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Re: Oh, no, here come The Republicans!
And the wrap up... By now, everyone I am sure has seen Bloomberg's idiotic coments regarding last week's protests. I wonder now how he will try to justify the enormous expense of holding the RNC here-- the Federal money alloted for security did not even begin to cover the costs. And how could it, with all those new "toys" purchased by the NYPD, which include that infernal sonic weapon they thankfully did not use. Who made money? A few hotels and national chain restaurants like Applebee's?
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Re: The Cincinnati Connection
January 8th, 2005 (and every Second Saturday of the month) The Club Creatures present: " Clusterf#¢k! " Zazoo and Satori spin the very best in Electro and current Alternative with clusters of: New Beat/Acid House, Industrial, (early to mid) House, Hip-House, Glam Rock, New Wave, Disco, Techno, 80's Electrofunk, Progressive, Breakbeat, 60's Psychadelic, Bubblegum and whatever else will get your ass on the floor. The infamous Empira State's one "woman" show at 10pm. The dancefloor opens...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
Hi Bobby darling, Happy New World Disorder 2005! Apropos of fighting against the machine, I just saw the East Village Art Show at the Chelsea Museum -- so major! It could have been ten times bigger... Paintings that are so fervent and wild. David Wojnarowicz's "Death of American Spirituality" is one of the most terrifying paintings seen in a long time. Overarching the experience is the apocalyptic drone of Sonic Youth from the video room. Sue Coe's "Car Hookers" is incredible as is David...
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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: The Palladium
Against all odds - Palladium was undeniably fun. No one believed it could be hip - it was just too big, but somehow it all pulled together. I saw some great shows there: Gwen Guthrie, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, El Grand Combo, Grace Jones, Debbie Harry, Joyce Sims, even Vanity 6! Sister Dimemsia DJ-ing in the Michael Todd Room. I used to wonder just how much extra insurance the club had to carry to have banks of televisions on hydraulic lifts spinning over the dancer's heads. The art...
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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: RIP, VIP - Chapter 2 (3/5/04++)
Mr. T was kind of the last link to Neil Cassady, who the Beats tried soooo hard to make their adopted cartheif/Adonis. Thompson's 'first person journalism' was, as someone said here above, the result of his pissed-offedness. There was always an underlying sarcasm to his fumes, and I am sure he understood the deep veins of sarcasm's power. It seems obvious he wanted out, and anger can be a very powerful portal to getting back out in to the Universe. As with Cassady, Thompson's voice was an...
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Re: I'm from normal parents (The Pyramid Club Topic)
Bobby, look for a thin woman with huge expressive eyes done in black kohl-- kind of a cross between Alice Cooper and Nefertiti. Her hair was always done up in a large and loose Gibson Girl meets Geisha coiffure. She always wore black but would find some costume fragment, usually on the floor of the dressing room-- some discarded feathers, a beaded or glittering thing-- that she would work into a stunning and unique shawl. That's Ann. As I remember her now, she was somewhat older than the...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
Aww, Daddy, the Gilded Grape! You just slammed me with a bunch of memories of a gay New York that no longer exists... bars and floors and stages that harkened back to a mysterious verboten subculture that truly was the twilight world of the homosexual (always one of my fave phrases, of course.) I can remember waking up each day, hungry to experience a different aspect of it... would it be the outdoor cruising at The Soldiers & Sailor's monument, the miniscule dancefloor at The Barefoot...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
It is definitely true the sex possibilities were more varied, seven. Everything, that was "forbidden" in the first place, was lumped together into a very heady mixture that was certainly very libertine. Therefore, in Riverdale, where I grew up there was a park-- Van Cortlandt Park, one of the largest and wildest (terrain-wise) in the City. Along the western side ran Broadway, which at that point was more like a six lane highway than the commercial street we are familiar with downtown. This...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
ah yeah, the fun drag acts at the Limelight, and the biggest mix of people you eva wanted to meet. used to order ameretto and cokes there. and we've got to get ourselves back to...... Le Jardin (sp), merlin's favorite dance floor in the early/mid seventies and the roof top deco garden space. before the flamingo, before 12 west. for at least one summer in the mid seventies there was this empty two story building in the west village, it was an after hours bar. a big trucked parked outfront to...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
Ah Merlin, I remember that storefront, though not its name. And the club that was an entire empty loft building, completely unfinished, called the Toilet. I mean they just set up a bar on an old table and opened the doors of an abandoned building! And what was the bar on 17th & Tenth that had a long row of heavy clanking chains that separated the bar area from the backroom? I can never remember the name. The Hotel Diplomat... I was friendly with the desk clerk and took many johns there,...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
Above the Trendy, the Down and Out By ALAN FEUER NY Times April 7, 2005 Knock at Room 18 on the fourth floor of 559 West 22nd Street and an old man in a watch cap stumbles to the door. "What am I doing here?" he asks, answering the question with a question. "I'm dying here," he says. His name is George Ullrich and, according to his own account, he has been dying here for almost 30 years. He lives in a small room, 10 feet deep by 10 feet wide, and in rooms all down the hallway, a piece of the...
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Re: SEX in Jackie 60
Love the VIVID, TORRID, LUSTY, tale that you told Anna! It's just like the nights I remembered. The hot sweaty bodies writhing together on the dance floor...slave to the rhythm of Johnny's masterful tunes. Snakes of the nightlife under control of the snake charmer. But wait! A bathroom cam? I vaguely remember hearing about it but always thought it was a rumour! EEK! I deny everything !!!! That was my twin sister you saw on camera!
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Re: SEX in Jackie 60
Thank goodness the sex didn't happen AT Jackie, but one of my ALL TIME hottest experiences was with an arab I met at Jackie who was some sort of secret service to an arab princess and he took me to The Waldorf where the entourage had I believe an entire floor. The poor princess had cancer or something and they were all in town trying to get her medical care. GORGEOUS Arab secret service man was giving me some of the BEST secret service I have EVER had while 2 of his cronies sat quietly at a...
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Re: SEX in Jackie 60
oh daddy, was too shy in those days to do much of anything. honest, and loved every minute of the triffles that did occur. remembering one holiday event at Jackie 60, finding this very handsome young fresh energetic sympatico on the dance floor. we locked like long lost lovers and danced the dance of life as if for the first time, discovering each other like long lost lovers on the dance floor. embracing & yes, kissing in public, while we danced, he was hot, and merlin was getting...
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Re: SEX in Jackie 60
Well, it's not that exciting really. It was one of the very first Jackies. Mike Tyson was going to jail the next day and he wanted to get a little crazy before the big House and he came to jackie. This was real early in the life of The House Of Domination. Mother Kitty Boots was dancing with her daughters then. So when Iron Mike came up to her girls Mother Cat got very protective of her kittens. He backed down of course. The next day the headline of The NY Post was... MIKE TYSON GETS...
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
HOPE IN NEBRASKA? May 13, 2005 Judge Voids Same-Sex Marriage Ban in Nebraska By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LINCOLN, Neb., May 12 (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday struck down Nebraska's ban on same-sex marriage, saying the measure interfered not only with the rights of gay couples but also with those of foster parents, adopted children and people in a variety of other living arrangements. The amendment to the state's Constitution, which defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman, was...
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Re: My own private East Village
I wonder what this was about..... East Village Man Is Fatally Shot at Home By THE NEW YORK TIMES Published: May 23, 2005 A 35-year-old man died last night after being shot in the head in his East Village apartment, the police said. A gunman and a second assailant shot the man inside his sixth-floor apartment at 85 East 10th Street about 6 p.m., the police said. The two, described as being in their 20's, then fled east on 10th Street, the police said. No suspects were in custody last night.
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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: Grey Gardens At Irving Plaza
OK, I'll try. "Grey Gardens" was basically Hattie Hathaway (Hatches) and my thing. Hattie thought of the name (Hattie also named "Mother" BTW, it came to her in a wet dream about Jimi Hendrix but that's another story) It was every Saturday night at Irving Plaza, after the rock shows ended. The Irving Plaza staff (who were incredible) cleared out the drunk college kids faster than one of Messy Bonnie's farts. And in about 20 minutes we (about 15 people) transformed the theater into this eery,...
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Re: Grey Gardens At Irving Plaza
Well, you beat me to the punch, as usual Daddy! However, I cannot really take credit for the name. When Daddy and I were discussing the club's concept, having just visited Irving and seen what it was-- a crumbling, dusty former burlesque house (this was before renovations)-- the conversation went something like this: Hatches: I see it as a cross between an Edward Hopper painting... you know the ones he did of his wife stripping onstage in the ruined theatre... and a huge crumbling Southern...
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Re: Air Travel is shite these days.....
Oh don't get me started. I began flying around 1969 or 1970. A plain old passenger was royalty then. You were a, 'valued customer' -this phrase simply has been erased from corporate consciousness. In the 80's there was at least a counter-movement with the likes of People Express but they got targeted by the big boys and squeezed out. Tower was the last incarnation of that populist approach (although their service was awful at the end) and Southwest has a remnant of that low-cost/good service...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
This came today, so I'm pasting it in here: news from the front- pass on if anyone finds this kind of first person report interesting. thanks Clayton When the threat of Katrina was realized, he sent his wife and two young girls to Jackson, MS where his parents live.. but he stayed behind. He is a pathologist and had checked into the Ritz for a medical convention -- which presumably would be safe. That's where he remains. ****************************************************** Thanks to all of...
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Re: The Return Of TRIPPLE XXX!
Yesterday The NEW YORK OBSERVER published a feature encouraging gay men to seek out new places for public sex!! Here's an excerpt:
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Re: Madonna: Swept Away, part IV
Ooo ooo ooo! I wanna be Rosie O'Donell! Meanwhile, Madge cries: Liz Smith -- November 30, 2005 -- 'ME AND ELVIS? Are you kidding?! I'm gonna tell my dad. Maybe that will impress him." That was Madonna's reaction when we told the Queen of Pop that she has now tied the King of Rock 'n' Roll with the most top-10 singles ever "” 36 each. (Her latest being the crazily infectious "Hung Up.") M had not heard the news yet. I guess she really does stay away from media! And at 47, touchingly, she...
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Re: Anderson Cooper: "Outing" in the 21st Century
Just a little personal info about anderson cooper....He's the son of gloria vanderbilt the famed inventor of "stretch jeans" His brother committed suicide by jumping off the 38th floor of my old apt building...maybe he couldn't fit into his stretch jeans that would do it for me too! I think one other brother is a good looking actor doing a few cameos in some average movies.The irony of it all is that truman capote and 70's talk show host david suskind lived in the same building...this was...
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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: Wanted: Memories Of The Pyramid Club, 1981-1985
Hi Dana, sorry, I don't know anyone from 75st. I moved around a lot in those days but I never knew anyone from 75st area. At the time I was hanging out with this guy who was a new wave freak, so I followed his lead to the clubs, so that's why I am influenced by new wave, although I do like the other music that was played in the clubs. I did like the shows that Pyramid put on, you probably know the names. I really liked John Sex with his hair that would touch the ceiling. The show I liked was...
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Re: My own private East Village
A hopeful and lovely sound.. This is a dog-walking story too, in a way: I often take Casanova (the eskimo pup) on a late-night walk to my favorite place in all of Gotham, St. Mark's Church. He cant go inside the grounds but loves the place as much as his mom does, though he sometimes senses the ghostly activity and bays. A few nights ago I walked him there at 1 AM - it was very quiet on the streets. As we rounded the corner I heard the unmistakable lines of Alan Ginsberg's "Howl" "who...
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Re: Greece & Turkey: Athens, Istanbul, Mykonos, et al
Back in Athens for a final night before flying home. Now that the Easter holidays are over the city is decidedly more crowded and busy. This time we walked through some neighborhoods and back streets that are quite lovely. It was good to see this prettier side of the city. Also nice to roam around without any agenda. Our hotel gave us a gorgeous room on the top floor with a gigantic flower-covered terrace and a better view of the Acropolis than we had on our previous two nights. We plan on a...
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Re: Queers are the Blacks of the 1950's!!! Anti-Gay is on the RISE!!
As your recent experience points out, these crimes aren't the cliche, late at night on an empty street in the bad part of town scenario. It can go down anywhere, almost anytime. Since I have lived in the city I have been the subject of three attempted attacks. I say attempted because I was never finished off nor did the perps manage to rob me. In two of the incidents I did incur some punches to the head but like Rob I happened to just notice the perps closing in just in time to bolt out of...
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Re: Queers are the Blacks of the 1950's!!! Anti-Gay is on the RISE!!
IT'S ABOUT TIME! http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/06/062706sharpton.htm used to not like sharpton, then he helped the young kids that worked on my floor for ticket master get better working conditions and it changed my mind. he is a great force when he gets behind something. it gets noticed for sure. merlin are we drama free yet?
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Re: Nina Simone
I saw this thing on the ovation channel with Nina doing a concert. When she performed "see-line Woman" she started dancing and the crowd cheered her on. So I hope she doesn't mind being remixed for the modern-day dance floor, because some of her originals are funky and the material I've heard remixed, like "see-line" "Little Girl Blue" "Feeling Good", etc., are really good. But she's dead so I can't really speak for Nina.
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Re: But Darling I WAS a punk.
I wish sometimes for DJs that mix up the styles they play, like mixing something like New Order, with a bit of house , followed by some crazy experimental shit that the dancers on the floor don't know what to do with the music, and then some thing totally different after that and it doesn't have to make sense, like a Burroughs cut-up type thing. Or at less play some old school stuff in with the newer music, and show the kids where the ideas and early stuff that really make DJ culture what it...
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Re: Air Travel is shite these days.....
On my first trip to California in '68 or '69-- on Pan Am, no less-- the stewardesses (they were always called that then) changed no less than three times: miniskirt ensemble for the take-off, floor-length hostess gown for dinner service (on real plates, with real silverware) and stunning pantsuit for the culmination of this fashion parade in the sky. All of this on a mere 707, and it wasn't even first class. Course I also remember flying to Hawaii and having to change to a pontoon plane in...
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Re: BoyBar
One of my all time favorite RETARDED moments at BB had to be the night we did Cinderella 2000 with Sister Cody as Cinderella, Shannon as the stepmother and Faux Pas and I as stepsisters. Faux Pas and I were wearing these rotten white onesie pj's for the final scene when the prince wakes up the house for the slipper. The whole gag was that Cody goes postal and shoots us all. MATTHEW planted a huge ziploc baggie full of chocolate pudding in the back of my pj's so when Cody shot me I could hit...
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Re: The Motherboards Remembers 9/11/2001
Worked a corporate gig at a major talent agency during this period while moonlighting the bars. My favorite client for whom we booked speaking engagements was The Honorable Ann Richards. She had no qualms about filling us in on the depths that W would sink to win. (He of all people brought public her ages-old bout with alcoholism during her schoolteaching years when he ran against and unseated her as Gov. of TX - so much for anonymity). I was listening to the Rolling Stones' Some Girls CD on...
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Re: The Motherboards Remembers 9/11/2001
Letter emailed on The Day: Like alot of folk, I imagined I could walk downtown and have a look. I got over to the river, joined the crowd standing still and silent, staring at the thick single plume of black smoke. I started walking downtown with others. We were stopped at Houston Street. People were trying to force their ways through the police barricade: "I live down there!" "My husband's waiting for me!" "My dogs!" Cops were fighting to keep people from crossing Houston... One cop...
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Re: Adam Goldstone - RIP, VIP our beloved "mista bitch"
East Village D.J. dies at Burning Man festival By Lincoln Anderson Adam Goldstone, a well-known East Village D.J., was getting ready to do what he loved best, spin records, when he fainted in his RV at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert last Tuesday and died shortly afterwards. He was 37. According to his father, Jerry Goldstone, the cause of death was heart arrhythmia stemming from a delayed effect of a congenital condition that had been fixed when he was a child. His father said...
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Re: New and News, Part 6
I used to tend two midget dogs that lived on the 14th floor of a prewar building on 9th Street at 5th Avenue. Their transexual lesbian lingerie designer owner would be gone for a month at a time. The dogs would only eat broccoli fettucine from Balducci's. They used the livingroom for their toilet. We got $5,000 for the month. Who needs to own it when you can babysit it.
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Re: Verbal Abuse / The Poetry Part 2
From Emanuel Xavier: MUSE for Willi Ninja Like a coy diva you haunt discreetly awakening my thoughts with subtle whispers prompting me to fulfill the promise as we held hands from a certain end the magic already withdrawn from your eyes forced to walk a destiny arriving too early for the ball The liveliest memory of us is parked just outside the piers under the bright lights of a clear night Praying to the waters of Yemaya y Ochun There was no need to ask that I write this poem Without words...
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Re: GIMME SHELTER Rock and Animal Rescue 10/4 with DEBBIE HARRY and BEASTIE BOYS
LOTS more, Chi Chi... Miss Webb and I were up front and center about only one person deep. The Sick Fucks w/ Tish & Snooky were fabulous; just don't get shows like that - where "punk rock" sounds refreshing and charged and purposeful. Joe Hurley & the Gents were also phenomenal...Oddly, the much of the crowd on the floor where we stood were somewhat blank and unmoved - until the Beastie Boys came out and woke them up. The crush of the crowd behind me reminded me of the excitement of...
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Re: "are y'all from the roxy's?" - Empire Skating Rink, Brooklyn
The Empire !!!! I began my roller skating career of the 70's there. Before Roxy opened its doors AS a rooler skating rink. Before Waverly Place basement rink, Before that tiny skating rink on the 2nd floor of that building on west 52nd Street with Melissa Manchesters cousin. Oh those roller skating 70's...I still have my skates hanging in the closet.
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Re: Lions and tigers and... BEARS!!!!
I know Hatch, don't remind me. I work like a whore this time of year. I'll get there. I actually went there on "Mowtown Mondays" with Casanova. He loves it there. He had this cute little lesbian down on the floor in a doggy lip lock. It was getting out of control so we had to leave. Here he is with Jackie Bigalow.
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Re: Greer Lankton
A wonderful recent Memoir with some fantastic photos that I've never seen XXXOOO Satori ----------------------------- GREER LANKTON, A MEMOIR by Julia Morton At the funeral of East Village artist Greer Lankton, held just over ten years ago in November 1996, her grieving parents displayed a family picture showing an ordinary middle-class mother and father, brother and sister all standing on a beach in khaki shorts, tees and walking shoes. Their hair was blowing and their suntanned faces were...
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Re: Grey Gardens At Irving Plaza
Ah- Grey Gardens was for me: Hattie and Emily Post Martha Staunch Johnny Dynell Triskit The fabulousness of the burlesque girls- I was always in awe Gogo dancing on the dance floor platforms with Hehena Handbasket (boy! what a fuckin body HE had!) dressed in rogue, early 70s, poor-boy east hampton carriage help costumes. Altough I enjoyed the gogo dancing, I really enjoyed the dancing with Helena. He was strong and we could get into some real pretzel-like forms on that platform. Hattie- What...
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Re: SJ's European Tour 2007
Yeah! First some back story on DJ Pickles... As most of you know, Pickles is my DJ Daughter. As a youngster Pickles worked for The Empress and I and was a big part of the day to day running of "Jackie 60", "Mother" and pretty much anything we did including the legendary "Grey Gardens". In fact, I named her "Sammy Jo" because he was without a doubt the "Heather Locklear" in our Dynasty family. You can imagine my shock to learn that Pickles had secret DJ dreams and my total amazement at how...
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Re: SJ's European Tour 2007
Ok, so with my head full of Cure and severely lacking H2O I arrive in.... MILAN: where I am greeted by Mauro the promoter of Billy (the club night I am playing at) who's a dead ringer for Bobby Miller I kid you not, and my new agent (backstory: my previous agent got knocked up by her husband and had the baby after which she decided to say screw being an agent I wanna be a mom only, hey why not), Riccardo who lives in London but is from Milan so he came for the weekend. Both are lovely and...
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Re: Jackie Factory goes HOLLYWOOD!
Gorgeous. I love the one of Marti passed out on the marble floor. And Poison Eve looks stunning in that top hat. What a beauty.