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Paper magazine threw their 9th annual "Beautiful People" party at Hiro last night, where they celebrated their issue by the same name. As we understand it, this is the issue that's unofficially devoted to the children of celebrities (Stella Keitel, Jodi Guber, Julia Restoin Roitfeld, Sophie Auster, amongst others), because only rich kids grown in bubbles are beautiful. To break up the genetically famousness of it all is coverboy Antony Hegarty, of the critically acclaimed Antony and the Johnsons, who was scheduled to play a set for the invite-only crowd.

And how did the ultra-indie guests (including the Misshapes, Half-Nelson, and Perez Hilton) respond to the Mercury prizewinner? Says one music fan in attendance:

The crowd was seriously so loud that I could barely hear Antony, and I was right next to him. After the first song Antony said he was imagining the room was actually silent, and that the noise was the sound of ghosts of people who died 100 years ago (or something like that). After the second song he announced that the third would be his last. He wasn't lying.

Poor guy — but one of the rules of being a beautiful person is to treat other beautiful people like shit. Them's the breaks, or so says the Paper party posse.

Beautiful Antony (& 2 Johnsons) [Brooklyn Vegan]