hear me New York


Liu, Yvonne (yl28172@imcnam.sbi.com)
Mon, 2 Nov 1998 11:25:02 -0500



Does anyone know where I can get
pseudo-political slogans printed up
on stickers ?

I want:

        BOYCOTT TWILO
        anti-underage
        anti-rave
        anti-PLUR
        BTS ( Beat The Shit ) Nasty Bouncers.

Please send any information my way, please.
This is inspired by an awful experience I had
Halloween night, well, technically Sunday early morn.

I waited two hours outside in freezing cold
( and I had to go to the bathroom )
from 3:30 to 5:30 am;
after walking around all night in the Village Parade
( as a very misunderstood redheaded Psyche, sans Cupid ),
partying with the Wanderlust crew at 13th & Washington,
watching the Silver Apples & Makeup ( from D.C. )
for free ( ! ) at the Cooler;
getting cawfee from Dizzy Izzy Bagels on W 14th;
to get inside to hear Junior and Cyndi Lauper.

Twilo was shut down by the police for 1 and 1/2 hours.
Too overcrowded, I think, fire hazards.
So the BTS were being " selective " about who they let in.
What they wanted: Men ( and this included fugly guidos ).
What they didn't want: Women ( and this included some hot babes ).

I was turned away at the door,
as well as two Japanese chicks with blonde wigs,
and a beautiful British stripper in feathers, Vanessa.

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TWO WEEGIES
ONE QUINE
AND AN
EDINBURY WHOOR

Presentations of Poetry
is a combined arts project
designed to explore the cultural
diversity of language, content and style
in contemporary poetry.

Starting with the New York Tour,
five artists are embarking on an
eighteen month journey which will
culminate in an exhibition / performance
tour of Scotland in late 1999,
and launch of a poetry website in Spring 2000.

The project was initiated by Women's Rights
Education Network, a coalition of activists and
artists who collaborate on a variety of educational
and artistic projects aimed at promoting The Global
Campaign for Women's Human Rights.

Women's Rights = Human Rights

the two weegies:
Karen Thomson
Margaret McQuade McAuslan
the quine: Lesley Benzie
the edinbury whoor: Sandie Craigie
and the sassenach: Cath Whippey

TOUR DATES

Monday, Nov. 2nd 1998 @ 6 pm
The Writing Centre
Marymount Manhattan College
221 East 71 St.
212 734 4419
free

Friday, Nov. 6th @ 10 pm
Nuyorican Poet's Cafe
236 East 3rd St., between B and C.
212 505 8183
$5

Saturday, Nov. 7th @ 7 pm
Sisters' Uptown Bookstore
1942 Amsterdam Ave at 156th St.
212 862 0731
free

Sunday, Nov. 8th @ 8 pm
Bar XVI
16 First Ave. at Houston
212 260 1549
free

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VISIONS FROM THE HIGH CANOPY
Squat the Forest, Liberate the Land

music slides poetry video
Direct Action Forest Defense

three dates:
Tuesday, Nov. 3rd 1998 @ 7 pm
Wetlands, 161 Hudson St.

Monday, Nov. 16th @ 7:30 pm
ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington St.

Wednesday, Nov. 18th @ 5 to 6 pm
Tune into Word Waves on
STEAL THIS RADIO at 88.7 FM.

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GEORGE'S ORWELL'S
   1 9 8 4
Fifty Years After Its Publication

Performance by Surveillance Camera Players
on two dates at the subway entrance
of 14th Street and 7th Ave,
near the token clerk booth
and in between entries for the
1, 2, 3 and 9 trains and
the tunnel for the F train.

ELECTION DAY
Tuesday, Nov. 3rd 1998 @ 8 pm

KRISTALLNACHT
Monday, Nov. 9th @ 8 pm

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GET LOST, GREEDY GREGG
A Protest and Social Call.

Wednesday, Nov. 4th 1998 @ 6 pm
132 East 35th Street at Lexington.

Despite strong community opposition,
CHARAS/El Bohio Community and Cultural Center
was sold at a public auction on July 20th.

The buyer ?
GREGG L. SINGER,
a condo developer who caters to upscale professionals
in Westchester County, suburban New Jersey,
and the Upper West Side.

Now Greedy Gregg sees a profit potential on the LES,
and is willing to evict dozens of arts and community groups
from their longtime home in order to turn a buck.

THE SALE IS NOT FINAL,
SO NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT.

Join us in paying a visit to Greedy Gregg Singer's home
to let him know how we feel about him invading ours.

SAVE CHARAS.

For information or to volunteer,
please call 212 982 9446.

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BROOKLYN BABYLON CINEMA

Friday, Nov. 6th 1998 @ 8 pm, $ 5
Recorded Info: 212 726 2686
57 Jay Street, Brooklyn

What Goes Around Comes Around.

in these days of mayoral fiat and
rampant real estate speculation,
the ppl of new york city find themselves
under attack in our own home,
and alienated from our happily hurried
way of life. this screening sets out to
demonstrate how the excesses of
80's homophobia, overspending,
genocide by inaction are not so far
removed from today.

tonight's selection of films show
that AIDSphobia is STILL being used
to desexualize gay culture.
the juxtaposition of explicit lesbian sex
films ( from 1973 to 1993 ) shows how
incendiary this imagery remains.

AIDS lingers on and even while the
mortality rate is deckling, the infection rate
continues apace. so we present the somber
meditation of " Two Marches ," which reminds
us that dashed expectations are nothing new
while Stuart Gaffney's video essays pull us
into the present dilemma of problematic
AIDS treatments.

Jan Oxenberg's classic is disruptive
of homosexual complacency,
underscoring the need for a dynamic
identity politics that embraces the
stone butch as much as the
translesbianism of Texas Tomboy.

this program is defiantly experimental,
because we believe that the
narrative strategies employed by even
such " transgressive " and " controversial "
films as " Happiness " and " Boogie Nights "
serve to comfort the viewer and distract
the authentic expression of the individual.

these films are the colour of blood.

Series Sponsored by
BLACKOUT BOOKS & INFOSHOP
50 Avenue B, near East 4th St.
212 777 1967

an anonymous band of renegades
is please to announce the debut of
Brooklyn Babylon Cinema,
a monthly screening of film and video.
Brooklyn, because that's where we are.
Babylon, because it connotes the type
of moving-image media we present:
the profane, the filthy, the rejected.
But this also includes the visionary.
The naive and the artful.

Babylon because of Kenneth Anger's
indelible linking of the word to the
sordid side of Hollywood which is the
only side we'd want to see.
Babylon because we can go from
Michael Snow to Guy Debord
to Forbidden Zone to Prelinger Archives
to Vaginal Davis videos.

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Sixth Annual Boricua Youth Conference
A Century of Survival 1898 - 1998
Despierta Boricua, Luchando for Justice.

Saturday, Nov. 7th 1998
Hunter College
69th St. & Lexington Ave.
( 6th train to 68th St. )
On-site registration starting at 8 pm.
For more information, call 212 614 2944.

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Forward ... dance theater
and
Todo con Nada, Inc.
present

Thursdays through Sundays,
October 29th through November 22nd 1998

at House of Candles,
99 Stanton St.,
between Ludlow and Orchard.

Forward ... 's
  G I O N : The Sense of Skin

Choreography by Eric Dunlap
with Galina Dorodnova, Tim Kasper,
Andrea Leiske, and Sarah Plumer.

Tickets are $15,
reservations and information:
212 252 4033.

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A trailer ...

... SANTASM 1998
December 11th, 12th and 13th 1998.
From the freaks, misfits, malcontents,
eight-balls, and welder-women at the
Brooklyn Cacophony Society.

Santa Claus is coming to town, reeking heavily of
Christmas Spirits. Santasm '98 is coming to an
overdeveloped island metropolis near you !
NYC will be invaded by drunken Santa Clauses
travelling in packs. If your jingle bells are as big
as ours, you'll call in sick for December 11th to 13th,
don your gay apparel and join us.

Information: Cacophone 718 390 8809.
http://cacophony.org/brooklyn/

Get your cheap Santa Suit
from the Oriental Trading Co.
1 800 228 2269.

 - and also another event in mid-November -

HIPSTER BINGO ( date TBA )
Join us as we reap the rich harvest of hip
afforded by our island metropolis neighbours.
Your own Luz Canon will be orchestrating
this traditional Cacophony pursuit,
which originated as " Tourist Bingo " in LA
and metasized into " Barfly Bingo " in Portland,
land of the honoured habitual drunk.

Agents of the Cacophonic Conspiracy are
dutifully scouting bars for the optimum
drip-with-hip location.

( I think they were discussing
  Deb Parker's Barmacy,
  but I think Galapagos/Ocularis
  at 70 North 6th St., Williamsburg
  would do just fine.
  The place is knee-deep mired
  in the stench of the disgustingly hip. )

For updates, keep an ear to the
Cacaphone information hotline.

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Jumpin the Turnstyles

sunday and monday nights
6 pm into the wee hours of the morn
radio broadcast on 89.3 FM
servicing NE Brooklyn

wjmz@usa.net
718 391 8889

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I came into work today and discovered that
Jamie Dimon has left the Travelers Group;
and Deryck Maughan has been demoted
to Vice Chairman of Citigroup.

Land developers, heed !
Great plots of fantastic prime real estate
in Soho, Tribeca, Chelsea,
downtown Brooklyn, LIC,
will very soon become available
as more Wall St. moguls
lose their jobs and snakish respectability.

Thanks for joining us.
Welcome back to the ranks of the proletariat.

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Hope all had a very happy youknowwhati'mtalkin'about,
Yvonne.
__________________________________
PARTING AT MORNING
by Robert Browning

ROUND the cape of a sudden came the sea,
And the sun looked over the mountain's rim:
And straight was a path of gold for him,
And the need of a world of men for me.



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