New York Press, Bash Compactor, Gerry Visco’s piece 2/3/10
Bash Compactor: Star Struck
Susan Miller speaks at the Three West Club
Susan Miller
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The event was held at The Three West Club, a fancy joint off Fifth Avenue. After being scared shitless by pictures of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush hanging in every nook and cranny, I later discovered the building is also home to the Women’s National Republican Club I’ve been following Miller’s monthly horoscopes on astrologyzone.com since 1995 and over the years she’s become a huge industry, with books, calendars, phone apps and 18 million downloads of her forecasts every month. Her predictions are astonishingly accurate, and in the flesh she was proving her point with personal anecdotes, like the time when she left her laptop in a taxi, recovered thanks to Jupiter’s return.“You’re very intuitive. Any witches in your family?” asked the attractive blonde sitting next to me, a massage therapist at Bliss.
We were eating our vegetarian lunch, some puff pastry concoction with mushrooms.We all had nametags with our date-of-birth. “July 14,” she read. “You must love the water.”You skeptics can scoff, but it’s all true.
After listening to the usual long-winded questions from the star-struck, I finally shouted out, “Susan, you keep saying Cancers will find their true love but nothing happens. When?!” Of course, I never got the answer on that, though I did learn that 2010 will be great for my career. Big deal.
“Astrology is not fortunetelling. It’s about your personality and determination,” Miller told me. “You need to tell people what you want or you won’t get it.”
New York Press, Bash Compactor Gerry Visco’s piece 2/3/10
Bash Compactor: Moaning in the Morning
Learning new moves from Jonté Moaning
Jonté / Photo by Gerry Visco
“I’m not a morning person, either,” he confessed, airily arriving in a casual Michael Jackson look, with a military cap and jacket. So what’s his story? Unusually modest, he makes it sound easy. “I came to New York from Portland, Oregon, on August 11, 2001, a month before 9/11,” he said. Now he’s finishing up a new album and, like the Tom Waits song, he’s big in Japan. Speaking of cartoons, with his perfectly molded body and exotic glam, he’s as unreal as Gumby.
Of course, everyone in the health club was wondering what incredible pop star was in their midst. “So, how about the dance lesson,” Jonté prodded me. Uh oh. Moment of truth in front of the mirror. “Put your foot like that, your hands like that,” he demonstrated gracefully. I tried to follow the moves but kept going off on the wrong foot.
Any suggestions to improve? Crayon told me she’d get me a copy of his instructional video from his show at Santos Party House later that week. But Jonté had the answer. His eyes twinkling behind the aviator shades, he told me, “Just enjoy the ride and scream with me, ‘My pussy’s on fire!’”
Gerry Visco’s Week in Photos – Picks by New York Press
http://www.nypress.com/blog-5744-gerry-viscos-week-in-photos.html
Jonte Moaning, Herra*C, Taylor Meade and Gerry Visco, Penny Arcade, Debbie Harry and Danny Fields, Julie Atlas Muz, Lady Miss Kier and John Kelly, Mark Wesley, Dirty Martini, Katie Lee Madonna and Louis Jordan, 42nd Street in Times Square and Jonte Moaning
Gerry Visco’s Week in Photos
In Section: NY comPRESSed » Posted In: Photos Posted By: Gerry Visco 
Each week intrepid reporter Gerry Visco takes hundreds of pictures, here are our favorites from her latest batch!
Come get Gerried and see me
Gerrification at
Inner Beauty Parlor PERFORMANCE SALON
Envoy Enterprises, 131 Chrystie St. (betw. Delancey and Broome)
Wednesday, Jan 27th
6.30-9pm
Free
Remember that Gerrification brings joy and beauty to America and the world at large.
Inner Beauty Parlor:
Please join us for the Inaugural “Inner Beauty Parlor” of 2010.
This month features costume mastermind Sequinette (the psychic lovechild of Jayne Mansfield and Leigh Bowery) in collaboration with bombshell Vagina West, as well avant-improvisational outfit Onetimesone, AND chameleonic interactive installationist Zhenesse.
Meanwhile, Gerry Visco charges full speed ahead on her Gerrification rampage, which has been sweeping NYC for several months now! Expect special surpirise guests in her piece who will be transformed into raging beauties after they are Gerrified. Her latest project is Gerrification, a global effort designed to bring joy and beauty to America and the world. Everyone needs a makeover — even you. Far better than Paxil or Prozac, dressing like Gerry will improve your mood and your life just by being photographed donning her signature platinum wig, cat-eye glasses, and a tacky outfit.
The electrifying performance and visual artist Gio Black Peter will be singing a song.
Erin Markey, responsible for the “scariest performance of the year” according to Time Out NY, will act as mistress of ceremonies, and violinist-cum-electro artist Danny Digital will DJ. Joseph Keckler hosts.
The Gerrification of jordan Fox by Gerry Visco (below).

Gerry Visco’s photos in Suburbia-land at Gallery U in Montclair, New Jersey
Gallery U Premiers Suburbia-Land Exhibit
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
This excellent new art space on Glenridge Avenue is opening a new show on January 28. Yes, there is going to be a splashy opening, and yes, you are all invited. Rob Greco, the Gallery U director, has chosen suburban life as the theme and it is a theme well suited to our life here in Baristaville.
And I have a piece in the show–it’s part of my parking lot series. Yes, I do love me a good suburban mall parking lot.
Please come and help to celebrate, and enjoy some beautiful and fun art at the same time. Gallery U showcases artists suffering from brain injury, but it showcases the work of a wide variety of other artists as well. The opening is this Thursday, January 28th, from 7-9 p.m. and the show will run for four weeks. Here’s a little more from the show’s organizers in the jump.
Suburbia-land is collection of works which presents each artists interpretation of Suburbia. Some are quite literal while some are more interpretive. Standing out are Gerry Visco’s colorful self-portrait pieces. Gerry’s research found that one of the most defining suburban elements was the construction of Levittown Long Island, Gerry travelled out to this planned suburban comminuty to meet with the town historians and photographed herself and some others where time stood still. Other artists include local artist Fran Pelzman, Montclair resident Naymbia, Eric Levin, Robbeyond, Robert Langdon, the Guerilla Gallery Collective, Rob Ordonez, Robert Torres, Bevely Kohn, Carmen Bury, Joe Iurato, (Germany) , R. Vita (Italy).
Gallery U is located at 179 Glenridge Avenue in Montclair. The phone number is (973) 707-1759. (Photo by Gerry Visco)Ge
Gallery U Premiers Suburbia-Land Exhibit (Baristanet)
Gallery U Premiers Suburbia-Land Exhibit (Baristanet)
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Gerry Visco in Reggie Watt’s and Tommy Smith’s “Odd Dozen” video
The Odd Dozen from Reggie Watts on Vimeo.
Check out my trying to steal the scene in this video which was filmed during the summer of 2009.
My week in photos picks by my NY Press
http://www.nypress.com/blog-5693-gerry-viscos-week-in-photos.html
Penny Arcade, Jordan Fox, Thain Torres, Laverne Cox, M. Lamarr, Sophia Lamar, Enid Ellen, Bevin Brandlandingham, Gregory Dinwoodie, JoEllen Van Ouwerkerk, and some boxer/models from… the launch of the Johny Rocca British menswear line at Gleason’s Gym in DUMBO. And a few other people. Check em out!
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Gerry Visco’s Week in Photos
In Section: NY comPRESSed » Posted By: Gerry Visco 
Each week intrepid reporter Gerry Visco takes hundreds of pictures, here are our favorites from her latest batch!
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