Grace Jones Plays L.A. for First Time in 20 Years
July 24, 2009
One of my earliest memories of Grace Jones was living in New Jersey and watching in wonder as visions of this mannish woman, slightly menacing and utterly fascinating, danced across the screen. I didn't understand her as an eight-year-old, and I never would have guessed that many years later, sometime in my 20s, sometime around five or six in the morning, Grace Jones would pick me up against a wall and kiss me.
I don’t think I’ll be so lucky this weekend when she storms the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday (part of KCRW’s World Festival), with a collection of trusty openers including station regular Henry Rollins on hosting duties, and Of Montreal and Dengue Fever. Tickets on sale here.
Per the kiss: It’s a long story, but we were at an afterparty thrown in her honor, at a defunct club in Seattle called Aro.space. Needless to say everyone was inebriated, and I said something about how she looked so amazing and ageless, and how she was much shorter than I anticipated, when she stopped, took a look at me, and lifted me up. It was quite a thrill, if obviously in jest. I still have to remind myself I didn’t imagine it.
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Comments (4)
Posted by robyn on Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 10.28 am
Love Grace Jones. Sad that the richness and complexity in Ms Jones voice and work that spans decades notto mention influences that followed were completely ignored by the writer in favor of injecting a personal throw away memory. All this at the expense of the real story.
Posted by jj on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 01.26 am
sour grapes, Robyn? I think it’s a great story…
Posted by Tricia Romano on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 02.49 am
dear robyn, thanks for your comments. it’s a short blog post, previewing the show. the show is heavily covered in many outlets, just the way you have described. this was just a tiny memory i had of her. a little something different as a way to remind people the show is coming up.
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Posted by DEEDEE on Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 09.16 am
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.......GRACE JONES!!!! THE ONE AND ONLY...LOVE HER TO LIFE!!!!!!