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:	post by the_taste_of_cigarettes at 2006-05-19 01:04:29

"Disco Bloodbath begins like a Fellini version of Rope. Michael Alig, the king of the New York City club kids, gets in a fight over drug money with his live-in dealer, Angel Melendez. Soon Freeze, another chemical peddler, shows up and whacks Melendez on the head with a hammer. Then the grotesquerie really begins--first, Alig and Freeze smother Angel; then they inject him with Drano and put him in the bathtub. They leave him in their apartment for days, maybe even a week, while they have parties, do Angel's drugs and spend Angel's money.

Recounts author James St. James, "Like a lousy, lopsided Lucy episode, a girl goes in the bathroom to pee, and a mottled arm tumbles out from behind the shower curtain--'Oh, excuse me!' she says. 'I didn't know there was anyone in here.'" Finally, when the stench of the rancid corpse becomes unbearable, Alig does 10 bags of heroin, saws off Melendez's legs and, with Freeze's help, dumps him into the Hudson River. He proceeds to tell almost everyone who will listen exactly what had happened. No one goes to the police. As St. James writes, "I mean ... if a person commits a crime, and no cares--can we all just adjust our lip liner?"

That is, essentially, the subtext both of the circus surrounding the murder and Disco Bloodbath itself. Alig was the most famous promoter in New York, while Melendez was a C-lister tolerated only because of his stash. Thus no one in their little subculture was particularly bothered by his disappearance. Kids in liberal arts colleges in Connecticut knew almost exactly what had happened months before the police got around to investigating."

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