Tagged With "Glenn O'Brien"

The iconic photo was by Michael James O'Brien for Verbal Abuse Magazine.

Although I am a Brown Party fanatic, I have to admit it's the performances that I miss the most and the onstage banter between Chi, Paul, Hattie and assorted guest verbalists. little Annie intoxicating a crowd of non believers, amanda & her poodle balloons, Armen & his whistle, Billy Beyond doing anything always brilliantly, Heather Rabbit serving booty & fierce domidetermination, Clark & David almost getting into a fight over the correct Tallulah hair, Michael O'Brien at...

That's one reason why we started The Downtown Costume Institute. STUPID families from STUPID places throwing out BRILLIANT art made by BRILLIANT people after they died. When Madame died for example, her family came from some god-forsaken American toilet and raped her appartment. They threw out EVERYTHING. Sixty something years of magic gone in an instant! They refused to believe that Madame was gay (and dressed in drag). The Metropolitan Museum begged for those costumes (as did alot of other...

Thanks glamnerd, we did have so much fun in Berlin, but I am on to my next stop (after a stop in Budapest for a birthday party)- which is a total Patism (see hbo.com for the Pat videos and that may be a quote for her book with Chi Chi)! Eve should be back from Paris now, and I hope he did hook up with Michael O'Brien there. I am in Greece now, but we met a couple from Berlin here, and it just re-enforces one's thoughts about living there... but I highly recommend Berlin as a place to visit.

Warning, mouthful ahead! I was so stunned by the post, and because it was so bloody long, I cut and pasted it, so I could read it at leisure. So... rather than hunt for the blinkin' page again (the posts are rapidly approaching the 300 mark,) here it is-- allegedly from "Potatoes" O'Brien to her readers: ----- Reviewer: Anne Obrien Rice (New Orleans, LA United States) - See all my reviews "Seldom do I really answer those who criticize my work. In fact, the entire development of my career has...

That is a poem Merlin. "cause everything is barrowed for two seconds and discarded as used while never being explored." I guess fetish parties in NYC are the new Disco. S'tan, I'm not sure, but I think I meant Kiev, Ukrain. Which oddly still doesn't quite get across that I mean, like, former Soviet Union, because that troika of diners has such monumental presence still. I guess when those stalwart high carb depots get replaced by McSchnitzels and BlintzKing it will truely be time for us to...

Sent on a loop by a recent publication: The Downtown Book The New York Scene 1974-1984 Published by Princeton University Press in collaboration with Grey Art Gallery in conjunction with the art show of the same name not so lately exhibited at the Grey Art Gallery. Empress Chi Chi Valenti has a totally whack writting about the pure nature of 'downtown' attire that was an exterior manifestation of undomesticated soul. "No one called it downtown, it was just our universe." -Or something like...

First news just coming across about the shocking death of brilliant costumer Todd Bundy aka Todd Tomarrow in SF yesterday. The MOTHER nation mourns, details to be posted here when we get them. Thank you Bobby for your initial post here.

Thought you Nightclub History fanatics would enjoy seeing this - one of the climactic events for the great new Tim Lawrence book Life and Death on the New York Dancefloor 1980-1983 . It happened last night in a packed theater at the Museum of Modern Art and is now up on YouTube. Our own Johnny Dynell joined Glenn O'Brien, Fab Five Freddy, Ann Magnuson, Michael Holman and Patti Astor for this deep discussion moderated by Tim L.

Dear Audrey Antler, I apologize for my wrong assumption about David Armstrong -- whose “Summer of ’79” show at the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown (25 May -14 June 2007), which included several photographs picturing Cookie and John Waters during that P-town season, led me (and others) to suspect that it was Armstrong who took those great photos. Judging from Max's age, they look like they were taken in the late '70s. But of course Cookie was photographed by a lot of people throughout...

Glenn O'Brien just wrote this article about AREA for the New York Times. He really nails it. This is a MUST READ for all the new kids! And for the Jackie 60 fans, this is the world Jackie came out of. It explains a lot. If you got past the door, you never knew what or whom you'd find at Area.

Culture Club by Glenn O'Brien New York Times Area's opening-night theme was "Night," and there was a masked welder in the middle of the darkened dance floor showering everyone with sparks. The dancers loved it. At "Surrealism," the anteroom where you paid your admission had been transformed into a restroom complete with toilets and urinals in homage to Duchamp. "Gnarly" featured skulls, monster trucks, a drag racer, a skateboard ramp with live skaters, a strobe-lighted electric chair and...

Jubliee by Derek Jarman is amazing, alot of male and female nudity, dystopia, fascistic cops the end of the world (or at least a picture of Thatcher's England Adan Ant as a punk rocker, before the New Romantic period, Siouxie makes an appearance, Nell Campbell as a slutty girl and Richard O'Brien as an alchemist Jenny Runacre and Toyah Wilcox and Jordan and an gang of roving girls that can kick ass and the Great Orlando as the nasty capitalist Borgia Ginz and Jordan lip-synchi to an rock...

Oh, and tomorrow night's event, in case you missed it on our elists- FRIDAY JUNE 1 THE VERBAL ABUSE RELAUNCH with readings by TOM SPANBAUER and CHI CHI VALENTI RAPTURE CAFE & BOOKS 200 AVENUE A (BETWEEN 12 & 13 STREETS) 8 PM - FREE ADMISSION rapturecafe.com mothernyc.com/verbal Literary magazine VERBAL ABUSE (Dispatches from the Nightclub Literati) was born at the seminal JACKIE 60 reading series in the early Nineties and published four issues from 1993-1995. Editrix CHI CHI VALENTI...

Strawberry, Patric Butts, Morgan, Dany and Ande, the T.F. crew (inventors of Party Naked at Jackie,) Richard Turley, Seattle Paula, Julian and Todd Tomarrow, Adam Goldstone, Debbie, Maripol, Amos Poe, Michael O'Brien, Dee Finley, Judith Drasner, Matt Benedict and so many more..

I didn't realize that **** ****** was a secret either. Good to know. Our very own Michael James O'Brien is not a secret though. Michael was the photographer who worked with Mathew on Cremaster. He has lots of stories... Michael, Care to share?

Those are all Michael O'Brien photographs.

It's been awhile since I've posted anything, with no good excuse. One book I've really been enjoying is Celeste Albaret's memoir of her life taking care of Marcel Proust, during the last ten years of his life. I had a lovely time visiting Terence with Foxy, and discovering that she had a lovely old copy of that book as well. It's very good and something which was long out of print, then brought back in by the New York Review of Books imprint. They bring back some really wonderful things,...