Steven Parrino as Hell's Angel
	Steven Parrino shares a studio with Chuck, so most recently I know Steven through Chuck. Although sometime in the early 90s I was at Steven's show in Paris, with Sylvana Lorenz; and I knew Steven's work from the 80s when he exhibited with International With Monument in the East Village, and then, later, with Metro Pictures. He is known mostly for his large monochrome paintings that are always falling off the stretcher. I wanted Steven to play a 'friend of the band. 'He looks like a male rocker - always wearing black, some arm tattoos, motorcycle boots, dark Rayband sunglasses that he likes to keep on even in dark rooms. But I was really most impressed when Steven showed up for the Museum of Modern Art screening of Not For Sale in May 1998. We hadn't sent out any cards or asked too many people to come because by the time the MoMA screening happened we had already shown the tape at Apex Art every day for over a month. And since the whole tape is about women and feminism, our audiences are always nearly all female - which really gets on my nerves, since I pay attention to what men do, but whenever something is not about them, they can't show up. But there was Steven Parrino - and he even paid for the ticket and hadn't even asked me for a comp! So I really appreciated that, it made a good impression on me. And since he already looks like one of the Ramones, I thought he would be great in the cast and Leslie agreed. We wanted him to play a friend of the band. Then I found out from Steven that he has a music background and has been involved with a lot of Punk bands since he was a teenager. And that when Joey Ramone left the band Steven was invited to audition to replace him. So he and Leslie sit around and talk about Iggy Pop and the Stooges and obscure Punk and New Wave musicians. Steven still plays music, really intense noise stuff. But he is performing mostly in art contexts now: at his openings in Europe and sometimes for the openings of his friends. He is scheduled to perform for an upcoming exhibition in Zurich featuring Cady Noland and Oliver Mossett. At a birthday party for Chuck Nanney (see Kenneth Anger) during the 1998 Scorpio season, sometime in November, I asked Steven if he would be interested to play a friend of the band. He said he would be glad to be in our film and then got really emotional. He even started yelling. He said that he could never, ever be a 'friend' of the Stones, that he hates Mick Jagger, and that the only way he would consider coming backstage to see the Rolling Stones is if he would appear as Charles Manson or a Hell's Angel. These real Rock and Rollers take things very seriously. They have so many opinions and get so emotional about it. Steven thinks that Altamont was Mick Jagger's fault and the Hell's Angels took a bad rap as a result. (I think it looks like the Hell's Angels were pumped up on bad drugs, but, whatever.) Leslie and I decided we already had too many Scorpios on the set, and enough satanic energy from Kenneth Anger: so we didn't want Charles Manson with us. We agreed however to allow Steven to play a Hell's Angel. He stipulated that he would need to bring his motorcycle and a 'girl' with him. So that's how Amy O'Neill became Biker Girl.
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