Filmmaker Theresa Duncan, a friend of the Chelsea Hotel and fellow blogger, has reportedly died. The LA Observed reports that she killed herself in New York. Her boyfriend Jeremy Blake is reported missing. In her 2005 interview with us she talks about her favorite Hotel Chelsea story and speaks hopefully of a future that would include returning to the Chelsea.
Well, it’s a place that many legends passed through, and I’m very impressed that genius director Stanley Kubrick used to visit sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke’s apartment here when they were making "2001," but my favorite story is the great night I spent with my boyfriend Jeremy Blake there.
It was in a vast and powerful snowstorm, and we had been dating three months or so. I remember before we went to bed we were making out in the window, looking out at the street filling up with snow, it was almost completely quiet and we were overlooking the electric Chelsea Hotel sign, and how it was lit up and haloed by all this snow, and I remember later the wild noises that the hotel made late that night, like some madman in the basement playing a church organ made with the hotel’s old radiator pipes.
Since that night we’ve been together ten years now, and Jeremy has had shows at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum and all over the world and I’ve written some stuff I’m really proud of and I’m about to make this great rock and roll film for kids….And our fantastic night in the Chelsea was the night of fireworks in December 1995 that kicked it all off.
We moved to L.A. in 2002 for work, but we’ll be back to make my film early next year and I’ve been thinking about us taking a place in the Chelsea for our eight month stay. It’s a good luck place for us and for our work.
Living with Legends 
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