international news _ 8th November, 2006
DFA Star’s TV Favourites
Text by Jonty Skrufff (Skrufff.com)
Former schoolteacher turned ubercool punk-funk pioneer Juan MacLean from
New York’s acclaimed punk-funk label DFA Records chatted about his
notoriously hard-living past in interviews this week, which included years
of injecting cocaine and heroin.
“I’ve not had much luck living a normal life,” he told Australian magazine
3D World, “(because of) Drug problems, trouble with the law, trouble with
girls and fighting,” he confessed.
Chatting to London magazine One Week To Live, he admitted ‘beating down an
unfortunate soul who was in the wrong place at the wrong time’ which
presumably referred to a drunken fan who unwisely interrupted his
performance at a show in Atlanta several weeks ago.
"What really happened is this: I was in the middle of mixing two records,
and this drunken yahoo walks up to the stage, picks up a microphone stand,
and starts beating the table that the decks were on with it, which of course
sends the mix into total trainwreck. I yelled at him and he laughed at me,”
Juan wrote on the DFA bulletin board after the incident, “I walked up to him
and short story is I, as was said, 'beat him down’ (Both Juan and the fan
later apologized to each other).
The nowadays clean producer also chatted about curious shenanigans he’d
noted when on tour with DFA stablemates LCD Soundsystem recently to One Week
To Live, which he said where his strongest memories from his new life as an
A List producer.
“Loads of stories with the band, mostly involving girls or someone taking
too many of the wrong drug,” he recalled, “Or someone taking a dude but
pretending it was a girl and the various excuses that went along with it.”
His comments reflected the experiences of celebrity DJ Boy George in the
States, who told Skrufff several years ago that most of his sexual
encounters there were with ‘confused straight blokes or highly closeted
characters’.
“It remains a mystery to me why I attract these straights, if you are trying
to hide what you are surely I’m the last mirror you should look in?” George
quipped,
“I think the whole make-up thing alleviates some of that fear because you
appear feminine so they can delude themselves that being with you is not
quite as queer as it really is,” he mused.
London TV scenester/ DJ Caitlin, aka Miss Cunty also told Skrufff recently
she also usually attracts straigh men though said the UK tranny scene is
nevertheless ‘shady and lonely’ compared to New York or Madrid.
“In the gay scene you're a token freak and in the straight world we are
tolerated at best,”Caitlin complained, “The trans community is one based on
fear of being outed and monotonous sex behind closed doors with curious
hetero men," she explained.
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