I'm sure most of you have seen Party Monster. Well, the infamous "Club Kids co-founder"/drug dealer/murderer was released from prison today.

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After spending over 17 years in jail for killing his temporary roommate over a drug debt, o.g. Club Kid Michael Alig is a free man. He left the Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy, NY, earlier today on a conditional release. A cult figure for years, thanks in part to James St. James' Disco Bloodbath, a written account of the murder of Limelight employee Andre "Angel" Melendez, Alig's profile was further inflated when Macaulay Culkin played him in the 2003 movie Party Monster. This is part of the reason why people seemed to be tickled about the release of a man who killed a former friend of his with the help of Drano (in Alig's account, he injected Melendez with Drano; in co-killer Robert "Freeze" Riggs' account, Alig poured it down Melendez's throat). Fabulousness, apparently, forgives a lot. It should be noted, though, that parole officers allegedly denied Alig parole in 2006 after watching Party Monster. (Riggs and Alig both pleaded guilty to manslaughter, and were convicted of it in the first degree. Their sentence was 10-20 years. Riggs was released in 2010.)

Gawker Article

Huffinton Post Article

There's a documentary you can watch for free on YouTube, about the murder. here

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Side note. Very interesting documentary called "Limelight" about Peter Gatien's rise and fall in New York nightlife. The documentary is by the same guy who did Cocaine Cowboys, Billy Corben. Also available on YouTube.

LINK

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Limelight is also on Netflix!

Bf and I watched Party Monster a couple weeks ago, actually. Lol'ed so hard at the end, just before he kills him, when they're all cracked out and lose a rock on the floor, and a mouse grabs it... and McCauley is like "That rat's on the crack attack!"


Lololol we've been throwing that one around ever since.

limelight is such an incredible documentary of NYC's clubbing prime

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Originally posted by *~LiSa-LoO~* Side note. Very interesting documentary called "Limelight" about Peter Gatien's rise and fall in New York nightlife. The documentary is by the same guy who did Cocaine Cowboys, Billy Corben. Also available on YouTube. LINK

i thought it was by Gatiens daughter?
"Gatien's daughter, Jen Gatien, produced the 2011 documentary Limelight about New York City night life in the 1990s and the rise and fall of her father's club empire."


http://www.interviewmagazine.com/fi...atien-limelight

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I was just interrupted while watching it now I come back and the video is private...

I'm gonna have to check out this doc, I saw the movie a few years back and my only word to describe it is still 'odd'

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Originally posted by geroin i thought it was by Gatiens daughter? "Gatien's daughter, Jen Gatien, produced the 2011 documentary Limelight about New York City night life in the 1990s and the rise and fall of her father's club empire." http://www.interviewmagazine.com/fi...atien-limelight

Bill Corben directed it. Jen produced it.

http://www.indiewire.com/article/billy_corben_interview

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Originally posted by *~LiSa-LoO~* I'm sure most of you have seen Party Monster.

I actually never did...just watched it on Netflix, Thank youuuu Lisa

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Originally posted by Dior Homme I was just interrupted while watching it now I come back and the video is private...

It's on Netflix yo.

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Originally posted by Dior Homme I was just interrupted while watching it now I come back and the video is private...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUKCyw5veTI

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Originally posted by zookeeper I actually never did...just watched it on Netflix, Thank youuuu Lisa

No prob!

I highly recommend the documentaries too. It's pretty fucked how Alig can just laugh about the situation.

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