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.

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