PS:DoL, the afterparty.

["weapons of mass destruction-related program activities" <spamtony>]

So anyway, you couldn't buy an advance ticket to the 
PS:DoL screening without opting for the $45 party 
combo. 

(As it turns out, about 2 dozen $15 screening-only 
tickets did get sold at the box office shortly before 
showtime.) 

The party was divided into an 80s-new-wave dance room
for Gen-Yers like myself, and a punk-rock room where PS
music was played exclusively (at an extremely low
volume). The tables in the latter were done up with 
faux black-leather tablecloths with zippers and 
safetypins, and the centerpieces were little low-end 
(but very real) Fender amps, with lilies 
(ObMapplethorpe) draped across the top. Some of them 
had reproductions of 70s ticket stubs and copies 
of Patti's hand-written lyrics, scrolled and tied
on the top. 

I also saw some 12" flats for twelve (left alone in 
the new wave room), and the stairway was decorated 
with great album and single artwork through the years. 
The piece de resistance? On one of the serving tables 
between the two rooms, a picture-sleeve for the 7" 
of "Pumping (My Heart)" (which basically looks like 
a shrunken cover of the "Radio Ethiopia" album), 
stuck in the strings of a Fender guitar. I had never
seen one "in the flesh" so to speak, and I was hypnotized.

I so, SO totally wanted to steal that. (the single, 
not the guitar) 

They probably just threw it all away, anyway... :(