YOU'RE A MEAN ONE, MR. TRUMP by Lady Bunny

LADY BUNNY,,, speaks to power ... and reminds the DTs ...don't.  DON"T mess with an outraged QUEEN .. between you and me ...I prefer the integrity insight and take no prisoner politics of Lady Bunny over all the LQBT self-appointed Leadership talking heads

Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me (Gay Version)

I just discovered this video for the first time ..... if you know any teen that is struggling with sexual orientation issues ...please send .. (no, it does not matter if you are a Swift fan or not !). Suicide rates are still rising for gay/queer/trans self-identified teens ...help save a life in a world of political homophobia. Anyone know who made this video?   




Note: attached to this video is the following: Uploaded on Nov 28, 2010

A remix of the Taylor Swift song You Belong With Me. The video was on YouTube. I remixed the ending to make it smoother. Wish I knew the ones who are in the video. If It's you send me a message so I can tell you how good you guys  I do not claim any of the rights to the song or the video.

OY any one ever fact check today? RUTH POLSKY and Me in Clubland,

FAKE NEWS hit Club Land one more time; this time in the NY POST 

It just happened again in an article on Ruth Polsky that appeared n the New York Post on Feb 17th The writer was lazy. The author failed to mention my relationship and mentoring of Ruth Polsky. I had hired and trained her at Hurrah.  I hired her because she was smart,  the same music taste and I wanted to mentor a woman in jobs in the music industry usually held by men. Whenever I left a club, on good or bad terms, Ruth was brought in to replace me. When I was forced out of Hurrah by the "owners because  I refused to lower what I was paying artists, they hired  Ruth to take my place.  When I left,  I took my Rolodex and all the booking information I had done for the next six months. I finally let Ruth have it because the bands were the ones to suffer .. within six months I opened Danceteria,,, 5 months after Danceteria was opened Hurrah closed for the final time We remained friends through all of the club dramas. Whenever she was offered a job to replace me she called and we talked and I always supported her taking the job. She was good, very good. She also needed the money. 

And let's be frank, she loved to mother these bands .. in every way possible. She had a unique way to both be a professional and take care of business AND be a total fan.

 SHe loved her bands and they loved her back. Thinking of Ruth makes me think of Certain Generals 

Ruth would often call me and ask about this or that band and how to find them etc. We remained friends .. I was one of the few people who actually showed up at her burial service ...

ALERT: Correcting FAKE CLUB HISTORY: HURRAH

ALERT: Correcting FAKE CLUB HISTORY: HURRAH: a recent post about the first club I made into a success by mixing high art and low art (pop culture) booking live music and hiring the two best DJs spinning at that time. the club was Hurrah ..Someone sent me a copy of a post of Bill Bernstein that repeats the fake history of Hurrah that one self-aggrandizing DJ has spread all over the internet. Here is how I responded:

Bill .. Here is the real history of Hurrah, not some fabrication by a self-aggrandizing DJ

1: Arthur Weinstein was not the owner of Hurrah. He was hired by Barbara Lackey and Robert Boykin to bring people to the club. B&R were the "public" owners of Hurrah. Prior to Studio 54 opening Hurrah was THE beautiful people hang. Arthur stole the highly prized private membership list and sold it to two men from Long Island named Steve and Ian. Arthur was one of the most vivid characters that I ever encountered in nightlife .. I always considered him and his wife, DymonCollen who was decorator royalty, remained my good friends regardless of the drama of nightlife. In a very strange contemporary way, Arthur was a Damon Runyon character and a loyal friend even if he was in the artful business of betrayal

2: Jane Friedman and Henry Schiller were hired to reinvent the club by B&L and they were responsible for bringing in Neon Women and Jeff Brown a Saint like DJ and a "special" friend of Boykin attempted to keep the Neon Women audience from leaving. He didn't. Next, Jane and Robert brought in WNEW DJ Meg Griffin to play rock record for people ot dance to .... But as soon as Tom Eyen's NEON WOMAN on Woman behind Bars was over people just left and went to Studio Jane and Robert vision failed, I have always had a particular affection for Jane. Today she is responsible for the HOWL gallery and performance space.

3: B&R became desperate. A friend, the Village Voice's Jackie Rudin intro's me to B&R one night saying "Jim will know what to do to make this place hot again." I negotiated terms the included showcasing live music, getting a live music sound system, replacement of the video monitors that were hung over the dance and acted more like ambient lighting, control of hiring of the staff and DJ's including door people and security, booking live music nd promoting at the club. I hired all most all new staff .. keeping Barney and Ron as night managers, I hired Ruth Polsky as my assistant and Mark Kamins and Sean Cassette as the DJs. All most all the bands you listed were booked by me. When I left I had the club booked for six months in advance. three months later I opened Danceteria on39th st, Most of the Hurrah staff left to join me including Mark and Sean and Houi Montage. Once Danceteria opened history repeated itself. Three months later Hurrah closed. When Sean and Mark left Bill Balhman may have worked as a DJ. I never hired him, He simply was not up to my standards. As to Sara, I did hire her as a substitute DJ. She was a woman with great ears. one person, I did not hire who started to work at Hurrah . was Merrill Aldighieri who began to conceptualize the use of video in clubland, She moved Club video DJing forward, I used my experience at Hurrah to build the Danceteria template . and there created the video lounge concept in nightlife.

Bill How could you get so many facts wrong? I guess you just used Bill's fabricated history of Hurrah that is the core of the so fake news Wikipedia listing for Hurrah .. Wiki and you fail to acknowledge my role .. fail to mention my work.

SXSW ALERT : SOHN - Signal .Tonight MONDAY at Mohawk

GOING  AT 9:40 . .. FOLLOWED  BYT SYLVIA ESSO   AT 10:30

WHY PUNK MATTERS Downtown Boys - Wave Of History (Official Video)

Here is one way to counter fake news and erased history

One more Hurrah memory via Charlie Libin : Hurrah SUICIDE Sweetheart and Touch Me filmed by Libin+Cameron

TIN HUEY - Hump Day .and that hook "Work Work"

A working class anthem deluxe..chris butler and gang,,,just listen to those horns

OMG the B-52's seeded the Priests Priests - Pink White HousePriests - Pink White House

Oh Boy .. fun is at the Brooklyn Vegan day party .... my hips are already gyrating and I just learned that the B's CINDY WILSON will be doing a solo show ... and you ask why I still go to SXSW?

watch the Priests 

https://youtu.be/EXVIjFODaqQ

OMG the B-52's seeded the Priests Priests - Pink White HousePriests - Pink White House

Oh Boy .. fun is at the Brooklyn Vegan day party .... my hips are already gyrating and I just learned that the B's CINDY WILSON will be doing a solo show ... and you ask why I still go to SXSW?

watch the Priests 

https://youtu.be/EXVIjFODaqQ

OMG the B-52's seeded the Priests Priests - Pink White HousePriests - Pink White House

Oh Boy .. fun is at the Brooklyn Vegan day party .... my hips are already gyrating and I just learned that the B's CINDY WILSON will be doing a solo show ... and you ask why I still go to SXSW?

watch the Priests 

https://youtu.be/EXVIjFODaqQ

OMG the B-52's seeded the Priests Priests - Pink White House

Oh Boy .. fun is at the Brooklyn Vegan day party .... my hips are already gyrating and I just learned that the B's CINDY WILSON will be doing a solo show ... and you ask why I still go to SXSW?

FOUNDED FILM TREASURE "Who's Crazy?" |Ornette Coleman, Marianne Faithful Living Theater (WOW!) Trailer |

Filmed in Belgium with actors from New York’s experimental Living Theater, Thomas White’s first (and only) feature fell into obscurity after its 1966 Cannes Film Festival debut. A group of insane asylum inmates flee a broken-down bus and occupy a nearby farmhouse. As they form a collective threaded by bizarre exercises and slapstick setups, the film spirals out into a freewheeling comedy of disorder, told with unusual verve and intensity, and featuring a dissonant, if deranged, soundtrack by free jazz innovator Ornette Coleman and his trio. Presented in a new digital restoration, Who’s Crazy? Is at once a hidden avant-garde gem and a vibrant, immediate work. A Kino Lorber release. MARCH 10, Film Society of Lincoln Center 


https://youtu.be/NTE7ohWC9E8



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Despite the almost daily blizzard that left the mountains beautiful, skiers in extasy and the house I was fortunate enough to be  invited to stay in a buzz,  the internet kept going down and there were pictures etc  of boobs and Einstein ... sometimes together. Sometimes together. So I navigated my way down the moutain  id deapite the weather was able to get to the theaters and watch films.. Movies: the reason I love Sundance . Criticwire was polling critics and here was my ballot:

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/01/jim-fouratt-best-films-sundance-2017-performances-critic-ballot-1201775876/http://www.indiewire.com/2017/01/jim-fouratt-best-films-sundance-2017-performances-critic-ballot-1201775876/