From the New York Post’s Richard Johnson.
Ashlee Simpson can handle hecklers, but she couldn’t deal with the menacing Lower East Side artist Peter Missing. Simpson was in the middle of a sweatshirt shopping spree at Loft Shoe Productions on Ludlow Street last Wednesday when the toothless, grizzled anarchist, best known for his graffiti of an upside-down martini glass to protest drunk driving checkpoints, came into the store. According to witnesses, Missing nastily stared Simpson down until she fled next door, leaving her mother, Tina, to sort out her $600 tab. “We’ve had to kick him out before,” said owner Anne Hanavan. “He’s not appealing, and he tries to sell his paintings to our celebrity clients.”
Shame they couldn’t at least have a chatted — there was a great mash-up in here somewhere.
In a completely unrelated story, Cincinnati assistant basketball coach Keith LeGree has resigned after being charged with driving while under the influence over the weekend. Presumably under the influence of alcohol, as opposed to the new Bun B. CD, but they didn’t really specify.
“an upside-down martini glass to protest drunk driving checkpoints”
uh, say what? i thought the whole deal was about “the party’s over,” ie. an end to the yuppie lifestyle of nyc in the 80s. though i suppose someone who was there can fill us in, eh gerard?
I guess you can go either way. the “party’s over thing” atop a x-ed out foundation = MISSING FOUNDATION, which has a loose thematic tie to P.M.’s prior band, the sludgetastic Drunk Driving.
Naturally, as a NYC yuppie (think of Pat Bateman in “American Psycho”, only with much worse taste in clothes, furniture, music and ladies) circa the go-go 1980’s, I took tremendous offense at the very existence of Missing Foundation. To this day I can’t even look at the logo without crying.
hey i just caught a concert in chicago april 8 2007 on easter sunday with peter missing s new album nature revolt this was the most inspiring message ive ever heard to date and the music ripped a big whole in our music scene with 500 people crammed into a empty warehouse space in downtown chicago the best song was WE’RE FIGHTING FOR OUR LIVES BACKED BY A VIDEO FROM THE NEW ALBUM and a giant sign reading GLOBAL WARNING BURST INTO FLAMES with the last words from missing stop throwing water away probably the best thing ive seen in years and peter missing is awsome in concert i hope to have that much energy when i get his age and his years of work was well beyond all the bands they always hype up like nin or m manson i would say missing foundation is the most underrated band in the world nyc should take this act more seriously i hear they dont even offer MISSING SEVEN HAZARD A GIG IN NEW YORK IF YOU CAN GET A COPY OF NATURE REVOLT YOU ARE A LUCKY PUPPY I HAVENT FOUND IT ANYWHERE BUT I WAS ABLE TO BURN A COPY WHEN I WAS AT C SQUAT 6 MONTHS BACK
ROCK ON MISSING AND THANK THE HIGHER UPS FOR SUCH A BAND IN THE ERA OF GENERIC CRAP WENT OUT AND SPRAY PAINTED MY GIRLFRIENDS APT BUILDING WITH THE PARTYS OVER LOGO