Remembering Anita Sarko not just as dj of merit but as a woman of the world

PERSONAL THOUGHTS : I first met Anita Sarko when she was packing up to leave Atlanta.The divorce wa final and she finally felt she was financially secure enough fron the divorce to move to the big city and do what she actually wanted to do. She was a very assertive woman, but Southern style .. and style was her middle name . We both had a keen interest in contemporary art and many a week day we would do the galleries. She told me she wanted to dj at the most au courant club in town,I told her to work her blond Southern wiles on Steve Mass. She did. She became a dj at the Mudd Club. And was the first celebrity female DJ that was not spinning at a gay disco, The fashion people always loved her and she was well known and respected as a music consultant by many famous and to be famous designers, She never worked for me but did help Houi Montag developed his "No Entendre: night at Danceteria 2 , She prefered Brazilian to Thai hands for her makeovers. And always dazzled us with her beauty. In life we all make choices and she choose Rudolf over our friendship . I knew that the kind of person I would hired would be like Anita, a fabulous present and skilled at what they did be it door or dj or art. .. and usually unemployable in the real world . So there were no high feelings , just distance on my part . I knew that people in this City no matter how glamorous still have to pay the rent etc,, .. others were able to negotiate that delicate balance with me, but not Anita. She said we fell out over politics .. she shouted at me calling me a maoist . It made me smile ... she cared about the world in the way I did and I was happy to be able to spar with her over politics . That said I am saddened today to think that I will not see her around Sheridan Square, I am very aware of how disposable talent and experience is in this town obsessed with youth. Many of us are reaching an age where life  becomes all about survival and dignity, Thank god for GOFUNDME ,, no shame if it means the difference between life and death, I want to close by saying this about Anita: you could not imagine a more fabulous, glamorous, intelligent, opinionated DJ or member of the Downtown crew that reinvented night life 1978-2000 than Anita Sarko.. Please share you memories as her spirit leaves the planet on a BARDO journey and may she return as the presence she would want to be, "Hey Anita: It's closing time ..so play the last song for tonight please, I don't have to tell you to make it special"

LOOKY LOOKY LOOKY Just Like A Woman: the Brit Program to Abroms with richness of gender express in performance

Well Well Well  let's take a look at gender as performance and art insight  the old words were : gender illusion,  gender expression now we use words i am less comfortable with : gender identity (nothing theoretical about that!) fluid ( messy) etc... but anything that has the imprimatur of Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw  on it gets my support and endorsement . Highlight (for me)  : Paul Soileau talks about his theatrical creations Christeene Vale and Rebecca Havemeyer.. and how he navigates between reality and fantasy.. every actor's journey    oh my WHAT A LINE UP : Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw, Narcissister, CHRISTEENE, George Chakravarthi, The Girls, Dickie Beau, Nando Messias, Lucy Hutson, Kris Grey, Laura Bridgeman  The Drakes, Harold Offeh, The Famous Lauren Barri Holstein, Krishna Istha, and more.




Just Like A Woman: NYC Edition Programme - Projects - Live Art Development Agency

BRING HOLLY HOME "Boys" by Jayne, Holly, Cherry, Ginger & friends

Warhol Superstar is down on v luck and health, Holly has been diagnoised with brain cancer and is finally out of the hospital and in assisted living . Holly wants to go back to her home in Hollywood  ...but needs constant care . Penny Arcade organized a GoFundMe site for Holly and the response has been great.. not fully there yet , Holly's friend Jayne County dug into v history pocket book and found the song BOYS that v and Holly recorded ,, Church of Betty's Chris Rael put together this video of the song ..   so please give a listen and share and give a little something....  here is the whole story :  BRING HOLLY HOME

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Wikileaks release of TPP deal text stokes 'freedom of expression' fears | Business | The Guardian

TPP nightmare: "Michael Wessel was one of the advisers who was asked by the US government to review what he said were woefully inadequate portions of the document. Wessel said the thrust of the TPP does nothing for Americans. “This is about increasing the ability of global corporations to source wherever they can at the lowest cost,” he said.



“It is not about enhancing or promoting production in the United States,” Wessel said. “We aren't enforcing today’s trade agreements adequately. Look at China and Korea. Now we’re not only expanding trade to a far larger set of countries under a new set of rules that have yet to be tested but we're preparing to expand that to many more countries. It would be easier to accept if we were enforcing today’s rules.”  read on .. and put your State's Senators up agaunst the wall,, and asked then directly if they will reject this trade treaty. Ask for a confirmation of receipt and an answer in writing



Wikileaks release of TPP deal text stokes 'freedom of expression' fears | Business | The Guardian

'This is not like him': Kim Davis meeting shocks Pope Francis's gay ex-student | World news | The Guardian

'Sorry Mr. Grassi, but your personal relationship with the Pope I think has blinded you to his political actions His public actions are how I judge him. I do know that his meeting with Kim Davis will only encourage more "acts of conscience" as well as violence on the part of intolerant people more committed to religious belief than to their responsibility as citizens to respect our Constitution and the rulings of the Supreme Court . It was no accident that the Pope met formally with this four times married and three times divorcee whose defied federal law by refusing to issue license to same sex couples. His action here, are like his actions in Cuba, where he said his purpose was to get people to return to Church. An institution that continues to demonize loving homosexual relationships and shame women who seek to control their own bodies. No, what the Pope does behind closed doors may be of interest to you, but not to me. I suggest Mr. Grass, you wake up and realize what he did . No amount of clever spin can make me see different. I have said it before and I repeated now. Until Pope Francis is willing to get down on his knees, admit error and apologize for the rejection of homosexuals from burning at the stake in the past to the institutions current fight by preaching and financing anti -equality attacks on basic civil rights legislation and referendum all over the world The Pope needs to do the same to all women for his Church's lethal misogyny and continued rejection of equal opportunity for women including the priesthood. Please stop making excuses for PaPa. Far too much State and Federal funds were use to pay for this Papal visit. We are still a national whose Constitution calls for separation of Church and State

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/04/pope-francis-gay-former-student-shocked-kim-davis-meeting