Hi you NFTs (never fearing tramps),
This is The Deviant Dispatch. I’m Mo, your guide to the underground. I write about NYC-based events, gay shit, and cool kid gossip. There will be snark, typos, and lots of Charli XCX updates. If you like what you see, become a paying subscriber, share this with someone, or hit the heart button at the top of the post.
First of all, I have to issue some corrections (I meant it when I said there will typos). In my last paywall-exclusive newsletter, I misspelled Kaitlin of It Girl Theory’s name, for which I have no quippy remarks, just sorrow. On last Tuesday’s issue I got the date wrong for Boy Radio’s RENT shadowcasting. Always double check your sources, even if it’s me! It looked like quite the time anyway, they even brought out a fake snow machine! In that same newsletter I stated: “Grimes Charli XCX and Sky Ferraa might be re-creating this iconic V magazine cover” but it should have been Sky Ferreira. Apologies to Sky, but maybe if she put out more music I’d be able to spell her name right. After all, the last album Sky Ferrari put out was in 2013. Sure, Night Time, My Time is a classic, but it’s been almost a decade. She did post on Instagram that her follow up album will be coming back “soon” but Sky Ferrero Rocher has promised us that before. It’s still a race to see if she or Rihanna will put out an album first.
Enough of my incompetence, let’s get into last weeks goings on. SKSKSKS was an absolute smash. H0L0’s renovations means there’s twice as much space, making the club the cavernous basement venue it always wanted to be. Far from having a glossy glow-up, the whole effect is 30% more industrial. Much of the debris from the renovating has been dumped ceremoniously in the backyard. The wall facing the bar appears to only have a little primer. The bathroom I used didn’t have a doorknob.
Still, the girlies and gays packed inside didn’t care. Alice Longyu Gao proved once again that she’s once of the most potent live acts in the city right now. Diveo played the Millionaires underrated bop “Prom Dress.” Club Eat joined Miss Madeline for a special remix of her song “Bad Girls.” Uffie mixed Charli XCX’s “Vroom Vroom” into Kreayshawn’s “Gucci Gucci” and the universe will never be the same.
In other news, Juliana Huxtable had by all accounts an especially delicious DJ set at basement, mixing everything from reggaeton to Beethoven. Queer ladies packed Ginger’s for the sold-out drag show Dyke Drag. I was supposed to DJ at Motel 23 in Chelsea, but I cancelled when I found out they have numerous people complaining that the manger doesn’t let in women or dark-skinnned POC. Points off for Manhattan!
I’ve got plenty of events in the coming days worth checking out, but first here are some depraved date ideas
Rent knockoff Mickey and Mini mouse costumes and wander hand in hand through lower Manhattan or Bushwick
Make your sweetheart a 16 min noise record, with easter egg compliments peppered in
Watch John Water’s violent low budget classic Multiple Maniacs on HBO GO
Get CHRISTEENE to spit in your mouth during one of her shows and then french kiss your valentine
bring a can of E Z Cheese into bed with you
Show you really listen and recreate you’re valentine’s childhood trauma
If these are too extreme, I recommend the following events.
XOXO,
Mo
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