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joe: no, i came to paint. but the paintings were like implosions, where i was studying the world around me and myself inside, and the performances became literal explosions. i learned violence from my old man. so i was angry. when your house is on fire, you know, you don t read poetry and you don t sing a folk song. you gotta scream. anthony: i missed all the great art of the time. i came for heroin and i came for music. other than that, i didn t live here. but man, a lot of people didn t make it and i remember i guess around 1980, it was like,
john: it feels pathetic, you know? anthony: this is incredible to me. john: what? anthony: you don t have shows. john: that s insane and it s sick and is wrong and i don t even want to complain about it. you complain about it. anthony: i m complaining about it. i am bitter. john: because i m going to die one day, and they re going to be worth a lot of money. how i came to new york, i was kind of on this coltrane thing, i wanted to find god through music. i started meeting all these amazing people. they were irreverent. the energy was enormous. and it was probably more fun than anybody s ever had in human history. for about a year or two. but there was no discipline. which, i mean, i like people that could play their instrument like they just found it on the street, but they can t just do it once. they gotta work on it. and i was a serious saxophone player. i came here as a saxophone player. i had to hide the fact that i
sha, la, la, la, la [ sirens ] man: nothing but a bunch of crackheads, dopefiends, and [ bleep ]. anthony: this is a show about a very special place, a very special time, and some very special people. so much happened, so much began on new york s lower east side.
will address the situation that i know other people suffer from. anthony: okay, this is a film, very influential, far beyond the imaginings lydia: well, we didn t think that when we did it. we didn t think that when we did it. we didn t give a shit. we just wanted to make a film and get it out there because we had to do something because we were burning, our blood was on fire. anthony: looking back though, was it all that? was it a golden period? are you nostalgic? lydia: no. i am golden. it s always a golden period for me. look, we have a golden piece of asparagus, it s golden. anthony: so do you have any sense of lydia: no. i [ bleep ] don t. those were the bad old days baby. you try living on peace and black beauties, you try giving handjobs under the table to take your first band to europe. you want to go back to that? you go back to that. how were you living? i know the same, hand to mouth. anthony: so no sentimentality, no nostalgia at all. lydia: i m doing