The PUUURRRRFECT VALENTINE'S GIFT is.........
LEGENDS of New
York
A
new DVD documentary series examining the Manhattan lifestyle in the 1980s.
What a wonderful profile of Nelson and his camcorder.
I
recognized lots of friends and wonderful entertainers: Dick Richards,
David Goldman, Lady Bunny, Ru Paul, The Now Explosion, Lahoma Van Zant,
Jayne County, Michael Musto, Leigh Bowery, Keith Haring, The Pop Tarts and
that's for starters! Mark Bego wanted to get the DVD for friends immediately.
"I feel energized! by the music, the fashion, the parties, the shows....it
was an incredible DVD experience!"
LEGENDS--Start
your collection now! I can't wait for Volume 2!
www.funtone.com/thenelsonchannel/legends/
The
beautiful and talented Pleasant Gehman appears in her Princess Farhana persona!
Pleasant's new web-site is
FAHHBULOUS!
www.princessfarhana.com/
Princess Farhana is quite a Valentine~
"Blue
Velvet" Photo: Eric Sueyoshi
Happy Valentine's Day!
VALENTIN'S GREETINGS TO:
HOLLY WOODLAWN recovering from an infected broken arm. Speedy recovery, Holly!
POETZ4PEACE are also on my Valentine's
list! They have invited me to join them for a song.
Rocker-T and Poetz4Peace have
been invited to perform at
Sierra Nevada World Music Festival,
in Northern California this summer.
The dates of the festival are
June 18th - 20th, 2004. This is going to
be amazing as PSM will have a
huge crew in the house for Rocker's return
to SNWMF, and Poetz first US tour.
For more information on the festival,
and other confirmed acts please
check out:
www.snwmf.com
Haji
Mike wrote:
Yes,
look forward to meeting you as well this summer, think we will pull it
off!
Thanks for all your support and can't wait to hear the finished track
you'll
do with STand Out!
Our
next CD looks set to make even more history than the first, about 24 tracks
from
Cyprus and various corners of the earth - USA, Greece, Turkey, UK - and
its
great to have you with us on it! Peace Haji Mike
Dahlia
Schweitzer will be performing in Europe: Berlin, Rome and other European
hotspots. www.dahliaschweitzer.com/news.html
CODE
PINK is sponsoring various PEACE PROTESTS.
CHARLOTTE
KOONS suggests this site for political fun
www.politicalcompass.org/
But
CODE PINK'S primary function is promoting PEACE.
Here
are scheduled events:
Subject:
Sunday, Feb. 15th, 5 to 6 pm, Northport Post Office
Remember
those Tuesdays when many of us who believe that War Is Terrorism
vigiled
in front of the Northport Post Office?
We
started on Human Rights Day honoring those who had shown the way!
On
Christmas the Peace Carols we sang Rang out into the frigid air.
On
New Year's Eve horns and whistles proclaimed our hopes for a year unstained
by
WAR!
Remember
our strength and community and know that peaceful protests
are
never in vain.
So...
let us remain true to our convictions and gather locally once again!
On
Sunday, February 15th 2004
Susan
B. Anthony's Day & the anniversary of that March in 2003 in NYC
in
cities from Sea to Sea & so many Countries!
5:00
p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in front of the Northport Post Office let us gather &
join with Global Village for Peace to stand in solidarity joining people from
many lands against WAR.
Bring:
candles & lanterns, buttons & signs
Drums,
guitars, voices raised in song & do bring a loved one along!
IN
NEW YORK:
KOONS
SUGGESTS:
TIRED
OF CORPORATE PROFITEERING IN IRAQ WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS?
JOIN
CODE PINK NEW YORK AND THE WAR RESISTER¹S LEAGUE IN A PROTEST AGAINST
CORPORATE WAR PROFITEERING!
WHEN: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH, FROM NOON TO 2 P.M.
WHERE: OUTSIDE THE OFFICES OF THE BECHTEL GROUP
21
EAST 40TH STREET
MANHATTAN
WHY: The Bush Administration is spending over $87 billion in
its war
against
and occupation of Iraq. That¹s $87 billion taken from needed
U.S.
social and domestic programs such as education, health care,
state
and local budgets, environmental protections, regulatory and
consumer
protection, veterans benefits, and many other essential
programs.
Most of this money is being shovelled right in the bank
accounts
of corporations like Bechtel and Halliburton, Bush
administration
cronies and contributors, as part of a takeover and
privatization
of the Iraqi economy.
ATTIRE: dress warmly, PINK boas optional, or come dressed as your
favorite
Bush administration character.
Also
in NEW YORK!
Don't
miss this exclusive one-night stand with New York City's legendary madam,
Xaviera Hollander. In this very special U.S. appearance, Xaviera
shares her life adventures in a lively, interactive discussion, encouraging
questions from the audience. Along with her dear friends professional
storyteller Lisa Lipkin and professor and poet Master Clyde, Xaviera talks
about her days "behind the brothel door" in the '60s to life now as the proprietor
of her own fun bed & breakfast on Amsterdam's Gold Coast. www.xavierahollander.com/sleeper.
She
also shares her latest adventures across the globe and reads from her
best-selling novel, the "Happy Hooker" and its sequel "Child No More."
Friday,
February 27th 7:00pm
Museum
of Sex, 233 Fifth Avenue, corner
5th
Avenue and 27th Street
Tickets
$25; $20 students/members
Please
let her know if you want to come and if so with how many people.
Please
send name, address, phone number as well as email address
within
the
next week to xie@xavierahollander.com and check her website
www.xavierahollander.com
AND
XAVIERA WILL BE IN LOS ANGELES!
Xaviera
Hollander of Happy Hooker fame is coming to Los Angeles. On Monday night
February 23rd the documentary about her tempestuous life "Xaviera, still happy",
directed and produced by Robert Dunlap will be shown at the
Sunset
Screening Room
8730
Sunset Blvd.
ground
floor, Hollywood
*
Parking is in the building
7
to 9 pm entrance fee $20
Limited
seating, so call early for reservation Grand Opening (323) 848-6970
Then..
as an extra surprise Xaviera will make a personal appearance the following
day, Tuesday Febr, 24 at 7.p.m at
the
Grand Opening store,
8442
Santa Monica Blvd.
CA
90069
West
Hollywood
price
$ 25
Don't
miss this exclusive one-night stand with New York City's legendary
madam,
Xaviera Hollander. In this very special U.S. appearance,
Xaviera
shares her adventures in an interactive, lively discussion,
encouraging
questions from the audience. Along with the producer of her
documentary:"
Xaviera, still happy", Robert Dunlap, Xaviera talks about
her
days "behind the brothel door" in the early seventies. Nowadays
she
is a highly respected English theatre producer in Amsterdam,
www.xavierahollander.com/booker
and she also runs a fun bohemian style
Bed
& Breakfast in Amsterdam's most elegant area.
www.xavierahollander.com/sleeper
Tonight
she will share her latest adventures across the globe and read from her
best-selling
novel, the "Happy Hooker" and its sequel "Child No More."
After
the reading there will be time for a Question and Answer session
with
the author. So please do all come, bring your friends and family and
see
the film of this icon of our sex industry or listen to her talk .
Please
contact (323) 848-6970 and let us know which
night
you would like to come and if so with how many people.
AND
TROUBLE IS BREWING--
New
York Bar and Nightclub owners are in an uproar over a proposal that would require a "nightlife
license" to stay open after 1 a.m.
City
Consumer Affairs Commissioner Gretchen Dykstra is pushing a plan that
would
require a special two-year license for any nightspot with a capacity
of
75 or more where the music would be 90 decibels or higher. A place would be
padlocked for up to 10 days after three noise or other license violations,
and would have its license revoked if it was "indicted" for any two of the
following: homicide, assault, rape or attempted rape, weapons possession,
unlicensed sale of liquor,
sale
of liquor to minors, overcapacity, disabled sprinkler systems or two Consumer
Affairs padlocks. Nightspots would also be slapped with violations for failing
to sweep the sidewalk and 18 inches of adjacent street by 6 a.m. the next
morning. David Rabin, president of the New York Nightlife Assn. and co-owner
of Lotus, says Dykstra's plan would let the city effectively shut bars and
nightclubs down at 1 a.m.
"This
bill will end up closing New York at 1a.m.," Rabin warned. "It's no longer
going to be the city that never sleeps. We're united on this - everyone from
the little bars to the biggest nightclubs. The best-run bar in the entire
universe could not stay open under the conditions in this proposal."
Please
take a moment and go to the link below and send Gretchen Dykstra a
message
in regard to this issue:
www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/mail/html/maildca.html
On
behalf of the bands and all the musicians and Luna Lounge, we thank you
very
much. Best wishes, Rob Sacher Luna Lounge
www.lunalounge.com
www.Radio-Indie-Pop.com
Tennessee
manages to keep his sense of humor:
"Hey
everyone! Just wanted you to check out this Howard Dean website where they
remix the freak out speech to a dance beat. Get Down!"
www.deangoesnuts.com
Are
you going to get hitched? It's LEAP YEAR!
Everyone
can ask everyone else if they wish to become married this year! Will you make your "significant other" a legal
partner?
I
saved this letter for Valentine's Day:
Dear Angela: It seems that everyone is debating the whole issue
of Canada legalizing gay marriages. Should the United States do the
same thing? My boyfriend and I were thinking of moving to Canada so
we can do that. What is your opinion?
--Hot For My Boyfriend in TUCSON
Marriage
During
my research for POP.SEX, I came across facts and evidence that America is
turning away from marriage. The recent government allocation of funds to
refurbish/make-over the image of marriage by pledging plenty of your tax
dollars to this important mission is jsu grandstanding. A heterosexual concept
of marriage is as shallow-minded as condemning stem cell research, opposing
abortion and renigging on funds pledged to fight HIV/AIDS.
Why
are people recusing themselves from the tradition of marriage?
1) Perhaps their childhood experience of marriage had nothing
to recommend it.
2) Perhaps education has revealed the satisfaction of having
a vocation and playing that hand to the end.
3) Perhaps, marriage and reproducing is no longer the reason
for partnering up.
4) Perhaps economics are more fully understood regarding the
expense and gratification of having children.
5) In a culture
nurtured to consume; encouraging marriage is endorsing the government policy.
Is government policy worth endorsing? How much of it is true? If the government
distributes funds to this endeavor, it should distribute equal funds to Gay
marriage partners for they have bought into the inconsistency of government
policy. They deserve to be rewarded and courted by the republican government--boy,
would I enjoy watching that!
I think it's a moot point. In San Francisco they are forging ahead and marrying gay Couples also in Connecticut. Civil unions or marriage are legally binding thus eliminating the hassles of inheritance and benerits~~medical insurance and tax deductions.
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYBODY!