doll on a bike

One thing about living in New York I love is when I have random sightings of actors, musicians and designers-I'm just a girl from Idaho where those types of things just don't happen everyday. My latest sighting was of Syl Sylvain from the New York Dolls.

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I met Syl when the Dolls last album came out and I was told that I was "good people" by Syl when he found out I had moved to New York from Utah. The fantastic documentary New York Doll had just come out about Artur "Killer" Kane and the Dolls were having a minor comeback due in part to the film and their reunion performance at the Meltdown festival in 2004. This time I was standing on the corner of Prince and West Broadway in Soho talking to my friend on the phone. A man on a bike came to a sudden stop right in front of me as the light turned red. I looked right at him and automatically said "Syl Sylvain?, yes?". He smiled and nodded. I think he was surprised to be recognized let alone by someone who wasn't even born while the Dolls were together. We had a brief conversation and then he was on his way. I just stood their watching him ride away in shock that I had run into him in such a weird random way.

This is one of my favorite songs by the Dolls, it's a legendary performance that inspired many great musicians. They're nasty and dirty, everything rock n' roll should be.



--heidi

hey, i've seen him before!

The other day I was on my way to a clients house and saw a man on a bike who was riding east into the traffic heading west. He was on the verge of getting run over by all the traffic. As the car I was in got closer I caught a better look at the man on the bike and it was this guy.

I have seen Terry Richardson once before on Spring Street when I came up from the subway on my way to work. I love that I see him doing everyday things like riding a bike or getting coffee as compared to his photography when people are definitely not always doing everyday things.
--heidi