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Talking with Penelope Spheeris

Written by J.T. Leroy on July 12, 2000. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Penelope Spheeris Spheeris found commercial success with Wayne’s World, The Little Rascals and other films, and went on to make the boisterously entertaining Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years. Now there’s Decline of Western Civilization Part III, which documents the homeless punks in L.A. and the punk rock music they listen to.
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Q&A with Dorothy Allison

Written by J.T. Leroy on June 27, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

A little girl is abused by her stepfather, and one of the ways she deals with the horror, fear and the general degradation of being a victim is she masturbates to the eroticism of it. You’d think such a taboo premise would have child advocacy groups up in arms. Instead, Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of
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Truck-Stop Whores and Racoon Bones: A Novel Excerpt

Written by J.T. Leroy on May 4, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

Glad holds the raccoon bone over my head like a halo. “I have a little something for your own protection,” he says, leaning down over me so close that I can’t help but stare up at the brown patches of skin that mottle the pure whiteness of his face. “Glad, you look like you’re sharecroppin’
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Q&A: The Charmingly Death-Obsessed Alkaline Trio

Written by J.T. Leroy on April 18, 2000. Posted in Posts

Alkaline Trio Putting on some Jawbreaker or Jawbox always acts as an emotional expectorant for me. But just like antibiotics, overuse lessens their ability to disinfect. If the lyrics of Alkaline Trio don’t have the poetic beauty or intelligence of the Jaw-bands, the energy of the music more than makes up for it. On their
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Q&A With Perv’s Jerry Stahl

Written by J.T. Leroy on November 23, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

Fiction Is the Last Frontier Jerry Stahl’s memoir Permanent Midnight (later made into that movie staring Ben Stiller) blew me away–its wicked humor, brilliant language, his breathtaking honesty in telling how he plunged from being a Hollywood tv writer to a low-down street junkie. I became friends with Jerry Stahl more than two and a
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All the Way to Francine

Written by J.T. Leroy on November 16, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

I think about Francine a lot. Though I’ve never met her, I think about her a lot and what she promises. "I bet she’ll go all the way for you," Adam Klein says into the phone to me. "And I’ll be there so you won’t run away like everybody else always does." "I think about
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Q&A With Cuban Crime Novelist José Latour

Written by J.T. Leroy on October 19, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

Between the Darts Q&A With Cuban Crime Novelist Jose´ Latour José Latour is a Cuban writer living in Havana. Akashic Books is putting out his new novel, Outcast (217 pages, $13.95). Publisher Johnny Temple asked me if I wanted to interview him. My only experience of Cuba was when I lived in Miami, where we
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Dennis Cooper’s Telling Interviews

Written by J.T. Leroy on October 12, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

I first read Dennis Cooper’s Try when I was 14. It was the first book I ever completely related to. Bad shit happens to this kid, Ziggy, in the book and there is nobody there to save him. No social workers, no helpful teachers, it all just is. A kid making porn for Ziggy’s creepy
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Q&A with Sugar Town’s Allison Anders

Written by J.T. Leroy on September 21, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

The first time I ever really paid attention to the fact that movies had such things as directors and writers was seeing Gas Foo The first time I ever really paid attention to the fact that movies had such things as directors and writers was seeing Gas Food Lodging (1992) on cassette. My mom had
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Henry Flesh’s Massage

Written by J.T. Leroy on June 8, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

Massage by Henry Flesh Akashic Books, 384 pages, $15.95 When I read a blurb about Henry Flesh’s Massage saying it was about this erotic masseur, Randy, involved in a violent, sadomasochistic relationship with this rich older guy, Graham, who has AIDS… I thought cool! I’ve mostly been reading Goodnight Moon and Babar books, so it was refreshing to read
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