The Pension Grillparzer
My first time in Oslo, Norway the home
of my Pedro, Muriel & Esther bass player Dean Opseth.
Had a lovely time. The weather was a
bit chilly but very sunny and bright.
Invited to Norway by Troll Krem and the
Munch Museum/Munchmuseat on the Move.
Thank god I was able to bring Love
Camel aka: Andrea Novarin as my assistant. They put us in a comfy
hotel across from the main train station.
Sweet and cuddly Tor Erik Boe of Troll
Krem and his cute beau fetched us from the International Aeroport and
took us to a swank dinner at a delicious boite where we were served a
9 course meal of local favourites.
Met the stylish and sophisticated
Natalie Hope O'Donnell of the Munch Museum, event producer
extroidinaire and pretty party girl Benedicte Bolling, Seth Bogart of
Gravy Train and Hunx and His Punx fame. Seth brought with him a copy
of Alice Bag's new CD Blueprint for me. Seth is also one of the
stars of Alice's rock video that also features Kathleen Hanna and
Shirley Manson. The video is a remake of the Lilly Tomlin/Jane
Fonda/Dolly Pardon feminist treatise 9to5 set to Alice's song 77.
Seth is a bonafide sex stud. With a bubble butt you can build a
dream on and a rocket crotch of good n' plenty to match. When Seth
was a teenager he use to write me fan letters that included his art
work and zine writing. It wasn't till Oslo that we have finally met
in the fleshy flesh. Now he is a super duper international music,
art and sexyline schtarino of the highest order. During his
performance he had the entire audience all wrapped up in the very
house of his booty and titten politic. I love his hit song “Men
Must Die”, a sentiment I greatly approve of. At the end of his set
he had two roid raging Chippendale lite strippers who were ill-er
then ill as his backup dancers. Geniustrata.
The other performer on the bill was the
sensational Jibz Cameron as Dynasty Handbag. I've known Ms. Cameron
for a long time as she was one of the many gifted children of the
late Professor Jose E. Munoz of NYU's Performance Studies Department.
If you have never seen her you owe it to yourself to check this
amazing lady out. She is the performance art equivalent of writers
Radcliffe Hall and Patricia Highsmith having fornicated and produced
a lesbiana love child. Dynasty Handbag is alchemy of the highest
order. The last time I saw her perform was at my installation talk
show VD is Speaking From the Diaphragm at PS 122 in New York in 2010. Dynasty Handbag rocks like no one else on the planet!
For Oslo we performed in the site
specific location of Ivars Kro(Ivars Inn) a dive discoteca in the
Greenland city center district. This area is the last to be
gentrified and is Oslo's Kreuzberg with lots of sexy immigrants on
parade. The performance evening started with a Talk Show artsy
fartsy version of The View with Tor Erik as Barbara Walters.
I wasn't expecting such a huge audience of people
from all walks of life and ages. After a short intermission the
publicum moved to another section of the large niteclub where I began
the evening festivities singing my old major label release “My
Pussy is a Cactus” where I sprinkled in some Adorno and George
Bataille text. I also pulled out of my arsenal the Tom Cruise Loves
Women video that I made with Billy Miller of Straight to Hell fame.
I couldn't believe that such old material still can enchant an
audience. Does any of the young people of today even know who Tom
Cruise is? Thank god a lot of people my age and older came out to
see me from all parts of Scandinavia. Got to see my brilliantine
former Malmo Art Academy students Stine Omar and Ihra Lill who are
now huge international stars. Stine is even a supermodel on the Paris
runway. Her band Easter with Max Boss is on hiatus at the moment.
Also while in Norway I got to do a
photo shoot with the famous Oslo based photographer Fin
Serck-Hanssen. Mr. Serck-Hanssen lives in an elegant country
compound surrounded by chickens and Bambi's frolicking in his
backyard which is a giant forrest woodland.
Special thankx again to Bendicte, Tor
Eric, Natalie, Frode, Christian, Kyrre, Kaeto, and Sanna for making
my time in Oslo so swell.
Before going to Norway I did a workshop
in Vienna at the famous Schule Friedl Kubelka fuer unabhaengigen
Film. My students were smart, sexy and super talented and did things
in the exercises that no other students have performed. Also
managing not to get arrested or injured.
I didn't expect such a huge audience
for my intro lecture. Afterward Phillip Fleischmann the schools very
young, dreamy Dean of Students took me for a comfort meal at
Wratschko Gastwirthschaft along with Salvatori who use to work with
Ali and Tobias of Gelitin at the Kunst Akademie in Linz.
All my love and kissyz to Phillip,
Magdelene, and my juicy hot students. Ms. Davis Loves you!!!!
Before going off to Vienna the
BabyDiaper Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras invited me as his plus one
to the Easter Fetisch Party SNAX at Lab/Berghain. This was my second
year attending with Baby Diaper Joel. Once again there were giant
peterfications on display. I even met a sweet blondine lad who I
wound up hanging with, and his lovesexy gaysian pal. Like me they
got a kick out of voyeuring the sex gods in attendance in various
stages of debauchery.
Before we went to SNAX we went to a
little shindig at the Kreuzberg home of the delightlfully sweet
musician Colin Self. Colin was hosting some American pals which
included a few Chicago natives who are very good friends with Mark
“Ears” Frietas of HomoCore Chicago and Spectra-Sonic Record Label
that produced my PME CD The White To Be Angry.