krash boom tv™
In their words:
A document of the the New York club scene 1993 -1995. Filmed, edited, and hosted by Nicodemus. Co-hosted by Anitra.
(from http://krashboomtv.com/ web archive)
At Michael Alig's Night of a Thousand Parties at Disco 2000 he asked me 'what do you need?' - I told him a wall of 40 monitors so I could show my KBTV footage live. When I arrived a couple of creative industrious kids had made this cardboard TV for us. We interviewed our super fab guests inside of it. Ha,
I loved it!
A few thought on meeting Michael http://www.michaelaligclubkids.com/home_thoughts.htm
Anitra Warren & groovy NYC Club Kids. Stills from video by Nicodemus - Disco 2000 @ Limelight, Club USA & Tunnel.
In their words:
from ClubUSA
By nicodemus • Motherlover | 2/24/05 2:32 AM
I was performing with Anitra as Men Smash Atoms and I met Michael Alig at Disco 2000 and I thought this is an interesting scene so I created Krash Boom TV to record the weekly events and to get my ugly mug on television.
I presented 10 minutes of club related events at the beginning of each 1/2 program (from Limelight, Tunnel, Club USA and numerous other locations) with openings, outlaw and theme parties which featured club personalities Alig, Desi Monster, Kabuki, Astro Earl, Olympia, Richie Rich, Angel, Sofia, Walt Paper, Lahoma, Amanda Lapore, Kenny Kenny, Miss Understood and numerous other walking works of art.
They created their own extraordinary make-up and drop-dead costumes, masks and other accouterments - some were actors, performance artists, painters, photographers, graphic designers and had numerous other talents outside their club personas which were only enriched by those skills.
The opening of USA was a madhouse, that Bundy guy, the son, was calling me a fag vampire and other bullshit in the elevator and when I responded with some Shakespearean quotes, you know - the ones where Hamlet fucked his mother, his bodyguards crashed me to the floor. I found out later this was Bundy-son's regular gig, even doing it at private parties. Alig had them all thrown out and we continued to have fun.
In Their words:
copied from http://www.michaelaligclubkids.com/home_thoughts.htm:
these pages are your opportunity of telling it as it was...or is.. the satori group welcomes written contributions from those that have a Michael Alig or Club Kids tale to tell...
please send those special moments to :
thesatorigroup@michaelaligclubkids.com
Thank you to Nicodemus of Men Smash Atoms for this tale of NYC ..........
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"Well, whatever you do - I want you to do it here!"
Nicodemus of Men Smash Atoms on meeting Michael Alig.
I first met Michael Alig at 'Disco 2000' in 1993, he came up to my partner Anitra and I and introduced himself as the promoter of this fabulous night and asked who we were, so we talked about our music and mentioned that we had just returned from a European tour. He was wearing a diaper and sucking a 'pacifier' and told us "Well, whatever you do, I want you to do it here!". Of course, we liked him immediately and Men Smash Atoms successfully performed at the next 'King and Queen of New York' event at Limelight.
We were subsequently invited to a lot of Alig's events, they were alwaysthe most inspired and provocative, including outlaw parties where a hundred beautiful exotically attired maniacs would descend dancing on a subway platform, a full bar erected at one end, lasting only until the cops busted it 20 minutes later.
Or tearing around NYC in an open top double-decker bus performing X-rated acts and gatecrashing all the pretentious hotspots (while Armani suited Japanese businessmen waved their credit cards outside in frustration).
Surrounded by all this 'theatrical' action and with experience in filmmaking and a desire to see my mug on the teevee, I created the Saturday night cable show 'Krash Boom TV.' With an audience of half a million people and the catchy and totally appropriate advertising slogan 'Your Satellite Dish to the Future,' Anitra and I had a lot of fun hosting KBTV and it also proved to be a superb showcase for our 'Men Smash Atoms' music and videos.
I presented 10 minutes of the best club related events at the beginning of each 1/2 program (from Limelight, Tunnel, Club USA and numerous other locations) with 'openings', 'outlaw' and 'theme' parties, mostly featuring Alig, Desi Monster, Kabuki, Astro Earl, lympia, Richie Rich, Angel, Sofia, Walt Paper, Kenny Kenny and dozens of others, some unrecognizable under the fabulous make-up and costumes. At celebrity dinners and publicity events I gladly filmed Grace Jones or Quentin Crisp and other cool creative people but refused to turn the camera on for a politician or 'businessman,' no matter how (in)famous they were.
I regularly covered Larry Tee's often chaotic and always enjoyable 'Disco 2000' audience participation 'strip' contests, Sunday night's splendid 'Bump' at USA, 'Make Up' at Webster Hall, the 'King and Queen of New York' events and the amazing 'Night of A Thousand Parties', filming every variation of cross-gender exotica from the 5 boroughs inside an Alig supplied cardboard TV, not the Wall of Monitors that we requested...ha ha...and it totally worked! For KBTV broadcasts, the club events were supplemented by interviews (club kids sounding very existential, dubbed with a German accent and quoting Neitzsche) live performances, installations and rare videos by NY artists and musicians, some very raunchy and authentic S&M 'play' and philosophical 'wordup' which included quotes from Kant, Heideggar or whoever I fancied that week.
Always good for a laugh, Michael would sometimes have a minion call to invite us to events with the phony catch-cry 'Madonna's dancers will be there.' > When Jose and Louis eventually did have a record release party I almost didn't go when I heard they were 'Madonna's dancers'. Turned out to be two very cool guys who did an amazing KBTV promo bit for me.
After working nonstop for several years on many varied projects, Anitra and I headed for the warmer climate of South Beach to relax and edit my psuedo-Elizabethan film noir 'Rotten In Denmark,' (filmed at the Tunnel club and featuring many New York club kids) so we weren't around for the bad stuff.
Alig generated a lot of creative over-the-top energy which pulled everybody into his force of gravity. His kind of charisma can't be duplicated and we loved being part of his world.
Nicodemus - NOVEMBER 2002
See more info on Nicodemus and Men Smash Atoms at mensmashatoms.com (link now goes to a random site / don’t visit)
