TURN ON, TUNE IN...DROP DEAD... width="425" height="350" .. WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL APOLLO STAAR FANCLUB, but mostly HATECLUB. IF YOU DON'T KNOW ME, THEN YOU PROBABLY HATE ME. I'M OK WITH THAT. The above collage was made by Elle. thank you. A FEW THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE ADDING ME: I DONT ADD BANDS.... I DONT ADD KIDS... I DONT ADD UGLY PEOPLE... I DONT ADD STUPID INSECURE SCENE WHORES WHO POST UP SHIT ABOUT FRIEND TRAINS OR WHORE FOR WHORE SHIT...AND I WILL DELETE YOU IMMEDIATELY.. I DELETE PEOPLE WHO POST UP STUPID BULLETINS.... I DONT ADD RANDOM DUDES....SORRY...ITS NOT MY THING...-----------------------I'LL ONLY ADD YOU IF I LIKE YOUR MAIN PIC OFF THE BAT, IF YOU'RE HOT, AND IF I WOULD WANT YOU AT ONE OF MY CLUB NITES SINCE I POST A BUNCH OF STUFF UP ALL THE TIME. BUT OTHERWISE, WHY WOULD I ADD YOU IF I HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON WITH YOU AND WOULD JUST GET IRRITATED BY YOUR POINTLESS BULLETINS TAKING UP MY BULLETIN SPACE? GET IT? AND I DON'T TAKE THIS STUPID SITE SERIOUSLY. no hard feelings...but I am a real asshole when it comes to people I couldnt care less about. love, Apollo Staar-------------------------------------------- some pics from the past... AND This is me today… THE FOLLOWING CLIPPINGS ARE A SMALL SELECTION OF ARTICLES THAT I SAVED FROM YEARS AGO WHEN I USED TO MAKE A LIVING BY GOING OUT, NOW I DESPISE IT. "I used to be famous for just BEING Apollo Staar and carrying my camera around snapping away, but now I'm a bit of a recluse and have numerous phobias against large crowds in open spaces" "I have over 15,000 fotos of niteclubbers and partygoers from the last 11 years in Hollywood, many of my old friends are now dead" "I remember when we did club SUPERSTARR in 1998, there was this kid who'd go around to each table and blow coke up everyones noses with a straw...it was amazing we never got raided by the Police or feds since all the booths were dusted with white powder at the ends of the nites..." "Back then it seemed like everyone was everywhere...it was a real family....a real incestuous family..." "One time Holly Woodlawn was too drunk to perform so she took off her heels that she had been hobbling along on, since one of the actual stilletos had broke off, and then started to sing Lou Reeds' Walk on the wildside as she staggered about our stage barefoot, it was pretty genius actually, at the end of the nite I gave her cabfare and a few extra bucks to fix the heels..." "We never made a dime on all those nites, it was just one huge VIP room where everyone inside was someone, so nobody paid to get in..." "We couldnt afford to pay the performers or bands with money, so we just gave them drugs, free cigarettes that we had been getting from Camel and a free fotoshoot at Ultrastar, which they seemed to like the best..they felt that I made them feel like 'real' stars..." "It was like 5am and I remember watching Leif Garret get this crazy tattoo on his upper arm at my studio(Ultrastar) from some back woods drifter tattoo artists guy we had picked up at this club and when it was done, we couldnt tell what the hell it was....I'm sure its still on his upper arm" ************************************************************ ****** I COULD WATCH THIS FILM OVER AND OVER AGAIN .. width="425" height="350" .. HERE ARE SOME OF THE NITES THAT I AM CURRENTLY PROMOTING AND DJing AT.
THIS IS MY VERY SIGNIFICANT OTHER. Here are some of my favourite books of the moment:WHO I DONT WANT TO MEET: STUPID PATHETIC LA BIMBO BLONDE WANNABE ACTRESSES AND MODELS...Dye that hair DARK and get a real fucking personality. Other than that, STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME YOU UNEDUCATED CLICHE...I like smart sexy and classy women. I HATE and will vomit on stupid LA girls that need the acceptance and slobber of a stupid male to feel worthy. I SHIT ON THE WHOLE STUPID PATHETIC WANNABE MODEL/ACTRESS/BIMBO/GET PLASTIC SURGURY/NEED GROSS GUYS TO HIT ON ME TO FEEL VALIDATED/WILL USE MY SUPPOSED GOOD LOOKS TO GET WHAT I WANT world...I despise ignorance but I tolerate it for the puposes of self entertainment quite often. But don't worry, you'll never know when thats happening...I keep it very hidden and diplomatic. THE FOLLOWING ARE SOME OF MY INTERESTS AND OBSESSIONS.... I LOVE Edward Gorey but I'm not into all that Poseur 'Nightmare Before Christmas' crap that EVERYONE jumped on the bandwagon to fit in and try to be accepted and cool. Fuck that Disney shit. I COLLECT ADULT PAPERBACKS FROM THE 60s AND 70s... This is a still from the film my best friend, Paul Sapiano, directed..BOYS AND GIRLS GUIDE TO GETTING DOWN. I personally DO NOT do drugs. DRUGS ARE BAD..alot of my close friends are no longer here because of drugs. APOLLO IN FRONT OF 2 PORTRAITS BY MICK ROCK. I Don't DJ with an IPOD or even own one, but isn't this fuckin COOL?!!! I have very different beleifs than you most likely.I was raised in the anti-establishment and counterculture 70s. My mother ran the community garden in Pasadena in the late 70s and I was raised under Eastern Philosophy teachings, based on Hinduist beliefs, meditation, yoga, healing and vegetarianism. I mostly ran around naked as a kid, since my mom didnt believe in disposable diapers or anything commercial. Honey instead of sugar, carob instead of chocolate, wheat bread instead of white bread, a package of raisins instead of a twinkie. Organic everything. I hated it back then, but now I appreciate it that I am relatively healthy, aside from my bad habits. ONE OF MY PAINTINGS FROM MY SERIES OF 70s ROCK STARS I used to be a designer….but now I am focusing on my photography. THIS WAS FROM MY FIRST COLLECTION
.. width="425" height="350" ..I AM A MESSENGER FROM OUTER SPACE HERE TO INFILTRATE, DO RESEARCH ON HUMANS AND SPREAD MY MESSAGE 1.Bowie 2.Velvet Underground 3.The Who 4.The Stones 5.Rush 6.Duran Duran, The Cars 7.New York Dolls, Iggy, Dead Boys, Generation X 8.Donna Summer 9.(early)Van Halen 10. The Jam 11.Sex Pistols, KISS 12.Missing Persons 13.Blondie 14.Richard Hell & the Voidoids 15.Afirka Bambaataa—Psychedelic Furs-Ultravox-The Fall-Iggy Pop-The Plugz-The Vapors-Magazine-The Southern Death Cult-Bauhaus-Tones on Tail-Love & Rockets-45 Grave-Haunted Garage-Death Ride 69-Cradle of Thorns-The Skinny Bodies(circa '92)-The Damned-The Voluptuous Horrors of Karen Black-The Mau Mau's-Fad Gadget-The Addicts-The Plastics(japan, circa early 80s)-Buzzcocks-Cocksparrer-John Sex-Grace Jones-Gene Loves Jezebel-The Lords of the New Church-Jesus and Mary Chain-Sisters of Mercy-Clan of Xymox-Alien Sex Fiend-Hallucination Generation-Orbital-Japan-Malaria!-Killing Joke-Nina Hagen-Danielle Dax-Lene Lovich-Cramps-Strawberry Switchblade-The Vapors-The Sweet-Cheap Trick-The Stains-The Stillettos-G.G. Allin & the Murder Junkies-The Mau Maus ELECTRONIC:-Psychic TV-Genesis P.Orrige-Foetus-KMFDM-Skinny Puppy-Front 242-Meat Beat Manifesto-Revolting Cocks-Einsturzende Neubauten-Chris & Cosey-Coil-Butthole Surfers-St. Francis E-Soft Cell-Depress Mode-Soulsonic Force-Mantronix-Knight of Bass-Newcleus-Cybotron-Cabaret Voltaire-Kraftwerk-Gary Numan-Klaus Nomi-Wolfgang Press-CLASSICS:-Francois Hardy-Nico-Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg-Margo Guryan-Brigitte Bardot-Edith Piaf-Sergio Mendez & Brasil '66-Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass-Burt Bacharach HERE IS SOME NEW MUSIC THAT I LIKE: Uffie, DJ Feadz, Justice, Mr. Oizo, Justice, Kavinsky, Sebastian, Busy P, Matt Simms, MYNX, Soft Box(coming soon), The Fitness, His Masters Choice, Drumcell. .. width="425" height="350" .. fischerspooner
I WENT TO FILM SCHOOL FOR YEARS AND HAVE A DEGREE IN FILM DIRECTING AND THEORY. I ONLY LIKE 60s FOREIGN CINEMA, UNDERGROUND ART FILMS, B-MOVIES FROM THE 70s AND 80s, THE CINEMA OF TRANSGRESSION, KENNETH ANGER, AND FILM THAT MAKES A SOCIAL STATEMENT ABOUT THE TIMES AND CREATES A MOVEMENT. I VOMIT ON THE HOLLYWOOD FILM MAKING MACHINE THAT HAS SOLD ITSELF OUT. I SHIT ON ADAM SANDLER, KEANU REEVES, SANDRA BULLOCK AND ANY OTHER PATHETIC HOLLYWOOD STAR THAT ACCEPTS $$ FOR MAKING ABSOLUTE SHITE FILMS. ALL TIME FAVES: THE WILD ONE-HELLS ANGELS '69-THE WILD ANGELS-THE LORDS OF FLATBUSH HIGH-THE LOVELESS-GIMME SHELTER-LUCIFER RISING-SCORPIO RISING-TAXI DRIVER-SAT. NIGHT FEVER-RUMBLE FISH-FRENCH CONNECTION-BULLET-
Im the absoulte LAST person in LA to NOT have Cable, so I dont watch too much TV, but I do love to curl up with a nice cup of hot Earl Grey tea with lemon and cream and watch Conan O'Brien. Some of my favourite programs are Globetrekker with Ian Wright, Americas Test Kitchen, Yan Can Cook, Cosmos with Issac Asimov, Nova, National Geographic Explorer, The World of Jacques Cousteau, Psychology with Dr. Philip Zimbardo(a series from the 70s), etc...I like documentaries and travel programs and smart and intelligent TV in general. Im a total brainy nerdy type underneath. They tell its sexy. haha.
I collect ALL WARHOL BOOKS and Memorabilia. Eventhough he was a big HACK. I have hundreds and almost every one ever published. I love photography books by my favourite fotogs. I love Biographies of the tortured but Beautiful Icons from the 60s thru the 80s, Natalie Wood, Nancy Spungen, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Twiggy, etc. I have a huge colleciotn of books on POP CULTURE and fads from the 50s up to the 90s. And I am obsessed with photo books on street fashions. I also collect books on interior design from the 60s and 70s. I have over 5 thousand books. THESE are just a selection of the ones that interest me this week.
EDIE SEDGEWICK MINI DOCUMENTARY .. width="425" height="350" ..most of my heroes are artists, creative types, textile designers or tycoons, People that have left a visual mark on this earth: PAINTERS-Warhol-Kostabi-Roy Lichtenstein-Robert Indiana-Peter Max-Tom Wesselmann-Frank Stella INDUSTRIAL DESIGNERS-Florence Knoll-Charles Eames-Ettore Sottsass-Dieter Rams-Verner Panton-Eero Aarnio-Syd Mead(a futurist)-Raymond Lowe--PHOTOGRAPHERS-Helmut Newton-Richard Avedon-David Bailey-Francesco Scavullo-William Klien-Richard Kern-Eric Kroll-David LaChapelle-Warhol-Terry Richardson-Ron Galella-Patrick McMullen-Nat Finkelstein-Billy Name-Pierre et Gilles-Robert Mapplethorpe-COMPOSERS-Ennio Morricone-Angelo Badalamenti-Tom Conti-Henri Mancini-Giorgio Moroder-Antonio Stradivarius-FASHION DESIGNERS-Paco Rabanne-Pierre Cardin-Andre Courreges-YSL(70s Rive Gauche)-Mary Quant-Vivienne Westwood-Ossie Clark-Barbara Hulanicky(Biba)-Stephen Sprouse(early 80s)-Patrick Kelly-Thierry Mugler-Olivier Thieskens-ACTORS-Bruce Lee-Chuck Norris-Charles Bronson-Clint Eastwood-Lee Majors-Lee Van Cleef-Matt Dillon(in Rumble Fish and any adaption of any S.E. Hinton novel)Christopher Walken-Crispin Glover-Willem Dafoe(in Wild at Heart)Harry Dean Stanton-Lee Marvin-Mickey Rourke(as the Motorcycle Boy in Rumble Fish)-Marlon Brando-Peter Fonda-Bruce Dern-Jack Nicholson-AUTHORS-Bukowski-Tama Janowitz-Oscar Wilde-Burroughs-Michael Musto-J.D.Salinger-Tom Wolfe-Viktor Bokris-Bret Easton Ellis-S.E.Hinton-Alduous Huxley-Jackie Collins-MY FAVOURITE DIRECTORS ARE IN MY BLOG SECTION.....BUT WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU REALLY CARE....HUH....?