Category Archives: fame

AUGUST 16, 1978 – JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE

September 1, 2021 – 11:15 am

Last night I snorted nine thick rails of cocaine with my nerves on edge and my penis soft as a worm. My sleep lasted until noon. Alice is already working at the yogurt shop. I have no work, but hopefully can pull off a coke deal for money for a friend of Mark Amitin. I […]

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ROCK STANDS TALL by Peter Nolan Smith

June 13, 2021 – 3:42 am

In August 1984 ACTUEL sent a Californian-born photographer and me to cover the Deauville Film Festival. This was my second journalism gig for the esoteric French magazine and I hoped that writing a good article might open the path to another profession than being a doorman at La Balajo. The Deauville Film Festival was not […]

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Keith Will Outlive Us All

December 3, 2020 – 11:36 am

Brian Jones was the prettiest of the Rolling Stones. He died at the young age of 27. His beauty has corrupted from his bones in the grave at Cheltenham Cemetery. A pretty boy no more. Surprisingly Keith Richards will probably outlive all the Stones. He has the sympathy of the Devil.

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FAMOUS FOR NEVER by Peter Nolan Smith on Kindle

January 9, 2017 – 4:15 am

FAMOUS FOR NEVER is a semi-fictional recounting of the life of a ne’er-do-well living in the East Village during the 1970s, Paris throughout the 1980s, and Asia for the 1990s. Peter Nolan Smith’s pingponging through the world ricochetted him through the ranks of the famous and near-famous such as Jean Michel-Basquiat and Klaus Nomi without […]

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SADLY MISTAKEN by Peter Nolan Smith

November 24, 2016 – 10:24 am

Whenever I mentioned to my friends in the USA or Europe that I was moving to Luxembourg, they immediately stated, “Luxembourg is the most boring city of Western Europe.” Actually nearby Brussels won the prix d’or d’ennui followed tightly by Zurich and Warsaw. Birmingham has given all three a run for the money with the […]

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