Tag Archives: bains-douches

F Is Not For Fake

April 26, 2012 – 6:36 pm

My editor Adrian sent this photo from Christie’s in London. They want 50K Sterling for this scribbling by Karen Kilimnik. I worked the door of the Bains-Douches in that era of error. And I’m worthless. No commercial value no sell out – Pascha Ray But I do like her work.

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Good-Bye Philippe Waty

April 9, 2012 – 11:53 am

Tomorrow in Paris friends of Philippe Waty will be gathering to say good-bye. He was a good guy.

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The Long Reach of the Law

November 23, 2010 – 2:03 am

Back in the 80s Brion Gysin was living his last days in Paris. I was working at the Bains-Douches. I fought a lot at the door. Brion liked rough trade. We were associated through a mutual friend, Jeffery Kime. Dinners, drinks, parties. The collage artist/poet was a gentleman in pursuit of the frontiers of humor. […]

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IN ABSENCE OF AMNESIA by Peter Nolan Smith

August 3, 2008 – 10:50 am

New York in the summer of 1981 was everything it wasn’t in the winter of 1979. The temperature boiled the asphalt. Punk had been replaced by New Wave and somehow the city had escaped bankruptcy. Money flowed on the streets and even the East Village exhibited signs of regeneration, since abandoned tenements can only be […]

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