DORT, WO MAN BUCHER VERBRENNT, VERBRENNT MAN AM ENDE AUCH MENSCHEN
Danny “Haji” Hendrickson, the Scandanavian Muslim and translator to the shtars returned to Berlin from visiting his parents in Nashville, Tennessee. Danny brought the Vagimule doll lots of presents from Dollywood, the theme park of country music superstar Dolly Parton. Dollywood is located in the gorgeous great Smokey Mountains and is the homespun fun happening spot providing the south with music, entertainment, rides and attractions for the whole goddamn familia.Dollywood has been around for over 25 years. Danny and his folks has a good time, but coming from a musical family they were a little shocked that some of the singing at the Dollywood shows were a little on the amateur side, and that the male gospel quartet was just downright awful. In all the sound engineering and mixing for all the shows scored consistent low marks.
What Mr. Hendrickson and clan loved the most was the Dolly Museum with curios from Miss Parton’s life and illustrious career. Dollywood isn’t cheap. For a regular ticket it costs $55.00, but that gives you admission for two days, but senior citizens like me, only get $3 bucks off. If you’re planning a trip to Dollywood and want to know more about the fabulous lady Parton be sure to pick up a copy of her hagiography, Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business that features plenty of photos of the starina, and her mysterious hubby Carl Dean whom she has been married to for over 40 years. They have an open relationship. Dolly also is quite candid about her longtime lesbian companion Judy Ogle, who always travels with the star on tour, and has been her loyal stalworth since childhood. Dolly Parton is one fascinating American individualada.
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Later in the early evening I met with film historian Marc Siegel and kJohnny Blue at the Blue Nile Ethiopian Restaurant. We were joined by Daniel Hendrickson and his red hot Black/Italio/German lover Piero Bellomo of the Piero Kolleczione. If you see me wearing anything cute its usually from Piero. After eating we went to the Horst Nite Club at Tempelhofer Ufer 1 in Kreuzberg to see a private screening of Pauline Beaudry and Renate Lorenz’s latest art film that I star in with the sensational dancer Arantxa Martinez called Contagious. The short subject film deals with epileptic dances and the cakewalk as practiced by 19th Century performers Jane Avril, Eugenie Fouge’re,Polaire and African American Aida Overton Walker. The director of photography was Bernadette Paassen with Sound by Johanna Herr and Karin Michalski and sound design by Rashad Becker.
The film looked really beautiful and of course the dancing by Ms. Martinez is superb. I wasn’t so happy with how I was photographed. Being a vain black woman of a certain age I need to be lit in a particular way, and not all angles are flattering to me. Even Hollywood movies that star black performers get the lighting wrong. Black skin requires intense cinematography sensitivity,and that is difficult to articulate to white filmmakers and DP's. When you tell them you don't like the way you look in a film, they just give you this confused dazed look.
I really have to stop being in front of the camera, and stick to being behind the camera, and only work on my own projects.
Visiting British feminist Kira Cochrane was chatting with New York model and “It Boy” Winston Cziminski and she also loved the dancing of Ms. Martinez in Contagious.
The rest of the evening involved screenings of two of the filmmakers work from 2009 Salomania that starred my LA tranny sister Wu that is based on the Ala Nazimova silent film Salome,1922 from the play by Oscar Wilde and Charming For the Revolution which stars the hilarious and inegmatic performer Werner Hirsch aka: Antonia Baird.
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Congrats are in order for my sister of the journalista clothe Christine "Qtr Pounder" Pelisek of the LA Weekly, who is finally leaving that paper to work for the Daily Beast. Christine scored a rare reporter coup recently in her investigation of a serial murderer haunting the backstreets and alleys of South Central LA for more then 20 years.I adore Christine who is one perky Canuck blondine with a heart of gold and Rosalind Russel The Front Page spirit.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
WAS SIE SCHON IMMER ÜBER SEX WISSEN WOLLTEN,ABER BISHER NICHTS ZU FRAGEN WAGTEN
Some reporter from the Wall Street Journal got my personal email address, and contacted me wanting to know if he can interview me about my career. This is a complete ruse as the only reason this periodical is interested in me is because it was written in a tabloid: black American transexual Vaginal Davis is involved in off/on affair with nutty billionaire Nicolas Berggruen.
Wait a minute! Before you get all invested in my so-called relationship with a billionaire its not what you think. Nicolas and I have a romantic friendship that is strictly platonic, we met years ago at a Tate Modern party, and like most men I meet he is only interested in my mind, not my smoking hot body. I have to admit Mr. Berggruen is attractive for a middle-aged man, but i don´t like men who are that close to me in age. And is this man ever overly opinionated. On top of that it still wouldn´t work even if he was interested in chowing down regularly on my tranny nappy dugout. Now that Herr Berggruen owns the Berlin department store chain Karstadt, perhaps i can go there and pick out a few free outfits.
Some reporter from the Wall Street Journal got my personal email address, and contacted me wanting to know if he can interview me about my career. This is a complete ruse as the only reason this periodical is interested in me is because it was written in a tabloid: black American transexual Vaginal Davis is involved in off/on affair with nutty billionaire Nicolas Berggruen.
Wait a minute! Before you get all invested in my so-called relationship with a billionaire its not what you think. Nicolas and I have a romantic friendship that is strictly platonic, we met years ago at a Tate Modern party, and like most men I meet he is only interested in my mind, not my smoking hot body. I have to admit Mr. Berggruen is attractive for a middle-aged man, but i don´t like men who are that close to me in age. And is this man ever overly opinionated. On top of that it still wouldn´t work even if he was interested in chowing down regularly on my tranny nappy dugout. Now that Herr Berggruen owns the Berlin department store chain Karstadt, perhaps i can go there and pick out a few free outfits.
DER BOOOOOM IST VORBEI
Trying to take care of things in Berlin before leaving for my hometown of Los Angeles for this big UCLA Queer Arts Conference that I have been invited to as a featured lecturer. It will be my first time back in that tired city of Los Ang since i left for Berlin in 2006. Everyone tells me that i won´t recognize the place. I miss my good friends, greasy spoon diners and Mexican & El Salvadorean food--- things that are impossible to get in Germany. But i really don´t miss the weather, though with the cool end of summer here in Berlina i have to admit being in perpetual sunlight will be nice, as well as the fake smiles of Angelenos. Berliners can be quite dour. I am not very sentimental about my family. I have nice relatives, but i´ve never felt a strong connection to them growing up, and we have nothing in common. But i will see my older sisters and my niece and her million march of kids. Her husband just got put in jail for being the getaway driver in a robbery. So I am really from the ghetto, and that proves it.
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Spent a glorious day with baby diaper Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras. Joel is so strikingly handsome but in a quirky fashion and he is quite an accomplished visual artist, dancer/choreographer besides having the voice of an angelus and the ability to write perfect songs. We have embarked upon a new musical art project called Tenderloin. Thankx for all your input dear readers to our new name. This new music/art project will also feature Felix Knoke of Der Spiegel Online and Jan Klesse of the Glen Meadmore Cuntry band. Will keep you posted on this fascinating proj as things develop.
Trying to take care of things in Berlin before leaving for my hometown of Los Angeles for this big UCLA Queer Arts Conference that I have been invited to as a featured lecturer. It will be my first time back in that tired city of Los Ang since i left for Berlin in 2006. Everyone tells me that i won´t recognize the place. I miss my good friends, greasy spoon diners and Mexican & El Salvadorean food--- things that are impossible to get in Germany. But i really don´t miss the weather, though with the cool end of summer here in Berlina i have to admit being in perpetual sunlight will be nice, as well as the fake smiles of Angelenos. Berliners can be quite dour. I am not very sentimental about my family. I have nice relatives, but i´ve never felt a strong connection to them growing up, and we have nothing in common. But i will see my older sisters and my niece and her million march of kids. Her husband just got put in jail for being the getaway driver in a robbery. So I am really from the ghetto, and that proves it.
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Spent a glorious day with baby diaper Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras. Joel is so strikingly handsome but in a quirky fashion and he is quite an accomplished visual artist, dancer/choreographer besides having the voice of an angelus and the ability to write perfect songs. We have embarked upon a new musical art project called Tenderloin. Thankx for all your input dear readers to our new name. This new music/art project will also feature Felix Knoke of Der Spiegel Online and Jan Klesse of the Glen Meadmore Cuntry band. Will keep you posted on this fascinating proj as things develop.
Monday, September 06, 2010
GELIEBTE APHRODITE
Accidentally walked through some street festival leather eventa in Schoneberg.I don´t know if it was the Berlin version of San Francisco´s Folsom Street Fair or some other kind of kinkfest. Saw some of the most awful looking men wearing such ridiculous costumes, and taking it all so seriously.A slew of sad leather pony´s and an ickmo or two who i guess were walking prophalactics. The real prizes were a contingent of men in camaflouge fatigues and helmets looking like US soldiers on the front lines of Iraq,Afghanistan or perhaps some new war that America has launched that I am not aware of. And no homonormative event would be complete without the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence with their white faced minstrel genderfuck drag.
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Was shopping at the wonderful Turkish supermarket ÖzGida, and ran into the youngish,cute solemn faced manager who i think is in distress over his homosexuality. His much younger brother was hanging around the store and said hello to me while i was sitting al fresco sipping a capucino.Wow the baby bro is about 18, tall with light brown hair and isn´t afraid to flirt.
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File this under only in Berlin kids, only in Berlin-- but saw the most hideous site. A dog with dredlocks. The owner of said animal was a perfectly regular looking middle aged caucasion woman. Now those of you who know the Vagimule Davis doll well are aware that I can´t stand dredlocks. Don´t care for them on black people-- though they can get away with it but really hate them on whites. But now dredlocks on dogs?
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Last night was a most enchanting evening at Arsenal Institute für Film und Video Kunst with a screening of Erich von Stroheim´s Foolish Wives, for the monthly performative silent film event Rising Stars, Falling Stars that i curate which featured the director playing the lead role as a no account count.
He was actually quite sexy in the film seducing a dowdy pepperpot diplomats wife, but my favorite scene is at the end when he has his way with a young retarded girl. The father avenges her honor by stuffing Herr von Stroheim promptly down a drain pipe.
Eunice Martin on klavier was riveting, and really enjoying herself, laughing at all the site gags in the film--never missing a beat.Phenomenal!
Little Alex of Macedonia not only styled my impoverished nobel look,but also designed my hair and make-up for the evening, which illicited gasps of approval. The hoity polloi who stayed for the post screening reception: Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, film programmer Nadja Talmi with curatorial assistant Uli Ziemons, film historian Marc Siegel and intermedia actress/director Susanne Sachsse the fearless leader of CHEAP kollective who leaves today for performances in Malmö, Sweden, dapper musician kJohnny Blue, Anna Muelter of HAU,bubble butt Iraeli Assaf Hochman who will be dancing in the new Peaches musical review at Hebel am Ufer that also features Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras with spazz attack choreography by Jeremy Wade, looking super lovesexy Felix Knoke of Der Spiegel Online with Susi the music editor for FM4,innocent scholar Sean Nye, Chocolate Grinder Film Kollective "It couple": Tatiana of the Ukraine and Julian "25 centimeters" Radlmeier, Turkish sweatheart Nasle with her juicy,handsome and very tall friend,the dorky American novelist Jonathan Safran Foer with Brandon Flowers of the Killers(now they were an odd couple)visiting fashion journalista Suleman Anaya and Vietnamese film director Tran Anh Hung of the film Norweigan Wood with fellow director Abbas Kiarostami (Certified Copy)
Accidentally walked through some street festival leather eventa in Schoneberg.I don´t know if it was the Berlin version of San Francisco´s Folsom Street Fair or some other kind of kinkfest. Saw some of the most awful looking men wearing such ridiculous costumes, and taking it all so seriously.A slew of sad leather pony´s and an ickmo or two who i guess were walking prophalactics. The real prizes were a contingent of men in camaflouge fatigues and helmets looking like US soldiers on the front lines of Iraq,Afghanistan or perhaps some new war that America has launched that I am not aware of. And no homonormative event would be complete without the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence with their white faced minstrel genderfuck drag.
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Was shopping at the wonderful Turkish supermarket ÖzGida, and ran into the youngish,cute solemn faced manager who i think is in distress over his homosexuality. His much younger brother was hanging around the store and said hello to me while i was sitting al fresco sipping a capucino.Wow the baby bro is about 18, tall with light brown hair and isn´t afraid to flirt.
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File this under only in Berlin kids, only in Berlin-- but saw the most hideous site. A dog with dredlocks. The owner of said animal was a perfectly regular looking middle aged caucasion woman. Now those of you who know the Vagimule Davis doll well are aware that I can´t stand dredlocks. Don´t care for them on black people-- though they can get away with it but really hate them on whites. But now dredlocks on dogs?
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Last night was a most enchanting evening at Arsenal Institute für Film und Video Kunst with a screening of Erich von Stroheim´s Foolish Wives, for the monthly performative silent film event Rising Stars, Falling Stars that i curate which featured the director playing the lead role as a no account count.
He was actually quite sexy in the film seducing a dowdy pepperpot diplomats wife, but my favorite scene is at the end when he has his way with a young retarded girl. The father avenges her honor by stuffing Herr von Stroheim promptly down a drain pipe.
Eunice Martin on klavier was riveting, and really enjoying herself, laughing at all the site gags in the film--never missing a beat.Phenomenal!
Little Alex of Macedonia not only styled my impoverished nobel look,but also designed my hair and make-up for the evening, which illicited gasps of approval. The hoity polloi who stayed for the post screening reception: Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, film programmer Nadja Talmi with curatorial assistant Uli Ziemons, film historian Marc Siegel and intermedia actress/director Susanne Sachsse the fearless leader of CHEAP kollective who leaves today for performances in Malmö, Sweden, dapper musician kJohnny Blue, Anna Muelter of HAU,bubble butt Iraeli Assaf Hochman who will be dancing in the new Peaches musical review at Hebel am Ufer that also features Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras with spazz attack choreography by Jeremy Wade, looking super lovesexy Felix Knoke of Der Spiegel Online with Susi the music editor for FM4,innocent scholar Sean Nye, Chocolate Grinder Film Kollective "It couple": Tatiana of the Ukraine and Julian "25 centimeters" Radlmeier, Turkish sweatheart Nasle with her juicy,handsome and very tall friend,the dorky American novelist Jonathan Safran Foer with Brandon Flowers of the Killers(now they were an odd couple)visiting fashion journalista Suleman Anaya and Vietnamese film director Tran Anh Hung of the film Norweigan Wood with fellow director Abbas Kiarostami (Certified Copy)
Thursday, September 02, 2010
TOUS LES MATINS DU MONDE
Had a little farewell soiree at Ficken 3000 for Jan Klesse of the european touring Glen Meadmore Cuntry Band. Jan leaves for a monthlong holiday in Los Angeles, where the lovely Ms. Meadmore will host the handsome young man, and undoubtedly treat him like the valient prince he is. I think this is his first time in the USA and I am very happy and excited for the 19 year old lad.
Ficken 3000 which I like to call Frankenstein 5000 is a sex bar in KreuzKoelln that houses the weekly dance party Pork hosted by Tennessee Clafin aka: Baby Brian the exMormen hustler to A-list directors Gus Van Sant and Bryan Singer. The weekly Pork party was started by Mr. Claffin and writer Travis Jeppeson. The bar Ficken is owned by a middle aged German named Frank, and lately the pub has been embroiled in some contraversy. The rumours have been rampant that the owner pissed on and roughed up a young boy who came to the bar during the Pork party when said youngster rebuffed the owners sexual advances. I have also heard that the boy in question had broken glasses in the bar and was merely 86’d. Who knows what really happened, but many in the Berlin queer community are boycotting the bar.
Our little group went just to enjoy the 2for1 Tuesday night special, and so we were oblivious to the horndoggy regulars. Though I was surprised that one of the regulars known as The Chin wasn’t there. Seeing Jan off was Felix Knoke of Der Spiegel Online, with a cute & vivacious girlfriend visiting Berlina from Winnipeg, home of Guy Maddin and Glen Meadmore. Canadian baby diaper Joel Gibb, leader of the music & art kollective The Hidden Cameras and American pop music scholar Sean Nye.
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Was invited to a scrumpteous dinner feast by Susanne Sachsse the intermedia actress, director and curator. You haven’t lived in Berlin until you sit at her celebrated round table. Frau Sachsse is soon off to Sweden for some high art performances. Next year the two of us will start working on a new performance piece where we play the famous feuding Oscar winning siblings Joan Fontaine and Olivia DeHavilland that will also involve Angela Davis, Ruth Fischer the leader of the German Communist Party of the 1920s, Godard’s One Plus One and Derek Jarman’s Jubilee. No! Bruce “Judy”LaBruce will not be directing this one.
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My darlingly insane daughter Michele Carr has gotten it together and will be presenting her salute to Anita Berber soon in Los Angeles. Below are the details:
FINLANDIA PRESENTS DANCES OF DEPRAVITY, HORROR & ECSTASY
BERBER
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ANITA BERBER
CREATED BY MICHELLE CARR ~ CHOREOGRAPHY BY RYAN HEFFINGTON
PRODUCTION DESIGN BY ANNIE SPERLING ~ ART DIRECTION BY DOUGLAS LITTLE ORIGINAL SCORE COMPOSED BY THE MILLIONAIRE ~
COSTUME DESIGN BY LEILA BAZZANI ~ COSTUME SUPERVISOR MICHAEL SCHMIDT
PLEASE JOIN US FOR A PREVIEW PERFORMANCE AND COCKTAIL RECEPTION TO BENEFIT THE PRODUCTION OF BERBER
HOSTED BY BRYAN RABIN & ROSE APODACA
SURPRISE GUESTS!
Entrance includes one complimentary drink ticket to sample our signature
cocktail "Berber's Sin".
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH 2010
THE MEZZ (AT THE ALEXANDRIA HOTEL)
501 SOUTH SPRING STREET DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES
DOORS 8 P.M. SHOW TIME 10 P.M.
GENTEEL ATTIRE SUGGESTED FOR THE CONSCIENTIOUS SOCIALITE
$20 IN ADVANCE | $25 AT THE DOOR | $10 RAFFLE TICKETS
PURCHASE TICKETS VIA PAYPAL; MAKE PAYMENTS TO ILIKEALLIE@GMAIL.COM
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O and this Portland Oregon band called Purple Rhinestone Eagle is on tour in europe. I read about them in the zine Shotgun Seamstress, so if they come to your town I advice you check them out. Read the info below:
Hello hairy friends,
the tour of Purple Rhinestone Eagle just started! It's the first tour we've ever booked and it meant countless emails, lots and lots of stress and sleepless nights.. But here we go! We really LOVE this band and hope you do as well. Please have a listen, come to one of the shows or tell your friends in other cities about this awesome band. We will drive their tour so come by and say hi in case you are around. C drives them til Barcelona and then D takes over. Here is a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd_dU9YWmR0
and here some links to listen to their music: www.myspace.com/purplerhinestoneeagle and www.purplerhinestoneeagle.com
Hope to see you somewhere soon!
Your moustaches
01.09. Madame Moustache, Brussels, Belgium
03.09. Le Sfero (squat), St. Etienne, France
04.09. Sonic, Lyon, France, w/ Raymond Howard, Sida, Les Blondettes + DJs
07.09. Le Dynamo, Toulouse, France
08.09. La Pequena Bety, Madrid, Spain
09.09. Moog, Barcelona, Spain
10.09. El Refugio del Crápula, Zaragoza, Spain, w/ No Truck Truckers
12.09. (tbc)
13.09. Trubarjeva 72, Ljubljana, Slowenia
14.09. Rhiz, Vienna, Austria, plus DJ Astrid (entrance free)
15.09. Kapu, Linz, Austria - w/ Zentralheizung of Death, Automated Trash Machine
16.09. WP, Leipzig - w/ I Know, Bowumikasa
17.09. SO36, Berlin, Germany - LaD.i.Y.fest Berlin w/ Translola, Scragfight, Totally Stressed, Olivia Anna Livki
18.09. Autonomes Zentrum, Cologne
19.09. AJZ, Bielefeld - matinee show (!) with Cloak/Dagger, Abfukk, Chuck Damage
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This news just in: Mattias Lienthal the charasmatic and superr smart artistic director of the Hebbel am Ufer theatre in Berlin is calling it quits soon when his contract expires.
Mattias is responsible for some of the most adventurous programs in Europe. And i have had the pleasure of working under him since the Hebbel first started doing business as HAU 1, 2 & 3. He is a beloved Berlin figure, and has very kissable lipps.
What makes the Hebbel so great is that it is one of the few institutions in patriarchal Berlin that has women at the top of command as curators, programmers and heads of technical departments.
Whatever direction Mattias decides to move in next will certainly be successful and invigorating.
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The Sieggesaule Magazine a gay throwaway monthly newsmagazine in Berlin used one of my photo collages off of my website and didnt even bother to credit me for it or pay for it. They put photo archive as the credit. Well its not a photo archive in the public domain its a piece of art work that has been exhibited at the Yerba Buena Museum in San Francisco and Deitch Projects Gallery in New York. The nerve of the people who do they lay out and art direction.
Had a little farewell soiree at Ficken 3000 for Jan Klesse of the european touring Glen Meadmore Cuntry Band. Jan leaves for a monthlong holiday in Los Angeles, where the lovely Ms. Meadmore will host the handsome young man, and undoubtedly treat him like the valient prince he is. I think this is his first time in the USA and I am very happy and excited for the 19 year old lad.
Ficken 3000 which I like to call Frankenstein 5000 is a sex bar in KreuzKoelln that houses the weekly dance party Pork hosted by Tennessee Clafin aka: Baby Brian the exMormen hustler to A-list directors Gus Van Sant and Bryan Singer. The weekly Pork party was started by Mr. Claffin and writer Travis Jeppeson. The bar Ficken is owned by a middle aged German named Frank, and lately the pub has been embroiled in some contraversy. The rumours have been rampant that the owner pissed on and roughed up a young boy who came to the bar during the Pork party when said youngster rebuffed the owners sexual advances. I have also heard that the boy in question had broken glasses in the bar and was merely 86’d. Who knows what really happened, but many in the Berlin queer community are boycotting the bar.
Our little group went just to enjoy the 2for1 Tuesday night special, and so we were oblivious to the horndoggy regulars. Though I was surprised that one of the regulars known as The Chin wasn’t there. Seeing Jan off was Felix Knoke of Der Spiegel Online, with a cute & vivacious girlfriend visiting Berlina from Winnipeg, home of Guy Maddin and Glen Meadmore. Canadian baby diaper Joel Gibb, leader of the music & art kollective The Hidden Cameras and American pop music scholar Sean Nye.
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Was invited to a scrumpteous dinner feast by Susanne Sachsse the intermedia actress, director and curator. You haven’t lived in Berlin until you sit at her celebrated round table. Frau Sachsse is soon off to Sweden for some high art performances. Next year the two of us will start working on a new performance piece where we play the famous feuding Oscar winning siblings Joan Fontaine and Olivia DeHavilland that will also involve Angela Davis, Ruth Fischer the leader of the German Communist Party of the 1920s, Godard’s One Plus One and Derek Jarman’s Jubilee. No! Bruce “Judy”LaBruce will not be directing this one.
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My darlingly insane daughter Michele Carr has gotten it together and will be presenting her salute to Anita Berber soon in Los Angeles. Below are the details:
FINLANDIA PRESENTS DANCES OF DEPRAVITY, HORROR & ECSTASY
BERBER
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ANITA BERBER
CREATED BY MICHELLE CARR ~ CHOREOGRAPHY BY RYAN HEFFINGTON
PRODUCTION DESIGN BY ANNIE SPERLING ~ ART DIRECTION BY DOUGLAS LITTLE ORIGINAL SCORE COMPOSED BY THE MILLIONAIRE ~
COSTUME DESIGN BY LEILA BAZZANI ~ COSTUME SUPERVISOR MICHAEL SCHMIDT
PLEASE JOIN US FOR A PREVIEW PERFORMANCE AND COCKTAIL RECEPTION TO BENEFIT THE PRODUCTION OF BERBER
HOSTED BY BRYAN RABIN & ROSE APODACA
SURPRISE GUESTS!
Entrance includes one complimentary drink ticket to sample our signature
cocktail "Berber's Sin".
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH 2010
THE MEZZ (AT THE ALEXANDRIA HOTEL)
501 SOUTH SPRING STREET DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES
DOORS 8 P.M. SHOW TIME 10 P.M.
GENTEEL ATTIRE SUGGESTED FOR THE CONSCIENTIOUS SOCIALITE
$20 IN ADVANCE | $25 AT THE DOOR | $10 RAFFLE TICKETS
PURCHASE TICKETS VIA PAYPAL; MAKE PAYMENTS TO ILIKEALLIE@GMAIL.COM
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O and this Portland Oregon band called Purple Rhinestone Eagle is on tour in europe. I read about them in the zine Shotgun Seamstress, so if they come to your town I advice you check them out. Read the info below:
Hello hairy friends,
the tour of Purple Rhinestone Eagle just started! It's the first tour we've ever booked and it meant countless emails, lots and lots of stress and sleepless nights.. But here we go! We really LOVE this band and hope you do as well. Please have a listen, come to one of the shows or tell your friends in other cities about this awesome band. We will drive their tour so come by and say hi in case you are around. C drives them til Barcelona and then D takes over. Here is a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd_dU9YWmR0
and here some links to listen to their music: www.myspace.com/purplerhinestoneeagle and www.purplerhinestoneeagle.com
Hope to see you somewhere soon!
Your moustaches
01.09. Madame Moustache, Brussels, Belgium
03.09. Le Sfero (squat), St. Etienne, France
04.09. Sonic, Lyon, France, w/ Raymond Howard, Sida, Les Blondettes + DJs
07.09. Le Dynamo, Toulouse, France
08.09. La Pequena Bety, Madrid, Spain
09.09. Moog, Barcelona, Spain
10.09. El Refugio del Crápula, Zaragoza, Spain, w/ No Truck Truckers
12.09. (tbc)
13.09. Trubarjeva 72, Ljubljana, Slowenia
14.09. Rhiz, Vienna, Austria, plus DJ Astrid (entrance free)
15.09. Kapu, Linz, Austria - w/ Zentralheizung of Death, Automated Trash Machine
16.09. WP, Leipzig - w/ I Know, Bowumikasa
17.09. SO36, Berlin, Germany - LaD.i.Y.fest Berlin w/ Translola, Scragfight, Totally Stressed, Olivia Anna Livki
18.09. Autonomes Zentrum, Cologne
19.09. AJZ, Bielefeld - matinee show (!) with Cloak/Dagger, Abfukk, Chuck Damage
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This news just in: Mattias Lienthal the charasmatic and superr smart artistic director of the Hebbel am Ufer theatre in Berlin is calling it quits soon when his contract expires.
Mattias is responsible for some of the most adventurous programs in Europe. And i have had the pleasure of working under him since the Hebbel first started doing business as HAU 1, 2 & 3. He is a beloved Berlin figure, and has very kissable lipps.
What makes the Hebbel so great is that it is one of the few institutions in patriarchal Berlin that has women at the top of command as curators, programmers and heads of technical departments.
Whatever direction Mattias decides to move in next will certainly be successful and invigorating.
*!
The Sieggesaule Magazine a gay throwaway monthly newsmagazine in Berlin used one of my photo collages off of my website and didnt even bother to credit me for it or pay for it. They put photo archive as the credit. Well its not a photo archive in the public domain its a piece of art work that has been exhibited at the Yerba Buena Museum in San Francisco and Deitch Projects Gallery in New York. The nerve of the people who do they lay out and art direction.
Monday, August 30, 2010
DEUTSCHLAND SCHAFFT SICH AB
O Thilo Sarrazin is in trouble again. This time the German Bundesbank board member made some dispairing remarks about Jews. Will he ever learn to think cafefully before he speaks. Tsk Tsk Herr Thilo.
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I can’t wait to read the new Shirley Jackson collection Novels and Stories on the Library of the America Press. Ms. Jackson wrote the novel The Haunting of Hill House and the shocking tale, “The Lottery”.
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For all you internet radio hounds. I was interviewed for this cute show by presenter Manuel Schubert from multicult FM who has been the host of the show since 2009. We chatted briefly about Rising Stars, Falling Stars and our upcoming screening of Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives on Sunday Sept 5th at 8pm at Kino 2 at Arsenal Institute fur film und Video Kunst with musical accompanyment by the divine Eunice Martin.
To listen to the featurette which uses music from the early period of Erik Satie - Gnossiennes 6 Here are the details:
It's called "filmhighlights - das Kinomagazin"
Link: http://www.multicult.fm/programm/sendungen/filmhighlights/
The "filmhighlights" will be streamed via www.multicult.fm every Wednesday at 7 pm.
And brodcasted every Thursday at 8 am. - on 88.4 FM (Berlin) & 90.7 FM (Potsdam)
The podcasts can be found on www.soundcloud.com/filmanzeiger
Details on the Radiostation:"Multicult FM" is a free, non-profit (web-)radiostation based in Kreuzberg, Marheineke Markthalle.It's still a bit "under construction",they dont have a studio at the moment. Everything is "homemade".
The gossip: the public broadcasting network "rbb" skipped his own radiostation for the non-german listeners ("Radio Multikulti") on 31st of December 2008.The Multicult-project started its own stream in the same moment, when "Radio Multikulti" was shut down. As you can imagine, the "rbb" was not really amused.
In fact, they still hate them cause they managed to survive AND bring back multicultural content and music to the radios in Berlin.
filmhighlights - das Kinomagazin auf multicult FM | Mittwoch, 19 Uhr auf www.multicult.fm & Donnerstag, 8 Uhr auf 88,4 multicult FM
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This just in from my darling daughter Michele Carr of the Velvet Hammer Heritage Burlesque who is just as crazy as her mother. She inherited my nutters genes. Please read and send her some $funds----
My dream was to form a chimerical collective of fantastic L.A. based artists to collaborate on a multimedia dance production. This dance production is based on the life and times of enfant terrible, German Expressionist dancer Anita Berber. Berber was known as the dark muse of Weimar Berlin & is arguably a pioneer of modern day performance art & avant guard dance.
By blending the extraordinary talents of Ryan Heffington ~choreographer (www.sirheffington.com), Michelle Carr ~ director/producer (www.velvethammerburlesque.net), Annie Sperling ~ production designer (www.anniesperling.com), Douglas Little ~ art director(www.dlcompany.com), The Millionaire ~ composer of original score,Michael Schmidt ~ costume supervisor (www.michaelschmidtstudios.com) the collective's mission is to pay homage to Berber, bring her into the public consciousness & create a most singular and visually stunning full scale contemporary dance performance.
The individuals of this collective have followed & admired each others artistic achievements, occasionally working together on various commercial and creative projects here and there but never as a whole with one sole vision. It cannot be pinpointed exactly when, but a rather animated conversation sparked, over imbibements no doubt, about how wonderful it would be to get together and create something beautiful, dark and whimsical. I decided it was high time to gather my group of artistic cohorts and make it happen once and for all.
An ambitious feat to say the least. The "Great Recession" has created an unforgiving & dismal atmosphere for many in today's artistic community. Work and the endless pursuit of work has left precious little time and even less money to indulge in nourishing artistic collaborations.
However, when there is a will there is a way and we will see our vision realized! What better way to acknowledge and somewhat lift ourselves out of our own plight than to celebrate an artist, once called the "Inflation Queen", who developed her art and even flourished amidst tragic economic strife in a time, known as the Weimar era.
The funds raised will go directly into the production of 'Berber'. Your freehearted contribution will not only bring this unparalleled project to fruition but ultimately put it on the road from coast to coast & across the pond to Europe so as to spread the gorgeousness around. Every little bit helps and is most appreciated.
This is an all or nothing fund raising deal. If we do not make or surpass our $10,000 goal by September 20th, WE GET NOTHING!!!!! Quite possibly the project could be aborted for insufficient funds along with my will to live.(Ha,ha...)
PLEASE PASS THIS ON! This is an international fund raising effort. If we got 1,000 people to donate a mere $10, we would be golden. You can make that happen!
For more information (bios,photos,reel etc...) and to make a donation, click on: http://kck.st/9KPl6P
O Thilo Sarrazin is in trouble again. This time the German Bundesbank board member made some dispairing remarks about Jews. Will he ever learn to think cafefully before he speaks. Tsk Tsk Herr Thilo.
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I can’t wait to read the new Shirley Jackson collection Novels and Stories on the Library of the America Press. Ms. Jackson wrote the novel The Haunting of Hill House and the shocking tale, “The Lottery”.
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For all you internet radio hounds. I was interviewed for this cute show by presenter Manuel Schubert from multicult FM who has been the host of the show since 2009. We chatted briefly about Rising Stars, Falling Stars and our upcoming screening of Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives on Sunday Sept 5th at 8pm at Kino 2 at Arsenal Institute fur film und Video Kunst with musical accompanyment by the divine Eunice Martin.
To listen to the featurette which uses music from the early period of Erik Satie - Gnossiennes 6 Here are the details:
It's called "filmhighlights - das Kinomagazin"
Link: http://www.multicult.fm/programm/sendungen/filmhighlights/
The "filmhighlights" will be streamed via www.multicult.fm every Wednesday at 7 pm.
And brodcasted every Thursday at 8 am. - on 88.4 FM (Berlin) & 90.7 FM (Potsdam)
The podcasts can be found on www.soundcloud.com/filmanzeiger
Details on the Radiostation:"Multicult FM" is a free, non-profit (web-)radiostation based in Kreuzberg, Marheineke Markthalle.It's still a bit "under construction",they dont have a studio at the moment. Everything is "homemade".
The gossip: the public broadcasting network "rbb" skipped his own radiostation for the non-german listeners ("Radio Multikulti") on 31st of December 2008.The Multicult-project started its own stream in the same moment, when "Radio Multikulti" was shut down. As you can imagine, the "rbb" was not really amused.
In fact, they still hate them cause they managed to survive AND bring back multicultural content and music to the radios in Berlin.
filmhighlights - das Kinomagazin auf multicult FM | Mittwoch, 19 Uhr auf www.multicult.fm & Donnerstag, 8 Uhr auf 88,4 multicult FM
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This just in from my darling daughter Michele Carr of the Velvet Hammer Heritage Burlesque who is just as crazy as her mother. She inherited my nutters genes. Please read and send her some $funds----
My dream was to form a chimerical collective of fantastic L.A. based artists to collaborate on a multimedia dance production. This dance production is based on the life and times of enfant terrible, German Expressionist dancer Anita Berber. Berber was known as the dark muse of Weimar Berlin & is arguably a pioneer of modern day performance art & avant guard dance.
By blending the extraordinary talents of Ryan Heffington ~choreographer (www.sirheffington.com), Michelle Carr ~ director/producer (www.velvethammerburlesque.net), Annie Sperling ~ production designer (www.anniesperling.com), Douglas Little ~ art director(www.dlcompany.com), The Millionaire ~ composer of original score,Michael Schmidt ~ costume supervisor (www.michaelschmidtstudios.com) the collective's mission is to pay homage to Berber, bring her into the public consciousness & create a most singular and visually stunning full scale contemporary dance performance.
The individuals of this collective have followed & admired each others artistic achievements, occasionally working together on various commercial and creative projects here and there but never as a whole with one sole vision. It cannot be pinpointed exactly when, but a rather animated conversation sparked, over imbibements no doubt, about how wonderful it would be to get together and create something beautiful, dark and whimsical. I decided it was high time to gather my group of artistic cohorts and make it happen once and for all.
An ambitious feat to say the least. The "Great Recession" has created an unforgiving & dismal atmosphere for many in today's artistic community. Work and the endless pursuit of work has left precious little time and even less money to indulge in nourishing artistic collaborations.
However, when there is a will there is a way and we will see our vision realized! What better way to acknowledge and somewhat lift ourselves out of our own plight than to celebrate an artist, once called the "Inflation Queen", who developed her art and even flourished amidst tragic economic strife in a time, known as the Weimar era.
The funds raised will go directly into the production of 'Berber'. Your freehearted contribution will not only bring this unparalleled project to fruition but ultimately put it on the road from coast to coast & across the pond to Europe so as to spread the gorgeousness around. Every little bit helps and is most appreciated.
This is an all or nothing fund raising deal. If we do not make or surpass our $10,000 goal by September 20th, WE GET NOTHING!!!!! Quite possibly the project could be aborted for insufficient funds along with my will to live.(Ha,ha...)
PLEASE PASS THIS ON! This is an international fund raising effort. If we got 1,000 people to donate a mere $10, we would be golden. You can make that happen!
For more information (bios,photos,reel etc...) and to make a donation, click on: http://kck.st/9KPl6P
Saturday, August 28, 2010
STANK UND CIRCUMSTANCE
Opening of the Arsenal Curator School, the second year for this very successful educational concept. Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus decided she wanted the doll to do a repeat presentation of my Rising Stars, Falling Stars program from last year which showcased the suffragette film What 80 Million Women Want from 1913, with a soundscape collage soundtrack by the Blue Brothers Tim & kJohnny. Tim Blue just got back from Dublin with Irish film artist Paul Rowley where their movie The Rooms played to SRO crowds. Tim encouraged the Arsenal audience to interactively join in with the soundtrack to W80MWW by responding to an image,audio, describe a favorite woman, comment on what is radical art, provide an early memory about gender, or thoughts on the history of woman’s rights. The eager showboating crowd ran with it, almost a little too enthusiastically for my tastes—but that’s what happens when you open the floor to the publicum.
My performance involved having Danny Hendrickson re-edit my 2004 film Wo ist Manfred that I made with the beautiful Cyril Kuhn of Zurich back in LA. Dan trimmed things down to 5 minutes from its original 9 min length. Taking on the persona of a ditsy Estonian curator I announced how I dug through the anals of the Arsenal archive and discovered an experimental film fragment unseen since it was made sometime between 1913 and1921. Daniel accompanied my rant and the film gorgeously on klavier accenting a song by Sophie Tucker, the last of the Red Hot Mammas.
Instead of drinks in the Rote Foyer this time a reception was held up in the Penthouse Terrace on the 9th Floor of the Sony Center.
Seen imbibing: The Gregors-Ulrich&Erica, Germany’s first family of film, and the founders of the Arsenal, with their daughter Milena Gregor, Birgit Kohler, Nanna Heidenreich, booty pie male ingenue Ken Duken from the Tarantino film Inglorious Basterds, German thespian Jurgen Vogel—I love his hot musclepud body and bad teeth, Chinese actress Gong Li, British musician Carl Barat of the newly reformed Libertines, humpy Chinese documentarian Lixin Fan(Last Train Home), Felix Knoke of Der Spiegel Online, handsome Jan Klesse the keyboard player with Glen Meadmore’s Cuntry Band who just graduated law school, Sean Nye, the young academic, flirting with lanky dirty blondine American Jake Huey, who just moved to Berlin, film historian Marc Siegel with his juicy intermedia actress girlfriend Susanne Sachsse, Nadja Talmi who has worked tirelessly organizing the curator school accompanied by handsome Uli Ziemons, Anna Muelter of HAU, Djane Olga Damnitz, artist Maggie Schneider, experimental film legend Birgit Hein,Heide Schuelupmann and Karola Gramann of Kinothek Asta Nielsen, Manuel Schubert the Multi Kult FM internet radio presenter with the program Film Highlights, Ena Schnitzelbaumer aka: DJane Metzgerei, artist/filmmaker Angela Melitopoulos and Maxmillian Winkler the lovesexy son of Henry”The Fonz” Winkler. Will someone please tell me what young Max is doing in Berlin? He should be engaged in wild sexual proclivities with Vaginal Davis Jr.
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Had a productive rehearsal with new music project that involves Baby Diaper Joel Gibb, Felix Knoke and Jan Klesse. The name of this super group will either be Tenderloin or Schmusique. Feel free to email my intern Gleeson Brevard at Gleebrevard@aol.com to voice your opinion as to what we should call ourselves.
NYU Performance Studies scholar Tavia Nyongo had a farewell dinner that was lovingly prepared by artist/filmmaker Liz Rosenfeld with assist by British performance artist Richard Hancock. Ms. Rosenfeld is a KreuzKoelln treasure and very talented lady who applies the same approach to cooking that she does to her art. The menu consisted of a pre-course Amuse Bouche selection of bruschetta: fresh peach, pop that cherry tomatoes and tyme salsa, Tuscan white bean spread, burnt sage with negro butter. The appetizer consisted of La Liz’s signature dish: the highly individual beet tarty tart tatain with goat cheese and late summer queer theory salad. The main dish: homemade pussi gnocci in a lemon crème sauce, roasted tupelo fennel, tomato kill karne with candied pumpkin seeds.
It was all too heavenly and topping it off for desert: Lukas Haas lukewarm chocolate cake with lavender and black eyed berries luxuriating in crème fresh.
I am going to miss Tavia who is related to President Obama, but he will be back in Berlin next year.
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Word out to Jens Lichtman the Swedish indie pop star! Give Maggie McDonald publishing credit on your new song “End of the World, Is Bigger Then Love” She came up with that lyric and the idea behind it, so do the right thing if you know whats good for you.
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My partner in Sonnenallee crime Daniel “Haji” Hendrickson, the Scandanavian Muslim will be returning to the states for ten days to visit his parental units in Nashville. He plans on giving me a full report on his trip to Dollywood—the exclusive Dolly Parton themepark in Pigeon Forge. Are there Dolly Parton rollercoasters and Ferris Wheels at Dollywood? The park is only opened during the summer months and I bet its much better then Disneyworld, Busch Gardens or Coney Island combined.
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Little triva item I learned from NPR Berlin. The popular quirky/offbeat grocery brand Trader Joe’s that has stores in California and more recently in New York is owned by the Albrecht Family Trust. The Albrecht Family are a German company that owns Aldi Discount Grocers. See what you learn by reading this very blog.
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One of the cute kasse girls that works at The Arsenal named
Moa, who hails from Stolkholme, Sweden has a delicious art studio in Neu Koelln called Loom, where she and a colleguen do handcraft art objects, and woven sculpture installations and an assortment of other interesting projects. If you’re in the neighborhood check it out. Berlin is really filled with unexpected gems like Loom.
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Film historian Marc Siegel had a family emergency and had to return abruptly to the states, so he wasn’t able to do his workshop at the Arsenal Summer Curator School. Nanna Heidenreich and the Vagimule doll filled in at a moments notice with something we called, . . .I’m Not One To Gossip So You Didn’t Hear It From Me--The Lore and Lure of Archival Modalities. This was our decription:
What makes an archive? They emerge from dealings with relationships and people, they grow out of passion, obsession, idiosyncrasies, but also coincidences. They consist of stories, loose ends, wild associations, and true encounters. Their ingredients are constantly rearranged, as memories are made up or fail, knowledge is passed on, or forgotten and reinvented. Archives are gosssip and gossip is the one true endless archive.
Our presentation was very extemporaneous,featuring clips from Mae West flicks Klondike Annie and She Done Him Wrong plus the Louis Delluc short Fievre. Nanna was great as always, but because I have had so many writing deadlines with an assortment of essays due for art catalogues, I wasn’t able to get a good night sleep and was pure excrement for brains. The young radio presenter Manuel Schubert was in the audience, and he told me afterwards while he was interviewing me for his program that the audience got the point. Oh welpsis, one can’t be on top of it at all times.
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Just heard from Uli Ziemons, the handsomest man in Europe that the new Sylvester Stallone film The Expendables is quite a hoot. One of my old pals from Los Angeles Tim Palen aka: Big Daddy Dino is a theatrical marketing co-president with Lion Gate Films. Daddy Dino use to work for Sony Pictures in the Marketing Division and was the boss of my former Club Sucker partner Frank Rodriguez who now runs his own design firm called Custom Creative with Jeffreyland Hilbert who use to do the hot 90s queer clubs SitnSpin and Hai Karate.
Well getting back to the Stallone flick,I hear it’s the latest guilty pleasure. I haven’t seen it but am curious because the British action star Jason Statham is in it and I would sell my grandmother to get a night in the sack with Mr. Statham who is super yummy. The other stars in the flicker are sexy Jet Li, a long on the tooth Dolph Lundren, Bruce Willis, The Arnold and plastic surgery spokesmodel Mickey Roarke. Ain’t hollywood grand?
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The international fashion design demi god Rick Owens is doing a hard bound coffee table book for Rizzoli. In it will be a section on the famed Hollywood dive bar The Spotlight. The book will feature photos by fotogs Brad Fierce and Albert Sanchez and pictures of luminaries like Ron Athey, Glen Meadmore, Goddess Bunny, Kembra of Karen Black Gaultier muse Eugenie, WandatheMan, Jolee, Michele Lamy, Scarlette Rouge and the Vaginal creature. I wrote a special essay for the book with lots of fond memories.
Opening of the Arsenal Curator School, the second year for this very successful educational concept. Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus decided she wanted the doll to do a repeat presentation of my Rising Stars, Falling Stars program from last year which showcased the suffragette film What 80 Million Women Want from 1913, with a soundscape collage soundtrack by the Blue Brothers Tim & kJohnny. Tim Blue just got back from Dublin with Irish film artist Paul Rowley where their movie The Rooms played to SRO crowds. Tim encouraged the Arsenal audience to interactively join in with the soundtrack to W80MWW by responding to an image,audio, describe a favorite woman, comment on what is radical art, provide an early memory about gender, or thoughts on the history of woman’s rights. The eager showboating crowd ran with it, almost a little too enthusiastically for my tastes—but that’s what happens when you open the floor to the publicum.
My performance involved having Danny Hendrickson re-edit my 2004 film Wo ist Manfred that I made with the beautiful Cyril Kuhn of Zurich back in LA. Dan trimmed things down to 5 minutes from its original 9 min length. Taking on the persona of a ditsy Estonian curator I announced how I dug through the anals of the Arsenal archive and discovered an experimental film fragment unseen since it was made sometime between 1913 and1921. Daniel accompanied my rant and the film gorgeously on klavier accenting a song by Sophie Tucker, the last of the Red Hot Mammas.
Instead of drinks in the Rote Foyer this time a reception was held up in the Penthouse Terrace on the 9th Floor of the Sony Center.
Seen imbibing: The Gregors-Ulrich&Erica, Germany’s first family of film, and the founders of the Arsenal, with their daughter Milena Gregor, Birgit Kohler, Nanna Heidenreich, booty pie male ingenue Ken Duken from the Tarantino film Inglorious Basterds, German thespian Jurgen Vogel—I love his hot musclepud body and bad teeth, Chinese actress Gong Li, British musician Carl Barat of the newly reformed Libertines, humpy Chinese documentarian Lixin Fan(Last Train Home), Felix Knoke of Der Spiegel Online, handsome Jan Klesse the keyboard player with Glen Meadmore’s Cuntry Band who just graduated law school, Sean Nye, the young academic, flirting with lanky dirty blondine American Jake Huey, who just moved to Berlin, film historian Marc Siegel with his juicy intermedia actress girlfriend Susanne Sachsse, Nadja Talmi who has worked tirelessly organizing the curator school accompanied by handsome Uli Ziemons, Anna Muelter of HAU, Djane Olga Damnitz, artist Maggie Schneider, experimental film legend Birgit Hein,Heide Schuelupmann and Karola Gramann of Kinothek Asta Nielsen, Manuel Schubert the Multi Kult FM internet radio presenter with the program Film Highlights, Ena Schnitzelbaumer aka: DJane Metzgerei, artist/filmmaker Angela Melitopoulos and Maxmillian Winkler the lovesexy son of Henry”The Fonz” Winkler. Will someone please tell me what young Max is doing in Berlin? He should be engaged in wild sexual proclivities with Vaginal Davis Jr.
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Had a productive rehearsal with new music project that involves Baby Diaper Joel Gibb, Felix Knoke and Jan Klesse. The name of this super group will either be Tenderloin or Schmusique. Feel free to email my intern Gleeson Brevard at Gleebrevard@aol.com to voice your opinion as to what we should call ourselves.
NYU Performance Studies scholar Tavia Nyongo had a farewell dinner that was lovingly prepared by artist/filmmaker Liz Rosenfeld with assist by British performance artist Richard Hancock. Ms. Rosenfeld is a KreuzKoelln treasure and very talented lady who applies the same approach to cooking that she does to her art. The menu consisted of a pre-course Amuse Bouche selection of bruschetta: fresh peach, pop that cherry tomatoes and tyme salsa, Tuscan white bean spread, burnt sage with negro butter. The appetizer consisted of La Liz’s signature dish: the highly individual beet tarty tart tatain with goat cheese and late summer queer theory salad. The main dish: homemade pussi gnocci in a lemon crème sauce, roasted tupelo fennel, tomato kill karne with candied pumpkin seeds.
It was all too heavenly and topping it off for desert: Lukas Haas lukewarm chocolate cake with lavender and black eyed berries luxuriating in crème fresh.
I am going to miss Tavia who is related to President Obama, but he will be back in Berlin next year.
*
Word out to Jens Lichtman the Swedish indie pop star! Give Maggie McDonald publishing credit on your new song “End of the World, Is Bigger Then Love” She came up with that lyric and the idea behind it, so do the right thing if you know whats good for you.
*
My partner in Sonnenallee crime Daniel “Haji” Hendrickson, the Scandanavian Muslim will be returning to the states for ten days to visit his parental units in Nashville. He plans on giving me a full report on his trip to Dollywood—the exclusive Dolly Parton themepark in Pigeon Forge. Are there Dolly Parton rollercoasters and Ferris Wheels at Dollywood? The park is only opened during the summer months and I bet its much better then Disneyworld, Busch Gardens or Coney Island combined.
*
Little triva item I learned from NPR Berlin. The popular quirky/offbeat grocery brand Trader Joe’s that has stores in California and more recently in New York is owned by the Albrecht Family Trust. The Albrecht Family are a German company that owns Aldi Discount Grocers. See what you learn by reading this very blog.
*
One of the cute kasse girls that works at The Arsenal named
Moa, who hails from Stolkholme, Sweden has a delicious art studio in Neu Koelln called Loom, where she and a colleguen do handcraft art objects, and woven sculpture installations and an assortment of other interesting projects. If you’re in the neighborhood check it out. Berlin is really filled with unexpected gems like Loom.
*
Film historian Marc Siegel had a family emergency and had to return abruptly to the states, so he wasn’t able to do his workshop at the Arsenal Summer Curator School. Nanna Heidenreich and the Vagimule doll filled in at a moments notice with something we called, . . .I’m Not One To Gossip So You Didn’t Hear It From Me--The Lore and Lure of Archival Modalities. This was our decription:
What makes an archive? They emerge from dealings with relationships and people, they grow out of passion, obsession, idiosyncrasies, but also coincidences. They consist of stories, loose ends, wild associations, and true encounters. Their ingredients are constantly rearranged, as memories are made up or fail, knowledge is passed on, or forgotten and reinvented. Archives are gosssip and gossip is the one true endless archive.
Our presentation was very extemporaneous,featuring clips from Mae West flicks Klondike Annie and She Done Him Wrong plus the Louis Delluc short Fievre. Nanna was great as always, but because I have had so many writing deadlines with an assortment of essays due for art catalogues, I wasn’t able to get a good night sleep and was pure excrement for brains. The young radio presenter Manuel Schubert was in the audience, and he told me afterwards while he was interviewing me for his program that the audience got the point. Oh welpsis, one can’t be on top of it at all times.
*
Just heard from Uli Ziemons, the handsomest man in Europe that the new Sylvester Stallone film The Expendables is quite a hoot. One of my old pals from Los Angeles Tim Palen aka: Big Daddy Dino is a theatrical marketing co-president with Lion Gate Films. Daddy Dino use to work for Sony Pictures in the Marketing Division and was the boss of my former Club Sucker partner Frank Rodriguez who now runs his own design firm called Custom Creative with Jeffreyland Hilbert who use to do the hot 90s queer clubs SitnSpin and Hai Karate.
Well getting back to the Stallone flick,I hear it’s the latest guilty pleasure. I haven’t seen it but am curious because the British action star Jason Statham is in it and I would sell my grandmother to get a night in the sack with Mr. Statham who is super yummy. The other stars in the flicker are sexy Jet Li, a long on the tooth Dolph Lundren, Bruce Willis, The Arnold and plastic surgery spokesmodel Mickey Roarke. Ain’t hollywood grand?
*
The international fashion design demi god Rick Owens is doing a hard bound coffee table book for Rizzoli. In it will be a section on the famed Hollywood dive bar The Spotlight. The book will feature photos by fotogs Brad Fierce and Albert Sanchez and pictures of luminaries like Ron Athey, Glen Meadmore, Goddess Bunny, Kembra of Karen Black Gaultier muse Eugenie, WandatheMan, Jolee, Michele Lamy, Scarlette Rouge and the Vaginal creature. I wrote a special essay for the book with lots of fond memories.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
HO CHI MENSIS
Attended a major Ms. Gorgeous end of summer Viet Cong Gin&Tonic Party hosted by the incredible gaysian film & video art shtar Nguyen Tan Hoang(4Ever Bottom),who has been delighting Berliners this season during his sabbatical from Bryn Mawr College.
The mood was high octane teutonic festive with most of the members of CHEAP kollective including beautiful fearless leader Susanne Sachsse and film historian Marc Siegel just back from holiday in Espana. Scandanavian Muslim Daniel Hendrickson with his Afro/Ital/German lover Piero Belhommo of La Piero Kolleczione, Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and Nanna Heidenreich of Arsenal Experimental getting ready for the Arsenal Summer Curator School that opens August 25th with a special performance by The Vagimule Doll with The Blue Bros Tim & kJohnny and Daniela Marie Hendrickson.
I flirted outrageously with Sexy Sascha Wölck who is Hoang´s number one BFF with his vivacious girlfriend Christina Rogers who looks like a young Romy Schneider with her enchanting chrystaline/azure blue eyes.
Berlin “It Couple” Kate Hers from UC Irvine and her lovesexycool Deutsch/Korean beau Han-Yo aka: Han-Joachim who is a PhD Physicist student---lecher!
Everyone wants a hot Korean boyfriend!
Also making the scene: Anja Michaelsen a charming Korean adoptee in Germany.American artists of the younger generation and flip-flopping couple Carrick Bell & Michael Rocco and Italian biologist/humanist Giovanni Frazzetto. What a hyphenate!
Attended a major Ms. Gorgeous end of summer Viet Cong Gin&Tonic Party hosted by the incredible gaysian film & video art shtar Nguyen Tan Hoang(4Ever Bottom),who has been delighting Berliners this season during his sabbatical from Bryn Mawr College.
The mood was high octane teutonic festive with most of the members of CHEAP kollective including beautiful fearless leader Susanne Sachsse and film historian Marc Siegel just back from holiday in Espana. Scandanavian Muslim Daniel Hendrickson with his Afro/Ital/German lover Piero Belhommo of La Piero Kolleczione, Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and Nanna Heidenreich of Arsenal Experimental getting ready for the Arsenal Summer Curator School that opens August 25th with a special performance by The Vagimule Doll with The Blue Bros Tim & kJohnny and Daniela Marie Hendrickson.
I flirted outrageously with Sexy Sascha Wölck who is Hoang´s number one BFF with his vivacious girlfriend Christina Rogers who looks like a young Romy Schneider with her enchanting chrystaline/azure blue eyes.
Berlin “It Couple” Kate Hers from UC Irvine and her lovesexycool Deutsch/Korean beau Han-Yo aka: Han-Joachim who is a PhD Physicist student---lecher!
Everyone wants a hot Korean boyfriend!
Also making the scene: Anja Michaelsen a charming Korean adoptee in Germany.American artists of the younger generation and flip-flopping couple Carrick Bell & Michael Rocco and Italian biologist/humanist Giovanni Frazzetto. What a hyphenate!
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