Tell No Lies

Bozulich seems to come to life when speaking of her old friend. She laughs often; she opens up. Perhaps that's because in Reva she sees much of herself -- someone willing to expose himself for the sake of art, someone who danced toward the light and didn't much care what anyone else thought.

"He was the type of artist who would take something that nobody would ever give a second look to or something that would be considered garbage, and he would turn it into the most amazing piece of art," she says of Reva, and she could just as well be speaking of herself. "He recycled cliches, he recycled anything that was ridiculous or useless or just completely absurd into something that made the most bizarre sense.

"So that's where the 'Trashman' part came from, and then 'in Furs,' obviously, a trashman in furs is an oxymoron, and we used to always listen to the Velvet Underground together, so it's also a little tip of the hat to 'Venus in Furs.' Yeah, it kinda worked. It's hard." And she laughs again.

The Geraldine Fibbers perform Friday, August 8, at Fitzgerald's, 2706 White Oak. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $6. The Eyeliners and Verbena open. For info, call 862-7580.