i cant say that we are gearing up for the summers dates cause Debbie is out on the road and everyone else is here and there doing this and that but we are coming in the meantime i see that the Chelsea Hotel is about to be thrown to the proverbial dogs along with the rest of NYC, that is Stanley Bard the long long time manager is being ousted in what is likely an attempt to ‘update’ the hotel… this is really gruesome, for a lot of people the Chelsea was even more of an iconic landmark than CBs and to see it go the route of boutique hotels is a genuine loss… a few months ago Stanley old me he was being pressured to compete with these same boutique style places and he was concerned about not being able to give breaks to people in the arts… we at least have Dee Dee Ramones great funny book “Chelsea Horror Hotel” which should be on everyones list in the same vein i just saw an article in the NY Times about pastry chefs… in the accompanying photo we see a fellow with sleeve tattoos dressed all in rock style black clothes with the caption being something about pastry chefs now being tough customers etc… somehow i think that this thesis is presented backwards that the actuality is that everyone who is covered with tattoos and wears black rock and roll gear is not necessarily tough at all or that they are indeed as tough as a pastry chef… now least i get letters from cooks my point is just that we are firmly implanted in the midst of this cultural question… recently too i saw one of the local magazines (new your time out i think) with a whole episode (issue) devoted to the ‘death of hip’ idea… for the last fifteen years people i know have been musing over this idea; that is if EVERYONE is hip isn’t that the same as no-one… we have the trappings of hip rock and roll culture co-opted by the very-same commercial entities that 30 years ago were bent on keeping these styles far away from the mainstream… this stuff has become such a spin cycle… that elements of style and dress are so confused, maybe more so today than ever before there is no ‘in’ or ‘out’ any more… the really hip kids wear stuff that reminds me of clothing one would lose in the woods after getting from their grandmothers on Xmas. its perplexing that anyone would think hideous plaid button down collar sport shirts were ‘cool’ but i suppose its all about context so no i dont have anything to report, kids are great, today i think we actually saw an eagle but that was here in “the country” a few months ag we did see a hawk eating a pigeon in the middle of Thopmkins square downtown, he (the hawk) had a big crowd watching him…

Our friend, photographer, video artist, director, and performer Rob Roth, has participated in MIX NYC’s 2nd Annual Naked Eye Camera Benefit, where creative folk from all walks of art personally fill a unique, unprocessed disposable camera with images from their day-to-day lives. Included in the package is one unprocessed disposable Fuji camera (27 exposures), one photocopy of the participant’s signed release form (for legal purposes) and one autographed note written by Rob: “I created a persona out of a hand puppet named ‘Monkeysex’. I kept Monkeysex with me throughout the month and took snapshots with the puppet representing me. Snapshots with friends like Debbie Harry and Justin Bond, at events as varied as Badass Burlesque in NYC and the Radical Faerie Gathering in Tennessee with other ‘private’ moments in between.” MIX NYC is a 20-year-old 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose board members board & staff are volunteers. Their signature event, the New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film Festival, will take place in November 2007. In 2006 they launched a free summer media-training program for disadvantaged queer youth, and a film preservation program to save essential queer films from being lost to future generations. Throughout the year they host free community screenings in greater New York City. MIX also produces the ACT UP Oral History Project (www.actuporalhistory.org), which is documenting the history of AIDS activism. 100% of the final sale price will support MIX NYC. MIX NYC: www.mixnyc.org Direct link to auction on eBay: eBay Auction

Deborah Harry’s new single “Two Times Blue” has been released in the US on iTunes: Deborah Harry – Two Times Blue (Digital Release) iTunes reports to SoundScan, so buy it soon and let’s spread the word! Check www.deborahharry.com for banners that link to the single, for your MySpace page or other web site.

Debbie visits the spa at “The Dame Edna Treatment” (ITV, UK) on Saturday for some “serious pampering” and “vocal therapy a la Edna”! For more information check out Dame Edna’s web site.

sorry to not be around lately not due to anything but life etc. lots of baby stuff, Vali the little one now says her name when you ask her what her name is… well she says “Lalee” anyway, has trouble with ‘v’ i am hearing now that we WILL be over to the UK in the summer for festival season, that is July ’07 sometimes, i dont know if it’s confirmed yet, but seems likely then there’s our YOUTUBE project “FIENDS” which is a parody of ‘friends’ the awful tv show, i mean i never ever even so much as watched the credits for friends but i knew what it was, very popular etc. so when Barbara my wife and her friend Elenor wanted to do this thing, i actually had to watch the credits… so i shot it and did the music, the singer is my friend Jason, Barbara directed it… please help promote it if you like it, we are trying to get it up there in hits, so far we are doing ok with it one can see it at FIENDS
click there or go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6vJPPB0cHM i will get some more stuff up here soon meanwhile i am getting so many autograph and picture requests its crazy, again (again again again etc etc) i’m sorry that i cant do anything about them here but there are just too many and we aren’t set up to deal with em