A Biopic About Nico By Moze Halperin When it’s announced that a figure with a famed history is getting a biopic, it of course feels a. inevitable, b. secretly kinda exciting insomuch as it prompts internal dream-casting brainstorms, and also prompts the often very unmet hope that perhaps this could be one of those biopic that doesn’t suck, and c. […]
Read More Nico 1988A Sixties Movement with a Very Far-Reaching Influence… by GARY LACHMAN In 1963, two people met at the L Ron Hubbard Institute of Scientology on Fitzroy Street, London. They were both studying to be ‘auditors’. Based on his earlier system of Dianetics, ‘auditing’ was Hubbard’s method of discovering and eliminating ‘engrams,’ the psychic residue from past […]
Read More The Process Church of the Final JudgementJuarez’s Missing Girls Were Sex Slaves—And Everyone Knew It Hundreds of women have been murdered or simply disappeared!! What happened in the City of Juarez is so surreal, so horrible that no one can’t stand hearing what truly went on there. It’s a little a combination of everything horrible going on the world resulting in […]
Read More Ciudad JuarezWonderland/Down the Rabbit Hole THE RABBIT Some Boogie Nights can take more of you than you can afford to give. I guess Holmes could have said like Iggy in Cry for Love ”Sometimes my self-respect took second place”. Now let’s be clear, this is not about sex is a bad thing and going all ”judge mental” […]
Read More Porn Star John Holmes1976-1978 CBGB’s House photographer David Godlis was eyewitness to the 1970s New York punk scene. Here’s a very small sample of what you can find i his photo souvenir book on the CBGB with an intro by Jim Jarmusch who just did a documentary about The Stooges ”Gimme Danger”. 10 Ramones Clips You Need To […]
Read More CBGB’s 70’s Punk Scene by GodlisROLE MODELS by John Waters From NYPL LIVE “Pink Flamingoes” director and Pope of Trash JOHN WATERS discusses how his odd roster of role models inspired him to achieve neurotic happiness. In this conversation with Paul Holdengräber, Waters also offers subversive tips for how to dress, steal flowers and die. —————————– JOHN WATERS is an […]
Read More John Waters Conversation PortraitBorn to Raise Hell by Troy Taylor In 1966, Richard Speck captured the nation’s attention after he committed one of the most horrifying mass murders in American history when he systematically tortured, raped, and murdered eight student nurses from Chicago’s South Side Community Hospital on July 14, 1966. He then during the summer of 1966 after […]
Read More Life and Crimes of a Serial Killer: Richard Speck70s Times Square Pimps and Prostitutes From 1972 to 1982, Sheldon Nadelman (now 80!) worked as a bartender at the “roughest bar in town”—Terminal Bar, directly across from the Port Authority. When he wasn’t pouring drinks, Nadelman was taking photographs of his patrons. He had good material: as one regular put it, “through these doors […]
Read More TERMINAL BARSMASH HIS CAMERA! by Roger Ebert He is a viper, a parasite, a stalker, a vermin. He is also, I have decided, a national treasure. Ron Galella, the best known of all paparazzi, lost a lawsuit to Jackie Kennedy Onassis and five teeth to Marlon Brando, but he also captured many of the iconic photographs […]
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