The Bowery Boys

March 30, 1974: The Ramones, the pride of Forest Hills, Queens, play their first public concert together at Performance Studio, a small space on East 20th Street* managed by future member Tommy Erdelyi (later Tommy Ramone). For their debut set, there were just three of them, and Dee Dee Ramone sang lead

How did it go? Johnny Ramone: “We were awful. We didn’t have the image down yet. Our friends didn’t even want to talk to us anymore after that.”

The jumbled mess of a set did not please an audience comprised of mostly friends, who paid $2 for the privilege of seeing a visible nervous Dee Dee Ramone accidentally crush his bass underfoot.

It would take a few months for the band to get their musical footage, in time for their debut at CBGB’s on August 16th.

So Jen and a few other twitter peeps I’ve met, follow, heard of made a video

Twitter: The Criterion Collection from sween on Vimeo.

- BoingBoing caught wind of it and it sky rocketed today… but there’s one video that did not make it because it wasn’t completed – however it is probably the funniest thing I’ve seen in a LONG TIME by my friend Emily:

Oddly Specific.

1 Write.

2 Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.

3 Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.

4 Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like the kind of thing that this is.

5 Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

6 Fix it. Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.

7 Laugh at your own jokes.

8 The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it ­honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

Neil Gaiman on Writing « occultdetective.com.