Saturday, August 14, 1982
The limo driver said that he didn’t know really how to get to New Jersey, but that he’d try. We picked up Christopher and Peter and went out to the Meadowlands to see Blondie, and before them on the bill was Duran Duran and also David Johansen. We went back to see her. And Chris Stein has lost thirty pounds, he’s been sick, I think it’s all this bad air from some air conditioners. Debbie’s so fat now, she kicked us out because she wanted to get dressed in her Stephen Sprouse clothes. Our seats were up in the concessionaire’s box, and that was fun. I took pictures of the mother, the wife, and the kid, three generations of concessionaires (hot dogs $20). And the milk shakes were so thick they must have been plastic, it was like drinking margarine. Marianne Faithfull came along and read a poem she wrote and somebody put down drugs and she said, “Oh don’t put down drugs, because I’m on cocaine right now.” And I did like her so much, she was much different than when she stopped by the office a few weeks ago with Jay Johnson. She was so intelligent and so together. And she didn’t have an English accent, she was like an American, and so alert and not out of it at all.
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