Robert Wilson
wildly imaginative & creative but always stops short of making sense to my earthbound tastes. genius, emperor's new clothes or both?
― zombie formalist (m coleman), Friday, 17 October 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
David Wojnarowicz
i was obsessed with these short stories he published in East Village Eye, Bomb and the Just Another Asshole anthology. first person monologues and overheard dialogues zeroing in on the lower west side gay underworld and lower east side drug scene. life in the belly of the beast. brilliant, scathing, scary REAL.
― zombie formalist (m coleman), Friday, 17 October 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
John Zorn
admire his tenacity but never connected w/his music, even in my noize daze. like Robt Wilson a lifer.
― zombie formalist (m coleman), Friday, 17 October 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link
Is Arthur Russell too 70s?
― ... and a Martin Parr photo essay (Tom D.), Friday, 17 October 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link
sorry for any namedropping or humblebragging but this list was like This Is Your Life Age 23-31.
― zombie formalist (m coleman), Friday, 17 October 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
xp
no but Arthur Russell was really low-profile for most of his life. even people on the music scene weren't completely aware of the scope of his accomplishment.
― zombie formalist (m coleman), Friday, 17 October 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link
one name left off is Frankie Crocker, WBLS-FM program director and the best radio DJ I've ever heard. He defined the sound of the city 1980-1984 or so.
― zombie formalist (m coleman), Friday, 17 October 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
Love these stories, M Coleman!
And Frankie Crocker and Keith Haring definitely left off in error.
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Friday, 17 October 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
cool thread, thanks for the stories m coleman. voted for wojnarowicz.
― mattresslessness, Friday, 17 October 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
this is really great
http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/woj/dscref11.html
― mattresslessness, Friday, 17 October 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
cool poll. m coleman, do more.
― Brio2, Friday, 17 October 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link
I saw Ed Koch once... by the payphones of a downtown Chicago hotel lobby about 8 in the morning in 1994. He looked somewhat discombobulated and the longer-than-usual feeling of deja vu I felt trying to recognize this familiar stranger was also a little disorienting. Finally, I remembered something Shirley MacLaine said in her psychic book about Ed Koch's long fingers and yeah, dude was totally Bela Lugosi in that regard.
― pplains, Friday, 17 October 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Foreman ftw along with his right hand man James Urbaniak
always wanted to encounter DB on the street but no such luck.
This thread really brought the lovebug.
― Thus We Frustrate Kid Charlemagne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 00:14 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
thanks m coleman those were fun to read
― a matter of fuiud aesthetics (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 01:33 (nine years ago) link
No Ugly George, no cred
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link