Menschliche Kritter
Didn’t have a working
computer for ages so I wasn’t able to blogeet, which also prevented me from
writing about my Cholita colleague Alice Bag’s second solo record
Blueprint.
Alice sent me the CD awhile
back via her young cohort Seth Bogart of Hunx and his Punx fame.
Alice has turned into a
modern day Eydie Gorme’ with high caliber musical material like like her
geniustrata songs “Sparkling Path”, “White Justice”, “Etched Deep”, and ”77”
where she carries on with the likesis of the great Kathleen Hanna of Bikini
Kill and Allison Wolfe of Bratmobile. My
favorite track is “Se Cree Joven” and I
am not the only one crazy for this tune.
The video features my drag daughter Michele “Hell” Carr and the legend
that is Phranc the Jewish Lesbian Folk Singer and Cardboard Cobbler.
It delights me that my
sweetie pie La Alicia is getting her due with critical acclaim and sold out
tours. Nobody deserves the unabashed
love, attention and hoopla more then my
homegirl Sad Girl of Cholita!
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Contemporary Vinegar Syndrome
premiere was a sterling success at the Fichtenbunker in Kreuzberg. The site specific location had everyone abuzz
wondering what it looked like inside. The
convex wall that was our movie screen that we dubbed The Convex Serviette was a big
hit with the publicum who got to enjoy a double projection of Ulrike Ottinger’s
Berlin Fieber as well as a surprise sneak scene from Ottinger’ famous Freak
Orlando which was filmed on the top of the bunker. The visionary directress was her usual gracious,
soft spoken self, wowing everyone with her patrician grace and gentility.
Arsenal Empress Stefanie
Schulte Strathaus opened the evening with remarks concerning the Arsenal
membership drive. Those who paid to
become a member get all sorts of goodies including free entrance to our
September and December CVS event, and entrance to Arsenal screenings for six
months. Now that’s a bargain.
The evening also included a
double screening of two Terayama films in which we supplied the text with a
range of literary material, Ela Troyano’s David Does Venus starring her
hilarious sister Carmelita Tropicana and two different Bugs Bunny
Cartoons.
Scene and Herd mentality
during the three days: Fearless Leader
of CHEAP Kollektiv Susanna Sachsse who provided the voice of CVS with Ashley
Hans Scheirl who will be in Berlin for a year on a DAAD fellowship, Ulrike
Ottinger’s beautiful girlfriend Nina with art photographer Annette Frick,
Katherina Sykora, Michaela Wuench of bbooks Kollektiv, pretty ginger haired curator
Anja Lueckenkemper, Florian Weghorn of Berlinale Talents, Razak Khan of the
Center for Modern Indian Studies, Karo the new Arsenal Projectionist, Maria
Klaus, Archive Project Publicist, Elena Baumeister, Archive Project intern,
Milena Gregor of the Gregor Klan the first
family of German Cinema, Markus Ruff Head of Archive Project, handsome Toby
Ashraf, sexy young UdK students Leonardo Lina, David Scholer and Zannick Spies,
the gorgeous and stylish film curator Maria Morata, Sirkka Moeller of Berlinale’s
Panorama Section. Dan Gunn of the Dan Gunn Gallery London and his big dick
Dutch pal Robert who is the studio manager for artist Angela Bulloch, Susanna
Huber and Christian Liclair of Asthetic des Begehrens, Shanti Ashtangi-Asgari,
my German relation Clarisse Mehring, Mike Fenswick of Phile Magazine with
statuesque best girlfriend Miss Erin, Stefania Daskalaki, DJane Bianca Kruk
with Film Sound Designer Manuela Schinina, scholar Zülfukar Çetin and his international
posse of EUROPACH: Emily Nicholls,from Goldsmith College London, Justyna
Struzik from Jagellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and Finnish scholar Lina
Bolde from Humboldt Universitaet. Also glimpsed: Joel Gibb the baby diaper of
the Hidden Cameras of Toronto, curator Natasha Ginwala, Piero Bellomo, our CVS
crew of Gerrit Woltemath, our trusty
production coordinator, Daniel Hendrickson,the Jewish Muzlim, projectionists
Bodo&Ina and bartender RoseLee.
Hollywood hunk of the 1950s
Tab Hunter died. So sad as he was one
devilish piece of beefcake. Back in the
50s he was lovers with Anthony Perkins but his most famous sex conquest was the
entire water polo team of Pepperdine University circa 1957. Way to Go Tab!
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Just received this shocking news
that Robert Summers died in Alabama visiting his lovely sister Ruth Ann. Robert was a young fagademic who was actually
quite brilliant at times. I collaborated
with him on several projects beginning with Bricktops at the Parlour Club where
he helped organize a series of mini lecturinas in the early evening of the club
that was quite a success. He did a
longer version of a lecturina on Judy Garland Modalities at my 2011 MoCa
Happening Dejecta. Robert grew up in
Whittier to Mexican and Jewish parents. His auntie was the well known Los Angeles
political figure Gloria Molina.
