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New site? Maybe some day.
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WTF!! now, I have to get into the city and to the slimlight?!?
how is this death in the forest when it's in the city? |
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I saw Dimmu and Cannibal corpse there once
the venue creeps me the fuck out
it was also part of the true story that brought about the book and movie Party Monster I guess? |
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what's that book about? the slimlight was the place that I first heard the urban legend about the guy getting slipped drugs and waking up with out a kidney. that kept me away except for new years... um... 95? 96? when I welked in with a friend and it was a mega-gay rave. |
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Party Monster is about this kid that puts together dance nights and events and gets into drugs and shit and then kills this one dude by doing all this fucked up stuff like pouring bleach down his throat and stuff.
Lemme see what I can find online...
the book was called "Disco Bloodbath" and then "Party Monster" when it became a movie
" The quiescent days of New York's trendy club nightlife were in shambles by the mid-Nineties. The scene had self-destructed slowly since its Eighties heyday of dance-all-night places like Area, Pyramid, Danceteria, the Tunnel, and the Limelight turned it into a drug-addled caricature of its former glory. And if it hadn't self-destructed, the murder of Angel Melendez would have dealt one of the final blows.
Disco Bloodbath is the dishy true crime debut of James St. James, a self-proclaimed "clubkid" who just happened to have been on the inside of this gruesome tale, knew the killers and the victims, but wastes little sympathy on them. There's killer #1 -- Michael Alig, the coked-out, social-climbing, dress-for-excess club manager in search of the ultimate high who kept a body in the bathtub. There's killer #2 -- Freeze, the chaps-wearing scenester/hustler/druggie who wields the hammer. There's the ultimately enigmatic victim, unctuous drug dealer Angel Melendez. There are excruciatingly drawn characters like Mavis, the lesbian accountant who invested her life savings in cocaine and ended up hideously strung out. Guest appearances from Village Voice columnist Michael Musto, former Deee-Lite singer Lady Miss Kier, celebrity queen Dianne Brill, and the ultimate New York name to drop when you could, Andy Warhol, keep the scenes rolling at a horrific pace in this relatively short book.
The murder of Melendez happens early; he then disappears and doesn't surface again until much later. This is where the stylish effort coupled with St. James' over-the-top fashion will lose some of the traditional true crime fans who aren't prepared for the queeny, Oh, Mary! tone it often takes. By the first quarter of the book we understand that this is a tale of wretched excess and are already itching for something to happen, waiting for the victim to appear. What we get are further portraits of degradation and drug abuse that soon become stomach-turning when combined with the events of the murder. By the last 100 pages the story is careening toward the inevitable crash, and cocaine, heroin, crack, speed, and an insidious drug called K favored by the author fill in the holes in the scene when the victim finally reappears and everything goes to hell.
Disco Bloodbath can't be termed "taut" because its casual tone is too blasé, though that's not to say St. James hasn't done a good job. He didn't dumb down the circumstances to appeal to a mass audience, and his uncompromising stance works. Anyone who's ever danced to an electronic throb with amyl nitrate in the air knows the world he once inhabited -- a dark one that is too often shabby by the light of day." |
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"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."
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sfmetro/08.16.99/discobloodbath-9931.html |
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I read to the word blasé and then that killed my imterest. |
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this is all you need to know, aaron:
"...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...."
just read that one blurb :P |
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I'm still trying to figure out what's up with this. |
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I can't believe it's at Avalon now. That's less then half a block from my office! I guess now I will go! |
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I just talked to whoever is on the other end of the phone number they give and the dude said all the bands will still get to play, it'll be starting at 11 AM but only running until 11 PM so expect a lot of cut sets...he said he was trying to sort out set times at the moment and also figure out a way to "shoehorn in a second stage."
Basically it sounds like a total mess, I feel sorry for these guys heh |
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There are a couple of lots around, but you'll have to spend a lot of money. You're more than welcome to park on the street by my house and take the subway over. |
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where is that? I would love to get there early and also avoid paying for parking. |
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i like in williamsburg, brooklyn, three subway stops from the venue on the L train. You don't have to drive into the city to get to my place. Lemme know. I'll PM you my number. |
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no need since carina is going.
unless you want alone time with carina. |
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Dar said: I just talked to whoever is on the other end of the phone number they give and the dude said all the bands will still get to play, it'll be starting at 11 AM but only running until 11 PM so expect a lot of cut sets...he said he was trying to sort out set times at the moment and also figure out a way to "shoehorn in a second stage."
Basically it sounds like a total mess, I feel sorry for these guys heh |
I feel sorry for the bands that paid to play this.
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pam nli said: Dar said:I just talked to whoever is on the other end of the phone number they give and the dude said all the bands will still get to play, it'll be starting at 11 AM but only running until 11 PM so expect a lot of cut sets...he said he was trying to sort out set times at the moment and also figure out a way to "shoehorn in a second stage."
Basically it sounds like a total mess, I feel sorry for these guys heh |
I feel sorry for the bands that paid to play this.
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Me too, that sucks.
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looks like I'm going. not sure if carina will make the show, but she'll be with me into the city. |
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I better get to see you two! |
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So lame that it has to end by 11:00pm! Is it like a Lupo's At The Strand thing where they have a "dance night" until 4:00am or something after?
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probably.. the great old slimlight |
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I wanna go now, but I doubt that I would even get to NYC before like 3:00pm.
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sayonara summer fest pt. 2? |
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don't you mean steel and stone fest? |
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Liz! Call me....we're in CT |
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I'm sure this will be moved again before you all get there... |
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No 1349. No Belphegor. I had a feeling this would happen. |
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With all the cancellations...Hopefully they will still have it hah |
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