nyc nightlife august 1994 15 years ago this month

nyc nightlife august 1994 15 years ago this month
nyc nightlife august 1994 15 years ago this month

august 4 1994 the USS Intrepid battleship on the west side pier at about 40th street was a popular party setting. it was cool to hang out on the giant top aircraft carrier deck of the boat, and sip summer cocktails as the hudson river breeze blew across the deck. inside the ship there was a dancing area but it was kind of claustrophobic & a bit briney/fishy smelling, but it had a cool subterranean/nautical vibe all the same. guests incl super model/victoria's secret pin up frederique van der wahl [at the time one of the most beautiful wonmen I had ever met], john flanagan, ex-owner of southampton's tavern, and dr janet linda guss. i wore the smiths strangeways tee, a button down ralph lauren peat-green pinstripe polo, and ripped/shredded levis. and YES it was a totally great party & no party Im aware of in summer 2009 has been nearly this good !!! An aircraft carrier for fuck's sake !

august 5,6, & 7: 1994 I visited my brother & his wife elizabeth on fire island & we went dancing at the Monster disco in the Pines!!
* AND the Video re-cap from my 1994 TV show "the Weather Report": the weekend of July 6 and 7, 1994 I visited my brother & his wife Elizabeth at their home on beautiful Fire Island. The weather was magnificent as you can see on my TV show "the Weather Report" as we sit on the beach by the water soaking up rays. The atmosphere in Fire Island was considerably looser, freer, & more active than Main Beach, more of a singles scene & lots of volleyball & hotty girls & boys in skimpy swimwear hooking it up. You could probably say that Fire island is the closest that NY state has to the anything-goes, body-beautiful beaches of Miami, thankfully Long Island is still a bit more subdued than the near-insanity/lawlessness that rules on South Beach, as some of us have experienced in recent years. As much as we can remember of South Beach, if you catch my drift.
My brother & I host a Weather Report segment on the beach, commenting on the 8/8/94 New York magazine, stories include Tom Snyder, & Kate Moss again! The NY Yankees in the NY Times, Howard Stern for Governor in Long Island Newsday [Howie is of course a Long Island native], Lisa Marie Presley's recent marriage to Michael Jackson [!!!], and James Dean in the NY Times Book Review. The weather & beach energy is spectacular on Fire Island, and along with the hotties playing volleyball & swimming in the blue Atlantic Ocean, my brother & I finish off the show with about 7 minutes of frisbee playing & I think youll agree the visual aesthetic/athletic contrast against the gorgeous blue water is pretty intense.


august 18 1994 I saw LUSH at the manhattan center, 7th floor ballroom i guess? obvs shoe-gazing and britpop was 1 of the hottest sounds at this time; LUSH's set incl 'for love' and 'sweetness & light.' miki & louise were a gorgeous pair of front-people but make no mistake, LUSH could rock out live with bouncy rhythms & sheets of feedback- the early 90s were a brilliant era for shoegaze bands like ride, mbv, spiritualized, and lush- and they definitely could play it all live. support from WEEZER! in one of their first nyc dates. and throneberry !!!! another GREAT night of music espec LUSH whom I enjoyed a few other times live around this era. Bet you wish YOU saw weezer in 94!

august 23 1994 I saw the film BARCELONA by whit stillman with janet at the carniegie hall theatre. is that theatre closed now?? Barcelona is an attractive, inoffensive personality setpiece, but Stillman's "Metropolitan" is far better- and an under-appreciated recolection of Manhattan's prep school scene circa 1975-1980.