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So sad to report the death of one of Los Angeles´s most sweetest personalities Marvin “Marvina” Jones. Marvin was a beloved member of the so-called “Silverlake 40”, that jubilant group that numbered into the hundreds of scenesters that were at every event and party from around 1990 to the early aughts in Los Angeles´ East Hollywood commuhity environs.
Marvin was a joyous presence who was also a DJ and had worked for many years in the film industry in Special FX. Marvin was a delightful regular at the Silver Lake weekly musical hotspot and performance space Club Sucker at the Garage. Marvin also collaborated with the Vaginal Davis doll and Big Daddy Ron Athey on many of their numerous art projects and starred in the award winning film short subject The White to be Angry that is part of the permanent collection of the Chicago Art Institute.
Marvin was one of Southern California´s most sexiest,attractive and desired studs in the queer an alternative music scenes. Marvin was the rare muscle bound beauty boy who was also exceptionally nice, brainy, soft spoken and extremely caring. He was a joy to be around at all times and was known for devoting himself to his many friends and associates.
When Marvin´s elderly mother came down with dementia he became her full-time caretaker until she passed. Likewise Marvin´s best friend Dan Paschal and his husband turned their high desert home into hospice care for Marvin, where virtual gazillions passed through to pay their final respects
/hommage and have some quality time with Marvin before he left this mortal coil.
Marvin Jones will be missed by one and all he came in contact with. Ms. Davis has been shattered upon first learning that he was ill. She is still having a most difficult time processing it as Marvin seemed eternal. One of Vaginal Davis´s most successful painting series was doing nude portraits of some of the Silverlake 40 and her portrait of Marvin was the first to sell to a European collector taken with his striking visage back in the late 1990s through a tiny project space/gallery in Stuttgard, Germany years before Ms. Davis had commercial gallery representation or acknowledgement in greater art world.
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Leave it to CHEAP with Fearless Leader Susanne Sachsse, Minister of Mis and Disinformation Marcuse Siegelstein aka Marc Siegel and Daniel Hendrickson wearing jubilee outfits designed by artiste extroidinaire Jonathan Berger and referencing CHEAP stalwarts Ida Lupino and Hedy LaMarr.
In the audience soaking it all in was Forum Expanded head, the handsomest man in Europa Uli Ziemons, with team leaders gorgeous Shai Heredia&Karina Griffith, with the lovely Angelika Ramlow who handles accreditation and distribution. Other superstars scene and herd about silent green silver betonhalle: Markus Ruff, Isabel Spengler, Constanza Ruhm, Angela Anderson, Olga Damnitz, Richard Gabriel Gersch, Tina & Jorg, Kerstin Honeit, Lithuanian male ingenue Sarunas Zenkevicius, A list Hollywood star Robert Pattison whose seems joined at the testicle with Danish hungthrob Besir Zeciri, juicy Greek filmmaker and Oberhausen curator Vassily Bourikas, and the lusciously gifted feminist theorist and scholar Nanna Heidenreich.
costumes designed by Jonathan Berger