Christina, in a good mood
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- Christina was in a pretty good mood the night Nelson Sullivan visited her in April 1989. Nelson engaged in a thoughtful conversation there with Christina's friend Linda. It was all about the reality of video and Nelson's ideas about that. It is presented in its entirety on the 5 Ninth Avenue Project Channel and is entitled "Nelson Sullivan discusses the reality of Video in the Chelsea Hotel"
I looked at one vid and now I'm hooked. This is real reality TV. I can't stop watching. Nelson's commentary is funny and he is such a character in his own way. New York in the 80's!!! Like the music playing in the background during his visit...the B 52's.
The team keeps releasing Nelson's videos. No one has done anything major with them yet. I wish they would. There are plenty of great creative people who were a part of this era. Julian Schnabel would be great for this type of project.
Emenjay Man real talk. I felt the same way after watching just 1 video.. opens my eyes.
Emenjay Man I watch every day....about ten days since I discovered
yeah, this is wild! I'm a straight, 39 yr old, watchin NBA playoffs, ON MUTE, while watching Nelson's footage. this is addicting... its REAL.
what song by the b52s is it?
It's like being a time traveler. Nelson really did a great service for us in 2018. I hope his spirit can see how much people are enjoying these videos.
Did he pass?
@@raymondsolisjr.1262 In 1989
So true so right
Omg what did he pass of? Thats the same time when he was making these videos??
its what ive always wanted to do: Just randomly document real life. Speak to random characters I know, film in real time.
Yeah I think the same, he is a time traveler 😎
It’s strange how you can really miss someone you never met, cheers to you Nelson
i feel the same way
This lifestyle by "Christina" is actually disgusting. Rather than have somebody in the 80s acting like somebody during the current time period, I would rather have somebody in this time period acting like people did in the 50s in terms of cultural values
P.S. I do feel bad that Nelson passed away. He maintained a healthy weight and was extremely unlucky. I just don't believe he is as revolutionary in a good way as most others since modern society is collapsing very quickly and we instead need our mentality to be that of 1955. Yes, I mean the entire mindset of that time period especially in the South
@@stewiegriffinfan18 I'm right there with you.
@@Utubin Hehe I am glad I am not the only one that thinks about things. Like, no, not everyone is created equal and different groups of anthropoids (that most refer to as "people") are different in civilization building, desire for freedom, and crime
This is historical footage! Nelson and Christina at THEE Chelsea Hotel? Truly iconic.
The fact that she later died at the Chelsea Hotel is so sad. Especially since she died a couple of weeks before Nelson did!
Shadey .xo how did you find that out? Is there something on youtube?
@@shadeyxo no you’re telling me Nelson died shortly after these video..I can’t handle that news I’ve been binge watching :(
@@emmaann7602 He passed away in 1989 from a heart attack
@@myheartisinjapan3184 He talks about her death in his videos following her passing he was really sad about it and the only one who really cared that she died
I hope somehow he knows, that even completely strangers appreciate his wonderfull soul after all these years.
He knew,somehow.In one videos the last visit to his hometown in South Carolina he says "I am going to enter a different world,an electronic world and with God's help I am going to spread peace love and happiness".I couldn't believe my ears,he described a time where electronic devices seem to create another and virtual social world where complete strangers can communicate and affect one another,for better or worse. He had vision,that man.He was well connected.
He doesn’t
Well said!😍
I've just discovered this beautiful soul and itakes me so sad that he's not here
Oh...He knows! And he's smiling down on all of us...we will ALL see Nelson one day & thank him in spirit
Poor, poor Christina... Nelson was a good friend to her.
ShikagoMale1 him not her
Hassan Moussie her you tit.
Craig Oz Realy...? Are you taking the piss m8?
No why would I be. Sex and gender are two separate things, related...yes, but her gender was that of a woman. So you use the pronoun 'she'. What she had in between her legs is irrelevant.
Gender is largely performative.
I know Christina is off her head on drugs, but everything she says is a fragment of art
So true,so right
I believe she was a diagnosed schizophrenic, but I'm sure there were some interesting drugs floating around that apartment as well.
@@cgvapors963 I would believe that because of the way she was holding her head and talking to herself and maybe she took legal drugs for her diagnosis. But I did sense some normality in her though. Like Nelson air-kissed her goodbye and she did the same. It's heart-warming if you think about it!
All these vids are a fragment of art
EVERYTHING
I just love how Nelson just went with whatever Christina was saying.
Sad to think that Christina and Nelson did not make it to the end of that year, one probably overdosed from all the pain and suffering (Christina) and Nelson just happened to have a weak heart... You can see how exhausted he was just by walking 2 flights of stairs.
Putting all that into perspective and the two sitting along with their friend talking about people's pain and how hopefully the world in general would be more aware about it in the future is just nostalgic and remarkably sad.
Daniel G. I com agree and was going to write the same thing you took the words out of my mouth . Very sad indeed
Think he had aids
@@63586jonathan he died from a heart attack.
@@frank6842 could be. Aids killed people many ways via heart attack etc. Who knows. He had that mark on his face had symptoms of HIV they suggested. No one really knows only him
63586jonathan he had a mole he had removed check his other vids
What is with Christina and that damn disembodied answering machine? 😂
Christina was orbiting earth hard
squeeky 86 lol 😂
Earth was orbiting around Christina hard, actually
I soooo wish Nelson were still with us; he had so much left to give.
Do you know why he's dead? :(
xxtravisxxify he died of a heart attack a month after Christina he was her only true friend
That's so sad... what about Christina?
xxtravisxxify she overdosed a month b4 Nelson
u,mm...
I thought Nelson died of a heart attack
That Hotel has so many stories. I mean Sid and Nancy, Christina, Alice Cooper, Dylan. That place is a Museum of our past as Artists and Greatness. But its an eerie place if you go in.
i bet it's haunted
Woah that's insane!! I would looooove to visit that hotel & stay in the same room Christina stayed in.. imagine that. That'd be wild..
i stayed there in 2009. it’s actually a very peaceful place. the walls are thick concrete so you don’t hear anything. it’s a nice atmosphere. i stayed for 3 days. there’s art everywhere in the hallways. they were actually filming a tv show when i was there.
@@drinkingpoolwater I agree, always got neutral vibes.
started off watching a documentary on michael alig. a day later watching all of Nelsons videos. It's what reality tv today should be
KD Gray I went on the same adventure and here I am too 😉
Hahaha SAME! Now im hooked!
Type his name in Google. You'll know something about him... 😧
I found nelson years ago while searching "oldest vlog." My first video was the party Alig had at Mcdonalds. I thought it was so interesting and different, I have went through a rabbit hole since and learned tons.
me, too!! same rabbit hole...
Nelson was so authentic. 💖
Suzie N Nelson was the best
I love how Christina poses every time the camera is on her and her friend had such a beautiful outlook on life!
Nelson was such a beautiful soul and Christina is speaking art despite being in the clouds. "Doctors make money off of people being sick ". How true.
At 4:22 you see a good example of Nelson's incredible camera work. He looks away at Linda but still moves the camera effortlessly and focuses it on Christina. In this moment he and the camera are one.
love.
DiskSystemChronicles fluidity was his thing, this is a rare video where he is not moving, hes not still for long and the camera is always in his hand, if you've ever held a camera from the eighties they were quite weighty and ackward along with all the equipment, but he carried it everywhere, and surprisingly you'd think the shots would be shaky. A real talent to do this
Good catch, he is incredible. 5:46 He reaches to center the camera better while Linda's filming him. Master.
@@robertbradford3461 10:24 the stairway swirl ❤
@@TS-qq7vr the Stairway Swirl 10:24 ❤
In April 1989 I was a sophomore in HS dreaming about hanging out in the Chelsea Hotel one day. Now I live across the street and the city is unrecognizable.
I live in Indiana, but always wanted to see the Chelsea. I see online that it is closed for renovations? Any chance you know when it will reopen or how the renovation is going? I'm afraid to hear that they try to modernize it and take away the history. Hopefully no unnecessary changes will be made.
The same thing happened in in D.C. and Chicago.A lot urban areas are now like that, gentrified out of all recognition.
The Chelsea has seen lots of deaths.
Trish 0910 theyre completely remodeling and are not opening up for renting sans a few residents that were there prior to reconstruction. All the history will be gone with the new remodel
Oh wow!! I turned 14 April of ‘89 and I loved NYC and had so many dreams of moving there to live this kind of experience. My former husband is from NYC and wanted out so it never happened. These videos are sating my longing for taking a different path.
One of Christina's last comments in this video: "They'll make money off of people being ill, in pain".
People are now dying from addiction to pain medications.
You were wise beyond the facade you wore!! R.I.P. dear Christina...xxx
nancy long thought the same thing !
It wasn't a new concept at the time
That's called capitalism in healthcare. Not anything people haven't known about forever.
She was in a good mood, wasn't she, so that thought was lucky to be told :'(
Also, everybody kept saying she does drugs but that doesn't look like drugs to me. They said Cocaine. Cocaine doesn't make you slur your words like that.
Why do people disrespect people with a mental disability like that? It's sad...
Jacob Klimek cocaine definetly does
So I'm from Turkey and discovered Nelson Sullivan somehow. Isn't this world a great place to live actually?
xxtravisxxify aferin!
He has that affect 😊
TURKIYE SIK TIR LAN
@@athandog ouch
@@athandog the Greeks are still pissed at Turkey I see. That's understandable..
I feel like personalities were way more colorful in those times. Seems like the age of social media, internet, and smart phones have ruined that.
Ah yes, the colourfulness of these drugged out people who died within weeks has totally been ruined. /s
Obviously people in this scene were on a ton of drugs and half the time were extremely mentally ill. Christina, the beauty, on drugs and apparently was diagnosed schizophrenic and then died of an overdose not long after this video.
Times have changed, not by much, but drawing this conclusion on a video like this is probably the worst place to do so.
@@abigaileldritch man shut the fuck up you literal moron
@@abigaileldritch nelson wasnt on drugs he died of a heart attack not drug overdose, and christina took drugs for her schizophrenia diagnosis
Being short of breath and coughing after climbing 3 flights of stairs is a solid indicator of impending health trouble, R.I.P. Nelson, never forgotten.
Thomas White I was thinking the same.
Fast forward to now where everyone eats manufactured food and takes the elevator up one story.
Yeah, I noticed that too. He was really out of breath after climbing about two sets of stairs. That's not very healthy. But it might be because of smoking, since he seems pretty fit. Personally, I'm a bit on the heavier side, and I get winded after going up just one set of stairs. But I don't smoke at all.
Indeed sorry that he left us so young..relaxed dude..going to his granny house and neigbours..I just kinda met him since a few weeks watching his vids...a couple days before he died I saw him yawning while he was filming himself during a normal day out walking BlackOut..I guess that was also a sign...so sad...anywaaaaysss thank you Nelson for being worldsss first Vlogger lolll..eat that peeps🤗🤣😋
@@sassy7251 He probably yawned because of tiredness and always walks Blackout in the mornings, so it's understandable why he yawned.
I love this poor man. so sad he's gone Rupaule said he and his partner were mentors for her. I feel like we lack this mentorship in the community now.
Christina was On some hard drugs, she didnt string one sentence together that made any sense, at one point she forgot what she was talking about half way through, you actually see her mind go blank
Heroin, it's easy to tell the way she spaces in an out
@@cfernandez120 There's a lot more going on then just heroin....
H E R O I N...
I see so many comments about how beautiful and nice Christina is. Come on people! This poor soul, Christina is drugged up and in serious psychological, emotional problems. Nothing nice about that. She needed help! Not nice words.
Some ppl can see past the drugs and mental illness, and see the person's good side. Drugs and mental illness do not defy the person, learn that and do better
The camera movement is so fluid as he's walking up the stairs.
Yeah Nelson's a very graceful walker
I don't want to jump to conclusions here, but I think Christina and Linda might have been on drugs.
Rust Cohle LOL! I think the same thing.
Rust Cohle without question
The blonde passed away not long after this
@@ChunkRs woah nice seeing you here dad
Coke fucks up your heart!
About 10 years after Sid & Nancy occupied a room at the Chelsea and Nancy ultimately died in room 100.
The B-52’s -Mesopotamia album in the background of Christina’s room.
Nelson constantly yawns….shortness of breath, air hunger. I wish he had seen a cardiologist.
Hello when was this?????
It’s so sad it’s like you don’t know these people but you wish you’d met them yourself
I love Christina's giggle. Nelson had such a deep fondness of her and regardless of her being tweaked half the time, he saw something beautiful in her that he was always so nurturing and protective of her and that is what made Nelson such a beautiful person. He had friends from all walks of life that he only saw the good in them.
Yeah you feel that from his energy. It’s very good energy. Very nonjudgemental, loving, empathetic.
Out of all the people in these videos, Christina is my favorite. Don't know why really.
You can see why they chose her character for party monster and for Marylin Manson to portray her.
She is very amusing.
same
Why did he like Christina so much. She just seemed drugged out of her gourd 24/7...never made sense and was just out of reality. Like where's the benefits or appeal lol
Exactly.
This one is so trippy... doesn't feel real at all
I just discovered these videos today and I'm obsessed. I always wanted to see what life was like in the 80s. I love everything 80s. Thank goodness I found these ❤️ so sad to hear that Nelson isn't with us anymore tho 😢 he will always be missed
The inventor of vlogs
Christina’s background is fascinating. I did some research and she’s from Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, but her parents were from North Carolina. Yup, not German. She moved to NY in the 80’s. She has one sister who died and a brother who lives in California and looked JUST like her in the yearbook.
Yup.notfemale
@@mandi7615 And?
@@mandi7615 youre over here on a niche drag channel, you need to take a look in yourself and maybe do some accepting
Nelson was a good person. Most people are afraid of us mentally Ill junkie alcoholics. Don't judge people if you ain't been in them shoes. I'm cool with all cool people. Nelson was a understanding person. RIP Nelson.
It's actually pretty funny how much James St. James looks like Christina these days
I can't unsee it now
Don't know what fuck you're talking about pal
Rest in Peace Cristina. Rest in peace Nelson, thank you for everything you have done to make my path alot more easier. Because it's hard out here for a Bitch.
Linda is high as fuuuuck and Christina is an answering machine. Love Nelson, always so sweet
Nelson had such a kind, gentle soul. He genuinely cared for Christina, when it seemed that very few people did. I wish I could have met him.
Often I feel like I'm part of the conversation when Nelson talks to the camera. What a unique bunch of video clips.
Man, wasn't life better w/o cell phones????
"I remember you well at the Chelsea Hotel"
These days and nights of Nelson's life are something to see. It makes me nostalgic for a life I barely knew.
Christina lived in the legendary Chelsea Hotel.....just wow !!! Many celebrities and artist have lived and died in the Chelsea hotel. A lot of movies and music-videos have been recorded there.
WOW. 3 months later and both Christina and Nelson would be dead. They didn’t get to experience the 90’s let alone live through the present. It’s actually depressing to watch this…
I simply love Christina, how she gets so cutely self-conscious just as soon as the camera is aimed her way.
I see why Nelson loved her so much
I love Nelson Sullivan’s videos! Many thanks to his late friend, Dick Richards who took control of Nelson’s videos after he passed and made them available to the public. What’s amazing is that I was in NYC when this video was filmed in April, 1989. I was 25 years old; it was my first trip to NYC. RIP Nelson Sullivan and Dick Richards. ☮️
I remember Dick too! he ran a record company too. I remember when you could order them and he'd mail them to you from Atlanta, this all after he inherited the hoard of brilliant videos.
Nelson definitely did his fair share of walking around the big city...
2019 pushing thru these amazing vintage vlogs. x
Didnt Manson play Christina in the movie
I wonder where Lynn is now..
I wonder too
At 2:50 & 4:50 he announces Christina's death at this room, 13 days before he died: ua-cam.com/video/htoEXEv8Lw0/v-deo.html
Linda would be the only one of these 3 alive in less than 3 months.
Do you know what happened to linda?
Nelson showed up right after the Heroin session... The ladies were nodding and feeling well..
Their pupils are way to dilated. By their motions and stammering Id highly suggest ketamine
Christina: want to be in a music video... and get an air conditioner for it...
Nelson: Okay give me back my camera now.
Haha! It seems like he was about to say something not so nice
@@flukislucas Yep, things like forgetting what she was saying mid-sentence and not making much sense in general, Ketamine is probably a good assumption. That was one of that crews drug of choice.
@@BreakerOneNine07 Correct you are. I also was a heroin addict so I can smell my own lol..
4 SURE
And less than 4 months later, they were both dead.
he was ahead of his time
I LOVE the lobby of that building!
I love his energy … he was ahead of his time!🙏
Lynn is adorable. Thoughtful woman. I wonder where sh is.
nelson's videos are so surreal
We always complain about being born in the wrong generation and era, I wonder if Nelson would say the same if he saw what technology we have today. Especially UA-cam.
I love the things we have today, primarily the technology, but I would love to live in the 80s at least for one day. People seemed to be more simple back then.
What a gem!
This makes me feel high!!!
Is this the Christina that they found dead in her hotel room or something from the beginning of the club kids field trip to d.c.????? So sad that she’s clearly on drugs and never got out of em :/
Yes :-(
yes and nelson died a week after christina. many new york icons died in the three year stretch from 87-89. basquiat, warhol, haring, nelson, mapplethorpe, and christina .
It's nice to see him actually smile. :)
LMAO @4:49 " I've been building a body for my answering machine." as one does!
so iconic
Oh Nelson, you're an icon. Wish you were still around❤️
Nelson was so incredibly ahead of his time! Vlogging way before it became a thing. It’s amazing really.
We lost both Christiana and Nelson that same year. Watching Nelson on the bus trip video when he is talking about how Christiana had passed away, it’s all so sad. Nelson was such an amazing soul and he cared so much for everyone around him.
Christina died a couple of months later at the end of May 89 and then Nelson died July of 89. Really sad.
What age i wonder
good riddance
Christina's room is quite the work of art, actually. Very emblematic of the times, what an iconic video.
❤️❤️
7:52 rather chilling to hear someone say that 35 years on. sadly, not yet...
Nelson’s little face. He was so beautiful. Such a kind face.
Nelson is a very deep thinker and loves his film project.
OMG I knew it! I just watched the Martin Scosese-produced documentary 'Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel' and towards the very beginning there's a haunting voiceover saying "I'm lost in the Chelsea!" and I just knew it was Nelson! So I paused the movie, ran to UA-cam to confirm my suspicions and there it is at 3:08. Pretty neat documentary btw for anyone who may be interested.
rip. he's missed so much shit
This was April and Nelson died on July 4th of the same year.
Rip Christina :(
I noticed in the months leading up to Nelson's death (July 4th 1989) he was pale,always winded and yawning alot. R.I.P. Nelson Sullivan
B 52 ' s playing in the background. And apparently there will be a new breed of people who are aware of the pain coming in....
I am straight and was not a part of the LGBT community in the 80s. I was a bridge and tunnel club kid and the dance scene brought us together. These videos show how far we've come, and how progressive some of us were already almost 30 years ago.
Wow Nelson really did give us snapshots of low budget urban grunge through which in himself reflected beauty. He was a sweet soul
If Linda only knew what the future what be like.
What NYC cab driver doesn't know where the Chelsea hotel is?
i thought the same thing
"I've done so much work I've forgotten it, and then when I see it it reminds me of all the stuff I've forgotten"
Wow
I typed down the quote to comment it too. This guy was an artist.
If cell phones and social media was invented then Nelson’s phone would always be blowing up. Lol
Ironically historians state that the phenomenon of the club kids will never happen again due to today's online social media.
This is amazing. Sullivan was ahead of his time, very daring!
This is the year he died , a soul took to young , what a wonderful man x
Cristina died in her room at the Chelsea a couple of days before the bus trip to Washington DC (another vide0)
Does anyone else notice the great B-52’s playing in the background?
Dump Reagan on the wall. Today it would be Dump Trump
Who would even dislike this?!
homophobes
No one with a heart could dislike sweet Nelson.
Maybe people dislike watching drug addicts melting their brains.
@@eefdekfifjef no ones a homophobe quit using that pathetic remark. No one has a fear or gays maybe they don’t like drug addiction quit labeling people you’re just as ignorant
Christina was found dead in her room there, at the Chelsea hotel, a couple months after this video.
Manmelt Crazy to think Nelson died only a month after her
@@kennygates1192 he did
Gee I wonder why
What is Christina ethnic background, she sounds foreigner. Am just curious
Oh wow ! That’s all very sad 😢 time is fleeting .
Its phenomenal to listen to the conversation and how 30 years later we are finally getting around to that conversation in a bigger picture.
Watching these videos of Nelson makes me miss a person I never knew.
Awesome that they were jamming to Fancy songs in the the car at the start.
Watching this in 2023 is a profound thing.
R.i.p Nelson & Christina!
♡
*Xiola Blue Staley* - gorgeous thumbnail ..such a classic girl💜💜💜💜
Christina💋💋💋 Love you guys❤️❤️❤️ Nelson you’re so sweet 🍰perfect gentleman 😇