Hello everyone, Thank you for checking out our blog. Rob & Cisco here, been together 17 years this October 3rd, 2010. We met at the Zone DK sex club that was between the original Eagle’s Nest and Spike bar back in 1993. Rob is originally from North West Philadelphia born March 23rd German/Welsh background and Cisco is originally from the Bronx, New york City born May 23rd Puerto Rican background.
Both into the arts: Lebo from lebostudios Miami, Michael Mararian (Inky Dreadfuls), Ron English, Keith Haring, Luis Mario Tavales, Paul Wiley, Gary Baseman, Seen, Gary Taxali, Greer Lankton, Touko Laaksonen, Richard (from the Eagle bar New York City), Tom MC – MunKaita, Margaret Kilgallen (Barry Mcgee’s wife), John Michel Basquiat, Osgemos, Andy Warhol, Kenny Scharf, Takashi Murakami, Elizabeth Lambard, Isabel/Ruben Taledo, just to name a few.
Music, anything upto the late 1990s: Marlene Dietrich, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Junior (Mama Used To Say 1982), Everything but the girl, Beastie Boys, Jill Scott, Monie Love, Joyce Sims, Gnarls Barkley, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Eagle Eye Cherry, Kate Bush, Layo & Bushwacha, Digable Planets, The Cars, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Pet Shop Boys, old LL Cool J, Hall & Oates, Cazwell, Rockwell, Diana Ross, Rupaul, Chaka Khan, Art Of Noise, Amber, Amy Winehouse, Andrew Sisters, old Will Smith, The Del Rubio Triplets, Horace Brown, S-Express, Yazz, ABC, Paul HardCastle, The Alkaholiks, Wendy Ho, Suicidal Tendencies, old Eric B & Rakim, Lil’ Kim, Amii Stewart, Madonna, Snap, Duran Duran, The Smiths, Psychedelic Furs, Phylis Nelson, Cyndi Lauper, Eurythmics, Howard Jones, Enigma, Deep Forest, old Seal, Arrested Development, The Human League, Gravediggaz, Tom Tom Club, George Michael, Barry White, Bing Crosby, Taco, Kon Kan, Bronski Beat, Ultra Nate, Michael Jackson, Adeva, Queen Latifah, Zhane, Mary Jane Girls, The GO GOs, A Taste Of Honey, Donna Summer, Al B. Sure, Soul II Soul, Bell Biv Devoe, Jody watley, Tony! Toni! Tone!, Neneh cherry, celia Cruz, The Cover Girls, shannon, Pretty Poison, Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam, Inner City, rod Steward, Colton Ford, Dee Lite, Animotion, Bryan Ferry, Wilford Brimley (Diabeetus Remix on youtube), BDP (Boogie Down Productions), just to name a few.
Movies: Nightmare Before Christmas, Serial Mom, Original Hair Spray, Star Wars, Mannequin, Lady Beware, Torch Song Trilogy, House Of 1000 Corpse, Halloween, Party Monster, September Issue, Devil Wears Prada, Old Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, Miracle On 34th Street, Wizard Of Oz, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Blow, Cruising, American Swing, Ghost Ship, Titanic, She Devil, F/X, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Mars Attacks, James And The Giant Peach, Catwoman, Christmas Story, Batman (with Michael Keaton), Day After Tomorrow, Paris is Burning, The Queen (1968), How Do I Look, Grease, Saturday Night Fever, 54, Friday, Next Friday, Dolores Claiborne, Misery, It, People Under The Stairs, Outrageous Fortune, The Money Pit, Friday the 13th, Hocus Pocus, Gay Sex In The 70′s, Down And Out In Beverly Hills, Out Of Bounds, Twister, Porky’s, Porky’s II, Last American Virgin, Flowers In The Attic, Pink Flamingos, Planet Of the Apes, Abbott & Costello, Three Stooges, Super Size Me, Poltergeist, Carrie, Towering Inferno, any camp, just to name a few.
TV: Mostly into older commercials, old TV shows, documentaries, a few of the new TV shows: 7th Street, Blue Ball, Facts of Life, Jeffersons, Different Strokes, Sonny & Cher, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy, Greatest American Hero (cheese), Love Boat, Rupauls Drag Race, Fantasy Island, Brady Bunch, Gilligan’s Island, Magic Garden, Great Space Coaster, Super Friends, America’s Next Top Model, Wonder Woman, Bewitched, The Waltons, Antiques Road Show, The Hitcher, Tales From The Darkside, Twilight Zone, Six Feet Under, Give Me A Break, To Close For Comfort, Good Times, Project Runway, Living Single, New York Under Cover, Threes Company, Hulk, Pee Wee’s Playhouse, Bananna Splits, Pawn Stars, Dexter, just to name a few.
Collect: We collect everything and anything cool (To us). Vintage toys, vintage games, vintage clothes, vintage Department Store ephemera, art, mannequins, vintage display heads, vintage advertising, vintage holiday blowmolds, vintage shopping bags, vintage gay ephemra, sneakers (since 1983), vintage Halloween decorations, watches, anything eclectic, unique, one of a kind.
What do we do? We’re both artist that feed off each other, Rob works for Macy*s in the Visual Department & at home he’s designing: art, photography, t-shirts, working on our blog backinthegays, vendor, and on his off time he does a walking tour of the Ladies Mile in New York City (Next one is November 14th, 2010 at noon, pst for information). Coming soon is his backinthegaystours, of old gay bars, adult theaters, gay after hours, gay bathhouses, etc. Cisco works from home designing clothes, t-shirts, art, photography, web design, working on our blog , vendor, and on his off time he plays World Of Warcraft (WOW) on Blackhand realm as Auntshamomma (Shaman) & HotNHunkie (Druid).
- Cisco & Rob
- Rob Originally from Philadephia
- Cisco originally from the Bronx
WOW! What interesting, eclectic, exciting, far left of boring taste you guys have! From The Andrew Sisters and Marlene Dietrich to Celia Cruz and Amy Winehouse is quite the range of genres! And have either of you ever said this to the other one…”if one more person says we look like brother’s I’m gonna hurl?” I can’t help it, it’s the first thing I thought! I was really upset when Celia passed, she was something else. Very special. And I loved the connection she had with Patti, they were so obviously seperated at birth! Just a quick note to say hello and I’ll check out your Facebook vibe mas tarde! Oh, and I noticed the essay about my early days as a ho is up! Oy vey, there goes my job with the NYPD!!
There’s always room in the NYPD…LOL.
Yes we’ve been told on more than one occasion that we look like brothers. Our eclectic taste keep us going and keeps us interesting and interested.
The passing of Celia was very sad. An artist James De La Vega did a mural on a wall at 103rd and Lexington Ave. in memory of Miss Celia. Which we love to look at when we go to catch the 6 train.
And don’t forget that rare occasion of someone saying: “Is that your father” lol, can’t forget that one… Happened to us on the Satin Island Ferry… I mean Staten Island Ferry…