ON NUPTIALS, AND LASERS
had been on ‘shrooms that night, I would have never left that room. JT: Right, yeah. C: I mean we didn’t ever leave that room at all that night, but I would have lost my mind with those lasers. JT: Yes, it was incredible. C: And I love in the book where you see that room before we inhabited it. JT: Yes. C: That was really, that was like the feel of that whole trip. Just like, inhabiting these spaces. And then they were gone. JT: Yes, yes. C: Then you tore it all down. And the fleeting kind of magic of that whole trip, the table in the courtyard, you know, everything was just like it happened and then it disappeared. JT: Yes, it was like [whooshing sound]. DD: And you know the fact that nobody had any pictures for a year. JT: Which was brilliant. C: Y’all were brilliant. That was y’all? JT: Yes. DD:Yeah, yeah, yeah. And people said you know, we lived in a fairy tale and then we don’t have a proof! It’s like a dream that you had a dream and then you don’t, you know, you don’t have any proof, and then you get the book, and then you’re like ‘Oh my God that happened to me, I am in the book, and Christeene is in the book! Woah!’ C: Yes. JT: And people really ask us, oh, first thing “Oh you got married, congratulations! Oh, show me a picture of the wedding dress.” That’s the first thing they want to see, right? And we’re like, “No, we don’t have any pictures, we’re working on a book.” People don’t understand it.You know what I mean? C: Yeah. JT: They want to see like oh, our wedding outfit, you know? C: Yeah, like traditional wedding shit. DD: It was very um, something that left a super impression. And it was, I mean, it was a nice party and everything was like super, but the fact I think that they did not take pictures and everyone was so focused on what’s in front of them, on each other, on the music, on the air, on the performance, I don’t know, everything. They were like, this made it a totally different experience. I’M JUST LOOKIN’ FOR A DEAR, DEAR FRIEND OF MINE JT: So yeah, we’ve been talking about it on Union Square. The first time I’ve ever been to New York was in ’88. C: ’88, and you were twenty-something? JT: 26 or something. C: Dangerous age. Dangerous year. JT: And the whole thing. C: Did you go down to Lower East Side at all? Do you remem- ber, Alphabet City, any of that shit? JT: Yes, yes. I actually stayed there. No, the very first time was in Gramercy Park Hotel, which I loved. C: Oh, okay. JT: In the olden days. Gramercy Park Hotel. And then meat- packing district was insane. C: Oh yeah, you said you got to go to that. JT: Yes, I mean, I’ve never seen anything like that in my life before. It was insane. C: I was sadly, the first, when I first started coming here, all of the beautiful meatpacking bars, all of the leather bars, all of those scenes were just slowly closing. Um, and I didn’t get to go into them and explore that shit, and they’re now gone. DD: They’re very good. C: The chess players. What are we on, we’re on Bowery. I love Bowery. We used to go to a bar here called The Slide. And it used to be a secret bar during prohibition, and they would slide the booze down the thing.
DD: Juergen’s song of choice for karaoke, when there’s karaoke, he’ll always sing Falco. C: I can see that shit. DD: Always. C: And you sang, what was the song at your wedding? “Simply the best!” DD: That’s my choice of karaoke song for Juergen. Tina Turner. C: Yep. When I do karaoke, I always go straight to “Superstar” by Karen Carpenter. That’s a good one, I like it. It’s slow, it’s sad but you can get angry in it. JT: Right, yes. C: At the end, you can really let loose. And um, Pointer Sisters. I like The Pointer Sisters for karaoke. JT: Right, yes. C:Very good. JT: What was your first record you bought, Dovile? DD: Me? Uh, Louis Armstrong. JT: Oh wow. C: That was your first record you bought? JT: Really? That’s quite something. C: That’s impressive. JT: You know, she studied classical piano. C:You play piano? DD: Eleven years in uh, classical. C: Oh girl, we shoulda hooked that up at the wedding. *JT, DD and C laugh C: People would have been like [rooster sound], what the fuck! We had two keyboards on stage, we had keys everywhere you little shit, you could have fucking been the bell of the ball again! DD: I think I got that. C: I think you got all the bells you needed for that ball. DD: Oh my God, they are still talking about that wedding. C: Did you, did you keep the dress that I put my face on your butt? DD: Of course! C: Oh good. C: Who knows what will come out! Talking about keeping things you shouldn’t. Oh lord, you should have a very special hell-rais- er box that you should put that thing in. DD: But you know now, everyone, you know they got the book, the Auguri book. C: Oh, I love! DD: And people just sort of like relive it, and then now people can buy it, and look at it, and be like ‘Oh my God, Christeene!’ C: I love that book. JT: it’s a nice format, no? We didn’t want to do it like pompous, it’s nice and small and kind of… C: It’s very intimate. JT: Yes C: It doesn’t fit where a book should sit. You can’t place it. JT:Yeah, yeah. And you know the sequence of the performance, we put, we put, actually, we printed it in five colours. We put it, normally you print something with four colours, right? C: Oh, I don’t know that. DD: We kind of enhanced that part. JT: It’s always in four colours, whatever you see. And we put a fifth colour on top of it, which is florescent. That’s why it looks so nuts. C: Oh, that’s why. So nuts. JT: Yes, because some of it, just fuck, sparks out. C: But it’s actually the way that room felt. JT: Yes. DD: Yes, yes, yes! C: Remember, the lasers and shit, the lights in that room. If I JT: It’s uh, it’s vacuum packed. C: Oh, fuck yeah. I love that. DD: With the jacket, yeah. C: Girl, don’t ever un-vacuum that. JT: Yeah.
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