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PJ DeBoy

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About Me

Greetings. You've stumbled upon my page. How the hell are ya? I do lots of things in NYC. Currently getting new sketch comedy in the can, writing songs and stories and whippin' some folk into shape here on the isle of Manhattan. If you haven't seen SHORTBUS , please do. I play Jamie. The more time that goes by and reactions that I get, the more I realize how special this film is. Thanks to everyone who has written me here with their stories and well wishes. Enjoy yourself, PJ

My Interests

throwing ping pong balls into goldfish bowls at rural carnivals, kona, the smell of mulch, dredging up the future, jukeboxes and pool tables, pumping irony, strangers and their stories, taking baths, roughhousing, hitchhiking, moss, histories of marginalized peoples, nightlife and daylife, sleep, monkeys, anything to do with Baltimore, tossing salad, muscle cars, flitting out, classic pro wrestling, manners, parisian street brawls, wood panelling, seafood, lots of seafood, dreams, maps, untangling knots, impure thoughts, math scrabble, denim, hanging with out-of-town friends, pick-up trucks of my youth, all sorts of hats, and landing in far away places.

Music:

Replacements, Ramones, Magnetic Fields, Funkiller, Neutral Milk Hotel, Meat Puppets, Dead, Butthole Surfers, Left Eye, Sigur Ros, Dylan, Judas Priest, Scissors, Early 80's RnB, Bach, Flaming Lips, Willie Nelson, Def Leppard, The Shins, Prince, Azure Ray, Anna Mae Bullock, The Cramps, Scott Matthew, Tom Petty, Circle Nine, Dvorak, Zeppelin, Waylon Jennings, Bruce, Ocean Blue, Beach Boys, Music Tapes, Miles Davis, Kids on TV, Metallica, Nick Cave, Antony, John Camp Cougarmellon, Beetoven, Chaka Khan, Nirvana, Pretenders, Chili Peppers, Loretta Lynn, Eurythmics, Lou Reed, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Elf Power, Ashford and Simpson, Wainwrights, Tammy, Tanya, Keane, B52's, Joan Jett, REM, Nightmares on Wax, Bitch, Nick Drake, Dwight Yoakam, Hound Dog Taylor, Nina Simone, Jim Croce..And of course, Jay.

Movies:

Desperate Living, Red Balloon, Elephant Man, Outland, Dead Zone, Broken Noses, The Island('80), Umberto D, Me and You and Everyone We Know, White Mane, Love Streams, Drawing Lines, Gloria, Squid and the Whale, Curse of the Cat People, Imagine, The Wall, Garp, Wolfen, Looker, Huckabees, Endless Summer, Junebug, Young Frankenstein, Frankenstein vs. The Wolfman, Conan the Barbarian, Flesh, Female Trouble, Hedwig, Opening Night, Cannery Row, Day of the Locust, Continental Divide, The Thing(Carpenter), Song Remains the Same, Brainstorm, Dazed and Confused, Being There, Hawmps (my first movie when I was a kid), Cujo, Late-Night Adult Films on Super TV, Harold and Maude, 3 Women, Empire Strikes Back, Kramer vs. Kramer, S.O.B., History of the World Part 1, Cabaret, Dressed to Kill, Repulsion

Books:

Spanbauer, Whitman, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Trouble With Normal by Michael Warner, E.A. Poe, Gonzo, Dry, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Demian, James Baldwin, Cookie Mueller, Mark Thompson, Herman Hesse, Paramahansa Yogananda, LJN...

Heroes:

Miss Estelle

My Blog

Return to MATTACHINE

the cops came and I wore eye makeupAnother stellar night. We missed JCM but squeezed out a wicked dancefloor until the July edition.John's Bday Flyer. We all wound up parking it on the ground outsid...
Posted by PJ DeBoy on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:35:00 PST

Mattachine

"Thank Julius' for Gay Bars. Literally." PJ DeBoy, John Cameron Mitchell, and Julius' invite you to...MATTACHINEJulius' is one of the oldest bars in NYC, dating back to 1867. It was named Julius' a...
Posted by PJ DeBoy on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:04:00 PST

DeBoys Fave Dive Bars

In honor of my hosting the HoDown at the COCK this week, I'm re-blogging my fave dive bars from earlier this year that got erased after a having a rather wet early June. The Cock isnt on the list beca...
Posted by PJ DeBoy on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:41:00 PST

"There Is No Hell"

"Recognizing you is expensive," my favorite crazy person said to me as he picked up a leaf off the sidewalk and rose to meet me face to face.He's not homeless, just a local old loon who's always dress...
Posted by PJ DeBoy on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:25:00 PST

SHIRLEY MONA LISA DAVENPORT

The following is an excerpt from Baltimoron, my work-in-progress:Who wants a grilled cheese sandwich? My Grandmother had Alzheimer's. But she had the good alzheimer's. Good alzheimer's? Okay, maybe...
Posted by PJ DeBoy on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:24:00 PST