VILLAGE VANGUARD
o glorious manhattan, land of enchantment. Can't believe it is indian summer weather, glorious blue skies and warm temperatures. People are in shorts, sandles and looking very good. The boy eye candy is delirious. So glad to not be in cold, damp, bleak Berlin at the moment. I didn't realize that doing Live Film!Jack Smith! and then going right into The Bad Breast project with no rest would debilitate me so.
Of course this trip to New Yorika isn't exactly a vacation. Upon landing I was whisked by taxi straight to the Participant Inc. Gallery on Houston Street to help with installing my section of the Nothing Up My Sleeve exhibit curated by dazzling young artist Jonathan Berger. Its such an ambitious exhibition with objects from the late comedian Andy Kaufman and the great magician/mystic Harry Houdini plus some of the famed collaborative potpouris from Nancy Barton and the amazing legend that is Mrs. Michael Glass, who recently had a stroke and has been recuperating in a halfway house in Watts, CA. Mrs. Glass is the genius behind AMOK Books and their dispatches that ruled apocalypse culture in the late 80s and early 90s. Most of the things considered cool today were first written about by Mrs. Glass, who like me came out of the Watts and South Central Los Angeles areas. Mrs. Glass later went to Cal Arts in Valencia, CA and received her MFA. Her photography installations are very Kenneth Anger inspired and just plain brilliant.
The opening at Participant was packed to the rafters SRO! So many celebutants in attendance like Billy Miller of STH, Glenn Belverio and his yummy super famous date Carol Pope, Chloe aka: Carolina Vagina, Joanna Coppi and Aussi beau Axel, Justin Bond, Kenny Mellman, Nao Bustamante, Ela Troyano, Carmelita Tropicana, Dr. Jose Munoz, Zanzibar legend Jackie Reynal,with Berenice Reynaud the film curator for LA's RedCat Disney Hall, Ina Meibach Patti Smith's mgr from the Horses era, art star Piere Huyge, Laurie Anderson & Lou Reed, Klaus Biesenbach senior curator at Moma PS1 plus Bibbe Hansen in black fag Cleofus drag and her hubby Sean Carrillo, Uli Lange of Anvers who do experimental fragrances and made the Tony Clifton perfume and the members of the House of Drom, the number one perfumery in the tri-state area, Scott Ewalt, Doug McClemont who use to be the mortician to the stars but now works for the Saatchi Gallery in the UK, Mila Geisler and pals,artist Inka Essenheissen, 7 foot tall artist Adam Putnam, Uzi Parnes and his hot lover, Penny Arcade, Marc Arthur, Bearded Lady Jennifer Miller who will co-star with me in Orifice Descending at PS122 in the spring, rock n roll designer Michael Schmidt, actor Jason Schwartzman who complemented me on my Rick Owens gown and matching gloves. I complemented the young star, and added that i adore his mother actress Talia Shire. Of course looking radiant was Participant's lovesexy gallerist Ms. Lia Gangitano. I know i am forgetting some people, but i will have to add their names later when i get the full list.
I also promised to give more of a rundown on Live Film!Jack Smith, as i didn't get to finish writing about that event. Fortunately I am being hosted here at the NYU visiting artist commpound which is a lovely spacious apartment with glorious views of the Greenwich Village. Thank god i have cable TV and a flat screen computer terminal at my disposal, and a giant bed to bring tricks home to fornicate with. Wish me luck on that department. I have to get ready to go to a series of artist lectures, now i will close by re-printing a wonderful email sent to me by the brilliant Berlin art photographer Annette Frick with her comments on Live Film!Jack Smith! which is still being talked about by people all over the world.
Dear Vaginal
I am looking forward to your remarks on Penny Arcade. How I enjoy you
seem to be near a flatrated laptop at the moment. Isn’t there anybody in
your big audience who can replace your broken Computer and give you a
new or even second hand new Laptop and pay you a flatrate. This is just
peanuts for the informationtechnologues, as I know you would always
prefer eyelashes and Make up when you have a bit of money in your pocket
then computerstuff. But would you really refuse a laptop as a gift?
There must be lots of abandoned laptops in these offices and someone
must know about.
PLEASE don’t forget to mention the Performance of Madame 100 000 Volt
and how she managed to play one stage for two audiences at the same
time. Even this unexpected decision could not kill her show as did not
the really bad programming during the same time with Toni Conrad and
star DJ Erics performance. It did not prevent the crowd from storming
into her show.And except 3 or 5 people they stayed the whole 2
hours,listening to her fulminant performance, even though it was in
english. So this programming strategy was a big fault but not for her.
Why I really ask you to mention her fabulous, hot show is because you
may be one of the rare personalties which is able to respect her effort
without jealousy .Quality speaks for his own one might think, but there
are many possibilities to prevent it from ever been remarked,
ecspecially when you are a no-where-fitting-in woman artist, which does
not shut the mouth when normal people do it, but prefers the truth,as
Penny does and I know about as I did experience the same and I am sure
you too. It is harming to see how Penny was treated since she arrived.
Not as a powerful outragious artist but as a störenfried. What a crazy
misunderstanding:there is this person who has really to tell something
about Jack Smith, the art world, and social reality and they think she
is playing a role, though she was on stage just for 2 hours as Marc did
on the Skype with Ken Jakobs. Which was really very intense and
informative and changed my opinion on Ken Jakobs work. Thanks to Marc
for realising this but without Pennys comment it would have missed a
lot .
NOBODY SEEMED TO REALIZE THAT THERE COULD BE NO FLAMING DAYS IN A RENTED
WORLD IF PENNY WITH JIM HOBERMAN AND JERRY TARTAGLIA DID NOT MANAGE TO
SAVE THE STUFF OF JACK SMITH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It seemed that she is infected by him, the only legal child of his
spirit and that’s a lot.As you must know from your own experience,
outragious efforts were taken for normal and mainstream bullshit is
handeld as sensation in our postmodern culturel society look into the
newspapers.And it becomes worse,when reality enters the theater.They
think they are playin as if and when they realize it is about truth,
everyone becomes mad, especially the organisers. Even though they call
their projects life film or life performance or life whatever……………..And
now lets talk about the little difference. The difference of showing
breasts and showing breasts. When I entered the Tony Conrad room after
having left the Hau1, after Penny got thundering applaus, after her
show, after showing her naked breasts, (which she decided to do
spontaniously in an act of liberty) and after showing her 2 dog films
which was about academic customs and scolas. I thought I entered a
kindergarten. The whole thing a Jack Smith fake playing chilling out,
but there was just place for a dozen of people to play beeing in an Jack
Smith environment There where coloured lights imitating arabic
candleholder,(what happened when Bruce la Bruce lit a cigarette the day
befor, in the wonderful Tavel homage inscenating the Juanita Castro play
we remember.The reality entered the play in form of a real firemen who
stopped him smoking) there was a fogmachine imitating real smoke and
there was even a topeless kind of bellie dancing women with real naked
breasts.(The blow job scene I missed) But this faked liberty was without
any energy or power. Saft und kraftlos in german, though Toni Conrad is
a great musican and I ador his musik and films but in this room, there
was nothing but the boredom of a bad fake. Even too bad for a tourist
animation at ballerman island. That is strange because Tonis
minimalistic performances I saw before were the contrary and build up
energy on a high level, which for me was an interesting discovery.
I just realize the organisers get just bad critic, which is dooing no
right to them and the work they did put into the whole project.Give a
big Applaus for Stefanie,Marc and Susanne which I liked a lot in Juanita
Castro,even without acting much,and complete clothed she was a real
attraction even beside the devine and great actor Mario Montez and the
vulcano Bibbe Hansen They made the whole event possible as Anna and
Nadja did,and I am really gratiful for that.
In any case the whole event can be seen as a big success. It opend up
the vakuum which rules the theater and art scene. I prefer hot
discussions then diskurses where everybody is just showing his knowledge
but no one has the courage to tell the truth.The truth is that I liked
your sweating (schwitzende)hot performance and your film, bringing
together Jack Smith and Murnau in a modern way, with grateful actors and
you performing a grateful bride looking for a husband.I take that for
real and wish you finding this beautiful guy you are looking
for,darling..Memory island I will always remember it was full of the
spirit of your Rote Insel but this most of the audience cannot know.
Much Love Annette
:PS: when do you leave for New York????
:PS:PS yesterday you missed the unbelievable filminstallation of Wieland
Speck at Exile.I cannot believe that this film was never shown bevor,it
is uncredible.It’s a rare juwel, you would have liked it .Just a short
description.: 1978 at the Berlinwall ,Wollinerstr/Corner Bernaustr.: a
beautiful jung boy climbing up the wall from the westside with his
harp.sitting there on the top of the wall may be half an hour, playing
this harp until the police (western)stopps it.To the police he said :I
cannot see it anymore nobody is dooing something against this wall,if
you are not able, I must do something (in my words,not exact) It was not
theater or film but for real. Even though the video is of bad quality
this film is so great that you forget it,this beautiful image of this
jung boy, playing this harp and the people gathering in east and in west
,following this unexpected concert, succedded in remembering the whole
situation .My feelings were so intense that I nearly smelled the bad air
of the autobuses and feeled the trevira 2000 clothes. And it becomes
complete crazy when you read the notes the stasi did on this event
observing Wieland for a long time then,which were also exhibited at the
galerie . I don’t know if for others it is as intense as for me. But it
brought me back to this time where stereotype Spießers ruled and had
more power in everydaylife as you can imagine. It brouht me back to the
time when it was a big effort just visiting my grandparents,aunts and
cousins ,and the feeling I had having the privilidge to pass the wall
which they did not have. I loved visiting them and became complete aware
about the big lies which were produced about the East as the West, just
for political reasons. But this film is a great piece of art, you will
not be able to find such at „20 Jahre Mauerfall“ bullshit as on most
festivals.
PS:PS:PS: we do not want just 5 flaming days we want 365 each year and
for real.
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
RÄUMLICHE TRENNUNG
I was only able to see 30 minutes of the Andrew Kerton with Johnny Woo performance of Palla-dee-uhm so i can´t give it a proper review. I had my performance Memory Island on the big stage right after Andrew´s piece, so i had to leave early go get dressed amd into make-up, but i did like the song Andrew lip synched to that began his absurdist music hall style review. Tan Bihn Ngyuyen was designing the hair and make-up for superstar Mario Montez, so i figured i would have to do my own face beating. But luckily for me Tan Bihn had finished Mario, and was able to give me an excellent 40s style war painting sesh and let me wear one of her tres expensivo real hair wigs. I looked stunning giving Hedy LaMarr from White Cargo crossed with Judy Garland in Presenting Lilly Mars and a tad bit of Lana Turner in Johnny Eager. My costume was designed by Little Alex of Macedonia, and was perfect. The HAU 1 theatre was packed SRO and then some. I didnt know HAU 1 had two balconies, but i was told after my performance that they could barely fit the overflow in the second balcony. I got a million positive comments about Memory Island---how great it looked, and how the piece slyly commented on race and class without being dogmatic and shrill. Several Canadians didnt even recognize Baby Diaper Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras who starred in the film wearing little next to nothing but his generous endowment, and inflamed bullet nipples. Alex & Julian also looked great, and Alex made a new screening version of the film which truly sparkled. I also received a sweet comment from Spike Jonze about my film. Spike also was raving about Ronald Tavel´s The Life of Juanita Castro which starred Mario Montez in the role that Mr. Tavel wrote for him but which he never had the opportunity to perform. This was a fitting tribute to Tavel who died after the first round of Live Film back in March. Ms. Montez looked ravishing in one of Susanne Sachsse´s vintage frocks and she was backed with equal elan by the great Bibbe Hansen(Beck´s mom) as Fidel Castro, Bruce La Bruce as Che´Guevara and a hilarious Diedrich Diederichsen as Raul Castro. Other principle players included Rainald Goetz, Katharina Sieverding and Susanne Sachsse.
Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz film premiera Charming For the Revolution featured the amazing Werner Hirsch aka Antonia Beard, and delightfully left the audience in a merry mood Friday. Professor Jennifer Doyle was the perfect moderaturin for the talk with the filmmakers and star after the screening. Ms. Boudry & Lorenz created a work of pure charm and seemless beauty. This style of electronic cinemas is just what we need in this new century.
The other lectures that i was able to listen to were thrilling, and not dry in the least beginning with the marvelous orator Douglas Crimp who ruminated on dancer Paul Swan and Jack Smith. The handsome Mr. Crimp carries great weight and authority when he speaks, and his soft yet manly voice kept everyone in the large auditorium space rapt. La Doyle followed with her tome Like the Weather and Flowers and Stuff-Poetry, Correspondence and Scotch Tape which brilliantly woved the politics of displacement and gentrification into the Smithian mix showing how timely Jack Smith really is, then La Doctura Jose Munoz who connected new supreme court justice Sonia Sotomayor to Smith in an elegiac way, and finally the lovesexy Juan Suarez who introduced us to a Smith sister of the clothe in the form of Brazilian artist Helio Oiticica and Tropicalism.
Thursday soared with the team of Werner Hirsch and Jakob Lena Knebl, who are like the Laurel & Hardy or Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle of the intermedia art set. I really enjoyed the playfulness of their performance and film Hamdrahm und Zerwuzeln. These stalwart drag king dandies show why drag kings have really eclipsed drag queens in the realm of queer artisanchezing.
Another performance premiere that soared was Ela Troyano and Uzi Parnes I Shot Jack Two that featured a smorgy of slide show material and films from the 80s with cameos by the divine Carmelita Tropicana and others to joyous results. The love that Ela & Uzi put into this piece vividly came through soaking the audience up with waves of double bouble.
I am exhausted from rehearsing and hungry so i will end here, and pick up tomorow with reports on the first day of Live Film and presentations by Wilhelm Hein, Tim Blue, Theatre of 8, Tim Stüttgen, Diedrich Diedersen and more Penny Arcade.
I was only able to see 30 minutes of the Andrew Kerton with Johnny Woo performance of Palla-dee-uhm so i can´t give it a proper review. I had my performance Memory Island on the big stage right after Andrew´s piece, so i had to leave early go get dressed amd into make-up, but i did like the song Andrew lip synched to that began his absurdist music hall style review. Tan Bihn Ngyuyen was designing the hair and make-up for superstar Mario Montez, so i figured i would have to do my own face beating. But luckily for me Tan Bihn had finished Mario, and was able to give me an excellent 40s style war painting sesh and let me wear one of her tres expensivo real hair wigs. I looked stunning giving Hedy LaMarr from White Cargo crossed with Judy Garland in Presenting Lilly Mars and a tad bit of Lana Turner in Johnny Eager. My costume was designed by Little Alex of Macedonia, and was perfect. The HAU 1 theatre was packed SRO and then some. I didnt know HAU 1 had two balconies, but i was told after my performance that they could barely fit the overflow in the second balcony. I got a million positive comments about Memory Island---how great it looked, and how the piece slyly commented on race and class without being dogmatic and shrill. Several Canadians didnt even recognize Baby Diaper Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras who starred in the film wearing little next to nothing but his generous endowment, and inflamed bullet nipples. Alex & Julian also looked great, and Alex made a new screening version of the film which truly sparkled. I also received a sweet comment from Spike Jonze about my film. Spike also was raving about Ronald Tavel´s The Life of Juanita Castro which starred Mario Montez in the role that Mr. Tavel wrote for him but which he never had the opportunity to perform. This was a fitting tribute to Tavel who died after the first round of Live Film back in March. Ms. Montez looked ravishing in one of Susanne Sachsse´s vintage frocks and she was backed with equal elan by the great Bibbe Hansen(Beck´s mom) as Fidel Castro, Bruce La Bruce as Che´Guevara and a hilarious Diedrich Diederichsen as Raul Castro. Other principle players included Rainald Goetz, Katharina Sieverding and Susanne Sachsse.
Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz film premiera Charming For the Revolution featured the amazing Werner Hirsch aka Antonia Beard, and delightfully left the audience in a merry mood Friday. Professor Jennifer Doyle was the perfect moderaturin for the talk with the filmmakers and star after the screening. Ms. Boudry & Lorenz created a work of pure charm and seemless beauty. This style of electronic cinemas is just what we need in this new century.
The other lectures that i was able to listen to were thrilling, and not dry in the least beginning with the marvelous orator Douglas Crimp who ruminated on dancer Paul Swan and Jack Smith. The handsome Mr. Crimp carries great weight and authority when he speaks, and his soft yet manly voice kept everyone in the large auditorium space rapt. La Doyle followed with her tome Like the Weather and Flowers and Stuff-Poetry, Correspondence and Scotch Tape which brilliantly woved the politics of displacement and gentrification into the Smithian mix showing how timely Jack Smith really is, then La Doctura Jose Munoz who connected new supreme court justice Sonia Sotomayor to Smith in an elegiac way, and finally the lovesexy Juan Suarez who introduced us to a Smith sister of the clothe in the form of Brazilian artist Helio Oiticica and Tropicalism.
Thursday soared with the team of Werner Hirsch and Jakob Lena Knebl, who are like the Laurel & Hardy or Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle of the intermedia art set. I really enjoyed the playfulness of their performance and film Hamdrahm und Zerwuzeln. These stalwart drag king dandies show why drag kings have really eclipsed drag queens in the realm of queer artisanchezing.
Another performance premiere that soared was Ela Troyano and Uzi Parnes I Shot Jack Two that featured a smorgy of slide show material and films from the 80s with cameos by the divine Carmelita Tropicana and others to joyous results. The love that Ela & Uzi put into this piece vividly came through soaking the audience up with waves of double bouble.
I am exhausted from rehearsing and hungry so i will end here, and pick up tomorow with reports on the first day of Live Film and presentations by Wilhelm Hein, Tim Blue, Theatre of 8, Tim Stüttgen, Diedrich Diedersen and more Penny Arcade.
MEHR ZUM THEMA SEX
Matchmaker, Matchmaker find me the perfect match! I can never find anyone for myself, but i´m great in creating new couples. I did my Dolly Levi thing with British academe & live artist Dom Johnson was gave an extroidinary lecture on Saturday called Glamorize Your Messes, which featured a rumination on the published and unpublished writings of Jack Smith. An electrifying love connection between Dom and young Toby, one of Marc Siegel´s students from the Free University was a Live Film festival highlight.
A very smart and thought provoking film premiere came from one of my Berlin favorites Ms. Evelyn Rüssler and her Unicorn Tabloids short. Ms. Rüssler is a sensitive artiste in the grand sense of the word, and everything from the way she speaks to moves her beautiful body is a living breathing testament to high art. I first met Evie back in 2005 and she enchanted me with her generous spirit and right on observations. If you have the opportunity to catch her work, please do. You won´t regret it.
On Saturday I saw Beatrice "Trixie" Cordua´s Real Beauty performance. Once again she used a stark light and debris strewn set to great affect. Trixie breaks all the rules in performance and is completely fearless. I think it was probably the most fearless piece in the festival.
I have to run to Bad Breast rehearsal but will return to posting a little bit later in the afternoon or early evening. I want to talk about the special performance of The Life of Juanita Castro that was done in salute to Ronald Tavel who died back in March, plus more about Mario Montez his wonderful spouse David Krasner, their humpy German escort Alex, Andrew Kerton&Johnny Woo, Douglas Crimp, Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz, & more.
Matchmaker, Matchmaker find me the perfect match! I can never find anyone for myself, but i´m great in creating new couples. I did my Dolly Levi thing with British academe & live artist Dom Johnson was gave an extroidinary lecture on Saturday called Glamorize Your Messes, which featured a rumination on the published and unpublished writings of Jack Smith. An electrifying love connection between Dom and young Toby, one of Marc Siegel´s students from the Free University was a Live Film festival highlight.
A very smart and thought provoking film premiere came from one of my Berlin favorites Ms. Evelyn Rüssler and her Unicorn Tabloids short. Ms. Rüssler is a sensitive artiste in the grand sense of the word, and everything from the way she speaks to moves her beautiful body is a living breathing testament to high art. I first met Evie back in 2005 and she enchanted me with her generous spirit and right on observations. If you have the opportunity to catch her work, please do. You won´t regret it.
On Saturday I saw Beatrice "Trixie" Cordua´s Real Beauty performance. Once again she used a stark light and debris strewn set to great affect. Trixie breaks all the rules in performance and is completely fearless. I think it was probably the most fearless piece in the festival.
I have to run to Bad Breast rehearsal but will return to posting a little bit later in the afternoon or early evening. I want to talk about the special performance of The Life of Juanita Castro that was done in salute to Ronald Tavel who died back in March, plus more about Mario Montez his wonderful spouse David Krasner, their humpy German escort Alex, Andrew Kerton&Johnny Woo, Douglas Crimp, Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz, & more.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
LIEBER SCHOKI ALS SEX
Just wanted to inform my quarter of a million love sexy readers about a hot new blog in town CLASS written by one of my juicy, young, beautiful kai kai girlyfriends Ms. Wu who lives in Los Angeles and has taken over the mantle in making my old hometown a fun place again with her MacArthur Park Live Art venue Wildness. Here is all the info so do your duty and check it out:
CLASS speaks about creativity clublife and capitalism, by a queer and trans person of color living in Los Angeles.
http://wutsang.blogspot.com/
***
I will be leaving this week for New York to take part in Rose Lee Goldberg´s Performa Biennale with an installation that opens Nov 8th at Participant Inc. Gallery on the lower east side that is part of the group show Stuart Sherman: Nothing Up My Sleeve curated by the gorgeous Jonathan Berger, and on Mon Nov 16th at Santos Party House i perform Reparations and Retardations featuring the queercore reunion of Pedro, Muriel & Esther [PME] with original members Glen Meadmore on guitar, Sneaky BigDique Pete Tomlinson on drums&percussion and Dean „The Babe“ Opseth on bass,so i won´t be here for this happening that features my art nephew Kjohnny Blue:
Hello all you art, music, performance, or good old fashioned entertainment minded people.
I am taking part in the Nacht und Nebel festival in Neukölln with a group of friends. I like to think of our piece 'FLUCT' as a living music box in my cellar. Axel Scheele (Lewinsky) and I will be making a live sound performance of guitar, cello, samples and electronics to accompany the performative installation of Karim Ben Abdelkader, Nadine Meier, and the team of Schwarzrock & Salomon.
It is on saturday the 7th starting at 9 PM and goes continually till 11:30.
Reuterstr. 47 at Lenaustr.
There are free taxis on the festival route and several other things to see in the very near vicinity. I hope to see you there.
KJohnny Blue
www.bluesoundcut.com
www.myspace.com/johnbluemusic
www.myspace.com/beatcops
*
I´ve been getting a million emails congragulating me on Memory Island, my Jack Smith Live Film piece that features Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras and Alex and Julian of Chocolate Grinder Kollective. I wasn´t happy with my performance as i had a few technical problems like the power pack on my McDonna microphone falling off while i was in the middle of a dance routine, which killed my focus. But many people told me they didn´t notice this, and felt that the combination of hot boys on film with a wacky older woman live really worked for them.
I received this emug from the great master of experimental film in Germany Wilhelm Hein:
dear vaginal,
i was so happy,that during our two hour long shooting session with mario montez through her lips came such great compliments about your performance.
its always a miracle for me, that still people are around us,who are not a part of this corrupt career system. everybody of us wants to be in the full light of fame,but only with a work,which is created by our soul and body.that is one of the big reason,why mario is still in such a good state and also looks great.
big hugs
wilhelm
O and here is my continuing overview of the 5 Flaming Days in a Rented World:
I cannot stress how exciting it was to see the work of Hans Scheirl & Ursula Pürrer Sunday that featured their super 8 shorts from the 80s including Gezacktes Rinnsal Schleicht, Sich Schamlos Schenkelnässend An, Girl Camp? Techno Punk! Zigzagged Rivulet is Shamelessly Creeping up Wetting Thighs. Plus some extra surprises featuring performance footage from their punk and post punk experimental music bands. Yowza!!!!
Christophe Chemin´s dazzling feature film Seeking Me You Sat Exhausted stars Susanne Sachsse, Brian Tennessee Claflin, Karen Suender, Jakob Suender, Ram Bahadur Bomjan and Max Vogel. I feel like Christophe should have had the film in French with no subtitles, and stuck with his first instinct of using all classical music and only the wonderful sound scapes of Steev Lemercier to fill in the gaps.
Just a little addendum---Guy Maddin´s new lovely short film was called Little White Cloud That Cried. I have my catalogue in front of me, so i can retrace my mistakes and give people proper credit and spell their names correctly. I appologize once again for yesterday´s quick no sleep blogging, but i wanted to write something and just get it out there.
Handsome fellow Canadian Deirdre Logue´s program Beyond Her Usual Limits featured short subject jewels that looked wonderful on the big screen, but were also made as art installations. East Asian German Oliver Husain´s premiera performance film Purfled Promises along with Nao Bustamante´s Silver & Gold was one of the many crowd pleasers, everyone was talking about these two films and how they exemplified the new exciting generation of Jack Smithian performance/filmmakers.
I didnt get to see that many of the Ken Jacobs films, but the ones i did were incredible. And as far as the celebrity quotient, well Live Film!Jack Smith! Was the most talked about festival to hit Berlin and broke all box office records at both HAU, Arsenal and the WAU cafe who ran out of food and liquor. Among the celebs: Fassbinder superstar Volker Spengler came to pay his respects to Mario Montez and Tony Conrad, plus Hannah Hurtzig of Mobile Akademie fame, filmmaker Spike Jonze who is making a Hollywood feature about Jack Smith, German actors Moritz Bleibtreau, Daniel Brühl& Franke Potente and so many others that i just don´t want to go into a major listing at the moment.
On Saturday i caught a bit of the conversation Investigating Atlantis featuring curator Marc Siegel and writer/musician Thomas Meinecke(FSK). I will participate in Mr. Meinecke´s Plattenspieler on Nov 28th at the HAU. Plattenspeiler is something we don´t have in the US. I had to leave Investigating Atlantis to get in line to see Penny Arcade´s Denial of Death which was a tour de force. Penny riveted the audience with the sheer power of her voice, presence and New York Moxy. I liked that she had someone acting as Jack Smith in a nifty minimal set, and the original music in the piece with its bite and texture matched her in spirit and tone. It was great seeing Penny getting her due from the adoring throngs.
I was so exhausted that i didn´t get a chance to attend the Tony Conrad & Gordon W. happening Impacted Crustacean billed as a Jack Smith Delirium, but everyone in Berlin is talking about the fellatio and cunnilingus performed live on stage.
My fingers are killing me, so i will have to end here, but i will continue later with my views on the new film Unicorn Tabloids by Evelyn Rüsseler and others.
Just wanted to inform my quarter of a million love sexy readers about a hot new blog in town CLASS written by one of my juicy, young, beautiful kai kai girlyfriends Ms. Wu who lives in Los Angeles and has taken over the mantle in making my old hometown a fun place again with her MacArthur Park Live Art venue Wildness. Here is all the info so do your duty and check it out:
CLASS speaks about creativity clublife and capitalism, by a queer and trans person of color living in Los Angeles.
http://wutsang.blogspot.com/
***
I will be leaving this week for New York to take part in Rose Lee Goldberg´s Performa Biennale with an installation that opens Nov 8th at Participant Inc. Gallery on the lower east side that is part of the group show Stuart Sherman: Nothing Up My Sleeve curated by the gorgeous Jonathan Berger, and on Mon Nov 16th at Santos Party House i perform Reparations and Retardations featuring the queercore reunion of Pedro, Muriel & Esther [PME] with original members Glen Meadmore on guitar, Sneaky BigDique Pete Tomlinson on drums&percussion and Dean „The Babe“ Opseth on bass,so i won´t be here for this happening that features my art nephew Kjohnny Blue:
Hello all you art, music, performance, or good old fashioned entertainment minded people.
I am taking part in the Nacht und Nebel festival in Neukölln with a group of friends. I like to think of our piece 'FLUCT' as a living music box in my cellar. Axel Scheele (Lewinsky) and I will be making a live sound performance of guitar, cello, samples and electronics to accompany the performative installation of Karim Ben Abdelkader, Nadine Meier, and the team of Schwarzrock & Salomon.
It is on saturday the 7th starting at 9 PM and goes continually till 11:30.
Reuterstr. 47 at Lenaustr.
There are free taxis on the festival route and several other things to see in the very near vicinity. I hope to see you there.
KJohnny Blue
www.bluesoundcut.com
www.myspace.com/johnbluemusic
www.myspace.com/beatcops
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I´ve been getting a million emails congragulating me on Memory Island, my Jack Smith Live Film piece that features Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras and Alex and Julian of Chocolate Grinder Kollective. I wasn´t happy with my performance as i had a few technical problems like the power pack on my McDonna microphone falling off while i was in the middle of a dance routine, which killed my focus. But many people told me they didn´t notice this, and felt that the combination of hot boys on film with a wacky older woman live really worked for them.
I received this emug from the great master of experimental film in Germany Wilhelm Hein:
dear vaginal,
i was so happy,that during our two hour long shooting session with mario montez through her lips came such great compliments about your performance.
its always a miracle for me, that still people are around us,who are not a part of this corrupt career system. everybody of us wants to be in the full light of fame,but only with a work,which is created by our soul and body.that is one of the big reason,why mario is still in such a good state and also looks great.
big hugs
wilhelm
O and here is my continuing overview of the 5 Flaming Days in a Rented World:
I cannot stress how exciting it was to see the work of Hans Scheirl & Ursula Pürrer Sunday that featured their super 8 shorts from the 80s including Gezacktes Rinnsal Schleicht, Sich Schamlos Schenkelnässend An, Girl Camp? Techno Punk! Zigzagged Rivulet is Shamelessly Creeping up Wetting Thighs. Plus some extra surprises featuring performance footage from their punk and post punk experimental music bands. Yowza!!!!
Christophe Chemin´s dazzling feature film Seeking Me You Sat Exhausted stars Susanne Sachsse, Brian Tennessee Claflin, Karen Suender, Jakob Suender, Ram Bahadur Bomjan and Max Vogel. I feel like Christophe should have had the film in French with no subtitles, and stuck with his first instinct of using all classical music and only the wonderful sound scapes of Steev Lemercier to fill in the gaps.
Just a little addendum---Guy Maddin´s new lovely short film was called Little White Cloud That Cried. I have my catalogue in front of me, so i can retrace my mistakes and give people proper credit and spell their names correctly. I appologize once again for yesterday´s quick no sleep blogging, but i wanted to write something and just get it out there.
Handsome fellow Canadian Deirdre Logue´s program Beyond Her Usual Limits featured short subject jewels that looked wonderful on the big screen, but were also made as art installations. East Asian German Oliver Husain´s premiera performance film Purfled Promises along with Nao Bustamante´s Silver & Gold was one of the many crowd pleasers, everyone was talking about these two films and how they exemplified the new exciting generation of Jack Smithian performance/filmmakers.
I didnt get to see that many of the Ken Jacobs films, but the ones i did were incredible. And as far as the celebrity quotient, well Live Film!Jack Smith! Was the most talked about festival to hit Berlin and broke all box office records at both HAU, Arsenal and the WAU cafe who ran out of food and liquor. Among the celebs: Fassbinder superstar Volker Spengler came to pay his respects to Mario Montez and Tony Conrad, plus Hannah Hurtzig of Mobile Akademie fame, filmmaker Spike Jonze who is making a Hollywood feature about Jack Smith, German actors Moritz Bleibtreau, Daniel Brühl& Franke Potente and so many others that i just don´t want to go into a major listing at the moment.
On Saturday i caught a bit of the conversation Investigating Atlantis featuring curator Marc Siegel and writer/musician Thomas Meinecke(FSK). I will participate in Mr. Meinecke´s Plattenspieler on Nov 28th at the HAU. Plattenspeiler is something we don´t have in the US. I had to leave Investigating Atlantis to get in line to see Penny Arcade´s Denial of Death which was a tour de force. Penny riveted the audience with the sheer power of her voice, presence and New York Moxy. I liked that she had someone acting as Jack Smith in a nifty minimal set, and the original music in the piece with its bite and texture matched her in spirit and tone. It was great seeing Penny getting her due from the adoring throngs.
I was so exhausted that i didn´t get a chance to attend the Tony Conrad & Gordon W. happening Impacted Crustacean billed as a Jack Smith Delirium, but everyone in Berlin is talking about the fellatio and cunnilingus performed live on stage.
My fingers are killing me, so i will have to end here, but i will continue later with my views on the new film Unicorn Tabloids by Evelyn Rüsseler and others.
Monday, November 02, 2009
OMMMGASMUS
I am exhausted from 5 Flaming Days in a Rented World the Live Film! Jack Smith! art festival curated by Marc Siegel & Susanne Sachsse of CHEAP and Stefanie Schulte Strathaus of Arsenal. Congrats kids you did an excellent job and you´ve shaken up Berlin to its core.
I only have a little time to write as I have rehearsals for the new Bruce "Judy" LaBruce collaboration The Bad Breast, which is loosely based on the writings of Melanie Klein. I will write more in depth as soon as i can, so please be patient with me.
The last day of the festival was jam packed. There was a premiere by Oliver Husain which featured a film and performance that was brilliantly staged and executed. Oliver was on my panel Playing Hide and Seek with Odors so i had the opportunity to watch a lot of his earlier works which have a nice playful quality to them. Oliver is both an electronic filmmaker and performer, was born in Germany with an east Asian background i believe. He now lives in Toronto and has definately been infected by the Crazy Canuck syndrome of doing wonderfully whimsical work, plus he is extremely cute and cuddly. Another out there Canadian is Diedre Logue a handsome butch filmmamker who gave up performing live. Her work is very personal and she wears her vulnerability on her sleeve which is bewitching. Ms. Logue´s output is serial in nature with juicy bits and bursts that are short, sweet and direct. I watched her DVD´s over and over again and saw something different each time. I don´t think there is anyone in the experimental film circuit doing work like this. Being the dag hag I am of course i am crushed out on Diedre who has such a commanding presense and is sincere and loving in that Candian manner i adore. She also has a very cute girlfriend named Alison, and always travels with a hot posse of pals. Also on my panel was the delirious Nao Bustamante. Her performance film Silver and Gold really captured the spirit of Jack Smith and his muse Maria Montez in such a delirious fashion. When you see this new piece from Nao get ready to be propelled into the penile world of Dominican male courtesan Portofino Rubio and his well endowed pack of pals. I shall say nothing more. Also on my panel was Isabel Spengler who premiered a new work called The Osmosis of the Unicorn which i didnt get to see as i was stuffing myself with food when it was showing, but i did see her work on DVD and its quite a collection especially the films she made in LA while getting her MFA at Cal Arts. The critics say her work is the result of being a bastard child of Annie Sprinkle and John Waters but i think she has more in common with another member of the Baltimore Five Kenny Camp, who like Kenneth Anger, John Aes-Nihil and Barry Levinson left Baltimore for Los Angeles. Kenny and Aes-Nihil are the least known of the Baltimore 5, but Isabel´s early solo and collabortive work has a Kenny Campian quality that is simply delicious.
Guy Maddin also premiered a new color film which featured some intriguing Chix with Dix in it, and was one of the most Bachanalic in the festival. Mr. Maddin is from Winnipeg Canada the home of my best girlfriend Glen Meadmore. Mr. Maddin was influenced by Glen when Glen was doing his punky performance work in Winnipeg in the late 70s. There is something very sexy in that prairie way with Mr. Guy Maddin and i feel he is definately a kindred spirit. One of the other highlights of the last Day of Live Film! Jack Smith! was a grouping of older short subjects from Austrian transgender legend Hans Sheirl and his former partner Ursula. I have been a huge fan of Hans since Shari Frilot of Sundance New Frontiers section turned me on to the groundbreaking work Dandy Dust back in the late 90s. Leave it to Austrians to be way ahead of the curve. Hans & Ursula´s work that was shown was made in the 80s but is so current that it will make you scream with joy. Sitting in the audience with me was downtown New York legend Penny Arcade who was literally on fire during her performance on Saturday. More about Penny later. Sunday ended with a discussion with special Live Guest Mario Montez with Tony Conrad that was illucidating. Ms. Montez looks incredible, and is equally a gracious grande madame. Callie Angell presented her with a Warhol Superstar Award. No one is more deserving, and she has a magnificent life partner who is warm and loving. Ms. Montez and her lover will be coming back to Berlin for a residency and may move here. Lets hope this comes true and soon. The last new premiere was Christophe Chemin´s first feature film a meditative longing that was like a Carravagio painting come to life. It looked stunning, and featured incredible performances headed by Susanne Sachsse of CHEAP. Within a Chemin work all his influences are seen in full repose, and the sexy, handsome young Frenchman has stayed close to the great traditions of experimental film. My favorite aspect of the movie was the carefully guided long shots, which is a curse in mainstream circles, but here is a blessing. The feature is actually 4 hours long. The version we were treated to was only 1 hour and 15 minutes. I would love to see all 4 hours but early in the morning in a comfy movie house after a well rested night of sleep. Sorry for all the spelling mistakes and other casualties of not having my program in front of me. I promise to make corrections when i have more time.
I am exhausted from 5 Flaming Days in a Rented World the Live Film! Jack Smith! art festival curated by Marc Siegel & Susanne Sachsse of CHEAP and Stefanie Schulte Strathaus of Arsenal. Congrats kids you did an excellent job and you´ve shaken up Berlin to its core.
I only have a little time to write as I have rehearsals for the new Bruce "Judy" LaBruce collaboration The Bad Breast, which is loosely based on the writings of Melanie Klein. I will write more in depth as soon as i can, so please be patient with me.
The last day of the festival was jam packed. There was a premiere by Oliver Husain which featured a film and performance that was brilliantly staged and executed. Oliver was on my panel Playing Hide and Seek with Odors so i had the opportunity to watch a lot of his earlier works which have a nice playful quality to them. Oliver is both an electronic filmmaker and performer, was born in Germany with an east Asian background i believe. He now lives in Toronto and has definately been infected by the Crazy Canuck syndrome of doing wonderfully whimsical work, plus he is extremely cute and cuddly. Another out there Canadian is Diedre Logue a handsome butch filmmamker who gave up performing live. Her work is very personal and she wears her vulnerability on her sleeve which is bewitching. Ms. Logue´s output is serial in nature with juicy bits and bursts that are short, sweet and direct. I watched her DVD´s over and over again and saw something different each time. I don´t think there is anyone in the experimental film circuit doing work like this. Being the dag hag I am of course i am crushed out on Diedre who has such a commanding presense and is sincere and loving in that Candian manner i adore. She also has a very cute girlfriend named Alison, and always travels with a hot posse of pals. Also on my panel was the delirious Nao Bustamante. Her performance film Silver and Gold really captured the spirit of Jack Smith and his muse Maria Montez in such a delirious fashion. When you see this new piece from Nao get ready to be propelled into the penile world of Dominican male courtesan Portofino Rubio and his well endowed pack of pals. I shall say nothing more. Also on my panel was Isabel Spengler who premiered a new work called The Osmosis of the Unicorn which i didnt get to see as i was stuffing myself with food when it was showing, but i did see her work on DVD and its quite a collection especially the films she made in LA while getting her MFA at Cal Arts. The critics say her work is the result of being a bastard child of Annie Sprinkle and John Waters but i think she has more in common with another member of the Baltimore Five Kenny Camp, who like Kenneth Anger, John Aes-Nihil and Barry Levinson left Baltimore for Los Angeles. Kenny and Aes-Nihil are the least known of the Baltimore 5, but Isabel´s early solo and collabortive work has a Kenny Campian quality that is simply delicious.
Guy Maddin also premiered a new color film which featured some intriguing Chix with Dix in it, and was one of the most Bachanalic in the festival. Mr. Maddin is from Winnipeg Canada the home of my best girlfriend Glen Meadmore. Mr. Maddin was influenced by Glen when Glen was doing his punky performance work in Winnipeg in the late 70s. There is something very sexy in that prairie way with Mr. Guy Maddin and i feel he is definately a kindred spirit. One of the other highlights of the last Day of Live Film! Jack Smith! was a grouping of older short subjects from Austrian transgender legend Hans Sheirl and his former partner Ursula. I have been a huge fan of Hans since Shari Frilot of Sundance New Frontiers section turned me on to the groundbreaking work Dandy Dust back in the late 90s. Leave it to Austrians to be way ahead of the curve. Hans & Ursula´s work that was shown was made in the 80s but is so current that it will make you scream with joy. Sitting in the audience with me was downtown New York legend Penny Arcade who was literally on fire during her performance on Saturday. More about Penny later. Sunday ended with a discussion with special Live Guest Mario Montez with Tony Conrad that was illucidating. Ms. Montez looks incredible, and is equally a gracious grande madame. Callie Angell presented her with a Warhol Superstar Award. No one is more deserving, and she has a magnificent life partner who is warm and loving. Ms. Montez and her lover will be coming back to Berlin for a residency and may move here. Lets hope this comes true and soon. The last new premiere was Christophe Chemin´s first feature film a meditative longing that was like a Carravagio painting come to life. It looked stunning, and featured incredible performances headed by Susanne Sachsse of CHEAP. Within a Chemin work all his influences are seen in full repose, and the sexy, handsome young Frenchman has stayed close to the great traditions of experimental film. My favorite aspect of the movie was the carefully guided long shots, which is a curse in mainstream circles, but here is a blessing. The feature is actually 4 hours long. The version we were treated to was only 1 hour and 15 minutes. I would love to see all 4 hours but early in the morning in a comfy movie house after a well rested night of sleep. Sorry for all the spelling mistakes and other casualties of not having my program in front of me. I promise to make corrections when i have more time.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
SO SAYETH LA VAGITHUSTHRA
Sorry I have been remiss in writing, but the lady has been battling a cold, and trying not to make it worse by exerting herself, and I am under a lot of stress with my upcoming performance for the Jack Smith!Live Film Event. Memory Island my new piece that features handsome and studly young Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras and beautiful Alex & juicy Julian of the Chocolate Grinder Kollective will premiere at HAU 1 on Friday Oct 30 at 9pm. Don´t be late! Lovely Alex designed my new gown especially for this performance and its simply gorgeous. Thank god Love Camel, Andreas Novarin is in town to help me, and keep me half sane. Everyone needs their own personal camel to get them through rough situations. I am also doing some more filming on the Hannah Hurtzig La Ronde Project and moderating a panel discussion on Sunday 5pm at the Arsenal that features Isabel Spengler, Nao Bustamente, Deidre Logue and Oliver Husein. If that isn´t enough i also start rehearsals on Bruce la Bruces´s Bad Breast theatre piece and then run off to New York for Performa Biennale. I am a walking mess, and to make matters worse its raining today. So please be patient with me.
Sorry I have been remiss in writing, but the lady has been battling a cold, and trying not to make it worse by exerting herself, and I am under a lot of stress with my upcoming performance for the Jack Smith!Live Film Event. Memory Island my new piece that features handsome and studly young Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras and beautiful Alex & juicy Julian of the Chocolate Grinder Kollective will premiere at HAU 1 on Friday Oct 30 at 9pm. Don´t be late! Lovely Alex designed my new gown especially for this performance and its simply gorgeous. Thank god Love Camel, Andreas Novarin is in town to help me, and keep me half sane. Everyone needs their own personal camel to get them through rough situations. I am also doing some more filming on the Hannah Hurtzig La Ronde Project and moderating a panel discussion on Sunday 5pm at the Arsenal that features Isabel Spengler, Nao Bustamente, Deidre Logue and Oliver Husein. If that isn´t enough i also start rehearsals on Bruce la Bruces´s Bad Breast theatre piece and then run off to New York for Performa Biennale. I am a walking mess, and to make matters worse its raining today. So please be patient with me.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
GLUCK UND WOHL BEFINDEN
LA punk rock legend Brendan Mullen died age 60 this week of a massive stroke while on holiday with his beautiful long term companion Ms. Kateri Butler. Brendan ran the famed punk rock club The Masque that was situated in a basement below the Pussycat Theatre on Hollywood Blvd. The entire building is owned now by the TV and film production offices of World of Wonder. The Masque looks the same as it did in its 70s heydey and should remain that way as a shrine.
I´ve known Brendan for what seems like centuries. I never performed at the Masque, but i did perform many times at Club Lingerie, the niteclub that he booked from the mid 80s to early 90s. Brendan was also my house DJ for the performance art boutique GIMP UnLtd that i curated with Ron Athey from 1999-2000. Brendan also guest DJ´d many times at Club Sucker at the Garage and at the first Platinum Oasis endurance art festival at the Coral Sands Motel that i also co-curated with Mz. Athey. Brendan was also one of the artists to create an installation for the 2002 edition of Platinum Oasis. Brendan and Kateri Butler were a hot love-sexy power couple. I worked with Kateri who was my managing editor at the LA Weekly for many years, and she and Brendan were family. An event wasn´t really complete without them. Mr. Mullen´s sense of humour was notoriously gallows. We both didn´t suffer fools, and whenever we would get together the hooting, hollering and gossiping would not stop, plus riotous giggling like two teenage school girls. Brendan also managed the yearly LA Weekly Music Awards ceremony, and DJ´d many entertainment industry events like the Emmy´s and Grammy parties. His writings on the punk scene was clear and sharp. I will miss that mischieveous twinkle in his eye, and its very difficult to lose someone you loved dearly, and admired so.
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Jason Segal the cute young comic actor gave me a surprise phone call. Jason was a semi regular at my Bricktops at the Parlour club. He is one tall young man standing 6´4" and has a Jewish father and Christian mother. He looks very Jewish, and so being that I am a fierce Hava Nagila queen he always has a place in my foolish heart. Jason grew up priveledged in Pacific Palisades, but is not like you would expect him to be. I do have this natural disdain for people who come from wealthy backgrounds. When i first met Mr. Segal i didn´t know he was an actor. He had appeared on the unsuccessful TV show Freak and Geeks in the states, that now has a cult following because it produced the very successful director Judd Apetow, and actors Seth Rogan and James Franco. I have never seen this program.
Jason is somewhat obsessed with me, but in a good way. I think he has a little sugar in his tank, and doesn´t know what to do with it. Usually i get these nutty emails asking my opinion on stupid things like his film career. I have only seen one of his movies, a pic co-starring another cuddly Jew named Paul Rudd. I don´t remember the title of this flick, it had something to do with a bromance, and was amusing, Jason and Paul were very appealing in it. Jason also appears in a current TV sitcom I have never seen. I guess reality TV shows havent completely taken over yet.
Also got a surprise long distance phone call from my best girlfriend Glen Meadmore. Glen and his christian cuntry band had some big successes on a recent tour of Europe. Ms. Meadmore is a mega talent, and I am so glad she is getting recognition and appreciation. Can´t wait to reunite with her, Dean the babe Opseth, and Big Dicque Sneaky Pete Tomlinson in New York on November 16th at Santos Party House for a special performance as part of the 2009 Performa Biennale.
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In political news here in Germany this fugly uber tired openly gay politician named Guido Westerwelle who use to be the head of the FDP has joined in a coalition with the divinely beautiful Chancellor Angie Merkel and is now the new Finance Minister. This guy is really creepy. A lot of German faggots are super right wing and fascistic, they make Log Cabin Republicans look downright liberal in comparison. Old Guido with his Italian first name, which is really weird because he is so nationalistic is 47 years old, but looks and acts stiffer then any 77 year old spinster. I can´t imagine what his life partner is like, and I don´t want to. Major yuck appeal.
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Was treated to a lovely business luncheon with Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus of the Arsenal Institute für Film und Videokunst. Looks like there may be an Arsenal Annex located on Potsdamer Strasse which is down the street from where I live in the Rote Insel section of Schoneberg. Wowza if this happens, as that could be a magnfi development. A lot of Mitte galleries are moving to Potsdamer Strasse as the rents are cheaper. It was also nice to hang with the Arsenal Experimentale crew of Nanna Heidenreich, Uli Ziemons, Nadja Talmi and Garret one of the sweet Arsenal Kasse girls.
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Last night i DJ´d along with Sheila Chipperfield of Elastica at the opening of Phoenix Radio art exhibit at Kunstraum Bethanien. It was a fantastic show of young Berlin queer artists, and I will give a full report a little bit later. Tonight i am part of a group show that opens at the St. Montgomery Gallery space in Wedding - 13 Pankstr. Drop by if you can. I think it begins at 8pm or so.
LA punk rock legend Brendan Mullen died age 60 this week of a massive stroke while on holiday with his beautiful long term companion Ms. Kateri Butler. Brendan ran the famed punk rock club The Masque that was situated in a basement below the Pussycat Theatre on Hollywood Blvd. The entire building is owned now by the TV and film production offices of World of Wonder. The Masque looks the same as it did in its 70s heydey and should remain that way as a shrine.
I´ve known Brendan for what seems like centuries. I never performed at the Masque, but i did perform many times at Club Lingerie, the niteclub that he booked from the mid 80s to early 90s. Brendan was also my house DJ for the performance art boutique GIMP UnLtd that i curated with Ron Athey from 1999-2000. Brendan also guest DJ´d many times at Club Sucker at the Garage and at the first Platinum Oasis endurance art festival at the Coral Sands Motel that i also co-curated with Mz. Athey. Brendan was also one of the artists to create an installation for the 2002 edition of Platinum Oasis. Brendan and Kateri Butler were a hot love-sexy power couple. I worked with Kateri who was my managing editor at the LA Weekly for many years, and she and Brendan were family. An event wasn´t really complete without them. Mr. Mullen´s sense of humour was notoriously gallows. We both didn´t suffer fools, and whenever we would get together the hooting, hollering and gossiping would not stop, plus riotous giggling like two teenage school girls. Brendan also managed the yearly LA Weekly Music Awards ceremony, and DJ´d many entertainment industry events like the Emmy´s and Grammy parties. His writings on the punk scene was clear and sharp. I will miss that mischieveous twinkle in his eye, and its very difficult to lose someone you loved dearly, and admired so.
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Jason Segal the cute young comic actor gave me a surprise phone call. Jason was a semi regular at my Bricktops at the Parlour club. He is one tall young man standing 6´4" and has a Jewish father and Christian mother. He looks very Jewish, and so being that I am a fierce Hava Nagila queen he always has a place in my foolish heart. Jason grew up priveledged in Pacific Palisades, but is not like you would expect him to be. I do have this natural disdain for people who come from wealthy backgrounds. When i first met Mr. Segal i didn´t know he was an actor. He had appeared on the unsuccessful TV show Freak and Geeks in the states, that now has a cult following because it produced the very successful director Judd Apetow, and actors Seth Rogan and James Franco. I have never seen this program.
Jason is somewhat obsessed with me, but in a good way. I think he has a little sugar in his tank, and doesn´t know what to do with it. Usually i get these nutty emails asking my opinion on stupid things like his film career. I have only seen one of his movies, a pic co-starring another cuddly Jew named Paul Rudd. I don´t remember the title of this flick, it had something to do with a bromance, and was amusing, Jason and Paul were very appealing in it. Jason also appears in a current TV sitcom I have never seen. I guess reality TV shows havent completely taken over yet.
Also got a surprise long distance phone call from my best girlfriend Glen Meadmore. Glen and his christian cuntry band had some big successes on a recent tour of Europe. Ms. Meadmore is a mega talent, and I am so glad she is getting recognition and appreciation. Can´t wait to reunite with her, Dean the babe Opseth, and Big Dicque Sneaky Pete Tomlinson in New York on November 16th at Santos Party House for a special performance as part of the 2009 Performa Biennale.
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In political news here in Germany this fugly uber tired openly gay politician named Guido Westerwelle who use to be the head of the FDP has joined in a coalition with the divinely beautiful Chancellor Angie Merkel and is now the new Finance Minister. This guy is really creepy. A lot of German faggots are super right wing and fascistic, they make Log Cabin Republicans look downright liberal in comparison. Old Guido with his Italian first name, which is really weird because he is so nationalistic is 47 years old, but looks and acts stiffer then any 77 year old spinster. I can´t imagine what his life partner is like, and I don´t want to. Major yuck appeal.
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Was treated to a lovely business luncheon with Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus of the Arsenal Institute für Film und Videokunst. Looks like there may be an Arsenal Annex located on Potsdamer Strasse which is down the street from where I live in the Rote Insel section of Schoneberg. Wowza if this happens, as that could be a magnfi development. A lot of Mitte galleries are moving to Potsdamer Strasse as the rents are cheaper. It was also nice to hang with the Arsenal Experimentale crew of Nanna Heidenreich, Uli Ziemons, Nadja Talmi and Garret one of the sweet Arsenal Kasse girls.
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Last night i DJ´d along with Sheila Chipperfield of Elastica at the opening of Phoenix Radio art exhibit at Kunstraum Bethanien. It was a fantastic show of young Berlin queer artists, and I will give a full report a little bit later. Tonight i am part of a group show that opens at the St. Montgomery Gallery space in Wedding - 13 Pankstr. Drop by if you can. I think it begins at 8pm or so.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
DIESES OBSKURE OBJECT DER BEGIERDE
Sunday the doll was treated to high tea with rum and dainties by two of my former Weissensee art students Lydia Hamann and Jenny „Cyber Cashy“ Hauke at the Bierhimmel in Kreuzberg. Lydia & Jenny are wonderfully talented pretty girls with a very bright future ahead of them. They will have a big exhibition called Phoenix Radio-Politik Queer Feministischer Räume that opens Friday October 16th 7pm at Projectraum 1 Kunstraum Bethanien, Raumerweiterrungshalle Mariannenplatz 2. I will be VandDJaning in the exhibition space from about 9pm to midnight along with super lovesexy British DJane Sheila Chipperfield from Elastica. So stop by and say Hi while we are doing our spinderella thing behind the wheels of steel.
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You are in for a treat. Today I begin a new feature with Speaking From the Diaphragm blog. Yes a special re-occuring series called The Loves of Danithy, 1919. Its almost like the Pearl White serial from the early days of cinema substituting Daniel “Haji” Hendrickson, the Scandanavian Muslim for Ms. White. Herr Hendrickson is one of the most fascinating Ex-Pat flaming creatures living in Berlina. He can speak fluently100 different tongues including Polish, Turkish and Korean and possesses the largest English language library in all Brandenburg. Besides being a founding member of the well respected CHEAP art collective Danny is known as the translator to the stars collaborating with an international array of publishing houses, renown academics, and the world famous Berlina Film Festival. On a personal note he has been lovers for almost 10 years with hunky, young Italian fashion designer Piero Bellomo. Danny is a jackhammer power top who sends his lover to the hospital for repairs everytime they fornicate.
The Loves of Danithy-Part One
One of his major loves is Canto pop, or Cantonese pop music. And when it comes to Canto pop there is no bigger star then Grace Chang, the heroine to Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming Liang. Canto pop music stars are also movie stars, and this has been true from the 1950s to the present day. Leslie Chung, Tony Leung and Anita Mui, who died around the same time that tragic Leslie Chung died was one of the most famous of the singer/film stars of Canto pop.
Danithy´s alltime favourite however is the unbelievably beautiful Edmund Leung, who is a real musicians musician in that he writes his own songs and isn´t just an overly hyped Taiwanese mega product. Danithy also adores Edmund for not shying away from using overt homosexual imagery in his rock videos, many of which reference the films of Wong Kar Wai, like Happy Together and Days of Being Wild. Because of the Chinese Mafia cartel, the Hong Kong film industry has been in crisis for the last ten years or so. The heydays of the 80s and 90s with stars like Michele Yeoh and director John Woo are way OVAH with a capital Oh!
Well that’s it from Danithy for now, but when he returns to this blog expect a some timely info on Turkish pop music with a mini profile of Turkish Ganymede stars Zeki Müren, the Turkish Liberace and teen idol Tarkan.
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Got an email from director Spike Jonze of the films Adaptation, Being John Malkovich and the upcoming Where The Wild Things Are. Spike who is the heir to the Speigel Catalogue fortune is coming to Berlin to see the Live Film!Jack Smith! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World Art Festival. I guess Mr. Jonze is going to make a Hollywood movie about Jack Smith. For those of you who have been reading my blog since the 1990s, then you know that I have known Spike Jonze before he was a famous film auteur. He use to be just a nerdy queer boy going to see my performances at Jeffreyland Hilberts LA clubs Trade, Sit & Spin and Hai Karate and hanging out at my HAG Gallery. In fact he was the editor of Dirty Magazine, the boy version of the teen girl glossy Sassy. The magazine didn´t last very long but Spike courted me to write for it, and also was involved in a relationship with a muscular wannabe singer named ”K” who later was signed to the vanity record label of Elton John. Spike works with KK Barrett as his art director for movies, and KK use to be in the legendary LA punk band The Screamers with Tomato du Plenty and Tommy Gear. See how Vaginal Davis connects all the purported dots.
Sunday the doll was treated to high tea with rum and dainties by two of my former Weissensee art students Lydia Hamann and Jenny „Cyber Cashy“ Hauke at the Bierhimmel in Kreuzberg. Lydia & Jenny are wonderfully talented pretty girls with a very bright future ahead of them. They will have a big exhibition called Phoenix Radio-Politik Queer Feministischer Räume that opens Friday October 16th 7pm at Projectraum 1 Kunstraum Bethanien, Raumerweiterrungshalle Mariannenplatz 2. I will be VandDJaning in the exhibition space from about 9pm to midnight along with super lovesexy British DJane Sheila Chipperfield from Elastica. So stop by and say Hi while we are doing our spinderella thing behind the wheels of steel.
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You are in for a treat. Today I begin a new feature with Speaking From the Diaphragm blog. Yes a special re-occuring series called The Loves of Danithy, 1919. Its almost like the Pearl White serial from the early days of cinema substituting Daniel “Haji” Hendrickson, the Scandanavian Muslim for Ms. White. Herr Hendrickson is one of the most fascinating Ex-Pat flaming creatures living in Berlina. He can speak fluently100 different tongues including Polish, Turkish and Korean and possesses the largest English language library in all Brandenburg. Besides being a founding member of the well respected CHEAP art collective Danny is known as the translator to the stars collaborating with an international array of publishing houses, renown academics, and the world famous Berlina Film Festival. On a personal note he has been lovers for almost 10 years with hunky, young Italian fashion designer Piero Bellomo. Danny is a jackhammer power top who sends his lover to the hospital for repairs everytime they fornicate.
The Loves of Danithy-Part One
One of his major loves is Canto pop, or Cantonese pop music. And when it comes to Canto pop there is no bigger star then Grace Chang, the heroine to Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming Liang. Canto pop music stars are also movie stars, and this has been true from the 1950s to the present day. Leslie Chung, Tony Leung and Anita Mui, who died around the same time that tragic Leslie Chung died was one of the most famous of the singer/film stars of Canto pop.
Danithy´s alltime favourite however is the unbelievably beautiful Edmund Leung, who is a real musicians musician in that he writes his own songs and isn´t just an overly hyped Taiwanese mega product. Danithy also adores Edmund for not shying away from using overt homosexual imagery in his rock videos, many of which reference the films of Wong Kar Wai, like Happy Together and Days of Being Wild. Because of the Chinese Mafia cartel, the Hong Kong film industry has been in crisis for the last ten years or so. The heydays of the 80s and 90s with stars like Michele Yeoh and director John Woo are way OVAH with a capital Oh!
Well that’s it from Danithy for now, but when he returns to this blog expect a some timely info on Turkish pop music with a mini profile of Turkish Ganymede stars Zeki Müren, the Turkish Liberace and teen idol Tarkan.
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Got an email from director Spike Jonze of the films Adaptation, Being John Malkovich and the upcoming Where The Wild Things Are. Spike who is the heir to the Speigel Catalogue fortune is coming to Berlin to see the Live Film!Jack Smith! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World Art Festival. I guess Mr. Jonze is going to make a Hollywood movie about Jack Smith. For those of you who have been reading my blog since the 1990s, then you know that I have known Spike Jonze before he was a famous film auteur. He use to be just a nerdy queer boy going to see my performances at Jeffreyland Hilberts LA clubs Trade, Sit & Spin and Hai Karate and hanging out at my HAG Gallery. In fact he was the editor of Dirty Magazine, the boy version of the teen girl glossy Sassy. The magazine didn´t last very long but Spike courted me to write for it, and also was involved in a relationship with a muscular wannabe singer named ”K” who later was signed to the vanity record label of Elton John. Spike works with KK Barrett as his art director for movies, and KK use to be in the legendary LA punk band The Screamers with Tomato du Plenty and Tommy Gear. See how Vaginal Davis connects all the purported dots.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
TAGEBUCH EINER KAMMERZOFE
Filming Saturday at the Haus de Kulturen de Welt for Hannah Hurtzigs invigorating version of La Ronde. For this project the head of the circle revolves around intermedia couple Susanne Sachsse & Marc Siegel, and the intimate cosmos that surrounds them, from the Cheap Kollective members Daniel Hendrickson, and Tim Blue to pretty Stefanie Schulte Strathaus the leader of programming & curating at the Arsenal Institute für Film und Videokunst, legends Zazie de Paris & experimental film master Wilhelm Hein, Israeli art star Keren Cyter, interdisciplinary studkin Christophe Chemin, make-up dynamo Tan Bihn Nguyen and la Sachsse´s beautiful, charming 16 year old son Richard Gabriel Gersh who I had the pleasure of sharing a wonderful insightful discourse on friendship. Young Mr. Gersh relayed to me how he is missing his adorable best boy friend Jakob, who is living in Washington Sttate as an exchange student in a very small town. Jakob´s new American family are religious fundamentalists who listen to Christian music 24/7. I have known Richard and his amazing twin sister Salome since they were six years old, which makes me like their unofficial black grandmother. All of their friends are fresh faced and personable teenagers. When Jakob is in Berlin he pretty much lives at their Prenzlaurberg compound and is completely part of the extended family of close friends and associates. I couldn’t help but start thinking about when I was a teen, so many hundreds of years ago. I lived in my own crazy universe, and was a bit of a loner to say the least. I even turned my Barbie dolls into punk rock vixens dressing them in tiny versions of Betsy Johnson and Claude Montana outfits. I wish I had a super best friend like Jakob. Come to think of it I do in Love Camel aka: Andrea Novarin who lives in London and is completely devoted to the Doll. I am not as good of a friend as Richard is to Jacob. I treat the poor Love Camel horribly and I am always taking him for granted. I guess its human nature to always hurt the ones you love the most. Excuse me a moment while I cry.
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After a day of filming I went back to the Sachsse fortress to eat and relax and got to watch MTV´s tired dating show Next with Richard and Marcu. Next was mildly amusing. I´m certainly not missing anything by not having a television or cable.
It starts to pour liquor rain while on our way to Exile Gallery to see the Jack Smith: Cologne, 1974 opening featuring a film by Brigit Hein and photographs by Gwenn Thomas. This gallery exhibition is the first happening that is part of the larger Live Film!Jack Smith! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World eventa. Seen sniffing about the gallery: British artist Andrew Kerton, Ludwig Schönherr and his prima ballerina wife Trixie, Wilhelm Hein & Annette Frick, Anna Muelter & Nadja Talmi, Nanna Heidenreich, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Uli Ziemons, Michael Bryntrup, hunky South Afrikan Adrian, Christian Siekmieir and his ginger beau, actor Daniel Brühl who I just found out lives on Hufaland Str, the same street where la Sachsse and Herr Siegel reside, Tim Blue, Daniel Hendrickson, sexy Italian clothing designer Piero Bellomo of La Collezionne, silver foxxx Weiland Speck of the Berlinale´s Panorama Section, The Chocolate Grinder boys: Little Alex, Juicy Julian, Elektra! Tasty Tim and his super model girlfriend, director Francesco Scianna with English Live Artist Richard Hancock, Liz, Gunnar and their youthful Kz.Kölln posse.
Filming Saturday at the Haus de Kulturen de Welt for Hannah Hurtzigs invigorating version of La Ronde. For this project the head of the circle revolves around intermedia couple Susanne Sachsse & Marc Siegel, and the intimate cosmos that surrounds them, from the Cheap Kollective members Daniel Hendrickson, and Tim Blue to pretty Stefanie Schulte Strathaus the leader of programming & curating at the Arsenal Institute für Film und Videokunst, legends Zazie de Paris & experimental film master Wilhelm Hein, Israeli art star Keren Cyter, interdisciplinary studkin Christophe Chemin, make-up dynamo Tan Bihn Nguyen and la Sachsse´s beautiful, charming 16 year old son Richard Gabriel Gersh who I had the pleasure of sharing a wonderful insightful discourse on friendship. Young Mr. Gersh relayed to me how he is missing his adorable best boy friend Jakob, who is living in Washington Sttate as an exchange student in a very small town. Jakob´s new American family are religious fundamentalists who listen to Christian music 24/7. I have known Richard and his amazing twin sister Salome since they were six years old, which makes me like their unofficial black grandmother. All of their friends are fresh faced and personable teenagers. When Jakob is in Berlin he pretty much lives at their Prenzlaurberg compound and is completely part of the extended family of close friends and associates. I couldn’t help but start thinking about when I was a teen, so many hundreds of years ago. I lived in my own crazy universe, and was a bit of a loner to say the least. I even turned my Barbie dolls into punk rock vixens dressing them in tiny versions of Betsy Johnson and Claude Montana outfits. I wish I had a super best friend like Jakob. Come to think of it I do in Love Camel aka: Andrea Novarin who lives in London and is completely devoted to the Doll. I am not as good of a friend as Richard is to Jacob. I treat the poor Love Camel horribly and I am always taking him for granted. I guess its human nature to always hurt the ones you love the most. Excuse me a moment while I cry.
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After a day of filming I went back to the Sachsse fortress to eat and relax and got to watch MTV´s tired dating show Next with Richard and Marcu. Next was mildly amusing. I´m certainly not missing anything by not having a television or cable.
It starts to pour liquor rain while on our way to Exile Gallery to see the Jack Smith: Cologne, 1974 opening featuring a film by Brigit Hein and photographs by Gwenn Thomas. This gallery exhibition is the first happening that is part of the larger Live Film!Jack Smith! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World eventa. Seen sniffing about the gallery: British artist Andrew Kerton, Ludwig Schönherr and his prima ballerina wife Trixie, Wilhelm Hein & Annette Frick, Anna Muelter & Nadja Talmi, Nanna Heidenreich, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Uli Ziemons, Michael Bryntrup, hunky South Afrikan Adrian, Christian Siekmieir and his ginger beau, actor Daniel Brühl who I just found out lives on Hufaland Str, the same street where la Sachsse and Herr Siegel reside, Tim Blue, Daniel Hendrickson, sexy Italian clothing designer Piero Bellomo of La Collezionne, silver foxxx Weiland Speck of the Berlinale´s Panorama Section, The Chocolate Grinder boys: Little Alex, Juicy Julian, Elektra! Tasty Tim and his super model girlfriend, director Francesco Scianna with English Live Artist Richard Hancock, Liz, Gunnar and their youthful Kz.Kölln posse.
Thursday, October 08, 2009
DER DISKRETE CHARME DER BOURGEOISIE
Dinners, Dinners and Luncheons, Luncheons! Scumpteous feast of roast duckling at Wilhelm Hein´s studio on Kopenhagener Str in Prenzlauberg, prepared with much love by his gifted art photographer girlfriend Annette Frick. Joining forces at the Hein table the young and vivacious artists Julia Pfeifer and Rosaline Rannoch who run the art space Montgomery in Wedding. There was a strong whiff in the air that Herr Hein´s new neighbour might make a special guest starring appearance during desert. The neighbour in question is gorgeous Ossip, the radiantly youthful son of artist Katharina Sieverding and photographer Gwenn Thomas. Mr. Thomas along with Birgit Hein have an opening at Exile Gallery Saturday Oct 10th 7-10pm that is part of the Live Film! Jack Smith! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World festival, curated by Susanne Sachsse, Marc Siegel and Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus. My film and performance “Memory Island” that features Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras and the Chocolate Grinder Kollective boys premieres Oct 30th at HAU at 9pm. So don’t forget to mark your calendar.
Monday lovesexy Yusuf Etiman, the art guru of Basso in Kruezberg held an intimate supper at his amazing Leipziger Str penthouse compound that has some of the most devastingly beautiful views of Berlina. The menu consisted of pototo leak soup, lamb stew with quince and a semen lovelle desert---divine! Seated at the Turkish prince´s rectangular table Brazillian art star Eli Sudbrack of Assume Vivid Astro Focus, flanked by a handsome South African and a manlische ash blonde German. I didn´t realize that the wonderful Mr. Astro Focus has been living in Berlin for over a year. I guess I sometimes live in my own bubble.
Was treated to a power lunch at WAU Café by the delightful Hannah Hurtzig the curator and creator of the famous Mobile Akademy and Black Market projects. Hannah was looking stunning in a post modern sailor suit that she picked up while in Israel. I wish I had her boundless energy and enthusiasm, she must do yoga to keep such a tantalizing spirit and zest.
This Saturday morning I will take part in Frau Hurtzig´s latest vision an omnibus recycling of Artur Schnitzler´s La Ronde (Reigen in German) which i think she is calling Shadow Cinemic and will feature Susanne Sachsse, Marc Siegel, Diedrich Diedrickson, Daniel Hendrickson, Tan Bihn Nguyin, Christophe Chermin, Richard Gershe and others. Should be spectacular.
The Australian spoken word charmer Lady Gaby who has lived in Berlin for decades is always doing something playful and alluring. Lady Gaby and I were in the play Daddy a few months back, and she was marvy in it as a cult leaders wife. Got a cute emug from her about some upcoming events, but alas my server was done for a few days so I wasn´t able to do any updates, so make sure you go to her website at www.LadyGaby.awardspace.com to find out the latest with her. She also operates a Kreuzberg salon called The Wonder Bar. Gotta run off to a rehearsal and then to the Arsenal Institüt für Film und VideoKunst to see their Syrian program. Ta!
Dinners, Dinners and Luncheons, Luncheons! Scumpteous feast of roast duckling at Wilhelm Hein´s studio on Kopenhagener Str in Prenzlauberg, prepared with much love by his gifted art photographer girlfriend Annette Frick. Joining forces at the Hein table the young and vivacious artists Julia Pfeifer and Rosaline Rannoch who run the art space Montgomery in Wedding. There was a strong whiff in the air that Herr Hein´s new neighbour might make a special guest starring appearance during desert. The neighbour in question is gorgeous Ossip, the radiantly youthful son of artist Katharina Sieverding and photographer Gwenn Thomas. Mr. Thomas along with Birgit Hein have an opening at Exile Gallery Saturday Oct 10th 7-10pm that is part of the Live Film! Jack Smith! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World festival, curated by Susanne Sachsse, Marc Siegel and Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus. My film and performance “Memory Island” that features Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras and the Chocolate Grinder Kollective boys premieres Oct 30th at HAU at 9pm. So don’t forget to mark your calendar.
Monday lovesexy Yusuf Etiman, the art guru of Basso in Kruezberg held an intimate supper at his amazing Leipziger Str penthouse compound that has some of the most devastingly beautiful views of Berlina. The menu consisted of pototo leak soup, lamb stew with quince and a semen lovelle desert---divine! Seated at the Turkish prince´s rectangular table Brazillian art star Eli Sudbrack of Assume Vivid Astro Focus, flanked by a handsome South African and a manlische ash blonde German. I didn´t realize that the wonderful Mr. Astro Focus has been living in Berlin for over a year. I guess I sometimes live in my own bubble.
Was treated to a power lunch at WAU Café by the delightful Hannah Hurtzig the curator and creator of the famous Mobile Akademy and Black Market projects. Hannah was looking stunning in a post modern sailor suit that she picked up while in Israel. I wish I had her boundless energy and enthusiasm, she must do yoga to keep such a tantalizing spirit and zest.
This Saturday morning I will take part in Frau Hurtzig´s latest vision an omnibus recycling of Artur Schnitzler´s La Ronde (Reigen in German) which i think she is calling Shadow Cinemic and will feature Susanne Sachsse, Marc Siegel, Diedrich Diedrickson, Daniel Hendrickson, Tan Bihn Nguyin, Christophe Chermin, Richard Gershe and others. Should be spectacular.
The Australian spoken word charmer Lady Gaby who has lived in Berlin for decades is always doing something playful and alluring. Lady Gaby and I were in the play Daddy a few months back, and she was marvy in it as a cult leaders wife. Got a cute emug from her about some upcoming events, but alas my server was done for a few days so I wasn´t able to do any updates, so make sure you go to her website at www.LadyGaby.awardspace.com to find out the latest with her. She also operates a Kreuzberg salon called The Wonder Bar. Gotta run off to a rehearsal and then to the Arsenal Institüt für Film und VideoKunst to see their Syrian program. Ta!
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
MANSFIELD JURASAIC PARC
Got a nutty email from the musician Pete Yorn the other day. I haven´t heard from him since we had our extremely brief fling years ago. At the time he said I made him feel too sexually ambiguous so he opted for a more sensible temporary contemporary pairing with Winona Ryder. Of course that didn´t work either as she is the most self-absorbed person on the planet, but with perky large breasts. I can only gather that Mr. Yorn wants me to write something positive in this very blog about some new album he´s recorded with the Hollywood starlet Scarlette Johansen. I know i havent been living in the states for years now, but when did Scarlette Harlot become a singer? All i can say is that they must be coughing up some scary hairy eyeballs------i like lil Ms. Johansen, she is quite the sweet top heavy ingenue.
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The black artist Kalup Linzy Lohan breezed through town as part of Art Forum Berlin, doing a performance at the KW. I was busy in the editing studio working on my film Memory Island for the Jack Smith Live Film event so i wasn´t able to go see the show. But the brilliant and lovely art photog Annette Frick was there and here are her comments:
We were visiting the performance of Kalup Linzy at KW but I tell you, it is no real concurrence as some people tell.You have much more filling Aura and stage presence,but he is not bad,(better than most of the bullshit we see) he is this kind of postpopmainstream gender-art performance which is hip now,and he is o.k. But you are another dimension and to stay this dimension you have to concentrate always on your specifics-dirty and sweet, elegant and punky,but always with content in your voices, and also this gospelig chanting which you are able to do and the whispering strange thing too a queen, and stays unique MISS DAVIS REMEMBER THAT ALWAYS and by the way You were the first performing queen at the KW and I think they wanted to repeat this a bit, but just more arty more proper than our crazy evening. stay shining and disturbing,crying and singing.
Annette will also be part of a program of women video artists this Sunday October 4th at Arsenal Institute für Film und Video Kunst.Seit 10 Jahren präsentieren wir die Ergebnisse des Bereichs Film des
Künstlerinnenprogramms der Berliner Kulturverwaltung. Wie jedes Jahr
bietet das Ergebnis Experimentelles, Strukturelles, Narratives und
Dokumentarisches -- vor allem fallen die Grenzbereiche ins Auge, die
Unerwartetes hervorbringen.
VATER, MUTTER, WAS SOLL ICH HEUTE FILMEN? heißt eine neue konzeptionelle
Arbeit von Isabell Spengler, EINE FLEXIBLE FRAU ein Filmprojekt von
Tatjana Turanskyj und LEICHT MUSS MAN SEIN FLIEGEN MUSS MAN KÖNNEN, ein
Dokumentarfilm von Annette Frick. Die drei Titel kennzeichnen einen
Diskurs: Innovationszwang und die Forderung nach Flexibilität verdrängen
den Raum für Utopie. Mediale und ökonomische Bedingungen lassen die Rolle
der Künstlerin und der Kuratorin immer mehr verschmelzen. Daher fördert
das Künstlerinnenprogramm nicht nur die Produktion, sondern auch ihre
Präsentation im Kino, in der Ausstellung, als DVD oder als Buch.
*Attched das kommentierte Filmprogramm zum Künstlerinnenprogramm 2009 *
*Für weitere Informationen:*
Christine Sievers | Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
030 269 55 143 oder *cs@arsenal-berlin.de*
Kino Arsenal 1 & 2 | Potsdamer Straße 2 | 10785 Berlin |
*www.arsenal-berlin.de*
One of these days i have to check out Mz. Linzy Lohan as I have been hearing many people say that she is Baby Vaginal Davis. From what I have seen of her, we look nothing alike.
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I am so glad the German elections are over. I was so sick of looking at those giant fugly political posters everytime i went cruising through the Tiergarten. The Vivacious Angie Merkel gets her dream of dreams, and the pro business Free Democrats will be the junior party in Germany´s federal coalition. Mrs. Merkel wins another term, and frees herself from the constraints of a partnership with the center left. It also looks as if the Green Party has made some political gains. I like the Greens, but they seem just a little too hippy dippy for this lady.
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Editing Memory Island with my gorgeous Chocolate Grinder boys little Alex and Julian was a lot of work, but filled with joy. When we took a lunch break Sunday we ran into actor Daniel Brühl(Inglorious Basterds) who is a lot cuter in person. He must have some major sugar in his tank, as he really heavily cruised my two youthful companions. I couldn´t tell if the guy Herr Brühl was with is just a friend or paramour. Our editing facility was in the Kolwitzplatz area of Prenzlaurberg so there were lots of spessig heteronormativs floating about with their giant SUV baby strollers.
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Congrats to my pal, actress Zooey Deschanel who just got hitched to lovesexy singer Ben Gibbard of dull indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie. I wonder if their marriage is going to be a post modern one, where Mr. Gibbard´s super hot boyfriend will be part of their nuptial bliss.
Got a nutty email from the musician Pete Yorn the other day. I haven´t heard from him since we had our extremely brief fling years ago. At the time he said I made him feel too sexually ambiguous so he opted for a more sensible temporary contemporary pairing with Winona Ryder. Of course that didn´t work either as she is the most self-absorbed person on the planet, but with perky large breasts. I can only gather that Mr. Yorn wants me to write something positive in this very blog about some new album he´s recorded with the Hollywood starlet Scarlette Johansen. I know i havent been living in the states for years now, but when did Scarlette Harlot become a singer? All i can say is that they must be coughing up some scary hairy eyeballs------i like lil Ms. Johansen, she is quite the sweet top heavy ingenue.
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The black artist Kalup Linzy Lohan breezed through town as part of Art Forum Berlin, doing a performance at the KW. I was busy in the editing studio working on my film Memory Island for the Jack Smith Live Film event so i wasn´t able to go see the show. But the brilliant and lovely art photog Annette Frick was there and here are her comments:
We were visiting the performance of Kalup Linzy at KW but I tell you, it is no real concurrence as some people tell.You have much more filling Aura and stage presence,but he is not bad,(better than most of the bullshit we see) he is this kind of postpopmainstream gender-art performance which is hip now,and he is o.k. But you are another dimension and to stay this dimension you have to concentrate always on your specifics-dirty and sweet, elegant and punky,but always with content in your voices, and also this gospelig chanting which you are able to do and the whispering strange thing too a queen, and stays unique MISS DAVIS REMEMBER THAT ALWAYS and by the way You were the first performing queen at the KW and I think they wanted to repeat this a bit, but just more arty more proper than our crazy evening. stay shining and disturbing,crying and singing.
Annette will also be part of a program of women video artists this Sunday October 4th at Arsenal Institute für Film und Video Kunst.Seit 10 Jahren präsentieren wir die Ergebnisse des Bereichs Film des
Künstlerinnenprogramms der Berliner Kulturverwaltung. Wie jedes Jahr
bietet das Ergebnis Experimentelles, Strukturelles, Narratives und
Dokumentarisches -- vor allem fallen die Grenzbereiche ins Auge, die
Unerwartetes hervorbringen.
VATER, MUTTER, WAS SOLL ICH HEUTE FILMEN? heißt eine neue konzeptionelle
Arbeit von Isabell Spengler, EINE FLEXIBLE FRAU ein Filmprojekt von
Tatjana Turanskyj und LEICHT MUSS MAN SEIN FLIEGEN MUSS MAN KÖNNEN, ein
Dokumentarfilm von Annette Frick. Die drei Titel kennzeichnen einen
Diskurs: Innovationszwang und die Forderung nach Flexibilität verdrängen
den Raum für Utopie. Mediale und ökonomische Bedingungen lassen die Rolle
der Künstlerin und der Kuratorin immer mehr verschmelzen. Daher fördert
das Künstlerinnenprogramm nicht nur die Produktion, sondern auch ihre
Präsentation im Kino, in der Ausstellung, als DVD oder als Buch.
*Attched das kommentierte Filmprogramm zum Künstlerinnenprogramm 2009 *
*Für weitere Informationen:*
Christine Sievers | Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
030 269 55 143 oder *cs@arsenal-berlin.de*
Kino Arsenal 1 & 2 | Potsdamer Straße 2 | 10785 Berlin |
*www.arsenal-berlin.de*
One of these days i have to check out Mz. Linzy Lohan as I have been hearing many people say that she is Baby Vaginal Davis. From what I have seen of her, we look nothing alike.
***
I am so glad the German elections are over. I was so sick of looking at those giant fugly political posters everytime i went cruising through the Tiergarten. The Vivacious Angie Merkel gets her dream of dreams, and the pro business Free Democrats will be the junior party in Germany´s federal coalition. Mrs. Merkel wins another term, and frees herself from the constraints of a partnership with the center left. It also looks as if the Green Party has made some political gains. I like the Greens, but they seem just a little too hippy dippy for this lady.
***
Editing Memory Island with my gorgeous Chocolate Grinder boys little Alex and Julian was a lot of work, but filled with joy. When we took a lunch break Sunday we ran into actor Daniel Brühl(Inglorious Basterds) who is a lot cuter in person. He must have some major sugar in his tank, as he really heavily cruised my two youthful companions. I couldn´t tell if the guy Herr Brühl was with is just a friend or paramour. Our editing facility was in the Kolwitzplatz area of Prenzlaurberg so there were lots of spessig heteronormativs floating about with their giant SUV baby strollers.
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Congrats to my pal, actress Zooey Deschanel who just got hitched to lovesexy singer Ben Gibbard of dull indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie. I wonder if their marriage is going to be a post modern one, where Mr. Gibbard´s super hot boyfriend will be part of their nuptial bliss.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
JENSEITS DER TRAMPELPFADE
Had a wonderful time at art photog Annette Fricks salon Casa BauBou hosted by Frau Frick and her handsome, elegant boyfriend Wilhelm Hein, the guru of German experimental film. The event was a salute to artist and filmmaker Kurt Kren who was part of the Vienna Akshunist movement. Casa Bau Bou is located in Wedding in an old electronic store front. The salon environment is perfect for a sweet and casual atmosphere of performances and screenings of short films mixed in with coffee, sect and dainties. Among those presenting work: poet and songstress Hermoine Zitdauliest, kJohnny Blue and Axel providing a live score to a delicious new film by Tim Blue called Lenaustr 25, the work of Gary Goldberg featuring Bill Rice and Taylor Mead, music from Mad Angus, short films by Ludvig Schönherr with his ballerina wife Trixie Curdua, Evelyn Rüssler´s Hippo Narcissus and a juicy reading from the famous German actress Carola Regnier the daughter of Charles Regnier. Enjoying the afternoon frivolities: Film historian Marc Siegel and Susanne Sachsse, the fearless leader of kollective CHEAP, Anna Muelter of HAU; North African beauty boy Karim with Nadine of Neu Kölln with the Neu Köllnettes, visiting scholar Tavia Nyongo & lovesexy American pal Michael Scaturro and posse.
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Junky punk rock poet Jim Carroll died age 60. Mr. Carroll was a bit of a dinge queen I believe as he gave me the hairy eyeball once after I did a Manhattan show. I was never a huge fan, but I did like the film version of his Basketball Diaries that starred Leo DiCaprio and Marky Mark.
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Vaginal Davis has some strange admirers. Got a weird request from some college age looking kid named Tim Tebow who wants an autographed pic amongst other naughty things from the doll. One of my student interns who is here in Berlin studying abroad recognized Mr. Tebow from the provacative pic he sent me. Seems like he is a big American college football star. I never got it clarified as to whether the football in question was pigskin parade or soccor. Just another example of the perpetual wierdness that is the life of la diva.
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The marvelously talented Belgian/Frenchman Christophe Chemin has a solo show this weekend in Berlin. Give yourself a treat and check it out:
Christophe Chemin - Rats & Children
Exhibition runs from 26th September to 25th October 2009
Opening Times: Friday to Sunday, 13.00 to 19.00 h
Rise Berlin, Hertzbergstrasse 27, Neukölln, 12055 Berlin
http://www.riseberlin.com/index.php
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148771298264
Had a wonderful time at art photog Annette Fricks salon Casa BauBou hosted by Frau Frick and her handsome, elegant boyfriend Wilhelm Hein, the guru of German experimental film. The event was a salute to artist and filmmaker Kurt Kren who was part of the Vienna Akshunist movement. Casa Bau Bou is located in Wedding in an old electronic store front. The salon environment is perfect for a sweet and casual atmosphere of performances and screenings of short films mixed in with coffee, sect and dainties. Among those presenting work: poet and songstress Hermoine Zitdauliest, kJohnny Blue and Axel providing a live score to a delicious new film by Tim Blue called Lenaustr 25, the work of Gary Goldberg featuring Bill Rice and Taylor Mead, music from Mad Angus, short films by Ludvig Schönherr with his ballerina wife Trixie Curdua, Evelyn Rüssler´s Hippo Narcissus and a juicy reading from the famous German actress Carola Regnier the daughter of Charles Regnier. Enjoying the afternoon frivolities: Film historian Marc Siegel and Susanne Sachsse, the fearless leader of kollective CHEAP, Anna Muelter of HAU; North African beauty boy Karim with Nadine of Neu Kölln with the Neu Köllnettes, visiting scholar Tavia Nyongo & lovesexy American pal Michael Scaturro and posse.
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Junky punk rock poet Jim Carroll died age 60. Mr. Carroll was a bit of a dinge queen I believe as he gave me the hairy eyeball once after I did a Manhattan show. I was never a huge fan, but I did like the film version of his Basketball Diaries that starred Leo DiCaprio and Marky Mark.
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Vaginal Davis has some strange admirers. Got a weird request from some college age looking kid named Tim Tebow who wants an autographed pic amongst other naughty things from the doll. One of my student interns who is here in Berlin studying abroad recognized Mr. Tebow from the provacative pic he sent me. Seems like he is a big American college football star. I never got it clarified as to whether the football in question was pigskin parade or soccor. Just another example of the perpetual wierdness that is the life of la diva.
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The marvelously talented Belgian/Frenchman Christophe Chemin has a solo show this weekend in Berlin. Give yourself a treat and check it out:
Christophe Chemin - Rats & Children
Exhibition runs from 26th September to 25th October 2009
Opening Times: Friday to Sunday, 13.00 to 19.00 h
Rise Berlin, Hertzbergstrasse 27, Neukölln, 12055 Berlin
http://www.riseberlin.com/index.php
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148771298264
Saturday, September 19, 2009
PLAY IT AS IT LAYS
The Aztec Warrior who occasionally sends me emugs from the outpost of his sexual life is a bonafide phenomena on the Speaking From the Diaphragm blog. I´ve already encouraged him to start his own blogina—yes an old fashion spin-off like how The Jeffersons, and Maude were a spinoff of All in the Family. Staying true to form Azteca as I like to call him, sent me this little Burning Man addendum missive:
Oh Fechesita,
The festival was 6 days long for me, it's all a blur! At first i was a little uncomfortable about going by myself, even though i'd have friends at camp, last year i was with drew. so this year it is was great being on my own, with my own schedule and interests. I met this one cool dude who was from hollywood, tall skinny guy with long hair and at least a 10inch uncut white dick. we were talking about our tattoos, and the regular things, where are you from, etc. Once I said i lived in silverlake he was all cool since he lived in Hollywood. He was wearing a very short Sarong around his waist showing off his very lean body. So he had mentioned that some of the events reminded him of an art exhibit he had seen in Hollywood, i asked was it Vaginal Davis´ Platinum Oasis, he said, Yeah. So we had a cool talk about Platinum Oasis, we hung out for a couple of hours, he had pot, i smoked a bit, maybe 3 puffs, and then of course things turned very horny. I was very impressed with his penis, wow it was beautiful, so was his ass and he was cool and handsome, just a regular guy. so that was fun.
oh this was cool---my lesbian friend and i met two young cute french boys. we were doing this organized pub crawl. so the lesbian asked if they were together, they laughed and said no, were buds. oh, ok, cool. so as the pub crawl progressed and the booze flowed, these two boys were getting a little bit more and more daring. somehow, i became their big brother/sister and they stayed very close to me and my friend. a few people were asking if they could photograph the two boys, the boys would look at me as if waiting for my approval. they had fun getting pics taken, being flirted with and chatting with everyone. by the last bar, the lesbian tells me, check out the frenchies, well they were at the bar towards the end of all the craziness and the red head frenchie pie was on his knees sucking his little french buddies dick! it was hot, they switched back and forth a few times. when they saw us, they smiled and the lesbian asked the boys, wow that was sexy! the red head smiles and says, i think he's my boyfriend! she hugged them, they hugged us both while looking very nervous. i put my hand on both of their hearts and they both had pounding hearts. i told them that would be fine and that they needed to find a private place to get off otherwise they'd be uncomfortable. they were so cute the both turned beat red! One was 19 and the other was 20. I took a pic of them, they were not beauties, they were just nice cute young boys with natural hair, no shaved or plucked body parts
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Just received this sweet invite from lovely art photog Elly Clarke who has her own gallery that reminds me of my own Hag Gallery-small, contemporary, haggard that I ran out of my apartment back in the mid 1980s. I won´t be able to go to her opening as i will be in the editing booth working on my Jack Smith-Live Film movie Memory Island.
You are invited to the Opening and Exhibition of SPLASHBACK. This is Clarke Gallery's first group show, celebrating nearly 12 months of exhibitions in the space. The artists are, in order of their appearance over the past year, CHRISTIAN SIEVERS, ELLY CLARKE, VICKY LUCAS, ALEXANDER HEATON, NATASHA WHEAT and LIZ FLETCHER. Work spans the mediums of painting, sculpture, artist books, sound art, print work, photography and video and will be shown throughout the gallery - in the kitchen, hall, bathroom and living room. Where else can you watch video art sitting on Elly's Granny's sofa?All work is also for sale at a very reasonable price.
Please join us for the opening night reception or during the following week, for a quieter interaction with the work. For further info please visit our website: http://www.clarkegallery.de
Opening Night: Saturday 26th September 19.00h-22.00h
and then open daily 28th September - 3rd October 17.00h-19.00h or by appointment.
Clarke Gallery
Friedelstrasse 52
12047 Berlin
Hinterhaus, 4. Stock. Bei Clarke Klingeln.
The Aztec Warrior who occasionally sends me emugs from the outpost of his sexual life is a bonafide phenomena on the Speaking From the Diaphragm blog. I´ve already encouraged him to start his own blogina—yes an old fashion spin-off like how The Jeffersons, and Maude were a spinoff of All in the Family. Staying true to form Azteca as I like to call him, sent me this little Burning Man addendum missive:
Oh Fechesita,
The festival was 6 days long for me, it's all a blur! At first i was a little uncomfortable about going by myself, even though i'd have friends at camp, last year i was with drew. so this year it is was great being on my own, with my own schedule and interests. I met this one cool dude who was from hollywood, tall skinny guy with long hair and at least a 10inch uncut white dick. we were talking about our tattoos, and the regular things, where are you from, etc. Once I said i lived in silverlake he was all cool since he lived in Hollywood. He was wearing a very short Sarong around his waist showing off his very lean body. So he had mentioned that some of the events reminded him of an art exhibit he had seen in Hollywood, i asked was it Vaginal Davis´ Platinum Oasis, he said, Yeah. So we had a cool talk about Platinum Oasis, we hung out for a couple of hours, he had pot, i smoked a bit, maybe 3 puffs, and then of course things turned very horny. I was very impressed with his penis, wow it was beautiful, so was his ass and he was cool and handsome, just a regular guy. so that was fun.
oh this was cool---my lesbian friend and i met two young cute french boys. we were doing this organized pub crawl. so the lesbian asked if they were together, they laughed and said no, were buds. oh, ok, cool. so as the pub crawl progressed and the booze flowed, these two boys were getting a little bit more and more daring. somehow, i became their big brother/sister and they stayed very close to me and my friend. a few people were asking if they could photograph the two boys, the boys would look at me as if waiting for my approval. they had fun getting pics taken, being flirted with and chatting with everyone. by the last bar, the lesbian tells me, check out the frenchies, well they were at the bar towards the end of all the craziness and the red head frenchie pie was on his knees sucking his little french buddies dick! it was hot, they switched back and forth a few times. when they saw us, they smiled and the lesbian asked the boys, wow that was sexy! the red head smiles and says, i think he's my boyfriend! she hugged them, they hugged us both while looking very nervous. i put my hand on both of their hearts and they both had pounding hearts. i told them that would be fine and that they needed to find a private place to get off otherwise they'd be uncomfortable. they were so cute the both turned beat red! One was 19 and the other was 20. I took a pic of them, they were not beauties, they were just nice cute young boys with natural hair, no shaved or plucked body parts
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Just received this sweet invite from lovely art photog Elly Clarke who has her own gallery that reminds me of my own Hag Gallery-small, contemporary, haggard that I ran out of my apartment back in the mid 1980s. I won´t be able to go to her opening as i will be in the editing booth working on my Jack Smith-Live Film movie Memory Island.
You are invited to the Opening and Exhibition of SPLASHBACK. This is Clarke Gallery's first group show, celebrating nearly 12 months of exhibitions in the space. The artists are, in order of their appearance over the past year, CHRISTIAN SIEVERS, ELLY CLARKE, VICKY LUCAS, ALEXANDER HEATON, NATASHA WHEAT and LIZ FLETCHER. Work spans the mediums of painting, sculpture, artist books, sound art, print work, photography and video and will be shown throughout the gallery - in the kitchen, hall, bathroom and living room. Where else can you watch video art sitting on Elly's Granny's sofa?All work is also for sale at a very reasonable price.
Please join us for the opening night reception or during the following week, for a quieter interaction with the work. For further info please visit our website: http://www.clarkegallery.de
Opening Night: Saturday 26th September 19.00h-22.00h
and then open daily 28th September - 3rd October 17.00h-19.00h or by appointment.
Clarke Gallery
Friedelstrasse 52
12047 Berlin
Hinterhaus, 4. Stock. Bei Clarke Klingeln.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
SCHÖNE EDELKURTISANE
The tourista season in Berlin is coming to an official close, but it seems like even more people flock to Berlina in the fall then in the Spring and Summer months. Those of you who are here in beautiful, but bleak Berlin and want some place to venture to here are a few suggestions: The brilliant art photog Annette Frick with her sexy boyfriend, the experimental film guru of Germany, Wilhelm Hein host a salon that features some of the more interesting people in the city.
LETZTER AUFRUF ! Am Sonntag den 20.9.2009 erinnern wir an Kurt Kren er wäre an diesem Tag 80 geworden. Wir zeigen original Arbeiten: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Siebdrucke, Fotos von ihm und geben aus diesem Anlass Box 6 aus dem Nachlass heraus. Seine Filme sind ebenfalls zu sehen. Es erscheint: JENSEITS DER TRAMPELPFADE Heft 9 Kurt Kren gewidmet. Es beginnt schon um 16 Uhr wegen unerwartetem Besuch zu sehen: Kenneth Anger: DVD : ICH WILL Gerda Gritzka: DVD „Shit 2008“ Kurt Kren 16 mm Filme u.A. 20. September Evi Rüsseler/ Vaginal Davis: DVD Hipponarcissus , Annette Frick : Fotos, Len Lye :DVD Free Radicals, Wilhelm Hein: DVD?Warum nicht ? John Blue: Musik Lili Mühl: 3 Bücher: Penthi die Tänzerin, die Vampirziege, die Flugsaurier, Mad Angus: Musik, Tim Blue neue DVD, Ludwig Schönherr, neue DVD, Sissi Tax: Geld oder nicht Geld_Lesung, Gary Goldberg: DVD Plates mit Bill Rice und Taylormead, Hermoine Zittlau liest Juwelia Soraya und ZsaZsa Puppengesicht und Überraschungsgäste
CASABAUBOU
Seestr.107
Berlin-Wedding
U6 bis Seestr.
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Renown British exPat Richard Hancock and his art partner Traci Kelly are getting their act together and taking it on the high road. . . . But me and my true love will never meet again on the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.
hancock & kelly live! UPCOMING EVENTS- 'VIRAL LOAD' WORKSHOP/LIVE EVENT AND 'ICONOGRAPHIA' PERFORMANCE AT ESCRITA NA PAISAGEM 09, EVORA
A seven-day workshop with Richard Hancock & Traci Kelly, exploring issues of collaboration and risk (September 16-22, 2009), and a live performance of Iconographia (September 24, 2009) as part of Escrita na Paisagem in Evora, Portugal.
(see www.escritanapaisagem.net for details)
'IN SEASON' PERFORMANCE AT EPAF 09, WARSAW
A live performance of Traci Kelly's In Season, the second of Hancock & Kelly's Lone Duets as part of EPAF 09 in Warsaw, Poland - October 16-18, 2009.
(see www.epaf-festival.blogspot.com for details)
NOW AVAILABLE-ENCOUNTERS: Performance, Photography, Collaboration - MANUEL VASON
Encounters is a new and extensive collection of Manuel Vason's photographic collaborations with artists working in performance. Published by Arnolfini to accompany the first major exhibition of Vason's work in the UK, and edited by Dominic Johnson, Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason's collaborative images.
(see www.thisisunbound.co.uk for details) http://www.hancockandkellylive.com
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Had a lovely time filming a short flicker for French/German(new)-new wave director Rad Minet and the Chocolate Grinder Film kollective which includes LovesexyTasty Tim, Little Alex of Macedonia, Morning Becomes Electra! I Love Louisa la Gamine Brooks and cute cuddly curly haired Tenacious Tillman. The Chocalate Grinder crew are the most talked about young filmmakers in all of Europe. Remember you first heard about them hear at the number one Tussi blog Speaking from the Diaphragm.
The tourista season in Berlin is coming to an official close, but it seems like even more people flock to Berlina in the fall then in the Spring and Summer months. Those of you who are here in beautiful, but bleak Berlin and want some place to venture to here are a few suggestions: The brilliant art photog Annette Frick with her sexy boyfriend, the experimental film guru of Germany, Wilhelm Hein host a salon that features some of the more interesting people in the city.
LETZTER AUFRUF ! Am Sonntag den 20.9.2009 erinnern wir an Kurt Kren er wäre an diesem Tag 80 geworden. Wir zeigen original Arbeiten: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Siebdrucke, Fotos von ihm und geben aus diesem Anlass Box 6 aus dem Nachlass heraus. Seine Filme sind ebenfalls zu sehen. Es erscheint: JENSEITS DER TRAMPELPFADE Heft 9 Kurt Kren gewidmet. Es beginnt schon um 16 Uhr wegen unerwartetem Besuch zu sehen: Kenneth Anger: DVD : ICH WILL Gerda Gritzka: DVD „Shit 2008“ Kurt Kren 16 mm Filme u.A. 20. September Evi Rüsseler/ Vaginal Davis: DVD Hipponarcissus , Annette Frick : Fotos, Len Lye :DVD Free Radicals, Wilhelm Hein: DVD?Warum nicht ? John Blue: Musik Lili Mühl: 3 Bücher: Penthi die Tänzerin, die Vampirziege, die Flugsaurier, Mad Angus: Musik, Tim Blue neue DVD, Ludwig Schönherr, neue DVD, Sissi Tax: Geld oder nicht Geld_Lesung, Gary Goldberg: DVD Plates mit Bill Rice und Taylormead, Hermoine Zittlau liest Juwelia Soraya und ZsaZsa Puppengesicht und Überraschungsgäste
CASABAUBOU
Seestr.107
Berlin-Wedding
U6 bis Seestr.
***
Renown British exPat Richard Hancock and his art partner Traci Kelly are getting their act together and taking it on the high road. . . . But me and my true love will never meet again on the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.
hancock & kelly live! UPCOMING EVENTS- 'VIRAL LOAD' WORKSHOP/LIVE EVENT AND 'ICONOGRAPHIA' PERFORMANCE AT ESCRITA NA PAISAGEM 09, EVORA
A seven-day workshop with Richard Hancock & Traci Kelly, exploring issues of collaboration and risk (September 16-22, 2009), and a live performance of Iconographia (September 24, 2009) as part of Escrita na Paisagem in Evora, Portugal.
(see www.escritanapaisagem.net for details)
'IN SEASON' PERFORMANCE AT EPAF 09, WARSAW
A live performance of Traci Kelly's In Season, the second of Hancock & Kelly's Lone Duets as part of EPAF 09 in Warsaw, Poland - October 16-18, 2009.
(see www.epaf-festival.blogspot.com for details)
NOW AVAILABLE-ENCOUNTERS: Performance, Photography, Collaboration - MANUEL VASON
Encounters is a new and extensive collection of Manuel Vason's photographic collaborations with artists working in performance. Published by Arnolfini to accompany the first major exhibition of Vason's work in the UK, and edited by Dominic Johnson, Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason's collaborative images.
(see www.thisisunbound.co.uk for details) http://www.hancockandkellylive.com
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Had a lovely time filming a short flicker for French/German(new)-new wave director Rad Minet and the Chocolate Grinder Film kollective which includes LovesexyTasty Tim, Little Alex of Macedonia, Morning Becomes Electra! I Love Louisa la Gamine Brooks and cute cuddly curly haired Tenacious Tillman. The Chocalate Grinder crew are the most talked about young filmmakers in all of Europe. Remember you first heard about them hear at the number one Tussi blog Speaking from the Diaphragm.
Monday, September 14, 2009
DENN DAS SCHÜTZT VOR INFARKTEN UND SCHLAGANFÄLLEN
The return of Rising Stars, Falling Stars at Arsenal Institute für Film und Videokunst; after a sommer pause was spectacular with an SRO screening of Eisensteins The Strike from 1924. The Blue Brothers Tim & kJohnny were creatively mischieveous with their live film score using a varied array of subjective components that added a new layer to the filmic proceedings. I decided to add a new addendum to Eisensteins 1923 manifesto The Montage of Attractions by stating that a film isn´t a film unless it features the bare buttocks of a cute Mexican boy.
After the screeningliving it up in high style in the Rote Foyer Proletkult, Arsenal Empress Ms. Stefanie Schulte Strathaus who will be heading off to the Toronto Film Festival where she will be staying with Canadian Film legend John Greyson who has caused quite an international uproar this year. I´m sure if you google the filmmakers name and or Brand Israel you can retrieve all the info from the WWW. Gorgeous scholar Nicole Wolf on sabbatical from her teaching post in London was her usual delightful self along with Scandanavian video artist Gunsi Holstrom who is always a vivacious presence. Wonderful also seeing handsome Irish experimental film god Paul Rowley chit chatting with Wilhelm Hein and his art photog gal pal Annette Frick who gave La Davis a wonderful gift of a portable typewriter. Does anyone remember those quaint items from the last century? Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras and his hunky beau Enrico Dallman were turning lots of heads. Joel is off for his big tour of North America to support his new LP Origin:Orphan. There were so many celebs i don`t know where to begin in naming them all so I will just give you an olde school listy: Tavia Nyongo, the Kenyan NYU scholar who is related to President Barach Obama with his very pretty sister,Sasha of bbooks with husband, The Chocolate Grinder Film Kollective of Little Alex of Macedonia, Tasty Tim, Rad Minet, Morning Becomes Elektra!, with posse, LA fashion designer Cornel Collins, artists Maggie Schneider, Isabelle Spengler, Richard Hancock & Marc Arthur fresh from his Hamburg visual art success, new Berliner of just five days Toru Hayashi, hip hop singer Speech DeBelle, handsome raven haired art schtar Mark Boal, writer Kaylie Jones with Constand d'Aubigne`, director R.J.Cutler of the new documentary film The September Issue which features one of my best girlfriends Anna Wintour of Vogue.
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To all of you out there who emailed me wanting to know more about my job interview at Lund Universities Malmo Art Akademy, sorry I am not purposely trying to be mysterious, its just that it was such a bizarre experience I am still finding it difficult to process. A formal rejection letter would have been nice, but i really don´t even expect that from them. My Scandanavian academic confidantes told me that the cattle call approach to hiring is typical in Sweden, and that this particular school has been going through major upheaval of the Nordic Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev variety.
The return of Rising Stars, Falling Stars at Arsenal Institute für Film und Videokunst; after a sommer pause was spectacular with an SRO screening of Eisensteins The Strike from 1924. The Blue Brothers Tim & kJohnny were creatively mischieveous with their live film score using a varied array of subjective components that added a new layer to the filmic proceedings. I decided to add a new addendum to Eisensteins 1923 manifesto The Montage of Attractions by stating that a film isn´t a film unless it features the bare buttocks of a cute Mexican boy.
After the screeningliving it up in high style in the Rote Foyer Proletkult, Arsenal Empress Ms. Stefanie Schulte Strathaus who will be heading off to the Toronto Film Festival where she will be staying with Canadian Film legend John Greyson who has caused quite an international uproar this year. I´m sure if you google the filmmakers name and or Brand Israel you can retrieve all the info from the WWW. Gorgeous scholar Nicole Wolf on sabbatical from her teaching post in London was her usual delightful self along with Scandanavian video artist Gunsi Holstrom who is always a vivacious presence. Wonderful also seeing handsome Irish experimental film god Paul Rowley chit chatting with Wilhelm Hein and his art photog gal pal Annette Frick who gave La Davis a wonderful gift of a portable typewriter. Does anyone remember those quaint items from the last century? Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras and his hunky beau Enrico Dallman were turning lots of heads. Joel is off for his big tour of North America to support his new LP Origin:Orphan. There were so many celebs i don`t know where to begin in naming them all so I will just give you an olde school listy: Tavia Nyongo, the Kenyan NYU scholar who is related to President Barach Obama with his very pretty sister,Sasha of bbooks with husband, The Chocolate Grinder Film Kollective of Little Alex of Macedonia, Tasty Tim, Rad Minet, Morning Becomes Elektra!, with posse, LA fashion designer Cornel Collins, artists Maggie Schneider, Isabelle Spengler, Richard Hancock & Marc Arthur fresh from his Hamburg visual art success, new Berliner of just five days Toru Hayashi, hip hop singer Speech DeBelle, handsome raven haired art schtar Mark Boal, writer Kaylie Jones with Constand d'Aubigne`, director R.J.Cutler of the new documentary film The September Issue which features one of my best girlfriends Anna Wintour of Vogue.
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To all of you out there who emailed me wanting to know more about my job interview at Lund Universities Malmo Art Akademy, sorry I am not purposely trying to be mysterious, its just that it was such a bizarre experience I am still finding it difficult to process. A formal rejection letter would have been nice, but i really don´t even expect that from them. My Scandanavian academic confidantes told me that the cattle call approach to hiring is typical in Sweden, and that this particular school has been going through major upheaval of the Nordic Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev variety.
Friday, September 11, 2009
DIE SCHÜLERN EINEN TÄGLICHEN ORGASMUS
Enrico Dallman the sexy, muscular physical therapist beau of Joel Gibb, the mastermind of the Toronto indie pop band The Hidden Cameras invited me to go with them to Teufulsee (Devil´s Lake) in the Grunewald on what was probably the last warm day of summer. Surprisingly it wasn´t very far from the city. Enrico has a car so it took about 20 minutes even with some gnarly traffic. I am a glamour girl, not a nature girl but even my cold heart was warmed by the pleasant surroundings on what turned out to be a glorious day with only wispy clouds in the sky. Being it was mid week, the place wasn´t very crowded. Of course most of the people were butt naked laying out in the sun macking on leather skin worship. Thank god there was plenty of shade for me, so that I could protect my delicate Estonian skin and violet colored Liz Taylor eyes. Lots of men and women letting all their saggy, flabby, cellulite skin bounce to the five corners of the wind. The few faggots with bodacious bods were of course wearing board shorts, selfishly hiding themselves from my John Wayne Gacy glare.
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Film Historian Marc Siegel with gorgeous girl friend Susanne Sachsse hosted a sweet little soiree for Marc´s visiting Papa from America. The elder Mr. Siegel is quite the manly gentleman, with a mischevious twinkle in his sparkling blue grey eyes. Enjoying a lovely time was all the members of kollective CHEAP including Tim & kJohnny Blue, Daniel Hendrickson as well as experimental film guru Wilhelm Hein and his art photog girlfriend Annette Frick. Later I went down to the Nobel Elf to see Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras DJ for art fagula crowd. Had a wonderful time running into the great Allessio of bbooks kollective and Barbie Deinhoff´s with his sharp Serbian gal pal Theodora, plus Ibadette of Super 700, Enrico Dallman,and NYU Scholar Tavia Nyongo.
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Marc Arthur who had a hit art show in Hamburg came through Berlin for a whirlwind of a visit. Mark produced and edited my DeRohan Chabot film series and is one of the sexiest young beauties in Christendom. If you see him on the street, you will want to have his penis in your gaping hole called a mouth.
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Those of you visiting Berlin and want to know where to go I got this info forwarded to me by the great G.B. Jones about one of her collegues doing some exhibitions and performances in Europe. If G.B.Jones recommends it I know it will be amazing.
friday sept. the 11th"blow the gaff out of ghosts"an art exhibition by ANGO THE MEEK DEAD vernissage fri. 11th h.18:00-22:00
performance by Alice Masprone and Marco Pezzotta
OkiDoki Gallery, allerstr. 38, berlin exhibition open ultil sept. the 25th
www.myspace.com/okidokigallery
saturday sept. the 12th "hEART(h)"a group exhibition vernissage sat. the 12th h.18:00
Art-Port, Palazzolo dello Stella, Udine, Italy exhibition open ultil oct. the 9th
www.art-port.org
saturday sept. the 12th
sabot°age party djs: WarBear, Franzuss, Helga P, AXP vjs: Boxikus, Oskur
raw tempel, revalerstr. 99, berlin www.myspace.com/sabotageberlin
::: ::: ::: a n g o ::: ::: ::: www.mariaenascenti.com www.myspace.com/mariaenascenti www.myspace.com/meekdead
Enrico Dallman the sexy, muscular physical therapist beau of Joel Gibb, the mastermind of the Toronto indie pop band The Hidden Cameras invited me to go with them to Teufulsee (Devil´s Lake) in the Grunewald on what was probably the last warm day of summer. Surprisingly it wasn´t very far from the city. Enrico has a car so it took about 20 minutes even with some gnarly traffic. I am a glamour girl, not a nature girl but even my cold heart was warmed by the pleasant surroundings on what turned out to be a glorious day with only wispy clouds in the sky. Being it was mid week, the place wasn´t very crowded. Of course most of the people were butt naked laying out in the sun macking on leather skin worship. Thank god there was plenty of shade for me, so that I could protect my delicate Estonian skin and violet colored Liz Taylor eyes. Lots of men and women letting all their saggy, flabby, cellulite skin bounce to the five corners of the wind. The few faggots with bodacious bods were of course wearing board shorts, selfishly hiding themselves from my John Wayne Gacy glare.
***
Film Historian Marc Siegel with gorgeous girl friend Susanne Sachsse hosted a sweet little soiree for Marc´s visiting Papa from America. The elder Mr. Siegel is quite the manly gentleman, with a mischevious twinkle in his sparkling blue grey eyes. Enjoying a lovely time was all the members of kollective CHEAP including Tim & kJohnny Blue, Daniel Hendrickson as well as experimental film guru Wilhelm Hein and his art photog girlfriend Annette Frick. Later I went down to the Nobel Elf to see Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras DJ for art fagula crowd. Had a wonderful time running into the great Allessio of bbooks kollective and Barbie Deinhoff´s with his sharp Serbian gal pal Theodora, plus Ibadette of Super 700, Enrico Dallman,and NYU Scholar Tavia Nyongo.
***
Marc Arthur who had a hit art show in Hamburg came through Berlin for a whirlwind of a visit. Mark produced and edited my DeRohan Chabot film series and is one of the sexiest young beauties in Christendom. If you see him on the street, you will want to have his penis in your gaping hole called a mouth.
***
Those of you visiting Berlin and want to know where to go I got this info forwarded to me by the great G.B. Jones about one of her collegues doing some exhibitions and performances in Europe. If G.B.Jones recommends it I know it will be amazing.
friday sept. the 11th"blow the gaff out of ghosts"an art exhibition by ANGO THE MEEK DEAD vernissage fri. 11th h.18:00-22:00
performance by Alice Masprone and Marco Pezzotta
OkiDoki Gallery, allerstr. 38, berlin exhibition open ultil sept. the 25th
www.myspace.com/okidokigallery
saturday sept. the 12th "hEART(h)"a group exhibition vernissage sat. the 12th h.18:00
Art-Port, Palazzolo dello Stella, Udine, Italy exhibition open ultil oct. the 9th
www.art-port.org
saturday sept. the 12th
sabot°age party djs: WarBear, Franzuss, Helga P, AXP vjs: Boxikus, Oskur
raw tempel, revalerstr. 99, berlin www.myspace.com/sabotageberlin
::: ::: ::: a n g o ::: ::: ::: www.mariaenascenti.com www.myspace.com/mariaenascenti www.myspace.com/meekdead
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
EINMAL UM DIE GANZE WELT
Rising Stars, Falling Stars returns from its summer pause with a showing of Eisenstein´s first feature film The Strike from 1924. Accompanying the film live are those experimental music heroes Tim & kJohnny Blue. After the screening the little lady Ms. Davis will host a dainty wine reception in the Rote Foyer. So those of you visiting Berlin this Sunday Sept 13th don´t forget to stop by Rising Stars Falling Stars my monthly performative film event at Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst at 2 Potsdamer Strasse at the Sony Center Filmhaus Kino 2 in historic Potsdamer Platz 9pm.
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Saturday was the event of the late summer season, the 23rd birthday celebration of intermedia actress/director and curator Susanne Sachsse, the star of the Bruce La Bruce films Rasberry Reich and Otto:Up With Dead People. Seen drinking, eating and shmoozing at la Sachsse´s stylish East Berlin compound: Dapper curator Carolla of Kino Asta Nielsen,butch icon Manuela Kay editor of LMag,Hanna Hurtzig of Black Market, art historian Marc Siegel, The Gersh Twins: Richard & Salome, Anna Muelter of HAU, scholar Christiana Voss, stylish culture critics Diedrich Diedrichson & Juliana Rebentisch, curator Stefanie Wenner, Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus with Arsenal Experimental´s Nanna Heidenreich with DJ Olga Damnitz, Daniel Hendrickson, Wilhelm Hein & Annette Frick, lovesexy art couple Peter Priegnann & Sophie of Switzerland, Ibadette & Mickey One of hot Berlin indie pop band Super 700, Koen Clarehout, French filmmaker Michel Belague, Belgium artist Christophe Chemin, Joel Gibb of the Toronto band The Hidden Cameras with yummy lover Enrico Dallman,the physiotherapist to the German stars, DJ Snax, Pretty Sasha Waltz dancer Laurie Young who will be doing the choreography for the new Bruce LaBruce stage project The Bad Breast in the fall at HAU 2, and InGlorious Basterds breakout star Christoph Waltz.
Rising Stars, Falling Stars returns from its summer pause with a showing of Eisenstein´s first feature film The Strike from 1924. Accompanying the film live are those experimental music heroes Tim & kJohnny Blue. After the screening the little lady Ms. Davis will host a dainty wine reception in the Rote Foyer. So those of you visiting Berlin this Sunday Sept 13th don´t forget to stop by Rising Stars Falling Stars my monthly performative film event at Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst at 2 Potsdamer Strasse at the Sony Center Filmhaus Kino 2 in historic Potsdamer Platz 9pm.
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Saturday was the event of the late summer season, the 23rd birthday celebration of intermedia actress/director and curator Susanne Sachsse, the star of the Bruce La Bruce films Rasberry Reich and Otto:Up With Dead People. Seen drinking, eating and shmoozing at la Sachsse´s stylish East Berlin compound: Dapper curator Carolla of Kino Asta Nielsen,butch icon Manuela Kay editor of LMag,Hanna Hurtzig of Black Market, art historian Marc Siegel, The Gersh Twins: Richard & Salome, Anna Muelter of HAU, scholar Christiana Voss, stylish culture critics Diedrich Diedrichson & Juliana Rebentisch, curator Stefanie Wenner, Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus with Arsenal Experimental´s Nanna Heidenreich with DJ Olga Damnitz, Daniel Hendrickson, Wilhelm Hein & Annette Frick, lovesexy art couple Peter Priegnann & Sophie of Switzerland, Ibadette & Mickey One of hot Berlin indie pop band Super 700, Koen Clarehout, French filmmaker Michel Belague, Belgium artist Christophe Chemin, Joel Gibb of the Toronto band The Hidden Cameras with yummy lover Enrico Dallman,the physiotherapist to the German stars, DJ Snax, Pretty Sasha Waltz dancer Laurie Young who will be doing the choreography for the new Bruce LaBruce stage project The Bad Breast in the fall at HAU 2, and InGlorious Basterds breakout star Christoph Waltz.
Saturday, September 05, 2009
THE NOCTURNAL IMMACULATION
Oh my gawd! Speaking From the Diaphrahm always is stirring up excrement! I made a mention of Lenny Young awhile back and boy did I get a bunch of emugs sent to me. Lenny owned the Parlour Club, the bar I did Bricktops out of from 2002-2005. I had ran into a former collegue of Lenny´s in Copenhagen who worked with him under the film producer Jake Eberts. I was deluged with people wanting to know the dirt, all the dirt and nothing but the dirt. I sometimes forget how many people read and subscribe to this very blog---it is like I´ve become the low rent Huffington Post or something. I forget that the internet can be like a cat or bird lady---you know those lonely ladies who fill their homes with 20 kitties or the elderly woman who sits in the park and feeds pigeons or flying rats for hours, not noticing that they are dropping their pellets over everything. Well I just want to say that I never post gossip on my blog unless it is confirmed by at least two diverse sources. It may not seem like it, but i do possess some journalistic integrity though my spelling and syntax are crapola.
It would be easy for me to just lambast Lenny Young--- but I am not that wantonly cruel--- but almost! This tiny lady is a complete bitch with a tinge of Serpentina Madame Mao/DeFarge in my blut.
Honestly I really have to take responsibility for my share of what went wrong with the breakup of my relationship with Andrew Gould my partner with Bricktops. Andrew was a dear sweet boy, who worked really hard in making Bricktops a success. Andrew went way beyond the call of duty in trying to please me, a woman who is really impossible to please. I demand so much from friendships. Can you imagine being lovers with someone as impossible as I am? Poor Andrew he really got the short shrift in the bargain. Our oldefashioned romantic friendship was doomed from the very start, and Andrew´s serious at the same time, „I think my boyfriend is in love with you!“
Andrew and I both fell in love with each others creativity and spark. My friend Hector Martinez things I also lusted after Andrew physically because he has a huge penis, maybe there is a part of me that was sexually attracted to him as well--I've always been a major anglophile and English boys have always sent me howling to the moon. I will have to go through years of Woody Allen style therapy to explore that issue.
It is a wonder things didn´t turn sour sooner with Andrew. Of course its all my fault, and I can see that now that I am away from tired LA living here in Germany. We did have three gloriously productive years as a top notch team with Bricktops, and I am proud of the results.
Getting back to Lenny Young. Looking back with some distance. Lenny wasn´t as much of a horror as I´ve made him out to be. I should have went with my first instinct which was not to become involved in a business relationship with him in the first place. I realized from the very beginning that Lenny wasn´t all there, he wasn´t a complete human being at all, just a tiny bit of one unnaturally developed like an organ kept in a lab bottle. In fairness Lenny was something completely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. So he was more in step with the world then I am.
So I am not going to post a big tell all about Lenny the Hollywood businessman. Sorry to all of you looking for spilled wine from the DeFarge wineshop, and I appologize also for my inept rambling text.
Oh my gawd! Speaking From the Diaphrahm always is stirring up excrement! I made a mention of Lenny Young awhile back and boy did I get a bunch of emugs sent to me. Lenny owned the Parlour Club, the bar I did Bricktops out of from 2002-2005. I had ran into a former collegue of Lenny´s in Copenhagen who worked with him under the film producer Jake Eberts. I was deluged with people wanting to know the dirt, all the dirt and nothing but the dirt. I sometimes forget how many people read and subscribe to this very blog---it is like I´ve become the low rent Huffington Post or something. I forget that the internet can be like a cat or bird lady---you know those lonely ladies who fill their homes with 20 kitties or the elderly woman who sits in the park and feeds pigeons or flying rats for hours, not noticing that they are dropping their pellets over everything. Well I just want to say that I never post gossip on my blog unless it is confirmed by at least two diverse sources. It may not seem like it, but i do possess some journalistic integrity though my spelling and syntax are crapola.
It would be easy for me to just lambast Lenny Young--- but I am not that wantonly cruel--- but almost! This tiny lady is a complete bitch with a tinge of Serpentina Madame Mao/DeFarge in my blut.
Honestly I really have to take responsibility for my share of what went wrong with the breakup of my relationship with Andrew Gould my partner with Bricktops. Andrew was a dear sweet boy, who worked really hard in making Bricktops a success. Andrew went way beyond the call of duty in trying to please me, a woman who is really impossible to please. I demand so much from friendships. Can you imagine being lovers with someone as impossible as I am? Poor Andrew he really got the short shrift in the bargain. Our oldefashioned romantic friendship was doomed from the very start, and Andrew´s serious at the same time, „I think my boyfriend is in love with you!“
Andrew and I both fell in love with each others creativity and spark. My friend Hector Martinez things I also lusted after Andrew physically because he has a huge penis, maybe there is a part of me that was sexually attracted to him as well--I've always been a major anglophile and English boys have always sent me howling to the moon. I will have to go through years of Woody Allen style therapy to explore that issue.
It is a wonder things didn´t turn sour sooner with Andrew. Of course its all my fault, and I can see that now that I am away from tired LA living here in Germany. We did have three gloriously productive years as a top notch team with Bricktops, and I am proud of the results.
Getting back to Lenny Young. Looking back with some distance. Lenny wasn´t as much of a horror as I´ve made him out to be. I should have went with my first instinct which was not to become involved in a business relationship with him in the first place. I realized from the very beginning that Lenny wasn´t all there, he wasn´t a complete human being at all, just a tiny bit of one unnaturally developed like an organ kept in a lab bottle. In fairness Lenny was something completely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. So he was more in step with the world then I am.
So I am not going to post a big tell all about Lenny the Hollywood businessman. Sorry to all of you looking for spilled wine from the DeFarge wineshop, and I appologize also for my inept rambling text.
Thursday, September 03, 2009
THALIDOMIDES UNITE
Had a glorious film shoot with Little Beauty Alex of Macedonia, Juicy Julian aka: Rad Minet, baby diaper Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras and expert cinematographer Manlische Tim filming my new short Memory Island for the Jack Smith Live Film event. I was so nervous that I couldn’t get any sleep the night before, which made it difficult to concentrate and direct, but with the help of a dedicated and talented cast and crew I was able to smile through.
Later I went to the Sylvia’s Promise salute to George and Mike Kuchar curated by handsome Uli Ziemons at the Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst. Forget about the Cohen Brothers or any of the other so called indie filmmaking Bros it forever will be all about the mighty Kuchars of Bronxville. I was dead tired from a day of shooting my movie, but I couldn’t stay away from seeing some rare Kuchar treats from their lovesexy teen years, like The Naked and the Nude 1957. The Kuchars and Jack Smith were the only underground filmmakers to feature minorities in their productions. TNATN stars a gaggle of Filipinos and blacks who were the neighbors of the Bros in the Bronx. And the luscious Donna Kerness is such a superstarina in Born of the Wind 1962 where she plays a sexhopped mummy prinzessin. My favourite of their early flickers is Anita Needs Me 1963. That Anita---what a far-reaching pepperpot with that sizzling rockabilly beau of hers, who is wrapped up in the House of Anita.
Speaking of being wrapped up, you should all get wrapped up in Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras. His new album Origin:Orphan drops very soon so buy it and go see him when he comes to your local town or village eatery. Below is the North Amerikan tour schedule so committ it to memorina.
ORIGIN:ORPHAN NORTH AMERICAN TOUR + PRE-SALE
The Hidden Cameras have just announced a massive North American tour in support of their fourth full-length, Origin:Orphan, kicking off October 21 in Peterborough, ON and wrapping December 3 in Chicago, IL.
Beginning today (August 24), fans will have the opportunity to purchase tickets for all of the newly announced shows except in Brooklyn and San Francisco, before they go on sale to the general public, exclusively at galleryac.com. As a bonus and in anticipation of the new album and tour, fans will immediately receive a free digital download of the newly released 5-track EP In The NA with any The Hidden Cameras pre-sale ticket purchase.
10/21/09 – Peterborough, ON @ Montreal House#
10/22/09 – London, ON @ Call The Office#
10/23/09 – Guelph, ON @ Dublin Street United Church#
10/29/09 – Ottawa, ON @ Babylon#
10/30/09 – Kingston, ON @ Grad Club#
10/31/09 – Montreal, PQ @ Il Motore#
11/01/09 – Cambridge, MA @ Brattle Theater
11/02/09 – Northampton, MA @ Iron Horse
11/04/09 – New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge
11/05/09 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
11/06/09 – Brooklyn, NY @ Union Hall#
11/08/09 – Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
11/10/09 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
11/12/09 – New Orleans, LA @ The Parish
11/13/09 – Denton, TX @ Hailey’s
11/14/09 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s
11/17/09 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah
11/18/09 – Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland
11/19/09 – San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill#
11/21/09 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
11/23/09 – Seattle, WA @ Triple Door
11/24/09 – Victoria, BC @ Alix Golden Hall
11/25/09 – Vancouver, BC @ The Biltmore Cabaret
11/27/09 – Edmonton, AB @ Avenue Theatre
11/28/09 – Calgary, AB @ Broken City
11/29/09 – Saskatoon, SK @ Amigo’s
11/30/09 – Winnipeg, MB @ Royal Albert Hall
12/02/09 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry
12/03/09 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
* all dates with Gentleman Reg
#pre-sale has ended or not available
Had a glorious film shoot with Little Beauty Alex of Macedonia, Juicy Julian aka: Rad Minet, baby diaper Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras and expert cinematographer Manlische Tim filming my new short Memory Island for the Jack Smith Live Film event. I was so nervous that I couldn’t get any sleep the night before, which made it difficult to concentrate and direct, but with the help of a dedicated and talented cast and crew I was able to smile through.
Later I went to the Sylvia’s Promise salute to George and Mike Kuchar curated by handsome Uli Ziemons at the Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst. Forget about the Cohen Brothers or any of the other so called indie filmmaking Bros it forever will be all about the mighty Kuchars of Bronxville. I was dead tired from a day of shooting my movie, but I couldn’t stay away from seeing some rare Kuchar treats from their lovesexy teen years, like The Naked and the Nude 1957. The Kuchars and Jack Smith were the only underground filmmakers to feature minorities in their productions. TNATN stars a gaggle of Filipinos and blacks who were the neighbors of the Bros in the Bronx. And the luscious Donna Kerness is such a superstarina in Born of the Wind 1962 where she plays a sexhopped mummy prinzessin. My favourite of their early flickers is Anita Needs Me 1963. That Anita---what a far-reaching pepperpot with that sizzling rockabilly beau of hers, who is wrapped up in the House of Anita.
Speaking of being wrapped up, you should all get wrapped up in Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras. His new album Origin:Orphan drops very soon so buy it and go see him when he comes to your local town or village eatery. Below is the North Amerikan tour schedule so committ it to memorina.
ORIGIN:ORPHAN NORTH AMERICAN TOUR + PRE-SALE
The Hidden Cameras have just announced a massive North American tour in support of their fourth full-length, Origin:Orphan, kicking off October 21 in Peterborough, ON and wrapping December 3 in Chicago, IL.
Beginning today (August 24), fans will have the opportunity to purchase tickets for all of the newly announced shows except in Brooklyn and San Francisco, before they go on sale to the general public, exclusively at galleryac.com. As a bonus and in anticipation of the new album and tour, fans will immediately receive a free digital download of the newly released 5-track EP In The NA with any The Hidden Cameras pre-sale ticket purchase.
10/21/09 – Peterborough, ON @ Montreal House#
10/22/09 – London, ON @ Call The Office#
10/23/09 – Guelph, ON @ Dublin Street United Church#
10/29/09 – Ottawa, ON @ Babylon#
10/30/09 – Kingston, ON @ Grad Club#
10/31/09 – Montreal, PQ @ Il Motore#
11/01/09 – Cambridge, MA @ Brattle Theater
11/02/09 – Northampton, MA @ Iron Horse
11/04/09 – New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge
11/05/09 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
11/06/09 – Brooklyn, NY @ Union Hall#
11/08/09 – Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
11/10/09 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
11/12/09 – New Orleans, LA @ The Parish
11/13/09 – Denton, TX @ Hailey’s
11/14/09 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s
11/17/09 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah
11/18/09 – Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland
11/19/09 – San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill#
11/21/09 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
11/23/09 – Seattle, WA @ Triple Door
11/24/09 – Victoria, BC @ Alix Golden Hall
11/25/09 – Vancouver, BC @ The Biltmore Cabaret
11/27/09 – Edmonton, AB @ Avenue Theatre
11/28/09 – Calgary, AB @ Broken City
11/29/09 – Saskatoon, SK @ Amigo’s
11/30/09 – Winnipeg, MB @ Royal Albert Hall
12/02/09 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry
12/03/09 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
* all dates with Gentleman Reg
#pre-sale has ended or not available
Monday, August 31, 2009
HELLMOUND
Performed as part of the successful Arsenal Institüt für Film und Videokunst Summer Curator school. Showed the short film I made with Evi Rusler called Hippo Narcissus then performed a brief cantata of Adorno text with little powerhouse Alex of Macedonia set to the music of Eric Satie brilliantly executed on piano by Daniel Hendrickson. Danny and Alex looked gorgeous in early 1960s tuxedos while I wore my yellow couture gown designed by the young French couturier Aude. Seen at the after performance reception drinking and socializing: Free University academic Hermann Kappelhoff who wrote the book Realismus: das Kino und die Politik des Asthetischen, Arsenal founder Ulrich Gregor with daughter Milena Gregor, Birgit Kohler, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Nanna Heidenreich and Uli Ziemons.
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Director Spike Lee has made a film version of the Broadway musical Passing Strange by Stu of the Silverlake rock band The Negro Problem. Stu like myself grew up in South Cenral LA and became involved in punk rock and also lived here in Berlin. The Negro Problem was one of the hot bands that performed at my infamous Club Sucker back in the flaming 90s. Right before leaving LA for good I performed with Stu and The Negro Problem at Downtown LA’s Flower Street Pavillion in a salute to the LA Music Scene where I sang a tin pan alley version of the GoGo’s “This Town”
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Ran into sexy bubblebutt Dav-id of the Schaubuhner Theatre Jungen Group while i was sipping a Capucine at a cafe off of Yorkstrasse. Hadn´t seen hunky Dav-id since he performed in The Arrogance of Youth, the piece I directed with Tim Blue for the Klub Scene Youth Project which featured over 100 young people from all the youth theater groups in Berlin. David cut his wild looking jewfro so I didn’t recognize him at first. He is such a smoldering beauty boy. It was nice spending time with a juicy piece of fleshy eye candy. Later I met up with Anna Muelter of the HAU and baby diaper Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras for some drinks and fellowship. I fine time was had by one and all.
Now I am off to luncheon at City Chicken in Neu Kölln with Daniel Hendrickson and visiting famed experimental art film couple Sherri & Ernie of New York City. I adore Sherri & Ernie. Its just a pleasure being in their royal presence listening to stories of the 1970s underground performance and film life in Manhattan, San Francisco and New York.
Performed as part of the successful Arsenal Institüt für Film und Videokunst Summer Curator school. Showed the short film I made with Evi Rusler called Hippo Narcissus then performed a brief cantata of Adorno text with little powerhouse Alex of Macedonia set to the music of Eric Satie brilliantly executed on piano by Daniel Hendrickson. Danny and Alex looked gorgeous in early 1960s tuxedos while I wore my yellow couture gown designed by the young French couturier Aude. Seen at the after performance reception drinking and socializing: Free University academic Hermann Kappelhoff who wrote the book Realismus: das Kino und die Politik des Asthetischen, Arsenal founder Ulrich Gregor with daughter Milena Gregor, Birgit Kohler, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Nanna Heidenreich and Uli Ziemons.
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Director Spike Lee has made a film version of the Broadway musical Passing Strange by Stu of the Silverlake rock band The Negro Problem. Stu like myself grew up in South Cenral LA and became involved in punk rock and also lived here in Berlin. The Negro Problem was one of the hot bands that performed at my infamous Club Sucker back in the flaming 90s. Right before leaving LA for good I performed with Stu and The Negro Problem at Downtown LA’s Flower Street Pavillion in a salute to the LA Music Scene where I sang a tin pan alley version of the GoGo’s “This Town”
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Ran into sexy bubblebutt Dav-id of the Schaubuhner Theatre Jungen Group while i was sipping a Capucine at a cafe off of Yorkstrasse. Hadn´t seen hunky Dav-id since he performed in The Arrogance of Youth, the piece I directed with Tim Blue for the Klub Scene Youth Project which featured over 100 young people from all the youth theater groups in Berlin. David cut his wild looking jewfro so I didn’t recognize him at first. He is such a smoldering beauty boy. It was nice spending time with a juicy piece of fleshy eye candy. Later I met up with Anna Muelter of the HAU and baby diaper Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras for some drinks and fellowship. I fine time was had by one and all.
Now I am off to luncheon at City Chicken in Neu Kölln with Daniel Hendrickson and visiting famed experimental art film couple Sherri & Ernie of New York City. I adore Sherri & Ernie. Its just a pleasure being in their royal presence listening to stories of the 1970s underground performance and film life in Manhattan, San Francisco and New York.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
GESAMLAUFZEIT
Was taken to a wonderment dinner by the patrician visiting NYU performance studies professor Tavia Nyongo. Mr. Nyongo was born and raised in Kenja. His father is African and his mother is from the American Midwest. Just like the President of the USA. The bistro he took me to is called Rosa Caleta with Jamaican European fusion cuisine. The chef is the legendary Troy Lopez who I met through my CHEAP collegue Tim Blue. Troy has lived in Berlin for over 20 years, and I had heard that Troy opened up a restaurant in Kreuzberg with one of his Jamaican gal pals, and I had longed to go to it, but had no idea that this was Troy´s place till I arrived last Thursday with Mr. Nyongo who received a recommendation to check the restaurant out by British live art star Richard Hancock. It’s a very charming boite located on a cute street in Kreuzberg off of Görlitzer. Since it was a warm evening we sat outside to enjoy the hunky ambiance of young men strolling by with very little clothing on. The food was delicious. We both had the foil wrapped Cod fish that came with some scrumptious vegetables and rice, plus some pickled concoction out of a giant preserve jar. Our waiter was a cute, very sweet full faced tall German boy who was giving out big dique arrogance---lecher!(yummy) The mango cake for desert was definitely the highlight. I´ve tasted Troy´s cakes before and they are divine. He created a chocolate cake called Chocolate Genocide for Tim Blue’s birthday party a few years ago that was completely and utterly riche and scandalous. Next time I go to Rosa Caleta I will have to try a pork or chicken jerk dish, as the cod fish had too many tiny bones in it. I´m trying to eat healthy these days but sometimes its best to just go for whats super comforting. Rosa Caleta has a nice laid back vibe, definitely a great addition to the Berlina food scene, and I give it my Ms. Davis prinzessin seal of approval.
Rosa Caleta - Muskauer Strasse 9 10997 Berlin info@rosacaleta.com www.rosacaleta.com Tues-Sunday 11-1 U1 Görlitzer Bahnhof
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Received this text from Mario Dzurila and DJ Snax for their brilliant installation in the darkroom of Slum at Ficken 3000 in KreuzKölln. Its really amazing and I am glad someone got the idea to do it. Slum is the latest club project by writer Travis Jeppeson and sexy performance artist Tennessee Clafin who use to be the concubine beau of directors Gus Van Sant and Bryan Singer. They also do the Sunday night club Pork. So now all you visitors to Berlin have two new options for your weekday and weekend pleasure factor.
AIN’T NO SUNSHINE
An exhibition by Mario Dzurila and Snax in the dark room of Slum
What if every sperm supposedly “wasted” in a basement dark room actually had the potential to fertilize and produce human life? Mario Dzurila and Snax would like to introduce you to overlooked offspring, the Children Of The Dark Room, where there Ain’t No Sunshine.
In the morning hours, the floor of a typical dark room can almost amount to what science calls “primordial soup.” Special conditions, such as high humidity, low temperature and lack of light fuse with the chemicals used in lubricants and amyl nitrate, thus prolonging a sperm’s life span from several minutes to several days. The pairing and matching of said sperm results in a cell called the zygote, which replicates half the DNA of each of two or more fathers.
After the birth, children remain in the dark room their entire life. Adaptation to their surroundings comes in a myriad of forms. Retinas expand to catch any small amount of light. In other instances, children emit their own light with bioluminescence - disguising their silhouette. They stay hidden in their underground dark dens through busy barroom hours, never allowing their innocence to disturb wandering patrons and future parents. Socializing only with each other, they are timid and panic easily. Their playground is video and their laughter is digitized.
Mario Dzurila and Snax shed light on these forgotten souls and allow the world to witness this phenomenon for the first time. At last, the children will rule the roost downstairs and the visitors are the ones who will have to be their unseen guests.
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The lovely British art photographer Elly Clarke is in this group show Home Grown
New art from Los Angeles and Berlin. A group exhibition organized by Short House
22 August–12 September 2009
Other viewings by appointment: info@artillerie-projekte.org
Short House has teamed up with artillerie to present Home Grown, a group exhibition featuring new work from emerging Los Angeles- and Berlin-based artists. Acknowledging the nomadic nature of today’s art practitioners, Short House’s Berlin debut gives artists from these two sister cities a platform to meet, mix and exchange.
Home Grown takes up themes of mobility, transience and translation. Varying from video,
photography and sound to sculpture and drawing, the works presented in the show examine the urban landscape, geographical identity and characteristics of interpretation.
Exhibiting artists include Kelly Akashi, Jacob Borges, Helen Cahng, Michelle Chong,
Elly Clarke, Drew Dunlap, Ian Henderson, Nathan Hess, Terra Kuroda and Robert O’Connor.
Short House is a transient art space and project that focuses on building opportunities for its
community. Started in L.A. in 2007 by Michelle Chong and Ian Henderson, the artists utilized
their home and organised artist workshops, exhibited artists’ work and produced a concert of
original works by up-and-coming composers and sound artists. In 2009 Short House joined
Berlin’s Kolonie Wedding, a non-profit organization aimed at presenting experimental work from emerging and international artists. artillerie is an interdisciplinary arts venue committed to experimentation in visual arts, performance, film, literature and music. Located in Berlin’s gritty yet vibrant Wedding district, artillerie is a project run by a non-profit group of art activists and volunteers.
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My beautiful German male escort to Rising Stars, Falling Stars every month Uli Ziemons who everyone agrees is one of the most attractive men in Europe is curating a special program at Arsenal Institute für Film und Videokunst called Sylvia´s Promise which is a lovesexy salute to the Kuchar Brothers George and Mike. The program will start on Wednesday Sept 2nd with the title Teenage Tremors from the Bronx, featuring the brothers early work from the late 50s and early 60s including the luscious titles The Naked and the Nude 1957, Anita Needs Me 1963, and A Town Called Tempest 1993. The event concludes on Thursday Sept 3rd with George´s Western Whims the highlight of which is The Devil´s Cleavage 1973. If you love Vaginal Davis you will certainly attend this major event of the late summer season.
Was taken to a wonderment dinner by the patrician visiting NYU performance studies professor Tavia Nyongo. Mr. Nyongo was born and raised in Kenja. His father is African and his mother is from the American Midwest. Just like the President of the USA. The bistro he took me to is called Rosa Caleta with Jamaican European fusion cuisine. The chef is the legendary Troy Lopez who I met through my CHEAP collegue Tim Blue. Troy has lived in Berlin for over 20 years, and I had heard that Troy opened up a restaurant in Kreuzberg with one of his Jamaican gal pals, and I had longed to go to it, but had no idea that this was Troy´s place till I arrived last Thursday with Mr. Nyongo who received a recommendation to check the restaurant out by British live art star Richard Hancock. It’s a very charming boite located on a cute street in Kreuzberg off of Görlitzer. Since it was a warm evening we sat outside to enjoy the hunky ambiance of young men strolling by with very little clothing on. The food was delicious. We both had the foil wrapped Cod fish that came with some scrumptious vegetables and rice, plus some pickled concoction out of a giant preserve jar. Our waiter was a cute, very sweet full faced tall German boy who was giving out big dique arrogance---lecher!(yummy) The mango cake for desert was definitely the highlight. I´ve tasted Troy´s cakes before and they are divine. He created a chocolate cake called Chocolate Genocide for Tim Blue’s birthday party a few years ago that was completely and utterly riche and scandalous. Next time I go to Rosa Caleta I will have to try a pork or chicken jerk dish, as the cod fish had too many tiny bones in it. I´m trying to eat healthy these days but sometimes its best to just go for whats super comforting. Rosa Caleta has a nice laid back vibe, definitely a great addition to the Berlina food scene, and I give it my Ms. Davis prinzessin seal of approval.
Rosa Caleta - Muskauer Strasse 9 10997 Berlin info@rosacaleta.com www.rosacaleta.com Tues-Sunday 11-1 U1 Görlitzer Bahnhof
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Received this text from Mario Dzurila and DJ Snax for their brilliant installation in the darkroom of Slum at Ficken 3000 in KreuzKölln. Its really amazing and I am glad someone got the idea to do it. Slum is the latest club project by writer Travis Jeppeson and sexy performance artist Tennessee Clafin who use to be the concubine beau of directors Gus Van Sant and Bryan Singer. They also do the Sunday night club Pork. So now all you visitors to Berlin have two new options for your weekday and weekend pleasure factor.
AIN’T NO SUNSHINE
An exhibition by Mario Dzurila and Snax in the dark room of Slum
What if every sperm supposedly “wasted” in a basement dark room actually had the potential to fertilize and produce human life? Mario Dzurila and Snax would like to introduce you to overlooked offspring, the Children Of The Dark Room, where there Ain’t No Sunshine.
In the morning hours, the floor of a typical dark room can almost amount to what science calls “primordial soup.” Special conditions, such as high humidity, low temperature and lack of light fuse with the chemicals used in lubricants and amyl nitrate, thus prolonging a sperm’s life span from several minutes to several days. The pairing and matching of said sperm results in a cell called the zygote, which replicates half the DNA of each of two or more fathers.
After the birth, children remain in the dark room their entire life. Adaptation to their surroundings comes in a myriad of forms. Retinas expand to catch any small amount of light. In other instances, children emit their own light with bioluminescence - disguising their silhouette. They stay hidden in their underground dark dens through busy barroom hours, never allowing their innocence to disturb wandering patrons and future parents. Socializing only with each other, they are timid and panic easily. Their playground is video and their laughter is digitized.
Mario Dzurila and Snax shed light on these forgotten souls and allow the world to witness this phenomenon for the first time. At last, the children will rule the roost downstairs and the visitors are the ones who will have to be their unseen guests.
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The lovely British art photographer Elly Clarke is in this group show Home Grown
New art from Los Angeles and Berlin. A group exhibition organized by Short House
22 August–12 September 2009
Other viewings by appointment: info@artillerie-projekte.org
Short House has teamed up with artillerie to present Home Grown, a group exhibition featuring new work from emerging Los Angeles- and Berlin-based artists. Acknowledging the nomadic nature of today’s art practitioners, Short House’s Berlin debut gives artists from these two sister cities a platform to meet, mix and exchange.
Home Grown takes up themes of mobility, transience and translation. Varying from video,
photography and sound to sculpture and drawing, the works presented in the show examine the urban landscape, geographical identity and characteristics of interpretation.
Exhibiting artists include Kelly Akashi, Jacob Borges, Helen Cahng, Michelle Chong,
Elly Clarke, Drew Dunlap, Ian Henderson, Nathan Hess, Terra Kuroda and Robert O’Connor.
Short House is a transient art space and project that focuses on building opportunities for its
community. Started in L.A. in 2007 by Michelle Chong and Ian Henderson, the artists utilized
their home and organised artist workshops, exhibited artists’ work and produced a concert of
original works by up-and-coming composers and sound artists. In 2009 Short House joined
Berlin’s Kolonie Wedding, a non-profit organization aimed at presenting experimental work from emerging and international artists. artillerie is an interdisciplinary arts venue committed to experimentation in visual arts, performance, film, literature and music. Located in Berlin’s gritty yet vibrant Wedding district, artillerie is a project run by a non-profit group of art activists and volunteers.
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My beautiful German male escort to Rising Stars, Falling Stars every month Uli Ziemons who everyone agrees is one of the most attractive men in Europe is curating a special program at Arsenal Institute für Film und Videokunst called Sylvia´s Promise which is a lovesexy salute to the Kuchar Brothers George and Mike. The program will start on Wednesday Sept 2nd with the title Teenage Tremors from the Bronx, featuring the brothers early work from the late 50s and early 60s including the luscious titles The Naked and the Nude 1957, Anita Needs Me 1963, and A Town Called Tempest 1993. The event concludes on Thursday Sept 3rd with George´s Western Whims the highlight of which is The Devil´s Cleavage 1973. If you love Vaginal Davis you will certainly attend this major event of the late summer season.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
AUGEN OHNE GESICHT
The last of the famed Kennedy Brothers died the other day, Senator Edward M. „Teddy“ Kennedy, brother of President John F., Robert and Joseph Jr. My late mother, like a lot of poor black people admired the Kennedy clan enormously. I guess it had something to do with the Kennedy rough and tumble Irish Catholic moxy. The Irish have always been treated as white Niggers in the US of A.
I have had only two contacts with a Kennedy family member. In the early 1990s I shared a brief but spectacular flirtation with John-John Kennedy Jr. This was at the New York nitespot Jackie 60 where I was performing during one of their many themed evenings. I was wearing the Sylvia Heisel bullet proof dress with a padded bra for that extra dose of cleavage---like I needed it. Well my rack caught the eye of the Dead Presidents s o n who in those days was quite a downtown habitue. He casually sauntered up to me for a most pleasant and sweet exchange.
The other encounter was with a very young Brian David Kennedy in 1998 at the Beck/Al Hansen Playing With Matches exhibit I was hosting at the Thread Waxing Space in SoHo. B.D. Kennedy and I were wildly macking, which led to a bit of dry humping in front of a bemused Kate Moss, who acted like she wanted to join in on the fun. I kept in touch with Mr. Kennedy via email for a few months afterward. I really turned him out that evening, but ultimately he was just too weirded out by my free spiritedness to take things further, which was just as well as he was a bit too nerdy for my tastes. I prefer humpy dorks to knock kneed nerds anyday.
Another celebrity passing was the Vanity Fair writer Dominic Dunne. I use to live next door to Dominic Dunne´s daughter Dominique who was killed by her boyfriend an LA Chef. This was way back in the early 1980s when i shared a flat in West Hollywood with my Afro Sister Urethra Franklin nee Helen „Bed“ O'Neill, who owned the Melrose Avenue punk rock boutique Retail Slut. In the late 80s I lived on Sunset Blvd at the beginning of the Sunset Strip at the La Villa Rosa Apts and the boyfriend of Dominique Dunne was let out of prison and moved around the corner on Fairfax Avenue. The Dunne Family launched a massive poster campaign splashing the photos of the man around the neighborhood proclaiming that a murderer has been let loose amongst us.
Not related but around the same period I first met actor Brad Pitt, who was just a fledgling Hollywood ingenue. Brad lived in a tiny back house off of Melrose and Gardner near my other Afro Sister Clitoris Turner aka Leslie Beatty who worked at the deadstock clothing store Cowboys and Poodles(CowPoos). I had been hired to design a T-shirt for a Charity Foundation speared by black TV actress Robin Givens called Go Hard or Go Home. Robin had recently divorced heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson and was having a torrid romance with Brad Pitt. Mr. Pitt was major Ms. Gorgeous, but a bit bratty, moody and generally unfriendly. Ms. Givens really helped his career which wasn´t going anyplace. Robin got him cast in a small guest part on her stupid TV show Head of the Class and somehow that got things rolling in his favour. He lived in a tiny house,but things weren´t so shabby for him as his parents sent him money regularly and he supplemented that by being the constant companion of this old rich industrialist who whould show Brad off by taking him to dinner regularly at concubine central Numbers when it was on Sunset Blvd and the old Carriage Trade on Beverly Blvd near LaCienega. I´m sure Mr. Pitt will not appreciate me reminding people of his gay quasi hustler past.
The last of the famed Kennedy Brothers died the other day, Senator Edward M. „Teddy“ Kennedy, brother of President John F., Robert and Joseph Jr. My late mother, like a lot of poor black people admired the Kennedy clan enormously. I guess it had something to do with the Kennedy rough and tumble Irish Catholic moxy. The Irish have always been treated as white Niggers in the US of A.
I have had only two contacts with a Kennedy family member. In the early 1990s I shared a brief but spectacular flirtation with John-John Kennedy Jr. This was at the New York nitespot Jackie 60 where I was performing during one of their many themed evenings. I was wearing the Sylvia Heisel bullet proof dress with a padded bra for that extra dose of cleavage---like I needed it. Well my rack caught the eye of the Dead Presidents s o n who in those days was quite a downtown habitue. He casually sauntered up to me for a most pleasant and sweet exchange.
The other encounter was with a very young Brian David Kennedy in 1998 at the Beck/Al Hansen Playing With Matches exhibit I was hosting at the Thread Waxing Space in SoHo. B.D. Kennedy and I were wildly macking, which led to a bit of dry humping in front of a bemused Kate Moss, who acted like she wanted to join in on the fun. I kept in touch with Mr. Kennedy via email for a few months afterward. I really turned him out that evening, but ultimately he was just too weirded out by my free spiritedness to take things further, which was just as well as he was a bit too nerdy for my tastes. I prefer humpy dorks to knock kneed nerds anyday.
Another celebrity passing was the Vanity Fair writer Dominic Dunne. I use to live next door to Dominic Dunne´s daughter Dominique who was killed by her boyfriend an LA Chef. This was way back in the early 1980s when i shared a flat in West Hollywood with my Afro Sister Urethra Franklin nee Helen „Bed“ O'Neill, who owned the Melrose Avenue punk rock boutique Retail Slut. In the late 80s I lived on Sunset Blvd at the beginning of the Sunset Strip at the La Villa Rosa Apts and the boyfriend of Dominique Dunne was let out of prison and moved around the corner on Fairfax Avenue. The Dunne Family launched a massive poster campaign splashing the photos of the man around the neighborhood proclaiming that a murderer has been let loose amongst us.
Not related but around the same period I first met actor Brad Pitt, who was just a fledgling Hollywood ingenue. Brad lived in a tiny back house off of Melrose and Gardner near my other Afro Sister Clitoris Turner aka Leslie Beatty who worked at the deadstock clothing store Cowboys and Poodles(CowPoos). I had been hired to design a T-shirt for a Charity Foundation speared by black TV actress Robin Givens called Go Hard or Go Home. Robin had recently divorced heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson and was having a torrid romance with Brad Pitt. Mr. Pitt was major Ms. Gorgeous, but a bit bratty, moody and generally unfriendly. Ms. Givens really helped his career which wasn´t going anyplace. Robin got him cast in a small guest part on her stupid TV show Head of the Class and somehow that got things rolling in his favour. He lived in a tiny house,but things weren´t so shabby for him as his parents sent him money regularly and he supplemented that by being the constant companion of this old rich industrialist who whould show Brad off by taking him to dinner regularly at concubine central Numbers when it was on Sunset Blvd and the old Carriage Trade on Beverly Blvd near LaCienega. I´m sure Mr. Pitt will not appreciate me reminding people of his gay quasi hustler past.
Monday, August 24, 2009
A HANDFUL OF DUST
Was in Scandanavia---Copenhagen and Malmo, Sweden. The weather was lovely and I've never seen such strapping blondine men. Was surprised that there were blacks, asians and Muslims, always thought the nordic countries were completely homagenous. The students at Lund Universities Malmo Art Academy were sweet. Will give you the full report on how everything went there later as it was too much to absorb.
Met a former collegue of tired Lenny Young,who worked with him with this producer named Jake Eberts. Lenny if you don't recall is the husband of Andrew Gould, who was the manager of the Parlour Club where i did Bricktops. Lenny owned the bar. Well this guy told me a lot of good dirt which i will relay one day but i am too busy with stuff to get into it now. What can i say about Lenny Young. Its just that he isn't a real person at all;he's just a few faculties of a man highly developed; the rest simply isn't there.
Was in Scandanavia---Copenhagen and Malmo, Sweden. The weather was lovely and I've never seen such strapping blondine men. Was surprised that there were blacks, asians and Muslims, always thought the nordic countries were completely homagenous. The students at Lund Universities Malmo Art Academy were sweet. Will give you the full report on how everything went there later as it was too much to absorb.
Met a former collegue of tired Lenny Young,who worked with him with this producer named Jake Eberts. Lenny if you don't recall is the husband of Andrew Gould, who was the manager of the Parlour Club where i did Bricktops. Lenny owned the bar. Well this guy told me a lot of good dirt which i will relay one day but i am too busy with stuff to get into it now. What can i say about Lenny Young. Its just that he isn't a real person at all;he's just a few faculties of a man highly developed; the rest simply isn't there.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
QUOMODO SEDET SOLA CIVITAS
Was sent this lovely link from one of my most talented Bricktops children the Lady Christiane who designs amazing heritage clothing and gifts and is an incredible experimental filmmaker. Check out this 14 second clip she directed.
http://www.etsy.tv/video/Making-a-Friend. I don´t need to make any new friends, but after I watched this i wanted to possess the magical ability to sew myself an über masculine, humpy, well endowed lover.
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Can´t wait to get back to Berlin and have power bitch work sessions with that bubble butt beauty boy Little Alex of Macedonia, and his juicy Franco/German pal Julian Radlmaier who will be my collaborators this fall with the Jack Smith Live Film event. My performance is called Memory Island.
Was sent this lovely link from one of my most talented Bricktops children the Lady Christiane who designs amazing heritage clothing and gifts and is an incredible experimental filmmaker. Check out this 14 second clip she directed.
http://www.etsy.tv/video/Making-a-Friend. I don´t need to make any new friends, but after I watched this i wanted to possess the magical ability to sew myself an über masculine, humpy, well endowed lover.
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Can´t wait to get back to Berlin and have power bitch work sessions with that bubble butt beauty boy Little Alex of Macedonia, and his juicy Franco/German pal Julian Radlmaier who will be my collaborators this fall with the Jack Smith Live Film event. My performance is called Memory Island.
Monday, August 17, 2009
RAGOUT VON ERDSCHWAMMERIN
Haven´t received my screener copy of the new biopic CoCo Before Chanel starring Audrey Tatou. I am anxious to see it because my actor friend Allesandro Nivola is in the picture. I first met handsome Allesandro and his lovely wife the British actress Emily Mortimer through Milena and Martiniano of Los Super Elefantes, oops i mean Elegantes.
The Nivolas lived in Echo Park. I wonder if they still reside in Los Angeles. Allesandro comes from a priveledged background. His father was an academic and his grandfather is the Italian sculptor Constantine Nivola. His mother is an old money Boston braumel. He has had a very low key acting career in movies like Loves Labour Lost, Mansfield Park, Face/Off, Inventing the Abbotts, and Laurel Canyon with Frances McDormand who almost did a performance piece with Los Super Elegantes at Peres Projects in Chinatown, but she backed out at the last minute
Haven´t received my screener copy of the new biopic CoCo Before Chanel starring Audrey Tatou. I am anxious to see it because my actor friend Allesandro Nivola is in the picture. I first met handsome Allesandro and his lovely wife the British actress Emily Mortimer through Milena and Martiniano of Los Super Elefantes, oops i mean Elegantes.
The Nivolas lived in Echo Park. I wonder if they still reside in Los Angeles. Allesandro comes from a priveledged background. His father was an academic and his grandfather is the Italian sculptor Constantine Nivola. His mother is an old money Boston braumel. He has had a very low key acting career in movies like Loves Labour Lost, Mansfield Park, Face/Off, Inventing the Abbotts, and Laurel Canyon with Frances McDormand who almost did a performance piece with Los Super Elegantes at Peres Projects in Chinatown, but she backed out at the last minute
Saturday, August 15, 2009
EIN ANONYMES PRODUKT
Aaron Shock the 28 year old junior congressman from Illinois is a Vaginal Davis fan. Yes, according to my young cute intern Gleeson Brevard the congressman ordered several of my unique posters from performances, and wanted them autographed. He asked for a copy of the Six Sex Weeks poster from Hamburg in 1996, a CHEAP It Happened to Me Poster from 2005 and one of my Vision of Excess and the Philosophy of Gifts posters from the Fierce Festival of 2003. How he knew about these specific posters is beyond me, as I don´t advertise them on the web site. He also asked for any other weird posters. Ain´t life grand?
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David Pendleton who is the wonderful and sweet director of the film archives at Harvard University came through Berlin on holiday. I adore Mr. Pendleton who use to work for many years with UCLA´s archive, and also was a member of Mark Simon´s heritage musical group The Boyfriend who were so charming performing regularly at my club Bricktops at the Parlourclub. Speaking of Bricktops I did an interview with Charity Hope Valentine one of the Bricktops girls for Maximum RocknRoll Magazine for their Queer Issue.
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Bud Schulberg who wrote the amazing book What Makes Sammy Run died at age 95. He also won an Oscar for his screenplay for the Marlon Brando film On the Waterfront in 1954. I was never a big fan of his 80s movies but director John Hughes(Breakfast Club/Home Alone) also died at age 59. Also passing at age 92 the last of the beat poets Harold Norse who besides being lovers with writer Paul Bowles also had a thing in the early 70s with Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is now the governor of California. People forget that The Terminator use to ply his muscular self as a bodybuilding piece of trade at Muscle Beach in Venice.
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Listened to a lovely radio report on the California desert from my former LA Weekly collegue, the cute and dorky Ben Adair. The program was called Hearing Voices on NPR. Hearing Ben´s voice on the radio always gives me a chuckle as he still sounds like a weenager.
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My beautiful and extremely talented young art son Jonathan Berger is curating a show in New York in the fall called Nothing Up My Sleeve which is based on the work of the widely unknown yet highly influential artist Stuart Sherman. Sherman was an early member of both the Charles Ludlam and Richard Foreman theater companies. Over a 30 year period he compiled an immense body of his own work in performance, film, video, writing, sculpture and drawing until his death in 2001. The exhibition focuses on the notion of artists using various forms of deception. This will take place at Participant Inc. Gallery in November/December, 2009 as part of RoseLee Goldbergs PERFORMA Biennial. I will do an installation at the gallery but will also perform a reunion show with my legendary homocore band Pedro, Muriel & Esther (PME) featuring all the original members Glen Meadmore, Bique Dick Sneaky Pete and Dean the Babe Opseth. Other artists in the exhibit include Harry Houdini, Andy Kaufman, M.I.A., James Lee Byars, Carol Bove, Matthew Brannon, Superstudio, SITE Projects, Nancy Barton and Mrs. Michael Glass with Allison Somers and Eric Van Speights, Katarina Burin with Eileen Gray, KIOSK/Alisa Grifo and Marco Romeny, Albert Cullum and Robert Downey Sr., Little Switzerland, Stefanie Victor and Jeff Weiss/Hot Keys. This will be my first storming of New Yorika since I was in the Womanizer show at Deitch Projects in 2007. So watch out Manhattan I will be coming to get ya!
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Those of you who are coming to Berlin for vacation and are looking for something interesting to do you might want to check out the Up Your Ears-Queer Music Festival that takes place from Sept 4-6th at the Schwarzer Kanal. Up Your Ears is a true grassroots queer event by some wonderful young activist kids living and working in olde Berlin town.
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Oh kiddies wish me pluck as I´m off to Scandanavia for some private exhibitions, lectures and performances. As Cousin Sebastian says in Tennesse Williams Suddenly, Last Summer, “I´m tired of the dark ones and famished for the light ones”
Aaron Shock the 28 year old junior congressman from Illinois is a Vaginal Davis fan. Yes, according to my young cute intern Gleeson Brevard the congressman ordered several of my unique posters from performances, and wanted them autographed. He asked for a copy of the Six Sex Weeks poster from Hamburg in 1996, a CHEAP It Happened to Me Poster from 2005 and one of my Vision of Excess and the Philosophy of Gifts posters from the Fierce Festival of 2003. How he knew about these specific posters is beyond me, as I don´t advertise them on the web site. He also asked for any other weird posters. Ain´t life grand?
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David Pendleton who is the wonderful and sweet director of the film archives at Harvard University came through Berlin on holiday. I adore Mr. Pendleton who use to work for many years with UCLA´s archive, and also was a member of Mark Simon´s heritage musical group The Boyfriend who were so charming performing regularly at my club Bricktops at the Parlourclub. Speaking of Bricktops I did an interview with Charity Hope Valentine one of the Bricktops girls for Maximum RocknRoll Magazine for their Queer Issue.
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Bud Schulberg who wrote the amazing book What Makes Sammy Run died at age 95. He also won an Oscar for his screenplay for the Marlon Brando film On the Waterfront in 1954. I was never a big fan of his 80s movies but director John Hughes(Breakfast Club/Home Alone) also died at age 59. Also passing at age 92 the last of the beat poets Harold Norse who besides being lovers with writer Paul Bowles also had a thing in the early 70s with Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is now the governor of California. People forget that The Terminator use to ply his muscular self as a bodybuilding piece of trade at Muscle Beach in Venice.
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Listened to a lovely radio report on the California desert from my former LA Weekly collegue, the cute and dorky Ben Adair. The program was called Hearing Voices on NPR. Hearing Ben´s voice on the radio always gives me a chuckle as he still sounds like a weenager.
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My beautiful and extremely talented young art son Jonathan Berger is curating a show in New York in the fall called Nothing Up My Sleeve which is based on the work of the widely unknown yet highly influential artist Stuart Sherman. Sherman was an early member of both the Charles Ludlam and Richard Foreman theater companies. Over a 30 year period he compiled an immense body of his own work in performance, film, video, writing, sculpture and drawing until his death in 2001. The exhibition focuses on the notion of artists using various forms of deception. This will take place at Participant Inc. Gallery in November/December, 2009 as part of RoseLee Goldbergs PERFORMA Biennial. I will do an installation at the gallery but will also perform a reunion show with my legendary homocore band Pedro, Muriel & Esther (PME) featuring all the original members Glen Meadmore, Bique Dick Sneaky Pete and Dean the Babe Opseth. Other artists in the exhibit include Harry Houdini, Andy Kaufman, M.I.A., James Lee Byars, Carol Bove, Matthew Brannon, Superstudio, SITE Projects, Nancy Barton and Mrs. Michael Glass with Allison Somers and Eric Van Speights, Katarina Burin with Eileen Gray, KIOSK/Alisa Grifo and Marco Romeny, Albert Cullum and Robert Downey Sr., Little Switzerland, Stefanie Victor and Jeff Weiss/Hot Keys. This will be my first storming of New Yorika since I was in the Womanizer show at Deitch Projects in 2007. So watch out Manhattan I will be coming to get ya!
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Those of you who are coming to Berlin for vacation and are looking for something interesting to do you might want to check out the Up Your Ears-Queer Music Festival that takes place from Sept 4-6th at the Schwarzer Kanal. Up Your Ears is a true grassroots queer event by some wonderful young activist kids living and working in olde Berlin town.
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Oh kiddies wish me pluck as I´m off to Scandanavia for some private exhibitions, lectures and performances. As Cousin Sebastian says in Tennesse Williams Suddenly, Last Summer, “I´m tired of the dark ones and famished for the light ones”
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