I am so glad Nelson didnt have to witness the fall of his scene

this was to be Nelson's last Christmas. Makes me Happy to see that he was Happy and with many friends. As per usual

Well it's now 33 years later and I'm still mourning Nelson's early death. So, I'd say the world became a LOT emptier the day Nelson died. We can only imagine what great things he would have contributed to LGBTQ and NYC history had he lived longer. Nelson documented both is such an excellent, intimate and personal way. Thankfully NYU realizes the value of Nelson's pioneering vlogs and has archived around 2,000 of them. RIP Nelson Sullivan, you are one of the giants of LGBTQ and NYC history and are widely loved by both communities!

you can tell everyone kind of doesn't want to be on film this time around...but i think Nelson knew the importance of capturing a scene and a moment...aka pretty cool to be a fly on the wall over 20 years later! cool condo too btw...

aww christmas 1988. I'll never forget that christmas. I was just over six months old and so partied out that I ended up shitting my pants by bed time.

@crazymeee

6 жыл бұрын

I was 3 lol

@myjessie9678

6 жыл бұрын

AsSereneMonstersRest same, same!

@jillkoerber5192

4 жыл бұрын

I was 14 days old and probably did the same thing

@EchoRider515

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

@huerfanapensionada

3 жыл бұрын

HAHAHHAH

"Hey Nelson, would you like some ecstasy chocolate?" I love these older videos before ecstasy turned to crack and smack and everyone started falling apart. RIP Nelson and Michael x

The sound of the cop cars are the sound of the future Michael Alig.

Nelson was soooo kind and loving. Also a great sense of humor too

1. Keoki is so adorable! 2. It kinda makes me sad to see Michael before the heroin addiction and the... incident 3. RIP Nelson

The last great decade

Ironic, Michael Alig died today. Christmas 2020.

"look at this modern elevator"

@nyc8802

5 жыл бұрын

IT'S A CRIME WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO ARCHITECTURE IN NYC. EVERYTHING SHOULD OF BEEN PRESERVED LIKE THE WOOLWORTH Building which still an Architectural Landmark. That building was a rental. It didn't even had a concierge nor a dorman...yeap.

That kitty was so beautiful and friendly..

I love that they are playing Risk.

Jesus's birthday, our little boy lol

@jimshorts1451

7 жыл бұрын

Nina Donskoy lmao I died

@dixienormous6969

6 жыл бұрын

Nina Donskoy LMAO THE WAY HE SAID IT TOO FUCK I LOVE NELSON

Sudden-death, which is a massive heart-attack with no warning. I remember that he was very exhausted that day, as I saw his last video when he said that to his dog, and he passed-away, presumably in his sleep, just a few hours later at his home. As I said in my previous comment, he never looked "well", and many people ASSUMED that he was "sick", but no one ever believed that he would drop-dead with a sudden-death attack as he did. The world is a little emptier with him.

@EchoRider515

3 жыл бұрын

He actually died in a hospital.

@HollywoodCreeper

3 жыл бұрын

How do you know that?

@kh4901

Жыл бұрын

@@EchoRider515 No he didn’t, Rupaul said in a podcast that when Nelson died he took his bedroom but wasn’t weirded out about his having died there.

@EchoRider515

Жыл бұрын

@@kh4901 maybe you oughta do some deeper diving into that period. Rupaul has been proven to bend the truth about details of several situations during that period. Don't get me wrong, I love Ru, but that's just not what happened. Nelson was close to death while at home, but he died at the hospital.

@kh4901

Жыл бұрын

@@EchoRider515 It wasn’t at the time of his death, it was on his podcast a few years ago. Around the 7:20 mark: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y5iX1JltYLLSdM4.html

"i just wanted to put it on for jesus's birthday... our little boy" 😭

i will forever love watching your videos and going on so many journeys. your personality brings so much to every single vid and its such a shame that you passed. r.i.p 💕

"Put that thing down... come eat!" Just like today (2021) with cellphones 📱. Lol 😁

Omg that poor cat. In the same apartment with Michael...

@alexkastano96

5 жыл бұрын

Aly C cat was helping Mike to kill Angel ...

@sw_fit50s

5 жыл бұрын

Alex Kastano unfortunately the story is the cats starved to death when Michael went on the run, I really hope it isn’t true ☺️😢

@crossingthestreams1

4 жыл бұрын

It’s true that they starved unfortunately. I heard that he was just so strung out he neglected the poor thing not abandon it. I don’t know for sure though.

@EchoRider515

3 жыл бұрын

@@BrownSugarBaby1992 😭💔

@EchoRider515

3 жыл бұрын

@@sw_fit50s unfortunately it is true. 😢😔

Neighbours must have loved being in the next apartment 😂

I love that cat. He looks like he was pulled right out of a Japanese cartoon.

i love this video

Hmmm 1988 awe i was 19 yrs old i so miss all those days life was easy back then and there was $$$ to burn.How i love that.

@onelonelydude6243

9 жыл бұрын

Luz Figueroa yeah i was 4 years old

@CryptoAvengerTV

6 жыл бұрын

Luz Figueroa I was 11 years old

@nyc8802

5 жыл бұрын

🤐

jesus that apartment must be worth millions now!

@nychris2258

Жыл бұрын

It's a rental property

this video is really sad, to me. couldn't Alig have thought of something more 'creative' to do w/those walls than slat-white "stiffness???" How long did he live there?? Who paid for it??? I hope everyone had fun. There seriously should be an Oscar-Winning film about Nelson Sullivan . . .

@HollywoodCreeper

3 жыл бұрын

I thought of doing something like that several years ago...but now Dick is dead. Sylvia is dead. Micheal is dead. Like 4 years ago....It would have been perfect, because you still could get a hold and meet all these people. It would be weird to look at them today, and realize they were there back then in that context.

@rundbaum

3 жыл бұрын

@@HollywoodCreeper that's interesting!! i remember posting this b/c they eat starchy white baguettes, in this video, & i thought 'oh well, it was the 80s' . . . we were all kind of dumb, back then, i get it. alig seems like he was always paying lip service to something if everybody thought it was 'fancy' or if it's what would bring him 'fame.' lately, i have been getting super into acid house, tho'. there is a treasure trove of musical form there which is historic & should be studied . . . u should do a video about acid house!!

@HollywoodCreeper

3 жыл бұрын

@@rundbaum Baguettes are a cultural food staple and aren't going anywhere. They are awesome, and delicious, and extremely far from dumb. They are actually very sophisticated, and they go with every meal. Petite dejeuner. Dejeuner, at diner. We are dumber now if we don't eat them, especially because they mean a lot more than nutrition. They mean family and communication and home especially in France. I just wanted to knock that claim to dust right off the bat, because it is ludicrous. People are so stupid today. They are a pound foolish and a penny sly. Alig was cool. He did a lot of cool things. I feel really badly that he died the way he did. I would have loved to have met him. I am going to check out this acid house music. Thanks for the tip.

@rundbaum

3 жыл бұрын

@@HollywoodCreeper i eat baguettes now due to their baker's yeast which is a probiotic (over grains or wheat, at all)--are you sure that's what michael meant in this video?? that's cool you knew michael since you say you did. my only friends knew freeze right after this thing happened, they were people i knew in alphabet city. acid house was a set of patterns that occured under the moniker 'acid'--i thought you were going to talk about that . . .

Nelson was ahead of his time. I liked when he went back home that time

Just love the 80s,so carefree

@marshhen

Жыл бұрын

Not really, it was the first half decade of the AIDS crisis, and the community was traumatized by death after death of brilliant, beautiful young people. Not care free, at least not this latter half of the decade. Imagine a pandemic but it only strikes people in your own community and every one else turns up their noses at you and blames you for your own illnesses and suffering. The big controversy was not about bathrooms but about whether children with HIV should be ALLOWED to attend school at all. That was a common conversation and the public was in full homophobic panic. Any time before smartphones was carefree like this. People were more relaxed with each other. I will give you that.

Christmas kitty. haha. Soo cute :)

A few of them are so stuck up

Freeze always was a bit menacing to me... I remember him from Robots... I think he was wearing a velvet suit (or I was seriously wacked-out, which is probable given the setting)

Love the Stephen Sprouse/Iggy-as-Jesus poster in the kitchenette.

@HollywoodCreeper

3 жыл бұрын

I am sure that it is no coincidence that Micheal painted a zombie girl jumping rope and it had the same colors.

This must be the apartment that James St. James writes about in "Disco Bloodbath" where he says it was a cute apartment until Michael Alig got ahold of it. He's right. I do see the Ethan Allen description.

@lynnlynn9124

6 жыл бұрын

PancakeSally and the cat they left to die.

@yecats953

6 жыл бұрын

:(

@crazymeee

6 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing but this isn't the apartment that angel was murdered in

@everettgarrett4858

5 жыл бұрын

@@crazymeee this is one that he only owed $50,000 on Peter gatien gave him the 50 to pay it off but he spend it on drugs it just sold for over 2 million a few years ago

@crazymeee

5 жыл бұрын

@@everettgarrett4858 2 mil?!

No, I wasn't a club kid, but a raver. I was one of those ravers who kinda had a pinky toe in the club world, I practically lived at limelight (disco 2000 cooler, velvet, octagon, nells, & robots (where I sometimes slept!) I knew a lot of DJs and was a dancer that people knew (not lots of girls in circles back then) but I knew these kids from the darker side of that world, if you know what I mean. I met Kier a couple of times, awesome chick! I still have the book she drew her name in at a party:)

@jeannegoodwin7415

6 жыл бұрын

Lisa Lee Ananias do you remember Japan?

The year my son was born ❤

Riverbank West (560 West 43rd Street). This is where Michael Alig would eventually go on to murder and dismember Angel Menendez in 1996, for which he went to prison.

Poor Nelson. He looked awful and frail, but did not have AIDS, but died of a sudden-heart-attack a year or so after this, I am almost certain.

@shawndamccormick278

6 жыл бұрын

ExposingZionistEvil he passed away on July 4th 1989. so it was not quite 7 months after this. He made a video right before he laid down for a nap and died. Its actually on 5 ninth.

"Christmas Kitty"

look at this modern elevator.

2:25 ....our little boy.

is it me or nowadays theres just no ......... freedom like they had.....:'( everyone having fun and i just want to feel as happy as they feel.......idk

@jimmywoo7875

4 жыл бұрын

How do you feel now.no fredom at all lmao

@1w72st

4 жыл бұрын

Just you

Not if she came into the group after '89 which I think she did, '89 is the year Nelson died.

yea its crazy like i was still my moms stomach while this was going on

RIP Michael. Anyone can have a bad night.

Was Gitsie ever recorded on any of these films?

@everettgarrett4858

5 жыл бұрын

Nelson died when she was only 12 or 13 so she wouldn't have been on any of his videos

@doyouwash1 Nelson died how when? sux he doumented some much great stuff classic events and characters that are so much admired and or famous now!!

Is this THE apartment?

These people very stuck up except for karaoke and Nelson

where in town was the apartment building? Does anyone remember?

@everettgarrett4858

5 жыл бұрын

Manhattan I think I think it's the one that just over a couple million dollars pretty sure he lost that before 96 over around $50,000 which he was giving by Peter gatien to pay it he said he spent the money on drugs

@nyc8802

5 жыл бұрын

@@everettgarrett4858 Do you believe a word !🤣 Look at history of rentals, then and now.

Crazy shit

demonios!!!!!!

I was 14 days old

Gotta love ecstasy chocolate

Blond girl is gorgeous 😍 what ever happened to her? Where is she now?

@drinkingpoolwater

3 жыл бұрын

yea julie was gorgeous.

@crazymeee

Жыл бұрын

She left the scene when it became very druggy and it started imploding on itself

@troyschuh12 I feel the same way,no lie.

Look Align hair is colored red he said he colored red to bleech out the blood! 😖

@JustinLHopkins

6 жыл бұрын

LitBitCOINS This is several years before the murder.

is this the apt he killed angel in?

@CryptoAvengerTV

6 жыл бұрын

karey lester yes! RIP they stuffed his corps in that square trunk he chopped his drugs up on as a table in the living room, you can see it in this video. 😨

@asong4thedead

6 жыл бұрын

LitBitCOINS yikes

@amazingabby25

3 жыл бұрын

Shannon nice ween avator, This video is deeply dark

@crazymeee

Жыл бұрын

No this isn't

Was this the apartment that the murder took place?

This apartment was worlds nicer than depicted in PM. Looked like a falling apart shit hole.

Do you think they actually killed the cat like portrayed in the movie Party Monster? :(

I wonder if they ate Angel 😱

@jimmywoo7875

4 жыл бұрын

This is Years before this is 88' that happend in the early 90s'

Poor cat, isn't that the cat that they starved to death or killed because they were high on drugs? :(

@spookshow6999

3 жыл бұрын

That’s so sad.

There's no such thing as freedom.

some say the cat ate the body

michael alig was a sad sad little boy :( he needs to be in rehab not prison psycho killer, but i still love club kids sos so so much

OD I'm sure like Gitsie

@tinaamariee832

5 жыл бұрын

Ru said Nelson didn’t do any hard drugs just Marijuana

@kilgoretrout7227

3 жыл бұрын

tinaamariee😘 He admits in this very video that he ate “ecstasy chocolate” earlier in the night.

Is the cameraman the guy that hit Angel with the hammer?

@CatchafireforGod

4 жыл бұрын

No

Creepy 😟😫

Seemingly it was more about the drugs and dressing up with these clowns than the music. I guess that comes hand in hand with being exhuberant and 'fabulous' gays. Btw....the geezer with the camera sound like Droopy.