TURNING – By Charles Atlas

The US premiere of Charles Atlas & Antony’s’ TURNING film documentary will take place November 11th as part of DOC NYC at the SVA Theater in New York City. The film will then have a week-long run at IFC Cinema from November 16th – 22nd.

TURNING captures Antony and the Johnsons in concert collaborating with the filmmaker Charles Atlas (THE LEGEND OF LEIGH BOWERY), celebrating 13 women taking the stage who, like Antony himself, are not easily categorized personas. Whether they are androgynous, transgender, covered in makeup or bare-skinned, what is important is their hard-won humanity, amplified by the transcendent power of Antony’s music. The film takes the viewer into the world of Antony and the Johnsons as they tour their astonishing live concert/performance work, “Turning.”  At its center are a series of intimate interviews with the women who performed this extraordinary show with Antony. Their stories combine with Antony’s mesmerizingly emotional songs to create a powerful journey of struggle and hope.

Greetings from inside THE DEAD ZONE

A few of us remain here.

 

Money is no good here. I am bartering with votives. Almost everyone has fled into the power zone. I remain at least for another night inside, THE DEAD ZONE.

This is how we prepared for the worst storm in history

“you should be fine…”

Special Programming

Thanks to DJ DeMille reporting live from Cock Eyed Cove, CT.

This sounds a lot like Ann Magnuson’s “And Then There Was A Unicorn” to me.

Yes!!!  Sandy – she’s a lady. You can quote me on that one – This Hurricane is a lady – now step aside for a lady. (This track is so “R” word. Right, “N” word? Word.)

 

Everybody Needs

this album.

I am not posting this because it is Halloween

I am posting this because a genius vocalist once recorded is eternal.

Goddess Bless Nina Hagen.

God Bless God.

I could go on and write about the times I spent with her, the stories I have heard from Armen and others, but none of it would do her any justice. Nina is beyond words of adoration, beyond fanatical worship. None of those are enough. Nina is beyond beyond. Really really. Out there out there then a little further out.

God Bless me some Nina Freakin Hagen das o vitch. If I had some acid, I’d take it right now…and I have a cold.

 

 

Memories Of That Rainy Night

The third of the three Jonathan Knight lounge harpsichord albums. Yours free for a limited time only.

This is hurricane soundtrack GOLD.

CLICK AND SAVE

Bauhaus

pretty music. sounds a little like the velvet underground. black velvet underground.

Around London

On Nov. 8th…

Don’t Tell Them What To Do

from VIBRATIONs

Robert Hawkins

Frankenstein as an Old Man – Robert Hawkins. Still the best artist.

The Ghost of Neil Armstrong

Good Masks

Video

Visor Shades

Starting to heat up

Image

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Congratulations

Judy’s Flower Shop

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This white hot seventy one year old bit of Judy info is recently in from our correspondent in Cock Eyed Cove. Go ahead Cock Eyed Cove…
In the late 30s/early 40s, Judy Garland opened a flower shop at 5421 Wilshire Blvd. This was around the time she was filming “The Wizard of Oz” and her mother thought it might be a good idea to invest her money in something more sensible and practical and non-show-biz related. There are photos of Judy “working” in the store but with her super-busy MGM schedule, it’s likely that these were nothing more than photo opportunities.

The “hangman’s elm” of Washington Square Park

Creeeepy!

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Was the gorgeous elm tree at the northwest corner of Washington Square Park (at left in 1936) used for public executions?

It’s a legend passed down over the years.

On one hand, a Parks Department web link seems to imply that people were indeed hanged from the 110-foot tree, estimated to be at least 300 years old.

“The [sic] English elm (Ulmus procera) at the corner of Waverly Place and MacDougal Street acquired its reputation during the American Revolutionary War,” the site explains. “According to legend, traitors were hung from its branches.”

In 1797, the city acquired the land for a potter’s field. “The field was also used for public executions, giving rise to the tale of the Hangman’s Elm. . . ” another Parks Department link states.

In 1824, the Marquis de Lafayette, visiting from France, supposedly witnessed the hanging of 20 highwaymen here in 1824.

Newgate…

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