Summary of Lizzy Goodman's Meet Me in the Bathroom

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#1 New York was the place where people could escape America and have their own semi-utopic ideal. It was a place where you could find complete artistic freedom.

#2 I was obsessed with Martin Scorsese by the time I was fourteen. I had the fantasy that he was my father and my boyfriend. I didn’t have any money, but I had nowhere to stay. I slept on the streets of New York for three nights, and then found a place to stay.

#3 The fantasy of New York in the nineties was built on the carcass of seventies New York. The city was bankrupt, and there was something raw and weird going on. By the eighties, indie and punk had begun to fracture.

#4 The birth of Bad Boy Records in the eighties was the first time hip-hop had many newly minted moguls, who were making some of the best music around. However, there was little overlap between the zine/college radio cultures and hip-hop.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822536432

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

New York was the place where people could escape America and have their own semi-utopic ideal. It was a place where you could find complete artistic freedom.

#2

I was obsessed with Martin Scorsese by the time I was fourteen. I had the fantasy that he was my father and my boyfriend. I didn’t have any money, but I had nowhere to stay. I slept on the streets of New York for three nights, and then found a place to stay.

#3

The fantasy of New York in the nineties was built on the carcass of seventies New York. The city was bankrupt, and there was something raw and weird going on. By the eighties, indie and punk had begun to fracture.

#4

The birth of Bad Boy Records in the eighties was the first time hip-hop had many newly minted moguls, who were making some of the best music around. However, there was little overlap between the zine/college radio cultures and hip-hop.

#5

In the mid-nineties, rock radio was dominated by god-awful bands and songs. There was no one to look up to.

#6

The band Jonathan Fire*Eater was the precursor to the Walkmen. They were a garage-rock band in the more modern sense of the big umbrella term of garage rock. They were sexy, visceral, and not bullshit.

#7

The band, Jonathan Fire*Eater, was formed when Walter Martin, Paul Maroon, and Stew Lupton all went to college in New York. They played down in the laundry room at Columbia University, and after they were kicked out, they kept playing.

#8

The band dropped out of college a year after their freshman year. They lived on Suffolk Street, which was known for its heroin dealers. They would sit on a stoop every night and drink Deuce Deuces, a $1. 75 beer, and check out the girls.

#9

The use of heroin had fixated itself on New York. The first time I went to New York as an adult, we went to Mars Bar and were drinking shots of tequila in little plastic cups. It was the best bar in the world.

#10

Max Fish was a bar in New York City that was popular among the art world. It was magical for a while. It was a bar for people who were authentic in some way, and it felt like home.

#11

Stewart Lupton, the lead singer of Jonathan Fire*Eater, was a very social person who loved to hang out with his friends. He would meet these interesting people and tell them about his band, which led to them hearing about them and wanting to see them perform.

#12

Walter Dukacz was the manager of the band Jonathan Fire*Eater. He had heard about them from his intern Echo, who had DJed with the band. He thought they were cute boys, preppy but a little twisted, and he wanted to manage them.

#13

Stewart was the front person of the band, with aspects of Iggy Pop and Joy Division. He was also the reason they got big, as he was good-looking. There were a lot of industry people trying to sign them because of him.

#14

The East Village was a dangerous place to be, especially for women. The drugs there were named after bad cop movies.

#15

Stewart was always trouble. He was a drug addict before he became rich, and then it just got worse. The industry and the press started to come around -> There was money in the industry, and we needed new rock stars. The major-label stuff happened very quickly.

#16

The band was courted by several labels, and they were extremely stubborn about wanting to keep it pure. They