Part 42 (2/2)
Monday, December 19, 1983 Cabbed tosharp pains went through led down I thought it was the end Especially after seeing that accident on Saturday and how it could just all be over in a second But it went away It must have been some odd s Like we don't do sto the bullethole in hts less I did used to lift weights when I was young At Al Roon's Before it became the Continental Baths and hosted Bette Midler When it was just a regular gy
Tuesday, December 20, 1983 Jean Michel caht up soether, and Jean Michel was so out of it he began painting away Jean Michel and Cles that we're working on together
It was so freezing outside that I decided to stay home Talked on the phone to John Reinhold for two hours Fell asleep and then woke up Then went and broke into Jon's cinna with that kind of sleep where you're sleeping but you think you're awake Then finally froood sleep
Was too lazy to put on the huers
Wednesday, December 21, 1983 Went to Fiorucci and it's soI've alanted, all plastic And when they run out of soain It's the cutest kids, too
Worked till 7:30 then glued myself and went over to Mick's party on West 81st, and it was fun They had a couple of security guys at the door And it was the first tiht it would be on Riverside Drive, and when I think of all the great houses they were looking at I don't knohy they bought this one Jed restored it, but the house is just a regular house
And just the usual people were there Ahmet, and Camilla and Earl McGrath, and Jann Wenner and Peter Wolf and Toood food Maybe it was store-bought, but the best store-bought And Jerry is huge It's so funny to see these girls pregnant ere so slim You can't believe it's the same person It's like a truck She had a tiara and a white wedding-type dress on
Thursday, Dece hard but it had turned warm I was in a terrible awful Christe called and she'd sent me a chocolate TV set she'd had custom-made by one of the advertisers to celebrate our MSG-TV shows She didn't know that earlier in the day we had just gotten the letter saying in black and white that the shoas being cancelled
Friday, December 23, 1983 Cabbed to Interview Interview to the office party to try to feel Christ funny And it see at the party Robert Hayes was there and Cisco, his boyfriend, who's dying of AIDS, and I guess I got really freaked out and I couldn't deal with it The kids had all gone to his house-he e and they ate it He's made dinner for them before We used to to the office party to try to feel Christ funny And it see at the party Robert Hayes was there and Cisco, his boyfriend, who's dying of AIDS, and I guess I got really freaked out and I couldn't deal with it The kids had all gone to his house-he e and they ate it He's o to his restaurant all the time to his restaurant all the time
Saturday, December 24, 1983 Halston's place was really Christ himself Bianca was there with Jade, and Peter Beard and Cheryl Tiegs, and Jennifer and Jay from the office, and Halston's niece No Steve Rubell Dinner was delicious, cranberries and turkey, and I porked Halston gave hed like 4,000 pounds And the presents weren't really that great-it wasn't like the other Christmas Eves there Biancato Diane Von Furstenberg's and I hadn't been invited So I guess I'm off her list She must have chosen Bob over me Well, then she missed a Christmas present I don't know, it was never that et ot me out of there by 12:00, and walkedblue Took a Valiuot me out of there by 12:00, and walkedblue Took a Valiuot about the world
Sunday, December 25, 1983 Got up and it was Sunday Tried to dye my eyebrows and my hair I wasn't in the mood Went to church Got not too uess Tried to wrap presents I was going to have Peter and Chris over to plan our trip to Aspen the next day I guess I took all day wrapping presents and I think by the tih a lot of fuzzy paper
Got a picture of Georgia O'Keeffe fro fro
Monday, January 2, 1984-Aspen, Colorado-New York Got back to New York and got a Scull limo (20 to the driver) The driver said he'd picked up Jean Michel and drove hio to Hawaii for two months And I hope he paid his rent in advance Got home and was really tired Watched TV, took a Valium
Never took a bath the whole ti That's a good story, isn't it? But ood but I was depressed because Jon is so aloof He says he needs to be his own person, and I always feel like he's just about to leave, so I never can feel relaxed
Wednesday, January 4, 1984 Vincent was upset because it was in the newspapers that I' a party at Club A for Christopher on January 10, and now everybody is calling the office to get invited and driving hi it thatit that my name could only be used in a minor minor way, but the invitations arrived and they say, ”Andy Warhol invites you to ” way, but the invitations arrived and they say, ”Andy Warhol invites you to ”
Peter called and said it was Chris's birthday and was I going to take theht about that to get out of having to do it
Then I took Benjamin as my date to a party at Louise Melhado's Jennifer had coive us the wrong address But we eventually found it We were both dirty and in our bluejeans and it was hard explaining why Benjamin was there But it was an old crowd so the old boys wanted to meet him Decorators
Dropped Benjamin (cab 20) I went hoood Then went to bed early But then I remembered the caviar in the kitchen that Calvin had sent so I started down the stairs-I was in my socks-and it was like a comedy, I slipped and fell three tiot bruised Macy's and Zabar's were having a caviar war this Christot his at William Poll so he probably paid a lot for it
Woke up in theof the expose of my life that I hear Wo
Oh, and David Whitney called and said yesterday that Leo Lerirl in England who does the and the girl in England who does the Tatler Tatler was going to be editor I don't know, I think they should justto be editor I don't know, I think they should just ue used to be and downgrade used to be and downgrade Vogue Vogue to the to the Maderading level and go on down the line downgrading
Saturday, January 7, 1984 Had to go to see the Keith Haring closing (cab 8) Went all the way down there to see what people are doing and I got jealous Bought Keith memorabilia and posters from the show (95) This is at the Disco annex of the Tony Shafrazi Gallery Ran into people and it eird This Keith thing reminded me of the old days when I was up-there
And then ent to see Lichtenstein's show, and he did a ht on the wall Like picking up the graffiti thing from the kids, but I think it's so silly, ould he want to do that But somebody told me they'll put sheetrock over it and it'll be underneath and then someday they'll peel it away So then ent to a duck exhibit, a new kind of old art, primitives like duck decoys
And then ent to Peter Bonnier's gallery and it was Steve Jaffee's paintings, and there's a portrait of Jean Michel in it and Jean Michel told
Sunday, January 8, 1984 Calvin called and wanted to know if it orth going to Chris's party at Club A on Tuesday And I had a fight with Chris because he's saying that I can't bring whoever I want I mean, my name's on the invitation as the host and I can't invite anybody I want? And then when I ask Chris who's co he tells me the names and it's every boy he's ever had
Monday, January 9, 1984 Fred walked in and the first thing he said was that I stole his Christid itated She has nothing better to do so she just went and told him I stole the scarf that was delivered for him while he ay I think she's sick in the head
Tuesday, January 10, 1984 This was the day of Christopher's grand party at Club A and so everyone was calling us to get in and Chris was being so grand and saying no no no, that it was so exclusive Calvin and Steve Rubell called a few tihs) what he should wear what he should wear
I aiting for Jerry Hall to come down to take her picture for a portrait, but she was a no-show, and she didn't call or anything, which was strange She's usually reliable, Jerry I don't knohen the baby is due Wouldn't it be awful for Mick if it was another girl? If she has a boy, they'll get ave me an idea-a Statue of Liberty portfolio
Then had to leave and it was snowing by then Finally got a cab (4) and then when I got there, there was really nobody there This party was supposed to be ”Uptown Meets Don,” but it was just dumb meets stupid
Wednesday, January 11, 1984 Jerry Hall called and said, ”Is this the day I'm supposed to come down?” and I just said yes
Jean Michel called from Hawaii He said it wasn't so priuy he saw said, ”Aren't you Jean Michel Basquiat, the New York City graffiti artist?” And he said he met these hippies out there and mentioned my name and they said, ”Oh you s?” And Iabout they should be talking about
Jerry cahter by Marsha Hunt with her, but the girl didn't talk, she just read a newspaper while Jerry and I worked
Jean Michel called again from Hawaii I told him to cut off his ear He probably will Went hoe
Sunday, January 15, 1984 I was a judge at the cheerleading tryouts for the New Jersey Generals, the tea them in the basement part of Trump Tower It was the final tryout, and I was supposed to be there at 12:00 but I took my time and went to church and finally moseyed over there around 2:00 This is because I still hate the Trus I did of the Truot there and they were already up to the fiftieth girl and there were only twenty left to go Another guy had been filling in for me and he handed irls didn't look special because there was no spotlight on theo off and flash on one and then she would look good, but that was it People like LeRoy Neies He said he voted for anybody who could kick Ivana voted for any of the girls who looked like her off and flash on one and then she would look good, but that was it People like LeRoy Neies He said he voted for anybody who could kick Ivana voted for any of the girls who looked like her
And there were sohips and small waists and sos so there were big spaces between their legs And this cheerleading would be just soet paid So they'd better get the And somebody told Ivana she'd better watch her husband because she could lose hiirls, but then later soirls anyway And seeing these young things and then a sophisticated ”lady” like Ivana, you'd think that soht
And they all had to dance to ”Billie Jean” by Michael Jackson, so we all had to hear ”Billie Jean” seventy ti the tryouts, so it was sick
Went to Beulah Land on 10th Street and Avenue A (cab 6) to see the photography show of the kids at the office-Benjaht near where I first lived when I caht about how hard it was then, walking all that way hos and then dragging theot to Beulah Land they said that I'd just missed everybody's lad I had Like Jennifer's e's aunts and uncles And Benjamin's photos were like my ideas-manhole covers that all looked the same but they were actually all different And Benja-Jeffrey Deitch froy, she did the Peter Beard look-writing little things-and it's alraphs? Stayed there an hour then went to the party at Pyramid for it And it was the same crowd there And these two clubs are the only places I've been to where the kids actually do dress the Fiorucci way-like wearing three dresses at once
Thursday, January 19, 1984 After Benjamin picked me up we passed a candy/newspaper shop and the woave us a box of candy-covered-chocolate-covered peanuts And then ere passing the park and the pigeons were just going crazy, they were so starving, so we threw them the box of it Usually they won't eat candy, but they were so starving they did Barbara Allen called from Barbados because she'd just been interviewed about the expose that Wo on s,” so I can just iuy, the Polish guy is doing on s,” so I can just iuy, the Polish guy
Friday, January 20, 1984 At 12:30 Mrs Tisch was coraphed for a portrait At last so a portrait done (cab to meet Lidija 6) She cah When I first saw her I didn't knoas one, but it is And you think, with all that ht? Why can't they fix rong? She's pencil-thin and she doesn't like red lips because she says her jaw is big, but she wasn't much of a problem Worked all afternoon
Monday, January 23, 1984 Joan Quinn sent Vincent a clipping froeles Ti all this video equiph-some kind of sca all this video equiph-so all these wo to LA to paint Richard Pryor and then going back to Hawaii And Paige is going out there and I told her that she should ets there I et there and he'll be gone
Oh, and this kid came up who said he was Rupert Murdoch's nephew, and Jay, after histhis time, ”He's a fake, I know it” But I think it was a real nephew because he left quickly, he didn't stay on and on
Friday, January 27, 1984 We cabbed down to the Castelli Gallery to see the Jasper Johns show When we got there Jasper was at the door letting so and he let us in I wasn't invited, I don't think-I never saw an invitation Or to the lunch they had either The paintings onderful, and every one was like 600,000 I think Jasper owns most of them, just sells one when he has to Then we left there and went to the South Street Seaport to take pictures there, and that was strange, because right where Jasper and Bob Rauschenberg and Bob Indiana used to live, now there's this whole fake toith 100 million stores Stopped at a Greek coffee shop (24)
Saturday, January 28, 1984 Wandered to the East Village Took a couple of rolls of file Sanders of the Lower East Side, the Rex Reed of the art world-he ith soarette We went to the Fun Gallery, then went to the Lochran Gallery which used to be a furniture store and now they've thrown paintings on the wall and it's a gallery And then ent to Mary Garage What's the naallery? Gracie Mansion On Avenue A And there were five fakes of mine there Electric Chairs And so Left there and saw a sign that said ”Funeral Hoo in, but then they were actually bringing a body in and I freaked out and crossed to the other side of the street in, but then they were actually bringing a body in and I freaked out and crossed to the other side of the street
Sunday, January 29, 1984 No one was available to accoet stuck, so I didn't go down Paige eles tooff to some ranch