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 RESISTERıS 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. Thatıs $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!