Post cards from New York: X-Rays from Hell


Yvonne Liu (yl28172@yahoo.com)
Fri, 8 Jan 1999 13:09:43 -0800 (PST)



" To make the private into something public
   is an action that has terrific repercussions in the
   preinvented world. The government has the job
   of maintaining the day to day illusion of the
   ONE TRIBE NATION.
   Each public discourse of a private reality
   becomes something of a magnet
   that can attract others with a similar frame of reference:
   thus each public discourse of a fragment of
   private reality serves as a dismantling tool
   against the illusion of ONE TRIBE NATION;
   it lifts the curtains for a brief peek and reveals
   the possible existence of literally
   millions of tribes … "

By David Wojnarowicz
"Post cards from america: X-Rays from Hell"
Excerpted from the Artists Space exhibition catalogue
"Witness: Against Our Vanishing"
Organized by Nan Goldin (1989-90).

--- Party Like It's 1999 ---

Friday, January 8th to February 6th 1999

DAVID WOJNAROWICZ
&
PETER HUJAR,
Some Kind of Grace

Works include Hujar's photos of David as subject,
and vice versa, as well as Cindy Sherman-like
tableaux of the two of them.
Both artists passed away from AIDS,
Hujar in 1987 and Wojnarowicz in 1992.

P.P.O.W.
476 Broome Street
between Wooster and Greene
Third floor
941 8642

--- Party Like It's 1999 ---

THE BUTTERFLY CONSERVATORY:
Tropical Butterflies Alive In Winter

More than 300 tropical butterflies
live through the winter in the museum's
climate-controlled vivarium.
Through March 28th 1999.

American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
769 5100

--- Party Like It's 1999 ---

SHIRIN NESHAT: TURBULENT

"Turbulent" is Shirin Neshat's video and sound installation
featuring Kurdish-Iranian vocalist and composer
Sussan Deyhim and sound poetry.
Through January 15th 1999.

Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris
120 Park Avenue at 42nd Street
917 663 2453
Free
M - Sat. 7:30 am to 9:30 pm
Sun. 11 am to 7 pm

--- Party Like It's 1999 ---

Friday, January 08, 1999

THURSTON MOORE
with Foot, Kim Gordon,
Ikue Mori, DJ OLIVE TRIO,
Dean Roberts + Jackie O Motherfucker

The Knitting Factory
74 Leonard Street
between Church and Broadway
219 3055
9 pm
$ 8

--- Party Like It's 1999 ---

Saturday, January 9th 1999

MARIANNE EBERT
This Brazilian vocalist is
accompanied by Carlos Reboucas,
Greg Jones and Adriano Santos.

Zinc Bar
90 Houston Street
between La Guardia and Thompson
477 8337
11 pm, 12:30 am, 2 am
$ 5

--- Party Like It's 1999 ---

Saturday, Jan. 9th 1999

THURSTON MOORE
with Jon Voigt,
Laurence Cook Trio + Loren Mazzacane Connors,
Matt Heyner Duo + Test + Stillupsteppya Solo Project

The Knitting Factory
9 pm
$ 8

--- Party Like It's 1999 ---

Saturday, Jan. 9th 1999

BLASPHEMY:

sound
DJ Straight Arrow Chrome,
Steal This Radio

contortionist
Jill Mandelbaum aka Sarka

body painter
Ula

magic
The Great Fredini
of the Coney Island Sideshows by the Seashore

angel/slaveboy
Gary Lai

fire-eating/metal-grinding/goddess of gasoline
Combustible Kiva of
the Sinner's Sideshow

Baby Jupiter
170 Orchard Street at Stanton
982 BABY
10 pm
$ 7

--- Party Like It's 1999 ---

Saturday, Jan. 9th 1999

Bergheim 34
Calla
I-Sound
Noto

Bergheim 34 specializes in ambient sounds
that would be utterly devoid of pulse were it not
for the bounty of guitar licks and other live
instrumentation that permeate its mix.

The Cooler
416 West 14th Street
between 9th and Washington
229 0785
9 pm
$ 10

http://www.thecooler.com/

--- Party Like It's 1999 ---

Saturday, Jan. 9th 1999

SHELTER
with Timmy Regisford
for a night of Garage classics
and tub-thumping deep house.

Vinyl
6 Hubert Street at Hudson
343 1379
11 pm
$ 17, $ 15 with Shelter membership

--- Party Like It's 1999 ---

> I have intercepted and whole-heartedly support the following
> communique. Tell EVERYONE -- 120,000 dancers are needed to form
> the world's longest conga line.
>
>
> Saturday, January 9, 1999 10 PM
>
> S.E. Corner of Essex and Houston
>
> The Dance Liberation Front Presents
>
> A Liberated Dance Zone
>
> Please join us on the South-East corner of Essex and Houston as
> we defend the right to dance without a license by creating THE
> LONGEST CONGA LINE EVER KNOWN TO MAN. Our massive conga line
> will then cross Houston and march up Avenue A, all the way to
> the park.
>
> WACKY COSTUMES are appreciated as we realize here at the
> D.L.F. that the best way to fight fascism is with ridicule.
>
> This is our fifth dance action, and while word about our
> organization is spreading like wildfire, we still need your
> help. TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW.
>
> The mayor says New Yorkers must have a licence to permit
> dancing.
>
> The D.L.F. says License! We dont need no stinking license!!!
>
> Resist tyranny in all its forms. Join us in celebrating our
> freedom to move as we please, where we please. This will be a
> peaceful, non-disruptive event. However, we will dance and make
> our presence known.
>
> Mr. Mayor, we have not yet begun to wiggle.

--- Party Like It's 1999 ---

Sunday, Jan. 10th 1999

JACKIE BEAT
A mammoth drag queen who
pop parodies, lipsynchs, etc.

Fez
380 Lafayette Street at Great Jones Street
533 2680
9:30 pm
Free

--- Party Like It's 1999 ---

Tuesday, Jan. 12th 1999

Abstrakt Future Lounge

Spend Tuesdays with Soundlab
Cultural Alchemy and their
rotating roster of visiting aliens:
DJ Spooky, Singe, I-Sound, Ambassador Jr.,
Rekha, Siraika, DelMar, Cassien, Wally,
Soulslinger, Basslinemassiv, Anti-Pop,
Somatic, Badawi, Tube and more.

Fahrenheit
349 Broadway at Leonard Street
343 0957
10 pm to 4 am
$ 3

Call the infomix 212.726.1724

--- Party Like It's 1999 ---

Wednesday, Jan. 13th 1999

AMATEUR NIGHT
AT THE APOLLO

Ever watch "Showtime at the Apollo?"

The Apollo Theater
253 West 125th Street
between Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
and Frederick Douglass Blvd
749 5838
7:30 pm
Tickets $ 21, $ 16, $ 13

--- Party Like It's 1999 ---

Wednesday, Jan. 13th 1999
Thursday, Jan. 14th 1999

MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD
Contemporary groove trio
with album out from last year
"Combustication" (Blue Note).

The Bowery Ballroom
6 Delancey Street
between Bowery and Chrystie
533 2111
8:30 pm and 10 pm
$ 15

--- Party Like It's 1999 ---

Saturday, January 16th 1998
ONE NITE ONLY

Nonesuch Records & the Brooklyn Academy of Music
in association with the International Production Associates present

PHILIP GLASS
& The Philip Glass Ensemble
KOYAANISQATSI LIVE !

The Film With Music - In Concert -
First Live Presentation In Over A Decade.

BAM Opera House
Tickets $ 40, 30, 18.
BAM Information 718 636 4100

--- Party Like It's 1999 ---

Sunday, January 17th 1999

A Tribute to Martin Luther King Day
with
GIL SCOTT HERON
and
Michael Frani from Spearhead.

SOB's
204 Varick Street at Houston
243 4940

http://www.sobs.com/

--- Party Like It's 1999 ---

Friday, January 22nd 1999

ORGANIC GROOVES
Record Release Party

Celebrate the release of
Organic Grooves' first CD
available on Codek Records.

CB's Gallery and Lounge
313 Bowery
10 pm
439 1147
$ 5

http://www.codek.com

--- Party Like It's 1999 ---

January 29th and 30th 1999

ARTO LINDSAY

Tonic
107 Norfolk Street
between Delancey and Rivington
358 7503
$ 10

--- Party Like It's 1999 ---

February 10th, 17th and 24th 1999

DJ SPOOKY's AFRO-FUTURISM '99

Knitting Factory
Call the infomix 212.726.1724

--- Party Like It's 1999 ---

February 19th 1999

RESPECT IS BURNING
featuring
DJ Cassius
Dimitri from Paris
Francois K from Body & Soul

Twilo
530 West 27th Street
between 10th and 11th
268 1600

--- Party Like It's 1999 ---

I just walked around in Battery Park during lunch,
stomped around in the snow with my work shoes
( fuck good Italian leather ),
and lapped up the falling crystals.

It was so dreamy.

Odd was that the ocean is still liquid.
The cold hasn't affected it.
I stood by the wharves for some time
listening to the waves bumping against
the white-blanketed concrete.

Of course when returning to the city street,
the snow was piss ass muddy slush
overtrodden by boots and spike heels and butts.

Ick.

I'm going home later tonight
to roll around in the fresh snow
in my little plot of asphalt garden.

Multi-Tribe Nationalist,
Yvonne.

==
Hermit Thrushes are elusive
and tend to drift quietly
as we are doing now
( I too consider myself a demented drifter )

           -- Franklin Rosemont, Penelope
              ( Chicago Surrealist Editions: 1997 )
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