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DrJohn

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About Me

Long-time associate of Empire Hideous; permanent escort of Marzena; reporter and critic for The Aquarian/East Coast Rocker and Screamifyouwantit.com; sponsor of monumental social events and live performances at the personally-owned and operated live venue, known as The Cathedral in Totowa NJ; painter, graphic artist, photographer & writer; frequent denizen of The Lit Lounge/ Fuse Gallery, CBGB's, Albion/BatCave; former denizen of the old Limelight, Bank & Pyramid

My Interests

Cutting-edge & avant-garde arts & artists; gothic-industrial music & culture; 1930s black-&-white Universal horror movies; graphic novels; libertarianism

I'd like to meet:

Others in the New York and north Jersey art & music scene

Music:

NINTH HOUSE, Skinny Puppy; Empire Hideous; Tool; Peter Gabriel; Informatik; Fire Theft; Sparta; Mars Volta; Udet; Modest Mouse; The Mirror Reveals; Dracula-The Musical; Phantom of the Opera; Jeckyll & Hyde; Italian and modern Opera; Philip Glass and minimalists

Movies:

Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi; Baraka; Sexy Beast; 1930s Universal horrors featuring Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr.

Television:

The Sopranos; Seinfeld

Books:

Camille Paglia, Edward O Wilson, Steven Pinker, Michael Shermer, John Updike. "I Am Charlotte Simmons"

Heroes:

Michael Shermer; Mark Twain; H.L. Mencken; Charles Darwin; Camille Paglia; John Updike; Karen Armstrong; Frank Frazetta; Edward O. Wilson; John Stossel; Amazing Randi

My Blog

More Halloween Pix

Okay! Who wasn't dying to see pictures of gorgeous Laura Drager in drag?! So here's we go. Thanks for use of your pictures, Tara!With added bonus pictures of Judge Miguel with the statuesque Georgian,...
Posted by DrJohn on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:52:00 PST

Halloween

The annual masked ball celebrating Halloween was held November 3 at The Cathedral in beautiful uptown Totowa NJ on November 3. A sampling of the guests and their costumes is shown hereHost Doktor John...
Posted by DrJohn on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:53:00 PST

The National

at South Street Seaport on August 17, 2007New York's "River-to-River Festival hosted up-and-comers The National on a drizzly Friday night to a huge crowd of clean-cut hipsters. You can no longer...
Posted by DrJohn on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:25:00 PST

Pink Floyd Cover Band

The Machine/ Starland Ballroom/ June 22, 2007Sayerville NJYahoo lists 12 Pink Floyd cover or "tribute" bands, including entries from L.A., Germany, Denmark, Canada and the U.K. New York's own The Mach...
Posted by DrJohn on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:01:00 PST

<b>SKINNY PUPPY</b>

Skinny Puppy/ Nokia Theater/Saturday June 9, 2007New York CityIcons of the Industrial! Gods of Goth! Creatures, no, CREATORS of the darkside of music!SKINNY PUPPY performed at Nokia on Times Square He...
Posted by DrJohn on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:52:00 PST

<b>The Secret Machines</b>

Many of you were aware of my growing obsessive admiration for the power-rock trio "The Secret Machines" whom I was starting to look upon as potentially one of the greatest bands of the new millenium a...
Posted by DrJohn on Mon, 21 May 2007 08:56:00 PST

Post Halloween Party

Since Halloween fell on a Tuesday this year, we elected to postpone the 5th Annual New Dark Age Masquerade Ball until the Saturday that followed. As always the world's greatest cook and hostess Marzen...
Posted by DrJohn on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 07:13:00 PST

Informatik

INDUSTRIAL MAYHEM/JULY 27, 2006NYCThe Lower East Side bar/club Sixes and Eights (is it "6s and 8s" ?) was the venue for a special event sponsored by Chamber irresistibly entitled INDUSTRIAL MAYHEM on ...
Posted by DrJohn on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:31:00 PST

Frontline Assembly/ Conjure One

Frontline Assembly/ The Trocadero/ June 24, 2006By Doktor JohnPhiladelphia, PA We felt stupid traveling on the shore-traffic-congested Turnpike all the way down to Philly on a rainy Friday to see F...
Posted by DrJohn on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 04:56:00 PST

Bauhaus/ Nine Inch Nails

June 16, 2006PNC Arts Center/ Holmdel NJWhat greater line-up can be imagined?We missed the opening punk-chick band, but arrived in time to catch most of the performance by the great-grandfathers of al...
Posted by DrJohn on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:58:00 PST