, since our last trip at Carnival, wifi is everywhere in NOLA, but in classic laidback style, you often have to know it's there! Some fav spots to log in from, free and easy: Envie - the coffeeshop at Decatur and Barracks, - so pleasant to sit in the window with the doors open and a big cold beverage. Dogs, smoking, wifi, macs and iced chicory coffee. My current fav.. Coop's Place This local extremely reasonably priced bar/restaurant has free wifi, along with rabbit...
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Re: Movie Trailer
Daddy -- Bleach Blonde! You offend sir. I swear on the point of Mr. Bruce's rat-tail comb I haven't bleached my hair in a least a week! The road less travelled has led Flavine to a small farm in NJ's ag-belt where my farmhand (age 4) and I raise chickens and dontate the egg money to local charities ( www.victoryfarm.org ). We live and work in a 200 year old farmhouse with a FIERCE digital design/production studio ( www.visualpowertools.com ). How are you and Chi? Flav PS: Up-and-coming...
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Re: The Pyramid Club Part 2 (aka I'm from normal parents)
Ya know, the funny thing is that the other day I thought of something like three other"where are they now" people East Village characters and Pyramid regulars . . . and meant to post them when I got the 'puter warmed up . . . but now I forget who I had remembered. Memory is a funny thing. I just remembered someone who I hadn't thought of befor - Red Ed. Hatches I'm sure you know where he is now. However Hattie, I too heard that same story about the paper-bag hat pharmacist and I don'think...
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Re: Pet Food Recall
Breaking News: Rat Poison http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2975912&page=1&US=true
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Re: Pet Food Recall
hideous. here's more: Rat poison found in pet food, official says Story Highlights ALBANY, New York (AP) -- Rat poison has been found in pet food blamed for the deaths of at least 16 cats and dogs, a spokeswoman for the State Department of Agriculture and Markets said Friday. Spokeswoman Jessica Chittenden would not identify the chemical or its source beyond saying it was a rodent poison. The Food and Drug Administration has said the investigation was focusing on wheat gluten in the food.
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Re: Pet Food Recall
Thanks Chi Chi. SHIT! Now looks like rat poison and melemine MAY NOT be the cause, but Vitamin D.. This story has been nowhere except 1 paper in Canada so far. The FDA has fucked us, and isn't being straight: is it Vitamin D? Barking up wrong tree in pet food recall? Lawyer claims culprit is vitamin D By ALAN CAIRNS, SUN MEDIA As the poisoned pet food crisis widened yesterday with the recall of a dry food, a Toronto lawyer leading a $60-million class-action negligence suit against a Guelph...
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Re: Barcelona: Sammy Jo's Ai Caramba Adventure!
Well it's getting down to the final days of my trip here en Espagne. Last week I got a bit depressed but now I'm just excited to get home and see everyone and then in 2 months hopefully return to Barcelona in my new apartment that I'll share with Keyan. Today he and I are going to look at a few places. "Any little rat-hole on 10th Ave..." is my apt hunting motto but Keyan has standards. He he he. This past weekend I popped up to London to visit some friends and do some record shopping. I got...
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Re: My own private East Village Part 2
It's kind of become like that hasn't it. But I kind of like to think of it as the Lower East Side blogging itself through me. One needs to think in terms of how much mayhem and jubilance has been endured. How vividly beautiful are the colors of rat entrails or sharp morning sunlight on the nearly naked bodies of a garden parade. What kind of sublime insanitywisdom flows off the tongue of a delirious neighbor as he collapses in a reverie imposed by HIV cocktails, insulin injections, 65 years...
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Re: The Downtown Costume Institute
As Greil Marcus points out so beautifully in the book, those lipstick traces (on a cigarette) can re-emerge decades or even centuries later in a new form, to re-energize or inspire. So it was, in microcosm today. We'd just finished several grueling days of storage weeding and moving, and decided to toss the mbanal reconstruction items from the 1999 shows, like the generic beatnik black turtleneck and the thriftshop black slip recreation of Holly Woodlawn's black strip. When facing down a...
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Re: Beams To Bobby
Hey little Bobby! I just came home from San Francisco to find out you were sick. What a drag for you and as you can see, for everyone here. We love you lots and lots and hope you feel better soon. Though transitioning to the other side surely is a thrill. When I was over there during the last days of Carl A. I have to say I enjoyed life alot more. They really are all waiting for ye to come on home. I will look for you in my dreams. Note to posters here: I yam confus-ed...is Bobby in P-PTown?
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Re: Club Creatures - Chicago
Trisha's party was wonderful, and I haven't seen so many people going ALL OUT since Wigstock. I took around 70 pictures there, dropping film off today. Fireball extremely well done, amazing performances verging on Cirque du Soleil... Look what a happy family we were: On a low note, my car was broken into, overnight on Friday. They broke my window, crowbared my locked glove compartment, and stole the brand-new satellite radio that Zaz had just gotten me for my birthday. Here's hoping the...
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Re: Los Angeles--do you hate it?
ROB LONG If you Google the words "lots and lots of Hollywood Republicans," you get about 58,900 hits, which just goes to show you that the Internet is really one big swamp of wishful thinking, political and pornographic. Because the truth is, even if you allot one Google hit per Hollywood Republican, you've still got about 58,885 hits too many. About every four years, Republican fundraisers and strategists lose contact with reality and declare "impressive inroads" into the Hollywood...