Party Monster.
While checking out Seth Green's site this week, I came across an interesting piece of news. James St. James' fascinating book, Disco Bloodbath, about Micheal Alig, the NYC club kid who murdered his drug dealer lover Angel Melendez, is being made into a film; Party Monster. The cast includes Macaulay Culkin (!) as Micheal Alig, Seth Green as James St. James, Wilson Cruz as Angel Melendez, Lucy Liu as Allesandra and Marilyn Manson as Cristina. ((More Details Here.)
I loved Disco Bloodbath. It's a juicy first person look at the club kid scene in NYC in the eighties with Michal Alig at the center of it all; how people got into the scene because it was all fresh and fun and how drugs and human nature sent everything spiraling out of control. It's a fascinating story, if not a pretty one. I think the film is going to be either really fabulous or really terrible, but I can't wait to see it. Filming started on May 13th, in NYC
Gay Day 2002 at Disney World in Orlando.
Gays Days at Disney World is this weekend and some of the Gay Cams guys are there including Steve of DazedCam, and Mikey of FunkCamLive. Mikey has been doing some reports with pictures and Steve has his cam with him so be sure to check out their sites.
On the home front.
durlx and Margaret
Robert was going through some pictures this week and found the above photo from 8 or 9 years ago of Margaret and I. I had totally forgotten about that night! There was some kind of benefit for people with AIDS and Margaret was working with the people who were doing the food for it. I got this call about 2 PM from her; "Darryl, you better get over here right now or this food is never going to be ready in time! Someone will be at your house in 15 minutes!" and she hung up. With Margaret, to hear was to obey... so I went. They were making food for 300 people to sell for $5 a plate and all to be served at the hall where the function was, not at the kitchen where they were preparing it. None of the volunteers had any experience coordinating this sort of thing and Margaret was right, they would never have made it. So I got to save the day; we got all the food over to the hall on time and were able to serve it hot, and we made a little over $1200 for the cause. And we had a good time doing it; it felt good to put my skills to work with a group of friends to do the right thing. "Why was Margaret dressed as a nun?" you might ask. Indeed you might, as the very idea of Margaret taking holy orders is beyond belief! For some reason, and if I knew it then, I certainly don't remember it now, every one working the function that night dressed as a nun. So did I and somewhere out there is a picture... (Now you know why I take pics of everything. Every so often someone hands me a picture from the past like Robert did and the memories are so sweet! Especially when they are of friends like Margaret and the memories of her are all I have now.)
Short Bits.
I've been listed on a site called The Gay Male Body. Not because of my body, hehe... it's a site that lists various gay resources and it seems to be a very good one. Our friend Alex Gildzen is listed there in the "poets" listings in the "From The Body" section and I am newly listed in the "personal web sites" area. There is this thing where you vote and rate the sites, (and you know how I simply abhor that kind of thing...hehe), but I would appreciate it if you would take the time to give me a nice rating so I don't look like chopped liver. Oh, and vote for Alex too, although he's doing quite well...
The message board has had over 4,000 posts now, and although last weekend was a lil' strange... hehe, I want you all to know how much I enjoy all of your posts. I am honored to be the host of such an amazing group and I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. Thanks also for the very interesting e-mails this week. (Now when are people going to send me pics?)
And thank you, luca. where ever you are tonight.
durlx
While checking out Seth Green's site this week, I came across an interesting piece of news. James St. James' fascinating book, Disco Bloodbath, about Micheal Alig, the NYC club kid who murdered his drug dealer lover Angel Melendez, is being made into a film; Party Monster. The cast includes Macaulay Culkin (!) as Micheal Alig, Seth Green as James St. James, Wilson Cruz as Angel Melendez, Lucy Liu as Allesandra and Marilyn Manson as Cristina. ((More Details Here.)
I loved Disco Bloodbath. It's a juicy first person look at the club kid scene in NYC in the eighties with Michal Alig at the center of it all; how people got into the scene because it was all fresh and fun and how drugs and human nature sent everything spiraling out of control. It's a fascinating story, if not a pretty one. I think the film is going to be either really fabulous or really terrible, but I can't wait to see it. Filming started on May 13th, in NYC
Gay Day 2002 at Disney World in Orlando.
Gays Days at Disney World is this weekend and some of the Gay Cams guys are there including Steve of DazedCam, and Mikey of FunkCamLive. Mikey has been doing some reports with pictures and Steve has his cam with him so be sure to check out their sites.
On the home front.
durlx and Margaret
Robert was going through some pictures this week and found the above photo from 8 or 9 years ago of Margaret and I. I had totally forgotten about that night! There was some kind of benefit for people with AIDS and Margaret was working with the people who were doing the food for it. I got this call about 2 PM from her; "Darryl, you better get over here right now or this food is never going to be ready in time! Someone will be at your house in 15 minutes!" and she hung up. With Margaret, to hear was to obey... so I went. They were making food for 300 people to sell for $5 a plate and all to be served at the hall where the function was, not at the kitchen where they were preparing it. None of the volunteers had any experience coordinating this sort of thing and Margaret was right, they would never have made it. So I got to save the day; we got all the food over to the hall on time and were able to serve it hot, and we made a little over $1200 for the cause. And we had a good time doing it; it felt good to put my skills to work with a group of friends to do the right thing. "Why was Margaret dressed as a nun?" you might ask. Indeed you might, as the very idea of Margaret taking holy orders is beyond belief! For some reason, and if I knew it then, I certainly don't remember it now, every one working the function that night dressed as a nun. So did I and somewhere out there is a picture... (Now you know why I take pics of everything. Every so often someone hands me a picture from the past like Robert did and the memories are so sweet! Especially when they are of friends like Margaret and the memories of her are all I have now.)
Short Bits.
I've been listed on a site called The Gay Male Body. Not because of my body, hehe... it's a site that lists various gay resources and it seems to be a very good one. Our friend Alex Gildzen is listed there in the "poets" listings in the "From The Body" section and I am newly listed in the "personal web sites" area. There is this thing where you vote and rate the sites, (and you know how I simply abhor that kind of thing...hehe), but I would appreciate it if you would take the time to give me a nice rating so I don't look like chopped liver. Oh, and vote for Alex too, although he's doing quite well...
The message board has had over 4,000 posts now, and although last weekend was a lil' strange... hehe, I want you all to know how much I enjoy all of your posts. I am honored to be the host of such an amazing group and I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. Thanks also for the very interesting e-mails this week. (Now when are people going to send me pics?)
And thank you, luca. where ever you are tonight.
durlx
