Patrick Treadway

David Bowie will Eat You

2006-05-03T06:59:00.000-07:00

This cracked me up:
it's a still from my bathroom rendezvous with April the human victim (Vickie Bastel) in the Video Dead (1987, or 86 is when we actually shot that I think)

http://davidbowiezombie.ytmnd.com/
(I was trying to be a blond Jas. Dean-y zombie)

Virginia Talbot, my friend moves on

2006-05-01T13:20:00.000-07:00

If you’ve ever received news that a loved one has died, you know the floaty-but-functional weird space that happens, just prior to it really sinking in. My friend Virginia, whom I’ve really only known as Ginny, was a friend I met about 1979. She was 17 and I was 19, and we were both at a Sudden Fun (who may still have been the Liars then) concert out at the movie-theater-turned-nightclub in Rodeo, CA (China Club?). She was a sometimes-roadie, and may have been working for one of the bands. We became good friends instantly, and I asked her to help out on my next project, the Jetsetters, which I had just talked to Paul Alarab about starting. Anyway, that’s how we met. There are years of history, we were flat-mates even, in San Francisco, on Folsom above the Ramrod. Ringold Alley was in the back.

I had no idea she was so close to going. She kicked HIV’s ass for years, and I guess I figured she’d continue to kick ass and stay around forever.

She sent me an email on April 12^th, & I think she’d be ok with me posting it here:

So.. I have been diagnosed with Lymphoma, I have cancer everywhere, except my LUNGS! I feel like I should start smoking again!

I have (am) putting all the pictures, buttons, etc. in a couple of trunks. They will be in my grandma's tool shed (used to be the car port) with your name written all over it. I want you to have our memories...I have really missed you, I don't know if I ever told you how much you helped me, I was such an insecure girl. ... I was blessed with some really true friends, I love you very much, and I am sorry that I let time get away, I should have spent a lot more time with you over the years!

now I have 2 months, and let me tell you there is nothing nice about the mutation they call cancer, I wanted you to know I will turn 45... I seem to remember a discussion we had about how old we would be when we died...I believe we estimated much lower! I better quit rambling, and send this.

So I replied to her on the 13^th that I wanted to come home (to SF) to see her, and then she was gone on the 19^th.

Wowser. Ginny.

She was a wild one – then she was from wild stock.

Our grandparents knew each other from the 30s on. Ginny’s grandparents were Hon and Archie Brown, and my grandmother knew Archie’s brother Bimbo from Berkeley, and she used to attend Labor Movement meetings with them. My grandmother ran for Berkeley City Council on the Communist ticket in the late 20s (early 30s?), and later found religion in the 50s, and must have had a jolt when I introduced her to my friend Ginny, Archie Brown’s granddaughter, in 1980..

I am depriving you by not continuing to write about her, and our adventures- but I tell ya I just better do it later.

End Game released

2006-04-30T17:17:00.000-07:00

Amazon.com just sent me a notice today that the End Game DVD I ordered is being shipped today. I'm kinda bummed that there are reviews already out, and they're not that great. Here's Average Joe's review for example:

Average Joe Reviews

Allen Ginsberg's birthday June 3rd

2006-04-29T22:59:00.000-07:00

There's a reading of Howl at the Empyrean Cafe in Spokane (at 2nd & Madison) from 7-9PM. I'm reading the last 4 poems: An Asphodel; Song; Wild Orphan; In Back of the Real.
I know a couple of the other people reading, but not all- I'll post the names once I get them all.

First Blog entry

2006-04-28T11:33:00.000-07:00

Finally got around to it, and created the blog today. That's about all I'll do right now, tho! I'm working on costumes for the fantasy characters in Beauty and the Beast, which I'm renting out. It opens May 12th- go see it if you're in Spokane, at Spokane Community College, Mission and Greene, call (509) 328-4886 for tickets. Also fixing stuff on AquaDuck, the mascot costume for the Spokane Aquifer Joint Board. More at http://patricktreadway.com