Speaking From the Diaphragm

APICHATPONG WEERASETHANKUL Had a lovely Vegan Thanksgiving feasta at Andrew of Gould and Lenny, the young elder's Los Feliz compound. ...

IRMA VEP I ran into Mike Ness of Social Distortion. He looks great. He's aged in a handsome man kind of way. He said he'll be pe...

MIDNIGHT LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions or LACE for short is hiring a new director. I had no idea they had a budget of $500,000...

WINDOW OF BEAUTY Had a nice studio visit from Brian Grillo of Extra Fancy and Lock-Up Fame. Brian is going to design the sets and perform ...

DAS BLAUE LICHT Stopped for a quick drink at the Spotlight and ran into some Silverlake 40 pals who bought me a gaggle of whiskey sours. W...

LIFE UPON THE WICKED STAGE Had a precious luncheon date with art historian Robert Summers. He and his boyfriend/photog Matt Lipps, are jus...

BUTCH WITHOUT SUNDANCE The butch in the equation is Pat Kingsley, the uber careerist dyke honcho of PMK/HBH PR firm. Sundance is my gal pa...

NANCY GOES TO FRIO This just in from The Lady Bunny of Wigstock fame: What is up with these CNN newscasters? Besides the obvious (they d...

COLUMBIA PICTURES AND RASTOR PRESENTS Hollywood/Broadway royalty came by Bricktops on Friday in the lovely visage of Ms. Wendy Stark Morris...

FIRST MINX Our second annual Django Reinhardt celebratata came together quite nicely. The parisian musical duo, Cabinet of Curiosities put...

THE FELLOWSHIP OF TWINE Had a little romantic misadventure with a 19 year old student from Whittier, California. What is it about Whittier...

AIMEZ-VOUS BRAHMS? I must be one of the few people in the world who still keeps written correspondence with friends around the world the ol...

ALLES WIRD GUT O Bricktops you give me such great plea-sure! My Harold Lloyd Cantata was ever so frisky. It seemed like everyone in the c...

VIVA LA PERSISTENCE Kimya Dawson of Mouldy Peaches fame sent me her new solo CD "Hidden Vagenda" Its an amazing folk record! Ta...

THE JOYLESS GOOD LUCK STREET Greta Garbo night was a gavling successtra. Lots of ladies looking very Garboesque. The boys of the punk ban...

CABEZA DE VACA I'm going to be swamped with work in the next few weeks. Besides preparing for Visions of Excess in the Balkans, I'...

PARTISAN PLACEBO I'm sleeping with the enemy. I feel so Maria Schriver. Yes i've been getting down and dirty with a very conserva...

I'LL TAKE MANHATTAN Love hearing from my Aussie journalista friend living in Nuyorka. His emugs always bring me cheer. *** New Yo...

THE BIG RED ONE I adore Billy Miller of Straight to Hell. He is the ultimate doll. Here's a little enote i just received from him: ...