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Chris Tyler is bringing his “performance party” TRL>>> Total Rejects Live to The Lounge at The Public Theater. It’s a very classy space, I went last week to see drag performer Christeene and thought the cocktails were overpriced, but whatever, you’re paying for the nice architecture I guess. Chris came over to tell me more about his TRL show as I snapped some polaroids of him. “I’m really into late 90’s early 2000’s pop culture. I watched TRL everyday after school so I could see all the music videos.” It’s a performance of 3 acts (each goes for 30 minutes), “it’s broken up so it feels like a party.” Chris has done this event before in Brooklyn, but this time he’s making it really grand “with real tech and light and sound, sort of like my all star TRL…” While he was planning this show he found this site that lists everything that happened on every single episode of the show. “It’s a super weird website. It’s that weird early 2000 internet garbage that never gets taken down.” This event features lots of people including Erin Markey, B0DYH1GH, Rebecca Patek, JanTina Parker, RobotMoon Juice, Molly Pope, and many others. He added that he has no idea what anyone will be doing except him, but he loves surprises,“I like it that way, it keeps things more frantic.” #YOLO  —Abi