Trash Turns Ten – 2.10.12

While it’s true that I don’t go to the Trash party at Webster Hall very often it still has a very special place in my heart. A few months after first moved to NYC I went to the Trash new years eve party on December 31 2006. I was hooked after that. I started shooting the party regularly and I have shot it over 80 times in the last 5 years, by far more than any other party. When it was at Riffi it was my favorite party in New York. Things are a little different now that it’s at Webster Hall but there is a whole new group of kids who fucking love that party and are there every single week. DJ Jess has done an amazing job keeping this party relevant for a decade and I had to be there for his 10th anniversary party.

I had to get on a train at 3am but I took all my shit with me to Trash on Friday. I couldn’t miss this event. My boy Prince Terry’s band Hussle Club opened up the night and I got to work right away shooting them. After that I bonded with a bunch of old friends who I hadn’t seen in ages and some new ones I had met recently. It was a great time.

I had to leave around 2:20AM but right as I was leaving they were getting ready to go with what I am sure was one of the best burlesque shows Trash has ever seen. I am not a huge fan of burlesque but I have shot enough to know what I like and what I don’t. Stormy Leather and Madame Rosebud are two of the five best burlesque performers in NYC and probably the whole damn country. They cannot be fucked with. I have seen them both do their thing many times but never on the same night. Added to that was Sarah Screams who is Joanna Angel’s sister and has pretty much the greatest butt that ever was. She is a god damned professional opera singer and gets naked and sings shit that will blow your mind to a beat that DJ Jess produced. It was a damn shame I missed it all. Fortunately I took pictures of them getting dressed back stage so you get that NSFW fun in your life. Don’t worry. I care about you people.

Once again congrats to DJ Jess and everyone who has had a part in Trash over the years – Brendon James, Twig and Alex Malfunction especially. It’s been a great time hanging out with you guys the last five years. Thanks for letting me be part of the family.

Click here to see all the pictures from the Trash 10th Anniversary party at Webster Hall.

And as a bonus click the numbers to see pictures from the 7th, 8th and 9th aniversaries of Trash!

DJ Jess & Alex Malfunction

Trash 10th Anniversary

Madame Rosebud

Hussle Club

Trash 10th Anniversary

Stormy Leather

Trash 10th Anniversary

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Marlo Marquise

When Marlo Marquise lived in NYC I tried a few time to take photos of her to no avail and then she ran off to LA like a sucker. Fortunately she misses New York so much, as does everyone who leaves for LA, she needed any reminder of the greatest city in the world so she pretty much begged me to come over and take naked pictures of her just so she would have a New Yorker to talk to, if only for an hour or two. That may not be exactly how the whole thing went down but you can’t prove otherwise.

You might notice that Marlo is super hot and has a really rad roof to shoot on in her rad downtown LA loft apartment. It was so bright that we had to keep her in the shade so she could look at me without squinting but that made for some nice shots.  Marlo told me that she owes her whole career to her butt and since people complain all the time that I forget to shoot butts I decided we needed to take a bunch of photos of it. I think I we were successful there.  Also I should mention that this is the first shoot that Marlo has ever done with pubic hair which is probably exciting to someone slightly creepier than I am. I’m just saying.

Okay, this post is getting weird and I know you just skip this part anyway and go straight to the NSFW photos so I am gonna shut the fuck up right now.

Click here to see my Valentine’s Day present to you… all the naked photos I took of the  babelicious Marlo Marquise!

Marlo Marquise

Marlo Marquise

Marlo Marquise

Marlo Marquise

 

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Fuck Art – 2.8.12

Last week I got a chance to check out the private opening of the Fuck Art exhibit at the Museum of Sex. It’s a sex themed street art show and there is some pretty rad stuff in it. You should get over there if you have the chance.  Actually if you haven’t been to the Museum of Sex at all you should really check it out. I hadn’t and the whole museum is pretty fucking amazing.

I showed up at the opening because my friend and porn star Andy San Dimas was working with the artist LUSH and was passing out chocolate dicks made from molds of LUSH’s penis and ice cream that may or may not have had actual human semen in it. Plus she was passing out the ice cream topless so it was pretty worth me showing up for. Plus my friends at Candy Rain magazine were involved in the whole show so I felt like I had to show up.

By the end of the opening everyone was so drunk and people ended up sort of trashing the place. None of the art got damaged or anything but I have never really seen an art opening at a museum turn into total madness where people were getting thrown out and people were tagging the walls. Good times.

Lastly on an unrelated note I should mention that you should come back a lot this week. I realize I have 23 galleries of photos that I need to get up on this site and I plan on, starting tomorrow updating at least twice a day every day this week. There should be a lot of naked girls…

Anyway, click right here to see all the NSFW photos from the Fuck Art show at the Museum of Sex.

Andy San Dimas & Justine Joli

Fuck Art @ The Museum Of Sex

Fuck Art @ The Museum Of Sex

Fuck Art @ The Museum Of Sex

Fuck Art @ The Museum Of Sex

Fuck Art @ The Museum Of Sex

Fuck Art @ The Museum Of Sex

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Reintroducing Teddy Blanks

I have talked about my friend Teddy many, many times on this website but it’s been a while so it’s time for a refresher. Teddy Blanks was the front man for The Gaskets the band I managed for 5 years. They broke up in 2008 and Teddy started making solo music. During this period he released a free EP called Complications which we will come back to in a second. Teddy started playing shows out and he scored the soundtrack for the very successful indie film Tiny Furniture (out Tuesday on Criterion DVD).

A few years ago Teddy co-founded what has become a very successful graphic design studio and put his music on the back burner a little bit but he has now shifted back into full on music making mode. Yesterday he released a bunch of new music starting with a re-release of Complications. Complications has been remixed and is fully ready for you to put into your face. The album is a concept album based on the writings of New Yorker staff writer and surgeon Atul Gawande. If you have never heard pop songs about medical oddities and songs using disease as metaphors for life this is your lucky day. The album is completely free you can listen to it below or download it here.

Teddy also has released all the music that he wrote for Tiny Furniture. Much of it didn’t make it into the movie including a Sinead O’Connor cover that they couldn’t afford the rights to. Most of the music is instrumental but there are a couple pop gems in there including When You Come Home, the song used in the trailer for the film. You can download all the Music From & Inspired by Tiny Furniture for free here.

On top of all that Teddy has released three new demos.  You can download all three demos here. Teddy is hard at work on a new album but these tracks didn’t make the cut, but they are still great songs. Somewhat Hasty is a personal favorite of mine.

Lastly, yesterday Paper Magazine debuted Teddy’s video for the opening track to Complications, Faint & Shaky. The video was directed by Ry Russo-Young who’s new film Nobody Walks was a hit at Sundance and was picked up for distribution by Magnolia Films. The video is peep show themed and Teddy does a little strip tease for your viewing pleasures. So watch this video and if you enjoy it, as I know you will, go back and check out all the other amazing links to music I just sent you!

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More Pictures Of Fucking Bullshit

Listen motherfuckers, I am going to keep posting photos of my band Fucking Bullshit on here because I am an egotist and you guys are just going to have to deal with it. I mean I guess you could stop coming to my website but then you might miss out on some naked tattooed girl or something and how much of a bummer would that be right? So deal with it. I will have a naked tattooed girl for you tomorrow.

Fucking Bullshit played a brand new venue in Williamsburg Brooklyn called Grand Victory. It is military themed which made for awesome shots of me screaming into the mike with war posters that say GIVE ‘EM HELL in the background.  The show itself was pretty awesome cause we opened for 70’s punk fixtures The Brats and there was  decent crowd including a legit 15 year old punk kid who actually gave a fuck about the songs we were playing. There were a couple of cute ladies that knew the lyrics too which made for a good time. Probably the worst part about the whole set was the one of my favorite photographers Tod Seelie showed up which meant I knew I was going to have to do something crazy for his camera. Last time he was at a show I cut my chest open with a broken bottle. This time I decided to go with my head with a box cutter. Next time it will be in the kitchen with a candle stick.

Anyway, the shots are awesome. You can see them all by clicking right here and as always I will post my favorite shots below this very sentence.

Fucking Bullshit @ Grand Victory

Fucking Bullshit @ Grand Victory

Fucking Bullshit @ Grand Victory

Fucking Bullshit @ Grand Victory

Fucking Bullshit @ Grand Victory

Fucking Bullshit @ Grand Victory

Fucking Bullshit @ Grand Victory

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Boozey Guzey

First of all, yes, I am aware that Boozey is spelled wrong. It’s not my fault. On New Years Eve I met this Boozey girl at the Burning Angel NYE party. She was cute and we took some pictures in the bathroom. A few days later she came and saw my band play and a few days after that we took a bunch of naked pictures on a Subway train. Good times!

Boozey is a pretty cool girl. I mean anyone who likes Fucking Bullshit and is down to get naked on a train has to be reasonably rad. She came over to my place around 1am and we walked over to the J Train near my place. We got on the very last car and there was one person on it. Amazingly he got off at the next stop and we had the seven minutes it takes for the J train to cross from Brooklyn into Manhattan to shoot a bunch of naked photos. She had to get undressed and dressed too so really we had about 5 minutes to do a whole shoot.  Fortunately I came up shooting naked girls in bathrooms in the time it takes before someone starts banging on the door.  I know how to shoot quick.

We banged these out while people watched from the other car got off and took the train back. It was pretty crowded on the return trip so we weren’t able to get anything else. I think we got some great shots although I am sure given another seven minutes we could have gotten some even better images. But it was cold and we were tired so we called it a night.

Click here to see all the shots of Boozey Guzey naked in public on the New York Subway.

Boozey Guzey

Boozey Guzey

Boozey Guzey

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Giants Super Bowl Madness – 2.5.12

If you know anything about me you should know that I fucking hate the New England Patriots. As a die hard Miami Dolphins fan and a New Yorker it is my duty to start bleeding from the ears when anyone so much as mentions that pretty boy fuck Tom Brady. I always hated the Patriots but ever since these insufferable pricks started going to Super Bowls my hatred has grown. Add to that more than 5 years living in NYC I not only hate the Patriots but everything about Boston and everyone who lives there. So in 2008 when the New York Giants beat the Patriots to keep the 1972 Dolphins as the only undefeated team in football history I became an instant Giants fan… at least for a few weeks. When the Giants won I danced in the street hugging every Giants fan I met.

Fast forward four years an I once again became a die hard Giants fan if only for one day. I started out my night at Tammany Hall because my friend Dimitry was doing a party there and it seemed like a good place to be but when the Giants scored and there was barely a round of applause I realized that watching football with hipsters was a mistake and I made my way up to Murray Hill to watch with the frat boy types. My Dolphins club, Dolfans NYC meets every week at Third & Long on 35th and 3rd Ave so this seemed like an ideal place to watch the game… and it was. It was 90% Giants fans with a small contingent of Dolphins fans in there for a good mix.

When the Giants won the place went nuts. The bar threw on New York New York and I sang with everyone and started hugging and high fiving like I was a Giants fan since birth. When it was getting close to a Giants victory I grabbed my camera and started shooting. After signing Frank Sinatra (and Jay-Z’s Empire State of Mind) with the crowd at Third & Long I made my way down Third Ave shooting the Giants fans partying in the street. I missed as many shots as I took because I was having so much fun. (I even missed a shot of a cop tackling a guy throwing a trash can witch pretty much ruined my night from that point on.) By the time I made it down to the Lower East Side the partying had subsided and I took the train home. It was a great night and I am so, so glad everyone in Boston cried themselves to sleep last night.

Click here to see all my shots of the New York Giants Super Bowl celebration… live from New York.

Ps. Fuck Boston.

New York Giants Super Bowl Party

New York Giants Super Bowl Party

New York Giants Super Bowl Party

New York Giants Super Bowl Party

New York Giants Super Bowl Party

New York Giants Super Bowl Party

New York Giants Super Bowl Party

New York Giants Super Bowl Party

New York Giants Super Bowl Party

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A-Trak, Skrillex & Spank Rock – 2.3.12

Last Friday Skrillex played one of what seems like a dozen shows in NYC this week at Roseland Ballroom. While I am not a huge fan of dubstep I was pretty psyched for his openers Spank Rock and A-Trak. Skrillex has gotten more press coverage than I can handle in NYC in the last week so I was content to focus on A-Trak and my homies in Spank Rock. Johnny Nelson is in Spank Rock now and he’s got my logo tattooed to his arm so they cannot be fucked. And I had the all access photo pass to shoot A-Trak so most of the shots in this gallery are of him fucking destroying one of the wildest crowds of young kids I have ever seen. It was a blast.

Click here to see all the shots from A-Trak, Skrillex and Spank Rock from the Roseland Ballroom.

A-Trak @ Roseland Ballroom

A-Trak @ Roseland Ballroom

Skrillex @ Roseland Ballroom

Spank Rock @ Roseland Ballroom

A-Trak & Skrillex @ Roseland Ballroom

A-Trak @ Roseland Ballroom

A-Trak @ Roseland Ballroom

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Free Fucking Bullshit Show Saturday At Grand Victory

Hello. If you recall. I have a band called Fucking Bullshit. We play some of the greatest punk rock covers that you could ever wrap your mind around. We change lives every single time we play. I don’t want to sound boastful but we put on the greatest show that has ever been put on by any band in any point in history ever. Each show is better than the next so there is no doubt that this absolutely FREE show tomorrow at Grand Victory in Williamsburg will be the greatest show that there has ever been.

Imagine telling your kids about how you went to see the relaunching of the Glamdammit party at Grand Victory and how you saw the greatest performance in music history. It’s a moment that will go down in rock and roll lore and you were there. Wow. I almost envy you because I will never be able to see myself perform. I sometimes cry myself to sleep at night thinking about how great I am as a punk rock front band and no matter what I do I can never fully experience myself from the point of view of an audience member. I die inside knowing I am going to miss the very performance that you can see for FREE THIS SATURDAY AT 10PM at Grand Victory.

So yeah, you need to come tomorrow. We go on at 10pm. The doors open at 9:30 and you want to be on time because you do not want to miss this fucking brilliance. We open for the Brats who were late 70’s NYC punk legends influencing bands like the Ramones and such.  Plus the theme of the party is Jetboy Jetgirl which is a fucking amazing song about consensual gay pedophilia from the point of view of the child done best by the Damned. Good times.

Okay here are the details:

Fucking Bullshit
10PM
Grand Victory
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
245 Grand St at Roebling
Free!!

Ps. Here are some pictures from our last show at Don Pedros. I climbed a Skeeball machine. It’s what I do.

Fucking Bullshit @ Don Pedros

Fucking Bullshit @ Don Pedros

Fucking Bullshit @ Don Pedros

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