CLITORAL CONCLAVE

Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land starring a long on the tooth Matt Damon, Frances McDormond and the lovely humpy dork John Krasinksi was screened as part of the recent 63rd Berlinale International Film Festival. I didn’t care to see this movie, and was told by those who did that its not Van Sant at his best, but my old pal the F2M Oscar winning film editor Billy Rich worked on this flick. I’ve known Billy since he was a 17 year old baby dyke crew member of Bruce La Bruce’s Hustler White. Now he is an A-list film editor and handsome homo about town. What is it that turns F2M’s into gay men? M2F’s don’t usually turn into lesbians. Maybe it’s a generational thing as a lot of young queens are kai kai. I love the term kai kai which I gather originates from the large transgender population of Hawaii.

Was sent a few new books that I can’t wait to start reading. Two about the late poet Sylvia Plath--American Isis-The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson and Mad Girl’s Love Song-Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted by Andrew Wilson. Also Jamaica Kincaids first book in ten years See Now Then and The Real Jane Austen-A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne.

Lately I find myself being courted by two young filmmakers who want me to be in their movies and share their bone. One is a smokey eyed wild haired Mexican named Nicolas Pereda who is about 30 and is quite sexy in a languid way and the other is a nutters Dane named Jacob Secher Schulsinger who I don’t find attractive. One virile Armenian tranny chaser that certainly floats my proverbial boat is Aram Terzakian of XYZ Films. Mr. Terzakian’s film company partners Nick Spicer and Nate Bolotin are also all wrapped up in the house of Ms. Vaginal Davis. Why am I suddenly irresistible to men? A month ago I was a pariah.

For those of you visiting Berlin late in winter and want to take part in something interesting by a colleague of mine please read below:

Dear Friends:

I will be teaching a workshop at NGBK on the weekend of 16th & 17th of March. This is the first of a series of events taking place at NGBK this year, organised by the Wir Spielen group: http://www.wirspielen.net/

The workshop in March is a two-day event, where we will explore various cut-and-paste and anti-authoritarian writing methods with the intention of collectively creating a Demonstration Poem of our time and place (the Wir Spielen project is inspired by the reading and deconstruction of Mary Ellen Solt’s 1968 play “THE PEOPLEMOVER – A Demonstration Poem”, an amazing text we will also introduce during the workshop). We will also work creating movement and choreography from texts, looking at the performative aspect of written materials.

The practical info:

Saturday 16th from 10:00 til17:00
and
Sunday 17th from 10:00 til 17:00

Registration is required at: info (at) wirspielen.net. We are looking for people who can come for the whole event (both days).

This workshop is for FREE and in English at the NGBK office in Oranienstr. 25 1. OG
Here you will find details of the project and all things happening as part of Wir Spielen:
http://www.wirspielen.net/

Feel free to forward to others who might be interested and write me with any questions.
Thanks! and sorry for any crossposting.

xx
Amelia

MICROCEPHALIC MINSTRELSY

Was treated to a nice luncheon at the Schwarzer Café on Kant Strasse by Ms. Jane Beese of Southbank Centre and the acclaimed Meltdown Festival. It was marvy seeing the lovesexy English Rose Ms. Lady Jane on my home turf. She was in town with the Yoko Ono performances at the Volksbuhne. Ms. Jane and I are like old sisters of the clothe and get on really well like we’ve known each other for ages.

Been feeling a bit of my yearly post birthday depression. You’d be depressed too if you’ve been alive for almost 500 years give or take a few centuries. I am also nervous about going to China for this Anna May Wong/Lucia Joyce project that will be several years in the making, and involves some site specific location scouting. Met the cute Chinese boy operative for the project and told him to see the Anna May Wong films Java Head and Piccadilly. This particular Chinese boy hotsy totsy is tall and very masculine and muscular with full delicious looking pillow lips, pretty shiny black expertly styled and trimmed hair and a bubble Beyonce booty like a black boy----yummy. He is straight, but is so wickedly vain that I believe that he can be seduced if you appeal to his huge ego in the right fashion.

My Muslim warrior Daniel Hendrickson is in Miami Florida with his parents and older brother and sister-in-law enjoying a well deserved vacation in the warm sun. I am so jealous and of course I miss his company as well. Berlin is cold, dark dank and bleak at the moment. O how I am longing for Springtime.

Got this cute note from one of my most talented Bricktops at the ParlourClub children:

Hi Everyone!

I've been working on a new puppet for Seed in the Sand and documenting the progress on my blog. Click the link and check it out!

http://christianecegavske.wordpress.com/

Best Wishes,

Christiane