Stacy Fine

About me:

born in US Flushing Queens, NY at 12:29 a.m. Nov. 1, 1965, All Saints Day:) Start:Great Neck> NYC>>Kutsher's Camp Anawana>OB Fire Island>Manhattan Schooled from Upper East Side to>UNIS=the U.N. School, WAGNER JHS 163> BRONX SCIENCE>CITY AS, i took a YEAR OFF to WORK/LIVE DOWNTOWN. first address 24 Prince St. One fun year. BARD COLLEGE, HUNTER COLLEGE I dropped out to live in Lausanne, CH, back to US after 1 year away. then I was LIVING IN BKLYN '87, WORKING AT Save The Robots, going to Hunter BTW: I worked at the Grand, Area, Ritz, baby doll lounge, Undochine, Irving Plaza, Rex, Rebar and Peretti's--old Colombus Ave. restaurant. Managed the delivery boys like Greg Tarr and clifford and Carl who delivered pizzas on skateboards round UWS. In '88 I met: Alison Mayer, Steve Blush and Carlo McCormick cuz we were all working at Jon Sidel's UNDOCHINE 'til that was shut down because of missing CABARET LICENSE. So, Al, Blush Carlo and I, we made a Lite Lounge, Monday Nites at Carmelita's (NYC, 14th Street & Third Avenue above Disco Donut (1988-90) Blush played the best music and so many people had fun. Lots 'a notoriety (good press) helped. We booked James Chance there who had not played live in YEARS, KAREN FINLEY made a performance there. The Cramps hung out there as did a few Ramones. We threw parties for Gerard Malanga and lent party to Robert Longo. Malcolm Forbes went there regularly and the scene was very cool. TON LOC guest DJ'd so did Towah and Dimitri from DEE LITE. After the building of Carmelita's was shut down (de Lorenzo-Happylands connection) "concepting" live music nites for rest/club owners became my specialty. Eventually I became a writer/ commercial writing, poetry, fashion, music book reviews art curator town of wdsck friend--essentially a published writer and publicist besides... being a good promoter. I'm a good actor and friend. I dance. Why I know the showbiz? Met Sinatra when I was 9. Did my school, clubbing every weekend and worked since age 16 tearing tickets at Jerry Brandt's RITZ and NC's Ritz--bartender w/ The Sluts, later me directed the opening from post building purchase of Webster Hall-Casa Galicia to opening. Worked that w/ CLARK RENDER, SUSANNE BARTSCH and THE BALLINGERS of Canada. I've myself produced and promoted or participated in the production and promotion of live performances and parties (given) by cosmic legends like (WAYNE & SYLVIE w/whom I worked/performed 2x with the Living Theatre Judith and Hanon's:) dream come true. might be REMEMBERED for working with the likes of: Deborah Harry (2x), Karen Finley (Lite Lounge's "14th St. Fashion Show") The Voluptuous Horrror of Karen Black. Elston Gunne (aka Workdogs), LYRES (2x), Benjamin Liu (assistant) Bob Gruen (publicity). Booked/promoted/placed: James White aka James Chance (2x), Soundgarden (location scout for private performance, found the spot for A&M) Dee Dee Ramone (my laugh is on his rap album (the song is "Brooklyn Babe") Dee Dee and Daniel Rey gave me a credit too: "Special Thanks" for bringing food into Chung King Studios because they were starving... Claim to fame not--too many to mention, mostly produced 2 great sons but once I tweaked a Ramones lyric for the song "Pet Sematary" (minor but true:) I ate dinner with Susan and Tony Bennett, Fredric Dannen, Cindy Sherman...BOOKED AND GAVE ADVANCE $ to produce "Acoustic Johnny Thunders" show at REX (instigator, co-producer and soundperson for what was Thunders' last NYC show), I hosted live performances and promoted/paid: Luscious Jackson (2x), Kris Gruen, Five Points Band, The Bowmans, Thurston Moore, Free Kitten (w/ Kim Gordon) The Charms (4x), The Soul Assassins, The Esperantos, Justin Love's Loveland, Zack Alford's Carte Blanche, The Relatives, Laura Pepitone w/ The Pullouts, Lazy Suns, ROBERT GORDON, Felice Brothers, Eric Mingus, Arto Lindsay, Panther Burns, Gerard Malanga, UI, Nana Vasconselos, Casketdraggers, Little Steven (he got up onstage at GARAGE-A-BILLY!), Ben Perowsky w/ Coco Robicheaux, NYC Graffiti at VARGA (Associate Curator), TEAM art show at BARD (w/ Tom Wolf-Art History Prof. for the new science building), The Greyhounds, John De Vries, Jim C., The Crazy Pages, Ricky Powell (early 90's party, later reviewed his book for HT)), Tommy Boy Records (Hostessed the legendary smoke filled "Big Blunts" release party), EMF/Paper Magazine, Buck-it, The Rants, The Martinets, was part of the "Viva Carlo, Viva la Libertad" committee fundraising for CARLO locked in Mexican prison. The concert featured: Richard Hell, Arto Lindsay, the Psychedelic Furs and Dee Lite. WOW.... HAALE at Woodstock's Colony Cafe (7/7) w/ Rock The Reactors, Ron Toth (Tothic), Mooney Suzuki, British comedian Chris Lynam and three-time Grammy award winner Malcolm Cecil. verbosity pays what... NOW: Since early '90's I write because Steve Hager (HIGH TIMES), Walt Cessna (STOP) and PAPER got me started and I truly desired to write some of my own 'psychotic reactions and....dung.' Brandon Holley helped me on to the IN FASHION masthead, but I went slacker, didn't move up in media, wasn't too hungry got used to Reagonomix society. Currently my words are in ARABESQUE #2, at realitysandwich.com, feminist.com (same article purchased by Mothering Magazine,) bringthemhomenow.com, brink.com... My early journalistic work was fashion/art : STOP Magazine (about Max Ernst's MAXIMILLIANA), reviewing D-Gen and the Green Door, The shop LSD... & my life priority: Raising BRAVE and DUNE with their dad (!) DIFFICULT and having fun in spite of rotten gunslinging asshole politicians' ways.10/14/9