{"id":1260,"date":"2004-09-19T11:34:32","date_gmt":"2004-09-19T11:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/19\/long_live_kiki\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T17:47:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T22:47:03","slug":"long_live_kiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/19\/long_live_kiki\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Live Kiki and Herb"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kiki<\/a><\/p>\n

If the conservatives really wanted to eliminate<\/strong> the subversive homosexual menace, the best way to do it would be to blow up Carnegie Hall<\/a> tonight, where a great throng of us (and a great many sympathizers, no doubt) will be gathered to honor our beloved, bedeviled Kiki and Herb<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Originally, I\u2019d decided not to splurge on tickets for the show, since I had seen them so often from mere inches away and couldn\u2019t imagine enjoying the spectacle quite as much from across a concert hall. When I first heard about this show<\/a>, though, I didn\u2019t quite realize it was supposed to be not just the biggest, but the last<\/i> show (except maybe there\u2019ll be a Kiki & Herb Resurrection Special someday). When Andy informed me of this, and mentioned he had two extra tickets, I knew I couldn’t miss such an event, even if I had to experience it from the cheaper seats.<\/p>\n

It’s been nice to see the Times<\/i> giving some press<\/a> to Kiki\/Justin and Herb\/Kenny this week. I was startled to see the interview mention the infamous \u201cLast Thursday Ever<\/a>\u201d show, which remains one of the most visceral theatrical experiences of my life. (It was also the first time I saw the Scissor Sisters<\/a>, and even though they were fun I still find all the fuss a little inexplicable.) I\u2019m amazed how many people seem to remember being at one of the two tiny, drunken shows at the Knitting Factory that night. I remember all the usual suspects being there \u2014 including Glenn, who couldn’t have gotten a better introduction to the terrifying magic of Kiki and Herb \u2014 but I regularly meet people who also caught that show and were more than usually affected by its darkness and cynicism, and its surprising call to count your blessings in a troubled world. And the drunken fan kicks, of course, were hard to forget if you were too close to the stage.<\/p>\n

As a special treat for those of you who love Kiki and Herb but are sick to death of listening to your copy of Do You Hear What We Hear?,<\/i> may I offer this brilliant recording of Kiki performing at the Losers Lounge<\/a> 1996 Nilsson tribute<\/a> (taken from Simply Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad About the Loser’s Lounge<\/a><\/i>):<\/p>\n

Coconut<\/i><\/a> \u2014 The Losers Lounge featuring Justin Bond as Miss Kiki DuRane<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If the conservatives really wanted to eliminate the subversive homosexual menace, the best way to do it would be to blow up Carnegie Hall tonight, where a great throng of us (and a great many sympathizers, no doubt) will be gathered to honor our beloved, bedeviled Kiki and Herb. Originally, I\u2019d decided not to splurge … Continue reading “Long Live Kiki and Herb”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural","category-ultragay","category-ultramedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71373,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/71373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}