Jim
Carroll worked for Andy Warhol at the Union Square Factory, circa 1969, and one
of his jobs was to come up with character names for Warhol's play Pork.
The images below are the actual lists of names Carroll came up with; the handwriting
on the list is Carroll's.
A
New Job
I've been spending
a lot of time up at Andy Warhol's studio, know better to the faithful as "The
Factory," doing odd assignments for short money. Andy is a tough man (sic)
with a buck. Today I had to come up with a list of thirty names for characters
in a new play he's orchestrating for a show in Europe, tentative title "'Pork."
I sat in a corner overlooking Union Square Park and watched the passing of continental
types visiting, checking out their routines (Andy can really bring out the asshole
in a person) and laying a name on each. There was this sporty Italian type, hands
constantly fingering a Gucci ascot, and the name "Cosmo Pugio"' jumped
onto the page. A seedy type from the land of the rising sun popped in, looking
like he had a cache of automatic wapons waiting downstairs in the sidebags of
his Kawasaki. What else to call him but "Itinki Soonkum."' Turns out
he was an interior decorator trying to unload a van-ful of Bonsai trees on A.
W to give the place that sylvan touch. After thirty of these aficionados and parvenus
passed in and out, I had my list."
--Jim Carroll, Forced Entries (p. 33)

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