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MAY 27, 1978 BLEECKER STREET J ENTRY

October 10, 2023 – 7:48 pm

An incredible quadruple Gemini birthday party at Kim and Kyle Davis’ apartment on Bleecker Street. Sean Hausman, Eric Goode, and Kim had hung blue and white balloons overhead. They had plastered xeroxed fotos of the four natal celebrants on the wall and illuminated the living room with a modulating blue lights. Punk and funk music. […]

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MAY 27, 1978 THE VILLAGE JOURNAL ENTRY

October 10, 2023 – 8:10 am

An incredible quadruple Gemini birthday party at Kim and Kyle Davis’ apartment on Bleecker Street. Sean Hausman, Eric Goode, and Kim had hung blue and white balloons overhead. They plastered xeroxed fotos of the four natal celebrants on the wall and illuminated the living room with a modulating blue lights. Punk and funk music. Beer […]

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HUNG by Peter Nolan Smith

June 13, 2023 – 9:59 am

The Village in New York had always attracted a kaleidoscope of radical, deviant, and perverse characters considered abhorrent by mainstream America. The Reds of the 40s gave way to the beatniks of the 50s, who in turn evolved into the hippies of the 60s before surrendering the shattered counterculture ghetto to the junkies, artists, punks […]

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April 21, 1978 – Journal Entry – East Village

August 7, 2022 – 7:33 pm

Last night Richard Hell played at CBGBs and his performance was less than extraordinary. I had to sneak by the doorperson Roxy to get in for free. Lisa the cashier waved me inside. The club was packed with assholes drawn there by good press or the Voidoids. Xcessive from the Ghosts kept shouting, “Richard is […]

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October 10, 1978 – Journal Entry – East Village

October 10, 2021 – 12:47 pm

One NRP member incurred the wrath of the Party by suggesting that we kill the rich. I agreed with Guadalcanal in theory, but everyone else rejected violence. “If we use violence, we will be just like them,” Anthony Scibelli said parroting the old movie line foisted on the film’s audience to prevent the poor from […]

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