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THE (UN)OFFICIAL MARIANNE NOWOTTNY TRIBUTE SITE :
Homeless Again, Naturaly
Some folks will remember the Marianne Nowottny performance @ Tonic last Christmas time and that Steve Doughton filmed a stunning video for her on his 5th St roof top last summer.
Since her parents split up when she was still quite young M.N. has bounced back and forth between her Moms house in South Jersey and her Dads digs in North Jersey. Never made to feel quite welcome in either place, her Moms got a creepy used car-salesman boyfriend and her Dad (an over medicated house painter) has always favored her brothers. Instead of celebrating her 17th birthday last Oct 31st, she was packing up her clothes in the face of eviction for nonpayment of rent. On that last day of the month, she, her dad and her brother moved from the 1 br half cape cod housette in Sparta NJ to a 1 room flat elsewhere in town. “Not so fast !” the new landlord said “This is a room for two, as agreed". The single room had previously been a photography studio and Dad had promised her the darkroom to be her own.
This “goth girl” (we affectionately refer to as “Pasty” as in "Pasty Princess”, as coined from a positive review in a Buffalo music zine) tends to land on her feet.So when her dad and brother stayed on at the photo studio, M.N. found lodging with a girl pal from her class named Lindsey. The idea was that after a month her dad would have found more suitable long term housing. She got back her job at the Sparta Burger King and continued her studies as a Junior @ S.H.S. Her boyfriend also works at the BK and she would see her little brother in the halls in between classes at school.
Last night Lindseys Dad found an empty 12 pack of Bud hid in their back yard. It was left over from a party Lindsey had last weekend while her dad was away and did not belong to Marianne. It is entirely possible that if the dad did search MN’s stuff, he probably could find adequate reason to bounce her out anyway. So, with a phone call from Lindseys Dad to MNs Dad the pleasant home life she had enjoyed over the last 4 months was over. When Pasty called her Dad he just said “You better call Mark and Laurie” (her manager and producer couple). M and L had offered an open invitation all along for her to stay with them but it’s different. They live in near by Newton plus they're moving to Jersey City in May or June. So many things are now up in the air, including her senior year.
Don't forget to pick up the new CD from her band “SHELL” from the “Other Music” record store, it will be out in a couple of weeks....and it’s Hot.