Richard Hell continues to do some press in advance of the release of his memoir, "I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp," on Tuesday.
Today, the Post features the longtime East Village resident in its weekly My New York feature... You can read it here.
And he was a Mystery Lot fan!
10. Vacant lot, north side of 13th Street, between Second and Third avenues (now a construction site)
“Whenever I would have to walk across town, I’d try to wrap myself down 13th Street. The lot was all overgrown. And when you were walking down 13th, the buildings that were still standing on 14th Street gave it this kind of broken-toothy kind of edge to it. A friend of mine wanted to make a movie with me — and my first idea was to do something in that lot. I put on a bunch of wounded-person makeup and staggered out from behind one of the 14th Street buildings. I have the footage, somewhere.”
Aside from the interviews that we've already mentioned (The New York Times last Sunday, the Observer), there have also been Hell Q-and-As in New York magazine... Esquire ... Spin has some book excerpts here.
Previously.
" the buildings that were still standing on 14th Street gave it this kind of broken-toothy kind of edge to it."
ReplyDeleteYeah, I loved that. It looked like a blocky abstract expressionist painting, or something. I tried to photograph it, but just couldn't capture it.