In 1988, “ace” reporter Mike Taibbi (yes, the father of Matt Taibbi, whom we hold in great esteem) produced and aired a 3-part expose on the satanic cult masquerading as a rock band – Missing Foundation.
TAYLOR MEAD IS DEAD. A PISS-POOR OBITUARY IF EVER THERE WAS ONE.
Norman Douglas
In light of the fact that the guys doing my old job at The New York Times dropped the ball on this one, I suppose I must accept that I wouldn’t have gotten much more out of any obit they published than this: Ten years ago, two old icons of a bohemia no longer relevant… Read more »
Taylor Mead, RIP
Nick Zedd
I met Taylor Mead in 1989 when we both acted together in a science fiction movie shot in the Hall of Science at the World’s Fair Grounds in Queens. I’d seen his acting in the seventies when I moved to NYC and saw Nude Restaurant, Lonesome Cowboys, Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man and… Read more »
The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved
Hunter S. Thompson
Welcome to Derbytown I got off the plane around midnight and no one spoke as I crossed the dark runway to the terminal. The air was thick and hot, like wandering into a steam bath. Inside, people hugged each other and shook hands … big grins and a whoop here and there: “By God! You… Read more »
Happy Birthday Terry Southern
Sir Andre Bemler
A few choice photographs of Terry Southern, one of the great writers of the ’60s, with the Beatles, the Stones, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Dennis Hopper and Jean Genet.
Stewart Home’s “Mandy Charlie & Mary Jane” – an Anti-Novel Review
Barbara Adair
Mandy Charlie & Mary Jane: A Novel by Stewart Home (Penny Ante Editions, Los Angeles, 2013) Read an excerpt from Mandy Charlie & Mary Jane. Who reads Stewart Home? Home will say “very few, people are cowed by the malevolent society in which we live, they believe in its values for they have no other… Read more »
Fred Frith – An Interview
Fred Frith & The Editors
Three Sensitive Skin editors had a chat with legendary musician and composer Fred Frith. We asked him some good questions, and some (or so he apparently thought) pedantic ones. But that’s how we roll. Fred’s answers were always interesting…
Zona Norte – Photographs
Chris Bava
Arriving in Tijuana after over a decade of heroin abuse in a past life, I felt the garish lights of Tijuana’s zona de tolerancia, or North Zone, beckoning. I was fascinated by their resonance, and the street life, brimming with pathos, quickly made la zona norte my favorite part of town.
Mayakovsky – New Translations
Vladimir Mayakovsky & Jenny Wade
In 1913, at the age of 19, Vladimir Mayakovsky hit the Russian art scene like a tornado. Within a year, he published his first poems and lithographs; went on a 17-city lecture tour; published articles on Russian theater; wrote, produced and starred in his first play; and, along with his gang of friends, launched a new art movement—Futurism…
John Lurie – New Paintings
John Lurie
John Lurie’s drawings and paintings express a disarming mixture of corrosive wit, raw emotion and unblemished sensitivity. His works bear the mark of an outsider, a quality present throughout his idiosyncratic career. To quote the artist: “I like to draw and paint. It is a river to me. I am not an Indian.”
The United States of Hoodoo
Darius James & Ghazi Barakat
Ghazi Barakat discusses “The United States of Hoodoo” with long-time friend Darius James, who stars in the documentary film. They cover everything from Sammy Davis and the Church of Satan to the murder of Robert Johnson to Maya Deren and Eartha Kitt.
William S. Burroughs: Interview
Allen Ginsberg
A Sensitive Skin web exclusive! Allen Ginsberg interviews William S. Burroughs in Lawrence, Kansas in 1992. With photographs by Ruby Ray, from the original REsearch magazine sessions, and drawings by David West. With an intro by B. Kold.
John S. Hall at the Bowery Poetry Club
John S. Hall
John S. Hall, of King Missile fame, reads a poem, “I Hate this Guy,” that he apparently wrote on his way over to the club on his Blackberry. As soon as John Kruth is ready on sitar, he quits it and moves on to “How They F***ed,” which was originally published in Sensitive Skin #7. Brilliant, hilarious and seriously NSFW.
James Romberger – August 1977
James Romberger
Noted painter, comic book artist and writer James Romberger provided the back cover for Sensitive Skin #9, a one-pager entitled “August 1977,” more proof that things go around in circles when you drink too much…
Bump Your Ass Off
Anna Mockler
We was going to be late if he didn’t hurry up, he was cutting it really close, and I was almost mad with Rudy if he was going to make us late for the end of the world at Coney. I looked at my Roylex and I said patient, it never does no good to… Read more »
Chapter 90 – Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders
Samuel R. Delany
Inadvertently, Chapter 90 of Samuel R. Delany’s recent novel, “Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders,” was deleted from the book by the printer. A Sensitive Skin exclusive, here’s the “missing” chapter from Chip’s latest book…
New Bedford Real Estate
Amman Sabet
Usually, i tell people i’m from around Boston, but I’m not even from there. I grew up just outside New Bedford. It’s a port city on the South Shore that used to be big on whaling. You got lots of ugly Portuguese there. I live and work in L.A. now and when I tell my… Read more »
Claritas
Justine Frischmann
“Claritas,” a new painting by Justine Frischmann, oil and acrylic on panel, 2012.
Sensitive Skin issue #9 is available in a full-color paper edition, and features an exclusive interview with seminal guitarist Fred Frith, the missing chapter from the latest novel by science fiction legend Samuel R. Delaney, a portfolio of paintings from John Lurie, a memoir by Marty Thau, former manager of Suicide and The New York Dolls, a new translation of poetry by Vladimir Mayakovsky, photographs of the seamy side of Tijuana by Chris Bava, an interview with Darius James, about his new documentary, 'The United States of Hoodoo,' art by J.D. King and James Romberger, and much, much more.
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