Love story from the gutters.
(PHOTO: Lou and Patti via deadgirls)
1. Black leather.
2. Black Panthers.
3. St. Mark’s Church.
4. The Chelsea Hotel.
5. Wrap-around sunglasses.
6. Union Square.
7. Washington Square.
8. Tompkins Square Park.
9. CBGB’s.
10. Cafe Wha?
11. The Bitter End.
12. Ultra-Violet, Candy Darling, Billy Name, Joe Dallesandro, Divine, Edie Sedgwick.
13. Deborah Harry, Sid Vicious, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, MC5, Talking Heads, The Ramones, The New York Dolls, The Germs, The Cramps, Lydia Lunch, Sonic Youth, Bauhaus, My Bloody Valentine, The Boredoms, The Vaselines, Kurt Cobain.
14. Silver balloons, silver pillows, silver foil, silver floors, silver silk screen, silver wig, silver ceiling, silver floors.
15. Psychiatrists’ Union Ball.
16. Electro-Shock Therapy.
17. John Cage, La Monte Young, Harry Smith, Herman Hesse, Delmore Schwartz, Philip Glass, William Seward Burroughs, Dante, Aldous Huxley, Jean-Michel Basuiat.
18. S&M, leather, whips, France, Andy Warhol’s Hustler, pulp fiction, 42nd Street, b-movies, art house cinema.
19. Summit, New Jersey, Ozone Park, Greenwich Village.
20. The Mother’s of Invention, Betsey Johnson, Bob Dylan, Moe Tucker, Thurston Moore, Vox Tear-drop, The Ostrich, Peel Slowly and See, black boots, Berlin, Blue Smoke, the viola, chairs scraping the studio floor, Verve, marching soldiers, screen test.
