Patti goes to the Museum of Art in Phuladelphia with her father. He's intrigued by Dali. She sees Modigliani and recognises her own lanky frame. Her father prefers Dali to Picasso and Patti stands her ground. She feels she now has superlative allies.
Patti makes artistic intertextual parallels at every turn. She meets a biy called Johnny. Perhaps the prototype for the Johnny in Land. She discovers Pop Music. The Shirelles. It was banned by the Catholic Church ad if you think about it you can work out why. 'Music was our salvation. Expressing the inexpressible.'
Now Patti is in the decade where she takes flight. Rimbaud, Dylan. The tribe of black sheep.She marches out of Port Authority. Finds her partner in crime in Robert Mapplethorpe. She's covered this ground before in Just Kids. The cast assemble. Bobby Neuwirth, Jim Carrill, Allen Gunsburg, Lenny Kaye, Tom Verlaine, Eichard Hell. CBGBs. We're off !
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