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Lord of the Cockrings

The journey of young Scroto Baggins begins on the Magical Land of The Lower East Side, as he wanders into a store called “Toys in Babeland”—where he purchases a golden cockring. Unbeknownst to Scroto, the cockring…is magical…

Lord of the Cockrings first appeared as a Grindhouse-A-Go-Go! production at Surf Reality in 1999. Written by Rev Jen Miller, the cast includes such downtown favorites as: Faceboy, Big Mike, Emily Blythe, Bruce Smolanoff, Bex, Hank Flynn, Big Baby, Rev Jen, and many others.

This is the full length video of the performance (40 mins).

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Tinea Tricolore: The Love Fungus

“Tinea Tricolore: The Love Fungus” was the third production in the infamous “Grindhouse-A-Go-Go!” series, a late night performance/party that was held at midnight at Surf Reality in NYC’s Lower East Side in the late 90’s-early 00’s. This show, performed in October of 1999, was by far the dirtiest (in terms of outright nudity) and probably our most political as well. Rudolph Giuliani was still mayor, and the show satires his campaign to “clean up New York” by shutting down strip clubs and replacing them with Disney stores, Banana Republics, K-Marts and Starbucks. Other issues of the day that make an appearance are: the toilet-plunger sodomy by the NYPD, the killing of Amadou Diallo (an unarmed man shot 41 times by police bullets), enforcement of NYC’s archaic cabaret laws and the gradual “whitening” of the city by selling off the island to the highest bidders – squeezing minorities out of their neighborhoods through the process of gentrification.

The performance features: The Purple Organ (also the writer), Jonny McGovern, Faceboy, Tom Tenney, TV Head, Ebony & Chiara, Eris Migliori, Ivan Ulz, and Reverend Hank (Hank Flynn).

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Shasta Oaks: Trailer Park Superstars

This was the second in the series of “Grindhouse-A-Go-Go!” shows which were performed every Friday at midnight at Surf Reality in NYC. Shasta Oaks was written by Jonny McGovern and with only 5 performers – McGovern, Faceboy, Nadya Ginsberg, Reverend Hank, and the Purple Organ – it was the smallest cast of any of the Grindhouse shows.

This is the full length video of the performance and tells the story of trailer park diva Lerlene Famous (pronounced fa-moose) who is thwarted in her efforts to become a beauty queen by her dirty granny, has-been Blaxploitation star Chocolate Puddin’, her white slave Tapioca Puddin’, the Reverend Hank, and undercover psychologist Kiki Lamonte.

It was recorded at Surf Reality’s House of Urban Savages in NYC on September 17, 1999.

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Cinco’s Boob Couch

Back around the turn of the millenium, a little art-hole on the Lower East Side called Surf Reality hosted a midnight show called Grindhouse-A-Go-Go! It was dirty. It was funny. It was sudden, violent comedy, free beer and an after-party that lasted all night long. No-one ever saw the same Grindhouse show twice.  Grindhouse’s second season kicked off with Cinco’s Boob Couch – an absurdist comic masterpiece by Purple Organ in which out-of-work actors, cartoon characters, vampire fitness instructors and computer geniuses vie to overthrow Cinco Copy Shop’s duplicitous empire.

Featuring: Hank Flynn, Jon McGovern, Tom Tenney, Faceboy, Raven Solano, Michele Carlo, Ebony, Pete Gerber, Carly Adler, and Purple Organ. Directed by Robert Prichard.

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