Large
crowds at the Arsenal’s screwball comedy program with screening of You Can’t
Take It With You the other evening directed by Frank Capra 1938, starring Miss
Jean “I Only Photograph Good on My Right Side”Arthur a skinny baby faced Jimmy Stewart, Lionel
Barrymore, Spring Byington, Eddie Rochester Anderson mugging more then Mickey
Rooney, Edwrd Arnold and 14 year old Ann Miller running around in a tutu on
point. All these depression era comedies
seem like they were written for todays economic turmoil and come with lots of
lessons that I think really resonate with a German audience. Ran into my Blood of Abraham Israeli art son
Assaf Hochman who got kicked off of an Easy Jet plane to Greece because of his
ultra tight bubble butt, and Jozo Juric the Croatian publicist BFF of Jamaica
Troy from the Rosa Caletta Café.
Went back
to Dr. Weigel in the Mehringdamn kiez for my second appointment. Was expecting just to have a filling but it
turned out I needed a root canal. With
any other dentist this would have been a big problema, but not with Dr.Weigel
who has such a lovely manner about her and is so comforting with personality plus. Dr. Weigel is also related to East German
cinema royalty, as her father Kurt Maetzig was a very important film director
in the GDR who directed some of the banned films of the 1960s along with the
state endorsed bio pic of Ernst Thaelmann.
Herr Maetzig was also the first artistic director of the film school in
Babelsberg and only died a few years ago at age 101.
I just got
a signed copy of the booklette The Dynamics of the Queer Movement in Turkey
before and during the Conservative AKP Government by the hot tiny muscular sexy
Turkish/Arab scholar and stud Zuelfukar Cetin.
Zuelfukar is one of those new breed of young academics who is getting a
lot of attention at the moment.
Zuelfukar is from the ancient city of Antioche and has been living and
working in Berlin as a scholar, prolific writer and activist for several
years. You can read his booklet the
first of his tomes translated into English by Scandinavian Muzlim Daniel
Hendrickson here:
Over a
decade ago I got upgraded to business
class on a flight from Europe to Amerikkka I sat next to an old gay white man
who struck up a lively conversation with me.
He told me his name was Fred Koch and that he worked in art philanthropy. I told him about my work as an artist and it
seemed to peek his curiosity. I didn’t
think much about this encounter until a few years later when I was in a hotel
in the States and I saw a news report about these conservative industrialists brothers named Koch. The news report showed a picture of the two
brothers whose names I don’t remember now, but it also showed the eldest
brother who was the man I met on the plane who is not part of his brothers
business. If I had known he was from a
super duper billionaire clan I should have worked my feminine wiles on him and
turned the rich geezer inito my sugar Opa.
He must be a dinge queen because he was certainly giving me the hairy eyeball
on the plane.
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I normally do not like crowd funding announcements as I feel crowdfunding takes the responsibility away from institutions to finance artists projects where it should be and turns artists into art panhandlers and beggars of life. I would never do a crowdfunding myself but I will on occasional recommend the funding of certain projects of people whose work I admire and respect. This is indeed the case with the work of the young Israeli artist Miss Liad. Read on and donate accordingly:
Hi
there!
if you're getting this email, there's a chance that
you've heard that I just started a kickstarter campaign to fundraise
my upcoming short film “No Democracy Here”, or even seen the
trailer.
In case you didn't here's a link. Watch it til the
end! It's fun!
the
film deals with a left-leaning dominatrix who conducts 'political
domination' with her right-leaning slaves and teaches them about
democracy and free will through power-based bdsm techniques. It was
shot live and on location in israel on election day, in and out of
the voting poles and includes participation from the public at hand.
It challenges notions of what electoral democracy is, and of all
sides who partake in it.
The film was shot a few years ago,
before the unfortunate degeneration of israel into a much
tighter-controlled fascist-leaning state. We got detained by police –
and we have great footage from it that we wanna use in the film.
Today such actions would be impossible to commit, as they'd land us
in jail or beaten in the street. So it's important that we get a
chance to turn it into a film.
To
finish the editing process - we need money. This money isn't simply a
'donation'. You're not just helping us complete this project, you're
actually buying something, in most cases at least an ability to see
the film or part thereof.
I really only try to send it to
people that aren't dirt-ass broke. And 10 euros is really an
affordable amount for many people I know. If you can give more (and
perhaps you can), consider doing so. If you're totally broke, but
you've got facebook or twitter, spread the word and the link.
