HUHU-TUNTEN
The Vaginal Davis doll is exhausted to no end. I went to bed last night at 8pm after Andrew Gould my former Bricktops partner and his ex-wife Charity Hope Valentine and her new gorgeous Eurasian beau Tashi came by where I am housesitting in Silverlake.
MoCa put me up at the Standard Hotel Downtown which was very comfortable. The Hotel itself is a little too trendy for my taste. I did checkout the rooftop pool but the lunky’s hanging out got on my last raw nerve.
My room was fantastic with a great view of the elegant California Club and across from it what use to be called the Arco TwinTowers. Peaking out of the foreground the imposing Library Crump Crawler. The weather this week has been dreamy, not too hot and not too cold. Just perfect with clear blue skies and gentle breezes. Its freezing in Berlin so I am lucky to be back in my old hometown.
Mounting my performance installation dejecta/protecta in a few days was draining. Jonathan Berger the production and set designer and his collaborators Adam Levine and Marcus Pontello worked round the clock. Talented Marcus designed the Grecian tunics that all the girl living sculptures wore. They all looked like Ava Gardner from One Touch of Venus. It was really lovely.
Jonathan Berger is such a talented young man. I have never seen such agility and focus, and he really galvanized a large group of people into an unstoppable team.
Curator Suzanne Isken from the MoCa Education Dept was a life savior, making the impossible happen. We also had assist by pretty Dana Isken and Stacy Enoch. David Bradshaw took care of all the audio and lighting, plus a zillion other things and was a pleasure to work with. The last time we did something at MoCa together was in 1991 for the famous Helter Skelter Exhibit at the then Temporary Contemporary which is now called the Geffen Contemporary.
And the beautiful art students from all the local colleges and universities who volunteered to be in dejecta were just extroidinary and so creative. They went way beyond the call of duty working long hard hours and never griping or complaining. They looked so beautiful escorting the public to the dinner table holding their hands and flirting shamelessly. ZacKary Drucker and Wu Ingrid Tsang were the hostesses of the dinner party and were visions of graciousness and gorgeous composure. Wu is a master chef and created the minimalist cuisine that was served to the audience with assist by Dr. Jennifer Doyle working as her sous chef. This elevated the event far beyond anything that I could have imagined. The smell of this delicious gourmet food prepared so lovingly wafting through the Ahmanson Theatre was mind boggling.
The performances were great! The Boyfriend----just hysterical and in good voice with their dapper outfits, props and campus cutup behavior. Glen Meadmore looking dazzling in a white Rhinestone Cowboy getup crooning splendidly with everyone being able to understand his inventive lyric play because of the low tech acoustics. Bricktops girl Jean Spinosa as Lucia Joyce was so sexy and charming with latin hunkster Martin Matamoris and Buster Keatonesque Rick Whitmore. And the lecture by Robert Summers on Judy Garland Modalities and the Lacanian Beauty of the FagHag. I gave Dr. Summers who is a young brilliant art historian the title and he ran with it coming up with such a crazy and inventive lecture. My favorite bit was when he said that Michael Jackson was his own faghag. That left the audience in stitches. Darling Larry Bob Roberts of Holy Titclamps and the webmaster of my website read from his new book The International Homosexual Conspiracy and also expounded on Sodomite Eugenics talking about the twink gene and bear gene. Just ribald. Last night I introduced Larry at Book Soup on the Sunset Strip where he was doing a reading from the book, and Larry has gone from a shy retiring dork to quite a seasoned performer. I was really proud of his transformation. Coming out to see Larry read was the self absorbed silver fox of a gay writer Trebor Healy, who hasn’t aged that much, Big Dicque Dave who use to be an editor at Unzipped Magazine, bon vivante Clint Catalyst looking like a gothic Ray Bolger, and film critic David Ehrenstein who gave me so much juicy gossip that I can’t remember it all but I did write down that he said that when the French director Andre’ Techine was a young hustler he had an affair with philosopher Roland Barthes. Before the reading Larry Bob and his wonderful lover Tommy took me to Real Food Daily for a splendid vegan dinner that was pure ecstasy.
In the afternoon I went by Kustom Creative to visit with Jeffrey Hilbert and Little Papa Frank Rodriguez at their independent ad agency. We had a marvelous time together gossiping about Tyler Perry’s film version of For Colored Girls . . .though they were busy with deadlines. Both Jeffreyland and Frank came to my piece and loved the sexy boy beauties.
To try and unwind I went to the Los Feliz Theatre to catch the Darin Aronofsky film Black Swan starring Natalie Portman. Just heard that the star and director are nominated for Academy Awards. The movie isn’t really that good, but it isn’t completely bad either. The tone is just so off in a way I really can’t describe.
Getting back to dejecta/protecta. Julie Tolentino and PigPen aka Stosh Fila presented their lovely endurance piece Cry of Love-The Honey which captivated the crowd at MoCa’s Ahmansen Theatre with its delicate beauty. For 4 hours Julie stood with honey dripping all over her. It was such a nice companion piece to the minimalist dinner. We couldn’t have done dejecta without the help of Julie and PigPen who is an expert in getting materials to use for any occasion as she works in the film industry building, painting and designing complicated set pieces.
O and I have to shout out to filmmaker and visual artist Janie Geiser who screened two of her flawless 16 milimeter films The Fourth Watch and Terrace 49. Janie is a stunningly attractive woman and so sweet and personable. I had first seen her films through Billy Miller’s program at Basso Kollective in Berlin and when I mentioned I wanted to show some 16 milimeter films as part of the piece, Jonathan who worked with her as a teenager recommended Janie and her husband Lewis Klahr and they were perfect in every way possible. The music in their films also went well with the music I was using throughout the piece. Talk about serendipity. Lewis showed his collage film Downs are Feminine which is very edgy and sophisticated.
Jean Kim who I worked with so well for Speaking From the Diaphragm in New York did all the video work for dejecta/protecta. Jean is so quiet and serene. She is such a calming force of nature and a pleasure to work with. On a tight schedule she filmed the screen tests of the Rock Hudson Boy Beauties and Dorothy Arzner Dance Girl Dance Lovelies. Along with Hector Martinez taking photos used as a wallpaper backdrop the films had this ethereal quality like they were floating in time and space. Jean is so talented that the mainstream has been sniffing at her door. The MTV remake of the incredible British teen television show Skins hired her to do videos. And now everyone is going to want to use her services.
The roster of celebutants attending the four shows on Jan 22nd of dejecta/protecta reads as a who’s who in almost every field imaginable. Here is the list, and other names have been coming to me as well: MoCa director Jeffrey Deitch brought with him photographer David LaChapelle,Simon de Pury, Chris Johansen, Bennett Simpson, Dan Colen and Nathan Sawaya. Others who got to sit at table: Emi Fontana of West of Rome, Craig Roose, Marc Frietas, hockey player Anze Kopitar,
NY Socialite Waris Ahluwalia, PC Valmorbida, Sebastian Jondeau with Brad Koenig, China Art Objects gang who will be selling my makeup paintings in the LA Art Fair, Lisa Mark with husband Channing Hansen, Stella of Stray Pop, Sean deLear, Nicky Giovanni Leonard and wife Sandra O Noshe Didn’t, MarLou DeLuna & Hal Marinas, Tom Guinness, Andrew Garfield, Karen Lofgren, and Michele Carr of Velvet Hammer.
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This sweet note came to me about dejecta/protecta:
Lovely Ms Davis,
Dejecta/Protecta your wonderful performance tonight was absolutely beautiful funny amazing really really enjoyable. My buddy Hector came with me and we both greatly enjoyed ourselves.
That was really cool how that auditorium space was completely transformed with all that fabric and the creepy big doll things off to the side and that gorgeous lady in the corner with gooey sticky honey dripped all on her and that guy standing above her on the platform, and the very idea of the dinner setup was funny interesting uncomfortable fascinating and special cute beautiful too. May not make sense me putting it in writing, but that's how I think it in my head and felt it inside, you know? Funny how the book thing on the table in front of me had my mom's first name on it and the lady across from me mentioned the title of the book in front of her, and it turns out to be this book I tried hard to read 15 years ago and it was so unnerving painful to read it that I only made 20 pages and had to give up. (And I never give up!). Those young people are so lovely! Are they students of yours? I looooved how they personally seductively led us into the dining room. The podium presentation of faggery haggery history was reeeeelly interesting and yes funny. The film with music was great too, those male boinking images and naked lady images remind me of a deck of male cards I saw at a neighbors house in Silverlake and a set of trick drinking glasses that one of my aunt's husbands has at home. Mmmm hmmm. Glen Meadmore!! I liked so much seeing him hearing him again after all these years. I do recall some of his polaroid photos montage artworks at MOCA some years ago in a show we had, but onstage.....well he was wearing a lot less clothing last time I saw him. I was pleasantly glad he was a part of this performance.
You! You! You! What a most beautiful smile you still have on your gorgeous face! You really did look exactly like the last time me and my buddy Hector saw you at the old club on Virgil and Santa Monica ages ago.
Your voice and presence was so wonderful so close to all of us in the audience. What you said really sparked up in my brain about a lot of things. And not all of them frivolous and smiling. Which my dear Ms Davis is a wonderful effect to have on someone. Thank you for doing such a great creative work at MOCA. I am so honoured to have seen you and your talented group performing. Thank you sooooo much.
Breathe In The Love, Breathe Out The Jive.
Rosenda.
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And now to bring me back to reality I get this email from my sister Teresa about my family and my oldest sister Gracie who is dying of cancer:
Gracie keeps getting up from chemo. But her clothes are falling off of her because she's lost so much weight.
Now Marky(my nephew) is in a Rehabilitation Center. He still has short term memory loss and needs to be reminded to bath and dress himself. Both sides are recovering from stroke. So he is weak. With his heart working at 15% it's not likely he will get much better. Gracie has gotten power of attorney so Kim (Marky’s ex wife)can't take his money. She did try by getting checks from the bank-even with his name on them only. So Gracie wants me to be power of attorney when she dies... He really can't remember when to take medication or how to cook or when to eat. So he can only live by himself with In Home Support.
Darren (My nieces husband) is about to go away to prison for his criminal activity. Terri is relying on his unemployment. So the reality of what he did is sinking in. And, he is very worried about Terri and the kids now. Of course this is too late. Terri had to have emergency surgery on New Years' Day. We were all at Victorville when she got strong cramps. She got her tubes tied but she got pregnant in her tubes. The tube ruptured and she was bleeding internally. She had to have a c-section to remove the fetus and repair the rupture before she bled to death. After the surgery her hands were very cold because she lost a lot of blood. But now she's better. But she can't look for work until she gets healed. So times are still hard for her. Darren cried because he does love his kids and he did want the baby. Of course 5 children is impossible. And Darren said he is very sorry for everything now. He's just one of those people who learn the hard way!
Hope to see you next week. Let me know! Love you!
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So yes Vaginal Davis wasn’t exactly hatched as many people think. She actually came from something resembling a human family.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
GETTING GERTIE’S GREGARIOUS GARTER
Its been absolutely enchanting returning to Los Angeles for my dejecta/proteca installation piece at MoCa. Hector Martinez picked me up at the airport Saturday and I couldn’t believe how balmy it was almost 85 degrees fahrenheit without a cloud in the sky and a nice coolish breeze blowing. I checked in to my trendy hotel and in the parking lot they were filming a movie with that sizzling young Academy Award winning actor Adrian Brody. All of downtown LA seemed to be abuzz with filmic activity. Hector took me to this little boite on Main Street called Pete’s where I guzzled a huge cheeseburger with sensational chipotle fries. On the way back to my hotel we ran into Solomon Monsour of Dirt Box-- the famed 1980s LA underground club, and his lovesexy galpal. They live in a hoite toite loft called The Roosevelt.
Young humpy British male ingénue Alex Garfield was on my connector plane to Los Angeles. From Amsterdam. Mr. G. is in the hit film The Social Network.
The next day Skot Armstrong of the legendary LA art collective Science Holiday invited me, my production designer & collaborator Jonathan Berger, Dr. Jennifer Doyle of UC Riverside and Dr. Robert Summers of Otis School of Design to a high tea party at the Biltmore Hotel’s luscious Rendevous Court that overlooks Pershing Square. Joining us was Kateri Butler my Managing Editrix from the LA Weekly and Maggie Song of the brilliant LA post punk band The Fibonacci’s. A wonderful time was had by one and all. Leaving the Biltmore I bumped into Billy Hoye my old Koreatown neighbor and UCLA classmate. Billy works as a set decorator on Hollywood films so of course he would be part of the crew on this Adrian Brody film that was taking over the city.
Monday Jonathan and I had a meeting with Wu and ZacKary at the Village Bakery in Atwater Village. The food was a little pricy, but super delicious, and the staff of sweet young girls warm and accommodating. From our breakfast meeting we went to this old fashion hardware store on Glendale Blvd to powwow with Julie Tolentino and PigPen aka: Stosh Fila who were coordinating all the supplies we needed for this performance installation. Thank god for Julie and PigPen. They are so GoTo strong and mighty. We went to MoCa for load in and met with staff members David, the AV Tech Coordinator who I last worked with 20 years ago on the Helter Skelter exhibit at the Temporary Contemporary which is now now known as the David Geffen Contemporary off of Alameda and 1st Street. Reconnected also with Mike the operations mgr, Jang the Exhibitions Director, EJ the audio meister and sweetie pie Matt who would be our tech guy for the entire week of installing this piece. Everyone has been so warm, supportive and helpful. Special shout out to Suzanne Isken who is the Artist Museum curator and her adorable daughter Dana who bakes killer cup cakes. Suzanne has been the guardian angel of dejecta/protecta.
There is still so much more work to be done for the opening performances on Saturday. Of course I feel like a chicken with its head cut off. Also collaborating on the production end of the project are juicy Marcus and sensational Adam. The day we were filming the Jack Smith style screen tests with Video artist Jean Kim and Hector Martinez taking photos was fantastic. We managed to stay on schedule with logistics that could have been nightmarish. Out student volunteers are all warm and bubbly from a lot of the Southern California art schools and universities. Such a great group of beautiful young men and women.
Its been absolutely enchanting returning to Los Angeles for my dejecta/proteca installation piece at MoCa. Hector Martinez picked me up at the airport Saturday and I couldn’t believe how balmy it was almost 85 degrees fahrenheit without a cloud in the sky and a nice coolish breeze blowing. I checked in to my trendy hotel and in the parking lot they were filming a movie with that sizzling young Academy Award winning actor Adrian Brody. All of downtown LA seemed to be abuzz with filmic activity. Hector took me to this little boite on Main Street called Pete’s where I guzzled a huge cheeseburger with sensational chipotle fries. On the way back to my hotel we ran into Solomon Monsour of Dirt Box-- the famed 1980s LA underground club, and his lovesexy galpal. They live in a hoite toite loft called The Roosevelt.
Young humpy British male ingénue Alex Garfield was on my connector plane to Los Angeles. From Amsterdam. Mr. G. is in the hit film The Social Network.
The next day Skot Armstrong of the legendary LA art collective Science Holiday invited me, my production designer & collaborator Jonathan Berger, Dr. Jennifer Doyle of UC Riverside and Dr. Robert Summers of Otis School of Design to a high tea party at the Biltmore Hotel’s luscious Rendevous Court that overlooks Pershing Square. Joining us was Kateri Butler my Managing Editrix from the LA Weekly and Maggie Song of the brilliant LA post punk band The Fibonacci’s. A wonderful time was had by one and all. Leaving the Biltmore I bumped into Billy Hoye my old Koreatown neighbor and UCLA classmate. Billy works as a set decorator on Hollywood films so of course he would be part of the crew on this Adrian Brody film that was taking over the city.
Monday Jonathan and I had a meeting with Wu and ZacKary at the Village Bakery in Atwater Village. The food was a little pricy, but super delicious, and the staff of sweet young girls warm and accommodating. From our breakfast meeting we went to this old fashion hardware store on Glendale Blvd to powwow with Julie Tolentino and PigPen aka: Stosh Fila who were coordinating all the supplies we needed for this performance installation. Thank god for Julie and PigPen. They are so GoTo strong and mighty. We went to MoCa for load in and met with staff members David, the AV Tech Coordinator who I last worked with 20 years ago on the Helter Skelter exhibit at the Temporary Contemporary which is now now known as the David Geffen Contemporary off of Alameda and 1st Street. Reconnected also with Mike the operations mgr, Jang the Exhibitions Director, EJ the audio meister and sweetie pie Matt who would be our tech guy for the entire week of installing this piece. Everyone has been so warm, supportive and helpful. Special shout out to Suzanne Isken who is the Artist Museum curator and her adorable daughter Dana who bakes killer cup cakes. Suzanne has been the guardian angel of dejecta/protecta.
There is still so much more work to be done for the opening performances on Saturday. Of course I feel like a chicken with its head cut off. Also collaborating on the production end of the project are juicy Marcus and sensational Adam. The day we were filming the Jack Smith style screen tests with Video artist Jean Kim and Hector Martinez taking photos was fantastic. We managed to stay on schedule with logistics that could have been nightmarish. Out student volunteers are all warm and bubbly from a lot of the Southern California art schools and universities. Such a great group of beautiful young men and women.
Friday, January 14, 2011
WARMER BRUDER
Last night’s Rising Stars, Falling Stars screening of the Alma Reville/Alfred Hitchcock 1927 film Easy Virtue was electrifying.Eunice Martin on klavier played as if her life depended on it. Among her staunch admirers in the audience-composer Hans Berg. With An SRO crowd it was a nice way to begin the RSFS series for the gnu yeart of 2011.Lots of hot young NYU visiting grad students like Ms. Jessica Giespert with her entourage Andy & Katherine plus Carlos Reyes and Jo-ey Tang who brought the most beautiful Korean boy on the planet with them. This young child mesmerized me with his sculptural masculine face and a rock hard tight body-yowza! I’d give up my last paycheck,if I had a paycheck for him to sit on my face 24/7. Also on hand hunky young artist Gunnar Neumann with posse,big peniled German sex machine Jan Klesse of the new rock band Tenderloin, lovesexy video maker Liz Rosenfeld, handsome proper butch video artist and junior curator Justin Tyme, Nanna Heidenreich of Arsenal Experimental with gal pal DJane Olga Damnitz(Thank you Nanna for the sweet smelling perfume), filmmaker Angela Anderson with British thespian Alex Pettyfer, Ulrich Ziemons(the handsomest man in Europe) with Nadja Talmi of Forum Expanded,cutie pie male ingénue Alden Ehrenreich with his Olympic athlete beau Artus Was, Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim and translator to the shtars who did the creative decorations in the Rote Foyer and designed my new RSFS poster, Little Alex of Macedonia aka: Tielemachos Alexiou who styled, beat the face and hair in shape of la hostessa making her look super glamoo. Little tiny bubble butt Alex is a gifted filmmaker in his own right with the Chocolate Grinder kollective was with his humpy Israeli lover Assaf Hochman, a dancer with the Catherine Sullivan Company. Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus who is learning to speak Arabic made all the art honchos Leo Koenig, Galerie Neu’s Johannes Birkner-Behlen and dealer Jan Wentrup feel right at home. Rising Stars goes on hiatus during the Berlinale in February but will be right back atcha in March.
1940s big band singer Margaret Whiting died age 86. She had a very nice silky vocal tonality, evident in songs like “Moonlight in Vermont”. Though I wasn’t a huge fan, what did intrigue me about her was that she was married to gay porn star Jack Wrangler, 22 years her junior. They met in 1976, and he told her he was gay to which she replied, “Only around the edges dear.” They wed in 1994 after living together for many years and he died in 2009.
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This from my sweet and handsome baby diaper Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras on holiday in Central America.
Queen Vaginal,
OH how I have been missing my favourite lady. Where are you? How are you? I briefly scanned your blog and am happy to hear you had such a wonderful New Years being pampered like the lady you are.
I am in the mountains of Costa Rica. Monteverde to be exact and it is breathtaking. Enrico and I went zip-lining today over the forests and it was definitely a thrill and the most "extreme" thing I have ever done. I feel like Tarzan today!
In case you were remotely missing me at all, please find enclosed the photo that the Siegessäule photo-lady took that evening I stepped away from Tenderloin rehearsal. Do you like?
So I am DJing with BlaB February 4th at SchwuZ. It won't be as fun as Djing with you but I am sure it will be easier then the three of us together. Ha ha.
So what are your LA dates? You are going to be gone so much this winter :(
I am back in Berlin January 24th....
OK, gotta go get ready for dinner...Enrico should be back from his night hike looking for Tarantula's.
Much love and laughter to you
joel
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Last night’s Rising Stars, Falling Stars screening of the Alma Reville/Alfred Hitchcock 1927 film Easy Virtue was electrifying.Eunice Martin on klavier played as if her life depended on it. Among her staunch admirers in the audience-composer Hans Berg. With An SRO crowd it was a nice way to begin the RSFS series for the gnu yeart of 2011.Lots of hot young NYU visiting grad students like Ms. Jessica Giespert with her entourage Andy & Katherine plus Carlos Reyes and Jo-ey Tang who brought the most beautiful Korean boy on the planet with them. This young child mesmerized me with his sculptural masculine face and a rock hard tight body-yowza! I’d give up my last paycheck,if I had a paycheck for him to sit on my face 24/7. Also on hand hunky young artist Gunnar Neumann with posse,big peniled German sex machine Jan Klesse of the new rock band Tenderloin, lovesexy video maker Liz Rosenfeld, handsome proper butch video artist and junior curator Justin Tyme, Nanna Heidenreich of Arsenal Experimental with gal pal DJane Olga Damnitz(Thank you Nanna for the sweet smelling perfume), filmmaker Angela Anderson with British thespian Alex Pettyfer, Ulrich Ziemons(the handsomest man in Europe) with Nadja Talmi of Forum Expanded,cutie pie male ingénue Alden Ehrenreich with his Olympic athlete beau Artus Was, Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim and translator to the shtars who did the creative decorations in the Rote Foyer and designed my new RSFS poster, Little Alex of Macedonia aka: Tielemachos Alexiou who styled, beat the face and hair in shape of la hostessa making her look super glamoo. Little tiny bubble butt Alex is a gifted filmmaker in his own right with the Chocolate Grinder kollective was with his humpy Israeli lover Assaf Hochman, a dancer with the Catherine Sullivan Company. Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus who is learning to speak Arabic made all the art honchos Leo Koenig, Galerie Neu’s Johannes Birkner-Behlen and dealer Jan Wentrup feel right at home. Rising Stars goes on hiatus during the Berlinale in February but will be right back atcha in March.
1940s big band singer Margaret Whiting died age 86. She had a very nice silky vocal tonality, evident in songs like “Moonlight in Vermont”. Though I wasn’t a huge fan, what did intrigue me about her was that she was married to gay porn star Jack Wrangler, 22 years her junior. They met in 1976, and he told her he was gay to which she replied, “Only around the edges dear.” They wed in 1994 after living together for many years and he died in 2009.
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This from my sweet and handsome baby diaper Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras on holiday in Central America.
Queen Vaginal,
OH how I have been missing my favourite lady. Where are you? How are you? I briefly scanned your blog and am happy to hear you had such a wonderful New Years being pampered like the lady you are.
I am in the mountains of Costa Rica. Monteverde to be exact and it is breathtaking. Enrico and I went zip-lining today over the forests and it was definitely a thrill and the most "extreme" thing I have ever done. I feel like Tarzan today!
In case you were remotely missing me at all, please find enclosed the photo that the Siegessäule photo-lady took that evening I stepped away from Tenderloin rehearsal. Do you like?
So I am DJing with BlaB February 4th at SchwuZ. It won't be as fun as Djing with you but I am sure it will be easier then the three of us together. Ha ha.
So what are your LA dates? You are going to be gone so much this winter :(
I am back in Berlin January 24th....
OK, gotta go get ready for dinner...Enrico should be back from his night hike looking for Tarantula's.
Much love and laughter to you
joel
x
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
ANDERES UFER
Film historian Marc Siegel’s CHEAP mailing list post is always filled with wonderful tidbits of information about what is happening in Berlin. So if you are a visitor check out his recommendations below:
Hello CHEAP Friends,
A perfect way to celebrate the ice breaking mild weather would be to go see what some of the people in the CHEAP cosmos are doing with themselves in public. There are three things going on in January that are worth your last dime:
1. Vaginal Davis welcomes you into 2011 with a HitchCOCKian silent film, Thursday, Jan 13th
2. Our very own Tim Blue has created a new work for the child in you at
Theater an der Parkaue with Stefan Faupel. Premiere on Friday, Jan. 14.
3. Our very own Tim Blue will have his very own evening in Arsenal, Jan 31st.
So, first, Miss Davis in her own words, because these words are so juicy this month:
Hope to see you Thursday, January 13th at 9pm for the first Rising Stars,Falling Stars of the New Year. We will screen Alfred Hitchcock¹s silent version of faggoty Noel Coward¹s Easy Virtue from 1927. Accompanying the film on klavier is the great composer Eunice Martin.
To get everyone in a festive mood feel free to come dressed in Hitchcock heroine chic.Yowza! We suggest you wear a strangulating necktie, mink coat & typewriter-in-tow ensemble for that special oomph of Tallulah Bankhead glamour. I want to see plenty of murderous gay hysterical bottom runway realness, Mrs. Bundy ornithologist tweeds for handsome women, Jimmy Stewart peeping-tom haberdashery, Edith Head ill hairdos & dark grey shades. Mrs. Danvers sinister saaphic brittleness is always appropriate, along with Melanie Daniels spoiled socialite smugness or Grace Kelly cocktail gowns for hetero normative crossdressers. Oh and lets not forget to highlight our
Norman Bates neurotic tics.
Rising Stars, Falling Stars Thursday Jan 13, 2011 9pm Kino Arsenal 2 Alfred Hitchcock/Alma Reville’s Easy Virtue 1927 with musical accompaniment by Eunice Martin. After the screening join curator and hostess Vaginal Davis in the Rote Foyer for an intimate wine reception. 2 Potsdamer Str at the Sony Center Filmhaus in Historic Potsdamer Platz
www.vaginaldavis.com
After the smash success of CHEAPs english-language queer for kids
production of "Dr. Seuss ABC," Tim Blue and Stefan Faupel (the stars of that infamous piece) took it upon themselves to create something new for the Theater an der Parkaue (probably the only Staatstheater around that would let such talented goofballs create their own piece!). The result is: "Is there Anybody Out There?" a disturbing UFO musical inspired by Alice in Wonderland and the Wizard of Oz and with sets by handsome Senol Senturk (of CHEAP Blacky fame). We don't know what to expect from that perverse non-thespian/thespian trio, but it's sure to be strange, beautiful and fun.
The premiere on Jan 14 is already sold out, so go see it either on Sa,
15.01.2011 at 16:00 Uhr or Mo, 17.01.2011 at 10:00 Uhr. Take a few designer babies with you.
At Theater an der Parkaue, Parkaue 29 Lichtenberg.
Info at:http://www.parkaue.de/index.php?topic=22&playId=738
Sound and Image Works by Tim Blue at the Arsenal as a part of DAS
Weekend/Transmediale on Jan 31. Check out Tim Blue and Paul Rowley's
experimental feature THE ROOMS (2009) in its Berlin premiere! This is Tim's first feature and it is rife with the sensuous abstractions we know and love from his shorts! Indeed, the program will open with a short film and live music accompaniment by the Brothers Blue, Tim and John. A selection of Tim's shorts (film's I mean, not his skanky Bermudas) will be playing in the BlackBox! Not to be missed! Arsenal, Jan 31, 7pm
info:http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/de/arsenal/programmtext-anzeige/article/2118/30
4.html?cHash=940c59d480
Hope to see you in all your bottom bitterness or spoiled smugness!
Yours,
Marc
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CHEAP looks forward to...
*Vaginal Davis in LA! Again! Check out dejecta/protecta
A performance by Vaginal Davis
in conjunction with The Artists Museum
Saturday, January 22, 2011, 8pm
Ahmanson Auditorium at MOCA on Grand Ave.
*Brand new piece by Tim Blue/Paul Rowley/David Philips in this year's ForumExpanded!
*The Advocate for Fagdom in the Panorama at this year's Berlinale! a new documentary about Judy La Bruce with interviews by such decrepid
personalities as Susanne Sachsse, Vaginal Davis, Gus Van Sant, John Waters,blahblahblah! don't miss it!
*and of course...Susanne Sachsse singing Schoenberg! Prepare for the
premiere of a radical new production of that perverse Austrian atonalist'sPIERROT LUNAIRE on March 6, 2011 at HAU! Conducted by melancholic beauty Premil Petrovic and directed by the eternally and seductively washed-up JudyLaBruce! not to be missed.
Film historian Marc Siegel’s CHEAP mailing list post is always filled with wonderful tidbits of information about what is happening in Berlin. So if you are a visitor check out his recommendations below:
Hello CHEAP Friends,
A perfect way to celebrate the ice breaking mild weather would be to go see what some of the people in the CHEAP cosmos are doing with themselves in public. There are three things going on in January that are worth your last dime:
1. Vaginal Davis welcomes you into 2011 with a HitchCOCKian silent film, Thursday, Jan 13th
2. Our very own Tim Blue has created a new work for the child in you at
Theater an der Parkaue with Stefan Faupel. Premiere on Friday, Jan. 14.
3. Our very own Tim Blue will have his very own evening in Arsenal, Jan 31st.
So, first, Miss Davis in her own words, because these words are so juicy this month:
Hope to see you Thursday, January 13th at 9pm for the first Rising Stars,Falling Stars of the New Year. We will screen Alfred Hitchcock¹s silent version of faggoty Noel Coward¹s Easy Virtue from 1927. Accompanying the film on klavier is the great composer Eunice Martin.
To get everyone in a festive mood feel free to come dressed in Hitchcock heroine chic.Yowza! We suggest you wear a strangulating necktie, mink coat & typewriter-in-tow ensemble for that special oomph of Tallulah Bankhead glamour. I want to see plenty of murderous gay hysterical bottom runway realness, Mrs. Bundy ornithologist tweeds for handsome women, Jimmy Stewart peeping-tom haberdashery, Edith Head ill hairdos & dark grey shades. Mrs. Danvers sinister saaphic brittleness is always appropriate, along with Melanie Daniels spoiled socialite smugness or Grace Kelly cocktail gowns for hetero normative crossdressers. Oh and lets not forget to highlight our
Norman Bates neurotic tics.
Rising Stars, Falling Stars Thursday Jan 13, 2011 9pm Kino Arsenal 2 Alfred Hitchcock/Alma Reville’s Easy Virtue 1927 with musical accompaniment by Eunice Martin. After the screening join curator and hostess Vaginal Davis in the Rote Foyer for an intimate wine reception. 2 Potsdamer Str at the Sony Center Filmhaus in Historic Potsdamer Platz
www.vaginaldavis.com
After the smash success of CHEAPs english-language queer for kids
production of "Dr. Seuss ABC," Tim Blue and Stefan Faupel (the stars of that infamous piece) took it upon themselves to create something new for the Theater an der Parkaue (probably the only Staatstheater around that would let such talented goofballs create their own piece!). The result is: "Is there Anybody Out There?" a disturbing UFO musical inspired by Alice in Wonderland and the Wizard of Oz and with sets by handsome Senol Senturk (of CHEAP Blacky fame). We don't know what to expect from that perverse non-thespian/thespian trio, but it's sure to be strange, beautiful and fun.
The premiere on Jan 14 is already sold out, so go see it either on Sa,
15.01.2011 at 16:00 Uhr or Mo, 17.01.2011 at 10:00 Uhr. Take a few designer babies with you.
At Theater an der Parkaue, Parkaue 29 Lichtenberg.
Info at:http://www.parkaue.de/index.php?topic=22&playId=738
Sound and Image Works by Tim Blue at the Arsenal as a part of DAS
Weekend/Transmediale on Jan 31. Check out Tim Blue and Paul Rowley's
experimental feature THE ROOMS (2009) in its Berlin premiere! This is Tim's first feature and it is rife with the sensuous abstractions we know and love from his shorts! Indeed, the program will open with a short film and live music accompaniment by the Brothers Blue, Tim and John. A selection of Tim's shorts (film's I mean, not his skanky Bermudas) will be playing in the BlackBox! Not to be missed! Arsenal, Jan 31, 7pm
info:http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/de/arsenal/programmtext-anzeige/article/2118/30
4.html?cHash=940c59d480
Hope to see you in all your bottom bitterness or spoiled smugness!
Yours,
Marc
*****
CHEAP looks forward to...
*Vaginal Davis in LA! Again! Check out dejecta/protecta
A performance by Vaginal Davis
in conjunction with The Artists Museum
Saturday, January 22, 2011, 8pm
Ahmanson Auditorium at MOCA on Grand Ave.
*Brand new piece by Tim Blue/Paul Rowley/David Philips in this year's ForumExpanded!
*The Advocate for Fagdom in the Panorama at this year's Berlinale! a new documentary about Judy La Bruce with interviews by such decrepid
personalities as Susanne Sachsse, Vaginal Davis, Gus Van Sant, John Waters,blahblahblah! don't miss it!
*and of course...Susanne Sachsse singing Schoenberg! Prepare for the
premiere of a radical new production of that perverse Austrian atonalist'sPIERROT LUNAIRE on March 6, 2011 at HAU! Conducted by melancholic beauty Premil Petrovic and directed by the eternally and seductively washed-up JudyLaBruce! not to be missed.
Monday, January 10, 2011
ROHR ZU SCHMECKEN
This just in from one of my Weissensee students Katya Maya who is in the wonderful new band Leiseylento:
HOP laaa !!
wir haben ein grund zu feiern! vorgestern ist unsere CD - die allererste
special limited edition handmade wow wow- fertig geworden! juhu, dank an
viele wunderbare menschen ist sie toll geworden und jetzt gehen wir auf tour
mit unsere grosse schwester MY SISTER GRENADINE (mysistergrenadine.com) um
sie zu präsentieren.es fängt in Hamburg an... und für unsere liebe berlinerInnen ist das nächste LIVE termin am 25.januar chez madame claude*
our queer tango and experimental chanson first album ist ready! yeah! record
release is happening on tour next week and soon in berlin! thanks to all the
wonderful persons who helped us to make this great thing happen!
spread the word! leitet weiter ! kommt vorbei ! schickt eure familie !
macht verspätete weihnachts geschenke !
hope to see you all soon**
10.01. hamburg / pony bar
11.01. hamburg / sweet home
12.01. kiel / prinz willy
13.01. hannover / feinkostlampe
14.01. köln / vorstadtprinzessin ---- mit krikela
15.01. osnabrück / café mojo
für alle details adressen usw. bitte auf myspace schauen:
www.myspace.com/leiseylento °°°°°° dort sind auch neue lieder zu
hören°°°°°°°°new songs°°°°°°°°mit unsere special guest musicians°°°°°°°°
25.01 berlin/ madame claude , lübbenerstr.19, xberg, 21h
love** leiseylento**
***
My other amazingly talented NYU grad students Carlos Reyes, and Jo-ey Tang along with artist and curator Elly Clarke came by the Cheese Endique Trifecta last night for some hot toddies and snax. It was a very rousing salon at the Trifecta aided along with Kentucky boubon. The gorgeous Ms. Clarke is leaving Berlin for a while to teach as Senior Lecturer in Photography at Coventry University in blimy Birmingham, England. She will certainly be missed here in Berlina as this is one young woman who is a mover and a shaker, but in a more interesting loving way then those tired art careerists who are stretching their icky tentacles everywhere. Don’t let me get started as that is another subject for another time.
***
Earlier in the day I attended a grand bruncheon at the famous table of La Susanne Sachsse the fearless leader of collective CHEAP. The table was gloriously set with cascading tulips as we ate a hearty Jena style meal of pork & lamb snausages, potato porridge, white kabal sour krout and a winter green salad with film historian Marc Siegel’s famed secret dressing---yumsville.
Susi’s beautiful children Richard & Salome Gersh were also on hand, as well as Richard’s new sweet and pretty girlfriend Fraulein Vicki.
Marc & Susi and I chatted about next year’s big Camp Anti Camp Festival they are curating which looks like it will be very exciting as it will be the last project at HAU under the artistic direction of Mattias Lienthal the quirky genius of the Hebbel Theatre.
***
Saturday morn I took Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim and his boyfriend Piero Bellomo to a birthday breakfast at the Turkish boite La Femme on Kott Busser Damn. We were there very early so it wasn’t crowded.Usually this place is a madhouse as the food is very good, and the moultenly hot Turkish men populating the joint is very eyecandylishtic.
This just in from one of my Weissensee students Katya Maya who is in the wonderful new band Leiseylento:
HOP laaa !!
wir haben ein grund zu feiern! vorgestern ist unsere CD - die allererste
special limited edition handmade wow wow- fertig geworden! juhu, dank an
viele wunderbare menschen ist sie toll geworden und jetzt gehen wir auf tour
mit unsere grosse schwester MY SISTER GRENADINE (mysistergrenadine.com) um
sie zu präsentieren.es fängt in Hamburg an... und für unsere liebe berlinerInnen ist das nächste LIVE termin am 25.januar chez madame claude*
our queer tango and experimental chanson first album ist ready! yeah! record
release is happening on tour next week and soon in berlin! thanks to all the
wonderful persons who helped us to make this great thing happen!
spread the word! leitet weiter ! kommt vorbei ! schickt eure familie !
macht verspätete weihnachts geschenke !
hope to see you all soon**
10.01. hamburg / pony bar
11.01. hamburg / sweet home
12.01. kiel / prinz willy
13.01. hannover / feinkostlampe
14.01. köln / vorstadtprinzessin ---- mit krikela
15.01. osnabrück / café mojo
für alle details adressen usw. bitte auf myspace schauen:
www.myspace.com/leiseylento °°°°°° dort sind auch neue lieder zu
hören°°°°°°°°new songs°°°°°°°°mit unsere special guest musicians°°°°°°°°
25.01 berlin/ madame claude , lübbenerstr.19, xberg, 21h
love** leiseylento**
***
My other amazingly talented NYU grad students Carlos Reyes, and Jo-ey Tang along with artist and curator Elly Clarke came by the Cheese Endique Trifecta last night for some hot toddies and snax. It was a very rousing salon at the Trifecta aided along with Kentucky boubon. The gorgeous Ms. Clarke is leaving Berlin for a while to teach as Senior Lecturer in Photography at Coventry University in blimy Birmingham, England. She will certainly be missed here in Berlina as this is one young woman who is a mover and a shaker, but in a more interesting loving way then those tired art careerists who are stretching their icky tentacles everywhere. Don’t let me get started as that is another subject for another time.
***
Earlier in the day I attended a grand bruncheon at the famous table of La Susanne Sachsse the fearless leader of collective CHEAP. The table was gloriously set with cascading tulips as we ate a hearty Jena style meal of pork & lamb snausages, potato porridge, white kabal sour krout and a winter green salad with film historian Marc Siegel’s famed secret dressing---yumsville.
Susi’s beautiful children Richard & Salome Gersh were also on hand, as well as Richard’s new sweet and pretty girlfriend Fraulein Vicki.
Marc & Susi and I chatted about next year’s big Camp Anti Camp Festival they are curating which looks like it will be very exciting as it will be the last project at HAU under the artistic direction of Mattias Lienthal the quirky genius of the Hebbel Theatre.
***
Saturday morn I took Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim and his boyfriend Piero Bellomo to a birthday breakfast at the Turkish boite La Femme on Kott Busser Damn. We were there very early so it wasn’t crowded.Usually this place is a madhouse as the food is very good, and the moultenly hot Turkish men populating the joint is very eyecandylishtic.
Saturday, January 08, 2011
MEINE FRAU UNSERE KINDER UND ICH
As part of the Vincente Minnelli festival at Arsenal I went and saw Brigadoon released in 1954 starring Gene Kelly, Van Johnson and Cyd Charisse. The film was a total flop when it was first run. For some reason I have never seen it, and I wasn’t expecting it to be that good, but it was incredible especially queeny Van Johnson who got to play the faggot that he was for the first time in his career. Ms. Johnson upstaged hunky bubble butt Gene Kelly in every scene with abandon and hilarity. His bitterness was rampant, and from all the drugs and alcohol abuse he was famous for it was very apparent on his bloated face and body. The story of the film involves a Scottish town that only appears every 100 years. The Ganymede lady Johnson become homo hysterical from all the humpy Scottish lads running around shirtless and winds up killing one in a homo stupor.
After the movie I rushed to Kreuzber g for the birthday party of the handsomest man in Europe Mr. Uli Ziemons who turned 29 but looks 19. All the Arsenal gang was there including Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Nanna Heidenreich of Arsenal Experimental with her hot galpal DJane Olga Damnitz. Uli & Olga helped me film my Cheese Endique Trifecta wall collages that will be apart of my dejecta/protecta installation performance in Los Angeles at MoCa on Jan 22nd. Can’t wait to go to Hell A and escape the freezing cold and icy Berlin conditions. Ms. Damnitz and I are also going to put on a low tech Berlinale Dorothy Arzner Party. Both of us are so sick and tired of the bad Berlinale parties that are so clueless. Also at Uli’s birthday party his heterosexual lover Guilluame and his wife and child who was dressed as a Tyranasaurus Rex, his platonic wife Nadja Talmi, the Brazillians with Michele Belague, Sandy Dennis doppelganger Bettina, Little Alex of Chocolate Grinder Kollective, British actor Alex Pettyfer with his boyfriend the hungthrob Olympic athlete Artus Was.
***
Thursday my NYU Barney Building grad students came by the Cheese Endique Trifecta for a visit. They are in town for a special 2 week exchange with NYU/Humboldt Berlin. We sat around my octagon table and drank hot toddies and ate snax until the wee hours. I love my beautiful NewYorikan students Jessica Gispert, Andy and Katherine. Sunday I am having my other grad students Carlos Reyes and Jo-ey Tang at the Trifecta.
Oh and here is the internet radio interview with Manuel Schubert of Film Highlights. Hope I copied it correctly to my old blogina.
Rising Stars, Falling Stars presented by Vaginal Davis by filmanzeiger
Rising Stars, Falling Stars - January 2011 - Vaginal Davis by filmanzeiger
And the marvelous genius that is Mark Simon of the Boyfriend who is part of my new piece dejecta/protecta sent me this letter from Anne Francis the star of TV’s Honey West from the 60s and once a film ingénue in the early 1950. She died this past week.
Dear Barbra,
It has gnawed at me for years that you have believed that I blamed you for
cutting most of my scenes from “Funny Girl.” I felt the sadness of the
misunderstanding all over again when I read a supposed quote of yours last year
saying that you had heard me blame you on a TV talk show. The only talk show I
did on the subject was on Johnny Carson, and Joey Bishop was subbing that night.
I tried to make it plain that I did not blame you, and had no idea why I was cut
from the film. To this day, I don’t know the circumstances that caused the
decision, but I am lead to believe it probably had to do with the length of the
film. The sub plot of Georgia’s histrionics with Florenz Ziegfeld was really not
necessary to the story about Fanny Brice.
In all fairness, I understand that the press believed that I felt that way
because my public relations person, who was also a very dear friend, did believe
it, and she made the statements that were attributed to me. I was caught in the
middle, and rather than point a finger at her, I did the best I could to refute
the story whenever confronted by an interviewer. The whole thing was messy and
painful. I had never been embroiled in that sort of ruckus before. I know you
were going through a lot of flack as well during those stormy days when first
you hit Hollywood (or It hit you!). I had hoped then that it would all blow over
quickly, but when I saw the quote you allegedly made recently, I felt awful once
more.
At the age of thirty five (over the hill in those days!), the role of Georgia
was a great gem for me, and I had high hopes (I had just come off of “Honey
West”) that it would do a lot for my “career.” The flashy role, along with the
drunk scene (which hit the editor’s floor) pretty much cinched the prospect of a
supporting nomination with the Academy that year. So, you can understand the
humiliation when each day a note would be slipped under my dressing room door,
“omit scene so and so.” The scene named would always be the one I had been
called in to do that day. I am not whining, dear lady. We’ve all taken our lumps
in this “Business.” I’m just sharing with you what was going on at that time
with me. You had your own problems. I marveled at how you handled yourself on
your first encounter with the alien world of the film industry.
I have had the greatest respect for your talent and for what you have made of
yourself, Barbra. You are a brilliant woman and I have always wished you the
very best. One more time, it is important for me before I leave this planet to
say, I have never accused you of having the role of Georgia cut to the quick.
God Bless,
Anne Francis
P.S. Your direction of “Prince of Tides” was superb.
______________________
Actress Anne Francis was cast as Georgia James, a Ziegfeld chorus girl and
troubled friend of Fanny Brice. For years it's been written (and repeated) that
Streisand had all of Francis' scenes cut from the film. Any writer who wanted to
characterize Streisand as a vindictive diva has repeated the myth that Streisand
cut out Anne Francis. For the record, writer Isobel Lennart tried to add the
same character to the Broadway play with similar results. The character was
dropped because the show is Fanny Brice-centric, not Georgia James-centric.
One of the quotes attributed to Francis was: “Every day, Barbra would see the
rushes and the next day my part was cut or something else was cut. Barbra ran
the whole show...She had the Ziegfeld girls’ scenes changed — one day she told
Wyler to move a girl standing next to her because she was too pretty, and the
girl wound up in the background. Eventually, the Ziegfeld girls’ scenes were
eliminated altogether.”
Supervising Editor Robert Swink had a different view. “I know the Anne Francis
role was cut down terribly,” Swink said. “But Willie [Wyler] only did it for the
sake of the picture. He had final cut. Streisand didn’t.”
In 2002 on her official website, Anne Francis wrote an open letter to Barbra
Streisand apologizing for the whole affair. She admitted her publicist
attributed the quote to her. “The sub plot of Georgia’s histrionics with Florenz
Ziegfeld was really not necessary to the story about Fanny Brice,” Francis
stated.
***
The role of Mama Rose in "Gypsy" has always attracted great divas, from Ethel
Merman to Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly to Patti LuPone.
And now comes word that the greatest diva of them all -- Barbra Streisand -- is
next in line.
Streisand is deep in negotiations to direct, produce and star in a movie version
of "Gypsy."
She recently cleared a big hurdle -- 92-year-old Broadway legend Arthur
Laurents, who wrote the book to the show.
He's also directed several productions, including the scorching 2008 Broadway
revival for which LuPone won a Tony.
"Barbra and I have been getting along very well now for some time," Laurents
told me yesterday. "We've talked about it a lot, and she knows what she's doing.
She has my approval."
Laurents shares control of "Gypsy" -- perhaps the greatest Broadway musical --
with Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the lyrics, and the estates of Jule Styne, the
composer, and Jerome Robbins, the original director.
But everybody on Broadway knows that you can't do "Gypsy" without Laurents'
blessing. And he's very particular about who plays Mama Rose and how she plays
it.
He was, I'm told, concerned that Streisand might be reluctant to embrace the
brutality of the role.
In her drive to make her daughters stage stars, Mama Rose can turn psychotic in
a flash. The real Mama Rose killed an agent by pushing him out a window.
But Streisand's a movie star, and movie stars want to be adored.
A lovable, human Mama Rose would be a disaster.
"Barbra and I have had long talks on this very subject," Laurents acknowledged.
"She had a mother who she always thought was Mama Rose. I don't want to get into
the details, but the point is she knows. She's got it in her. She's going to be
much more than people expect."
"Gypsy" was made into a movie in 1962 with Rosalind Russell as Rose. It's a much
softer version of the stage show, marred by the fact that Russell never goes for
the jugular.
Asked if he'll write the screenplay to the new version, Laurents said: "No!
Hollywood is Hollywood, and I've already been there. But I'll be around."
Laurents and Streisand have been friends for decades.
He directed her in her first Broadway show, "I Can Get It for You Wholesale," in
1962. She had a small role, but the critics raved, and her career took off.
A decade later, he wrote "The Way We Were" for her.
"We're talking about 'Gypsy' being a bookend for us," he said. "She began with
me, and this will be a grand farewell for us."
As part of the Vincente Minnelli festival at Arsenal I went and saw Brigadoon released in 1954 starring Gene Kelly, Van Johnson and Cyd Charisse. The film was a total flop when it was first run. For some reason I have never seen it, and I wasn’t expecting it to be that good, but it was incredible especially queeny Van Johnson who got to play the faggot that he was for the first time in his career. Ms. Johnson upstaged hunky bubble butt Gene Kelly in every scene with abandon and hilarity. His bitterness was rampant, and from all the drugs and alcohol abuse he was famous for it was very apparent on his bloated face and body. The story of the film involves a Scottish town that only appears every 100 years. The Ganymede lady Johnson become homo hysterical from all the humpy Scottish lads running around shirtless and winds up killing one in a homo stupor.
After the movie I rushed to Kreuzber g for the birthday party of the handsomest man in Europe Mr. Uli Ziemons who turned 29 but looks 19. All the Arsenal gang was there including Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Nanna Heidenreich of Arsenal Experimental with her hot galpal DJane Olga Damnitz. Uli & Olga helped me film my Cheese Endique Trifecta wall collages that will be apart of my dejecta/protecta installation performance in Los Angeles at MoCa on Jan 22nd. Can’t wait to go to Hell A and escape the freezing cold and icy Berlin conditions. Ms. Damnitz and I are also going to put on a low tech Berlinale Dorothy Arzner Party. Both of us are so sick and tired of the bad Berlinale parties that are so clueless. Also at Uli’s birthday party his heterosexual lover Guilluame and his wife and child who was dressed as a Tyranasaurus Rex, his platonic wife Nadja Talmi, the Brazillians with Michele Belague, Sandy Dennis doppelganger Bettina, Little Alex of Chocolate Grinder Kollective, British actor Alex Pettyfer with his boyfriend the hungthrob Olympic athlete Artus Was.
***
Thursday my NYU Barney Building grad students came by the Cheese Endique Trifecta for a visit. They are in town for a special 2 week exchange with NYU/Humboldt Berlin. We sat around my octagon table and drank hot toddies and ate snax until the wee hours. I love my beautiful NewYorikan students Jessica Gispert, Andy and Katherine. Sunday I am having my other grad students Carlos Reyes and Jo-ey Tang at the Trifecta.
Oh and here is the internet radio interview with Manuel Schubert of Film Highlights. Hope I copied it correctly to my old blogina.
Rising Stars, Falling Stars presented by Vaginal Davis by filmanzeiger
Rising Stars, Falling Stars - January 2011 - Vaginal Davis by filmanzeiger
And the marvelous genius that is Mark Simon of the Boyfriend who is part of my new piece dejecta/protecta sent me this letter from Anne Francis the star of TV’s Honey West from the 60s and once a film ingénue in the early 1950. She died this past week.
Dear Barbra,
It has gnawed at me for years that you have believed that I blamed you for
cutting most of my scenes from “Funny Girl.” I felt the sadness of the
misunderstanding all over again when I read a supposed quote of yours last year
saying that you had heard me blame you on a TV talk show. The only talk show I
did on the subject was on Johnny Carson, and Joey Bishop was subbing that night.
I tried to make it plain that I did not blame you, and had no idea why I was cut
from the film. To this day, I don’t know the circumstances that caused the
decision, but I am lead to believe it probably had to do with the length of the
film. The sub plot of Georgia’s histrionics with Florenz Ziegfeld was really not
necessary to the story about Fanny Brice.
In all fairness, I understand that the press believed that I felt that way
because my public relations person, who was also a very dear friend, did believe
it, and she made the statements that were attributed to me. I was caught in the
middle, and rather than point a finger at her, I did the best I could to refute
the story whenever confronted by an interviewer. The whole thing was messy and
painful. I had never been embroiled in that sort of ruckus before. I know you
were going through a lot of flack as well during those stormy days when first
you hit Hollywood (or It hit you!). I had hoped then that it would all blow over
quickly, but when I saw the quote you allegedly made recently, I felt awful once
more.
At the age of thirty five (over the hill in those days!), the role of Georgia
was a great gem for me, and I had high hopes (I had just come off of “Honey
West”) that it would do a lot for my “career.” The flashy role, along with the
drunk scene (which hit the editor’s floor) pretty much cinched the prospect of a
supporting nomination with the Academy that year. So, you can understand the
humiliation when each day a note would be slipped under my dressing room door,
“omit scene so and so.” The scene named would always be the one I had been
called in to do that day. I am not whining, dear lady. We’ve all taken our lumps
in this “Business.” I’m just sharing with you what was going on at that time
with me. You had your own problems. I marveled at how you handled yourself on
your first encounter with the alien world of the film industry.
I have had the greatest respect for your talent and for what you have made of
yourself, Barbra. You are a brilliant woman and I have always wished you the
very best. One more time, it is important for me before I leave this planet to
say, I have never accused you of having the role of Georgia cut to the quick.
God Bless,
Anne Francis
P.S. Your direction of “Prince of Tides” was superb.
______________________
Actress Anne Francis was cast as Georgia James, a Ziegfeld chorus girl and
troubled friend of Fanny Brice. For years it's been written (and repeated) that
Streisand had all of Francis' scenes cut from the film. Any writer who wanted to
characterize Streisand as a vindictive diva has repeated the myth that Streisand
cut out Anne Francis. For the record, writer Isobel Lennart tried to add the
same character to the Broadway play with similar results. The character was
dropped because the show is Fanny Brice-centric, not Georgia James-centric.
One of the quotes attributed to Francis was: “Every day, Barbra would see the
rushes and the next day my part was cut or something else was cut. Barbra ran
the whole show...She had the Ziegfeld girls’ scenes changed — one day she told
Wyler to move a girl standing next to her because she was too pretty, and the
girl wound up in the background. Eventually, the Ziegfeld girls’ scenes were
eliminated altogether.”
Supervising Editor Robert Swink had a different view. “I know the Anne Francis
role was cut down terribly,” Swink said. “But Willie [Wyler] only did it for the
sake of the picture. He had final cut. Streisand didn’t.”
In 2002 on her official website, Anne Francis wrote an open letter to Barbra
Streisand apologizing for the whole affair. She admitted her publicist
attributed the quote to her. “The sub plot of Georgia’s histrionics with Florenz
Ziegfeld was really not necessary to the story about Fanny Brice,” Francis
stated.
***
The role of Mama Rose in "Gypsy" has always attracted great divas, from Ethel
Merman to Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly to Patti LuPone.
And now comes word that the greatest diva of them all -- Barbra Streisand -- is
next in line.
Streisand is deep in negotiations to direct, produce and star in a movie version
of "Gypsy."
She recently cleared a big hurdle -- 92-year-old Broadway legend Arthur
Laurents, who wrote the book to the show.
He's also directed several productions, including the scorching 2008 Broadway
revival for which LuPone won a Tony.
"Barbra and I have been getting along very well now for some time," Laurents
told me yesterday. "We've talked about it a lot, and she knows what she's doing.
She has my approval."
Laurents shares control of "Gypsy" -- perhaps the greatest Broadway musical --
with Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the lyrics, and the estates of Jule Styne, the
composer, and Jerome Robbins, the original director.
But everybody on Broadway knows that you can't do "Gypsy" without Laurents'
blessing. And he's very particular about who plays Mama Rose and how she plays
it.
He was, I'm told, concerned that Streisand might be reluctant to embrace the
brutality of the role.
In her drive to make her daughters stage stars, Mama Rose can turn psychotic in
a flash. The real Mama Rose killed an agent by pushing him out a window.
But Streisand's a movie star, and movie stars want to be adored.
A lovable, human Mama Rose would be a disaster.
"Barbra and I have had long talks on this very subject," Laurents acknowledged.
"She had a mother who she always thought was Mama Rose. I don't want to get into
the details, but the point is she knows. She's got it in her. She's going to be
much more than people expect."
"Gypsy" was made into a movie in 1962 with Rosalind Russell as Rose. It's a much
softer version of the stage show, marred by the fact that Russell never goes for
the jugular.
Asked if he'll write the screenplay to the new version, Laurents said: "No!
Hollywood is Hollywood, and I've already been there. But I'll be around."
Laurents and Streisand have been friends for decades.
He directed her in her first Broadway show, "I Can Get It for You Wholesale," in
1962. She had a small role, but the critics raved, and her career took off.
A decade later, he wrote "The Way We Were" for her.
"We're talking about 'Gypsy' being a bookend for us," he said. "She began with
me, and this will be a grand farewell for us."
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
THE POLITICS OF DISPOSSESSION
The wonderful Love Camel aka: Andrea Novarin came to Berlin to visit his Vagimule doll. Camel surprised the doll by treating her to a new year’s spa treatment somewhere in Brandenberg I think near Potsdam for New Year’s Eve. A stretch limo came and fetched us and drove us to the Chateau Spa. One of Camel’s friends from Milan is married to a super wealthy German industrialist who owns the place. I had facials, and massages by two big muscular blondines who treated me like a Teutonic prinzessin. Along with the gourmet meals that I ate which were incredible, I had a huge suite with a super deluxe king sized bed, and Jacuzzi style bathtub. Camel and I watched movies that he bought me for Christmas until 3:30 am. Camel also got me copies of the American cable series True Blood and Dexter which I am addicted to. He also bought me a Josephine Baker book and a book that features the letters of Louise Brooks to one of her young confidants in the early 1980s.
It was divine to escape Berlin and all the firecrackers, cherry bombs and fireworks that turn the town into a war zone which I hate. Love Camel also told me stories about his rich aunt who he inherited 350,000 euros from and why he hasn’t spoken to his mother in seven years. Love Camel also has invented some money making schemes that include a masturbation diet, tombstones with dance floor attached so people can dance on the grave of their dearly departed,and underwear from the underworld-wear it and your cock will be scared stiff.
Camel left today returning to London. He will visit me in February for the Berlinale and then I will go back to London with him to celebrate my 442nd birthday. Dominic Johnson of Queen Mary College and Frieze Magazine is planning a spectacular British style birthday.
Before leaving town for the gnu yeart holiday I Skyped with Crepe Suzette Mathelson, the famed Hollywood costume designer and my ex Club Sucker at the Garage partner Frank Rodriguez and hot lover the brilliantine artist Ginger Patrick. Crepe Suzette was on her way to South Africa for a movie starring Denzel Washington and the Sexiest Man in the Universe Ryan Reynolds. She gave me some hot movieland gossip that middle aged tiny tot Tom Cruise is getting double fudgepacked by actor Jeremy Renner. Miss Lady Tom is so wrapped up in the house of Renner that he has completely forgotten about his young wifette Katie Holmes who is livid that he is being so scandalously wreckless. We thinks that Missy Cruise has found true love at last, and is so dickmatized by having her sugar walls filled up to the brim that she is throwing caution to the break wind. Hot damn thank you ma’am-you climb that tree squirrel and get your proverbial gnut.
The wonderful Love Camel aka: Andrea Novarin came to Berlin to visit his Vagimule doll. Camel surprised the doll by treating her to a new year’s spa treatment somewhere in Brandenberg I think near Potsdam for New Year’s Eve. A stretch limo came and fetched us and drove us to the Chateau Spa. One of Camel’s friends from Milan is married to a super wealthy German industrialist who owns the place. I had facials, and massages by two big muscular blondines who treated me like a Teutonic prinzessin. Along with the gourmet meals that I ate which were incredible, I had a huge suite with a super deluxe king sized bed, and Jacuzzi style bathtub. Camel and I watched movies that he bought me for Christmas until 3:30 am. Camel also got me copies of the American cable series True Blood and Dexter which I am addicted to. He also bought me a Josephine Baker book and a book that features the letters of Louise Brooks to one of her young confidants in the early 1980s.
It was divine to escape Berlin and all the firecrackers, cherry bombs and fireworks that turn the town into a war zone which I hate. Love Camel also told me stories about his rich aunt who he inherited 350,000 euros from and why he hasn’t spoken to his mother in seven years. Love Camel also has invented some money making schemes that include a masturbation diet, tombstones with dance floor attached so people can dance on the grave of their dearly departed,and underwear from the underworld-wear it and your cock will be scared stiff.
Camel left today returning to London. He will visit me in February for the Berlinale and then I will go back to London with him to celebrate my 442nd birthday. Dominic Johnson of Queen Mary College and Frieze Magazine is planning a spectacular British style birthday.
Before leaving town for the gnu yeart holiday I Skyped with Crepe Suzette Mathelson, the famed Hollywood costume designer and my ex Club Sucker at the Garage partner Frank Rodriguez and hot lover the brilliantine artist Ginger Patrick. Crepe Suzette was on her way to South Africa for a movie starring Denzel Washington and the Sexiest Man in the Universe Ryan Reynolds. She gave me some hot movieland gossip that middle aged tiny tot Tom Cruise is getting double fudgepacked by actor Jeremy Renner. Miss Lady Tom is so wrapped up in the house of Renner that he has completely forgotten about his young wifette Katie Holmes who is livid that he is being so scandalously wreckless. We thinks that Missy Cruise has found true love at last, and is so dickmatized by having her sugar walls filled up to the brim that she is throwing caution to the break wind. Hot damn thank you ma’am-you climb that tree squirrel and get your proverbial gnut.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
CHE GIOLA STARE INSIEME DOPO IL LUNGO DISTACCO
The handsomest man in all of Europa Mr. Uli Ziemons and DJane Olga Damnitz came to the Cheese Endique Trifecta to film the walls of shame of my studio that will be part of my new piece in Los Angeles at MoCa called dejecta/protecta. The wonderful Frau Damnitz besides being a celebrated turn tablelist is also quite an accomplished camera person, production coordinator and designer on films, theatre & art projects. We all had a grande time together and after shooting went to a local boite on the Hauptstrasse for some much deserved grub. Don’t recall the name of the restaurant as it was the only one in my neighborhood open, but they sure make a mean Wiener Shnitzle.
This evening I was feeling like having a guilty pleasure so I went to Potsdamer Platz to Cine Star where they show original language films and saw the tired American Sci-Fi film Skyline,by the Bros. Strause which is quite a stinker, let me tell you. I should have skipped this one. Poor Donald Faison of TV’s Scrubs fame and the Amy Heckerling teen comedy Clueless looked bloated with his bouncy manboobs and all-around confused demeanor. Luckily his character was killed early on. Before going to the flickers I ran into sexy Uli in the Arcaden and he was looking mighty tasty.
Was checking out Lady Bunny’s blog at www.Ladybunny.net and she posted a clip from You Tube of The Beverly Hillbillies TV sitcom from 1964 that featured an 8 year old Teena Marie tap dancing like a totkin Eleanor Powell. Had no idea that Ms. Marie had done any acting let alone tap dancing. Thank you Lady Bun Bun for that.
Also got a sweet message from Ms.Rosenda Moore in LA. Rosenda is a longtime MoCa employee and is an LA native who has lots of memories of a lot of the places and events that I have experienced and write about frequently in this very blog. Here’s what she had to say in a vivacious emug:
Memories again reading your blog. You are so in my memory banks, when you mentioned places I have not seen in over 20 years. Circus Disco, Peanuts and The Bitten Apple (I remember cha-cha'ing there with some brotha who had the nerve to critique my limited dancing skills on a crowded dancefloor one hot summer night when he should've been thankful I even stayed with his skinny ass all night long) and Madame Wong's (West AND East) and Catch One. Damn, Catch One always had killer DJs playing the best house music. My friends and I worked in retail at Bullock's dept store in Century City, and went out after work many, nights, dancing and laughing and have such a great time. And Hiroshima did a show at LMU when I attended school there.
Funny how remembering the beautiful soulful songs by Teena Marie opened up more memories.
In reading news articles about her, she was far more talented than just her sweet voice. Amazing.
Breathe In The Love, Breathe Out The Jive.
Rosenda.
***
Actor and bon vivant James Franco contacted me asking if I would be his date to this year's Academy Awards presentation. Of course I am flattered, but the Oscars is the last place on earth i would ever want to go. Even if I was nominated for an award. The ceremony is so dull I haven't watched it on TV in over 30 years, so I couldn't imagine sitting through it in person. If Mr. Franco wants to get together with me for some hearty fornicating I am game.
The handsomest man in all of Europa Mr. Uli Ziemons and DJane Olga Damnitz came to the Cheese Endique Trifecta to film the walls of shame of my studio that will be part of my new piece in Los Angeles at MoCa called dejecta/protecta. The wonderful Frau Damnitz besides being a celebrated turn tablelist is also quite an accomplished camera person, production coordinator and designer on films, theatre & art projects. We all had a grande time together and after shooting went to a local boite on the Hauptstrasse for some much deserved grub. Don’t recall the name of the restaurant as it was the only one in my neighborhood open, but they sure make a mean Wiener Shnitzle.
This evening I was feeling like having a guilty pleasure so I went to Potsdamer Platz to Cine Star where they show original language films and saw the tired American Sci-Fi film Skyline,by the Bros. Strause which is quite a stinker, let me tell you. I should have skipped this one. Poor Donald Faison of TV’s Scrubs fame and the Amy Heckerling teen comedy Clueless looked bloated with his bouncy manboobs and all-around confused demeanor. Luckily his character was killed early on. Before going to the flickers I ran into sexy Uli in the Arcaden and he was looking mighty tasty.
Was checking out Lady Bunny’s blog at www.Ladybunny.net and she posted a clip from You Tube of The Beverly Hillbillies TV sitcom from 1964 that featured an 8 year old Teena Marie tap dancing like a totkin Eleanor Powell. Had no idea that Ms. Marie had done any acting let alone tap dancing. Thank you Lady Bun Bun for that.
Also got a sweet message from Ms.Rosenda Moore in LA. Rosenda is a longtime MoCa employee and is an LA native who has lots of memories of a lot of the places and events that I have experienced and write about frequently in this very blog. Here’s what she had to say in a vivacious emug:
Memories again reading your blog. You are so in my memory banks, when you mentioned places I have not seen in over 20 years. Circus Disco, Peanuts and The Bitten Apple (I remember cha-cha'ing there with some brotha who had the nerve to critique my limited dancing skills on a crowded dancefloor one hot summer night when he should've been thankful I even stayed with his skinny ass all night long) and Madame Wong's (West AND East) and Catch One. Damn, Catch One always had killer DJs playing the best house music. My friends and I worked in retail at Bullock's dept store in Century City, and went out after work many, nights, dancing and laughing and have such a great time. And Hiroshima did a show at LMU when I attended school there.
Funny how remembering the beautiful soulful songs by Teena Marie opened up more memories.
In reading news articles about her, she was far more talented than just her sweet voice. Amazing.
Breathe In The Love, Breathe Out The Jive.
Rosenda.
***
Actor and bon vivant James Franco contacted me asking if I would be his date to this year's Academy Awards presentation. Of course I am flattered, but the Oscars is the last place on earth i would ever want to go. Even if I was nominated for an award. The ceremony is so dull I haven't watched it on TV in over 30 years, so I couldn't imagine sitting through it in person. If Mr. Franco wants to get together with me for some hearty fornicating I am game.
Monday, December 27, 2010
NON TI DIMENTICARE CHE HAI UNA FIGLIA
So sad to hear that Lady T. The Ivory Dutchess of Funk, Ms. Teena Marie died age 54 in Pasadena.I loved her songs Lover Girl, Square Biz, Portugese Love, I’m a Sucker For Your Love, and Fire & Desire duet with Rick James her mentor.Teena Marie was a definite part of the soundtrack of my high school.Some of the kids who went to my school and were a few grades ahead of me were good friends with Teena Marie and her black posse. She was also was close with the Japanese kids that were in the orbit of that band Hiroshima from the late 70s, and I saw her many times before she was famous hanging out at The Mirror Go Round in Santa Monica, The Bit n Apple on Wilshire & San Vicente, and during her lesbiana period at Ginos II,Marilyn's Backstreet Disco in Pasadena, Peanuts, Circus, Catch One & Horizon. I don’t think it was a big secret that she was mostly a dyke,she also use to hang at that little black gay thug club in Inglewood near the racetrack -- the name of which escapes me now. I probably first met Ms. Teena Marie in the mid 70s when I was about 15 years old through this insane woman I use to work with named Chaz Boilini in Aunt Monica(nee Santa Monica) at Equifax Insurance Investigating firm which was in a small office building on Wilshire near Bundy next door to what was Humperdink’s Restaurant & bar (owned by Ingelbert Humperdink) that later became Madame Wong’s West. Equifax is still in business but now is a huge credit reporting agency. That crazed Chaz Boilini was a Venice Beach nutter originally from Chicago. She had even attended the Chicago Art Institute and knew Cynthia Plastercaster. Chaz and Teena Marie had worked with each other at the Great American Food & Beverage Company as singing waitresses in Westwood. If anybody out there remembers TGAF&BC you are OLDER then time immemorial. I hate it when I get flooded with all these memories. Mammaries like the colors of your mind . . .
***
Received a cute little note from Tavia Nyongo the performance studies professor from NYU who is part American and the other half Kenyan just like our president and is even related to Obama.
Dear Ms. Davis,
Greetings from the Bay Area, where I've been spending the first part
of my holidays with family before heading down to Hell Lay for the
Modern Language Association meetings. Pasty English professors
blinking in the California sunlight will be quite a sight I expect.
Before I left New York I had a delicious brunch in SoHo with Anna
Mülter who was in town on holiday. We caught up on Berlin doings and I
was excited to learn from her that you managed to resolve your housing
situation. Anna and I went to see Peaches and Dynasty Handbag and she
went to several others, including Young Jean Lee, the enfant terrible
of downtown theater at the moment who had a lot of older feminists up
in arms over what they saw as her lackluster tribute to their
pathbreaking greatness in her latest show. I missed it, unfortunately,
because I was taking my new date, a tall, honey-voiced Texan, to see
The Black Swan, which was sheer glorious trash, especially the scene
in which Natalie Portman goes down on herself! The Texan is a talented
violist who manages some of the most famous classical musicians in the
world by day, and by evening gigs around with a rotating collection of
NY-area rock and experimental bands.
I have news and a small request: I am delivering a lecture soon on the
work of African American emigres from LA to Berlin in which I plan to
discuss your work alongside that of rocker Stew and the novelist Paul
Beatty. Just what is it driving artists into the arms of Old Europe? I
am planning to focus on your work as a film curator and the Rising
Stars, Falling Stars series of screenings, performances, and soirees
in which you curate and performatively improvise upon the canon of
European high culture with your punk and diva sensibilities. I also
wanted to mention the classes/lectures on "Josephine Baker/Jean
Harlow: Screen Goddesses Caught between Black and White."
To the latter end I was wondering if I could trouble you for a couple
pieces of info: do you have copies of the "texts" you read for
screenings of 'Othello' and 'What 80 Million Women Want"? I'd like to
quote from them if I may. Also, I think you have a description of your
Screen Goddesses class on your blog: but if you have a longer version
of that text I would love to see that too.
Okay, hope the Berlin chill doesn't take the bite out of your
Sylvester. Through my poor planning I won't be in LA when you are here
later in January. Some jet setter! But I will be in Berlin May 15th
for the summer and hopefully through December 2011, so I look forward
to seeing you then if not before.
Much love,
Tavia
***
Monday Frau Susanne Sachsse the fearless leader of Kollective CHEAP hosted a divine early dinner party at her eastside Hufelandstr compound.There is no table like the table of La Sachsse whose cooking is Granada, and presentation impeccable.It was a CHEAP reunion of sorts with the entire gang present including film historian Marc Siegel, Daniel Hendrickson the Scandanavian Muslim translator to the shtars with hot beau Piero Bellomo, the Bros Blue Tim & kJohnny, the lovely Salome Gershe and Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathous of The Arsenal. The menu consisted of a winter Thurington warm salad that is a specialty of the part of the East Germany town of Jena that Susanne hails from. This was followed by a riche honey toasted chestnut soup that coated the throat and stomach like the spermatazoa that David Bowie ingested from Iggy Pop back in the 1970s. The main course was rack of ganymede lamb with a hearty Tremaine bouillabase wine sauce that was all terragoned and thymed out with baby love carrots, teutonic greens, truffles and Witch of Endora endive. Yummy! For desert were Prussian jeweled Noel dainties, cookies and scones.PERFECTION!!!! The thoughtful Ms. Sachsse even gave me a lovely gold dipped make-up brush which i will treasure.
Unfortunately I had to eat and run because I had a date with Leslie Caron starring in GiGi at the Arsenal as part of the Vicente Minnelli festival. Not only was I engaged to the gamine Ms. Caron but Maurice Chavalier, Hermoinne Gingold, Louis Jourdain, Eva Gabor and a very young and hungthrobby Jacques Bergerac who I wanted to lick off the screen.
So sad to hear that Lady T. The Ivory Dutchess of Funk, Ms. Teena Marie died age 54 in Pasadena.I loved her songs Lover Girl, Square Biz, Portugese Love, I’m a Sucker For Your Love, and Fire & Desire duet with Rick James her mentor.Teena Marie was a definite part of the soundtrack of my high school.Some of the kids who went to my school and were a few grades ahead of me were good friends with Teena Marie and her black posse. She was also was close with the Japanese kids that were in the orbit of that band Hiroshima from the late 70s, and I saw her many times before she was famous hanging out at The Mirror Go Round in Santa Monica, The Bit n Apple on Wilshire & San Vicente, and during her lesbiana period at Ginos II,Marilyn's Backstreet Disco in Pasadena, Peanuts, Circus, Catch One & Horizon. I don’t think it was a big secret that she was mostly a dyke,she also use to hang at that little black gay thug club in Inglewood near the racetrack -- the name of which escapes me now. I probably first met Ms. Teena Marie in the mid 70s when I was about 15 years old through this insane woman I use to work with named Chaz Boilini in Aunt Monica(nee Santa Monica) at Equifax Insurance Investigating firm which was in a small office building on Wilshire near Bundy next door to what was Humperdink’s Restaurant & bar (owned by Ingelbert Humperdink) that later became Madame Wong’s West. Equifax is still in business but now is a huge credit reporting agency. That crazed Chaz Boilini was a Venice Beach nutter originally from Chicago. She had even attended the Chicago Art Institute and knew Cynthia Plastercaster. Chaz and Teena Marie had worked with each other at the Great American Food & Beverage Company as singing waitresses in Westwood. If anybody out there remembers TGAF&BC you are OLDER then time immemorial. I hate it when I get flooded with all these memories. Mammaries like the colors of your mind . . .
***
Received a cute little note from Tavia Nyongo the performance studies professor from NYU who is part American and the other half Kenyan just like our president and is even related to Obama.
Dear Ms. Davis,
Greetings from the Bay Area, where I've been spending the first part
of my holidays with family before heading down to Hell Lay for the
Modern Language Association meetings. Pasty English professors
blinking in the California sunlight will be quite a sight I expect.
Before I left New York I had a delicious brunch in SoHo with Anna
Mülter who was in town on holiday. We caught up on Berlin doings and I
was excited to learn from her that you managed to resolve your housing
situation. Anna and I went to see Peaches and Dynasty Handbag and she
went to several others, including Young Jean Lee, the enfant terrible
of downtown theater at the moment who had a lot of older feminists up
in arms over what they saw as her lackluster tribute to their
pathbreaking greatness in her latest show. I missed it, unfortunately,
because I was taking my new date, a tall, honey-voiced Texan, to see
The Black Swan, which was sheer glorious trash, especially the scene
in which Natalie Portman goes down on herself! The Texan is a talented
violist who manages some of the most famous classical musicians in the
world by day, and by evening gigs around with a rotating collection of
NY-area rock and experimental bands.
I have news and a small request: I am delivering a lecture soon on the
work of African American emigres from LA to Berlin in which I plan to
discuss your work alongside that of rocker Stew and the novelist Paul
Beatty. Just what is it driving artists into the arms of Old Europe? I
am planning to focus on your work as a film curator and the Rising
Stars, Falling Stars series of screenings, performances, and soirees
in which you curate and performatively improvise upon the canon of
European high culture with your punk and diva sensibilities. I also
wanted to mention the classes/lectures on "Josephine Baker/Jean
Harlow: Screen Goddesses Caught between Black and White."
To the latter end I was wondering if I could trouble you for a couple
pieces of info: do you have copies of the "texts" you read for
screenings of 'Othello' and 'What 80 Million Women Want"? I'd like to
quote from them if I may. Also, I think you have a description of your
Screen Goddesses class on your blog: but if you have a longer version
of that text I would love to see that too.
Okay, hope the Berlin chill doesn't take the bite out of your
Sylvester. Through my poor planning I won't be in LA when you are here
later in January. Some jet setter! But I will be in Berlin May 15th
for the summer and hopefully through December 2011, so I look forward
to seeing you then if not before.
Much love,
Tavia
***
Monday Frau Susanne Sachsse the fearless leader of Kollective CHEAP hosted a divine early dinner party at her eastside Hufelandstr compound.There is no table like the table of La Sachsse whose cooking is Granada, and presentation impeccable.It was a CHEAP reunion of sorts with the entire gang present including film historian Marc Siegel, Daniel Hendrickson the Scandanavian Muslim translator to the shtars with hot beau Piero Bellomo, the Bros Blue Tim & kJohnny, the lovely Salome Gershe and Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathous of The Arsenal. The menu consisted of a winter Thurington warm salad that is a specialty of the part of the East Germany town of Jena that Susanne hails from. This was followed by a riche honey toasted chestnut soup that coated the throat and stomach like the spermatazoa that David Bowie ingested from Iggy Pop back in the 1970s. The main course was rack of ganymede lamb with a hearty Tremaine bouillabase wine sauce that was all terragoned and thymed out with baby love carrots, teutonic greens, truffles and Witch of Endora endive. Yummy! For desert were Prussian jeweled Noel dainties, cookies and scones.PERFECTION!!!! The thoughtful Ms. Sachsse even gave me a lovely gold dipped make-up brush which i will treasure.
Unfortunately I had to eat and run because I had a date with Leslie Caron starring in GiGi at the Arsenal as part of the Vicente Minnelli festival. Not only was I engaged to the gamine Ms. Caron but Maurice Chavalier, Hermoinne Gingold, Louis Jourdain, Eva Gabor and a very young and hungthrobby Jacques Bergerac who I wanted to lick off the screen.
Saturday, December 25, 2010
SOGNI D’ORO
Christmas Eve dinner at Piero Bellomo’s of La Collezione was enchanting.Helping Piero with the delish menu was his beau Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim.For the first course Daniel made FagionSi Linguini from scratch just like a Southern Italian washer woman. The dish was cradled in fresh and dry Shazaki mushrooms—superb. Next came more traditional fare reflecting Piero’s German background in the form of Rot Kohl, wirey brussel sprouts, hog boiled potatoes and homo healthy baked chicken breasts with herbs. The handsome Piero’s mother is a blondine German who lives in Italy, and his late father was Italian but spent most of his life in Berlin.Piero and Daniel have been a couple for over ten years. Sweet Piero is one of the most sincere, and generous people I know of in Germany, and over the last four years since I’ve been living in Berlina he has clothed me from his personal kolleczione that also includes housewares. So thanks to Piero when I am in boydrag I always look lovesexy chic and stylish. Also at the little gathering was Piero’s tight bodied dancer friend Daniel who is Andulusan.Daniel brought to table his Northern Spain dance partner in his newly formed Flaminco troup. Senorita Laura is simply ravishing and vivacious and her juicy handsome lover Yuri came with his best friend the studly French actor Yannick Renier who looks so hot in that awful film Plein Sud that I saw at the Berlinale last year.Of course I didnt tell him that.
Joining us later for a mindblowing dessert of almond pine nut tart was Piero’s muscular Greek opthamologist Elestheris.
Having grown up for the most part as a Jehovah’s Witness, Christmas is a very foreign concept to me.Piero gave me a beautiful flannel hot water bottle covered in diadems which I have christened my new teutonic husband Edsel. Herr Edsel is going to come in handy this winter.Catching the bus home the temperature went down to 19 degrees Fahrenheit, and tonight it drops down to 14 but still I will meet Piero and Daniel at the Arsenal to continue watching Vicente Minnelli films with a screening of the Oscar winning musical of 1951 An American in Paris starring bubble butt Gene Kelly and French gamine Lesley Caron with that homo wit humorette Oscar Levant.Too bad modern movies don’t have any Oscar Levants in them, they are greatly needed in Hollywood.I was friends in the 1980s with Gene Kelly’s son Tim Kelly who use to do several underground dance clubs like The Nairobi Room and Rhythm Lounge SoHo among others.Tim had the same built as his father with a hairy muscle butt that just wouldn’t quit. His hair was curly while his fathers was straight.I even went to a New Year’s Eve party in the mid 80s at the Kelly mansion in Beverly Hills off of Sunset Blvd that had a maze like garden. That house later burned to the ground.
But getting back to Christmas. I really don’t have any Christmas memories as it was just like any other day growing up.We also never celebrated birthdays or other commercial holidays that have some loose connection to Christianity. My cousin Carla Duplantier of the LA punk rock band The Controllers also was a Jehovah’s Witness and my colleague at the LA Weekly the black writer Donnell Alexander was raised a Witness.Witnesses don’t grow up with the same religious damage that Mormens who leave that faith tend to fester in.Especially if they turn out gay, like Carla and I. Since JW’s are so rebellious and outside the norm in their beliefs, that background helped me not feel displaced by standing out and being different. Plus the religion is routed in constant study,reading and supplication. Being a child who was a complete bookworm I could relate to that on all levels, and theocratic ministry school was just like a theatre class to me. If I hadn't been a Jehovah's Witness I would have never invented the character of Her Most High Right Reverend Saint Salicia Tate. I also enjoyed prosletyzing on the weekends which was called field service that consisted of going door-to-door early in the morning talking to complete strangers about their favorite topic in the world-God.
I was such a cute, articulate child with a magical smile, that people were always charmed and invited me inside their homes, and being a nosy bitch of a kid I loved seeing how other people lived, especially those in single family homes.Having grown up only in project housing or apartments all my life the thought of a house with a front and backyard really intrigued me. My sisters are still Jehovah’s Witnesses, and its brought comfort to my oldest sister who is now 71 and dying of breast cancer. When she was in the hospital at Cedar Sinai in October she was joking with all the nurses and doctors and telling the people from her congregation when they called her room that she didn’t know why she was there.It must be that the doctors are madly in love with her.So she still has a great deluded sense of humour.
Christmas Eve dinner at Piero Bellomo’s of La Collezione was enchanting.Helping Piero with the delish menu was his beau Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim.For the first course Daniel made FagionSi Linguini from scratch just like a Southern Italian washer woman. The dish was cradled in fresh and dry Shazaki mushrooms—superb. Next came more traditional fare reflecting Piero’s German background in the form of Rot Kohl, wirey brussel sprouts, hog boiled potatoes and homo healthy baked chicken breasts with herbs. The handsome Piero’s mother is a blondine German who lives in Italy, and his late father was Italian but spent most of his life in Berlin.Piero and Daniel have been a couple for over ten years. Sweet Piero is one of the most sincere, and generous people I know of in Germany, and over the last four years since I’ve been living in Berlina he has clothed me from his personal kolleczione that also includes housewares. So thanks to Piero when I am in boydrag I always look lovesexy chic and stylish. Also at the little gathering was Piero’s tight bodied dancer friend Daniel who is Andulusan.Daniel brought to table his Northern Spain dance partner in his newly formed Flaminco troup. Senorita Laura is simply ravishing and vivacious and her juicy handsome lover Yuri came with his best friend the studly French actor Yannick Renier who looks so hot in that awful film Plein Sud that I saw at the Berlinale last year.Of course I didnt tell him that.
Joining us later for a mindblowing dessert of almond pine nut tart was Piero’s muscular Greek opthamologist Elestheris.
Having grown up for the most part as a Jehovah’s Witness, Christmas is a very foreign concept to me.Piero gave me a beautiful flannel hot water bottle covered in diadems which I have christened my new teutonic husband Edsel. Herr Edsel is going to come in handy this winter.Catching the bus home the temperature went down to 19 degrees Fahrenheit, and tonight it drops down to 14 but still I will meet Piero and Daniel at the Arsenal to continue watching Vicente Minnelli films with a screening of the Oscar winning musical of 1951 An American in Paris starring bubble butt Gene Kelly and French gamine Lesley Caron with that homo wit humorette Oscar Levant.Too bad modern movies don’t have any Oscar Levants in them, they are greatly needed in Hollywood.I was friends in the 1980s with Gene Kelly’s son Tim Kelly who use to do several underground dance clubs like The Nairobi Room and Rhythm Lounge SoHo among others.Tim had the same built as his father with a hairy muscle butt that just wouldn’t quit. His hair was curly while his fathers was straight.I even went to a New Year’s Eve party in the mid 80s at the Kelly mansion in Beverly Hills off of Sunset Blvd that had a maze like garden. That house later burned to the ground.
But getting back to Christmas. I really don’t have any Christmas memories as it was just like any other day growing up.We also never celebrated birthdays or other commercial holidays that have some loose connection to Christianity. My cousin Carla Duplantier of the LA punk rock band The Controllers also was a Jehovah’s Witness and my colleague at the LA Weekly the black writer Donnell Alexander was raised a Witness.Witnesses don’t grow up with the same religious damage that Mormens who leave that faith tend to fester in.Especially if they turn out gay, like Carla and I. Since JW’s are so rebellious and outside the norm in their beliefs, that background helped me not feel displaced by standing out and being different. Plus the religion is routed in constant study,reading and supplication. Being a child who was a complete bookworm I could relate to that on all levels, and theocratic ministry school was just like a theatre class to me. If I hadn't been a Jehovah's Witness I would have never invented the character of Her Most High Right Reverend Saint Salicia Tate. I also enjoyed prosletyzing on the weekends which was called field service that consisted of going door-to-door early in the morning talking to complete strangers about their favorite topic in the world-God.
I was such a cute, articulate child with a magical smile, that people were always charmed and invited me inside their homes, and being a nosy bitch of a kid I loved seeing how other people lived, especially those in single family homes.Having grown up only in project housing or apartments all my life the thought of a house with a front and backyard really intrigued me. My sisters are still Jehovah’s Witnesses, and its brought comfort to my oldest sister who is now 71 and dying of breast cancer. When she was in the hospital at Cedar Sinai in October she was joking with all the nurses and doctors and telling the people from her congregation when they called her room that she didn’t know why she was there.It must be that the doctors are madly in love with her.So she still has a great deluded sense of humour.
Friday, December 24, 2010
IL GIORNO DELLA PRIMA DI CLOSE UP
Thank god my back problems have subsided a bit.Berlin is not the best city for gimpdom, especially with all the snow and slippery clumps of ice everywhere, an Olympic athlete would find it difficult to circumvent this city in winter.I must be nuts for moving to a cold clime.
Poor Daddy Ron Athey has been having quite a hard time in London because of the unusual frost like conditions.I love the messages that the Dadster sends to me via emug occasionally in his inimitable style:
homegirl i got a bad cold over a week ago that was threatening to turn into bronchitis, winter wonderland was never in my vocabulary let alone desires.
why aren't i grand enough to have a hustle in oz or south america this time of year, or cape town for that matter. yesterday i had to do a talk at queen mary with kira, sick as a dog. i put on underwear, long underwear, a lined track suit bottoms, t shirt, long shirts, hoodie, with an ugly wool sweater over that, wooly cap, coat with big hood, gloves, two pairs of sox, and i had a newish tattoo which i can't cope with thinking about whether its healing or not so i just bandaged it back up for the second day.
my stupid birthday was thursday, which i didn't feel like celebrating this year. i'm super sour-puss. 49, i suppose i'll be a desperate attention whore when i turn 50 and have a month of celebrations in various cities.
luckily thursday i had a marathon phd philosophy seminar followed by a holiday party with food. i am digging that program as much as i hate this weather. and now xmas and new years holding everything hostage just when i got my hustle in gear to book some gigs for feb. uggghhh. i'm going to try to take a nap.
***
Got word from Los Angeles that the legendary gay bar The Spotlight pub is closing after being in operation since 1963.This would be a shame as it’s the last of its kind in Hollywood proper.The Cahuenga Corridor use to have lots of gay dive bars, but they have all been bought and turned into horrible celebrity rat traps that attract the likes of the Lindsey Lohans and Paris Hiltons and that ilk plus the retarded bridge and tunnel crowd from exurbia.It’s a sad day for Hollywoodwoodland when the Spotlight closes in early January.Too bad I won't get a chance to visit the bar one last time when I am in Los Ang next year.
***
Little tiny Alex of Macedonia whose real name is Tielemarchos Alexiou invited me to his new SonnenAllee flat for a scrumptious Greek passive feast. Also on hand was Alex’s cute Korean/German professor from the Frei University Suigi.Alex is an amazing chef, and I adore his new spacious compound.
After dinner was a private screening of his new Chocolate Grinder Kollective film that he made in the summer in his homosexual homeland.The movie is loosely based on the writings of Jean Genet and is very stylized in the way that most student filmmakers these days seem to function. His cinematographer Tasty Tim Shenkl really can make things look beautiful with black&white photography that shimmers in a James Wong Howe or Leon Shamroy like manner.At 70 minutes this was Alex’s first attempt at a feature film.I would edit it down to a 10 minute short and work it as a video installation.
***
Today is Christmas Eve which like Latin America is more important then Christmas day.I have been invited to a dinner party hosted by the great Italian/German fashion designer Piero Bellomo.The French actor Yannick Renier will be at the party, and I am anxious to meet him.He was so masculine and humpy in the films Plein Sud and the Christophe Honore’ musical Love Songs starring Louis Garrel.
Thank god my back problems have subsided a bit.Berlin is not the best city for gimpdom, especially with all the snow and slippery clumps of ice everywhere, an Olympic athlete would find it difficult to circumvent this city in winter.I must be nuts for moving to a cold clime.
Poor Daddy Ron Athey has been having quite a hard time in London because of the unusual frost like conditions.I love the messages that the Dadster sends to me via emug occasionally in his inimitable style:
homegirl i got a bad cold over a week ago that was threatening to turn into bronchitis, winter wonderland was never in my vocabulary let alone desires.
why aren't i grand enough to have a hustle in oz or south america this time of year, or cape town for that matter. yesterday i had to do a talk at queen mary with kira, sick as a dog. i put on underwear, long underwear, a lined track suit bottoms, t shirt, long shirts, hoodie, with an ugly wool sweater over that, wooly cap, coat with big hood, gloves, two pairs of sox, and i had a newish tattoo which i can't cope with thinking about whether its healing or not so i just bandaged it back up for the second day.
my stupid birthday was thursday, which i didn't feel like celebrating this year. i'm super sour-puss. 49, i suppose i'll be a desperate attention whore when i turn 50 and have a month of celebrations in various cities.
luckily thursday i had a marathon phd philosophy seminar followed by a holiday party with food. i am digging that program as much as i hate this weather. and now xmas and new years holding everything hostage just when i got my hustle in gear to book some gigs for feb. uggghhh. i'm going to try to take a nap.
***
Got word from Los Angeles that the legendary gay bar The Spotlight pub is closing after being in operation since 1963.This would be a shame as it’s the last of its kind in Hollywood proper.The Cahuenga Corridor use to have lots of gay dive bars, but they have all been bought and turned into horrible celebrity rat traps that attract the likes of the Lindsey Lohans and Paris Hiltons and that ilk plus the retarded bridge and tunnel crowd from exurbia.It’s a sad day for Hollywoodwoodland when the Spotlight closes in early January.Too bad I won't get a chance to visit the bar one last time when I am in Los Ang next year.
***
Little tiny Alex of Macedonia whose real name is Tielemarchos Alexiou invited me to his new SonnenAllee flat for a scrumptious Greek passive feast. Also on hand was Alex’s cute Korean/German professor from the Frei University Suigi.Alex is an amazing chef, and I adore his new spacious compound.
After dinner was a private screening of his new Chocolate Grinder Kollective film that he made in the summer in his homosexual homeland.The movie is loosely based on the writings of Jean Genet and is very stylized in the way that most student filmmakers these days seem to function. His cinematographer Tasty Tim Shenkl really can make things look beautiful with black&white photography that shimmers in a James Wong Howe or Leon Shamroy like manner.At 70 minutes this was Alex’s first attempt at a feature film.I would edit it down to a 10 minute short and work it as a video installation.
***
Today is Christmas Eve which like Latin America is more important then Christmas day.I have been invited to a dinner party hosted by the great Italian/German fashion designer Piero Bellomo.The French actor Yannick Renier will be at the party, and I am anxious to meet him.He was so masculine and humpy in the films Plein Sud and the Christophe Honore’ musical Love Songs starring Louis Garrel.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
ODER WERS GLAUBT WIRD SEELIG
My lower back has given out so I am an old lady in pain. Not glamorous for the winter solstice let me tell you. Getting older is no William Holden picnic let me tell you. With problems with my knees due to gout, and having just had my wisdom tooth taken out what is next? A Liza Minnelli style hip replacement?
Speaking of Minnelli on Minnelli before my newest ailment I was able to meet up with the CHEAP collective Daniel “Haji” Hendrickson, Marc Siegel and fearless leader Susanne Sachsse along with Piero Bellomo, Assaf Hochman and Little Alex of Masadonia to see the Vincente Minnelli screening of The Bad&the Beautiful at Kino Arsenal. This is part of a rare salute to the faggot father of Liza May and husband to Judy Garlandish. I hadn’t seen The B&B for many centuries. Lana Turner was looking a little double chinned in some scenes but was still giving good face. Even better was hornpig Gloria Graham who won an Academy Award for one of the shortest performances on record. Ms. Graham is famous for the scandal of chucking her husband director Nicolas Ray for his 13 year old son, whom she later married. She is my all time heroine. Some of the other Minnelli films that will be shown are Lust For Life, The Cobweb, Two Weeks in a Small Town, An American in Paris, Gigi, Some Came Running,Brigadoon,The Band Wagon and Madame Bovary.
***
One of my hot and sexy young phd students at NYU Leon Hilton who is related to the famous hotelier family wrote a nice piece on David Wojnarowicz and the politics of representation up on Bully Bloggers, a site run by some NYU professors that will also go up on the Social Text site later. Below is the link so please check it out my darlings:
http://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/%E2%80%9Cx-ray-of-civilization%E2%80%9D-david-wojnarowicz-and-the-politics-of-representation/
***
German Experimental film guru Wilhelm Hein and his brilliant art photographer girlfriend Annette Frick came by the Cheese Endique Trifecta for a formal dinner that was filled with lots of laughter and intimacy. I am not the best cook,but thanx to the Turkish market OzGida and the very cute, young butcher boy who always flirts with me and gives me the best sweet meats i was able to make my Lamb Obscura Cutlets with soy and olive sauce, a frazzle cucumber & leak kurbist salad, roasted katzmajama veggies and prickle pasta salad. It actually turned out very nice. Wilhelm & Annette brought me a lovely tea&saucer set and the latest copy of their tome Jenseits Der Trampelpfade Heft 12 with the legendary Mario Montez on the cover.
***
Judy LaBruce is in town editing the Arte film she made in Paris with Beatrice Dalle, and working on the new opera project starring CHEAP fearless leader Susanne Sachsse. She contacted me and I suggested she come over to the Cheese Endique Trifecta, for a girlish one-on-one, but the farmers daughter has a case of cabin fever and wants to haunt the Nollendorf rent boy bars like Tabasco and Blue Boy. I wouldn’t mind seeing a little flesh for LuLu, but in my current state of disrepair a romp in the sleet and snow and 14 degree farenheit weather is completely out of the question, so I had to wish the Canuckian directrix luck, pluck and gander
My lower back has given out so I am an old lady in pain. Not glamorous for the winter solstice let me tell you. Getting older is no William Holden picnic let me tell you. With problems with my knees due to gout, and having just had my wisdom tooth taken out what is next? A Liza Minnelli style hip replacement?
Speaking of Minnelli on Minnelli before my newest ailment I was able to meet up with the CHEAP collective Daniel “Haji” Hendrickson, Marc Siegel and fearless leader Susanne Sachsse along with Piero Bellomo, Assaf Hochman and Little Alex of Masadonia to see the Vincente Minnelli screening of The Bad&the Beautiful at Kino Arsenal. This is part of a rare salute to the faggot father of Liza May and husband to Judy Garlandish. I hadn’t seen The B&B for many centuries. Lana Turner was looking a little double chinned in some scenes but was still giving good face. Even better was hornpig Gloria Graham who won an Academy Award for one of the shortest performances on record. Ms. Graham is famous for the scandal of chucking her husband director Nicolas Ray for his 13 year old son, whom she later married. She is my all time heroine. Some of the other Minnelli films that will be shown are Lust For Life, The Cobweb, Two Weeks in a Small Town, An American in Paris, Gigi, Some Came Running,Brigadoon,The Band Wagon and Madame Bovary.
***
One of my hot and sexy young phd students at NYU Leon Hilton who is related to the famous hotelier family wrote a nice piece on David Wojnarowicz and the politics of representation up on Bully Bloggers, a site run by some NYU professors that will also go up on the Social Text site later. Below is the link so please check it out my darlings:
http://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/%E2%80%9Cx-ray-of-civilization%E2%80%9D-david-wojnarowicz-and-the-politics-of-representation/
***
German Experimental film guru Wilhelm Hein and his brilliant art photographer girlfriend Annette Frick came by the Cheese Endique Trifecta for a formal dinner that was filled with lots of laughter and intimacy. I am not the best cook,but thanx to the Turkish market OzGida and the very cute, young butcher boy who always flirts with me and gives me the best sweet meats i was able to make my Lamb Obscura Cutlets with soy and olive sauce, a frazzle cucumber & leak kurbist salad, roasted katzmajama veggies and prickle pasta salad. It actually turned out very nice. Wilhelm & Annette brought me a lovely tea&saucer set and the latest copy of their tome Jenseits Der Trampelpfade Heft 12 with the legendary Mario Montez on the cover.
***
Judy LaBruce is in town editing the Arte film she made in Paris with Beatrice Dalle, and working on the new opera project starring CHEAP fearless leader Susanne Sachsse. She contacted me and I suggested she come over to the Cheese Endique Trifecta, for a girlish one-on-one, but the farmers daughter has a case of cabin fever and wants to haunt the Nollendorf rent boy bars like Tabasco and Blue Boy. I wouldn’t mind seeing a little flesh for LuLu, but in my current state of disrepair a romp in the sleet and snow and 14 degree farenheit weather is completely out of the question, so I had to wish the Canuckian directrix luck, pluck and gander
Thursday, December 16, 2010
ANALSPIELE
Daniel Hendrickson the Scandanavian Jewish Muslim helped me last night into the wee hours designing a new Rising Stars, Falling Stars promotional flier that looks pretty sensational, plus Danny helped with some other tasks for my upcoming museum show at MoCa in Los Angeles that is called dejecta/protecta. Those of you in the LA area reading this should run and purchase tickets immediately as the Jan 22nd performance is divided into four different sections which have very limited seating, so first come first served.
Just got word from fearless leader of collective CHEAP Susanne Sachsse that we have the funding for our new project The Communist Bigamist. This is good news in that finally a performance piece associated with CHEAP that can tour easily. Our collaborations with Judy LaBruce always turned into a three ring circus with too big of a cast which made touring difficult, though with CHEAP Blacky, and The Bad Breast we did actually tour, but not that many places. Why go through all that work just to do a couple of cities in Europe when you can do the entire world.
Had a sweet meeting with the amazing Evelyn Ruessler who treated me to a scrumptious late brunch at the Anchorclause on the Canal in Kreuzberg. We had the place almost all to ourselves and were able to have a sexy and joyous girlish time catching up on our busy lives and chittle chatting. Sublime.
The day before had a big rehearsal with my art band Tenderloin. It will be the last time we all see each other as Baby Diaper Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras will return to Canada for the holidays. I am so jealous that Joel and his humpy big dicked, muscular and super nice boyfriend Enrico Dallman will be spending New Year’s in the rain forest of Costa Rica. They deserve a nice time with each other in the lap luxury of love. My other bandmates Felix Knoke and Jan Klesse are both going home for Christmas and New Year’s so I wont see them till next year. Felix cooked a delish holiday supper of Spatzel which is a German mainstay. Jan just graduated from law school, and Felix works as a journalist with Der Spiegel Online. It was also nice hanging out with Felix’s beautiful girlfriend Joanna. Tenderloin may make its stage debut at the party nite that writer Travis Jeppeson curates at Monster Ronson’s. Also on the bill will be Gio Black Peter of New York and Mr. Glen Meadmore from Los Angeles making his Berlin debut.
***
Monday I had a dear gathering with film historian Marc Siegel and two of my Staedel Schule art school students from Frankfurt, the vivacious and pretty Romanian/German Andrea Bellu and humpy American intellectual Zac Dempster. A wonderous time was had by all.
Daniel Hendrickson the Scandanavian Jewish Muslim helped me last night into the wee hours designing a new Rising Stars, Falling Stars promotional flier that looks pretty sensational, plus Danny helped with some other tasks for my upcoming museum show at MoCa in Los Angeles that is called dejecta/protecta. Those of you in the LA area reading this should run and purchase tickets immediately as the Jan 22nd performance is divided into four different sections which have very limited seating, so first come first served.
Just got word from fearless leader of collective CHEAP Susanne Sachsse that we have the funding for our new project The Communist Bigamist. This is good news in that finally a performance piece associated with CHEAP that can tour easily. Our collaborations with Judy LaBruce always turned into a three ring circus with too big of a cast which made touring difficult, though with CHEAP Blacky, and The Bad Breast we did actually tour, but not that many places. Why go through all that work just to do a couple of cities in Europe when you can do the entire world.
Had a sweet meeting with the amazing Evelyn Ruessler who treated me to a scrumptious late brunch at the Anchorclause on the Canal in Kreuzberg. We had the place almost all to ourselves and were able to have a sexy and joyous girlish time catching up on our busy lives and chittle chatting. Sublime.
The day before had a big rehearsal with my art band Tenderloin. It will be the last time we all see each other as Baby Diaper Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras will return to Canada for the holidays. I am so jealous that Joel and his humpy big dicked, muscular and super nice boyfriend Enrico Dallman will be spending New Year’s in the rain forest of Costa Rica. They deserve a nice time with each other in the lap luxury of love. My other bandmates Felix Knoke and Jan Klesse are both going home for Christmas and New Year’s so I wont see them till next year. Felix cooked a delish holiday supper of Spatzel which is a German mainstay. Jan just graduated from law school, and Felix works as a journalist with Der Spiegel Online. It was also nice hanging out with Felix’s beautiful girlfriend Joanna. Tenderloin may make its stage debut at the party nite that writer Travis Jeppeson curates at Monster Ronson’s. Also on the bill will be Gio Black Peter of New York and Mr. Glen Meadmore from Los Angeles making his Berlin debut.
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Monday I had a dear gathering with film historian Marc Siegel and two of my Staedel Schule art school students from Frankfurt, the vivacious and pretty Romanian/German Andrea Bellu and humpy American intellectual Zac Dempster. A wonderous time was had by all.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
IST JIHADISTISCH DAS NEUE SCHWUL?
Got a sweet note from the great Billy Miller who will be returning to Berlin Feb. 12th till the first week of March for his big Bob Mizer exhibition at Exile Gallery. Billy says that the super cute Christopher Trout of the Mizer Archive will also be in tow, and that he will warm hearts with his eyecandylishessness. Can’t wait.
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Was just sent this announcement from Yusi the guru of the Basso Kollective about a documentary film on the legendary lesbian performer Valeska Gert who was the sadistic headmistress in the G.W. Pabst film Diary of a Lost Girl. I already have plans so I won’t be able to attend but perhaps my Berlin readers can make it. I gather its at Basso, but I am not sure as the emug didn’t specify.
montag 13. dezember : monday december 13th : 2010
21 Uhr : 9pm
Wolfgang Müller präsentiert
NUR ZUM SPASS, NUR ZUM SPIEL ¬ KALEIDOSKOP VALESKA GERT
dokumentarfilm von Volker Schlöndorff, BRD 1977
in deutscher Sprache : in german original / no subitles
in the context of his fu seminar, wolfgang müller will screen the
stilistically ambitious documentary (photography: michael ballhaus) which is the only extensive interview available with the godmother of performance,the incomparable valeska gert at the age of 85.unfortunately the rare tv production is not available with english subtitles, but nevertheless is even worth to see without understanding due to the radiant protagonist.
im rahmen seines fu seminars zeigt wolfgang müller den raren, stilistisch ambitionierten (kamera: michael ballhaus) dokumentarfilm mit der urmutter der performance, der unvergleichlichen valeska gert in ihrem einzigen aufgezeichneten extensiven interview im alter von 85 jahren. fünfzig minute mit dieser frau mit der einzigartigen explosiven ausstrahlung.
Got a sweet note from the great Billy Miller who will be returning to Berlin Feb. 12th till the first week of March for his big Bob Mizer exhibition at Exile Gallery. Billy says that the super cute Christopher Trout of the Mizer Archive will also be in tow, and that he will warm hearts with his eyecandylishessness. Can’t wait.
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Was just sent this announcement from Yusi the guru of the Basso Kollective about a documentary film on the legendary lesbian performer Valeska Gert who was the sadistic headmistress in the G.W. Pabst film Diary of a Lost Girl. I already have plans so I won’t be able to attend but perhaps my Berlin readers can make it. I gather its at Basso, but I am not sure as the emug didn’t specify.
montag 13. dezember : monday december 13th : 2010
21 Uhr : 9pm
Wolfgang Müller präsentiert
NUR ZUM SPASS, NUR ZUM SPIEL ¬ KALEIDOSKOP VALESKA GERT
dokumentarfilm von Volker Schlöndorff, BRD 1977
in deutscher Sprache : in german original / no subitles
in the context of his fu seminar, wolfgang müller will screen the
stilistically ambitious documentary (photography: michael ballhaus) which is the only extensive interview available with the godmother of performance,the incomparable valeska gert at the age of 85.unfortunately the rare tv production is not available with english subtitles, but nevertheless is even worth to see without understanding due to the radiant protagonist.
im rahmen seines fu seminars zeigt wolfgang müller den raren, stilistisch ambitionierten (kamera: michael ballhaus) dokumentarfilm mit der urmutter der performance, der unvergleichlichen valeska gert in ihrem einzigen aufgezeichneten extensiven interview im alter von 85 jahren. fünfzig minute mit dieser frau mit der einzigartigen explosiven ausstrahlung.
NIEMAND IST ZU 100% HETERO
This sex story courtesy of a homophile pal of mine in Los Angeles who is a pure unadulturated horndogdacus with a swollen muscular body, and an outrageously huge uncut penis who is constantly on the prowl for close encounters of the buttsticle kind.
I never know if his tales are true or not, but either way they are a great titular read so who cares if he’s a bit deluded. Enjoy:
So my Boo was out for the evening.I stayed home made myself dinner, had a beer and then decided to stop by the Flatline Leather Pub.
Made my way thru the old men and onto the outdoor patio. I was immediately chatted up by a super slim/lean 20 something Blatino pommo with an Afro. He had a smoldering slick body. No time was wasted as he took me by the hand and into a bathroom stall and commenced to suck my dick working me until I unloaded on the floor.I was still hard so he continued sucking.
We made our way back out to the patio. I then noticed his snug ass.
He started rubbing up against me. It wasn't long before I
was stiff again.We went back into the restroom stall where he
stripped down to nothing. I took control of that smoking body, with a hole that was boiling. He pulled out a condom, and I plowed him. The whole process was intense. It reminded me of a restroom ass eating session in Vancouver with another steamy young man.
This boy was one restless bottom bucking,grinding,twisting and churning. He was as light as a feather so I could easily hold him up and spread his bountiful ass cheeks in all directions and completely ram his twitchy young hole. His dick was uncut, fat and even bigger then mine.
It was like he was having an epileptic fit as he dropped that nut. I'm not big on kissing, but we smootched, and his pillow lips felt great as we continued in the rhythms of our fuck. This seemed to go on for quite some time.
Nobody knocked on the door of the bathroom stall so we were left quite alone.
Back at home I rewarded myself with a Gin&Tonic.
So there you have it. Every damn dog has his day. And this day included a piping hot, cute latino with a big unhinged Mexi-fro.
***
Last night was Rising Stars, Falling Stars and our tributata to frisky queer Prussian feline, Felix The Cat. The Berliner Morganpost a local daily newspaper gave us a pick of the weekend, but said that we were screening Fritz The Cat, the porn version of Felix. Au contraire le maire! The scintillating Bros. Blue Tim & k-Johnny gave off a lot of lovesexy energy in their musical accompaniment last night at the Arsenal and were in fine studly form heating the room.
The cast of juicies at the post screening reception in the Rote Foyer included Jan Klesse of the hot new band Tenderloin,fresh and pretty Nadine of Neu Koelln,young Dutch artist Annette Kohl and her cute Spanish gal pal Amelia with a tender posse of baby dykes in tow.
German prima ballerina Trixie Schoenherr was looking beautiful with her sassy self. She gifted the Doll a pair of glistening Christmas drop earings that I shall treasure. Next year the divine Miss Trixie will present a new movement piece that will feature costumes by Evie Ruesseler.
Enjoying a sweet flirtation Manuel Schubert of Filmhighlights Internet Radio Show and Staedelschule muscle pup and artist Zac Dempster, vivacious Technical University Literature Professor Roman Lach who is a childhood friend of Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus. Ms. Stefanie just came back from Cairo, Egypt where she was working on a project through the Goerthe Institute and brought back some lovely Cleopatra Queer Oil and native bellydancing headgear that will look scrumptious on the Vagimule.
Lovely to look at and delightful to know: Ms. Nazli Kilerci who comes from Kurdish political royalty in Turkey was turning many heads, along with young French patrician artist Christophe DeRohan Chabot, wonderful Arsenal projectionist Alex Boldt and Uli Ziemons the handsomest man in Europe were being very playful as well as pretty Garret with beau who were sipping the ever flowing vino.
Ms. Davis is on antibiotics to prevent an infection from complications from the pulling of a wisdom tooth, so all she could drink was mineral water. Everyone was all agag to see humpthrob French actor Gaspard Ulliel who was with fashionista date Roksanda Illincic. Even sexy battling coke whore art dealers Sam Orlofsky and Cory Nomura were star struck. Next month Rising Stars will present an Alfred Hitchcock salute to the true genius behind his cockian ouvre---namely his lesbian wife Alma.
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Had a late brunch with writer Travis Jeppeson at Avallon the nice little Turkish boite on the Mehringdamn Corridor in Kreuzberg. Travis is curating the occasional party at Monster Ronson's and wants to have Glen Meadmore perform on a bill with Gio Black Peter and the hot new band Tenderloin featuring 19 year old German Black Forest girl Dagmar Hopfisterei. That should be quite an evening.
Was Skyping with the uber talented New York writer Glenn Belverio who told me he had an Anderson Cooper sighting around the corner from his east village compound off of Avenue C. The silver Fox Mr. Cooper was with his boyfriend the muscular French owner of the gay pub Eastern Block that use to be The Wonder Bar. Gloria Vanderbuilts handsome son is certainly kept filled with semen from his manly prize, the lucky stiff. I remember when Coop use to date Treffley Beddard back in the 1990s when i was hosting Club Sucker at the Garage. I wonder what ever became of Ms. Beddard? If any of you out there in internet land know please zip me an emug.
This sex story courtesy of a homophile pal of mine in Los Angeles who is a pure unadulturated horndogdacus with a swollen muscular body, and an outrageously huge uncut penis who is constantly on the prowl for close encounters of the buttsticle kind.
I never know if his tales are true or not, but either way they are a great titular read so who cares if he’s a bit deluded. Enjoy:
So my Boo was out for the evening.I stayed home made myself dinner, had a beer and then decided to stop by the Flatline Leather Pub.
Made my way thru the old men and onto the outdoor patio. I was immediately chatted up by a super slim/lean 20 something Blatino pommo with an Afro. He had a smoldering slick body. No time was wasted as he took me by the hand and into a bathroom stall and commenced to suck my dick working me until I unloaded on the floor.I was still hard so he continued sucking.
We made our way back out to the patio. I then noticed his snug ass.
He started rubbing up against me. It wasn't long before I
was stiff again.We went back into the restroom stall where he
stripped down to nothing. I took control of that smoking body, with a hole that was boiling. He pulled out a condom, and I plowed him. The whole process was intense. It reminded me of a restroom ass eating session in Vancouver with another steamy young man.
This boy was one restless bottom bucking,grinding,twisting and churning. He was as light as a feather so I could easily hold him up and spread his bountiful ass cheeks in all directions and completely ram his twitchy young hole. His dick was uncut, fat and even bigger then mine.
It was like he was having an epileptic fit as he dropped that nut. I'm not big on kissing, but we smootched, and his pillow lips felt great as we continued in the rhythms of our fuck. This seemed to go on for quite some time.
Nobody knocked on the door of the bathroom stall so we were left quite alone.
Back at home I rewarded myself with a Gin&Tonic.
So there you have it. Every damn dog has his day. And this day included a piping hot, cute latino with a big unhinged Mexi-fro.
***
Last night was Rising Stars, Falling Stars and our tributata to frisky queer Prussian feline, Felix The Cat. The Berliner Morganpost a local daily newspaper gave us a pick of the weekend, but said that we were screening Fritz The Cat, the porn version of Felix. Au contraire le maire! The scintillating Bros. Blue Tim & k-Johnny gave off a lot of lovesexy energy in their musical accompaniment last night at the Arsenal and were in fine studly form heating the room.
The cast of juicies at the post screening reception in the Rote Foyer included Jan Klesse of the hot new band Tenderloin,fresh and pretty Nadine of Neu Koelln,young Dutch artist Annette Kohl and her cute Spanish gal pal Amelia with a tender posse of baby dykes in tow.
German prima ballerina Trixie Schoenherr was looking beautiful with her sassy self. She gifted the Doll a pair of glistening Christmas drop earings that I shall treasure. Next year the divine Miss Trixie will present a new movement piece that will feature costumes by Evie Ruesseler.
Enjoying a sweet flirtation Manuel Schubert of Filmhighlights Internet Radio Show and Staedelschule muscle pup and artist Zac Dempster, vivacious Technical University Literature Professor Roman Lach who is a childhood friend of Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus. Ms. Stefanie just came back from Cairo, Egypt where she was working on a project through the Goerthe Institute and brought back some lovely Cleopatra Queer Oil and native bellydancing headgear that will look scrumptious on the Vagimule.
Lovely to look at and delightful to know: Ms. Nazli Kilerci who comes from Kurdish political royalty in Turkey was turning many heads, along with young French patrician artist Christophe DeRohan Chabot, wonderful Arsenal projectionist Alex Boldt and Uli Ziemons the handsomest man in Europe were being very playful as well as pretty Garret with beau who were sipping the ever flowing vino.
Ms. Davis is on antibiotics to prevent an infection from complications from the pulling of a wisdom tooth, so all she could drink was mineral water. Everyone was all agag to see humpthrob French actor Gaspard Ulliel who was with fashionista date Roksanda Illincic. Even sexy battling coke whore art dealers Sam Orlofsky and Cory Nomura were star struck. Next month Rising Stars will present an Alfred Hitchcock salute to the true genius behind his cockian ouvre---namely his lesbian wife Alma.
***
Had a late brunch with writer Travis Jeppeson at Avallon the nice little Turkish boite on the Mehringdamn Corridor in Kreuzberg. Travis is curating the occasional party at Monster Ronson's and wants to have Glen Meadmore perform on a bill with Gio Black Peter and the hot new band Tenderloin featuring 19 year old German Black Forest girl Dagmar Hopfisterei. That should be quite an evening.
Was Skyping with the uber talented New York writer Glenn Belverio who told me he had an Anderson Cooper sighting around the corner from his east village compound off of Avenue C. The silver Fox Mr. Cooper was with his boyfriend the muscular French owner of the gay pub Eastern Block that use to be The Wonder Bar. Gloria Vanderbuilts handsome son is certainly kept filled with semen from his manly prize, the lucky stiff. I remember when Coop use to date Treffley Beddard back in the 1990s when i was hosting Club Sucker at the Garage. I wonder what ever became of Ms. Beddard? If any of you out there in internet land know please zip me an emug.
Friday, December 10, 2010
QUERGEFRAGT
Had to go to the dentist to have my wisdom tooth removed. Thank god I have health insurance here in Germany. Dr. Mueller came recommended by the great Nanna Heidenreich, and removed the tooth so fast I didn’t even realize he had taken it out. Of course now I feel quesy, but he gave me some pain medication and some antibiotics as now I have this big gaping hole in my mouth. Does that mean that I can fit larger appendages in the olde clap trap? Wonders never cease.
The other day I had a nice visit from young scholar Tobias Rauscher who paid me a sweet visit to the Cheese Endique Trifecta. We had a lovely time talking, eating and drinking memosas. I love mentoring young German youthquakers.
Had a sweet interview with Manuel Schubert the host of the internet radio program Film Highlights on Multikult FM. See below to hear it for yourself. I think it came out nicely, and suggested some classical music by Alexander Scriabau which really added to the interview, but I will let you be the judge of that.
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Film historian Marc Siegel sent this out on the CHEAP collective mailing list about Rising Stars, Falling Stars this Saturday.
Dear CHEAPies,
For all you cat-lovers, even for those of you like me who are allergic,
Vaginal Davis presents an evening of beastiality and experimental music. Yes, her monthly utopian chit-chat and silent movie event at the Arsenalwill focus this cold December on that perverse silent film feline, Felix theCat. In the Doll's words herself: "This is a special program of delectable animated short subjects from the years 1920-1928 featuring the queerest of all queering felines with live musical accompanyment by those studly geniuses of experimental soundscapes The Blue Bros. Tim & kJohnny. After the screening join the demented Ms. Davis in the Rote Foyer Litter Box for a special wine and
katnip reception"
A great way to wind down after the Texte zur Kunst 20th year art criticism marathon at HAU!
Hope to see you there!
Yours
Marc
Rising Stars, Falling Stars Sat Dec 11th 9pm
Potsdamer Str 2
Sony Center Filmhaus Kino 2
Arsenal Inst fur Film und Video Kunst
in Historic Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
www.Vaginaldavis.com
www.arsenal-berlin.de
*****
CHEAP looks forward to...
*Susanne Sachsse singing Schoenberg! Yes, La Sachsse has secretly been
receiving voice lessons from a Serbian Dominatrix Diva to prepare for the premiere of a radical new production of that perverse Austrian atonalist's PIERROT LUNAIRE on March 6, 2011 at HAU! Conducted by melancholic beauty Premil Petrovic and directed by the eternally and seductively washed-up Bruce ”Judy” LaBruce! not to be missed. (regarding perversion: did you know that Schönberg saved his urine so that it can be used to water his plants even after his death? Visit Schönbergs urine collection at USC in Los Angeles!)
* While in LA for the twelve-tone urine tasting, check out:
dejecta/protecta
A performance by Vaginal Davis
in conjunction with The Artists Museum
Saturday, January 22, 2011, 8pm
Ahmanson Auditorium
MOCA Grand Ave.
Inspired by Andy Warhol¹s screen tests, and the midnight performances of Jack Smith, this expanded cinema piece is a new work created by Vaginal Davis, an originator of the homo-core punk movement and a gender-queer art-music icon. Berlin based, Ms Davis made her name in LA's club performance scene, and has earned herself a similar notoriety as a cultural antagonist and erotic provocateur, renowned for her performance,experimental film and video practice. This original work will be staged at MOCA for one night only and will feature production and costumes design by lovesexy, young Jonathan Berger, with special appearances by WuIngrid Tsang hosting a Richard Serra Minimalist Nouvelle Riche CaliforniaCuisine Feast, a reading by Larry Bob of Holy Tit Clamps, a lecturina by Dr. Robert Summers on Judy Garland Modalities, an interpretive dance by Jean Spinosa(Wigout) as Lucia Joyce,16 mm films by Janie Geiser&Lewis Klahr , musical madness from Glen Meadmore,Mark Simon and The Boyfriend, and Julie Tolentino with Pigpen Myers Rifkin.
O and I got an update from that extroidinary artist Heather Cassil who has almost met her Kickstarted fundraising goal, so read below and donate donate donate.
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I'm writing to you to thank those of you who have pledged to my kickstarter fund VERY VERY MUCH for your support. It means the world to me.
I am one week away from the deadline where I must make my goal. As I have mentioned with kick starter, if I don't make the goal then I don't see the funds. Any of them.
If any of you have been waiting around to see if I could use the pledge.. I CAN!! for those who can not pledge then please spread the word.
America is a crazy place where art funding is hard to come by. Even when art which exists outside the market does make it to the surface, so often it is cut down. look at the Catholic League and conservative Republicans for asking the Smithsonian to remove David Wojnarowicz's video, "Fire In My Belly," from its National Portrait Gallery! We are constantly under attack. It is because of and in spite of a climate such as this that I feel compelled to push forward with my work. People like you, and small efforts like kick starter are part of the answer.
Take a look at my video if you have not all ready:
http://kck.st/bgOMQF
Spread the word.
I'm close...but not close enough.
Love,
Heather
PS: Some cool incentives for pledging:
PLEDGE $250 OR MORE
All of the previous rewards PLUS signed limited edition CUTS: A TRADITIONAL SCULPTURE poster, printed on archived photo paper. PLUS a vial including droplets of sweat produced during the performance.
PLEDGE $500 OR MORE
All of the previous rewards PLUS!!! A limited edition signed artist print from the exclusive CUTS: A TRADITIONAL SCULPTURE photo series, choose a day of the performance (your choice) and receive a framed photo grid of the 4 photos, from 4 angles, documenting that day.
PLEDGE $1,000 OR MORE
OMG! Everything from the levels below PLUS a private screening in your honor with Q&A hosted by the artist!
PLEDGE $2,000 OR MORE (HEY A GUY CAN DREAM RIGHT?)
Everything from the levels below PLUS 6 personal training sessions with the artist, TOTALLY SERIOUS PERSONAL TRAINER, SHOWING UP LOOKING CUTE AND MAKING YOU SWEAT TILL YOU BEG ME TO STOP.
http://www.heathercassils.com
http://www.sculptthebody.com
Spread the word.
I'm close...but not close enough.
Love,
Heather
PS: Some cool incentives:
PLEDGE $250 OR MORE
All of the previous rewards PLUS signed limited edition CUTS: A TRADITIONAL SCULPTURE poster, printed on archived photo paper. PLUS a vial including droplets of sweat produced during the performance.
PLEDGE $500 OR MORE
All of the previous rewards PLUS!!! A limited edition signed artist print from the exclusive CUTS: A TRADITIONAL SCULPTURE photo series, choose a day of the performance (your choice) and receive a framed photo grid of the 4 photos, from 4 angles, documenting that day.
PLEDGE $1,000 OR MORE
OMG! Everything from the levels below PLUS a private screening in your honor with Q&A hosted by the artist!
PLEDGE $2,000 OR MORE (HEY A GUY CAN DREAM RIGHT?)
Everything from the levels below PLUS 6 personal training sessions with the artist, TOTALLY SERIOUS PERSONAL TRAINER, SHOWING UP LOOKING CUTE AND MAKING YOU SWEAT TILL YOU BEG ME TO STOP.
http://www.heathercassils.com
http://www.sculptthebody.com
Had to go to the dentist to have my wisdom tooth removed. Thank god I have health insurance here in Germany. Dr. Mueller came recommended by the great Nanna Heidenreich, and removed the tooth so fast I didn’t even realize he had taken it out. Of course now I feel quesy, but he gave me some pain medication and some antibiotics as now I have this big gaping hole in my mouth. Does that mean that I can fit larger appendages in the olde clap trap? Wonders never cease.
The other day I had a nice visit from young scholar Tobias Rauscher who paid me a sweet visit to the Cheese Endique Trifecta. We had a lovely time talking, eating and drinking memosas. I love mentoring young German youthquakers.
Had a sweet interview with Manuel Schubert the host of the internet radio program Film Highlights on Multikult FM. See below to hear it for yourself. I think it came out nicely, and suggested some classical music by Alexander Scriabau which really added to the interview, but I will let you be the judge of that.
[START]-->| Rising Stars, Falling Stars - Dezember 2010 - Vaginal Davis - Felix The Cat by filmanzeiger |<--[END]
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Manuel Schubert • filmanzeiger • filmhighlights • Schwule Filmnacht • Celluloid Against Aids
» filmanzeiger.de
» "filmhighlights" auf multicultFM - multicult.fm
» schwulefilmnacht.de
» celluloidagainstaids.com
*
Film historian Marc Siegel sent this out on the CHEAP collective mailing list about Rising Stars, Falling Stars this Saturday.
Dear CHEAPies,
For all you cat-lovers, even for those of you like me who are allergic,
Vaginal Davis presents an evening of beastiality and experimental music. Yes, her monthly utopian chit-chat and silent movie event at the Arsenalwill focus this cold December on that perverse silent film feline, Felix theCat. In the Doll's words herself: "This is a special program of delectable animated short subjects from the years 1920-1928 featuring the queerest of all queering felines with live musical accompanyment by those studly geniuses of experimental soundscapes The Blue Bros. Tim & kJohnny. After the screening join the demented Ms. Davis in the Rote Foyer Litter Box for a special wine and
katnip reception"
A great way to wind down after the Texte zur Kunst 20th year art criticism marathon at HAU!
Hope to see you there!
Yours
Marc
Rising Stars, Falling Stars Sat Dec 11th 9pm
Potsdamer Str 2
Sony Center Filmhaus Kino 2
Arsenal Inst fur Film und Video Kunst
in Historic Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
www.Vaginaldavis.com
www.arsenal-berlin.de
*****
CHEAP looks forward to...
*Susanne Sachsse singing Schoenberg! Yes, La Sachsse has secretly been
receiving voice lessons from a Serbian Dominatrix Diva to prepare for the premiere of a radical new production of that perverse Austrian atonalist's PIERROT LUNAIRE on March 6, 2011 at HAU! Conducted by melancholic beauty Premil Petrovic and directed by the eternally and seductively washed-up Bruce ”Judy” LaBruce! not to be missed. (regarding perversion: did you know that Schönberg saved his urine so that it can be used to water his plants even after his death? Visit Schönbergs urine collection at USC in Los Angeles!)
* While in LA for the twelve-tone urine tasting, check out:
dejecta/protecta
A performance by Vaginal Davis
in conjunction with The Artists Museum
Saturday, January 22, 2011, 8pm
Ahmanson Auditorium
MOCA Grand Ave.
Inspired by Andy Warhol¹s screen tests, and the midnight performances of Jack Smith, this expanded cinema piece is a new work created by Vaginal Davis, an originator of the homo-core punk movement and a gender-queer art-music icon. Berlin based, Ms Davis made her name in LA's club performance scene, and has earned herself a similar notoriety as a cultural antagonist and erotic provocateur, renowned for her performance,experimental film and video practice. This original work will be staged at MOCA for one night only and will feature production and costumes design by lovesexy, young Jonathan Berger, with special appearances by WuIngrid Tsang hosting a Richard Serra Minimalist Nouvelle Riche CaliforniaCuisine Feast, a reading by Larry Bob of Holy Tit Clamps, a lecturina by Dr. Robert Summers on Judy Garland Modalities, an interpretive dance by Jean Spinosa(Wigout) as Lucia Joyce,16 mm films by Janie Geiser&Lewis Klahr , musical madness from Glen Meadmore,Mark Simon and The Boyfriend, and Julie Tolentino with Pigpen Myers Rifkin.
O and I got an update from that extroidinary artist Heather Cassil who has almost met her Kickstarted fundraising goal, so read below and donate donate donate.
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I'm writing to you to thank those of you who have pledged to my kickstarter fund VERY VERY MUCH for your support. It means the world to me.
I am one week away from the deadline where I must make my goal. As I have mentioned with kick starter, if I don't make the goal then I don't see the funds. Any of them.
If any of you have been waiting around to see if I could use the pledge.. I CAN!! for those who can not pledge then please spread the word.
America is a crazy place where art funding is hard to come by. Even when art which exists outside the market does make it to the surface, so often it is cut down. look at the Catholic League and conservative Republicans for asking the Smithsonian to remove David Wojnarowicz's video, "Fire In My Belly," from its National Portrait Gallery! We are constantly under attack. It is because of and in spite of a climate such as this that I feel compelled to push forward with my work. People like you, and small efforts like kick starter are part of the answer.
Take a look at my video if you have not all ready:
http://kck.st/bgOMQF
Spread the word.
I'm close...but not close enough.
Love,
Heather
PS: Some cool incentives for pledging:
PLEDGE $250 OR MORE
All of the previous rewards PLUS signed limited edition CUTS: A TRADITIONAL SCULPTURE poster, printed on archived photo paper. PLUS a vial including droplets of sweat produced during the performance.
PLEDGE $500 OR MORE
All of the previous rewards PLUS!!! A limited edition signed artist print from the exclusive CUTS: A TRADITIONAL SCULPTURE photo series, choose a day of the performance (your choice) and receive a framed photo grid of the 4 photos, from 4 angles, documenting that day.
PLEDGE $1,000 OR MORE
OMG! Everything from the levels below PLUS a private screening in your honor with Q&A hosted by the artist!
PLEDGE $2,000 OR MORE (HEY A GUY CAN DREAM RIGHT?)
Everything from the levels below PLUS 6 personal training sessions with the artist, TOTALLY SERIOUS PERSONAL TRAINER, SHOWING UP LOOKING CUTE AND MAKING YOU SWEAT TILL YOU BEG ME TO STOP.
http://www.heathercassils.com
http://www.sculptthebody.com
Spread the word.
I'm close...but not close enough.
Love,
Heather
PS: Some cool incentives:
PLEDGE $250 OR MORE
All of the previous rewards PLUS signed limited edition CUTS: A TRADITIONAL SCULPTURE poster, printed on archived photo paper. PLUS a vial including droplets of sweat produced during the performance.
PLEDGE $500 OR MORE
All of the previous rewards PLUS!!! A limited edition signed artist print from the exclusive CUTS: A TRADITIONAL SCULPTURE photo series, choose a day of the performance (your choice) and receive a framed photo grid of the 4 photos, from 4 angles, documenting that day.
PLEDGE $1,000 OR MORE
OMG! Everything from the levels below PLUS a private screening in your honor with Q&A hosted by the artist!
PLEDGE $2,000 OR MORE (HEY A GUY CAN DREAM RIGHT?)
Everything from the levels below PLUS 6 personal training sessions with the artist, TOTALLY SERIOUS PERSONAL TRAINER, SHOWING UP LOOKING CUTE AND MAKING YOU SWEAT TILL YOU BEG ME TO STOP.
http://www.heathercassils.com
http://www.sculptthebody.com
Monday, December 06, 2010
WAS HOERT EIGENTLICH
Last night was Daniel Hendrickson’s yearly Muslim Hannukah Party at his lovely Neu Koelln compound. The mannorah was lit and everyone was in a festive mood wearing their their best designer abaya as we feasted on borst soup and latkas with the puddy for dessert. All of collective CHEAP was on hand including gorgeous fearless leader Susanne Sachsse, film historian Marc Siegel, and Tim Blue who announced breathlessly that he is moving back to Portland Oregon next Thanksgiving. Mr. Blue has been living in Berlin for 7 years now, and I somehow find it hard to believe he will return to the U.S of A. I like Portand, but living in America is not a real viable option these days. If you’re already here, you’re better off taking your chances remaining.
Also enjoying the MuslimHannukah festivities at the Hendrickson atelier: the beautiful Ms. Nazli Kilerci just back in Berlin from Istanbul, juicy Nanna Heidenreich of Arsenal Experimental with hot gal pal DJane Olga Damnitz, Slovenian philosopher king Slavoj Zizek and 17 year old twins Salome & Richard Gersh. The twinnies are the kids of Frau Sachsse, and Richard brought along his very beautiful steady girlfriend Fraulein Vicki----ah there’s nothing like young love. Wish I was in love with someone---well endowed.
This Saturday Dec 11th 9:00pm its Rising Stars, Falling Stars at Kino Arsenal 2 where we will have a tribute to that frisky fey feline Felix the Cat with the screening of a delectable sample of short subjects from the 1920s with musical accompaniment by The Blue Bros.-Tim&kJohnny.
Last night was Daniel Hendrickson’s yearly Muslim Hannukah Party at his lovely Neu Koelln compound. The mannorah was lit and everyone was in a festive mood wearing their their best designer abaya as we feasted on borst soup and latkas with the puddy for dessert. All of collective CHEAP was on hand including gorgeous fearless leader Susanne Sachsse, film historian Marc Siegel, and Tim Blue who announced breathlessly that he is moving back to Portland Oregon next Thanksgiving. Mr. Blue has been living in Berlin for 7 years now, and I somehow find it hard to believe he will return to the U.S of A. I like Portand, but living in America is not a real viable option these days. If you’re already here, you’re better off taking your chances remaining.
Also enjoying the MuslimHannukah festivities at the Hendrickson atelier: the beautiful Ms. Nazli Kilerci just back in Berlin from Istanbul, juicy Nanna Heidenreich of Arsenal Experimental with hot gal pal DJane Olga Damnitz, Slovenian philosopher king Slavoj Zizek and 17 year old twins Salome & Richard Gersh. The twinnies are the kids of Frau Sachsse, and Richard brought along his very beautiful steady girlfriend Fraulein Vicki----ah there’s nothing like young love. Wish I was in love with someone---well endowed.
This Saturday Dec 11th 9:00pm its Rising Stars, Falling Stars at Kino Arsenal 2 where we will have a tribute to that frisky fey feline Felix the Cat with the screening of a delectable sample of short subjects from the 1920s with musical accompaniment by The Blue Bros.-Tim&kJohnny.
Saturday, December 04, 2010
PETERUNDDERWOLF
One of my sweet young talented students and collaborators Marc Arthur a very sexy and sexual young man with incredible genitalia is mounting a new experimental version of the class tale of Peter and the Wolfe in New York. Because there is absolutely no funding in the states any more young artists are using the internet to generate funds for their projects, and its working really well. If you want to help a young artist realize his project please click on the links below and donate any amount of money as every bit will help in this horrible climate that young creatives are faced with.
Dear Ms. Davis,
Thank you for putting this on your blog! Here is the official link you can post:
http://igg.me/p/13616?a=58692&i=shlk
You can also click "grab a widget" from that page
The Story behind the call for funds:
For the past three months I've been developing a production of Peter and the Wolf that I am thrilled beyond words to tell you about (or maybe I have already told you). We have an amazing cast of mostly child actors and ballerinas, a production team that I am so honored to work with, and a beautiful 120 seat theater in the lower east side where the show will be produced this March. Please check out our website for more information: http://marc-arthur.com/peterandthewolf/
As you may know, producing a show like this in New York can be very expensive. We have no outside funding and are relying on individual donations to cover all of our budget. Today we are launching our fundraiser through Indygogo.
Here is the link: http://www.indiegogo.com/peterandthewolf
This is your chance to be part of the process. Every dollar helps. We need donations but we also want to get people as excited about the show as we are. Please help spread the word and link our campaign to your Face book, Twitter, blog or manhunt account. Or just send it along to people who you think would be interested in the project.
With love and appreciation,
Marc Arthur
On a similar note the incredible young feminist artist Heather Cassils is close to reaching her goal for a new project with donations through kickstarter. If you want to support Heather and I know you do, as she is someone I have known and loved for many years and is one sensational talent who keeps churning the decibel level of her mind boggling ouvre. Below are some words from her and some other information on what is happening in the arts community in the US of A.
Hello Creative Community and FRIENDS,
I wanted to say THANK YOU to those of you who have shone forward with your support and pledged to my Kickstarter fund. Not only does it mean the world to me, but it also marks your action, commitment and belief in me as an artist. This gives me fire in my belly and strength to carry on a creative practice which is very much about inserting a QUEER presence in the art world. I'm writing to let you all know that I have almost reached the half way mark but have $2835 to raise and only 13 days left to meet my dead line. If I do not reach my goal, then no ones cards are charged and I do not see one penny.
Show your support.Check out my project and the video that breaks it all down:
http://kck.st/bgOMQF Yours Truly,Heather Cassils Check out more art at:
http://www.heathercassils.com
http://www.sculptthebody.com
Please pass on my project on.Thank you so much. In solidarity
*
Its world AIDS DAY and I saw a post on FB from Jennifer Doyel of MAJOR importance. Doyle posted:
"Call the National Portrait Gallery at 202-633-8300 to protest the removal of the David Wojnarowicz "Fire in My Belly" video from the "Hide and Seek" exhibit. Press 1, then 2 for the director's office. You can try to leave a message (right now their mailbox is full) or try for an operator (none available at last check). Tie up their switchboard for World AIDS Day!"
As another artist and curator AL Steiner noted: "99% of queer art exists (solely ) outside "the museum". But our lives and bodies are attacked when we're visible. You know this. Put his video back and then burn down the museum or cancel the art degree programs at your school or do what you will. But this is about curators finding a voice when under attack by public (or private!) representatives. This is the most impt.- or maybe sole reason- to curate. Queers (whether curators or not) find we're under attack daily so, often, finding a voice is part of our "practice"; the administrative and academic arts community largely failed to find the language nec. to do this in the last round(s) of attacks..."
One of my sweet young talented students and collaborators Marc Arthur a very sexy and sexual young man with incredible genitalia is mounting a new experimental version of the class tale of Peter and the Wolfe in New York. Because there is absolutely no funding in the states any more young artists are using the internet to generate funds for their projects, and its working really well. If you want to help a young artist realize his project please click on the links below and donate any amount of money as every bit will help in this horrible climate that young creatives are faced with.
Dear Ms. Davis,
Thank you for putting this on your blog! Here is the official link you can post:
http://igg.me/p/13616?a=58692&i=shlk
You can also click "grab a widget" from that page
The Story behind the call for funds:
For the past three months I've been developing a production of Peter and the Wolf that I am thrilled beyond words to tell you about (or maybe I have already told you). We have an amazing cast of mostly child actors and ballerinas, a production team that I am so honored to work with, and a beautiful 120 seat theater in the lower east side where the show will be produced this March. Please check out our website for more information: http://marc-arthur.com/peterandthewolf/
As you may know, producing a show like this in New York can be very expensive. We have no outside funding and are relying on individual donations to cover all of our budget. Today we are launching our fundraiser through Indygogo.
Here is the link: http://www.indiegogo.com/peterandthewolf
This is your chance to be part of the process. Every dollar helps. We need donations but we also want to get people as excited about the show as we are. Please help spread the word and link our campaign to your Face book, Twitter, blog or manhunt account. Or just send it along to people who you think would be interested in the project.
With love and appreciation,
Marc Arthur
On a similar note the incredible young feminist artist Heather Cassils is close to reaching her goal for a new project with donations through kickstarter. If you want to support Heather and I know you do, as she is someone I have known and loved for many years and is one sensational talent who keeps churning the decibel level of her mind boggling ouvre. Below are some words from her and some other information on what is happening in the arts community in the US of A.
Hello Creative Community and FRIENDS,
I wanted to say THANK YOU to those of you who have shone forward with your support and pledged to my Kickstarter fund. Not only does it mean the world to me, but it also marks your action, commitment and belief in me as an artist. This gives me fire in my belly and strength to carry on a creative practice which is very much about inserting a QUEER presence in the art world. I'm writing to let you all know that I have almost reached the half way mark but have $2835 to raise and only 13 days left to meet my dead line. If I do not reach my goal, then no ones cards are charged and I do not see one penny.
Show your support.Check out my project and the video that breaks it all down:
http://kck.st/bgOMQF Yours Truly,Heather Cassils Check out more art at:
http://www.heathercassils.com
http://www.sculptthebody.com
Please pass on my project on.Thank you so much. In solidarity
*
Its world AIDS DAY and I saw a post on FB from Jennifer Doyel of MAJOR importance. Doyle posted:
"Call the National Portrait Gallery at 202-633-8300 to protest the removal of the David Wojnarowicz "Fire in My Belly" video from the "Hide and Seek" exhibit. Press 1, then 2 for the director's office. You can try to leave a message (right now their mailbox is full) or try for an operator (none available at last check). Tie up their switchboard for World AIDS Day!"
As another artist and curator AL Steiner noted: "99% of queer art exists (solely ) outside "the museum". But our lives and bodies are attacked when we're visible. You know this. Put his video back and then burn down the museum or cancel the art degree programs at your school or do what you will. But this is about curators finding a voice when under attack by public (or private!) representatives. This is the most impt.- or maybe sole reason- to curate. Queers (whether curators or not) find we're under attack daily so, often, finding a voice is part of our "practice"; the administrative and academic arts community largely failed to find the language nec. to do this in the last round(s) of attacks..."
Sunday, November 28, 2010
HELDEN&DIEBE
Lovely time at HAU 3 last night for the last program curated by film historian Marc Siegel for the Vietnamese in Berlin Festival. Things started off very elequently with the 14 year Blindness Series by LA artist Tran T.Kim-Trang. It was nice seeing her as we worked together in the early 90s on several projects with LA Film Forum along with Anne Bray of LA Freeways Cinema Service. Forgive me if I get the names a little mixed up as its been almost 20 years,and I am afflicted with junior Alzheimer condition.
It was wonderful getting glimpses of Los Angeles from the late 80s and early 90s in Tran T’s stately video work.
Closing the program was the hilarious ouvre of lovesexy Nguyen Tan Hoang who teaches at Bryn Mar College on the east coast of the US. I adored his salute to late 70s early 80s blue movie starlet Kip Knoll called K.I.P (2002), Pirated!(2000) 7 Steps To Sticky Heaven(1996) and Cover Girl: A Gift From God(2000) which was a very revealing and witty expose on the American, blond/caucasion singer Dalena who has become a huge Vietnamese pop star.
Seen in the audience: Big HAU boss Mattias Lienthal with his right hand gal Anna Muelter, Little Alex of Macedonia with his Chocolate Grinder Kollective collegues Tasty Big Peniled Tim and Julian Radlmeier, humpy actor Unax Ugalde,musicians Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington of the dull, but popular US rock band Linkin Park,Nanna Heidenreich of Arsenal Experimental, sweet independent film curator Nadja Talmi, filmmaker Renata Lorenz, UC Berkeley Scholar Damon Young, Kate Hers, Daniel Hendrickson, and Sexy Sascha Woelke with his super hot girlfriend Christina Rogers.
***
A few weeks ago Ulrich Ziemons, the handsomest man in all of Europe came by the Cheese Endique Trifecta to take pictures of my famous studio. Afterwards we went to eat at the juicy Thai boite Papaya. This Sunday a photographer with the German arts magazine Monopoly came by to capture the Doll’s infamous Rote Insel atelier. The photographer wasn’t as good looking as Uli, but he was very masculine with large hands, feet, broadshoulders and rugged square jawed yumminess. The weather outside is in the teens, fahrenheit which is very cold for this time of year. O if I could just get some big muscle bear daddy to whisk me away to his lair.
Lovely time at HAU 3 last night for the last program curated by film historian Marc Siegel for the Vietnamese in Berlin Festival. Things started off very elequently with the 14 year Blindness Series by LA artist Tran T.Kim-Trang. It was nice seeing her as we worked together in the early 90s on several projects with LA Film Forum along with Anne Bray of LA Freeways Cinema Service. Forgive me if I get the names a little mixed up as its been almost 20 years,and I am afflicted with junior Alzheimer condition.
It was wonderful getting glimpses of Los Angeles from the late 80s and early 90s in Tran T’s stately video work.
Closing the program was the hilarious ouvre of lovesexy Nguyen Tan Hoang who teaches at Bryn Mar College on the east coast of the US. I adored his salute to late 70s early 80s blue movie starlet Kip Knoll called K.I.P (2002), Pirated!(2000) 7 Steps To Sticky Heaven(1996) and Cover Girl: A Gift From God(2000) which was a very revealing and witty expose on the American, blond/caucasion singer Dalena who has become a huge Vietnamese pop star.
Seen in the audience: Big HAU boss Mattias Lienthal with his right hand gal Anna Muelter, Little Alex of Macedonia with his Chocolate Grinder Kollective collegues Tasty Big Peniled Tim and Julian Radlmeier, humpy actor Unax Ugalde,musicians Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington of the dull, but popular US rock band Linkin Park,Nanna Heidenreich of Arsenal Experimental, sweet independent film curator Nadja Talmi, filmmaker Renata Lorenz, UC Berkeley Scholar Damon Young, Kate Hers, Daniel Hendrickson, and Sexy Sascha Woelke with his super hot girlfriend Christina Rogers.
***
A few weeks ago Ulrich Ziemons, the handsomest man in all of Europe came by the Cheese Endique Trifecta to take pictures of my famous studio. Afterwards we went to eat at the juicy Thai boite Papaya. This Sunday a photographer with the German arts magazine Monopoly came by to capture the Doll’s infamous Rote Insel atelier. The photographer wasn’t as good looking as Uli, but he was very masculine with large hands, feet, broadshoulders and rugged square jawed yumminess. The weather outside is in the teens, fahrenheit which is very cold for this time of year. O if I could just get some big muscle bear daddy to whisk me away to his lair.
Friday, November 26, 2010
LUST WILL EWIGKEIT
Since I am not a user of MyFace or other social networking systems I am always late in getting certain types of information. But was emailed the news this morning that Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Coil and X-TG has died. He was 55 years old and reportedly left this mortal coil in his sleep. Sleazy was a very enthusiastic fan of my work as a nutty performer, writer with my zine Fertile La Toyah Jackson and Shrimp, the Magazine For Licking & Sucking Bigger and Better Feet and attended my zany clubs throughout the many years Bricktops at the Parlour, G.I.M.P.Unltd.@ Zen Sushi, Club Sucker at the Garage, Café Hag@ Café Kafka and my home gallery Hag@the Villa Rosa. I will miss dearly this talented and completely amazing man who leaves the planet way too soon.
***
Last night attended the Vietnamese in Berlin Festival at HAU 2 that featured a rare screening of the celebrated feminist film by Trinh T Minh-ha Surname Viet Given Name Nam(1989). This excellent program was curated by film historian Marc Siegel who introduced the movie and moderated a discusion with the artist after the screening of this poetic and moving cineaste treat.
The doll was accompanied by Daniel Hendrickson, the Scandanavian Muslim to the Academic Shtars and Salome Gersch the 17 year old daughter of intermedia actress and director Susanne Sachsse. We were joined by filmmakers Pauline Beaudry and Renate Lorenz, Anna Muelter, Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and Chocolate Grinder Film Kollective boys Julian Radlmeier with Ukrainian filmmaking wife Tatiana and Tasty Tim the hunkiest cinematographer in Berlin.
Cute and sexy bubble butt Arsenal projectionist Axel was taking care of the 16 millimeter print so the the screening went off without a hitch. Saturday Nov 27th at HAU 3 the program continues with films by Tran T. Kim-Trang and Forever Bottom boy Nguyen Tan Hoang.
***
There is a cute pic of the doll by Tania Schnizler that was taken in the Cheese Endique Trifecta, with a short interview in the December issue of Sieggessaulle Magazine in the . . . Meine Stadt section. Pick one up or check it out online.
Since I am not a user of MyFace or other social networking systems I am always late in getting certain types of information. But was emailed the news this morning that Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Coil and X-TG has died. He was 55 years old and reportedly left this mortal coil in his sleep. Sleazy was a very enthusiastic fan of my work as a nutty performer, writer with my zine Fertile La Toyah Jackson and Shrimp, the Magazine For Licking & Sucking Bigger and Better Feet and attended my zany clubs throughout the many years Bricktops at the Parlour, G.I.M.P.Unltd.@ Zen Sushi, Club Sucker at the Garage, Café Hag@ Café Kafka and my home gallery Hag@the Villa Rosa. I will miss dearly this talented and completely amazing man who leaves the planet way too soon.
***
Last night attended the Vietnamese in Berlin Festival at HAU 2 that featured a rare screening of the celebrated feminist film by Trinh T Minh-ha Surname Viet Given Name Nam(1989). This excellent program was curated by film historian Marc Siegel who introduced the movie and moderated a discusion with the artist after the screening of this poetic and moving cineaste treat.
The doll was accompanied by Daniel Hendrickson, the Scandanavian Muslim to the Academic Shtars and Salome Gersch the 17 year old daughter of intermedia actress and director Susanne Sachsse. We were joined by filmmakers Pauline Beaudry and Renate Lorenz, Anna Muelter, Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and Chocolate Grinder Film Kollective boys Julian Radlmeier with Ukrainian filmmaking wife Tatiana and Tasty Tim the hunkiest cinematographer in Berlin.
Cute and sexy bubble butt Arsenal projectionist Axel was taking care of the 16 millimeter print so the the screening went off without a hitch. Saturday Nov 27th at HAU 3 the program continues with films by Tran T. Kim-Trang and Forever Bottom boy Nguyen Tan Hoang.
***
There is a cute pic of the doll by Tania Schnizler that was taken in the Cheese Endique Trifecta, with a short interview in the December issue of Sieggessaulle Magazine in the . . . Meine Stadt section. Pick one up or check it out online.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
DIE BARBIER VON SEVILLA
This incredible news sent to Dr. Robert Summers about the first solo show of the great Canadian artist G.B Jones in Los Angeles this December.
Dear All,
See Below (signatory) and disseminate widely and wildly. GB Jones (a / the feminist-queer artist and aesthetics subject) is having a show in LA (!!!) and she wants me to help spread the news (with others). She is absolutely amazing.
Quick bio: She started the queer 'zine J.D.'s with Bruce LaBruce, which is an important visuality from a queer moment in the 80s-90s -- as too are her brilliantly amazing drawings that queer, feminize, reverse Tom of Finland's drawings: she replaces the male body with hot, butch lesbians. Indeed she has created other queer visualities. And she completed her decade-long (or longer) film "The Lollipop Generation" -- which is absolutely amazing -- and with contains cameos from queer aesthetic subjects such as HRH Vaginal Davis.
Please Spread the word, and I hope to see you THERE.
See Below.As ever,
Robert Summers, PhD
Research Scholar
Center for the Study of Women
University of California, Los Angeles
w: http://www.csw.ucla.edu/people/research-scholars/robert-summers
e: robtsum@ucla.edu (please contact for mailing address)
Lecturer
Art History, LAS Dept.
Otis College of Art
9045 Lincoln Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90045
w: http://ospace.otis.edu/robtsum/Welcome
e: rsummers@otis.edu
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This from G.B.Jones herself:
Hello Robert,
Hi there! I hope you are doing very well.
My big news that I had to write you to tell you about is -I am having an exhibition in LA! Please let everyone you know that you think might be interested know about it. There will be complete sets of J.D.s available for sale too, and previews can be arranged with the gallery if you get in touch with them. I hope you can go!
XO
GB
LEXANDER 215 W 6TH ST UNIT 113 LOS ANGELES CA 90014
PAST PRESENT FUTURE G. B. JONES1980s 1990s 2000s 2010sOPENING DECEMBER 13 2010 / 6-9PM
Lexander is proud to present, for the first time anywhere in the world, the most comprehensive exhibition of the work of G. B. Jones, spanning over three decades of representational resistance. The opening reception will be held on December 13th from 6 to 9PM.
G. B. Jones is a multitalented artist working in the areas of drawing, design, film, music, and publishing. She has been producing drawings since 1985 and her work has been extensively exhibited in both group and solo exhibitions throughout both North and South America, Europe, and Australia. Her work has previously been featured in group exhibitions in Los Angeles at Stuart Regen Gallery in 1992 and at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) in the 1990s and 2000s.The current exhibition includes selections from a number of series of her drawings, including the Tom Girls (1985-2002), Crash (2003-2004), Symbols (2004-2007), and Excesses and Extremes (2007). The full series of drawings from Fonthill Abbey (2005), The Farm (2005), and Tribute to Felicien Rops (2005) are being exhibited. The current exhibition also marks the debut presentation of the Svastia series, which explores new territory in drawings such as That Dark in September and Monotheism.For more information, please visit the gallery website at www.lexander.co.
***
And this from the famous Love Camel in London who wants to move to Berlin
Oh Doll,
would you kindly circulate this e-mail to the Cheapies & Co. and anyone who could help?Thx and kisses
LC
Help Berlin to adopt the Love Camel
The Love Camel is contemplating (and is very good at it) to move to
Berlina-ta-ta in order to engage in interracial humping with the
beautiful Angela Merkel and needs all your knowledge and wisdom.
The Love Camel needs to find any means to sustain his precious humps
and therefore he needs information about websites, magazines,
newspapers or any other kind of sources that will help the Camel to
bring home his bacon fat. The Camel is looking for money generating
intellectual activities within the Arts, films or that relate to his
multilingual skills, for the Camel, apart for his notorious and divine
Italian and English blabbering, has studied German for 5 years long,
long time ago and it is in the process of refreshing it at a Camel
speed.
Any help will be generously rewarded by the Camel, who will let you
stroke his otherworldly humps - just once, obviously.
Forget fucking children in need, help the Love Camel instead.
This incredible news sent to Dr. Robert Summers about the first solo show of the great Canadian artist G.B Jones in Los Angeles this December.
Dear All,
See Below (signatory) and disseminate widely and wildly. GB Jones (a / the feminist-queer artist and aesthetics subject) is having a show in LA (!!!) and she wants me to help spread the news (with others). She is absolutely amazing.
Quick bio: She started the queer 'zine J.D.'s with Bruce LaBruce, which is an important visuality from a queer moment in the 80s-90s -- as too are her brilliantly amazing drawings that queer, feminize, reverse Tom of Finland's drawings: she replaces the male body with hot, butch lesbians. Indeed she has created other queer visualities. And she completed her decade-long (or longer) film "The Lollipop Generation" -- which is absolutely amazing -- and with contains cameos from queer aesthetic subjects such as HRH Vaginal Davis.
Please Spread the word, and I hope to see you THERE.
See Below.As ever,
Robert Summers, PhD
Research Scholar
Center for the Study of Women
University of California, Los Angeles
w: http://www.csw.ucla.edu/people/research-scholars/robert-summers
e: robtsum@ucla.edu (please contact for mailing address)
Lecturer
Art History, LAS Dept.
Otis College of Art
9045 Lincoln Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90045
w: http://ospace.otis.edu/robtsum/Welcome
e: rsummers@otis.edu
-----------------------------------------------------------
This from G.B.Jones herself:
Hello Robert,
Hi there! I hope you are doing very well.
My big news that I had to write you to tell you about is -I am having an exhibition in LA! Please let everyone you know that you think might be interested know about it. There will be complete sets of J.D.s available for sale too, and previews can be arranged with the gallery if you get in touch with them. I hope you can go!
XO
GB
LEXANDER 215 W 6TH ST UNIT 113 LOS ANGELES CA 90014
PAST PRESENT FUTURE G. B. JONES1980s 1990s 2000s 2010sOPENING DECEMBER 13 2010 / 6-9PM
Lexander is proud to present, for the first time anywhere in the world, the most comprehensive exhibition of the work of G. B. Jones, spanning over three decades of representational resistance. The opening reception will be held on December 13th from 6 to 9PM.
G. B. Jones is a multitalented artist working in the areas of drawing, design, film, music, and publishing. She has been producing drawings since 1985 and her work has been extensively exhibited in both group and solo exhibitions throughout both North and South America, Europe, and Australia. Her work has previously been featured in group exhibitions in Los Angeles at Stuart Regen Gallery in 1992 and at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) in the 1990s and 2000s.The current exhibition includes selections from a number of series of her drawings, including the Tom Girls (1985-2002), Crash (2003-2004), Symbols (2004-2007), and Excesses and Extremes (2007). The full series of drawings from Fonthill Abbey (2005), The Farm (2005), and Tribute to Felicien Rops (2005) are being exhibited. The current exhibition also marks the debut presentation of the Svastia series, which explores new territory in drawings such as That Dark in September and Monotheism.For more information, please visit the gallery website at www.lexander.co.
***
And this from the famous Love Camel in London who wants to move to Berlin
Oh Doll,
would you kindly circulate this e-mail to the Cheapies & Co. and anyone who could help?Thx and kisses
LC
Help Berlin to adopt the Love Camel
The Love Camel is contemplating (and is very good at it) to move to
Berlina-ta-ta in order to engage in interracial humping with the
beautiful Angela Merkel and needs all your knowledge and wisdom.
The Love Camel needs to find any means to sustain his precious humps
and therefore he needs information about websites, magazines,
newspapers or any other kind of sources that will help the Camel to
bring home his bacon fat. The Camel is looking for money generating
intellectual activities within the Arts, films or that relate to his
multilingual skills, for the Camel, apart for his notorious and divine
Italian and English blabbering, has studied German for 5 years long,
long time ago and it is in the process of refreshing it at a Camel
speed.
Any help will be generously rewarded by the Camel, who will let you
stroke his otherworldly humps - just once, obviously.
Forget fucking children in need, help the Love Camel instead.
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