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Re: Displaced Radical Faeries
There's so much to share, which will come in time, but a quick note on DJ Sammy Jo planting seeds for a Universal harvest-- who knew he was such a skilled gardener: Pickles managed to filter "Edge of Seventeen" through his speakers in the very early morning hours, perhaps precisely one week before The Battle of A Thousand Stevies. That moment still pulses through me as I prepare for Friday night. He and Rob electronically channeled so many of our faerie friends into that party-- we welcomed...
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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: Adam Ant
i just saw that adam's recent descent into mental illness is all the attention adam got & feel this must be remedied. (oh right, he's obnoxious & cute too. like i said.) adam took my 11-year-old, boring, suntan-parlors-&-gift-shops suburban world (yes i was raised on LI) & turned it upside down with one viewing of "stand & deliver!" a pretty boy in makeup with pistols & tall leather boots?! GIVE ME MORE!! my teenage self yelled: antmusic for sexpeople, indeed. he's...
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Re: Le Fleur / Spitfires
Not sure about Le Fleur...but when I first moved here in 96' there was a sleazy hustler bar in that neibourhood called Cats, very much your flavor as I recall Anna. I was there once with a very prim and proper English girlfriend of mine who swore she saw guys rimming in the back of the bar.....
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Re: I'm from normal parents (The Pyramid Club Topic)
I didn't know who Zete was, I just found his dancegoth cover of "Le Freak" in a bin somewhere. I ALWAYS play it when I DJ. I'd love to email him.
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Re: LE TIGRE
Geeze, it would take a long time just to even mention everything that's right about Le Tigre, and I'm a busy guy. I guess their biggest accomplishment is that they've managed to make their music completely political AND completely fun, which can't be easy since so few others pull it off. Initially I didn't like their second album, "Feminist Sweepstakes" as much as their debut, but it has grown on me. It's less dancy and more headphone.
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Re: LE TIGRE
I adore Le Tigre. I made a few videos for their last tour. They are a hoot to work with. Each one of them has the greatest personality. Kathleen Hanna is such a ruler. She is genius! I can't say enough about her. and of course , she is humble as pie about it. I really admire their vision its so unique. hard to find these days. vive la tigre
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Re: LE TIGRE
i understand that talking about le tigre can be totally overwhelming because everything about them is just so wonderful... so here's a few starters: 1. integrity 2. positive message 3. intense style, varying undertones in different albums 4. talent 5. tude, they've got the at-ti-tude, but from what i understand, this is very much their performance, not real life- good 6. talent again 7. hot hot hot 8. sometimes they let their fans come on stage and sing with them (im not sure if this is a...
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Re: LE TIGRE
yes, double on all of that. and also: 11. pedigree Kathleen's old band was Bikini Kill, of course, similarly amazing to Le Tigre. Sadie Benning made those pixelvision experimental videos as a teen and landed in the Whitney Biennial. I dunno really much biography about the other 2, but I like what they're doing. 12. FUN! Doing really serious work very, very well, yet keeping it sort of light and silly and danceable, which gets more people listening & of course entertains
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Re: LE TIGRE
good point! i think they are an example of positive protesters- their message is spread more widely than others because their music is so fun and danceable... whereas lots of other feminist messages are shot down or put in a box. le tigre is kind of like the radical cheerleaders- intelligent, positive, radical, and fun fun fun!
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Re: Zette, The Topic
Zette is interviewed along with others in the current issue of Radar in an article about Area. Years ago I acquired his 12" single, a spooky gothdace version of "Le Freak", I didn't know who he was but I loved the son and I always played it while DJing.
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
Your query: And why was Gary Indiana shouting, "J.T. Leroy is a fraud!" outside the club???? Because Gary is a good editor. Miss Fluff please relate the evil bon mots. Someone should start a Gary Indiana topic to record all the genius dis. Then venture in who would dare. It was Miss Chivity who dubbed her "JC" not me. And as she said, So what if she's a presswhore, if it gets the masses interested in writers it gets our approval. And "for some reason" incest sells even more than regular sex,...
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
oof I'm in the Le Roi thread. I loved the flourish, Hattie of "And he will never write another word again!" Not that I wish that on anyone. But read T. Capote as the paradigm of excess publicity/socialite approval = equals writer's block. I got the book anyhow. [This message was edited by S'tan on 09-19-03 at 10:07 PM.]
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
What the fuck have I done to my eyes but read every single one of the articles on "JC" Leroy at http://www.jtleroy.com/press/articles/Atheywrote.htm [For the uninitiate: 'JC' instead of 'JT' in our argot signifies "Just Come Out" as in 'somewhat clueless,' as in 'Just a Child,' as in 'Not Quite Hip Enough.'] And all I can say is: Why BOTHER over whether JC will produce again, or not? One writer even worried the artist was on the "Truman Capote Highway". Wasn't that the first dark example...
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
Preparing by popular demand another ranting dissertation on this final story in "Heart is Deceitful..." I think it's the perfect coda to all the horrendous abuse, a rickety triumph, as self-consciousness rises... as well as a dominatrix I appreciate hearing the side of the 'subject', what he's suffering through. Anyone have anything to say about this story - til I get back to you...? Daddy I might want to request we move this whole thread over to 'Hopelessly Devoted.' Don't you think. It may...
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
Still, 30 years in prison for a different idea on discipline is a bit too much... Much as I hate those fuckers, I do NOT want to pay for their private masturbation rooms aka the jail-cell! Whatever happened to the stocks and pillory? Aside from how wrong or right whipping and spanking is... I love how Mlle. Le Roi describes her pleasure in bending over and getting walloped. "How can you crave something your whole body rejects, and even increase the cravings the greater the protest from the...
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
I finished reading Sarah for the 3rd time last night and I can't wait for the movie now... The truck chase when they rescue ha from Le Loup is so well-written, how often do you read a book that just races to its end? JT where are you? More more more!!! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Turn to Evil,see how light-hearted you will feel." Genet
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
Sarah was great. I guess my experience differs from others in that I read The Heart is Deceitful first, then Sarah. So I got the back story before getting the main story. But for me after reading Heart, Sarah seemed almost like a comedy by comparison. Of course the characters are again reprehensible and really disgusting (the child molester with pictures of little girls all over walls, mumbling about his stepdaughter? yeeesh -- and that atrocious Le Loup!) but the work in general was so much...
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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
Le Jardin! The elevator ride up to Heaven! Oh and those platform shoes and nik nik shirts and polyester bell bottoms. And all that etheyl! Oh I remember it all.
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
I never went to Le Jardin. (some things actually were before my time) but Chi Chi and I worked with John Addison (the owner of Le Jardin and Xenon) later on. What a character! The music was so happy back then. I was listening to Larry Levan recorded at The Paradise Garage the other day and I was really surprised by how hopeful the music was. Everything was so new that anything seemed possible. (of course being 17 doesn't hurt either) When I go hear "Big Room" DJs now the music seems so dark.
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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: Beams to New Orleans
Seems either our beams, St. Jude or Lasher, or all of the above, helped spare NOLA the worst. I was on tenterhooks last night as familiar places were mentioned in the reports... "On Jackson Square, two massive oak trees outside the 278-year-old St. Louis Cathedral came out by the roots, ripping out a 30-foot section of ornamental iron fence and straddling a marble statue of Jesus Christ, snapping off only the thumb and forefinger of his outstretched hand. Hotel guests also were treated to...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
Yes beams continue, as the flooding gets worse due to a breach in a levee near City Center, and is encroaching on Le Vieux Carre.
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
Le Vieux Carré, or French Quarter if you prefer, is still relatively unscathed, though locked down and mostly evacuated. It is actually above sea level, unlike most of NOLA. Some of the borderline streets were flooded like Canal Street (which indeed lived up to its name,) and Saks--not in the FQ at all,. but on Canal also-- is on fire. The FQ stores were heavily looted though, and some bars and restaurants incredibly remained open and serving through yesterday. Now it seems all or most are...
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Re: Puritan Watch
New Law to OUTLAW Adult Video WASHINGTON - Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), one of the most religio-conservative politicians in Congress today, has introduced House Resolution (H.R.) 3726, which would amend several federal laws, including the Recordkeeping and Labeling Act (18 U.S.C. §2257). The move marks the Religious Right's most blatant attempt yet to destroy the adult video industry, this time by granting the Justice Department increased powers to target adult producers within a state, without...
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Re: My own private East Village
On a lighter note ..... I've really come to love taking my Napoleon to the dog run at Tompkins Square Park. It relaxes me and my "fag child" lives for it. Once in a while I take him to other runs like Union Square, Washington Square and Stuyvesant Square, but Tompkins is our favorite, the closest thing to having a back yard. Being a dog daddy has brought me into contact with so many people right here in the EV hood that I'd never have met otherwise, and it gives me such pleasure to watch my...
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Re: Bibliophile Part 2
Daddy! Gay Porn? I thought you were talking about that movie I made last year (PunkSpunk Episode 1: Fan Base)! This is a nice addition to the repertoire. LPTV on Manhattan Neighborhood Network is broadcasting my reading of this from October in the garden of Le Petit Versailles. It's on tonight at 11pm. BTW...let us not forget the "little girls" as well, huh?
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Re: Verbal Abuse / The Poetry Part 2
OVERCOME, SURVIVE, CHANGE THE MUSIC OR FUCK OFF: Quick! Change the music to something happy something loud and proud and funky! NOW! No more dirges of fascistic sorrow No moretales of war and conservative woe No more lies told to us by family friends, politicians and strangers NO MORE!! I'd like...a thumpin' good beat some soulful diva some kick-ass DJ some noise to drown out the volume of sound comin' outta the TV set some robot noise some industrial strength beats some old school Donna...
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LOVIN' OUT LOUD! A Benefit Concert for Queer Rising
LOVIN’ OUT LOUD! A Benefit Concert For Queer Rising New York, NY – Queer Rising will host LOVIN’ OUT LOUD! A Benefit Concert For Queer Rising on Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 7:00pm at Santo’s Party House nightclub (96 LaFayette St., between Walker and White Sts; 4,6,J,N,Q,Z train to Canal Station). $10 advance (via Facebook RSVP or online donation)/$20 at the door. NOTE: ONLY "I'M ATTENDING" WILL GUARANTEE REDUCED ADMISSION! A true variety show-style event, tonight’s all-star cast includes:...
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Monsters and Mascara: A Tribute to The Cramps, Alice Cooper...
Michael T., Laura Rebel Angel and Xris SMack! Present: Monsters and Mascara: A Tribute to The Cramps, Alice Cooper, The Misfits and Horror Emcee: Devin Stone Featuring PSYCHOCHARGER! N.Y.C.'s Bloodiest band and the Bastard Sons of The King hisself,...
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Dippity-Do-Drag - A pop-up happy hour bash!
On the day after St. Patrick’s Day…Friday, March 18th... the coast is clear! The green mobs have vanished and it’s time to frolic at the zaniest pop-up party in town, Dippity-Do-Drag! Wowie-zowie, it’s a one-night-only happy hour affair—from 6:30 to 10pm precisely—as drag promoter and hostess Linda Simpson and a cast of New York’s kookiest queens provide nonstop entertainment on and off-stage in the Gallery Lounge of Le Poisson Rouge nightclub. Admission is free to this late-winter perker...
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Oh! You Pretty Things : The New Romantics
Michael T, Ben Ickies, Shien Lee, and Twig the Wonderkid present Oh! You Pretty Things : THE NEW ROMANTICS Sunday May 29th Memorial Day Weekend Oh! You Pretty Things brings you the sixth installation of their glam rock jubilee celebrating the children...
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Garrin Benfield @ Le Petit Versailles garden
Garren Benfield in concert! Saturday August 6 @ 8pm. Le Petit Versailles 346 East Houston St. < Avenue B & C> petitversailles@earthlink.net http://www.alliedproductions.org 212 529 8815 Subway: F/V- Second Ave. - J/M/F- Delancey/Essex "Garrin Benfield is a busy, busy fellow, splitting his time between NY and SF and continuing to enrich the music scene of both cities. He's no stranger to Acoustic Sunrise - Rosalie has been onto him for years - but it's the new...
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Rebecca Saforia Oxygen Sessions – SIED VAN RIEL GUESTMIX!!!
Rebecca Saforia’s Oxygen Sessions with Sied Van Riel guestmix available for download http://www.rebeccasaforia.com You can subscribe to her monthly shows either on the page above of via iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/gb/pod...-podcast/id363526292 Tracklist: 1. Rapha - Dark Temptation 2. Jochen Miller - you and Eye 3. Pobsky - Dark Cloud 4. Abstract Vision - Echoes (Protoculture Remix) 5. Visual Vault - Offshore 6. Norin Rad - The Gift 7. Rebecca Saforia - Prion (Arsen & Cyan Remix) 8.
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Hurricane Irene on the Motherboards NYC
AS Hurricane Irene gets closer, Bloomy has called for the first-ever NYC mandatory evacuation - of "ZONE A" - the city's lowest lying areas, including Avenues B, C and D on some blocks, Battery Park City and more. Please make sure you know whether you...
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Oh! You Pretty Things : A Musical Tribute to QUEEN
Michael T, Benjamin Ickies, Shien Lee, and Twig the Wonderkid present OH! YOU PRETTY THINGS : A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO QUEEN Sunday September 4th Labor Day Weekend Oh! You Pretty Things brings you the seventh installation of their glam rock jubilee...
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Oh! You Pretty Things : LIFE IS A CABARET
Michael T, Benjamin Ickies, Shien Lee, and Twig the Wonderkid present OH! YOU PRETTY THINGS : LIFE IS A CABARET Monday October 31st Halloween Night Oh! You Pretty Things brings you a Halloween spectacular in tribute to the cult musical "Cabaret"...
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THEM CD Release Party at Le Poisson Rouge
"[THEM] is poetic and disturbing, backed by the full force of its history without being diminished by it." - The New York Times (October 2010) The CD is comprised of the music and narration of THEM, a performance by Chris Cochrane, Dennis Cooper and Ishmael Houston-Jones originally presented in 1985 by Performance Space 122 andagain in 2010 by PS122, the New Museum and tbspMGMT Cochrane's music & Cooper's narrationare raw and edgy, the perfect sonic description...
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Oh! You Pretty Things : DAVID BOWIE + ELVIS PRESLEY BIRTHDAY BASH
Michael T, Benjamin Ickies, Shien Lee, Twig the Wonderkid, and Laura Rebel Angel present OH! YOU PRETTY THINGS : DAVID BOWIE + ELVIS PRESLEY BIRTHDAY BASH Sunday January 15th Martin Luther King Weekend Oh! You Pretty Things is proud to...
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Big Art Group's "Broke House"
Hello Friends and Family on the Mother Boards . Come see Big Art Group's new work "Broke House" At Abrons Art Center. I would love to share this stunning experience with all of you! Much Love, Heather Litteer aka Rabbit!!!! BROKE HOUSE A Performance Crisis APRIL 6-22, 2012 FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS AT 8PM AND SUNDAYS AT 7PM ABRONS ARTS CENTER, 466 GRAND STREET AT PITT STREET F, J, M, Z TRAINS TO DELANCEY/ESSEX, B, D TRAINS TO GRAND ST GENERAL ADMISSION $20 TICKETS ON SALE NOW,...
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Oh! You Pretty Things : The New Romantic Ball II * * Sunday May 27th Memorial Day Weekend * *
Michael T, Benjamin Ickies, Shien Lee, and Twig the Wonderkid present Oh! You Pretty Things : The New Romantic Ball II Sunday May 27th Memorial Day Weekend Oh! You Pretty Things returns with their second annual New Romantic jubilee celebrating...
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Mardi Gras in New Orleans 06: Krewe York
Mardi Gras in New Orleans 06: Krewe York"Three Big Chiefs they're dead and gone, so three Big Chiefs gotta carry on.."- Wild Magnolias, "Brother John Is Gone"As discussed earlier in the Beams to New Orleans topic, we are movingforward with plans for...
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Le Fleur / Spitfires
Does ANYONE ever remember a REALLY really scary club/bar on 42nd street called Le Fleur...it was around 8th av nr to Port Authority... It was a total hustler bar, but reeeeallly edgy (just the way i used to like it !!)me and me mate Greg used to go...
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Dances of Vice - Monthly
Anybody planning to attend the Spring Ball this weekend? XXXOOO Z&S ---------------------------------- EVENT: Dances of Vice "Le Sacre du Printemps" Spring Ball TIME & DATE: March 21, 2009 - 7PM to 12AM LOCATION: The Montauk Club - 25 Eighth Avenue, Brooklyn ADMIT: $28 in advance (ONLY 200 TIX) - $30 doors - All Ages Dances of Vice celebrates the arrival of spring in a festive ball on the day of the Vernal Equinox, featuring the music flourishes of FERN KNIGHT (w/ guest drummer BRIAN...
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Lady Miss Kier DJs PUSSY FAGGOT! 1/14 w/Penny Arcade & Sophia Lamar
Earl Dax PresentsPUSSY FAGGOT!Thursday, January 14, 2010 The Delancey Lounge168 Delancey (btwn Clinton and Attorney)New York, NYAdmission is $10 / $6 with RSVP to rsvp@pussyfaggot.netFull details available atwww.pussyfaggot.net With Your Co-hosts...
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ASTRO DISCO (An Intergelectrodiscosoul Soiree)-Fri. 9/21
Astro Disco On Friday, September 21st, Astro Disco will return to Brooklyn for a night of music and mayhem! DJ/recording artist Manchildblack will spin the best in Electro, Funk, Boogie and beyond, whi le notorious performance artist Monstah Black presides over the revelry. Drink specials all night!!! No cover!!! FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st Hype Life Music presents ASTRO DISCO (An Intergelectrodiscosoul Soiree) w/MANCHILDBLACK & MONSTAH BLACK aka THE ILLUSTRIOUS BLACKS @ ONE...