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Editor: Leonard Abraml
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James is my oldest son whom I' m .
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though the article may have gone a
little too far in "deifying" him, it
certainly does my heart good to see him
finally appreciated for what he has
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In the last issue of Bast Village Eye
some photo credi ts were inadver tently
omitted. The . photo of Amechi
Njokanma on page 8 was taken - by
Fran Hare as was the photo of Cheetah
Chrome on page 10. The othe r ' three
photos on page lO-of Elda Stiletto
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and Shebo Duv ae-were taken . by
Sheila Abramson .
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"There arc a lot of ways a show can
leave a theater. Going to Broadway. is .
the best." Alan Shuster is referring to
" My Old Friends" , Norman Sachs and
Mel Ma ndell's smashravehlt comedy
which recently finished its ru n at the 22
Steps Theate r. The house it left with
fond farewells and a dumpster filled
with its effects is the Orpheum T heate r
on Second Avenue at Seventh Street,
one of a grow ing number of Off- Broad -
way houses in the area . "This is the
second lar gest theatre district in New
~York . There's. the NYTE. TIle Public,
Astore Place Theater, The Colonnades ,
51. Mar k' s Church . I'd say there's
probably twenty Eq uity contract houses
inside a ten block radius," says Shuster ,
who is the four-wheel drive behind the
. East Side Theater Corpo ration and its
monster project , the rejuvenation of th e
Orpheum . "It's been a boo m year for
theater and a good time to start this
th ing. There have been more OffBroadway openings this year th an in a
long time, and rents are still lower here
th an uptown ." He started th e East Side
Theater Corpo ration in ' February of
1978 to buy the O rpb eum : "I used to
, pass it on my way to work and one day I
saw it was for sa le."
. At th e time. Shuster was produ cing
and direct ing childr en's theater for
George Street Productions in New Jersey. In order to raise the down payment , Shuster , along with Marg ay
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Whitlock, Mitchell tebo, Lorraine
Hall, and David Elliot-the Board of
Directors-hit everyone they knew, .selling shares for 5500 each . There were
also legal services. current taxes. building permits-none of it free; it took six
months and 530.000 to pull it together
with an owner-assumed mortga ge. The .
closing was on September 13, 1978. On
the 14th , the Big Five plus a crew of old
friends, new friends, and New York
theater people advanced ' with the ir
picks and shovels and started demo lition. Ma ny of them are theater grad s
from the University of Nebraska where
Shuster and Thebe got their degrees.
Almost all are now " workholder s" :
shareholders who paid with .sweat andskill rather than cash. In fact, more
than half of the shareholders are workholders, conseque ntly they get no immediate fina ncial reward for their
labor. They do, however , get to make a
few bucks as salaried house staff, which
is part of the deal when a show books
in. The 'package includes electrlciahs,
maintenance sta ff, ushers, and box
office personnel. Shuster himself draws
a meager salary as theater man ager.
When they need materials th ey sell
sha res. Skilled labor , particularly carpentry , they've get.
Legitimate theater is noth ing new for
the Orph eum or -for Shuster-or for
Second Avenue, for that mat ter. Being '
a history fan~tic . Alan has unearthed a
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comprehensive file on the Orph eum
The building's structural idiosyncradating roughly from the laying of the des habe been alternately an inspirafirst bric k in,1866. From the New York tion and a royal pain; constru ctin g th e
Women and Children's Infirmary to a c on trol booth, which is this summer's
billiard parlor and Tur kish bat hs, a project, will requi re extending the
concert' gardens, a splendiferous movie existing balcony fifteen feet in toward
~ palace premiering Chaplin a nd W.e. the stage just to make some contact
Fields suents, a vaudeville house, and with th e playing area possible. The
one of the main locales for Yiddish marvelous high ceilings let you do all
thea ter, you might say the place has sorts of thi ngs with lighting a ngles, a nd
gone thr ough ch anges. Physically, it there's room for as many Likos a nd
sort of expanded back toward First Fresncls as your heart desires, but
Avenue as its var ious functions de- they're impossible to reach. However,
manded more space. The original struc- thank s to some nice structural ca rpenture was added onto twice. Then in try left over by Rado and Ragney (of
1903, when it became the Orpheum Hair. fa me) from their show Rainbow,
Concert Gardens , the walls that sepa- there's a solid base for a rolling bridge.
rated the additions were pulled down" That's a scaffold th at can zoom out to
maki ng it the long, narrow space it is the lighting grid and then go back in its
today. Although it has been a theater corner.
It was an advent ure opening up the
since 1905, it conti nues to evolve phy.sically. picking up something new with , lobby space '. They .moved an interior
each show. It had a renaissa nce in 1958 wall-Just picked I~ up and moved
when it reopened as an Off-Broadway it-to ma ke, it flush with the e xte ~or
house premiering " Little Mary Sun- ~a ll. Th ~y ~ I~,~ov~ r~ they w,e.re puttin g
shine" with Mary Kerr as the sunshine. It back 10 Its orlg.nal position . They
A few major events of that era were the also discovered that, under two layers of
openings of "The Me Nobody Knows": glued-on pane lling and seven layers of
" Your Own Th ing" , the installation of paint, the wall is Ji/2 i~ch thick Roman
toilets in the dressing rooms; and m ar~le . No wonder It was so heavy.
rebuilding of the house.jeats which Heatin g d ucts and blowers appeared
kept their original standard~ast- serend ipitously during repairs on th e
iron bas reliefs of two figures, each air conditioning.
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holding a torch, smiling a littl e less
I~ rev~rence to h e~ glono us past.
.slnce they got pai nted over in brown , David Elliot- the tech director, has been
" spending a lot of time at Radio City
enamel.
collecting ideas for lavish lounges and
corridors circa 1920 . The cha ndelier in
the lobby and the sconce light s in the
house are elegant period recreations by
th e Pendul um Shop in Bleecker Street.
"There's a 10,t of theater activity in
the area . I like the idea of it moving up
through us," says Shuster. Eventually,
say in five years' time, they'd like to do
a limited repertory season. ',' I'd love to
see some Shakespeare and Ibsen in
here. Also, new dr amatists' work.
The re are hundreds of talented people '
in the area: putting together a good
resident company would be no sweat ."
R,ight now, their first obligation is to
the stockholders, so the Orpheum will
be a rental house for a while-which is,
not necessarily limiting. They are open
to anything, a nd have had a variety of
. events including independent filmmak ers and music. In fact, the acoustics
are so good that everything from jazz to
chamber music has played the space
successfully.
This summer. a tribute to the golden
days of Big Bad Burlesque will set up
camp (as it were) in th e Orpheum.
After tha t. . . keep watching.
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Now that " he has his own show,
Mab ou Mines' A Prelude to Death
i n Venice: a work in progress (not for J ohn' s life has cha nged.
His
review at this time) is an integral dissociat ion has intensified; he' s got
segment of an ongoing excava tio n int o about six or seven different perthe cha os of existence. It will open as so nalitles, each one attached to a
part of their fall seaso n along with distinct voice relating to a particular
SUQ Cinema and other new work, situation, emanati ng from "8 guy 3
venue not yet announced . Like all their feet highwith a wooden head wearing a
work : Prelude operates on as man y leather flight jacket." Really, they
levels as a Soleri spherical city-c- come fro m Bill Raym ond who controls
so metimes moving linearly from Point John by put ting his arms through t he
A to poi nt B, sometimes cutting jacket sleeves giving him stran gely
obliquely through psychological- realistic movement and ' .gro tesquely
experiential planes so its not definite oversized hands. Linda Hartinian
wha t is concrete, but you kn ow it' s all designed and constructed J ohn , and he
true. It's about communication traps, looks a bit like Bill and- fro m the I
contacti ng through solid state circuits - bouse an yway-a lot like Lee Breuer,
talking in code, an d being answered by the writer -director. J ohn deals with
the sound of the tone. An onymity. dealing with the outside world and the
Living on the ' edge, in the middle inside world via his ans wering service,
between two phone booths, delivering his agent, the phone-mates of business
the good s to both phone booth s at the friend s and associates, the operator.
same time.
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They hum and sing to him, .threaten,
inform and cajole him, put him on
.h.Sdd. Some times when he pushes the
Cligital buttons, they beep a malignant
Bach cantata to a sadistic crescendo .
He pounds and throttles the receiver
until he real ises hecan hang up. Then
all quiet.
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The main and only character, John
Greed, who answers the phone ' ;!ohns
Anonymous, it 's in the ManHattan
commerciallistings" developed from a
1 don 't recall the details.
character reference in a previous work.
My life Iuld esazped my
He was th e central neurosis in the Life
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so to s~k.
of Rose , the main character in The
SIulggy Do& Anilf'Ultion which in fact
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starts out as a dear-John letter. What
happened was, the Johm Anonymous _
speech was excerpted to become part of
a shc rt-uotice command per formance
Behind the audience in the Sound
for Gordon Davis at the Mark Taper booth, making tbe electronic voices '
Forum in L.A. of this year. It went'off and effects is Greg Mehrten whom I
"llke a firecracker." Later, as a thought was at least three people. At '
dramatic reading in New York, its one point, a message from John's
frailties as a fraament became ap- service goes into a passqe from
parent, and the wbole concept was
Thomas Mann's D«uh iff Venia ,
expanded with a bicycle pump.
delivered in a compellina, slimy voice
You're a junk~ John,
they told ~e. You 've ~ot .
to go cord cock•. 1 SOld, 1
. ~n't do it Doc. I've found
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.that for some reaso n turns your
.stomach. 1 thought the vocal
modulation ~as done by playing with
the speeds, but it's all brought to you
live.
You got a.dime, man
TIulnJeS, man.
Besides the mellifluous Mercur y
Messenger, the telephone fraud cop,
operators a nd ans wering machi nes,
Greg also does the .v fuck speech"
while J ohn a ttempts a call to
Luxembourg- social fucking tu rning
into 06sessive-excessive bend ers,
humiliation of family and friendsI'LL NEVER KNOW ALL THE
PEOPLE [.HURT, The ruck speech is
an Alcoholics Anonymous true sto ry
with the work "Iuck" substituted for
" drink'.' Greg says, "a lot of what! do
is a bout sex, and being a junkie. Mos t
of m y bits are comic verging on '
parody."
Gustave
Aschenbach,
or von . Aschenbach as
he had been officially
known since hiS Fiftieth
birthday, had set out
alone fro,." his house in '
Prince Regent Street, ·Munich
for an extended walk . Aschenbach
had sought the open soon after tea.
"verwrought after by a
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see, I figured the electronic voicesin fact all Greg's speeches-were the
outside, and John's own speeches, the
ones Bill does, were from the .inside.
But what about Death in Veniu and
the fuck ' speech? Probably exterior.
Bill and Grea think about it for a
moment. Seems plausi ble . Bill
elucidates, " They' re inside out." Then
Greg says, " they're exterior, but in •
way they're even more interior.
They're aspects of his psycbe that he
doesn't tune into. Like heina a junkie.
It 's a _parallell, an obsession. If there
naUy was a Johns AnonYmous, the
Iuck speech would be . like dial -aprayer. You 'd get a tape . It 's i
packaged, TV confession. " Bill: "The
Iuck speech andDeath in Veni~ coaae
to you over the air like some SocraticPlatonic ideal o f the peni tan t fucker
qua fucker or the non-penitant qua
non-penitant.
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I'm an unlisted number.
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Not having seen Shaggy Dog, I
recognize themes from The Red Horse
A nimation a piece fro m 1975-76, like
the bits about work : ·[ can only work
when I'm on a vacation fr om a
vacation-and sex~A II work and nO
play mqke John a d~ck so to speak.
Does it .follow from Red Horse to
Shaggy Dog to Prelude? Is Mabou
Mines' original work (they also - do
Becket's favorite Becket) a cont inuum
on Big Th emes? What is the actors"
input into development of the themes?
Trying to get Bill and Greg to talk
about the work is like doing root ca nal.
Bill has th e endemic queasiness about
sounding dumb externalising a pretty
intimate process. " I 'd rather talk
about my daughter Olivia, .who's an
excellent actress. Or cooking. Tonight
I had bay scallops and " grilled
tomatoes." Greg; "Aren't th ey expCnsive1" " Four doll ars a pound. "
" 11Jat's expensive " " You C9U1d get
half pound" " Where do you get
them?" ," Lupinno's, right on First
Ave. I live down here in the Hell's
Angels block. Safest block in the city,"
Greg's no t concurring. " I almost was
killed when my buildina burned down,
Now it 's the West SO's for me. t'u
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aperture'
Formerly, when .Shooting
light ~n·t'er«J my
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through my' le~, .
and left an imal e riiht
"tween my .sprock~t holes. .
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But now, my light goes
through ' ~my Iense the other wiy
and leaves my imqe on
Twenl)'-.thirrl Street;
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never-move back here. I don't care that
it takes an hour by tube to the
theater. " More cha t. Pause. Finally,
Bill says, " Most actors are not in
control, but with Mabou Mines, you
ha ve a chance to work, to finish your
work-or at least . try your ideas,
because it's never finished . There's 20
ideas fo r every one th at' s used, and
th ey come Crom everyone in the
company. Like Ruth Malaczek wor ked
with me for bours on J ohns
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Greg: "I like working with Mabou
Mines because 1 get to deal with ideas.
It's character work definitely, but it
doesn't come. from the old school of
asking yourself Questions about his
childhood-it's the present. It's ,
creating the character as he operates
now-like Lee will say, 'I want a
person who's 'intellectual with a
languid German accent.' Or 'Make
him more literary, more-romantic.'
But, it' s not just a little idea out in
space, it all relates to what's happening
with John." Although Lee is the
writer-director, everyone is involved ~
creating the piece. Lee keeps track of
the overview. Bill says, "Part ot Lee's
brilliance is that he leaves you alone
when you're working, but when 'you
need help, he's there. Sometimes it's
just 'God , I'm glad he thought of
that. ' Other times he' ll give you
something that doesn't work; it gets
dropped. So, eventually you arrive at a
definite structure, but it ' fre~ you
instead of restricting you because
there's still an enormous range to play
to. There's always .room for an admission of the present-the fact that
someone in the audience coughs. the
s~al l changes in,the light ( the set, as
direct and organic as the text uses the
view of Cooper Square through the
P ublic ' Theatre' s floor-to-ceiling
windows)There's.so much fnformatlon
coming at me-c-with every audience
there' s a new contract. It's a conversation with myself and Lee and the
audience. The experience is about
statements and -the people who come
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and perceivethem."
Greg: " Tonight was funny which I
like because it means they're getting it.
Sometimes they laugh at the most
obscure things. Jokes .1 just got
yesterday."
Bill: "It started, to become more
about itself tonight, about performing
the event. Things mesh, the event
comes together: '
The information is boundless. The
work is about handling some of those
I was perceived.
,J perceived myself
perceived. I perceive
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I was not j ust some Tom. D~
or Harry. No. I was a Jean.
Right. I perceived mat
I myself was not a self-supporting "
system. I was a_reactive syst.el1l.J
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flashes from the great overloaded
circuit of life, putting it 'out there it
.really meticulously so we get it: successfully transmitting the flavor of the
communication.
. Someone said to me recently that
Lee claims allegience-tc the principles
of Brecht-c-keeping the elements of
theatre separate and intact. She thinks
he doesn't doit. I'm thinking: Brecht's
theatre is very improtant. He' s a hard
act to follow. Until someone builds the
next step, it' s good that people keep
him in mind; it's better"than going
backward. Yeah. So? So why should
Mabou Mines worry about the last
step? Their work is cut out for them.
You don 't understan
I Jive on the edge.
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kept straightening his curly, whitish
with about fifteen speakers , among
beard. In his forgetfu lness he seemed
them politicians from City Hall as well
"Ottendorfer is in danger. ,monumental. withd rawn, unapproachas blacks from the Lower Lower East
able. But when the girl. her arms full of
" What. again?"
"East Side. Eac h speaker was given three
books, ready to check out arrived at the
minutes to present to the public his or
" What is it this time?"
front desk, he got nervous.
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her issue. Hospitals, housing, inadeSome years ago it was inflation. Th e
When he heard the library work er tell
quat e child-care, revitalizatio n of 14th
shortage of fina nces forced the Ottenthe girl she could borrow only two
Street, curfew in To mpkins Square
dorfer library to ope rate for a while on a·
books at a time. his writhed face
Park, meth ad one-related problems,
part tim e sched ule. and as had haprelaxed. Ha ving q uickly sorted out two
and so on . . . Pains and hopes of little
pened earlier in 1968. a closing of this
bocks, the girl signed a , list an d th e
peop le and promises and excuses of the
noble and historic institutio n was
front door, letting in a blind ing burst of
guys one inch better off.
feared. ~ ppare n tly it was an unt hinksunlight , sla mmed behind her. She was
The auditori um was full. All the
ab le thi ng to ma ny. Demo nstrations
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ut, carrying her books the way girls_ nationalities populat ing the neighbor were organized. leaflets calling for our
ca rry h ome the weekly ed ition of the
involvement were handed out on t he
hood represented , ma ny people had to
New York Times , holding it tightly
sit on the floor, with ma ny more listenstreets, and eventually popular support
aga inst her bosom. Me, my world, and
ing to the speeches from. the hallway
grew effective enough to keep the
nothing else sort of feeling.
outside .
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Ottendorfe r, the oldest branch library
. On ly now the Viennese book-worm
in the city. ope n.
Although most of the speeches ended
decided to 'run after her. He rose from
'in silence, some heated up the publ ic
James Fennimore Cooper. W.H .
the chair abruptly , made a few nervous
and got a shouting, passionat e response.
Auden , Allen Gi nsberg-these are jsut
steps toward the door , but then as if all
One young , ' anger-vibrating voice
a fam ous few a mong th e many ac tive
of a sudde n short of breath, he stopped
writers who lived or still live in th e East
generously ornamented staircase th at
a nd with resignation turned back .
Village. and there's no dou bt th at the
rises elegantly toward th e upper deck ,
When our eyes met. he brac keted his
role the library plays in th eir da ily life
the detail a nd the whole-all toget her
brow with his bony fingers and uttered, . . this interior reminds me of the ages-old
has been a nd is essential. Even without
" Pity. Pity. I tell you. She reads books
the writers , still there's a common
pharmacy shops in the city of my youth,
and soon she looks like me." To fort ify
reader whom the O ttendorfer serves
Cracow. But aside from my sentiments,
the effect he made the most ugly face he
first and best of all. Shelves with books
in the ever-cha nging atmosphere and
was capable of. Bloodless gu ms out, the
in Russian , Polish, Yiddish , Ukrainian,
outlook of the streets which make on
brow wrinkli ng blue, shapeless ~ose
Ge rman , French. Spa nish and Chinese
me an impression of chea p, te mporary
turning
crimson, fra med with Stiff
reflect the de nse multina tional characstage sets , shouldn 't at least one place ,
brush of his whitish hair, this mask
ter of our neighbor hood .
the Ottendorfer in this case, remai n
seemed to have lost for good the human
Old, ill or too poor to travel to .anc noble an d old-fashioned , the way it
feat ures, and I do ubted if they would
ther library, without th e Ottend crfer
looked almost a century ago , on the day
ever reappea r . if the huma n face would
many among us would become more
it was.epenedj
ever emerge bac k from this disgusting
lonely a nd estranged. And you who are
S65,()(X) wasted, Now "listen how.
dazzle. But it did .
about to decide the future of the
Wh ile the presently opera ting system,
He had nothing more to add to this.
library, please conside r th is carefully.
working well a nd sufficient to need,
Word less, he paced back to his table , to
Now, what's th e problem with th e
burns coal, the pla nned system is to be
his encycloped ias and dictionaries,
Ot tead orfer tod ay?
a n. oil-consuming one. Quite a trifle, ~
leaving me with the hard-to-escape
Inside, on the front desklies a pile of
isn't it? How can such an adventure be
pa pers concerned with the subject. and - conviction. that one day in the fut ure I
conceived in times when the city is
will become him. a martyr of an incom I read through some, only -tc be
running short of money on almost every
preh ensible knowledge on the volunta ry
puzzled. The present problem is. much
front . of its public act ivities, and the
post in the Ott end orfer . Th en , with my
to my astonishme nt, the libr ary's heatnation faces still ha rsher fuel problems,
Saul Bellow burning in my han ds, I
ing system. Although it works well and
GQd have mercy if I understand . With
walked out into the dizzying sun.
is sufficient eno ugh : the city want s to
the severe fuel shortages predicted for
Second Avenue was silent. Dead . No
replace it with a new system. The Comthe coming winter , the new heating
trans-continental truc ks. No cabs. No
mittee and the library's personnel argue
system means an almost inevitable clostraffic. Th e girl.too was nowhere to be
that this would not only be an absurd
ing of the library just when the books
seen .
waste of our mo ney (S65,OeX» bout
read best.
And that's all.
would also mean irreversible damage to
565,000 bucks. Uh , frankly speakthe library 's interior; a site kept intact
ing, if I were the contractor who got this
since 1886. Dar k wooden shelves, the
Tuesday. June 2_6, 7 pm .
job, Lord how happy we would be, my
picturesque man, S. Zweig's old Vienwife, kids , uncles and I.
I went to the Stuyvesant Polyclinic,
nese book-worm, caught my attention.
the building next to the Ot te ndorfer , to
The library's staff argues: "[f the city
Having forgotte n all these wisest-looking
wants so bad ly to spe nd that kind of
take part there in what I thought would
volumes in the Ottend orfer -piled. in
be a meeting concer ning exclusively
money on us, why don't they build
fro nt of him , his eyes sunke n in the
matt ers of the library but which turned
something that we really need, like a
girl's movements, a hair by a hair he
fire escape?" Or, a proposition of my
a community boa rd meetin g,
out to
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own, why don't they set an examp le for
the whole country and construct a solar energy syste m which would supply the
library with both heat and light , free of
charge. Getting rid of th e Can Ed bills
.would be a milestone in securing th e
future of the financially-threatened
Ottendorfe r.
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A couple days passed since I wrote
the above fragment . Now, changing th e
key, I want to tell you wbat I saw in the
Ottendorfer just the other morn ing.
Crisp, radiant , sunny, it was a perfect
summec.day. and I was sure -I would
find the library empty. In fact , th e
place seemed crowded to its max imum
ca pacity. I mean one more person
inside and the velvety whisper would
turn into " a noise and disturb the
read ers in the read ing room where all
the cha irs were occupied .. Having
chosen Saul Bellow's Dangling Man for
my book of the day, I was waiting for a
seat whenshe entered in, .the girl in
white.
'
A peasant beauty, fresh like a wet
Renoir, her body, .as though filled with
liquid su nlight, glowed gold through
her d ress. I do not exaggerate . No.
Think of tender flesh against old curved
worm -drilled wood. Th ink of fleeting "
youth in contrast with the du st-bound
belles lettres. Shy air of innocence
about the girl and the tired, exha usted
apparition of books too long in use-by
now everybody, a Russian babushka, a
human being of undetect able sex seemingly reading a dozen books at the same
time, a boy with a lollipop a nd an
oldie resting on his bamboo cane, wes .
wat ching her . And she knew it . Pacing
slowly along the shelves, now and then
she would pick one book, kind of weigh
it, read at ra ndom a passage or two,
an d undecided whet her to take it or
not , her body resting on one leg, she
would sway. linger. almost dan ce.
Among the readers at the tables one
argued th at New York City is a Water.
gate type of scandal. Especially in the are a of the rent-cont rolled housing. No
garbage cans, no hot water, rats in the
basement , etc . "The poor are helpless
and the administration , corrupted ,
that's how things sta ndI" he concluded .
The crowd, in the back appl auded.
" Right on, man . Right on!"
When Anna Hamill took th e floor the
room cal med down in a" peculiar friend. continued on poge 28
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going in? I read aad h:'r ~hlS count~y
money going to Ih'
bout.aJl this ~A
to build in th IS co mpany a nd tha t ~
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away jobs-and tellin cili -gmog
that there are ito job ., ~ zens h.ere
has really failed h s. ur generation
know wha t's I ,c young: We don',
gOing on with
government- the 0
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The People' s Par k is in need of
donalions: of time, money, and tools .
Desperately needed are a wheelbarrow
lawnmower, and hose-cbut any tool~
would. be more than welcome. And
there IS always plenty of work to be
done . Gel involved: contact Ms. Olean
For at 677-3762 . Or just drop by the
garden and say hello-that's what it's
there for.
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Summer 1979
This week we lest: The 1971 Plymouth
Duster
means very few trips to the gas pumps.
The ab sence of a battery, air cleaner,
starter, master cylinder, radiato r or
Chrysler Corpo rat ion aut omobiles dipstick eliminates the time consuming
have been enjoyed by generations of job o f checking and maintaining th ose
auto enthusiasts for their style, pesky devices as well.
durability and performance. Airfl ow,
The Duster is fitted with two tires,
Town & Country. 3()(k and Hemi are one Montgomery Ward 6.95 x 14
names tha t make the hear t of any aut o guaran teed retread and one Strauss
Stores Bald Eagle 8 78·14. Both are
fancier beat a little faster.
Unfortunately. the Lower Eas t Side Oat, but only on the bottom.
Interior accomodations are comcar buff is likely never to cruise down
Houston St. in a '46 Town & Country fortable for four, since th e seats are
convertible. In fact, in these days of still intact , and there is adequate hip,
gas- Tines, auto emissions , wesrwey, head and leg room for a Delancey s r,
and Alternate Side of the Street hook er to give a blowjob to someone
Parking, The Automobile, once the up to 6' 4" tall. Along with a spacio us
central jewel in th e Crown of American interi or goes a trunk large enough fo r
Technological Excellence. is now an entire week's gar bage fo r a family
derided and blam ed for everything of four.
Behind the wheel, what is left of tb e
fro m Urban Sprawl to the Balan ce of
controls fall readily to hand . With only
Trade Deficit.
An yon e who can see past the super - 48,791 miles on the odometer, what
ficialities like gas crises, cheap styling remai ns of the powertrain components
gimmicks, and 6-way po wer seats will would be covered by Chrysler's wellreallze'that an automobile is more than known 50,000 mile warranty. The
simple transport. After all , if it' s Duster did not start quickly from cold
transit you want, you can get on a bus. and did not accelerate briskly.
If you're looking to change your
Witii' tires, th e test Duster might
image, a new set of sunglasses makes have gone from 0-30 in 3.5 seconds, 0much more sense than an Eldo rado 60 in 8.2 seconds, and done the
Biarri tz. The Automobile is still part of standing ' 1/ 4 mile in 16.2 seconds.
America, and parts of Ameri ca are Th en again , it might not. As it is, the
identified by the cars that are found Duster is still no slower than the 1949
What
would
Sou thern- Cisitalia on permanent display at the
there.
California be without Woody Station Museum of Modern Art.
When considering the exterior of the
Wagons? Or Vermont without Volvos?
Or the Lower East Side without cars Duster, the real fusion of Art and
like this mon th 's test vehicle, th e 1971 Industry becomes apparent. Con sider
Plymouth Duster ? Car s on the West pigments as varied as Mopar Metall ic
Moore
latex,
Side are for transportation . Cars in Blue,
Benjamin
SoHo are for prestige. Cars on the RUstoleum, and krylon signal orange
Lower East Si~ are environmental on sculpted textur es and surfaces
sculpture.
.
combinin g steel, alum inum, fiberglass,
From the beginning, autos have Bonde, roofing cement and.pop rivets.
aspired to be Art. The well-known Stylistic influences are as diverse as the
minimali st, Henry (" Any color as long Mercedes Benz SSKL, Chrysler
as it's black . . II ) Ford nearly reached Corporate design, Motherwell, de
pure Art with the 1940 Fo rd Coupe and Kooning, and Kline. Some critics claim
others, but failed because of too many there is conceptual derivation from
concessions and compromises. Thin gs Stanley Marsh III (of " Cadillac
like motors, spare tires .and license Ranch" fame) in this genre ; however,
plate brackets always get in the way of car s on th e Lower East Side were
getting pushed into holes in the ground
Art.
The Duster tested here is in. fact a befo re Mr . Mar sh ever had his first
i comprom ise, still having most of its Cadillac.
engine, seats, all windows , a radio (I)
What conclusions can be drawn
and other accoutrements not usually from this test? It was ob vious from the
found on the average -Lower East Side moment this car was assembled that it
non-m oving violatio n.
was a piece of junk. But in-New Yor k
In the engine compartment, we find in the lat e ' 70's, the line between Art
th e remains of the venerable 225 c.i.d. and Junk is getting very vague. It is our
" Slant Six, " equipped not with . conclusion that tb e Plymouth Motor
Mopar's famed "six pack" car buretor, division shou ld be appla uded for
nor a four, or two or even a one bar rel appl ying the Dadai st Aesthetic to a
carb, bu t no carburetor at all. This moderately priced fam ily car .
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Su mmer 1979
East VUlaie Eye
CRISIS?
it see ms that they' ve been anxiously
anticipating the day when "no gas "
would be the by-word o f service
Some people a re crying " RIPOFF" statio ns coast to coast ever since the
o thers less po lite , (m or e d irect'i) are inve ntion of , the a utomobile. It's
yelling " BU LLS H lTl" In Levittown enoug h to make th e o il bar ons of old
Pa . thin gs go t violent , riot s and sit up in th eir graves and sm ile.
bonfires filled t he streets as angry
Fo r example: in the yea r 1925 at a
residents p rot ested no gasoline. Yes, symposium by th e American Chemical
it's that d amn power shortage th at ' s Society, it is announced that sha le o il is
go t "everybody up in arms . Just like in . limited su pply. There just isn' t
1973: 'gas lines everywhere. Hi story enough of it for us to depend on inrepea ting itself? Well, our researches definately; oth er so urces of powering
have co me up wit h so me startling fac ts the auto mu st be developed. Alcohol is
about " gas crises," and ho t fla shes talked about as "a po ssible alternati ve
from
the
scientific
community (sou nd familiar?) . Scientists go on to
declaring th e need for alternate forms . say that petroleum " can not carry the
of energ y dating back almost to the bulk o f the load if we are [0 continue
turn o f the century.
using anythi ng like th e am ount of
One great question mark in this gaso line consumed today. " This is in
whole energy shortage comes fro m the 1925, fol ks.
fact that Federa l energy officials cla im
As early as 1916 , journalists were
the nat ional oil reserves are at t he same d irecting their attentio n to the high
level t hey were at last year, if not higher. price o f gasoline, and what th e poor
So wha t's the p roblem ? Apparently the moto rist was up against in the face of
oil companies are hold ing on to their these rising prices. In Count ry Life in
su p plies, not processing what th ey America, a popular pu blication of the
have. This m ay be an Inconvenience to time, a co lumn devo ted to motoring is
ca r owners bu t it' s not just gasoline that titled , "That Ga soli ne Problem." The
is' not being processed. Home heating a ut ho r fea rs th at t he time has come
oil supplies are d angero usly low, a nd whe n a motorist would start out fo r a
our friend s with th e crude are holding trip in his machine, drive one hundr ed
out on us again. There 's one -fourth t he fifty miles and be fo rced to spe nd $4.00
amou nt of heating oil rese rves t here for gasoline . Yes, even back then it was
should be, and the problem is not a in evidence the idea that gas for his car
shortage of refina ble petroleum, b ut a is the inaJie nable rig ht o f the indiv idual
manipulation of the market by th e oit on a par with air, o r water. Once we
execs . The th ough t of no h eat is enough had the car, we felt that nothing sho uld
to ch in the bones on this July 'afternoon. be allowed to prevent us from using it.
Further evidence of a fab ricated
Ever since th e invention of the
sho rtage is that oil tankers have bee n a utomobile, the spector of no gas
sitting offsho re, the ir h olds filled with raised its ugly head wit h curious
th e p recious commodity that supposed- " regul arity. Besides the development of
Iy d oesn't exist. The daily papers and tv alcohol burning mot ors, electric cars
news h ave b een full of this information, were heralded in the teens and
bu t the oil merchants fast talk thei r way twenties. Steam engines were a popular
out of every confro ntation with t he alternative at one ti me b ut all o f these
facts . If they wer e as conscientious alt ernatives were d isregarded fo r o ne
about sup plying the need s of th e Ameri- reason o r another. There seemed to be
ca n peo ple as th ey are about m aking up a problem of eco no m ics. An adstories to cover themselves, our prob- vert isem ent fr om 1903 sho ws a
lems would be diminished d rastically. glorious open' touring car, flanked by
It 's th e old su pply and de mand rou- two chauffers in high boots and
tine . The less th ere is of something, the goggles. The m ach ine is the fa bul ous
more it costs to get it. We're going to be White Steam Tonneau, manufactured
paying eighty cents a gallon or mor e by the auto mo bile Bepartment of the
th is winter to heat our homes. Land- Whi te Sewing Machine Company out
lords a!"C going to need h uge re nt in - of C leveland Ohio. The caption rea ds
creases to meet th eir expenses . Heatin g " Steam is th e World 's Standard
bills h ave tripled in the last three years. Power ." Power. Power seems to be the
For over fifty years scie ntists have b y-word in thi s whole preb le. And Wh o
kn own about t hese impending prob-. wields th e po wer , and why . And who
lems. Instead of finding ways to ease has created the illusio n of power
th e problem , th e oil companies h ave among th e people through the
apparen tly been anxiously waiting for satis fa ction of driving o ne' s own
th e day when they co uld exploit and m achine o n th e freeways at speeds
exacerbate the sit uation.
beyond our o wn capabilities?
" Most people like stro ng , powerful
Ho w loo g has the petro leum indu stry been planning this fia sco? Well, things and forces. T hey like mighty
by"Donald Ka plan
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seas and high mountains. They are
fascinated by brillian t fires and
thundering wa terfalls, by -stro ng men
and powerful machines. They identify
themselves with mighty things and get
a th rill of reflected power . So. it is no t
suprising tha t the power of the
automo bile is a so urce o f th rill." T his
is one assessment of the appeal o f the
ca r in a 1931 article . In the same year
Business Week heralded the firs t diesel
po wered cars being offered the
Eu ro pean p ub lic by Fiat. The use o f
diesel po wer should help the low
vo lume of auto sales inc rease, Business
Week speculates, since th e high price
o f gas is a ser ious problem to the
E uropean cons umer.
Other energy ' problems were also
forseen long eno ugh ago to have ha d
the kinks worked out by the yea r 1980
(it's j ust around the bend, folks) . 1914
was a big yea r for electricity . Whole
new horizons were opening to the
people th rough th e wo nders of electricity . One pu blica tion felt a need to
enumerate some of the th ings that
electrici ty do es fo r the housewife: slices
bread , freezes ice cream, wash es the
d ishes, milks the cow, rocks t he cradle,
ru ns the auto mo bile, ch urns the butter,
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Come and enjoy the good cooking in our
natural tood cate
Eat
Pita sandwiches, salads, Quiches, Soups,
Casseroles, and Homemade pastries.
- Come
To4·Waverly Place,673-5955 Right next to our store
Monday to Friday 10-10, Sat. 12-10
m assages the face , bridges distance.
I'm sure that our imaginative rea d ers
co uld come up with a few ideas of their
ow n on th e potentia l pleasures of tha t
copper co nducted current we're aJl so
crazy about. But th e big Question today
is how are we goi ng to generate the
stuff'?
In the 1930's nobody was talking
nu clear energy. But so lar a nd win d
so urce were certainly a popu lar to pic
of co nver sa tion . Perhaps th e reason
th at t hey were never developed is
hinted at by a 1932 head line that
d escribes solar power as "Free'tc every
m an and wo man." An illustration in
the same article depicts ' ' pho to electric
ce lls d eri ving po wer from desert
sunshine, " and scie ntists decl are po wer
from the sun the " Power o f th e
future." What has ha ppened to this
promise of a go lden age when we will
aJl ha ve free power? If the way that oil
com panies are jerking us around today
is any in dication , it's a sa fe gu ess that
the power brokers sh ud dered at the
thought of no lo nger having us aJl in a
noose of dependency. T hese Nero 's of
to day are joyfully fiddling as Rome
burns.
It 's o bvious to anyone with ha lf a
b rain in hi s head (a nd that's an apt .
description o f thi s writ er) ' that the
pre sent gas crisis is contrived. There 's
eno ugh petrole um for us to get around
th is wee k; if they o nly refine it, and '
make it a vailable to a ll of us.
But what about next year ? It seems
o bvio us that the well's goi ng to dry u p.
And th en what ? T he pr oblem's bee n
o utli ned fo r us a ll fo r a long time. The
Three Mile Island incident sho uld tell
us all so meth ing. The sub ways are
fucked -up. Meat 's scarce. What does
this all ha ve to d o with gas o line? Yo u
figure it out. We 're so pissed off over
here that we're thinking o f driv ing o ut
Packard off the nearest len story
. building . If only we had the gas to get
it up stairs.
EUI Village Eye
might be wrong, and the girls just like
the rest of us, may be only out for a
good time. Annie Oakl ey could be one
of the great visual bassists: she reels
back an d fort h on her heels and
watches the audience with that precise
det achm ent from under her shoc k of
unru ly jet black hair all the while
pounding out nail-hard bass Ji nes with
agility and cunning. Th e frizzy blond
lead guitarist' shakes a lot too. which
somet imes screws her up but it's okay,
she should n' t stop shaki ng. Thi s leaves
me few obstacles to enjoying R. and the
Shad ows as I am partial to alm ost anything that sha kes.
And spea king of shaking, Jackie
Curt is sure had me fooled! I could have
. sworn at first she was a female imperI se nator . She sure is. You can't be more'
I tha n fi fty perce nt wrong in these thin gs.
I Jackie was warmhea rt ed and full of
bitchy effervescence though battling the
Ilu. She interp reted some very philosophic tunes, enormous dictums and
scenarios about drinking the wine of life
and eating the.bread of friendship in a
world where " life is just a hurric an e."
Jackie's emotion al grandeur and show
biz aura are integral to the feel of her
performan ce. She seemed to feel right '
at home with the swelling crowd of her
spaced-out post-modern neo-contempo-.
rar ies as they swarmed aro und the
ramp to check her out. The new vintage .
! fermenting: a brew of bizar re energies,
the reckless contorted aesthetic flotsam
of the last two and a half decad es slowly
metam orp hosing into somet hing lea n
and strange. Like Smirnoff, Jackie's set
left me a littl e breathless so I headed for
some a ir and possible eats on Fourteenth
LARRY
punction into the ' ravished eyes of Street , where the monoxide levels reIt seemed slightly ea rly to kick off the - st upefied bystanders, to whom ter mina l turned me to the usual stupor .
Crazy SO's but the East Village Eye did gla mor was no stranger . On e dark
On the way back into the ga zebo, I
it a nyway with a huge be nefit bash June hai red femme stuck out her tongu e a nd
15th at Oub 57: the emerging anarcbo- widened her eyes, but wheth er this
futuristic world of pragmatic deviati on gesture was directed perso nally to me,
was darkly in evidence from the magic or was simp ly an offhand expression of
moment one's ha nd was efficiently the general tenor of the evening was
stomped at the door . I got there and impossible to tell.
somehow blund ered into a collection of
I climbed the stairs past the Ileur-dePuerto Ricans a nd Poles playing pool in Iys wallpaper , made my way into the
the ba r under the club . They appeared cavernous interior of the hall, got a
unfazed by the air of impen d ing com- beer . a nd positioned myself with idiot
motion . the agitated strange-looking aba ndon adjacent to the PA, where I
types gatherin g in the stree t, th e glazed twiddled .my thumbs in happy a nticipaand giddy women sliding past the green tion of the destruction of my central
baize horizon where a ll eyes stayed nervous system and the de genera tion of
glued to the ball a t th e end of the cue. the evening into the-usual sublime blur,
Perh aps i tieY'd seen it all before but I I. among others, was not disappointed ,
doub t it . When I finally 'made my way (or the night churned into the classically
into the cerul ean reception chambers of defined Scene: that self-enclosed state
Club 57, my hun ger for sensation was or-mind in w!!ich 'the left hand of the
sa ted by the sight in the corner. From a social flux perfectly merges with the
decrepit divan dangled spa nde xed , fish- right hand ofthe individual cosmos and
netted a nd nyloned a ppendages at the the entire clasped assembly falls like a
DC·tO into the meditative lap, thumbs
end s of whic h were Natasha's lithe and
fiendish ladies, looking very vamp and orbiting, one an othe r, Some slices salmysterioso. pursing their respective tips vaged from this shimmering Sargasso:
into unconscious shades of di fferent First Slice: Rosie and the Shadows :
kisses, Puffing cigarettes and sippi ng black velour outfits cloak four tense
drinks, they blinked icily with no com- rockers (ers not ettes) who get nasty
about the annsie cryptornen who make
existe nce complicated and the women
who would have it no oth er way. all the
tim e, if at all, Rosie's vocal ran ge may
verge towards th e narrow but her hot
AK-47 Robitussin delivery was squa rely
on ta rget, tinging the evening with its
first hiss of uncensored /abashed lust.
Women have traditionally been set up
in groups like the Shirelles or Ronettes
where the boys do the playi ng and the
girls are up front in some high class
stewardess outfit, sing ing and looking
sexy behi nd the mike." Things are different today. Th e Shadows and Rosie
spit out fast , gritty RnB flavored num - .
bers. rocking with balls while retaining
insatiable femininity, a glint of menace
which skims th e surface of their set like
the fin in Jaws. When they all went into
"Come on over ; come on in ." I got the
fleeting impression that eve n more than
"funtim e w·a.s on the agenda. But I
always read into thfngs too much so I
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sta rted to walk past a mascaraed girl on
the sta irs swigging a large bottle of
Piper Heidsek. Naturally, I stared at
her a bit and she stared back . I asked
her for a hit and she gave me the bottle.
I started to tak e a few hits and she
asked me if I were playing in a band .
Unfort una tely, I tend disastrously
toward honesty, so I said no. She '
looked like she wanted her cha mpagne
back, though the expressio n in her eyes
barely changed .
Any fleeting attempt to impose coherency on anyt hing was irrevocably
shattered by the sight of Su-Sin Shocks,
who were just beginning to dem ent the
on-stage as I made my way past tons of
people making their way past each
other. The atmosphere was smokey,
giddy and hazy as my eardrums were
emulsified by the full force of the Shock
wave. There must be a soft spot in my
head for this kind of thing beca use
Larry Shocks locks like an alien gunga
APPlAUOS JACllf
Ea,t Village-Eye
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O.D .cd on the fashion show attested to
everyone's modern enjoyment of th e joy
of being mod ern.
CHEETAH
dfn on thorazine while th e who le unit
culti vates the feel of mistaken iden tity
Willowbrook refugees coming to terms
with no sa ra n wrap in the 1990's. M.
Shocks Doori shly nightmarish synthesizer shrilled hysterically behind L.
Shocks perverted rendition of rock
classic "Tammy". Like an au tistic in
heat, L. Shocks death sentence moan ing of a line like " Tammy's in Jove"
tran sform ed that declarati on of sexua l
availability into an outrageo us melodrama of idiot love . Nice work , so
heartfelt a nd void. Also "Promises" ,
their number abo ut promises made and
broken: " and we've all had promises."
A song containing not only prevention
and cure but the disease itself. Later
Marilyn from Kongress appeared for a
bizarre d uet of "Beat the Clock " with
Larry, which can only be described as
exceedingly strange, like Fritz Lang on
78. The song contains lines like "Time
is only des tiny but I ain't got a date."
Maril yn possesses the ambience a nd
vocal inst ru mentation for such excursiorts into the to nal unknown ,' and
raving in her white, blue and red body
stoc king she comes on like Frankenstein's iIlegit granddaughter at her
debut or a demented D. Ha rry with her
finger in a socket . Further on, Shocks
removed his chromium yellow toreador
pan ts and went into tan gled contortio ns
with th e mike, his vocal cords and th e
music. Kudos to the drummer too.
By now the place was packed and
things were getti ng hairy , people were
arri ving with others on top of th eir
sho ulders more a nd more were wearing
less and 'less a nd the fixat ed rings
"a round th e eyes of th ose who had
.
So with everybody drinkin g, raving .
_dancing. th rashing around or .whispering Oblivion Th eory and Practice into
eac h other's ears at the big dark ta bles
und er th e balcony, I found myself stu m bling backwards into the spin ning
cha mber j ust as Niki Buzz Band cleaved
the toasted air with some earsplitt ing
power chords . thus end ing my classi fication as a verteb rat e. The Niki Buzz
Band,are th ree rocking maniacs led by
Buzz straddling a ~o Diddley flying
wedge gu itar a nd vocalizing da ngerous
songs dealing with deja vu experiences
you thought you .had had before , and
one song. "Just A Politician" . in which
.the lam e revoltin g govern ment and the
nauseating atmosp here of rotting meat
which surrounds the corrupt collection
of spineless lackeys who, du e to cosmic
inj ustice , rule, is mad e more tha n
ap parent by Buzz' ironic question: " But
what's in it for me?" Bassist Klyph Black
in his one shoulder ba rbarian t-shirt
and evil sunglasses is apropos , and his
facile phala nges carry the ba nd's sound
th rou gh the marrow. This cynical yet
tight power unit should play more be fore they blow u p.
As if tha t weren't enough, upon my reo
turn from a rendezvo us with some
Smi rnoff on the stairs it was time for'
Cheetah Chro me and Stiletto's Fad
with steel edged eyed Elda Stilletto and'
carrot topped Chrome, the ver y alive
ex dead boy who must' have emerged
from the womb attached to a Les Paul
at the abdomen. Stilletto 's Fad and
Cheetah's side outfit the Cas ua lties
sho uld eliminate whateve r rema ining
need there is for speed ; their shltkic king rock a nd rcllessaulted the dan gling
shards of tissue that at one time served ,
as eard rums. G uitarist Ron Slater perform s ch iropract ic adjustments on th e
neck of his Fender, while Mugsy's efficient , intense bassing underscores
Chrom e's panic d ream guita r work .
This band oste rizes my viscera to the
consistency of warm junket, and with
Sheba's snare stabs beating the beat
into the back of my head , combined
with Slat er and Mugsy's brutal rhytbmicchording : well, I guess this is life
in the SO's: Out of Control. Elda's voice
should be register ed with the city as a
' deadly wea pon: her met allic rainy day
torch song, "Let There ' Be Pain ,"
should serve as strong, antidote to th e
Valium Generation , too tranq uilized to
notice ,' too pooped to pop . Chrome is
a not her grea t prod uct of the dead
American midwest where boredom is
religion and the least ~s considered the
most ~nd th us acco rdi ng to ~he law. of
o~posltes p~uces rock gla.dlator~. h~e
C rome. HIS Just released single, SUIl
w ae t to Die Before I Get Old " seemed
to p~uce the inle~de~ effect in the
qu avenng mass of q uwenng protoplasm
which at this point appeared 10 me to be
the a udie nce. But why trust the senses?
Chrome's manic energy, large wideeyed crani um, ka rate chord ing .and und ra ined energy might, I m used ,' begin- ,4
ning my descent into the IRT; insu re he
gets his wish ; which, I thou ght , boa rding the decrep it train , would sure be a
loss;' yet as those slid ing doors slid
closed on both my physical being and
the debris of my ment al state I could
not help but be too tong ue-tied to agree
that, even with the back of my mindless
retin a closing, th at the Eye Benefit
more tha n bea t at least four evenings
wort h of TV, or dinner at Rat ner's, or
any art opening in Soho, or a visit to
Tom McCann s. Which in these days of
termina l bored om , gritty grand ure, and
plexiglass horizons is qui te a lot.
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ALAN ~" :SUICI DE
lIy Edit De Ak "
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Edit- In the three of wands is this guy Altm-Oh , that's a money card.
there.dt's.like the vagabond, you as the
vagabond. The forked road or crossroad , except no )'~lIow brick road to
da nce on .
Alan -Potholes to dance on .
Edit-You gonna go make some music
for th at, right?
Alan-Yeah, pothol e dance music. :
Dancing potholes.
Comes up th e'general-ambience card , a
. money ca rd . We don 't name it . We sk!p
it . It' s what surrounds the matter, what
is the bases of the matter, boW you feel
now-aside from the Bronze Records
and Marty Th au issue (not Marty Rev).
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th at both er you? And still not enough
Edit-I don 't know what card that is.
money for you after eight years of work
You skip over "it . You don 't talk about. in this field.
it. You just say, " Hey, that's a money Alan-You said it, thanks.
card ." Next card: this is the opposing
It' s hard to describe the feeling.
forces to the general ambience card . There 's total confusion. Everybody is
This is what's gonna cross the basic totally confused, and that's what's hap tenet, eith er help it or ruin it. But we pening .O bviously some heavyshit and
don 't tum it up . The idea is th at we changes coming down in. Europe . I
from now on play it downwards.
don' t know.. maybe I'm biased . But it
Alan , talk about the problems in
seems to me like almost war-time atmusic, or in general-the frea ky stuff,
mosphere or something, war on energy.
the Skylab , the 'Nam refugees sent
Lots of rules and regulations gonn a
back to the China Sea, that your croon- sta rt coming down. Everybody wants
ing has locked into a more struct ured
control and that's how they gonna get
musical arrangement th an before. Does
it .
It's more than the energry crisis per
se. That's j ust the means to achieve
certain ends. I'm talking , about a
crunch. It' s like the big bosses say.
"Okay world, you have had it too good.
We want to reduce you to the. shitty
level where y~u belong." They say.
" You're the common man, what are
you doing with two .teevees , trips to
Euro pe and the pleasures of life which
only a century ago only kings could
afford ." You co uld just see Louis XIV
sitting th ere with a colorteevee-e-and
only he could ha ve it . The rest was just
rubble. hardly surviving. That's what
they're doing. Th ey're saying, "They've
had enough of th is stuff, 1?ack to th e
serf shit . Let's reduce th e people, let's
ra ise the prices. so they can't have vacationing, can 't move around . can 't ·6 '
change ideas, until it gets so they get
back home in front of their (black and
East VIII_ae Eye
white) teevee and get all their info from
the tube .
Edit-Before, wars were about boundaries, land. religion, politics . This
century has been basically about energy. so they put a war on and through
energy. You don 't fight with. troops on
land , you j ust don 't give gas to th e
peop le, a nd that's war.
A lan- Yea h. th ere's a sense of mobilization , directing the movement of people accor ding to how They want it .
Take their ga s away so they can't get
around. Pull up the world pipelines. get
people in line mak ing them pay for Alan-I don't really know anything
th eir automobiles a ll over again , and about t~e past
Brooklyn.
The music it's an on-going develsaying, "You have three au tomobiles
it's had its moment
too long. okay . cr unch him ." They're oping thing
beginning to tighten up the shit. Every- when it was reflective of a certain kind
body's getting sca red . I wonder if tkis is of thing _.. in the course of working you
.rhe Jcjnd of thing that happens before get better and the music style cha nges
war.s. Drive the thing into total de pres- as a resu lt of gett ing bett er and as a
sion, and then turn that th ing into war. res ult of what kind of problem s you live
Settin g people up. . I don 't know tee with . What I always sort of wanted was
much -about that stuff. I' m only going to be like poets in a sense-s-not like Jim
On feeling. and th at' s what I'm feeling, Morrison or Patt i Smith , but like visual
something .in the air , nuclear stuff, type poetry . It's not really psychedelic
"b ut it is like being tr uthful. I could n't
reaction .
do the type of music I did-three or four
dark eyes doric. hair. . . six of pentacles,
general idea... th at 's good, tltat ·.s years ago, I mean you grow, and to be
truthful to the time th at you grow, commoney. . . the whole · thi"g is f alling
ing out and saying things that you really
down" . got three money thing.s.so far
believe in consta ntly. The idea is not to
th e general curd is, . . six th ousand dolsell out. you know. Th e idea is to come
lars worth of f ool. . .
in with anything th at might have someAlan-This looks like me, that's me thing left . You can't do one tri p forever .
begging over the re-throw money!
Edit- . . . instit utionalized new wave
Edit-This is the card here what's a ura.
gonna fight against the wrong . . . it' s
Th is is the card that is just passing .
the lady-she's rich but ch aritable .. .
Unq ualified
general
desperation.
here that's your past. .. it's something Disaster chorus line . . .just continuing
in you already digested , working
. to rock ' n' roll. we could title it "con.'
the re's a ca rd missing. Th e q ueen of
spades, or the king of spades . Pshewl,
Edi t-That's the bitch when you're
tinuing to rock ' 0' roll, excuse the ex- playing hea rts .
pression" . .. who uses th at word any- A lan- It means it's 1ike black , it's the
more? I guess it's dead but it ain 't, . . black trip , th e third world trip. It 's the
.
some of it is for kicks and some of it is new stuff.
Edit
You
gonna
go
salsa?
. for exploratio n -.": people go to horror
A lan- Salsa'! No, we'l!just be who we
movies for th e thri ll , . •
. . . but they want that thrill in their are .
rock ' n' roll too . It's somethin g that Edit- More soul coming up in the
Elvis had , that Little Richard had , that future?
Iggy had, th at little bit of fear thing, A lan- No , the sam e old soul. _. I'm
that tittl e bit of unknown.
thinking along, other lines recently.
Edit-Like Iggy at (he Palladium , That's why \,wish th~ would ba,ppe~ .
\ the re's 3500 people in this da rk arena Othe r , like , group situations or worktn
and his ba nd doesn't show up , has no with other people, putting out differe nt
prese nce. and there's Iggy half-naked kinds of records and trying to get experand he's gotta energize this ent ire thing iment al with. where I am now. Because
and these people wan na get it, they're Suicide has been experimental, but now
just glued .
.
I'm into other things . I mean , continue
A lan- It's mag ic, the magic is him and to do Suicide, but get into other thin gs
the music tha t he has.
and see where that goes.
Edit- This card is fo r the future ...
Edit-Th at ca rd -is decadent desire . . .
aces mean new beginnings
but thi.s
restlessness . desire for change .. . becard could be omino us obstacles,
ca use it's reversed , otherwise it would
loss. futility . . .conquest which-ends in
be power. success, control over the
forces of nature. That's not like you at
disaster .. .
Alan-What's the dead card? . . I realall.
ly dig six as a num ber ... I really dig
A lan-:No, not at all. No control. Tum
four is number one , six is after th at .. .
off the tape, I waun a show you someEdit- Alan, talk about the future.
th ing.
' A lan- I do n't know th at's very . . .
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really try. Of all th e gigs I've done, I'd
say 99% of them , I tried , I might not
have bee n successful at all of them, but
I t ried. Th ere might have been a few of
them tha t I was just so , wha tever in my
head , fucked up , pissed off, that I just
said "fuck it, I'm not gon n a give it
to night 'cause th e aud ience isn't invalved, " but for the most part I really
go up and try to deal with my head . 1 try
and give. But what th e fuck for ? You go
ahea d and give that and everybody
sta rts look ing like not hing's happening.
No energy coming back . You go out
there all your life and you're giving out all this energy and you're geting back '
nega- you're not gett ing back anything. You 're giving all of th is up and
you' re not gett ing anything back , and
you sta rt losing for th at at some point ,
When too many of those things begin to
happen th en you break in some place.
Alun- It's tim e we do n 't go over, it 's
tim e we say " fuck it" to all of th em, it's
ti me we said " fuck it, we don 't do any
more of this shit until we get something
rea lly cool.."
.
. . , I did so many thtngs because ' J
thin k. "Oh, th is is important ," and it
never tu rns out to be important.
.
t
Edit looks at the pictures. and then
says- Yo u're really getting into these
tee ny boys , and th ey are like ind escrtbable expressions.
'"-...: Alan-Annie. tum off that light. .....
Ann ie-It won't blow.
.
Alan- There's a lot of ju ice in there it
will blow.
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Edit-It.looks like you' re going for pic.
!ures w~l ch are not about th e image b ut
JUst this class of emotions. It's the
moment-it's like, so vulnerable but
out !here facing the world and doing it
all fight. Who's that in this pieture?
Alan-It's just a kid and his fathe r. He
t rained him. he's a boxe r. The whole
th ing, th e intensity, his hand in his
pants • . .
Alan o n his planned trip
/0
Europe
But I mean , what insanity! If
I go to Paris, which I reall y feel is wrong
to do, and I get on stage with that sort
of attitude- I can't be in that sort of
he~d and play mu sic. I ju st can 't go
enjoy myself now, I'll just land on my
head . If I coulda j ust gone over th ere
[~naps his fingers) and had da good
tlme ,.and know th at somet hing 's gonna
J.>e wait ing for us when we Ret back
Instead of more of the same bull shit.
You know, it's like going throug h this
w ~ole trip ~or" 'nothing, man , for no.
thing . For Just plain , fuckin' , more
hard work. We have to put out a lot . By
the time we get there , I mean , we're
gon ~a, drive to Paris and Luxemb ourg ,
and It II be about the time we have th e
sound check and go on . It's like the
~e al we d id in Germany, I didn't sleep
ID Germ any f?r th ree d ays, and when I
came back I was so wired up I still
could n' t sleep , and that went on for two
weeks . And I really wanted to do th at , I
wanted to go to Berlin. I ha d doubts
and everyth ing, b ut I went. But I'm not
ecst atic abo ut this . I don't know. I ca n 't
exp lain it. I'm j ust co nfused,>and I
d on 't wan na be confu sed. I don 't wanna
have to confro nt all of th e thi ngs that I
have to con front on a trip like th at. It's
ma ke you feel, Oh , man , th is is a cri me .
They do , man , you ca n feel it. It's in the
air . It's like I feel like I don't belo ng
there .
A nnie-You do n't look all tha t d ifferent .
A lun-Annie, I wish you cou ld come
out on the road with me. Why do I get
sto pped at airports? At every customs
place I go through ? Marty walks right
thro ugh . Everybody else, they j ust look
and goodbye, look and goodbye . Me
they sto p and th e whole trip, th ey put it
thro ugh a comp ute r and it comes back
three or four min utes later, Th ey see me
comin' and they say, " Oh boy, we got
something interes ting today."
Edit- You don 't have to be famou s to
be ext rao rdi nary. But if you're ext raordi nary and you 're excellent , the ord inary will want to drag you down ,
Annie-What's-over?
A
~an - Fame equals what peopl e might
. Alan- Once you start dres sin g . for
think
of as wealth. Wealth is what gets
them , m aking decisions about how
you
through.
Okay, Mick Jagger's got
you 're gonna took beca use it 'll be, easy
fame, he's got millions, he can talk and
to get through custo ms and not have
he can get through aU these things rea l
any kind of hassle , and not have any.
easy. When you 're a vagabo nd, just got
body look at you.
Annie-Well, you shouldn't be so sen- a suitcase with your wares-I carry th e
alb um over there, you know. sell the
sitive abou t it:
trip-it's
not easy. And they tell you to
,A lan- Most tim es I'm not . When
be an artist through th at. They tell you
you're feeling good abo ut yourself you
to travel your ass off 'and reall y go
when you' re not feeling good about
through
all the bullshlt, and then they
yourself or what's happening to yourself
tell
you,
"Okay, t urn on" , and you
becau se it's working the otlltr wayan
'
g
otta
t
urn
on. And it tak es something
you, you become paranoid, man . And
out
of
you.
And like the reward for it, I
~ u ' re in the middle of fuckin' airport
mea
n
even
the
money, it's like, fuck it.
With fuck in' guys with guns , and I have
EditThis
city
ch arges you up a nd
to come offa thi s whole fuckin ' crew of
then
you
release
it
back intn th e city.
suits and ties and inside of two minutes
Alun- New York ca n space you out.
I had th ese guys eatin' out of my hands :
When I walk out of a gig here I'm like
who thou ght I was defini tely- you
totally paranoid. and I' m like in space
kno w, cut on my face, beret, th e whole
from
the gig, especia lly if it's a real hot
works, and they were ready to pop me.
one
.
But
I walk out and I know where
Th ey saw me, an d I saw th ey were '
I'm
at
.
I
ca
n spo t trouble a mile away.
gonna get me . It 's true! Man, th is is
even
spaced
out , and know how to d eal
Europe. Th is is hassle, It's like entering
with
it
'cause
I know the speed . In
a world of a clean ed up Europe . I was
Eu
rope
I
don't
know
anyt h ing. I don 't
t here when it was a litt le ra unchier than
know
wha
t
th
e
speed
is. I don 't know
it is no;-", man , th ey have gotte n rich .
what
th
e
anxiety
is,
I
don
't know what
It s th e way th ey are with t he law
the insa nity is. I d on·t know how to deal
and t~ e way th ey're looking down on
with it. · · · feel like . . . the same cornanyt hing that 's dtfterenr . It could be a
pany that's gett ing you the gig is telling
terro rist, 'cause th ey're terrorist-crazy
you
they don' t want you. You feel a
over th ere. And you get caught up in
little
stupid : You can take so mu ch for
that pa ranoia where you look at a
so
long,
be a slave for -so 10RR,
French cop and he's looking at you and
AnnieYou
gotta stay on top of it .
all of a sudde n you- feel guilt abo ut
Alun-l
am
on top of it, man . ... it \
somet hin'. Oh, wha t'd I. do now? I'm
costs
so
much
to get out th ere to the
just walkin ' down the street. So I look a
kids ... It 's a cr isis between myself and
litt le different , is th at a crime? But th ey
them as usual. I go out there, and I
like,going into th at. world of people, and
you re a lways freight on th e airlines
with th e hos tesses and th e stewardsend
t he custo ms . You always feel like you' re
being obse rved. And J kn ow I go on a
plane th ey take one look at me they
say, " Oh boy, here he com es." We got
on a plane fulla Gennan busi nessmen
and every one of 'em , a planeful , a
couplea hundred, gave us th e look ..
Th ey were all like suit and tie, fat, you
know, Ge rma n, and here come a couple
of, look like cockroach es got on the
pl~ne frOm New York, and they gave us
this look, " Oh, where's it gonna be
Algeria ?"
'
Annie-W hy did n 't you wear a suit ?
Alan-Once you have to start wea n ng
their cost ume, man , it's over.
.
Like , what drives people to do th lngsf I
get d riven to do a certain thing bec ause
of whatev er , I don 't parti cularly think
anyth ing about it. I just have th is intuitive feeling th at the sou nds I make at
the art I make looks good to me, it
sou nds good to me, it makes me tick .
And I have a feeli ng like everybody else,
it' s gonna mak e other people tick beca use we're all alike. Or there are cer-.
tain so man y areas th at we're all alike,
and th at 's why I wanna do it. I wanna
go out there and just lay down some of
my st uff for ot her people to groove on.
Just put it out in the world for people
who need it, that's all. Wh at's your
responsibility? I don 't know. You assume a responsibil ity. That' s what a n
artist is anyway. Wh at makes an artist
thi nk his work is good?, I mean good
enoug h to go through all this buJlshi t to
get-It out th ere. I don't know, I don 't
know. You see other things arou nd you
and you ju st say "bu llshlt". My stuff
ain 't bullshit . anyway.
. . . 1 think of thi s- record deal and
record as th e last thing ... we're not getting anything , and we have a shock
value because of peop le th at know us at
least from before . I think if thi s gets
blown , som ethi ng' s got to be don e
abo ut why it got blown, and ' maybe
there's a need for some change, and
app roach it all from- or start another
th ing and see where th at goes"
Edit-Wea you were th inking that was
your last big hope , and.
Alan-No, that was stu pid . I let out all
the rope , but I should have pulled it in
before I let the rope on thi s last thi ng ,
and now it got taken so far it is dead .. I
mean , if I'd walked in a week earlier, I
probably cou ld have got the whole deal,
but I let it, really , you know.
Edit- Yo u ju st gotta handle th ings
yoursel f.
Alan7'"" Yeah, Ijust wanna get th e single
" Dream Baby" out, but at this point I
don 't care whether it gets out or it
does n' t get out. I just don 't give a shit
a nymore. I wen ted to get out a second
Suicide albur : because I th ought it
wou ld be rea l:; good. I know we co uld
have a lot of great stuff on it, especi ally
if we co uld have got in a better studio
and rea lly worked on it, taking more
contro l over th e production end of it .
Edit- But you haven't started recording yet . __
Alan-No, sure. Who 's gonna pay for
it?
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FROM THE
STUDIOS OF,
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Self Portraits In Black and WhIte
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Eul ViII.,< Ey<
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FOUR
EYES:
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1. Olymp ian ' 1 de luxe, $24.95, C0hen 's Fashion Opt ical , 117 Orchard St.
2. Meta l frame w ith plastic plaquettes ,
$49.50 at Coh en's Fashion ocncat,
117 Orchard 5 1.
3. Yel low gold European frame, $57.
at Sol Moscott , 118 Orchard St .
,
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4. Feather light and flexible, 1980, $60
at Hawstett er-Yanss, 17 E. 41 st.
~.
"These arc not lor you; they'r e for .different . To achieve a took and add or silver. fra meless, with kind -of-square
old ladies." ·
something. Because of the wind on the lenses. for men and women. They're for
"So?"
streets to protect their eyes. Or because the older folks. the ones who have had
Shoppi ng for glasses. there is not of the sun, or the light. to' Spot some- the same type of frame for years. Here
much choice between the regular work one. to hide after" crying. or when are a few sa mples, for everyone around"
fram es and the ones the "designers" feeling insec ure. to s'py and observe the city.
make. Everybody always ends up need- without being seen, tcJ!Je Incognito.
photo: Greta Watson .
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Hambu rger sandwiched between Dan Necr (left) and l ohn Ogle.
"If NoOne Else is GonriaDoit, t
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station or something. 1 mean, oka y, I'd profi t?
"To me, ra tings are a lot of b. s. I
like more hou rs, what dj doesn't? But
"Everyone has a talent, you know. it's not like I'm fighting with everyone mean , it does count for advertising,
It's just that they ge n a get in touch there. 'I'm working with some of my but New York is such. a huge
withit . I can suss out music and I know oldest friends, like Joe from Chicago mark et. . . It just seems to me that it' s
I'm gonna make it. Ma y not be fo r a and Meg Gri ffin."
"
- all about listening, abou t getting
,,1 tell her what people have been listenable radio. PIX .is having its
while. May not even be in radio . But
I'll get there."
telling me: That Meg's departure from effect; you can hear the difference it' s
Our conversatio n is beginning to dry WNEW for WPI X is part of some sort made on ot her stations already. It's
happening, you know, but what it's all
up after nearly two hou rs. Max's of conspiracy to get her off.
downstairs booth is sta rting to close in
" Th at 's just such bullshit, an d it going to end up as. . . I do n't know .
on us. She'd alread y prom ised a friend really pisses me off. Meg and I were " But I'm really . really sick of the
she' d catch their band upstairs at ta lking at a club one night, and this " double plat inum" attitude of the
midnight an d it was abo ut time. She'd w hole comes up and starts saying that record compa nies. I' m so tired of
promised the same thing a week or so kind of crap. I' ve known Meg for hearing this " new" music from this
ago, but at the last minute had to back years-she got her first job in radio " new" band that is just so inferior, so
ou t. She likes to deal hon estly with from me, when I. was canned fro m a mediocre. Jim Kerr' s (WPI X' s
everyone- especially with friends- so "station in Westchester. Anybod y who morn ing dj) likes to say that I push all
being forc ed into situations like that believes or thinks that is an assbole,
these little records that no one can ever
bug her.
'
" It goes back to the image thing, find. And he's right, I suppose. But the
WP IX~FM 's -Jane Ham burger has you know? An(J I' m just me. To a sound of them-even those real raw
been called"the-voice of new rock ' n certain extent, because ,I demand my. ones that are hardly produced- is so
roll for New York ra dio. We had just freedom to be me, people'might "think much more exciting than most o f wha t
met for the first time, and despite the ot herwise. But I' m not trying to "be comes out of the majors,
" It's almost" as if these companies
fact tha t she'd kept her .word with me s .anything I'm not. I'm ju st trying to get
:_about her tendency to babble nonstop, all that good music that's around don ' t have an y A&R (art ist and
~eeping me scribbling furiously, I was listened to. And I think that 's what it reperto ire) sense. Okay- so the Cars
is.
and Roy Baker come up 'With this
sorry o ur time had run out.
1 knew who she was when she walked
" Like, they' ve given me the " New great, original sound and become the
ftuough the door. She told me she Rock 'n Roll" show- which they say hott est thing in the country. So every
sported five earrings and was not -so- means exactly what it says ana not just other record company goes out and
subtl y pulling her hair behind her ear- new wave...or punk , or whatever. So-if searches aro und for its own " Ca rs"
lobes as she walked past.
McCartney or Frampton have just and soo n the airwaves ar e Ilooded with
A bit ap prehensive when we first sat released something new, they want me the same little beep-beeps.
"The small labels are where it' s
down, I confe ssed that] hardly ever to 'play it as part of the show. I may not
listen to radio, except when I'm in a like it, but I do it 'cause I get to play happening. And the futu re isn' t
car- like the previous Sunday ar- mo st of what I want to, or what my America, it's England , They' ve got it
listeners want. _
together there because the press is
temoon, when I first heard her show.
"That's -okay-c-tcause J don 't listen
" And I' ve got the greatest listeners much more' important than radio.
_ to radio-either. It really sucks most o f' in the world, I really do . They're .Jn- Thousand s of small labels get listened
the time. I used io all the time, when it telligent and literate. I 'get some ofthe ' to and written abo ut; even the smallest
was exciting and th~ music being most ' amazing letters, and I always bands can get nationwide exposure'
"
answer all of them. Intelligent listeners because there are so many pa pers and
played was so great. But now.
The conversation already ventures are really impor tant to me. Some of my. it's such a small count ry. In America,
too close to the border between best friends I 've made over the air , it's all done over the airwaves- that's freedom of speech and abilit y to work. And if peop le call in, I'll always ta lk if how records are sold. And face itShe' s wary of being taken out of I've got the time. Then again, I'Il talk most stations aren 't very dar ing.
" Look at the Clash-perha ps the
context, misquoted, or-worst of all- to anyone."
having me write something that she
Her smile with those words disarms hottest band in the world, and their
never said . I assure her nothing will be me. But then I try to pursue things like American company isn't doing shiJ for
fans and rat ings. For examp le, how is them . They arrive in New York.
printed that she doesn't agree to .
" Don't get me wrong-I think P IX WPIX doing with its strong, hard-rock they 've sold out ou r major rock hall,
is the best station in New York. It has orientation? And what about CBS? and the company doesn 't know what to
its ups and downs for me, sure. But it' s. Are their profit s really sagging versus " do with them. Their first alb um still
been th roug h _so many changes of the . other majors' because of ,~ h eir hasn' t been released here yet.
" And so many great , really great ,
format the past few years that It's heavy 'reliance on big-name/big-uptaki ng time to gei settled.
Iront- mcney artists whose albums have new New York bands have gotten the
" It's just that people have this image "to sell an "Outrageous amount before shah the same way. I used to play the
o f me being in rebellion with the the company even begins to see a • Dictators
every afternoon
when I was
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interview with
Jane Hamburger
working out on Lon g Island. But who
else did '? Who in the city'? And the
Dead Boys- who knows where they' ve
ended up?
'
" T his is where it' s happening
musically, and the stations and majors
ought to get behind it. It's not happening anywhere else, and won 't unless
it makes it here first. I mean , you can
pick up an album and ' see all those
L.A , sessionmen on it and you know
just what it's going to sound like
withou t even putting it on. Who needs
it?"
We ta lk England ' for awhile,
especially London . She's just back
from a recent trip, and e m anxiou s to
know what 's happe ning musically over
there, what she did . She says she heard
~ lot of reggae, picked up a lot lof great
music for her show, and C\.It a record . "
" Yeah- I made a tape . J'·ve . been
singing for a few years now, and have ,
been writing songs for a long time.
Brian James (ex-Damned) and' Stewart
Copeland (Police) talked me into it.
And it was so grea t, everything, ju st
came so together in the studio ! I want '
to do a single out o f the song we didbut I haven't gotte n a B side to go with
it."
I have to press her for the title.
" Well, it's called ' I Wanna Kiss
You' and it 's real pop . But I believe in
pop music. I' ve writte n a lot of songsnon e of them are much over two
minut es-all kinds of styles, but .aU
to tally listena ble. "
1
" I just think it' s time that there was
a woma n rock ' n roller who1sn'·t jus t a
sex kitten or disco bunn y. b ne who's
not totally supported by/ a man in her
music. T here's a certain atti tude, a
point of.view missing from rock 'n roll
that only a woman can put across. And '
if no one else is go ing to do it, I will.
" I guess what I'm talking about is
emotions, and most rock tod ayespecially the lyrics-just doesn 't
express them. Tha t's what I think I can
get across th rough my songs, that' s
what a woma n can do . One of ntFne
that Jim Green (Trouser Press) really
likes is ' Resigned From Doing Time
With You.' He thinks it's the greatest
rock 'n roll song ever written, It says
something; all my songs do , Remember
Lesley Go re's ' You Don 't Own Me' ?
What a great song-only a woman can -
.
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really give meaning to those lyrics. Ur.
of the Clash 's ' 1-2-1 GOlla Cr ush On
"You' . But I hear Joan Jell (exRunaways) is doi ng it already .
..
" I've really got my hand on the
pulse. of the times. And I don 't like
what 1 sense. People's emotions are so
screwed up. People are so selfish and
out o f touch with the mselves, do n't
you think?"
1agree, and offer that it often seems
self-indulgence is the only contributio n
of this decade.
" Yeah. T here's so many who try so
hard to like themselves-s-and I don 't.
But- see-I 'm a woman and I have
instincts . 1do n't want to be considered.
just a rock 'n roll dyke because 1 want
to show some emotion on stage. "
.
So then she does plan to go onstage
with her ba nd? But what hap pens if the
audience doesn 't like what they heard;
or just thinks, in general thai she
deesn' t make it?
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" Hey-if I suck, I suck. But I' m
doing it. Like. Tve gor a guitar and I'm
not great . but I am playing it and I
wantto play it on stage. 1 think it's real
impor tant that a woman play guitar in
a roc k band on stage.
" I have a 25-year-old Les Paul -as
old as me and rock ' n roll. I don 't
worry about my age. Every year is real;
I live from day to day. I'm not
planni ng for the future. If it doesn' t
happc~ now, it will."
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Frenetic scribbling has played OUt
my hand. We'r e talked out, and it' s
time to move -on. She asks me to joi n
her upstairs to watch the band. 1
haven't been there since 1 watched Iggy __
Pop trash the place 100 man y years ago .10 remember. Nostalgia for some sort
of rock ' n roll watershed that I've
imagined and kept alive mak es jne
lose Jane to the crowd . lose myself 10
the wall as the band
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mofungo
by David Solomonoff
backbeat-or' perhaps because . of
this- the drums are never on the
bottom. The hoo k in every song is a
Mofungo is a delicacy you can drum riff, 'producing a rhythm ic insometimes fmd in Cuban-Chinese tensity that rivals larger groups with a
restau ran ts on 7th and 8th Avenues on more convention al approach .
or above 14th Street. Bacon and
Like the best new wave grou ps,
plantains are fried together and shaped Mofungo has reduced rock ' to its
into something that resembles a baby's essentials, but unlike man y it has
brain. and the result is .then ' covered remained. ope n to .the . possibilities
with pan drip pings.
suggested by folk musics of ot her
"I think o f the bea t befo re I think of cultures- and what is rock but folk
the guitar," says Morungo's Robert music-so man y o f which are present
Sietsema . I'We ju st want to have fun." here in the East Village. Mofungo ,
Mofungo was an offshoo t of the alo ng with a few other groups 19ce
legendary no-wave band Blinding Information, who remain curious
Headache whose cacaphono us assults abo ut music they might very well hear
on Cooper Square are not likely to be while walking down the street, reflects
forgotten by unwary passers-by. badly on the imaginations of musicians
Althoug h Mofungo membership has who seem to be limited either by
been fluid, it has always revolved ignora nce, or as some ha ve suggested,
ar ound Robert, Willy Klein, and Jim racism.
Posner, all of whom write, sing and
" Ou r influences ran ge fr om
play guitars, bass. and drums. They (Javanese and Balinese) gamelan music
aren 't especially concerned that the to Blue Oyster Cult," says Robert ,
same personnel always appear on stage who has studied classical piano and
and. hop e to have added in- been inspired by bands like the 13th
strumentat ion in the fut ure. " Other Floor Elevators, who he saw when
Mofungo members have inter mittently living in Texas during the mid-sixties.
included ·a violinist, a percussionist Willy played in an imitatio n English
who played an oil drum, a giant spring, art-rock band on Long Island before
bowed cowbell and a refrigerator tray; joining Blinding Headache, and Jim
and bassist Kim Bond, who will rejoin played in a number of folk and
the gro up in the fall.
bluegrass groups before doing the
Mofu ngo is unique in it' s odd same.
mixture of musical sophistication and
Th e members of Mofungo have no
naivete, combining primitive folk-rock great aspirations to any thing more
remi niscent of the Fugs in songs. built than JUSt playing, but their unique
around simple jagged rhythm s, with combination of insistent rhythm s and
striking melodies that reveal a wide odd melodic ideas are gaining a
range of far more exotic Eastern, Latin devoted cult following. Not bad for
and African influences. Although they something that resembles a baby's
never use a bass drum and often lack ~ brain covered with drippings.
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Teenage J esus & The Jerks
Baby Doll/ Freud in Flop, Race Mixing
Th is is music to get peop le to leave
your party. A good investment. t his is
truly the most intellectual prod uct to
date, a nd Lydia Lunch is the only chick
.on the scene with any tru e musical
, talent, soa ring miles above Patti
Smith. Bradly Fjeld, credited with
"drum and cymbal" creates some of
the mo st interesting rhythmi c patterns
this side of modern jazz. Released on
Migra ine Records (they ain ' t kidd ing).
James White & Th e Blacks
. Contort Yourself/ Tropical Heatwave
Iggy Pop
I'm Bored/.Af rican Man
Th ese so ngs are o ff Iggy' s latest album
"New Values, " cu rre ntly ava ilable
only on import. " I'm Bored" is one
those classic Iggy songs which ,was
begging [ 0 be written, com plete with a
mock ing Keith Richards lick. " Afr ican
Man " is more of the old Boogiebaiting which the Ia, Bowie and Lou
of
Reed seem to derive so much pleasure
from . As my friend 's sister says, "If
you' re bor ed, you ' re boring. "
Donna Summer
Hot Stuf f/Journey to the Center.of
Your Heart
Along with " I Feel Love" and
"MacArthu r's P ark," Donna Summer
conti nues to pro duce those truly
modern products. "Hot Stu ff" ma kes
a nd int eresting use of mid-eastern
melody. Once again disco trium phs
over punk. Nice use of synthesizers.
Don't a ll those No New Wave bands
rea lize th at their music has got to be
well-crafted and listenable to maybe
get played on the radio once?
Meta bolist
Dromm / Slaves Eulam 's Beat
As a n art-o bject, this reco rd will look
goo d sitt ing a round your living room.
.I f yo u are a hip py-intellectual with a
beard or a high-schooler into space
music you will -go for this stuff. It ' s
very Fripp- Enoesqu e. Som etimes it
gets jazzy. Lots of indu strial drqning,
blips and bleeps. But it's interesting,
creati ng a sta rk environment. It may be
help ful to open a window so th at street
. sounds blend in with the mix.
Fleshtones
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American Beat/ Critical List
Here I was, all read y' to enjoy this one.
T he packaging is slick and coo l. The
co mp an y logo is coo l (a red sta r). Even
the song titles are cool. Hey tho . . . it's
a ll too cool; The pr oduction.is murky.
T he songs don ' t live up to titles or
packages at all. A deformed offspring;
you won ' t be hearin g thi s one on the
radio . A mar riage between Television
and Dylan a nd other assorted cliches,
this stuff sounds boring and oldfash ion ed. Yea h, I know th a t
somew here there is a .pa rty full o f
stupid people rea lly digging and
da ncing to this stuff, Th e Dead Boys,
J oe Ja ckson. "." . stli! like tha t, and
that' s koo l by me .. . bu t I don 't like
it. Over-priced too.
Robin Crutchflelds DARK DAY
Hands in the Dark/Invisible Man
Cru tchfield is the former keyboa rd
player for D.N .A. a nd this is his solo
venture on Lu st-Unlust Record s,
perhaps the best a nd most inno va tive
label in New York Ci ty (also
responsible fo r Teenage - Jesus, Alex
C hilton , Beirut Slump). Slow .bea t,
dissonant notes, ' poetic words, this
sounds like a horror movie soundtrack .
It' s real good too .
etc. ••
After the ' Contortion's wond er ful The Visitors' recent gig at Studio 10
contribution 10 Eno's No Ne w York Ip found its way across the street into the'
this older ma ter ial just do esn't cut it. Yippies' living room becau se the Fire .
G ra nted C hance/ W hite is a very sma rt Department temporarily closed the
man, but the music leaves much to be . club. Visitor s made their mark tho,
desired. "Conto rt YOurself" is a poo r with high energy R&R/R&B that rema n's version of Bohanon's "G ittin' port edly had the floorboards da ncing
Off" lacking only a strong beat. a long. La st month , incidentally, the .
" T ro pica l Heat wa ve" is ' j ust plain Stud io was hop pin ' and boppin ' to the
silly. As usual, this is a case of the sound of baseball ba ts on . the front
White -ma n ripping-off the Boogies. door . Not only did the door later.
and as usua l. . . no go . It co uld very require a sheet metal patch, but our
well be tha t M r. Whit e has crea ted his friend C hris fro m Bleecker Bob 's, on
own brand of music-wimp rock. But his way In, sto ps to ask why and gets
don 't worr y folks, . his new albu m is wood in the mouth for his trouble.
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really Hot !
Mod el Citizens e.p.
A nimal Instincts. Shift the Blame/I
A m Honest. You Are What You Wear
P roduced by J ohn Cale. Mode l
Citizens are fairly irreslstable, to be
co mpa red to Kra ftwerk. Fou r guys and
two chicks, ex-Columbia student s and
a German, these Model Citizens
comb ine infectious melod ies with lyrics
reflecting the truth abo ut modern life.
Their songs tend to stick in your head .
Sample lyrics: Lay down, look at me,
I'm
no threat/ Can you see that it's
me/Sexual intellectuals/ Make love so
ineffectual. (' ~ You Are What You . ,.
Wear") . Clearly, these days people )!a
don 't know what to like, they don' t ~
know what to think. .. but Model ii
Citizens do ... because the choose to 1Cr-_ _- '
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If anyon e on the Lower East Side'
deserves to be an dis truly a star in his
own right , it's old .David. He 's been
around these streets longer than
an yone doing 'the burned-out yippie
"routi ne. Don't forget he was once
produ c~ -;,~by John
Lennon. His
- pr oducif<lo -\s 'prett y good, including a
jazzy sax -track. " I Hate You , " a one- <
four-five roc k anthem , "~ is probably ab out you .
Lester Bangs
L.. II Blun/Llve
.I' ve been waiting to do thi s one. This
record sucks. It skips brand new. Are
you fat and ugly? Lester Bangs is. Th e
Dead Kennedys
music is zero. His ' voice is zero . This
Call/omla Uber AU..,/Man Wilh The • shit is two years old. Fru strated critics
DOl!
don 't ma~e good records.
A bad-taste product for sure. With a
name like Dead Kennedys and a song
called "Californ ia Uber Alles" I was
T he Clash
prepared
like them. But-the music
The Cost ol,f.iving E.P.
is fast and hyper-nothing interesting
_ For hard -cor e fans only. Featur es a
hue. Typi cal pu nk -junk. "Californi a
note-for- note cove r of Bobby Fuller's
Uber Alles" makes references ' to
" J Fo ught the Law" - a seeming waste
"President Brown" 'and the usuafl of time since cu r airwaves havevbeen-> > ' ""j ? ' " , : -".,
Nazi -chic stuff, which I am person a'ilY; saturated with the or igina l latel y. Get
sick of. Californi a sucks, and so do
their latest lp if a nything . It
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Never found out why... Heat threw
its opening night pa rty on the 12th.
He nry Schissler's new 2400-capacity
venue reportedly stole the Mudd
Club's
personnel.
N.C : . . The
Heartbreakers finished what was
reportedly their last gig last week at
Max' s. Jerry Nolan is on his way to
England to tour with his new band The
Idols. . . Arthur u Klller" Kane's new
band will j tar t gigging mid-August;
Babs wiIJ sing lead . . . BUly BaU's new
band
includes ex-Alice Cooper
guitaris t Glen Buxton- more on them
later. .. Pretty boy Mroziuld an d his
ban d put out synthesized macho-rock
last Sunday at Max's with songs like
" Brook lyn" and "Union Square" that
a stro ng-lunged audience"kept time to
with shouts o f "Mro !" The ban d was
alive and tight, and so was the
crowd . . . By the by, did you pick up
that Ieathereue punkette on 51. Mar k's
and Bowery a little too easily? And was
she quick to ask for a few bucks? Well,
the hookers have arri ved on the scene.
But remember kids, they were here
first-and they've kept up the tradition
of 'bleached hair , tight pants and
hummers in the hall all these years. So,
young ladies, if the line becomes a little
blurred at times. . . Welcome to'
. rock. When is some record company
going to pick up on her? . . Yes, every
day's a street fair in the East Village.
But on Jul y 28 & 29 (raind ate: August
4 & S) The Cooper Square Festival will
make it even more so, with " theatre,
jazz, salsa, crafts, kids' stuff, da nce,
poetry, a bazaar, a dominoes
tou rnam ent, film, ' video, visual art,
and skate rental s." Well. That 's on
East 4th Street between Bowery and
Second . .. Robert Patrick's play
Kennedy 's Children ended a successful
run at the little Club 57. " I did it for
the kids," says Robert.
magazine
Thomas McGonigle
..When that D.C. 10 crashed in
Chicago did you think: One-probabl y
will happen to me one day; Twothat's the breaks; Three-wonder what
the mess looks like. If you answered
yes to an y or all of the above you
probably alread y are, or are likely to
become a fan of Magazine. If you
didn ' t give any of these responses you
will never get Magazine and are in
pretty sad shape because, as Edward
Dahlberg says, Hit's abnormal not to
think of suicide at least once a day."
In J978, Magazine was pick ed by
.M elody Maker as the most promising
new band of the year. As is normal, in
1979 the same newspaper declared that
their second album, Secondhand
Daylight was ju nk.
Don' t believe it. Secondhand
Daylight combines the strengths of
Nice's Desert Shore and the hypnotic
quality of Howard Devoto 's voice with
the musical density of Fresh, early
Summer 1979
Roxy Music, and the John Cale of the
Magazine is to play up at Hurrah's
A nimal Justice albugr .
sometime this summer. The best way
Howard Devoto formed Magazine into Magazine is via " Shot by Both
after splitting from Pete Shelley and Sides, " " T. V. Baby" and the second
the Buzzcocks. While with Shelley, side of Secondhand Daylight . Only the
Devoto did the classic " Orgasm stro ng need apply , only those who
Addict. " The first single from und erstand the necessity to gut the
Magazine was "Shot by Both Sides," monster of possibility and its endless
named by Rolling Sto ne as the best illusion.
single of the year whose very title sums
up the dilemma of anyone trying to do
something with a bit of integrity .
Their new single " Rh ythm of
Cruelt y," appears on Secondhand
Daylight in a slightly different mix with
the lyrics a bit clearer. H owever the
single stands easily on its own considerable strengths.
The song starts with a hollow driving
drum slashed by an accelerating
keyboard riff and Devoto intoning, " I
brought your face down on fllY
head/It's something 1 rehearsed in a
dream." At which point the guitars
begin to slash away creating a density
approaching the goal Devoto has said
he hopes to achieve: eventual accuracy .
When was the last time you heard a
rock musician set himself that sort of
goal?
Later in the song we hear Devoto
singing, "Because in my drunken
stupot/ I' ve got to admir e your
ingenuity/and I' m not my age/O so
wisely/to the rhythm o f your
cruelty" - set against music with a
good beat because it must be good for
we are in a world of cruelty and not
brutality.
" T. V. Bab y" on the flip side is a
distillate of the theme music from
.every second rate crime show on T.V.
counterpointed to the voice o f Devoto
shedding year after year of his maturity
so that he eventually becomes the
slobbering idiot T .V. expects hem to
be.
modern reality!... Snooky and Tlsb
of Ma nic Panic welcomed summer
with a Beach Party and Fashion Show
at the Mudd Club on June 24th . Guests
were encouraged to come in beachwear. Music was provided by the Big
Kabunas•.. Lisa Burns " tbe Young
Docton are negotiating a multi-record
deal with Elektra. The first album is in
the can already and if things go well it
should be out early this fall. Ex-Tuff
Darts Jeff Salen and Bobby Butanl are
the guitarists and also write many of
the songs with Lisa... Robert Gordon
livened
up
Link
Wra y' s show at Hurrah's. Link just
keeps getting better with the
years. . . Ian Hu nter rocked the
Palladium on June"28th. He's a real
pioneer who 's finally getting due
attention (and selling albums-the last
time I saw Billboard, You're Never
Alone With a Scnitaphrenic had
cracked the top 40). FJlen Foley, who
sang on Meado.rs album, is touring
with Ian. Her debut album Night Ou t
should be out soon on Cleveland International. .otJf ~W .and shi~ kicker is
your bag, check out Clly Limits on 7th
Ave. in the Village. Imported C&w~
bands are featured and dan cing is
encouraged . • . Insomniacs and nightpeople can greet the da wn with the
stars at 5t. dlo Zero. Finding it. as they
say , is your problem. . . Rkllard B tU
shook things up, as usual, at CBGB's
recently. He's added a bassist to his
ba nd so now he can perform unencum bered by an instrument. Hope to see a
new album soon. . . The Shlrellet
performed
recently
at
the
Tomat o Club. Great to see them back
on the scene. ~. ill.ae Ponzio is still
putting on fine, high energy
perfoman ces (mostly at The OIl1ft'
End) with her unique blend of jazz and
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RUBY &
REDNECKS ROCK
by Richard Fantln a
. material. Ruby writes most of the lyrics
herself, John writes the music. They do
Max's rocked on Sunday the 17th of a few old standar ds' like " Cry Me a
River" and th e fantastic "Sea of
June wit h a benefit for Jackie Wilson,
who suffered a paralyzing stro ke some Heartbreaks." . At the Ja ckie Wilson
year s back . The doctor s say that th ere benefit , after their opening number.
Rub y introduced " Lonely Teardrops"
is now some evidence that. .he ca n
with a heartfelt "This one's for you,
recover but , of course it'U cost mo ney.
Jackie."
.
Around ten bands gave their time and
energy for this worthy cause am ong
Off in a completely different
them The Senders, The Invaders, The direction she launched into "Ruby
Victims, The Rousers. U.S. Ape, from the Wrong Side ' of Town"
Sylvain Sylvain , And Rub y and the dedicated to Johnny T hunders and
Rednecks. Ah yes, Rub y and th e illustrated with a nose-scratching,
word shirring routine which was really
Rednecks.
Itts great to see them back togeth er hilarious. They closed. with Lou Reed's
again-they split up in '77 but "Rock and. RoU" , a song which is
regrouped in February of th is year. being covered alot these days-Mitch
When I as ked Ruby if she'd been Ryder opened with it at Club 57 the
pla ying around muc h, she said " Yea, week before-but no one does it like
but you don '1 wanna know about my Ruby and The Rednecks, "
sex life." This is typical Ruby Lynn
Though the main appeal of man y
Reyner . She is a nat ural comedienne- groups on the scene today is their
she won the Drama Desk award in '74 power and energy; The Rednecks sta nd
for her role in John Vaccaro's La
out for their polish and discipline . A .
few bands-like the Ramones-can
Bohemia.
Rub y and the Rednecks formed in
pull it off on energy alone. But there is
1970 when the glitte r-rock scene was only so far you can go with minimal
. the only vital musical thing happening mu sical ability . Ruby and th ~ Redin New York . The band fell together
necks combine this type of energy with
when Rub y crossed path s with guitarist
a real professionalism. John (E.
J ohn ny Madera . at Vaccaro' s
Mond o Ca ne) Madera is one of the
Playhou se of the Ridiculou s. At th is best lead guita rists on th e- scene;
time John and his band were kind of
beautifully crafted power cho rds inopen to suggestion. Th e act they were terspersed with lean , angula r solo
rehear sing with Jackie C urtis had
wor k. Awful Augie Sabini blows a hot
recentl y dissolved a nd th ey were
sax with a hard edged ton e. Danny
loo king for a fro ntperso n. Ruby more
Co use, the technical brains and '
than filled the bill. Then drummer
musical director of the gro up, is superb
Geo rge Basley christened the group
on bass. Bobby " Bud Um p Ump "
and they sta rted playing gigs. They
Kent. who has also played at Vaccar o's
used 10 open for the Dolls alot back
playhouse, is the drummer but he was
then . And opening for them was some
ill th e night of the Max' s gig. Veteran
weird chick poet na med P att i Smith.
drum mer George Basley filled in that
Th ey played the circuit in the
night. He soun ded as if he'd never left
glamo rous glitt er days- a smaller
the group. George, Incidentl y, is one
circuit than toda y's but one that in.:... talented musician-not jus t on drum s
eluded th e fabulou s Mercer Arts
but on guita r as well. ( 1 remember
jamming with him on Sta ten Island
Cen ter . T his was before its demi se in
1973 when the Broadway Centra l
and in th e stlcks'of New Jersey over ten '
collap sed bringing do wn with it St.
years ago . Naturally, he put me to
Adrian 's and the Mercer in one blow.
shame). And on top of all this talent is,
It was quite a loss to all of us pre- of course, Ruby Lynn Reyner' s
punkers of the time .
dynamic sta ge presence. Her voice
They play some of the same songs alternately soars and squeaks as she
today the y did then and they sound just ' bounds across the stage.
as fresh. There is 'also a lot of new
Just prior to the Max' s date, in May
and rune a show called Voidevil/e
played on weekends to sold out crowds
at, The Theater For the New City on
2nd Ave. and 10th Street . The show
was Rub y's brainchild . Th e revue was
written by Rub y with Gordo n Bressack
and Richard Weinstock -more
Vaccaro veteran s. The Rednecks were
the house band premiering their new
song " T he Depression is Coming"
which they've incorporated in to - their
exciting club act . Voideville featured a
vari ety of Lower East Side tilent.
Besides Rub y and the Rednecks there
were songs and comedy act s from Tom
Murrin (who wrote Cockstrong and
Son 'of Cockstrong which Ruby starred
in); vetera n off-off Broadway and New
Wave film sta r Bill Rice; fire . artist
Tracy Sherman; a great new group
called Horace and the Tractors; Rock
singer Emilio Cubeiro and many
others. Ruby and Gordon are busy
-writing another show right now .
I set out to do this piece on the
Jackie Wilson Benefit in general but
you
see
what happened. If you
missed it and wou ld like to send a
donation the address is: Jackie Wilso n
Medical Trust Fund, c/o Tom Skinner
Associates, 342 Madison Ave., NY,
NY 10017.
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STI LLOR IVES MEN ON....
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were most vulnerable . .. "Meat builds nose, chapped lips and a concave "
Life's real lousy. It 's hot. You're muscle. Might makes right. And only chest? When did a low red blood cell'
wiped o ut. witty and irreve rent. You 're Communi sts eat kasha ." God bless the count become a turn-on? A glutton for
playing undernourished in basic blade. fi fti~ and your mother who felt inexperience, you avoid passion and
an "eat-me" image dragging itself timidated if she didn't put meat on the substance.
around the block looking (or a table. .
But now you' re in the throes of an
meaningful relationship; alien to alien. . It does not require a keen brain and obsession. . . rapacious and hysterical
You 're evo lved , hairless and provoked, a foul mouth to stay alive on nuts and (documented cases of vampirism have
underdeveloped ,
ephemeral
and berries. Remember when it was un-c., been committed by certifiable anemics)
looking good. Nibbling nuts and fruits American , .,irreligious and nasty not to you lunge . into the nearest meat
when you eat at all, swigging lecithin eat meat. You wouldn 't have been market, chewirig on your belt. '
and diet Dr. Pepper. almost caught dead with a container of
The butcher greets you cheerfully.
anorexic
You've really got yow act yoghurt in the school yard. How long He eyes you knowingly. He knows
together
When suddenly it hits yo u has it been since you' ve thrown a spit meat. His hands are bloody, red and
with the force and velocity of a screw- ball anyway? And -where did you ever slippery. You' d liie to lick them and
eye falling from Skylab. . . a pre- develop your avid respect for a runny get it over with right then and t here.
historic meat-craving ,
Protein pulls rank . Your self-denial
trip, your studied nonchalance and
bloodless indifference give way to
mindless instinct, overwhelming ap-
petites.
The Devil appears as a slab of
bacon . Unctuously he coaxes and
shamelessly seduces. He' sizzles and
smells real good . He ta unts and teases,
employing a horde Of miserable
demons disguised as fried eggs.
Now you' re raveno us for blood : a
nice juicy steak, a smoked to ngue, a
raw cheeseburger deluxe, a Boston
butt, a pork sausage, a yard o f liverorgan meat! The tiniest thread of saliva
trickles steadily from every orifice.
You've got to have it. The urge is
formidable, primitive and- deadly.
You're one eno rmous watering mouth,
sharp , tearing teeth, like the cutting
edge of a chain saw, ripping down
"Second Avenue.
A sweet young girl, irises float ing,
offers you a bite of her soy-burger. It
tastes like fifteen miles of bad road.
It' s then you acknowledge the sanctity
of mammalian flesh, the tyrann y of
meat : . . the smug and snotty teachers
who informed ~you, in no uncertain
terms, -in the. fourth grade, when you,
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But you wait. In a moment , your moist
quarter pound of Grade A slides over
the counter, pink and pulsing.
Powerful incisors and canines" grind
from side to side in giddy anticipation,
it's taking all the will power you can
muster to keep from howling like a
dog.
Every
aggressive
instinct
awakened, you grab your greasy
package, a victim to your senses, a
mart yr to your appeti te.
Hours later, you wake up on the
floor in a pool o f blood and gristle,
tell-tale table scraps and butcher-paper
wadded at your feet. A crime has been
committed here. . .
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It is early evening in Lower Manh atThere are all the sou nds one can
tan. A cool breeze whips down th e . make . . . burping. fatting, bird calls .. .
stree t, as comfort ing as a hund red but the rea lly great move is to wande r
milligra ms of Demerol. With a n empty up and down the aisles calling for mom
.etc mach I make my way to the special with squint ing eyes.
scree ning of ' The Driller Killer" at the
I was ready. The presc reening party
Ente rmedia Th eatre, with visions of proved to be fulf illing. Imported
vast snac k tables a nd ope n bar. Pre - cheeses, strawberries, flash photopared for the worst , I went over my "gra phs. crackers, and liquor: Larry the
ment al list of what to do during a stale Dwarf scuttled abo ut taking those
film for fun . Three years as a filmmak er photographs at 'what seemed an alarm -
ingly fast pace-s-because he was being
paid " by the thea ter". Probably wasn 't
any film in the camera.
. In a moment, before a razor can
.transverse an isolated eyeball, th e film
began . Th e story: When personal pressures become too much to bear , th e
sensitive, young Lower East Side Artist
snaps. With his sa nity on holidary , he
puts down his brushes and paints and
crawls out of his chic Union Square loft
armed with a battery-powered electric
drill . He becomes Th e Driller Killer ,
prowling the streets of the Bowery com-
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mitti ng wanton acts 0 rut a murder, '
hau nted by th e piercing sounds ' of
mediocre punk rock.
Needless to say, but say it's my dut y
as a crit ic . .. , the movie is pretty bad .
Parti cularly bad is the soundtrack consisting of " Tony Coca-Cola and the
Roosters". The Turkeys would be more
apt. Th e gore is cheap and unsatisfying.
Violence films don't make it , especially
if there is no sex. Show World, on 8th
Avenue and 42nd street , provides a
much deeper experience.
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PRIES TESS is a cup-shaped moon
sy mbolic of tne receptivity of the mirror
and of the memory as it is filled with
bubbles of universal mind-stuff. Her head
and body are swathed in veils of silvery
gossamer, and she is seated on Q throne
upstaging another veil. Behind this veil is
the whole of cosmic nothin gness. symbolic
of Ihe great secret she guards. She is the
gem-studded camel whose unending thirst
enables her to cross vast cu/lura/ deserts.
She is an unappreciated sphinx. The load
she carries is the book of the law-a compilation of wisdom derived from trance-like
mountain seminars with inter-galactic
masters, Karl Marx , and Am y Vanderbilt' s
Everyday Etiq uette. Thus she is light and
the body of light. She is Ihe IfIllh behin d
the veil of light. She is the soul of light.
In her bedr oom , years ago, T ina
L'hotsky fo und herself contorted into a
peculiar positio n on ber . bed . As she
glanced upward , a small light snapped in
the corner of her room up towards the
ceiling. Th en the after-image lingered and
flowed down to a posi tion in fro nt of her
mirror in direct o pposition to the street
light before her window. She felt utter
terro r but fought Itwith a super-human
curiosity. Blue photographic negati ve
beings emerged from a ma ss of screa ming
electric ity. No mirage. Those who know her
will ag ree, psychic phenomena is no
stra nger to Miss L'hotsky.
When accept ing the a war d for Best Ne w
N~w York N ight Club th is year, she went
into a trance-like state on stage and announced a forthcoming Marilyn MonroeM istake Not Suicide Party, complete with a
set of facia l and bod y gestures that sent the
audience into a delirium echoi ng that o f the
Korea n troops being teased by the dead star
decades ago. Events such as these ha ve impelled her to visit a renowned trance medium with the result that Marilyn's spirit answered such va lua ble questions as , YES,
she was " murdered," a nd, YES, she did'
a ppear a u natur e! in that ea rly blue movie,
the precurso r of Tina' s film classic BARBIE. The Monroe film depicts MM showering herself with cola and rolli ng a pples
down her breasts-and BARBI E reflects
this piece of a rtistry, Ma rilyn defiles herself- Barbie devour s herself.
Her film SNAKEWOMAN lushly chro nicles star let Pa tti Aster' s chance plunge into
the jungles of the Dark Co ntin ent. In
James Narcs' ROME '78, Miss Lhotsky
plays the sister of a seemingly-possessed
despot.
. The moon waxes and wanes j ust as a CQravon is sn n as a tiny dus t cloud on the horkon. then grows larger and targer until it
stops awhile at some oasis city. Living high
a bove the Bowery in her city-renovat ed
a partment. she has en tertained many guests
;md held informal garden events beside her
home. One memorable incident wu the
Token Champagne Pany she held in her
prden after the pre miere of her films in
which the key broke in the lock, forcing a
pthering of .. . not so well-mat ched
guest s to be held hostage behind the garden
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gates as the cham pagne ran dry until ultimately .the 9th Precinct a rrived to hacksaw
the guests to freedom .
She is truth obscured by a veil of delight .
In recent months Manhau a nites have been
dazzled by a series of themat ic par ties
staged by Miss L'h o tsky at the Mudd Club.
The recent J oan Crawfo rd Mother ' s Day
Celebratio n whieh fea tured abused tots,
Pepsi, canapes, and o ther Mommie Dearest
mot ifs, has been acclaimed as some of the
best theatre the city has seen in 12 years.
Pa rticularly entici ng was a large Ca rvel
Party ca ke adorned with a gagged and
bound baby doll tied to a simula ted
styro foa m bed post. She has collabora ted
with Steve Maas to produ ce a string of
pearls including Blonde Night, the Pajama
and Mo nster Parties: Her Cha Cha Par ty,
the premiere hoopla at the Mudd Cl ub last
fall. bore a fan tans tic likeness to a hot
night at an East Village stor efro nt Social
Club. The -room was hung with bananas ,
likenesses of south-of-the-border religious
icons; Spanish sherry a nd pork rinds were
served while Don J ulio. a local UHF TV
Hispani c celebrity sang app ropriate ethnic
fa vorites. The evening was a hats-off to the
city's wealth of Latin culture and a
celebration of the publication of her
literar y effort CRAZY SPANISH GI RLS.
a neuro- erotic masterpi ece. An offbe at
blend of prose and photo, it is now sweeping ,Europe a nd is soon to penetrate the
Iron
Curtain
into ,her
a ncestral
Czechoslovak ia .
Guests at her affa irs a re charmed by the
nua nce of decor, the n air of the refreshments and th e n ow of pertinent rhythms.
All conclude she's go t "some kind of magie." What ki nd of magic? Reporters from...
the Canadia n press have tr ied to pinpoin t it'
to no avail.
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Miss L'hotsky claims an allegionce 10
for mlessness. As Neptune rules film , illusion . drugs-and since there has been some
speculatio n as 10 "who is Tina L' hotsky?" ,
let us say that the a nswer lies in the night' s
Nept unia n soc ket.
Her nocturnal lean ings ha ve led her int o
man y perilous and bizarre situat ions in the
past. Her nightly revels have gotten her impsisoned in the barred room of an overly
romantlc Parisian diplomat (fro m which
she barely esca ped with her life), into street
quarrels in defi nitely biased Ja ma ican villages, and into deadl y co nfronta tions in
dark New York alleyways. She is often seen
greeting th e last of the stars befo re retiring
to the fo lds of her leopard sheets as dawn' s
rosy fingernails scra tch the New York sky.
She is a n accumul ation of all that she has
been; could have been, a nd thought she has
been, What you see is the crown of an iceberg floa ting in a sea of hieroglyphs. What
does this mean? Let us say that the a nswer
lies in L' hotsky's rosetta tongue.
Boby Christine at Silver LDke
A s &rbie Mr vy nyt icon
Wilhfrknds on the Bowery
Hispan ic authoress ofCraz.Y. Spanish Girls
Sis fer of Metalius
As Zombie at Monster Party
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and with the Gypsy's DE·CON did pass all her days .
Her husband never told her of the Gypsy's demand
It was, he thought , someth ing too out of hand.
Besides time passed and the hour of birth drew near.
This was no occasio n to express "Gypsy fear" .
had not even noticed there were other movements.
They'd no Idea that th e birth had been wit nessed
'til the air was knifed by a sinister " hsssst-"
"Here I am. I've come for my share of the deal. "
Soon water was boiling and muscles all were tautat ten In the morning; the babe, she was wrought . '
Beauteous, the babe, but with slight detcrmatlon:
an extra long tall that caused quite asensat ion ,
"It's the fault of th e DE-CON," the moth er did sigh
unaware that th e Gypsy was waiting nearby.
Both parents , so caught I ~ the pace of events .
''Who're you?" cried the mother , "and what do you '
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to her husband, "what gives? what kind of a scheme?"
" But dearest-lin helpless . . , and then there's
"Why, hasn't he to ld you? the baby Is mine .
my prom ise.
For the DE-CON you've eaten was bought over t ime
Besides, even if the authorities listen
fn return for which your husband he did promise
with you on .DE-CON, they'll make heran orphan,"
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Ratpunta, Ratpunta- let down your tal l."
she had reached tha t age when emotion s first sfghed.
With a sig h she would stand , and then d id let fall
"t'm happy, I guess, with my needs all supp lied." ' I
the most seductivel y sensuo us tall of all.
She wondered. "Why do I deslre somet hi ng ou ts id e?"
Up wh ich the Gyp sy wou ld moun t , up over the sill , It was then through her window that she saw him fi rst
and It dawned that DE-CON coul dn't quench all thi rst :
bearing Aatpun ta's DE-CON, her dally fil l
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a den im and leather vision with eyes a..g low.
In the v of his legs there rose a prot rubence
th e sIght of which to Ratpunta made no sense .
"Just watt a min ute ; why , I do n't know yo ur name ."
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LEO: KING OF BEASTSOne of the best examples of Leo
. th ey are associated with . Theirwill of .corruption ended up exposing him .
First
came
the
Man
son
murd
ers.
and
lead
ership was Napo lean Bonap arte,
fire may seem impossible to dissuade .
recently
his
alleged
molestat
ion
of
the
enlightened despo t. Leo-ruled
Th ey go fo r their goal at all costssome
mo
ppet.
But
we
all
know
how
France
was groping for a dictat or and
'even if they have to grease their way to
kids
are
these
days-Good
Luck
Nap
filled
the bill, with his brilliant
, it. T hey are the leaders and showmen
Roman
wherever
you
are!
historical
sense
and his nat ural knack
of the zod iac.
From
the
political
front
,
bourgeois
for
law.
He
laid down sweeping
In the entertainment field, Leo has
refo rm s.
med ical
, been powerh ouse providing us with royalist Charlotte Corday felt the edu cationa l
hours of amu sement and such crunch of the French Revolution . With programs an d the Napol eonic Code all
celebrities as Clara Bow. who flashed true Leo passion she imagined one day by th e time he was thirty. His luck
: " it" all to the entire UCLA football in a convent that she was Joan o f Arc- turned when he discovered spo use
reincarn ate, and was determined to Joseph ine's infid elity. which caused
. team and in turn simulated " it" on
t celluloid for million s of eager Mexican - stop those revolting peasant s. She him to state: " Feeling has withered,
American s. Leos have made a potent weedled her way one night into Gemini glory is stale. . . there is nothing left
mark in the, cinema boasting such Jean-Paul Marat ' s bathroom and but to become -a complete egotist... .
scrubbed his back with a butcher knife. T his he became alm ost religiou sly. To
I po tentates as Hitchcock, Huston , 'De
Lauremis, and Robbe-GriUet. Cecil B. Far from achieving her mar k, she only overcome depression , to compensate
~. . fo r his " shortcomings" he pushed the '
DeMille, a dynamic Leo with an eye lost her head .
Mat a Hari was another enterprising borders of his empire on and on until it
for the spectactular, pioneered the
movie industry from the midd le of a Leo who cashed in on her charms. Thi s' became top-heavy. He handed out
citrus grove ' in a pitsrOP called prett y little Dutch girl. after learning' kingdoms right and left to his tacky .
Hollywood . He not only worked out of ritual dancing in Java, bumped and relatives, married a Hapsburg prin cess
a sta ble but he kept one as well-filled gro und her way to the center stage of and slowly made himself sick with
with his friends whom he kept working European politics. But true to the old overwork . If it hadn 't been for an
by 7.ollan Qu lntz
day and night "both on and off camera, country and her natural love of luxury, acute case of piles which forced him to
Mae West, sultry Leo goddess, used she sold their secrets back to Berlin . take a 1/2 hour nap, he might never
Just as everything revolves around
brains and brawn to defy the moral Her fondness for taking risks was her have met his Waterloo. .
the sun, Leos feel most at home where
Benito Musscl ini was the classic
climate of the industry causing bible- demise. Sho t for espionage. Paris,
everythi ng revolves ar ound them ,
political mobster with a bad dream to
belt censors to define what could and 1917.
which is fine providing they are
Zelda Fitzgerald, whose arena was become an emperor. His affront to
could not show. Lucy Ball, self-styled
charismatic enough to warrant th e
mogul and T.V. queen, claimed her' 'not exactly politics, preach ed a new fellow Leo Haile Selassie and Ethiopia
attention. Sun-ruled 'Leo governs the
pedestal with more tha n a stiff jigger of philo sophy: th at every woman should . was a tou r-de-force of below-the -belt
heart and matters thereof. Their
Leo guts and spirits . capitalizing on follow her passion s. However, her own tactics.' Where winning is the only
element is fire. It is difficult to hold
such things as her droll marriage to a passions led her to the bottle and name of the game , he jumped right on
anything against Leos for long as they Cuban immigrant. Other spectacular ultimately to a Carolina loony-bin Ad olf's bandwagon with hopes of
can melt in your heart while at the
. < hitching a ride back to the Holy
Leo luminaries include Mick Jagger , where she went up in flames.
same time be .a pompous, egotistical Tally Brown , Dolores Del Rio. Andy
Superstar Leo Jackie O . pursued Roman Empire. T he people were as
boor . They do something to the hilt
Warhol, Bobs Mitchum and Redford. whatever would gratify her ego and her anxious for a piece of the action as Il
rather than intellectualize and banter
Ethel Barrymore , Buck Owens, Connie pocket book. Fame fell into the lap of Duce. Too bad they were equally illabou t it. They will try anything once
Stevens and one of the Lenno n Sisters. this Polyester Cleopa tra, and she used equiped for war. By '45 Italy noticed it
and rarely hesitate to grab the
Two Leos who' made their debut her Leonian chutzpah to maintain her was losing and in tr ue mob fashion
spotlight . They become the spotlight.
with a " Knife in the Water" were exaltation . She went for th e lion' s betrayed it 's leader. They laid his
However , if they are not backed by
Roman P olanski and Charlotte share and cultivated people she didn 't politics bare and left him hanging ,
brains or forethought, their bold
Corday. Director Polan ski's rather -Hke for the sa ke of contacts, which was pan ts do wn, and mu tilated in the town
dynamism can land them in hot water,
a fflicted career stirred up as much nothing less than a breach of integrit y squar e. Other ballsy Leo leaders inas seen in the case .o f Mary Jo
drama off-screen as on. In his films he and materi al whoring . She may be one elude Fidel Castro, and Salvador
Kopechn e. Leos make great friends for
fervently tried to expose evil and of th e richest and most recognized Allende. Marxist Ch ilean president,
they will stick up for you even behind
corruption, but, in his private life Leos bu t she certainly isn't a-first class relieved of his dut ies by' the CIA.
your back . By nature they defend all
someth ing boomeranged and evil and lady.
Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria was
a
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among the last of a species of grandiose Leo sovereigns. He held onto his
piece of the pie longer than any other
ruler of his kind . Leo Simon Bolivar
contro lled a continent, while Henry
Ford paved new avenues for personal
_
power.
Politically rabid Bella Ab zug
pounces on issues with . ferocity and
flair (i.e. her bats) though she seems
impotent in the political coliseum. Far
more effective is Princess Margaret,
whose smug cando r and indifference to
a gawking and shocked world reminds
us that royalty is also human . Spitfire
Helena Blavatsky shocked the pope
with the poop on the cosmos. -Herbert
Hoover depressed the West but
. compensated by inventing' the vacuum
. cleaner. And flaming Lawrence of
Arabia' s drive caused quite a stir in the
'sun belt.
The powers that be are involved in
more than just a game of bingo. To see
bow you stand this summer, note
below sign by sign forecast. ,
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oil the rooftop . Will create cunning
newruses. Empathize. Your aura will
seem a bit unsightly. May consider
pregnancy. A blue Cad illac provides a
clue to a shadow from the past, which
may come back to bite you . Watch
your neck.
SCORPIO-Last minute reversals may
cause vertigo. You could be unsure of
your whereabouts for up to 12 hours.
Soiled p anties; new mates. The stench of suntan creme infiltrates as impatient
children stalk airports and depots.
Couples will- risk commitment by
trying new positions with.a keynote of
ambivalence. You may find a chicken
sandwiched between your legs. Those
may be mice giggling under the
refrigerator . New uses for wax and
mustard . Will hate to do business on
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empty stomach. Side by side con- It's pre tt y rough o ut there .
. .
BUt don't scream your head off because yo u have to be religious to be
frontation-essence-value-; .
SAGITTARIUS-);ou' may
find a hick n locker.
yourself morally lax-take advantage; C
e p .
.
Visit that local bar, do some skin
Instead, get into graphk art for big money and recognition. Re ·fonn
diving. Work out a fetish? Let go of a nd re fre sh your portfolio by o ur workshop a nd atelier way.
'he past. Beware of 'wins bearing . T k Pa t .U & MechanicaVOne. Then go out there and sweep
flashlights. Fresh water bathin g.
a e .se p , .
ARIES- Wanderlust will prevail with
Broken glass on the 19th and the 22nd. the m off their feet, Get a Job. Sha nah nah nah Sha nah nah nah nah. .
your ruler Mars in Gemini. You'll no
doubt get carried away so leave your
. If you must cook out nf doors, bugs Get a job.
PI'· • • h
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gun at home, especially if gassing up.
will irritate. Tendency to choose
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oversize blouses, ensembles by GAP Workshop/ 225 Wayette Street/New York, N.Y. 10012(212) 925Intoxicants and combustibles will lure
new men; watch your yin. Your
mistake. Disappointments with the
dalliance with that bath house atusual cremes.
tendant may prove profitable. Mingle
!=AP RICORN-A great time to be
tactfully.
taken for your money as love-star ved
TAURUS-Beefeaters will be -furious.
natives will gladly pay through the
Watch it in- restaurants. They'll be
nose. Come on Cap.s, is superficial
getting YOb for more than it's worth, so
atte ntion really worth it? As numbers
you'll tend to complain. If combat
rise and patience decreases, it would be
ensues, don 't be fussy if you draw a
easier to sell your valuables than
little blood ; get back to nat ure. Frozen
yourself. The bus fare to Atlantic City
assets: the credit rate' s not all that's
may provide a clue. True love may be
,
going down. That new red swimsuit?
around the corner but there's always
GE MI NI- T ry . so me
ce rebral
t he YMCA . Po rk shou ld be
,I
stimulation for a change. Travel to
TAROT CONSULTATiON
sidestepped.
DIVINATION
clandestine places, (Coney Island,
AQUARI US-That sunburn may
Macchu · Piccu?) in search of chance
provide a sex problem but if you break ASTRO •. CHARTS
encounters. Guard against brazen
through your fear of pain new vistas
statements in foreign lands. Laughs
may await you. Stop being so " in- Brien coleman 533-1775
may lead to future frustrations. Make
tense" about your mate, and '.'relate ." Valerie van Cleve, 431-5981
a film, speak other dialects; be inKeep your nose off the chopping
teresting. With a little feedback you'll
block. Aquarian women will most
be saying more than a mouth full; keep
likely "come out" this summer, if they'
feet clean. Save lunch money for phone
haven't already. Hemmorrhoids are
bill-Treat your alter-ego to a drink.
sure to be a problem so be careful what
CANCER- Hit the road, Cancer! No
you show to strangers. Aqua rian men
fat farms, kosher camps or weekends
may flirt with electrolysis or consider
in the Hamptons this season. Cafta n
plastic surgery.
purchase will be ill-fated. Ice that
PISCES-Islands will bait the native
sweetmeat and put it on the buffet.
this summ er, especially as a means to
Keep off the bottle and let Mother
escape that lingering masochistic know you'd rat her do it yourself. In
relationship. Stop looking out the
love affairs you Moon Children will
window and lock .in the mirrer . While
want to drown in flesh-watch that
other signs are sampling the joys of '
liaison in off green elevator. A good
bondage and Oriental domination, it's
time fo r th at lon g . neglected
time for the Pisces to pull out. That
hysterectom y. Avoid roughage.
person following you lately may
LEO"":""It will be a powerful time for
represent a higher auth ority. Shelve the
Leos with a number of planets in their
identity crisis this summer, yob may
domain. Gifts and benefits may
need it this winter. Don't worry, you
abound so if you meet your gift horse,
can always change your name. Rumour
don't look it in the mouth, grab it and
has it, aft er all, that Piscean Elizabeth
get out. Yes, your phone may well be
Taylor has changed 'her name to
tapped . Keep tongue in check. May be
Mamie Warner.
jailed for passport irregularities. New '
job opportunities. Possible stints with
circus or political group. Oral fixations
may lead to tummy.unrest. Therapists
;z.9 ST. MAR~'S "l.AC~
provide mute clues..
VIRGO-Let the universe discuss you
rather than vice-versa and for
Chrissakes, stop talking about Paris.
Others are not as interested in your
post-card collection as yo"iTlhink.
Weed garde n and psyche. All is not
lost; may receive legacy or pillowslip.
Older men will crop up, again. Pay
your taxes'F'With Saturn squatting on
your sun, Skylab could have you
singled out. Go underground . You' ll
treasure that pitiful holiday for years
to come. Avoid opiated suppositories.
LIBRA-Stir up primal emotions in
others if your future seems too clear.
Jettison all compromises. If things get
rough you can always seduce the cop
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Summer 1979
" If worst comes to worst we may have
Iy way, convincing me that the issue, to picket outside the library to'""prevent
before I knew what it was, would be - the contractors from entering the buildwellreceived . Peopled seemed to know < ing," continues the leaflet. So watch .
the woman, to like her. She was the out, Ladies and Gentlemen. Your
spok eswoman for the Ottendorfer. And Library Wants You.
her th ree minutes were truly a molto
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vivace: "We have to and we will save the
Vt7
Iibra ryl It's the first free lending library
in our cityl We are respon sible to keep
it that wayl We want the library's
interi or int act! Please support the interior landmark designation! 'Corne to
. the July 12 hearingl Fight aga inst the
'disastrous new heating systeml It would
destroy one of -t he last few valuables the
East Village still possessesl ... ..
What can I add to it? Yes, it's true
th at since St . Mark 's Church in th e.
Bowerie will never be the sa me again,
its interior gone with smoke, it would by Cate Miodinl
truly be a great pity to add to th is loss
m .m.
yet another loss. "A serio us damage" Rampant; Heights: A Mo vement and
threatens the Ottendorfer , state the Image Collaboration
leaflets of the Citizens Committee to
Strewn in disarray on tlie brown tiled
Keep th e Ottend orfer Library Open .
floor
at Washington Square Church
Th ey are asking for help. You who readsix
wooden br own office chairs
were
' this, spare a minute . Write: Please
from
pre
vious
businesses. Three bodies
endorse the Ouendorfer's interior landdarkness
in rip-stop nylon
from
the
Murk designation, and mail it to Mr.
Andre w Stein, City Hall, N.Y. 10007. gat hered pants, green brown and khaki
with black . Th e bodies recline ' on
three chairs, legs, arms extended,
sprea d out , faces to the ceiling. The
undulationg sculpture which evolved
had all" the body gesture makin gs of a
cloni ng expe rience.
Subco nscious at work: animal,
infant gesture emi tted from pulsating
breathing bodies in craw ling, grasp ing
motion . Bodies emerging fr om
Chrysalis-like encase ment exercising
new form, new posture, new
evocations fr om the visceral source.
All in silence un til Yoshik o Cbuma
began to emit throaty cha nt-sounds.
f1~t
Gesture grew. Posture cha nges into
.cavelike image. Sto ry unfolded and
creature was born . P ooh Kaye
W~N T E D : coerst write rs . Big Demand .
gesticulated in her floppy ragdoll
Pos itive future. All replies answered .
ambience. Susan Rethorst's confident . Contact: East Vil lage Eye, 777-6157
body described
strength with its
commanding presence: Sinewy a nd
Studio 97
slith ery. these bodies moved in un428 Greenwi ch St .
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Frank Wrlght- Tenor Sax; Kamal
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p iano; Khalil Abdullah -percussions;
folding and unfolding of appendages.
Richard William s-bass,' Jerry
The symbolism of dreams and the
Griffin-drummer.
imagination were int egral in th ese
pieces along with amarvelous organic
attitude toward the bod yr and its
compulsion to master the space it
occupies, each symbol was portrayed.
Brilliant folding and unfolding of
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