Word: joey
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...When Joey Ramone died of cancer in 2001, his band's place as the godfathers of punk appeared cemented for all time. One problem: the Ramones weren't really punk. Joey, Johnny, Tommy and Dee Dee (who died of a drug overdose in June) dressed in black leather and scowled like Bowery thugs, but they actually played some of the loopiest pop music ever made. Blitzkrieg Bop's famous "Hey! Ho! Let's go!" was an homage to the Bay City Rollers, while Joey--singer of the immortal line "I'm a Nazi schatze"--was the deadpan alter...
...Told through 365 days of breathless, gossipy e-mail exchanges, the novel takes us inside the inboxes of aging Broadway dancer Joey Breaux and Andrew Tan, his boyfriend of 14 years. And what a catty, campy, heady world it is. At the beginning of the novel, Andrew and Joey are as married as a gay couple in America can be. Joey is an arty, tempestuous, hot-blooded Cajun and Andrew a sweet, meek, well-organized Asian American. Joey, at the make-or-break moment of his ballet career, wins a prestigious grant to study Balinese dance and leaves Manhattan...
...Joey choreographs a modern ballet based on the true story of expatriate German painter Walter Spies, who arrived in Bali in 1927. Spies single-handedly established Ubud as a bohemian destination, but he was later jailed for buggery by the then colonial Dutch authorities. Joey casts himself as Spies and finds a teenage Balinese dancer to play the painter's 16-year-old boyfriend. A rave pre-performance review raises expectations within the New York art world. But the show bombs when it moves to the big city, and Joey's life unravels. Bali has unleashed his naked ambition...
...exquisite illusions that Bali was until so recently. For the rafts of foreigners who for decades have washed up on her shores, Bali before the bomb was innocent in the same way a Russ Meyer film is innocent?without self-reflection or guilt. "What I love about Bali," writes Joey, "is that you can do whatever the hell you want as long as you don't hurt anyone else." That was false then, and it's false now. Someone always gets hurt. What the bombings did was shatter that idyllic fantasy forever...
TIME: Why did you write Andrew and Joey? James: I had the idea for some time of an epistolary novel using e-mails. I could never have come to live in Asia without e-mail. Before e-mail, over the course of 30 years, my father probably wrote me two letters both with a short note scrawled saying something like "Dear Son, Here's the check." But now he is e-mail-obsessed. People really let their guard down in e-mail, more than in conversation...