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Legends of the Chelsea Hotel : living with the artists and outlaws of New York's rebel mecca / Ed Hamilton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamilton, Ed, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Artists.
- Authors--Biography.
- Authors.
- Musicians--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Musicians.
- Dissenters--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Dissenters.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities.
- New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
- New York (N.Y.)--Biography.
- Chelsea Hotel--Biography.
- Chelsea Hotel.
- Hamilton, Ed, 1968-.
- Hamilton, Ed.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (358 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- There's a current that courses through the old Chelsea Hotel, an electricity that drives people relentlessly to create. It's an energy that longtime resident and creator of Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog" Ed Hamilton will tell you often drives inhabitants to madness. In a series of linked cyanide capsules, Legends of the Chelsea Hotel tells the odd, funny, and often tragic truth of the writers, artists, and musicians the famous and the obscure alike who have fallen prey to the Chelsea. Readers enter one of Dee Dee Ramone's flashbacks; meet the ghost of author Thomas Wolfe; learn of movie star Ethan Hawke's mystical powers over women; see the ungodly acts allegedly being perpetrated in the basement club Serena's; and feel the dark aura of Room 100, where punk rocker Sid Vicious killed his girlfriend Nancy. Other Chelsea residents past and present who will be included: Ryan Adams, club kid/murderer Michael Alig, Sarah Bernhardt, the Warhol Factory's Richard Bernstein, Victor Bockris, Charles Bukowski, Leonard Cohen, Lesbian activist Storme DeLarverie, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, Janis Joplin, Jack Kerouac, Madonna, Edgar Lee Masters, Arthur Miller, Edie Sedgwick, Sam Shepard, Patti Smith, Dylan Thomas, and Rufus Wainwright.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1995
- Movado
- Harry and the Zombie
- The Swordsman
- 1996
- The Truth about Those Fancy Hotels
- Indie Rockers Cash In
- Herman Melville at the Chelsea
- The Willie Nelson Christmas Album
- How to Score a Pad at the Chelsea
- 1997
- The Manatee
- Nanny by Trade
- The First Punch
- The Revelatory Work
- The Eighth-Floor Bathroom
- Vicky and Keanu
- 1998
- Twilight of the Club Kids
- Junky Joe and the Europe of the Mind
- Dietary Tips of the Homeless
- Chelsea Death Cult
- Cowboy Doc
- 1999
- Run
- The Gray Man of the Chelsea
- The Paintah
- How to Get Yourself Sent Away
- Donuts Sandwiches
- 2000
- Dee Dee's Challenge
- The Easter Nest
- Charles James's Drafting Table
- The Transient Room
- The Long Black Hairs
- 2001
- Chelsea Soundstage
- Chelsea Barbershop
- Two Thefts
- New York Breakdown
- Alchemy and the Depths of Human Experience
- 2002
- The Downtown Hipster
- Three Chelsea Elevator Stories
- A Second Chance
- A Time to Every Purpose
- The Whopper
- No Change at the El Quijote
- Chelsea Style
- Shirley and the Angel of 23rd Street
- 2003
- The Ultra-Famous Incredibly Chic Chelsea Hotel Bar
- Another Satisfied Customer
- Offenses against God and Man in Serena's
- Chelsea Séance
- The Bad Coffee
- The Vortex of Psychosis
- 2004
- The Stage
- Disparate (Albeit Strangely Complementary) Reactions to the Hotel
- All Hopped Up and Ready to Go
- Eastern (European) Philosopher
- Glass Houses
- World of Dream
- 2005
- The Transformative Power of Dirt
- How to Paint Yourself into the Chelsea
- Juanita's Baby
- The Unfairness of It All
- Dormitory of the Deranged
- Expert Advice on Combating Terrorism
- The Christmas Con
- Two Tales of Urban Moxie
- The Last of the Superstars
- 2006
- Something Like an Eternal Debate.
- The Lost Art of Angling
- Thanksgiving Greetings from Montana
- Stanley Bard's Long-Lost Son
- Ghosts and Legends
- Afterword
- References
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-318).
- ISBN:
- 9786612788567
- 9781282788565
- 1282788566
- 9780306820007
- 0306820005
- OCLC:
- 680628325
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