The Rev. Spyros' Snake Oil Emporium

Why am I always with painted bitches?

Here I am at the Ron English opening in SoHo a few weeks back.

 

Here I am at The "Digital Experience" before the Consumer Electronics Show  in Vegas. Pattern?

 
 Note - it must be the Army jacket.

How many times can you write about Amanda Lepore?

I'm a big fan of indy magazines.  Most of you who know me know I've worked at quite a few indy rags and though they don't pay great they are full of great people and keep my ADD at bay with all kinds of fun stuff I get to witness, learn about and in the end contribute to. 

So where's this going?

Indy magazines seem to have a pattern of circling back to the same subjects I'm kind of tired of hearing about.  Please - all you indy magazines (and you know who you are) give us a break from the following:

• Amanda Lepore
• Theo Kogan  
• As Four or Three as Four or whatever 
• Joey Arias
• Milla Jovovich
• Spencer Sweeney 
• Heatherette
• Terry Richardson
• David Lachapelle
• The Beastie Boys
• Lee Scratch Perry
• Beck 
• the Alleged Gallery
• ALife
• Deitch
• Susan Bartsch
• Nigo/Bathing Ape
• Style Wars
• Ryan McGuinness
• Shepard Fairey
• Misshapes
• Vincent Gallo
• Andrew Andrew
• Amy Sedaris
• David Sedaris
• Perez Hilton
• Bjork
• KAWS
• Andy Warhol
• Austin
• Seattle
• Burning Man
• Pharrell/N.E.R.D.
• Parker Posey
• Gus Van Sant
• Gwen Stefani
• Jean Paul Gaultier
• Simon Doonan
• Alexander McQueen
• Michael Alig
• Spike Jonze
• Harmony Korin
• Jim Jarmusch
• Patrick McMullen
• Paul and Chloe Sevigny
• The Ronson Family
• The Aoki Family
• The Gondrys

There's more, but that will do for now - folks it's a big world and we have a rich cultural heritage we can write about - I'd much rather hear about a new band than what Moby's got going on.  And the 90's didn't start and end artistically with the word OBEY. 

There used to be a magazine I loved called NEST - I knew one of their sales reps.  I asked him why the owner of NEST was folding the magazine - he said because he didn't want to repeat himself - I fucking love that. Take a cue.