Here are some things I am thinking about: circles of light, the Arctic, witches, mammals, Samoa, the slavery of addiction and viral late stage capitalism, woman power, families treasuring their transgendered children, the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change, feral intuition and a global new two-spirit alliance, forests, oxygen, carbon, patriarchal religions and heirarchies that would rather catalyze apocalypse than admit that centuries of male domination have almost destroyed us, a feminist revolution might save our world.
Growing up in California, Antony felt himself to be the consummate outsider until he came face to face with the image of boy george on the cover of the Culture Club's 1982 debut album, Kissing To Be Clever.
Antony relocated to New York City in 1990, where he found a world more accepting of his avant-garde sensibilities and sexually ambiguous nature.
He created the cabaret ensemble blacklips and modeled himself after blue velvet-era isabella rossellini and the drag queen that graced the cover of Soft Cell's 1982 single "torch."
Antony formed Antony and the Johnsons and released their self-titled debut on David Tibet's durtro label in 2000, followed by an appearance on the Lou Reed albums, The Raven and Animal Serenade �. He toured with Reed as well throughout 2003.
He has also appeared in the Steve Buscemi film Animal Factory as an androgynous convict. Antony and the Johnsons released a series of eps in 2004, followed by the band's second full-length, I Am a Bird Now, in february of 2005.