The Fillmore East (NYC, 1968 – 1971)
Second Avenue near East 6th Street
Steinway Hall (NYC, 1866 – 1926)
East 14th Street, between Fifth Avenue and University Place
Tonic (NYC, 1998 – 2007)
107 Norfolk Street
Roseland (NYC, 1919 – 2014)
West 52nd Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue
Death By Audio (Williamsburg, 2002 – 2014)
Body Actualized Center (Brooklyn, 2011 – 2014)
The Channel (Boston, 1980 – 1991)
25 Necco St.
The Winterland Ballroom (San Francisco, 1971 – 1978)
Miami Arena (Miami, 1988 – 2000)
Le Golf-Drouot (Paris, 1961 – 1981)
Le Sept (Paris, 1968 – 1980)
7 rue Sainte-Anne
Bar 25 (Berlin, 2004 – 2010)
The Astoria Theater (London, 1976 – 2009)
157 Charing Cross Road
The Marquee Club (London, 1958 – 1996)
165 Oxford Street
The Sir George Robey (London, late 80s – mid-90s)
The Cavern Club (Liverpool, 1957 – 1973)
Warzone Centre (Belfast, 1997 – 2003)
ARMA17 (Moscow, 2009 – 2014)
D-22 (Beijing, 2006 – 2012)
Dirty Monster Club (Beijing, 2011 – 2015)
Golden Pudel (Hamburg, 1999 – 2018)
City Gardens (Trenton, NJ, 1979 – 2001)
Satellite Lounge (Cookstown, NJ, 1965 – 1994)
79 Wrightstown-Cookstown Road
Jabberjaw (Los Angeles, 1989 – 1997)
3711 Pico Blvd
House of Blues (West Hollywood, 1994 – 2015)
The Starwood (Los Angeles, mid-1970s – 1981)
Raji’s (Hollywood, 1985 – 1995)
beneath the Hastings Hotel
Universal Amphitheater (Los Angeles, 1972 – 2013)
Good Life Café (South Los Angeles, 1989 – 1999)
Cheetah (Venice, CA, 1967 – 1970)
Irvine Meadows Amphitheater (Irvine, 1987 – 2016)
Kitty Castle (San Jose, 2012 – 2017)
Palace Pier (Toronto, 1941 – 1963)
The Guvernment (Toronto, 1996 – 2015)
132 Queens Quay East
Point Counterpoint II (Louis Kahn designed mobile boat/venue, 1967 – 2017)
Love Street Light Circus and Feel Good Machine (Houston, 1967 – 1970)
Reunion Arena (Dallas, 1980 – 2008)
The Masquerade (Atlanta, 1988 – 2018)
75 Martin Luther King Jr DR SW
X-Ray Cafe (Portland, 1990-1994)
214 W Burnside St.
The Artistery (Portland, 2003-11)
4315 SE Division St.
Satyricon (Portland, 1984 – 2010)
125 N.W. Sixth Avenue
Market Square Arena (Indianapolis, 1974 – 1999)
300 E. Market St.
Korn Krib (Milwaukee, 1964 – 1968)
3314 W. North Ave
Bookie’s (Detroit, 1978 – 1986)
West McNichols St in Highland Park
Rhinoceropolis (Denver, 2005 – 2016)
3553 Brighton Blvd.
1.21 Jigga Watts (Denver, 2010 – 2014)
Lost Lake (Denver, 2000 – 2004)
Near 29th and Walnut
The Safari Club (Washington, D.C., 1989 – 1997)
Cleveland Agora (Cleveland, 1966 – 1984)
1730 East 24th St.
OK Hotel (Seattle, 1985 – 2001)
The Brewery (Raleigh, NC, 1983 – 2011)
3009 Hillsborough Street
Lounge Ax (Chicago, 1986 – 2000)
2438 N. Lincoln Ave.
Swerp Mansion (Chicago, 2013 – 2015)
Crobar (Chicago, 1992 – 2010)
1543 N Kingsbury St
Poplar Creek Music Theater (Chicago, 1980 – 1994)
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p.s. Hey. ** DK, Hi. Thank you for the correction. I saw your comment on Friday and managed to right the wrong early. I appreciate it. ** Dominik, Hi!!! The friends + Chipotle + galette du roi parts happened, but not the movie. I think I’m back to normal now, health-wise, thanks. I think we’ll have the new script finished in the next, oh, week, I hope? I thought the concept of ‘House of Leaves’ was a lot better than the actual novel, but it’s been a long time since I read it, so … How are you finding it so far? I get a granted wish? Can it be a secret wish? I have a secret wish that I would like to be granted. Sorry, haha. Love materialising and doing all your work for you impeccably, G. ** _Black_Acrylic, Thanks! I’ll go look into that Maclean! ** jay, Hi! I think I vaguely knew about the Nabokov source, but only vaguely. Huh. Thanks, pal. ** Charalampos, Thanks. Good picks. I think the Kluge is streamable somewhere, because that’s how I saw it. ** Logan Berry, Hi, Mr. Berry! Thank you so much. How are you, how’s stuff? ** Laura, B’day was pleasant. Wow, 100! Fascinating choices. I don’t know a bunch of them. I noted those. Thank you, obviously. So much ‘Heated Rivalry’ talk all over the place. And me with my ‘no TV’ policy. Alas. ** Eric C., Aw, thanks. I wish you similar yearlong joy and of course success. What a good reason to come to Fargo. Do they have a film festival there? Big day to you. ** James Bennett, Yes, I’ve heard wonderful reports about the Gluck event. Congrats, man! xo back from moi aka your future neighbor. ** Steeqhen, Thanks. Wow, yeah, you don’t like Dublin. Which of course makes me even more curious about it. But I don’t when I’ll ever go there. ** Montse, Hi, Montse! Thank you, thank you! Dessert: a delish galette du roi and a box of scrumptious donuts. Not bad. Lovely best films, of course. Oh, sadly, ‘RT’ just got rejected by one of the two Barcelona festivals we submitted to (Americana), so prayers that the other one (the queer one) feels differently. Love to Xet. And majorly to you. ** kenley, Thanks a lot. It was fine. Once I did all the rigamarole, the French visa I got was pretty easy. Dogwhistle! Mosh-ier Helmet! This I have to hear. And I will once I’ve polished off this rather lengthy comments/p.s. combo today. Thank you! And I’ll follow it up the live Searing set, and I will try to guess which member proved worthy of you. Fun! ** politekid, Hi, O, thanks! Great to lay eyes on your wordage as always. I’m fine. Yeah, I was really fucking sick, it sucked, but whatever it was is dead now. I just saw a few friends and hung out, very lowkey. Wow, what a list. Quite a few films I might’ve put on mine if my head had been differently slanted. Helluva list. Only two or three that made me go ‘huh?’. Major luck as needed with the thesis. Does it feel good? xo, me. ** Steve, Chipotle -> purchase a galette du roi -> metro to Zac’s place -> joined by friends -> eat galette and blab. Too hard to say what Wiseman’s best film is. He has so many great ones. ‘Monrovia’ is my favorite, and it’s a little different than his usual films. Really beautiful. New episode! Everyone, Here’s Steve. Read and poke and listen. Steve: ‘Since so little new music has been released this year, my first 2026 episode of “Radio Not Radio” does something different. Looking back towards the past, especially the ’70s and ’80s, it consists of sets of New Zealand rock (Alastair Galbraith, Skeptics, Suburban Reptiles, Dragon, Human Instinct, Olla, Verlaines, Marie and the Atom, Dial), soul and funk (Ann Peebles, Ronn Feaster, Isaac Hayes, Temptations, Gap Band, Fantastic Four), reggae (Jimmy Cliff, Marcia Griffiths, Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus, Scientist, Augustus Pablo, Brown Sugar, Zig-Zag Band) and art-rock (Sparks, Wire, Magazine, Henry Badowski.) You can listen here‘. Henry Badowski: there’s a name I haven’t heard in decades. I don’t have much information about IN THE LAND OF THE ELEVATOR GIRLS, but I can link you to the post I did about Steina and Woody Vasulka that can fill you in about them and their work. Here. Their films are fantastic but very hard to see. Almost nothing online. I saw ‘Elevator Girls’ in a retrospective of their work here a few years ago. ** Bernard Welt, You being three months older is more of a gift to me than to you, no? Wish I could be at those readings. I hope that Zionist asshole David Lehman isn’t there. ** Hugo, Thanks! Your sister must be cool, haha. Aw, thank you for the very sweet words, my friend. Pretty great important films list there. All seem potentially important. ** Carsten, Thanks, pal. Uh, I saw the Conner at an exhibition of his static works and films here several years ago. I’m going to find out what ‘Yeelen’ is, obviously. ** Jamie, Hey, hey, Jamie! A rare treat seeing. Please pop in more often if it suits. And thank for about ‘RT’. Love in a large quantity back to you. ** Vincent, Hi, Vincent! Very happy to have made things that were both crazy and pleased you. Goals! What an excellent and various film list! I really need to see ‘Red Rooms’, don’t I? Thanks a lot! Come back and hang out and tell me more about you and yours if you feel like it. ** Bertie marshall, Hi, Bertie! Wow! It’s been ages. I’m obviously curious about this new novel of yours. Thanks! Take good care, sir. ** Dev, Chipotle in France is exactly like Chipotle in the US but with a slightly smaller menu. Like I had to make a special request for a cheese quesadilla, but they did know how to make it. Really interesting list. ‘A New Leaf’, huh. Never saw it. I will. ‘Simon of the Desert’ is so crazy great, no? Thanks, buddy. ** Steven Purtill, Steven! Hey! I’m good, you? Oh, Zac’s and my new film ‘Room Temperature’ is showing in Seattle on January 28th. (See the blog’s upper right hand corner). I’ll send you a social media message, but I’d be very happy if you can go see it. ** jeestun, Thanks. Grandrieux is fascinating, yeah. I just this morning saw notice of that Tarr DP interview. Interesting. I’ll go click over and read it. Holy fuck, I’m glad you can breathe. More minor, but I recently had the worst bout of sickness of my life, and it was humbling. ** horatio, Thank you, thank you, horatio! My birthday wishes are just boring stuff like finishing the new film script and solving a money problem and blah blah. I don’t think you need to read ‘Death in Venice’ before you see the film, no, but it is an excellent novel. Cool list. Mine was weirdly lacking in horror, I don’t know why. ‘Sleep Has Her House’, yes! ** Malik, Hey, Malik! So nice to see you! French Chipotle food is pretty much indistinguishable from American Chipotle food. But, in general, the French are not masters of Mexican food, that’s for sure. Wonderful list. ‘Menace II Society’, ‘Coonskin’ … wow, very nice. You good? Everything flying along smoothly? ** Brendan, Thank you, B, and thank you again. xo. ** wulf solence, Hi there! ‘Pola X’ was on my list. ‘Hourglass Sanatorium’ I don’t know, but I’ll go try to find it. Thanks very much! ** Bill, Weekend was reassuringly normal. There are a real handful of films on your list I don’t know. I noted them. Let me see if I can catch up. ** Alice, Thank you. Having had a nasty sickness of very late, all my sympathies and restorative wishes to you. Exciting about your story. Sure, send if you like. Just remember I’m molasses slow. Curious films list. I guess I’ll re-look at ‘Southland Tales’ since you’re not the only one to list it. Back when I saw it, I really hated it. But I don’t remember entirely why. ** Dr. Kosten Koper, Hi, Doc. A fellow ‘Young Frankenstein’ fan, high five and etc. Thanks for the list. Right, ‘Decline’, that’s a good one. ** julian, A futuristic happy birthday to you too. Love your list. ‘Mod Fuck Explosion’! Have a swell week. ** Måns BT, Hi, Måns! Thank you! I’m most intrigued by your seemingly Swedish film picks: ‘Thriller: En grym film’, ‘Tillsammans’, ‘Tillsammans 99’. I don’t know them. ‘Face/Off’! That’s a great overlooked movie right there. ‘An elephant sitting still’! Mostly busy with the same old stuff: seeking public life for ‘RT’ and finishing the new script. There are a bunch of films I’m going to see this week. What about you? Heavy school occupation? ** HaRpEr //, Hoping for a pleasant evolution of your strange. Crazy cool film list. ‘Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion’! Thank you. Best possible rest of your day. ** l@rst, Thanks a lot, L. ‘Reflections In A Golden Eye’: best ending ever? xo, me. ** Uday, I just saw a few friends and ate some slightly unusual food. Unusual for me, I mean. Pretty uneventful, which how I like birthdays. Why were they unsuccessful at snorting a line off your genitals? Rhetorical question. Love back to you. ** Right. Y’all know I have a thing for dead buildings, and somehow dead music venues seem especially dead. Look at some up above if you like. See you tomorrow.
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Good Morning – sending much love as always. Great post. btw. I had a patient, in his late 70’s, of course who talked about going to the Fillmore East all the time, on weekends with his friends. It was a $500 ticket. and he said everyone knew going to the late shows were the thing, longer sets and sometimes surprise guests. He said “it was really a pretty small venue.” He and his friends came from Brooklyn to the Fillmore. I went to my second or third concert there with my brother to see Jethro Tull, that were touring to support Benefit and John Sebastian. I was 10 or 11 and went with my brother, it was a different time xoxoxoxo
Oooooh what’s the unusual food? I find myself pretty unfazed/eager to try new foods, which is how I ended up addicted to silkworms for a bit in between (they were unfortunately hard to find). Cool cool post. Might see if any of the skeletons of these venues are still around and if I can manage to sneak in. Going on a very long (for me)mountain hike tomorrow. Anywhere from 30-40 km. Wish my legs luck.
Back in the 90s when I first started going to gigs, that was a venue here called the Leeds Town & Country Club. I saw Blur, the Smashing Pumpkins, Lemonheads, Stone Roses etc in that place. Eventually renounced that lifestyle in favour of nightclubbing, but back when I idolised rock musicians then it was very much the place to go. Now it’s the O2 Academy and I don’t know what the kids are into these days.
Turns out I ended up going to the Orbit in Leeds, now also dead, but it was a whole new thing and I never looked back.
Not sure if they were good live or not, but I’m very jealous you got to see the Stone Roses during their initial run as a band. RIP Mani.
hi! ah let me know what you think! hrmmm…perhaps a french era awaits me. i imagine one has to speak french fairly fluently?
oh god, house of blues…this slightly older kid i had a crush on in high school once managed to sneak his pop-punk band onto an opening slot at the la house of blues and it was all a very big to-do. he had skinny arms and a glass eye he would pop in and out as a party trick and i yearned for him so. sigh.
I was at that Mudhoney show at City Gardens! I was home from my xmas break from college… Monster Magnet opened up. It was one of the greatest shows I’d ever seen.
Monster Magnet were NJ locals and the pit was one of the scariest pits I’d ever seen but with Mudhoney I got right in there and bounced to every beat and somehow stayed alive, yet a little physically crushed.
When I first saw that is was online a few years ago it blew my mind. I’m right up front somewhere…
When I watched it the stage banter was word-for-word how I remembered it! Mark Arm puked on his own guitar pedals and Matt Lukin kept teasing him offering him hot dogs.
We called City Gardens – Shitty Garbage… permanent GWAR blood on the ceiling. Many a beer drunk in the parking lot.
Hi, Dennis!
Galette de roi and doughnuts sound pretty good! Damn, sorry to hear about Americana. Fingers crossed for FIRE. Also, I have found these three other festivals in case you want to have a look.
https://alternativa.cccb.org/
https://dart-festival.com/en/
https://atlantidafilmfest.com/
First two are in Barcelona and the other one is in Mallorca.
Oh man, I love this post. I was lucky to see many gigs in London Astoria, when I lived there.
Hugs,
As I think you know, I share your interest in the dead & dilapidated. Of the above, I’ve only been to the House of Blues. Didn’t know that one closed down, & in 2015 too, that’s when I left. Probably why I didn’t notice, I was a tense freshly-post-divorce wreak.
On “Yeelen”: It’s from Mali, released in 1987, & is pretty much the closest thing we have to an ethnopoetic film. It’s deeply rooted in traditional Bamana culture & comes from within that culture, not outsiders looking in. It’s magical, mystical, elemental & deeply moving. Also, all done with non-actors, which I know aligns with your sensibilities. Now obviously I come at it with a deep deep love for Bamana culture, but it’s totally accessible to the “uninitiated”.
Here’s a tribute montage that might serve as an appetizer: https://youtu.be/cnEUiJOVkiM?si=YETQWnP5bSVMZm9r
It’s available on the usual sites like m.vkvideo.ru
It’s the most remarkable film I’ve ever seen, so obviously I’d urge you to see it.
Hey Dennis, I have a lot of catching up re: your list. There are probably quite a few items on mine that you probably won’t enjoy. (Like Pride, about London LGBT support for the miners’ strike in the 80s, but I do have a soft spot for these well-meaning reconstructions of Brit 80s gay activism.)
Sad and beautiful list today! I’ve only been to a handful (Tonic, Golden Pudel, didn’t know it’s gone, Lounge Ax). Winterland was obviously before my time in SF. For a few years, there was an excellent creative restaurant named Winterland that I loved.
One of my favorite bigger venues here was Trocadero Transfer. It’s probably best known as an important disco venue, but they hosted rock bands in the 90s. I remember an excellent all-ska Fishbone show (the toilets overflowed at the end, ick). Fugazi also played there.
There’s also the old Club Lower Links in Chicago, that hosted queer cabaret and experimental music. If I remember correctly, I saw Derek Bailey solo, and Borbetomagus back in the day.
The legendary Mabuhay Gardens was gone for decades, but it’s open again. There was talk of reviving it as a live music venue, but there are only two events listed for March, hmm.
Next time you make this post, I can add Bottom of the Hill in SF, which is closing at the end of the year. One of the most active live rock venues here; I remember an excellent Legendary Pink Dots show on their last tour to hit the west coast.
And I remember Bertie Marshall’s Psychoboys from back in the day, should be on my shelves somewhere…
Bill
Hi Dennis!
I’m glad you’re intrigued by my Swedish cinema favorites! ’Thriller: En Grym Film’ is our single-handedly most famous exploitation flick, and it’s a pretty chocking one about that. It’s about a girl who’s been mute since she was raped at a young age, and how she’s kidnapped by a sicko pimp who makes her addicted to heroine and sell her body. He also pokes out her eye with a scalpel, which is a really twisted scene in the movie. To film that, they broke into a hospital in Sweden, put some makeup on a girl who recently killed herself, and filmed a close up of them impaling her eye. So the gore is real! Really twisted revenge film (she starts practicing karate, shooting and driving to kill her rapists), but also very artsy. It’s extremely well filmed, has a very odd but beautiful score, and is a huge inspiration for Kill Bill. I presented it at Zita actually and got to meet the main actress (Christina Lindberg, Swedens most famous pin-up girl) and we’ve struck an acquaintance since then. She’s lovely.
You haven’t heard of ’Tillsammans’ or ’Tillsammans 99’ ??? ’Tillsammans’ is Lukas Moodyssons second (and maybe best…?) film about a commune in the 70’s. It’s funny, genius and beautiful, my god you have to watch it! ’Tillsammans 99’ is the sequel, which came around 25 years later and follows the communes reunion party. It’s equally beautiful actually, you should to some kind of double feature!
’Fyra Nyanser av Brunt’ was also featured on my list, which is probably the most underrated Swedish masterpiece of all time. It’s made by Killinggänget (a Swedish comedy group, which were more artsy, smart and weird than most other groups of the time) and weaves together 4 stories that all relate to fatherhood. It’s depressingly dark but equally funny, very odd and impressive. It’s a shame it’s so unknown! If you ever find a subtitled version of it (which I’m scared doesn’t exist) you MUST watch it!
Cool about the new script! Excited to see how that turns out, and of course I hope you won’t be afraid to contact me and Zita when it’s being distributed in the future 😉 As you guessed, life has been pretty school-centered. Got a new job as a tutor for a 7-year old, which is meh but pays okay. Booked a trip to Spain with like 13 friends recently too! Thats exciting. You been there much? You seem like a well-traveled guy. Could need some tips if so, your tip about ’Basmah’ when we were in Berlin was golden, so my friends trust you now.
Sending everything good your way,
Måns
Hey there Dennis!
Thank you for the kind wishes. Thankfully I feel better today. Just a hint of warmth and a stuffy nose hitting me. Still, being inside has at least encouraged me to sink into my interests. For a while I’ve been struggling with finding motivation to embrace them. However, talking to others has really helped me find my feet again. Lately I’ve been playing the Ape Escape games for the first time. I’m particularly fond of the first one. Makes me wonder about the potential of platformers in using control layouts for something purposely archaic. I loved playing it, and I’m thinking of starting the third game tonight.
Beyond that, I’ve been keeping to my reading. I’ve been fascinated by Lispector’s Água Viva for how dreams inform the basis of a conversation between the narrator and the reader. For me there’s a quality in space there that invites ambiguity within a voice that is clear in the bridges it wishes to form. It’s made me reflect on how ,my relationship to language converses the factual with the surreal. Earlier I sent Hugo the short story, and he wrote a sweet blurb for me. In it, he described my fiction as something that “passes fact and enters sensation itself”.
Speaking of that, I’ll send it your way soon. Very generous of you to want to see it, and no worries at all with getting back to me on it. Take any time that’s needed <3
Nice to hear from you today. Hope all is well!
hi. i didnt comment over the weekend i was yesterday on the train back and checked, saw the 30 something comments and was like, eek, that must be overwhelming to respond to. https://letterboxd.com/seawalkonme/list/all-time-favorites-1/ here are my own favorites.
the train rides from and back home were rly exhausting and chaotic this weekend but i somehow suddenly unlocked the ability to sleep on trains i think.
how do u prefer i send u the phil ochs post? i have it on a google doc so i could email u the link or directly just copy it and send it to u like that. idk if it makes a difference.
i dont feel like prioritizing my studies either trust me but at some point i have to do it. and its not like my ability to write will go away, i dont think. its not like studying is the only thing i will do. over the last year ive had a lot of moments of back and forth of focusing on different things and came to the realization i go a little insane if i dont in some way prioritize art in my life. i used to see it as a sort of retreat and it kind of is but its also more like i need to be in contact with the way you can process and reach out to everything in life in such a different way through literature in order to stay sane. this shift of perspective shifted my interests too a bit. im a lot more interested in reading and writing about reality rather than, like, just my weird psychosexual fixations, even though and maybe even because its so much harder for me to do. idk. i need to read up on and write a summary of the first wave of crusades now. byeeee.
Hey Dennis! Yes, we do indeed have a film fest here in Fargo, coming up in March, link below. It’s always hosted in an old, restored art deco theater from the 1920’s, definitely a cool vibe, and something we always look forward to here.
https://fargofilmfestival.org/
Would love to see a film by you and Zach there one day. Apologies if you’ve talked about this recently, but what’s 2026 looking like for you? Any film or literary work underway or on the horizon?
Hey Dennis,
A Cork addition to this post would be the Savoy Theatre. Opened around 1932 as a cinema in the main street of Cork (Patrick Street) it closed as a cinema around the 70s. However it stayed open as nightclub and shopping centre until 2015, with a lot of pretty famous acts playing there: The Rolling Stones in 1965, The Bee Gees in ‘68, New Order and later Echo and the Bunnymen in 1983, The Smiths (twice) in 1984, Bjork in 1995, and then in the 21st century, Spiritualized, Joan Armatrading, CSS, Janelle Monae, MGMT, Morrissey, as well as a lot of pretty famous acts here in Ireland (that aren’t famous outside of here). Since 2015, it’s been closed and left to rot, along with the majority of the rest of the big shops on Patrick Street (there is a terrible amount of derelict and abandoned buildings in Cork and Dublin), and the shelter outside the building is used as a food bank for the homeless in the evenings. It’s also right next to one of my bus stops so I always get to see it and think of what I missed out on, as Cork really doesn’t have any venue like that anymore in the city centre.
It’s a shared issue with Dublin; with Cork I can forgive because it’s my home and is more of a large town than a proper city, but with Dublin it should be better but just isn’t. Part of my anger is that I would genuinely love to live there and stay in Ireland, but there’s just no possibility for that. I saw an interview with Paul Mescal where he got ‘backlash’ (if you can call it that) for choosing London over Dublin, but his response is exactly how I feel about Dublin (and Ireland as a whole): that they keep knocking down institutions for the arts and it’s not a great place to live as an artist. That it’s so frustrating that a country that is renowned for its writers and musicians and artists seems to not give a fuck about supporting them and instead sells itself to American businesses.
Back to regular life in Ireland, so I went around seeing if places wanted volunteers, although I quickly realized that they would all direct me to send an email, and there was no need for me to physically go from place to place. The library said they sometimes do internships, so I need to check the website for them. I saw a thing online about applying to be mentored by a writer with the Arts Council in Ireland, which I may apply for but I’d assume my plans to move to London will hinder that; it feels ironic i was complaining about Ireland but I may lose an opportunity if I move abroad. Perhaps if I get it I could delay my move, though there’s only 35 spots for the whole of the island.
I’d forgotten about Vasulkas Day. Alas, it’s impossible to track down most of their films online.
I love the photo of the bear singing to children, in the Belfast club. Do you know what band he was in?
The Fillmore East remains a very popular location on East Village walking tours – I live two blocks away and see people outside it all the time. NYU now owns the space.
Badowski’s album LIFE IS GRAND was re-released last year, so he was on my mind (and ears.)