In early 1979 I first experienced Andy Warhol’s cinematic oeuvre when a campus film society screened the Paul Morrissey-directed Trash. Originally released in 1970, this plotless wallow in depravity accompanies a junkie hustler (Joe Dallesandro) and his trans roommate (Holly Woodlawn) on their daily rounds. To say Trash transported my Midwestern sensibility to an unexplored continent would be obvious, and besideContinue reading “The Prospector”
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“I used to get by on $5 a day but New York City has gotten so expensive”
So said my first mentor in Manhattan — without irony — in 1981 Moving into 78 Washington Place in mid-March 1981 didn’t take long. All I brought: two suitcases stuffed with clothes, briefcase, clock radio, electric typewriter. Luckily Apartment 3C came furnished. More or less. Fitted with a painfully thin mattress and itchy blanket, theContinue reading ““I used to get by on $5 a day but New York City has gotten so expensive””
A Sort of Mentor
Jeff Reidel was the strangest person I’ve met in NYC, then or now, and almost 40 years later I finally realize how much he taught me Moving into 78 Washington Place, during early spring 1981, didn’t take long. My possessions consisted of two suitcases, briefcase, clock radio, electric typewriter. Apartment 3C came furnished. The metalContinue reading “A Sort of Mentor”
Mark Coleman 