Many hours of shooting went into each 10 minute segment, so
there is a lot of amazing unaired footage in my stash. At celebrity dinners
and publicity events I gladly filmed Grace Jones, Quentin Crisp, Leigh Bowery
and other cool creative people but refused to turn the camera on for a politician
or businessman, no matter how infamous they were.
Best NYC party was
Michael Alig's Wednesday night futuristic glamarama Disco 2000, where
I regularly taped the often chaotic and always enjoyable performances and
art installations, Sunday night's Bump at USA, Peter A's splendid
Make Up at Webster Hall (where Anglo hypemaster Martin X treated
us like royalty), the King and Queen of New York events (where we first
performed at Limelight) and the amazing Night of A Thousand Parties, filming
every variation of cross-gender exotica from the 5 boroughs inside an Alig
supplied cardboard TV, not the futuristic Wall of Monitors that we requested...ha
ha.. and it totally worked!
For KBTV broadcasts,
the club events were supplemented by interviews (some folks sounding very
existential, dubbed with a German accent and quoting Neitzsche) live performances,
installations and rare videos by talented New York artists and musicians,
some very raunchy and authentic S&M play and philosophical wordup which
included quotes from Kant and Heideggar or whoever I fancied that week.
With an audience
of half a million people and the catchy and totally appropriate advertising
slogan Your Satellite Dish to the Future my partner Anitra and I,
along with our mischievous back-up cameraman Lars, had a lot of fun creating
Krash Boom TV, which also proved to be a superb showcase for our
Men Smash Atoms music and videos.
