Video: Chloë Sevigny Talks The EV, Again

"chloe is just another one of those obnoxious self-righteous nyc'ers too blinded by her own vanity to actually give a shit about anyone else but herself."

Boy you sound cranky --

finally this chick gets some much deserved haterade. all my trendy friends from nyc/tri-state area hate on hipsters from the midwest or wherever, yet they all co-opt culture from chicago, or detroit, or austin, or portland.

the way i see it, anyone born within commuting distance of the (arguably) greatest city on earth has certain advantages that no amount of education or adulthood experience gets. chloe is just another one of those obnoxious self-righteous nyc'ers too blinded by her own vanity to actually give a shit about anyone else but herself.

Paging Vincent Gallo...

Wait a minute, didn't NYU exist before you did Chloe? Get back to porn, pls.

she loves the neighborhood she still (sometimes?) lives in. good for her.

Is this a problem because she's successful? Or because she wasn't born in the East Village?

(sorry, didn't have the nerve to watch the whole video, maybe there's a terrible revelation about her somewhere there)

How odd, or maybe not (since it's part of the cliche), that you don't notice that it is Sevigny who has a problem with people who weren't born in the East Village--it's precisely why this barrage against her authenticity. You see, there's nothing that destroys authenticity like shortsightedly attacking someone else's authenticity. As the saying goes, don't hate the playa, hate the Game--if Sevigny hates the Game then she'll realize she is, like everyone else, a playa, and nothing sets herself above anyone else. Now, I'm not talking about her success or her craft--on those accounts she's perfectly fine.

agreed, I didn't watch the video long enough.

You made a very valid point.

I live in the east village for 15 years, and I wasn't born here, and I love the neighborhood.

She, in her position, should be very careful criticizing new neighbors.

I however, am free to do so! quietly.... :-))))

when underground gets sold as coca-cola is really really pathetic.

but when coca-cola is sold as underground is totally hilarious, the case of Ms Sevigny!

swish!

Further evidence that the earth's magnetic poles are swapping: much of the East Village is now cheaper than the Lower East Side below Houston Street, and Williamsburg. Take a look on Craigslist and you'll see it's true.

I would love to bust all over her bust.

Call CS a hipster is funny in several ways. She's not a wannabe hipster -- she's a consummate hipster who gets steady acting jobs in film and TV. She goes to red carpets and "knows everyone." Not your typical hipster folks and yes I say that with fully intended ironic value that only some folks will actually get here.

regarding the video -- She basically walks around buying useless stuff from small EV stores, which is a sad representation of the EV even today.

She's probably more new york than the majority of people bashing her on this site.

To quote the artistic director of The Poetry Project, the longstanding EV poetry org that has occupied St. Mark's since the late 60s, "we think it might be [Chloë's] admitted fear of pigeons that keeps her from crossing Abe Lebewohl Park through the gate to enjoy any one of the eighty readings that happen each season."

Dude. 3 readings a week w/ poets from all over the world, a New Year's Day marathon that almost always features your girl Patti Smith, and you wish someone would start something up again? Or you could just walk through the door, darlin!

http://poetryproject.org/project-blog

i dont get the BJ thing. all women are cocksuckers, and so are many men .. ? what am i missing here

alright nevermind, i looked it up. let's just say she's dedicated to her craft, haha

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Village,_Manhattan

From the wiki, which interestingly de-emphasizes the history of Puerto Ricans in the Lower East Side with the uncritical "culture of immigrant, working class life" and the tensions between the Puerto Rican community and their gentrifiers:

"The 'East Village' separates from the Lower East Side

Definitions vary, but the boundaries are roughly defined as east of Broadway and the Bowery from 14th Street down to Houston Street.

Until the mid-1960s, this area was simply the northern part of the Lower East Side, with a similar culture of immigrant, working class life. In the 1950s the migration of Beatniks into the neighborhood later attracted hippies, musicians and artists well into 1960s. The area was dubbed the "East Village", to dissociate it from the image of slums evoked by the Lower East Side. According to the New York Times, a 1964 guide called, "Earl Wilson's New York," wrote that "artists, poets and promoters of coffeehouses from Greenwich Village are trying to remelt the neighborhood under the high-sounding name of 'East Village.'"

Newcomers and real estate brokers popularized the East Village name, and the term was adopted by the popular media by the mid-1960s. In 1966 a psychedelic weekly newspaper, The East Village Other, appeared and The New York Times declared that the neighborhood "had come to be known" as the East Village in the June 5, 1967 edition."

And one last thing that proves Sevigny needs a geography and gentrification lesson when she says she would never go to the Lower East Side: honey, back in the day, before persons like yourself moved in, there was no East Village. What you know as the East Village was formerly part of the Lower East Side. That portion was renamed the "East Village" to encourage your sort of residential tourism. Which, of course, brings us back to the irony of your pretty Puerto Rican boy--the reasons why it was renamed involved minimizing the terror settlers felt back in the day when "Lower East Side" meant "Puerto Rican."

it always amazes me how many people don't know what "Loisaida" means.

LIar! I see this bitch in Nolita all the time. She always scuttles from Opening Ceremony to her house and she goes through nolita. It's true that east village people are old. You can always tell cause they've got tattoos up the wazoo, are supergay and don't have their teeth cause of all the crystal meth they've been smoking. I like the part of the east village that's closest to broadway. Superquiet. Like park slope without the bratty kids.

I believe by "go to LES, Soho" she meant "move" to LES Soho. That would be the editor's fault. Along with "Bust Visit's NYC's East Village." Hey Bust! "Visit's" is not a verb! It is a possessive form of the noun "visit."

@bobbiesue:

Her personal character is not in question here except for the obvious elitism of her remarks, which aggravates any possibility of people seeing her as a "sweetheart." While I don't agree with all these asinine remarks about her supposed sexual history, the truth of the matter is that it is indeed a well-worn cliche amongst people like Chloe, who move into gentrified/gentrifying locales, that the authenticity of a community is measured solely by their attendance: i.e., "the neighborhood was authentic when I moved in, but has been ruined by 'NYU kids'. If Sevigny gets past this blindness, and others like her, then maybe they'll finally be some "winning" with people who make these dumb BJ remarks. Until then, it's all about "losing."

I wonder if she's ever done anything that wasn't A: Hipster wannabe garbage or B: something done by the director whom she was currently sleeping with

Only in Manhattan-south-of-96th could an Aryan from Darien be an authority on street cred.

"People that moved to the East Village in the '70s and '80s are now, you know, older and still in their rent controlled apartments..."

Um, Chloe sweetie, they hate you. They abso-fucking-lutely hate you and your kind. To them, you are what's wrong with EV. In their wildest dreams, you and your clique would move to Nolita, Solita, Frolita, the LES, the BQE, the TMJ, the PNP, or just back to Connecticut.

When you say they hate "you and your kind," what exactly are you talking about? Working artists? That's right, East Villagers absolutely hate artists, especially successful ones. Haaaate them.

She calls them weirdos and explains that they are only there because of rent stabilization. See, she sees them in shades of weirdness or mental illness and justifies their presence in the neighborhood by calling them rent stabilized even though she actually doesn't have a damn clue and the people she is calling 'weird' are probably authentically eccentric creatives.

But hey, I wouldn't expect a chick from Darien with a high school eduation who works as a hollywood entertainer to know authenticity if it slapped her in the face. It's the patently adolecent prattling of someone who fancies themselves a bohemian and yet lives in the safest neighborhood in a 1.5 million dollar apartment.

When she talks about weirdo/freakos, she is saying that there are still dynamic, interesting, bizarre, eccentric, artistic characters in the neighborhood, and that that is why she LIKES it. She never says anything negative or pejorative about anyone, and definitely never calls anyone mentally ill. Sounds like you are working through some of your own issues here...

What's sucks is that if a 17 year old Chloe came to NYC today she wouldn't be able to afford a studio in that neighborhood or the one next to it or the one next to it.

A friend posted this on Facebook, and I'll paste my reply to her:

what bothered me most about this video was how fucking cliched it was--everyone talks about their entry into a gentrified locale as though it's not a participation in the gentrification process--"I really miss the neighborhood WHEN I MOVED IN; all these people who MOVED IN AFTER ME have ruined it." C'mon people--there's room in the neighborhood for everyone, Sevigny's elitism blinds her that's it not about moving in and who moved in AFTER you, but also who moved in BEFORE you. And that whole thing about the "puerto rican boy" smacks of hypocrisy: it reminds me of racists claiming they can't be racist because their best friend is black.

She forgot to mention another thing that the East Village has a lot of: douchebag fratboys and large gaggles of squealing girls nursing Starbucks frappucinos as they stumble over to Superdive.

douchebag fratboys? no wonder I saw a lot of button-down Oxfords in that area!

usually, that's their attire but it's not restricted to fratboys. haha.

Dead on. I mean, I think she's a great actress, but c'mon - she and others like her are part of the problem, not the solution.

I once read an article in the NY Post, of all places for heaven's sake, about some guy who moved into Williamsburg in 2005!!! and was complaining how everyone who moved in after him had "ruined the character" of the neighborhood. Hello, buddy, you should commiserate with Sevigny--you're late into gentrification of the neighborhood by more than 20 years, and you audaciously think it's some invisible "after-other" that's ruined things? Sevigny's remarks here come from the same DNA pool. To paraphrase Jesus, "what about 'others'? I gotta check myself first."

Another good reason (if any was needed) for not living in the LES. She should go back to sucking dick, that way we wont have to hear her drone on. BTW, Chloë, how's your career coming along?

If we ever want to see another mainstream actress do the same then we should be celebrating her BJ scene, not disparaging her for it. I, for one, salute her.

Winning a Golden Globe isn't too shabby so I'd say the career was going pretty well.

"I mean you just wanna have you fling with like the guy from the other side of town. Then you're going to go off to Stanford, you're going to marry some rich prick who your parents will approve of and just sit around with the other trust fund babies and talk about how you went slumming too, once."

Spoken like a classist twat with a high school eduation.

I've seen her suck dick, BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I have no respect for this untalented scab at all.

Yup, totally untalented - that's why she won an Emmy for a role she's friggin' great it.

Waaaahhhhh! Hey Chloe, your mansion in Darien was only a short commute from your sad little apartment in MANHATTAN.

WARNING: no BJs were given in the production of this Sevigny video, so why bother?

I love this chick! and she's right, the LES sux nowadays!

people from affluent homes who think they've got stories about being poor

People who've had Vincent Gallo's penis in their mouth trying to talk about what good taste they have.