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Michael Alig's Club Kids

 
 
No star here laces
07:33 / 23.05.02
Macauley Culkin has finally started filming Party
Monster, the story of the infamous murder and
dismemberment of drug dealer Angel Menendez by
New York club kid Michael Alig. Culkin is starring
as Alig, while Seth Green (Scott Evil), Marilyn
Manson and Chloe Sevigny play fellow club freaks.
Macauley and Seth have been seen out in New York
researching their roles at drag club nights.
Club Kids concept dance album:
http://www.michaelaligclubkids.com

Oh yes. this actually might be incredible. Nice casting. Culkin as club kid is just about unlikely enough to work brilliantly...
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
11:07 / 23.05.02
are you kidding?
have you heard this kid speak in the last 2 years?
he is such a club kid, it almost made me ill hearing him talk, i was waiting for him to lean out of the tv and offer me a back rub...
 
 
Saveloy
11:25 / 23.05.02
Okay, so what's a 'club kid' then? Is it just a kid who goes to clubs a lot, or is it more complicated than that? Elijah's last post suggests the latter.
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
17:10 / 23.05.02
depends on who you talk to, there ar e"kids" who go to clubs

however there are also the "Club Kids" who are also sometimes called "Candy Ravers" a lot of the time, baggy pants wearing usually a bit fem (slight of build and speech) and decked out it bright colors sometimes add the accy of a pacifier.
 
 
Not Here Still
18:22 / 23.05.02
Okay, so what's a 'club kid' then?

Working from memory the club kids were a group of New York party people who, yeah, just hung round clubs a lot. Some were promoters - I think Alig was, some were dealers, some were faces on the scene, etc etc.

Alig was a bit of weird one and used to hold all these 'shocking' parties where people would wander round with fake blood all over them, or other stuff which crossed the boundaries of good taste and was a bit freaky, to scare you when you were off your tits on happy pills.

However, Mr Alig and a mate took it too far one time on a comedown and hacked Angel Menendez into lots of little pieces (I seem to remember them keeping him, well bits of him, in a bath full of ice before dumping him off a bridge or something like that)
 
 
Mr Tricks
23:34 / 23.05.02
Actually... I used to Club Kid with that whole crew some 10 years ago... Hung out a bit with Michael Alig when he was "up & comming" His Disco 2000 uesday nights at the Limelight where really picking up speed... But mostly I ended up hanging out with the olderskool club kids...Club Queens I guess they could have been called.

Much "cooler" a bit more "mature" than Alig & his posse... or at least mellower & with better drugs.

kind of lost my taste for the "scene" just before the buffet o'blood era that lead to the murders...

Candy Raver club kids are a different breed...

on Macauley Culkin:
casting him is pretty scary . . . Alig was cutter... Angel wasn't . . . the poor fool.
 
 
Mr Tricks
23:35 / 23.05.02
I'll post some outlaw party narritives later...

See if i can dig up a journal form that era...
 
  
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