Precious Moments in The Audubon Bathroom
Photographed by Clinton Peltier
Taken from a Sleazebox flyer
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MICHAEL SOLDIER AKA PRECIOUS MOMENTS
performance artist / actor / musician / visual artist / curator | originaly from Flushing Queens, New York; lived in New Orleans Fall 1996 - Spring 1997 | Currently living in San Francisco, CA

See Also: The Audubon Hotel / Framed

Links: Michael Soldier / Pepperspray

send additions, corrections, writing and visual contributions to ralph@rs-media.org

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Press:

A FEW MOMENTS WITH PRECIOUS
By Bobby Pins
(written for the unpublished Fake magazine; Spring 1998)


Bobby Pinns: So, Precious, who was your greatest childhood influence?
Precious Moments: Jamie Summers. I love the Bionic Woman. She had it all: She was beautiful without ever trying. Intelligent. Funny. And just like a little gay boy, she had a really big secret. And she always used her powers for good. Plus she had her own goddamn TV show! Who could ask for more.
BP: I love your shit-eating baby act. It's horrific.
PM: It's about freedom. And acceptance. Like my Dyke Drag, when I bring the outsider chicks to the spotlight in clubs that ordinarily might not even welcome these women.
BP: You've been living in Provincetown. What have you been up to?
PM: Lot's of theatre and rock and roll. For Christmas I'm working on a lip synch of the entire Charlie Brown Christmas Special. I'm Lucy.
BP: I should hope so.
PM: Well I wanted to be Peppermint Patty, but she's not in it. I'm also the featured actor on a weekly radio variety show called Spiritually speaking.
BP: About?
PM: The spirituality of sex, drag, drugs; being gay, straight or single.
BP: Those are the options?
PM: It depends on the week. We're very controversial. I do up to ten different comedic characters voices per half hour show.
BP: Whats next for you?
PM: Precious Moments presents, "Enya Dreams." It's all Enya.
BP: The New Age of Drag?
PM: Exactly. It will also be very cathartic for me.
BP: Really. How so?
PM: After seven years as a massage therapist, I have to exorcise the Enya out of my system. Its the first of a group show performance series I'm producing in P'town.
BP: My mom would love it.
PM: mine too. It's the worst drag I could think of.
BP: What do you miss most about New Orleans?
PM: The people the people the people. And the incredible tragic glamour. I've never felt so at home in a place so foreign to me.
BP: That's so sappy.
PM: Well my name is Precious Moments.
BP: So why aren't you living here now?
PM: My liver?
BP: And is your liver faring any better in P'town?
PM: Shut up.