{"id":18919,"date":"2013-11-03T11:24:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T16:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=18919"},"modified":"2013-11-03T12:13:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T17:13:02","slug":"rachel-amodeo-what-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2013\/11\/03\/rachel-amodeo-what-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"~RACHEL AMODEO . . WHAT ABOUT ME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RACHEL AMODEO&#8217;s cult classic . . .  &#8216;WHAT ABOUT ME&#8217;, 1993  . . screens to-nite.<\/p>\n<p>SUN NOV 3, 2013 \/ 6 PM &#8211; OPEN ADMISSION <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/166Mott\">166 MOTT ST<\/a> . .  LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC.<\/p>\n<p>RACHEL AMODEO WROTE, PRODUCED &#038; DIRECTED THIS INDIE CLASSIC . . TERMED &#8216;GRITTY&#8217; in EVERY REFERENCE, that pops up, it&#8217;s widely considered to be in the top &#8216;under-rated&#8217; hits of the 90s.<\/p>\n<p>with music by JOHNNY THUNDERS, and a host of cameos from colorful characters long gone, but not forgotten . .  this IS the vibe .. that gave the East Village &#8211; it&#8217;s legendary status. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A young woman becomes homeless on the streets of NYC&#8217; &#8211; is not the half of it . . as you can see in this clip  . . featuring:  DEE DEE RAMONE.<br \/>\nthe referencing of the Vietnam debacle . .  is particularly sad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Dee-Dee-Ramone-what-about-m.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Dee-Dee-Ramone-what-about-m.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Dee-Dee-Ramone-what-about-m\" width=\"639\" height=\"358\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Dee-Dee-Ramone-what-about-m.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Dee-Dee-Ramone-what-about-m-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fmrVpAx9PWQ\">DEE DEE RAMONE . . in &#8216;WHAT ABOUT ME&#8217;.<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s a classic DEE DEE on the left, RACHEL AMODEOS is in the center,  &#038; I don&#8217;t know the guy on the right, but he can stand in, represent the whole amazing scene . . in a blink.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>note: this scene was actually filmed the day JOHNNY THUNDERS died, APRIL 23, 1991.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure RACHEL herself will make the screening, so you can ask a her . . in person,  all the questions you want to . . it&#8217;s bound to be a blast . . of an event.<\/p>\n<p>if you <strong>CAN&#8217;T<\/strong>make it, because like you are in Paris or London,  Japan &#8230; or just New Haven, you can actually watch it for free, in it&#8217;s nitty gritty entirety . .  online.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/what-about-me-Youtube.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/what-about-me-Youtube.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"what-about-me---Youtube\" width=\"641\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/what-about-me-Youtube.jpg 641w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/what-about-me-Youtube-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PX7fWFVTuAY\">&#8216;WHAT ABOUT ME&#8217; &#8211; A FILM WRITTEN, DIRECTED &#038; PRODUCED BY RACHEL AMODEO.<br \/>\nMUSIC BY JOHNNY THUNDERS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/whataboutmecoverwebready.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/whataboutmecoverwebready.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"whataboutmecoverwebready\" width=\"500\" height=\"722\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/whataboutmecoverwebready.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/whataboutmecoverwebready-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RACHEL AMODEO&#8217;s cult classic . . . &#8216;WHAT ABOUT ME&#8217;, 1993 . . screens to-nite. SUN NOV 3, 2013 \/ 6 PM &#8211; OPEN ADMISSION 166 MOTT ST . . LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC. RACHEL AMODEO WROTE, PRODUCED &#038; DIRECTED THIS INDIE CLASSIC . . TERMED &#8216;GRITTY&#8217; in EVERY REFERENCE, that pops up, it&#8217;s widely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18919"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18938,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18919\/revisions\/18938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}