photo by Glenn Glasser
Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Model and Musician (above left), and Sarabeth DeLeury, Philosopher and Actress
I know I highlight NY Mag's Look Book (and in turn, Glenn Glasser) nearly as often as it's published, but I just CANNOT help myself this morning; it's the BFF edition! There are three interviews, so go check out the others too. But this one-- this one, folks, is just priceless. Welcome to Monday.
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You two seem, um, very close.
CHARLOTTE: We're not lesbians, we're business partners. We're about to make a music video with my boyfriend, Sean Lennon. It's going to be us hunting Sarabeth; she'll be Diana.
How did you meet?
SARABETH: We met first at a friend's house. Charlotte walked in with one of her breasts hanging out and someone said, "Hey, your breast is hanging out," and she said, "That's okay, I have another." CHARLOTTE: She's the coolest person in the world, and I have really good taste. SARABETH: We became best friends and traveled the world together. We went to Europe and to L.A., where our car was seized. We both had mental breakdowns.
Breakdowns?
CHARLOTTE: Breakdowns and breakthroughs. SARABETH: We have this very interesting cyclic cycle of energy when we're together that sucks in the most interesting people. CHARLOTTE: We're friends with Sean Parker, who invented Napster, who just sold his business for like a billion dollars and always carries around a syringe filled with antidote.
What do you do together, other than attract interesting people?
CHARLOTTE: We used to play a lot of chess together in Washington Square Park with all the homeless men. But then Yoko Ono got me into Go, a Japanese chess game that's more sophisticated.
Do you have summer plans?
CHARLOTTE: We go upstate to this amazing nature preserve and share clothes and money in this utopian way. It's a beautiful farm that Yoko has landscaped, and we eat watermelon and make art. SARABETH: We're trying to create a new way of moving forward as a collective so we can make money and help people.
Tell me about a crazy thing you've done recently.
CHARLOTTE: We saved a deer that got hit by a car. We found it on the side of the road. It was foaming and bloody, and we laid on it and hugged and stroked it. It got up twenty minutes later; it had regained its energy.
I think I'll adapt this into a screenplay and retire.
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yuk!
The deer, having suffered enough, marshaled its last breath of energy so it could die a safe distance from those two.
I like this bloggers take on that, um, "interview":
http://animalnewyork.com/news/2008/07/new-york-rag.php
OMG!
". . .cyclic cycle of energy. .," huh? Quick, Sean Parker, jab these two with the antidote.
Hello blood thirsty bloggers. This is charlotte of the caffeinated/out of context interview; I'd just like to say thank you for your almost witty sticks and stones- the next time you attempt irony in an interview or hope for a less than malicious editor... I wish you luck!Unfortunately, out of all our hopefully sardonic tales of homeless friends and adventures, NY magazine chose only to print amputated misrepresenations of innocent references to my boyfriends mother and mr. Parker. (The whole story in his case was that he's an eccentric computer tycoon who lives the absurdly high high-life whilst simultaneously living in constant fear of fatal nut/shellfish allergies, for which he must carry a huge syrige filled with lifesaving antidotes.Simply though it was bemusing.) As for the beloved yoko, we were rather tongue in cheek about the 60's-ness of our summertime trip upstate, and tsk tsk for your love to hate. If any of you still think I'm a dumb 'teenager'.... I'll foward you an IQ test or simply meet you for tea to prove otherwise.
Thank you cyber nuts.
Peace love and LSD!
(Just kidding.)
-charlotte
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