BRAUT ALARM
Had a delightful breakfast with Daniel “Mae Cheetum” Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim and his lover Piero Bellomo at the Turkish boite Elit Simit on Karl Marx Strassse in Rix Dorf. We walked off our bountiful breakfast through the charming Koetner Park which has groomed grounds that remind me of a miniature Versailles garden. The love sexy couple were laughing at my lack of technical skills when it comes to anything computer related. “Faggots and Technology don't mix” is a wise saying that Piero always sez. Everything sounds better when Piero says it in German.
Later Daniel helped me send some photos from my website to New York to be used for a T - shirt design campaign for the MIX Festival. I also got a cute note from Joe E Jeffrey’s about it being the birthday week of Ethyl Eichelberger. I won the Ethyl Eichelberger Art Award in 2009 and mounted by piece Vaginal Davis is Speaking From the Diaphragm in 2010 at PS 122.
After a juicy morning with Daniel & Piero I went to the Rix Dorf compound of Joel Gibb the Baby Diaper of the music and art kollective The Hidden Cameras for luncheon. Joel had just been on a mini summer tour of festivals in Italy, Austria and the UK that was quite successful. His next shows in Berlin are on August 18th for the Ueberlebenskunst Festival at Haus of World Cultures on their Post Alles Stage and on September 18th at Cafe Rix's Heimat Hafen.
In London Joel Gibb hung out with Stuart Comer of the Tate Modern. Mr. Comer is bringing me to the Tate Oct 29th where I will perform my expanded cinema event Memory Island. Joel accompanied Stuart Comer to the Manchester Festival to see the Life and Death of Marina Abramovic which is directed by Robert Wilson and features my good friend the performance artist Kira O’Reilly. Joel also was invited by Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys to see them open up for the Take That reunion at Wembley Stadium. He was also treated to bruncheon at the Saatchi Gallery Restaurant by the Pet Shop Boys where they each had a yummy “Constance” salad. Joel also went to see the new piece by my dear sister of the clothe Justin Vivian Bond at the SoHo Theatre.
If that isn’t enough and it isn’t, there was a survey of his felt art objects called The Visual Art of Joel Gibb at the Residence Gallery at 229 Victoria Park Road. The exhibition continues until July 31st so if you are in London go see it! Also check out his web site for his band at www.Thehiddencameras.com
Ended the evening with the beautiful Mr. Gibb and his hot humpy east German lover Enrico Dallman at the Asian fusion/French Indochine restaurant in KreuzKoelln Jimmy Woo, located at Friedelstr 24. The staff was very sweet and accomodating to us, it was crowded so it took a while to get the food, but once it was there I scarfed it down in a hot minute. This was my first time at Jimmy Woo's, I ordered the Chicken Rosoto which was amazing, and I can't wait to go back.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
DIE ANONYMEN ROMANTIKER
The Great portrait painter Lucian Freud died age 88. I was introduced to him by Leigh Bowery in the early 1990s. He had painted Leigh many times and he wanted to paint me, but since I didn’t live in the UK spending the many weeks and or months necessary for posing nude for him was an impossibility. At the time I didn’t really care for his work, thinking only about how his paintings weren’t exactly flattering. Well what can I say, I am a vain lady.
Before I moved to Berlin I posed for the famous painter and exlover of writer Christopher Isherwood- Don Bachardy and didn’t really care for the results, though I think he is wonderful and I adore many of his other portraits.
Its embarrassing to admit that it took me quite awhile to appreciate the work of Lucian Freud. Now I adore his portraits of Leigh Bowery, Jerri Hall, Kate Moss and Queen Elizabeth. Mr. Freud was born in Berlin but lived for most of his life in the UK. He is the grandson of Sigmund Freud who also had an addiction to cocaine and morphine. Ueber coca! I will never forget sharing a sherm with Mr. Freud. For the uninitiated a sherm is a cig dipped in PCP.
Here is the latest radio interview with Manuel Schubert of Film Highlights Magazine. Enjoy and tell me what you think:
http://soundcloud.com/filmanzeiger/rising-stars-falling-stars-july2011
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I have some ill fans. Got an emug of love and devotion from a 17 year old East Asian lad who is a 7 foot tall basketball player named Sim Bhullar. From his picture he is very cute, but way too young for this diva.
The Great portrait painter Lucian Freud died age 88. I was introduced to him by Leigh Bowery in the early 1990s. He had painted Leigh many times and he wanted to paint me, but since I didn’t live in the UK spending the many weeks and or months necessary for posing nude for him was an impossibility. At the time I didn’t really care for his work, thinking only about how his paintings weren’t exactly flattering. Well what can I say, I am a vain lady.
Before I moved to Berlin I posed for the famous painter and exlover of writer Christopher Isherwood- Don Bachardy and didn’t really care for the results, though I think he is wonderful and I adore many of his other portraits.
Its embarrassing to admit that it took me quite awhile to appreciate the work of Lucian Freud. Now I adore his portraits of Leigh Bowery, Jerri Hall, Kate Moss and Queen Elizabeth. Mr. Freud was born in Berlin but lived for most of his life in the UK. He is the grandson of Sigmund Freud who also had an addiction to cocaine and morphine. Ueber coca! I will never forget sharing a sherm with Mr. Freud. For the uninitiated a sherm is a cig dipped in PCP.
Here is the latest radio interview with Manuel Schubert of Film Highlights Magazine. Enjoy and tell me what you think:
http://soundcloud.com/filmanzeiger/rising-stars-falling-stars-july2011
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I have some ill fans. Got an emug of love and devotion from a 17 year old East Asian lad who is a 7 foot tall basketball player named Sim Bhullar. From his picture he is very cute, but way too young for this diva.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
DIE FRAU NACH DER MAN SICH SEHNT
Was looking at Rudy Bleu’s regular blog post on celebrity birthdays and noticed that David Bernardi just celebrated his forty something. David is a big time perfect Hollywood executive with Imagine films the company that produces for director Ron Howard and partner Brian Glatzer. In the photo of David accompanying the blog post he looked like a hot, muscular and very humpy daddy. I had met David many years ago through my very good friend and patron Norman Ghoulsen aka Norman von Holtzendorf who is now a big time lawyer based in Washington DC. David was always gregarious and friendly and was not the usual icky successful Hollywood type. He has a great sense of humour, is well read, impeccably groomed with fantastic taste in fashion and art, and from what I remember had a thing for beefy Latino boys. Who doesn’t - yum. Now he is in a relationship I hear with a juicy Italian/Native American.
The pictorial of him on the blog was borrowed from a New York Times Magazine article about his home in Silverlake that received a makeover design from artist/architect Fritz Haeg. Fritz Haeg who I only know casually lives in a geodesic dome of his own design in the hills overlooking East LA. Herr Haeg also hosts a series of queer events and a regular salon at his hillside property.The Bernardi home was built in 1917 and the redesign features a unique latice fascade and throughout the property there is brilliant use of color.
My mother use to work as a domestic for movie stars like Alan Ladd when she first came to California during the Great Migration of blacks from the south in the
1940s. She would always snicker that white people love their interiors and exteriors to be the same color as themselves. Not the case with the lovesexy David Bernardi.
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Yesterday on my way to Susanne Sachsse’s dinner party I ran into cute Chinese American DJ Daniel Wang on the S-Bahn. Mr. Wang has been living in Berlin for quite sometime. I first became acquainted with him in Chicago through Steve LeFreniere and the homocore art and music clique that Steve ruled over in that city during the early 1990s.
After rehearsing and brainstorming for our new piece The Communist Bigamist-Two Love Stories La Sachsse cooked one of her famous feasts that featured a wilde mutton salad with edible flowers, and two kinds of resotto-shasaki mushroom and pink beets. Beyond delicious! Enjoying the famous Sachsse table Commie Biggie lighting designer Jackie Chemish just in from London, kJohnny Blue, Nazli Kilerci, Daniel Hendrickson, Marc Siegel, Richard Gersh(Susanne’s teenage son) and his best boyfriend Jacob, and Saskia the preggers girlfriend of video artist Yael Bartana.
The other evening at the Cheese Endique Trifecta, Film Highlights radio presenter Manuel Schubert interviewed handsome Berlinale honcho Wieland Speck who will be having a retro- spectacle of his illustrious film career at the Arsenal in August. Herr Speck and I will present a special Rising Stars, Falling Stars on Aug 20th screening the first gay film Anders als die Anderen (Different From the Others) 1919 Directed by Richard Oswald featuring Conrad Veidt, Anita Berber and Dr. Magnus Hirschfield. Live musical accompanyment is by the divine Eunice Martin.
August 3rd is the opening night festivities for the Wieland Speck retro spectacle that includes not only films directed by him but those that are influences like Rosa von Praunheim’s It is not the Homosexual who is Perverse. . . and The Boys in the Band 1970. As part of the grand opening Herr Speck will sing with sexy French chanteuse Zazie De Paris and Joel Gibb of The Hidden Cameras.
I can’t wait to see his classic 1985 film Westler which I have heard so many wonderful things about.
Was looking at Rudy Bleu’s regular blog post on celebrity birthdays and noticed that David Bernardi just celebrated his forty something. David is a big time perfect Hollywood executive with Imagine films the company that produces for director Ron Howard and partner Brian Glatzer. In the photo of David accompanying the blog post he looked like a hot, muscular and very humpy daddy. I had met David many years ago through my very good friend and patron Norman Ghoulsen aka Norman von Holtzendorf who is now a big time lawyer based in Washington DC. David was always gregarious and friendly and was not the usual icky successful Hollywood type. He has a great sense of humour, is well read, impeccably groomed with fantastic taste in fashion and art, and from what I remember had a thing for beefy Latino boys. Who doesn’t - yum. Now he is in a relationship I hear with a juicy Italian/Native American.
The pictorial of him on the blog was borrowed from a New York Times Magazine article about his home in Silverlake that received a makeover design from artist/architect Fritz Haeg. Fritz Haeg who I only know casually lives in a geodesic dome of his own design in the hills overlooking East LA. Herr Haeg also hosts a series of queer events and a regular salon at his hillside property.The Bernardi home was built in 1917 and the redesign features a unique latice fascade and throughout the property there is brilliant use of color.
My mother use to work as a domestic for movie stars like Alan Ladd when she first came to California during the Great Migration of blacks from the south in the
1940s. She would always snicker that white people love their interiors and exteriors to be the same color as themselves. Not the case with the lovesexy David Bernardi.
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Yesterday on my way to Susanne Sachsse’s dinner party I ran into cute Chinese American DJ Daniel Wang on the S-Bahn. Mr. Wang has been living in Berlin for quite sometime. I first became acquainted with him in Chicago through Steve LeFreniere and the homocore art and music clique that Steve ruled over in that city during the early 1990s.
After rehearsing and brainstorming for our new piece The Communist Bigamist-Two Love Stories La Sachsse cooked one of her famous feasts that featured a wilde mutton salad with edible flowers, and two kinds of resotto-shasaki mushroom and pink beets. Beyond delicious! Enjoying the famous Sachsse table Commie Biggie lighting designer Jackie Chemish just in from London, kJohnny Blue, Nazli Kilerci, Daniel Hendrickson, Marc Siegel, Richard Gersh(Susanne’s teenage son) and his best boyfriend Jacob, and Saskia the preggers girlfriend of video artist Yael Bartana.
The other evening at the Cheese Endique Trifecta, Film Highlights radio presenter Manuel Schubert interviewed handsome Berlinale honcho Wieland Speck who will be having a retro- spectacle of his illustrious film career at the Arsenal in August. Herr Speck and I will present a special Rising Stars, Falling Stars on Aug 20th screening the first gay film Anders als die Anderen (Different From the Others) 1919 Directed by Richard Oswald featuring Conrad Veidt, Anita Berber and Dr. Magnus Hirschfield. Live musical accompanyment is by the divine Eunice Martin.
August 3rd is the opening night festivities for the Wieland Speck retro spectacle that includes not only films directed by him but those that are influences like Rosa von Praunheim’s It is not the Homosexual who is Perverse. . . and The Boys in the Band 1970. As part of the grand opening Herr Speck will sing with sexy French chanteuse Zazie De Paris and Joel Gibb of The Hidden Cameras.
I can’t wait to see his classic 1985 film Westler which I have heard so many wonderful things about.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
LOTHAR AND THE HAND PEOPLE
Just had a long conversation via Skype with my longtime best girlfriend Ms. Glen Meadmore who just came back to LA after a triumphant performance called Glenda’s Hideaway at the Spotlight-Paris which is the fashionista nitespot created by Michele Lamy,Marc Zaffuto,Emmanule D’Orazio and designer Rick Owens that brings a little bit of sleazy Los Ang to the famed city of lightsis. Ms. Meadmore returned to being a sister of the clothe donning drag attire for the first time in over 20 years. Of course she was outfitted in haute couture Rick Owens with makeup by Sandrine and Stefan. She was put up in style at the Bourgogne Montana Hotel and taken out for sumptuous meals next door at the Le Bour Bon which sits conveniently next to the Owens Atelier in the chicest part of Paris. Besides performing Ms. Meadmore was the star of an excluvive editorial photo shoot for Man About Town Magazine the London based art periodical which will also feature photos of Lady Meadmore’s John Wayne Gacy collection. Yes the famed serial killer painted one of a kind portraits of Ms. Meadmore which are so frightening and creepy that even someone as mad as the mad Ms. Meadmore had to remove the paintings from her walls as they were too scary and put out bad vibes. Glen’s spread in the magazine was photographed by Asha Mines aka: CoCo who is now a top fashion photog.
The Spotlight Paris is at the restaurant Chez Francoise inside the Air France Building at 2 Rue Fabert and featured New York tranny fashion personality That Connie Girl as the gatekeeper and Honey Dijon behind the wheels of steel. All of Paris came out to check out the gentle giantessa with some international luminaries like British designer Gareth Pugh who is being heralded as the baby Rick Owens of the fashion world who started his career as an Owens intern, DJ and art photog with the WoWoW Kollective Matthew Stone, Helene Hazera the tranny journalist and activist, Alaura O’Dell aka Paula P-Orridge with her daughter Genesse, Jan Klesse of the hot German rock band Tenderloin, and Scarlette Rouge the artist daughter of Michele Lamy.
Rick Owens is so famous and wealthy that he is going to buy a small island off of Venice, Italy that use to be a military base as a private getaway. Sounds very Elizabeth Taylor in Boom. Glen Meadmore had a blast and on his last day in Paris Michele and Rick took him to the Claude Cahun exhibit.
On a sad note Jeff Judd the longtime best friend of Rick Owens who would curate the music selection for his fashion shows has suffered a stroke and is in recovery relearning to speak. Jeff Judd is one of the most talented people I know. He is a dynamic makeup, graphic arts designer and illustrator and use to even do drag in the 1980s as a chanteuse called Joli. Here’s wishing him a speedy recovery.
Ms. Meadmore whose day job is the limo driver to the shtars has also been having a riotous love affair with blue movie studkin Jock Hudson. The casual romance between the beautiful Ms. Meadmore and the hunky model ended decades of celibacy for the famed lady. Its so good to hear that she is climbing up the tree and getting her proverbial gnut. She deserves it.
O just a little background information. I have known Michele Lamy,(the wife, muse and collaborator with Rick Owens) since the late 1970s when she had a store on Santa Monica Blvd called Too Soon to Know. No one looked like her during that time. I was mesmerized by her and would walk by the store staring at her. One day she caught me and said, why don’t you stop walking by and come in and say hello. In those days I use to dress up quite a bit, and she was attracted to people who had an unusual style not unlike herself. She was married to filmmaker and performance artist Richard “Touch a Penis” Newton. I use to babysit their daughter Scarlette Rouge who was such a spoiled brat, but later turned into a wonderful child, and now is a hot young artist. In the mid 1980s Michele had her own clothing line that was very successful. One time I insulted her by saying that her clothes would be in every mall in America and she banned me from her studio with an imperious “Get Out!” Lamy Eyewear her families business has been around for almost two centuries. Jackie O wore Lamy sunglasses. Michele’s sister is a famous Mrs. AIDs doctor who treated Rock Hudson. Michele in the 1960s worked for Jean Luc Goddard, and studied with philosopher Gilles Deleuze. She even practiced law as a defence attorney. At the highpoint of her design sportwear label in the mid 80s she funded her husband Richard Newton’s many art projects including a stage and film version of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House that featured Nancye Furgeson, the wife of Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo as Nora, Brian Doyle Murray, the brother of Bill Murray as Torvald along with Glen Meadmore and I. Rick Owens worked for Michele as a pattern maker for her Lamy Men sexy men’s line back in those days.
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In the morning before rushing off to Commie Biggie rehearsal I did an interview with Manuel Schubert of Film Highlights Internet Radio Magazine. We talked about my Feminist Seperatist celebration which will feature a screenong of Germaine Dulac’s La Souriante Madame Beudet (1923) that will screen at Rising Stars, Falling Stars on Friday July 29th at 9pm at Kino Arsenal 2 at the Sony Film Haus in Potsdamer Platz with The Blue Brothers playing live music. Herr Schubert is a delightful and sharp young cineaste. He had me laughing uncontrollably when he told me about attending a press screening of Cam Archer’s Shit Year with Ellen Barkin.
Just had a long conversation via Skype with my longtime best girlfriend Ms. Glen Meadmore who just came back to LA after a triumphant performance called Glenda’s Hideaway at the Spotlight-Paris which is the fashionista nitespot created by Michele Lamy,Marc Zaffuto,Emmanule D’Orazio and designer Rick Owens that brings a little bit of sleazy Los Ang to the famed city of lightsis. Ms. Meadmore returned to being a sister of the clothe donning drag attire for the first time in over 20 years. Of course she was outfitted in haute couture Rick Owens with makeup by Sandrine and Stefan. She was put up in style at the Bourgogne Montana Hotel and taken out for sumptuous meals next door at the Le Bour Bon which sits conveniently next to the Owens Atelier in the chicest part of Paris. Besides performing Ms. Meadmore was the star of an excluvive editorial photo shoot for Man About Town Magazine the London based art periodical which will also feature photos of Lady Meadmore’s John Wayne Gacy collection. Yes the famed serial killer painted one of a kind portraits of Ms. Meadmore which are so frightening and creepy that even someone as mad as the mad Ms. Meadmore had to remove the paintings from her walls as they were too scary and put out bad vibes. Glen’s spread in the magazine was photographed by Asha Mines aka: CoCo who is now a top fashion photog.
The Spotlight Paris is at the restaurant Chez Francoise inside the Air France Building at 2 Rue Fabert and featured New York tranny fashion personality That Connie Girl as the gatekeeper and Honey Dijon behind the wheels of steel. All of Paris came out to check out the gentle giantessa with some international luminaries like British designer Gareth Pugh who is being heralded as the baby Rick Owens of the fashion world who started his career as an Owens intern, DJ and art photog with the WoWoW Kollective Matthew Stone, Helene Hazera the tranny journalist and activist, Alaura O’Dell aka Paula P-Orridge with her daughter Genesse, Jan Klesse of the hot German rock band Tenderloin, and Scarlette Rouge the artist daughter of Michele Lamy.
Rick Owens is so famous and wealthy that he is going to buy a small island off of Venice, Italy that use to be a military base as a private getaway. Sounds very Elizabeth Taylor in Boom. Glen Meadmore had a blast and on his last day in Paris Michele and Rick took him to the Claude Cahun exhibit.
On a sad note Jeff Judd the longtime best friend of Rick Owens who would curate the music selection for his fashion shows has suffered a stroke and is in recovery relearning to speak. Jeff Judd is one of the most talented people I know. He is a dynamic makeup, graphic arts designer and illustrator and use to even do drag in the 1980s as a chanteuse called Joli. Here’s wishing him a speedy recovery.
Ms. Meadmore whose day job is the limo driver to the shtars has also been having a riotous love affair with blue movie studkin Jock Hudson. The casual romance between the beautiful Ms. Meadmore and the hunky model ended decades of celibacy for the famed lady. Its so good to hear that she is climbing up the tree and getting her proverbial gnut. She deserves it.
O just a little background information. I have known Michele Lamy,(the wife, muse and collaborator with Rick Owens) since the late 1970s when she had a store on Santa Monica Blvd called Too Soon to Know. No one looked like her during that time. I was mesmerized by her and would walk by the store staring at her. One day she caught me and said, why don’t you stop walking by and come in and say hello. In those days I use to dress up quite a bit, and she was attracted to people who had an unusual style not unlike herself. She was married to filmmaker and performance artist Richard “Touch a Penis” Newton. I use to babysit their daughter Scarlette Rouge who was such a spoiled brat, but later turned into a wonderful child, and now is a hot young artist. In the mid 1980s Michele had her own clothing line that was very successful. One time I insulted her by saying that her clothes would be in every mall in America and she banned me from her studio with an imperious “Get Out!” Lamy Eyewear her families business has been around for almost two centuries. Jackie O wore Lamy sunglasses. Michele’s sister is a famous Mrs. AIDs doctor who treated Rock Hudson. Michele in the 1960s worked for Jean Luc Goddard, and studied with philosopher Gilles Deleuze. She even practiced law as a defence attorney. At the highpoint of her design sportwear label in the mid 80s she funded her husband Richard Newton’s many art projects including a stage and film version of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House that featured Nancye Furgeson, the wife of Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo as Nora, Brian Doyle Murray, the brother of Bill Murray as Torvald along with Glen Meadmore and I. Rick Owens worked for Michele as a pattern maker for her Lamy Men sexy men’s line back in those days.
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In the morning before rushing off to Commie Biggie rehearsal I did an interview with Manuel Schubert of Film Highlights Internet Radio Magazine. We talked about my Feminist Seperatist celebration which will feature a screenong of Germaine Dulac’s La Souriante Madame Beudet (1923) that will screen at Rising Stars, Falling Stars on Friday July 29th at 9pm at Kino Arsenal 2 at the Sony Film Haus in Potsdamer Platz with The Blue Brothers playing live music. Herr Schubert is a delightful and sharp young cineaste. He had me laughing uncontrollably when he told me about attending a press screening of Cam Archer’s Shit Year with Ellen Barkin.
Monday, July 18, 2011
DIARREA PEARLMAN
My painting of Peter Sewally the 19th Century transgendered black prostitute of the Five Corners area of Manhattan is in a group show called Pop-up SoHo in a pop up museum. NYU performance studies professor Tavia Nyongo is also involved and below is a link:
http://www.queermuseum.com/home/
The lovely Elly Clark will soon be in town and she sent this little missive:
Birmingham, 15th July, 2011
Dear Friends,
Thanks to all who made it to the opening of The Mobility Project last month and who have seen it since then. Installation and opening night photos from the exhibition are now online here and you can see a review of the exhibition by Doireann O'Malley (with links to video and sound) on This is Tomorrow here.
The show runs at Galerie Suvi Lehtinen for just one more week, so if you haven't managed to see it yet, this is your chance. The Finnisage takes place on Saturday July 23rd from 19.00h.
On Wednesday 20th July at 19.00h a panel discussion is taking place in the gallery. Confirmed participants are (exhibiting artists) Enda O'Donoghue, Kerstin Honeit and Sophia New & Dan Belasco Rogers / plan b, plus invited speakers Kym Ward and Miriam Steinhauser. The discussion will be chaired by myself and Suvi Lehtinen. With particular emphasis on Berlin, topics to be discussed include:
Mobility in the Art World; Bi-City or Multi-City living & working; Mobility & Solitude and Mobility & Collaboration.
It would be great to have you there and we welcome your participation! A series of specially commissioned prints by the artists in the show will also be launched on this day, for sale at the gallery and later online.
Next confirmed venue for the exhibition is The Meter Room in Coventry, UK, where, in November, The Mobility Project will settle for a few weeks.
It would be great to see you at one or other stop along the way!
Best wishes, Elly
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Nazli with Commie Biggie sent this link about Angela Davis’s visit among 10 other feminist scholars to Palestine.
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/07/shocked-by-tour-of-occupation-11-feminists-led-by-angela-davis-unequivocally-support-bds.html
My painting of Peter Sewally the 19th Century transgendered black prostitute of the Five Corners area of Manhattan is in a group show called Pop-up SoHo in a pop up museum. NYU performance studies professor Tavia Nyongo is also involved and below is a link:
http://www.queermuseum.com/home/
The lovely Elly Clark will soon be in town and she sent this little missive:
Birmingham, 15th July, 2011
Dear Friends,
Thanks to all who made it to the opening of The Mobility Project last month and who have seen it since then. Installation and opening night photos from the exhibition are now online here and you can see a review of the exhibition by Doireann O'Malley (with links to video and sound) on This is Tomorrow here.
The show runs at Galerie Suvi Lehtinen for just one more week, so if you haven't managed to see it yet, this is your chance. The Finnisage takes place on Saturday July 23rd from 19.00h.
On Wednesday 20th July at 19.00h a panel discussion is taking place in the gallery. Confirmed participants are (exhibiting artists) Enda O'Donoghue, Kerstin Honeit and Sophia New & Dan Belasco Rogers / plan b, plus invited speakers Kym Ward and Miriam Steinhauser. The discussion will be chaired by myself and Suvi Lehtinen. With particular emphasis on Berlin, topics to be discussed include:
Mobility in the Art World; Bi-City or Multi-City living & working; Mobility & Solitude and Mobility & Collaboration.
It would be great to have you there and we welcome your participation! A series of specially commissioned prints by the artists in the show will also be launched on this day, for sale at the gallery and later online.
Next confirmed venue for the exhibition is The Meter Room in Coventry, UK, where, in November, The Mobility Project will settle for a few weeks.
It would be great to see you at one or other stop along the way!
Best wishes, Elly
***
Nazli with Commie Biggie sent this link about Angela Davis’s visit among 10 other feminist scholars to Palestine.
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/07/shocked-by-tour-of-occupation-11-feminists-led-by-angela-davis-unequivocally-support-bds.html
Sunday, July 17, 2011
LA COQUILLE ET LE CLERGYMAN
Working on The Communist Bigamist-Two Love Stories also affectionately known as Commie Biggie has been a dream come true. Every moment has been filled with laughter and inspiration. Susanne Sachsse is a writer and director who knows what she wants to do and goes about it in such an exciting manner ripe with discovery and laden with joy. Add to the mix gorgeous Nazli Kilerci and sweet little kJohnny Blue and it is divinely over the top. One day Nazli and Susi came over and we went through a treasure trove of my memorabilia and photos to find things that represent my Afro Sisters period of the 1980s which will be transposed on to this new performance piece. I also contacted my Afro Sister Clitoris Turner aka: Bud Thomas who works for the One Institute Gay & Lesbian Archive in Los Angeles to see if he has some old press photos and images from Afro Sisters shows in the 1980s and he does, but will need to have them scanned. The other day was filled with brainstorming that went into the wee hours, but we took time out for a scrumptious dinner prepared by La Sachsse that was healthy and nutritious. Susi also delighted us with photos she discovered at her grandmother’s house of her first marriage, where she looks like a child bride of 12 or 13. It was great to see her various looks over the years, from hockey playing tomboy to sophisticated proto punque waif, and married lady of East German theatre with adorable newborn twins. I love old family photos, and it doesn’t matter that I don’t know the people I am looking at. Somehow their histories are transferred into my being just by looking and touching.
O I got an email from a friend in the states with children who asked me my opinion of the last Harry Potter film. Several months back I attended a sneak screening, but never wrote anything about it as I don’t write in my blogina everything that I do. The star of the Harry Potter films Daniel Radcliffe came to my performance/installation Speaking From the Diaphragm in New York last year, and he is a cute little tranny chaser. I also saw the ginger boy Rupert Grint in person at the Berlinale two years ago when he appeared in an Irish teen drama for the Generations section of the festival and he is quite yummy with beautiful shiny skin. Over the ten years of the franchise I have watched a few of the films when invited to screenings for press people, and I don’t remember which movie but one of the early ones seemed way too scary for very young children and so loud with a peril at every turn. The dark moodyness of the set pieces just seemed overbearing to me along with Helena Bonnom Carter's shrill witchypooness. The last installment is very dark indeed but with no buildup of suspense or dynamic whatsoever. After the first five minutes I wanted to leave the theatre, but I would have missed out on the free dinner,drinks and gift bags so I stayed. Someone smart in Hollywoodland. I forget there is no one smart in Hollywood. Well someone should make a franchise out of L.Frank Baum’s Oz books from 1900-1919. They were the Harry Potter of their day and spun silent films directed by the author himself in Hollywood. Perhaps CK Rowlings should have directed her own books. I think she would have done a betterjob.
Baum was a complete super freak and his children’s books included teenage girl revolutionaries, existentially depressed dragons and sex change princesses.
Friday night I Djaned at the Search & Destroy Party at Schwuz Club. Its been almost a year since the last time I spinned records there with Joel Gibb and Judy LaBruce. Professor Jennifer Doyle was in town covering the Women’s Football Championships as she has almost a second career as a reporter and theorist on women’s sporting issues and concerns. Early in the day we celebrated her birthday at the Mexican boite Santa Maria and she told me lots of hot gossip and little known facts about women’s soccer. I am not a sports fan in the least but she makes it all very interesting, so much so that she has been a regular feature of NPR and other national and international radio programs making astute comments and observation.
Here are a few tidbits she told me:
been in Europe since mid-June. I was in the stands for the semi-final of the WWC last night. My god, women soccer players are so hot.
Here's some delishious boi's and high-femmes for your blog cast-----
Louisa Necib (GORGEOUS)
Sonia Bompastor (hot sports dyke surely)
Marie-Laure Delie (slinky, "maline")
Megan Rapinoe (no idea if she's gay or not but she has a fantastic look)
Abby Wambach (US star, for good reason, and I might be in love with her)
Hope Solo - Glamazon. Men hold up signs asking for her hand in marriage. Perfect evidence that men basically want to be dominated. She is quite clearly a top of the highest order.
The celebrations for Dr. Doyle continued in the smoking Queer Lantern Lounge of Search&Destroy. I was supposed to DJ with Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras but he had to cancel at the last minute because of a festival gig in Milan, so I had Aussie Axel of Team Plastique be my co-DJ. Axel is a spirited good time Charley and boyfriend to one of my talented Weissensee Art Academy students Joana Coppi who is also a Djane. I spun the early shift and Axel took over for the late crowd who usually just want to bop up and down to techno so they can ride their drug highs. A nice crowd came out including Djane Olga Damnitz, bbooks associate Torsten, Brazilian lovers Mario and Karim (the director of the film Madame Sata), Tavia Nyong’o of NYU’s Performance Studies Department, Croatian scholar Sasha Vukadinovic who brought along musclebound academe David J. Getsy who is a Goldabelle McComb Finn Distinguished Professor of Art History Dept of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Dr. Getsy would like me to make a return to the Chicago Art Institute, someplace I haven’t been at since the late 90s when I did a series of performances and workshops with students. Also enjoying the evening of queer possibilities: Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim of Neu Koelln with his designer boyfriend Piero Bellomo of La Collecione, Montenegro Journalist Tanja Pancevic with a Yugaslav posse, British artist James Richard Hancock, actress Franka Potenta with actors Max Riemelt & August Diehl, fagademic Sean Nye who leaves Berlin soon to teach in Minneapolis, David of Jamaica the former lover of CHEAP kollective’s Tim Blue. David has lived in Berlin for over 20 years and use to be a concert pianist. He was dancing up a storm with a funloving gal pal,the brothers Casiraghi- Pierre & Andrea the grandchildren of Princess Grace of Monaco who were with Pierre Sarkozy the DJ son of the French president and a huge international posse of youth quaking celebutantes. Twenty seven year old Andrea Casiraghi came up to me in the DJ both asking about my musical selections like Brian Eno’s “Needle in the Camel’s Eye” Karen Young’s “Hot Shot” and the Pointer Sister’s “Going Down Slowly” which never fails to get the crowd in a dry hump mood. I told the young royal that I would love to walk barefoot through his full head of shiny hair and he and his brother took photos with me.
It was lovely seeing my pretty and wonderful Malmo Art Academy Swedish student Maria Norrman with her dapper boyfriend Eddie Svärd, No one requested Lady GaGa thank god, but I did get several people asking me to play tired Madonna and some corporate hip hop. I had a good time, and Mischa the booker at Schwuz is always sweet, and so are the staff at the club including one of the veteranos who got excited when I played Joan Armatrading.
My hot date for the evening was my bandmate in Tenderloin the lovesexy Jan Klesse who was in town to celebrate the birthday of Felix Knoke who is also in Tenderloin and Felix's beautiful girlfriend Joana. Both Felix & Joana were born on the same day.
Jan is so dear buying his doll dinner and helping her crate her record collection to the club. We left Schwuz at around 5am and Jan was there making sure that no mashers took advantage of me. It was nice having a big strong, muscular and masculine young man spending the evening with me and staying the night. It was like a slumber party. The next day we slept in till past noon which is unusual for me and had breakfast at Cafe Berio at Nollendorky Platz where they have this very friendly tall tranny waitress. Later we parted as i had Commie Biggie rehearsal and he was going spend time with Felix and Joana.
Working on The Communist Bigamist-Two Love Stories also affectionately known as Commie Biggie has been a dream come true. Every moment has been filled with laughter and inspiration. Susanne Sachsse is a writer and director who knows what she wants to do and goes about it in such an exciting manner ripe with discovery and laden with joy. Add to the mix gorgeous Nazli Kilerci and sweet little kJohnny Blue and it is divinely over the top. One day Nazli and Susi came over and we went through a treasure trove of my memorabilia and photos to find things that represent my Afro Sisters period of the 1980s which will be transposed on to this new performance piece. I also contacted my Afro Sister Clitoris Turner aka: Bud Thomas who works for the One Institute Gay & Lesbian Archive in Los Angeles to see if he has some old press photos and images from Afro Sisters shows in the 1980s and he does, but will need to have them scanned. The other day was filled with brainstorming that went into the wee hours, but we took time out for a scrumptious dinner prepared by La Sachsse that was healthy and nutritious. Susi also delighted us with photos she discovered at her grandmother’s house of her first marriage, where she looks like a child bride of 12 or 13. It was great to see her various looks over the years, from hockey playing tomboy to sophisticated proto punque waif, and married lady of East German theatre with adorable newborn twins. I love old family photos, and it doesn’t matter that I don’t know the people I am looking at. Somehow their histories are transferred into my being just by looking and touching.
O I got an email from a friend in the states with children who asked me my opinion of the last Harry Potter film. Several months back I attended a sneak screening, but never wrote anything about it as I don’t write in my blogina everything that I do. The star of the Harry Potter films Daniel Radcliffe came to my performance/installation Speaking From the Diaphragm in New York last year, and he is a cute little tranny chaser. I also saw the ginger boy Rupert Grint in person at the Berlinale two years ago when he appeared in an Irish teen drama for the Generations section of the festival and he is quite yummy with beautiful shiny skin. Over the ten years of the franchise I have watched a few of the films when invited to screenings for press people, and I don’t remember which movie but one of the early ones seemed way too scary for very young children and so loud with a peril at every turn. The dark moodyness of the set pieces just seemed overbearing to me along with Helena Bonnom Carter's shrill witchypooness. The last installment is very dark indeed but with no buildup of suspense or dynamic whatsoever. After the first five minutes I wanted to leave the theatre, but I would have missed out on the free dinner,drinks and gift bags so I stayed. Someone smart in Hollywoodland. I forget there is no one smart in Hollywood. Well someone should make a franchise out of L.Frank Baum’s Oz books from 1900-1919. They were the Harry Potter of their day and spun silent films directed by the author himself in Hollywood. Perhaps CK Rowlings should have directed her own books. I think she would have done a betterjob.
Baum was a complete super freak and his children’s books included teenage girl revolutionaries, existentially depressed dragons and sex change princesses.
Friday night I Djaned at the Search & Destroy Party at Schwuz Club. Its been almost a year since the last time I spinned records there with Joel Gibb and Judy LaBruce. Professor Jennifer Doyle was in town covering the Women’s Football Championships as she has almost a second career as a reporter and theorist on women’s sporting issues and concerns. Early in the day we celebrated her birthday at the Mexican boite Santa Maria and she told me lots of hot gossip and little known facts about women’s soccer. I am not a sports fan in the least but she makes it all very interesting, so much so that she has been a regular feature of NPR and other national and international radio programs making astute comments and observation.
Here are a few tidbits she told me:
been in Europe since mid-June. I was in the stands for the semi-final of the WWC last night. My god, women soccer players are so hot.
Here's some delishious boi's and high-femmes for your blog cast-----
Louisa Necib (GORGEOUS)
Sonia Bompastor (hot sports dyke surely)
Marie-Laure Delie (slinky, "maline")
Megan Rapinoe (no idea if she's gay or not but she has a fantastic look)
Abby Wambach (US star, for good reason, and I might be in love with her)
Hope Solo - Glamazon. Men hold up signs asking for her hand in marriage. Perfect evidence that men basically want to be dominated. She is quite clearly a top of the highest order.
The celebrations for Dr. Doyle continued in the smoking Queer Lantern Lounge of Search&Destroy. I was supposed to DJ with Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras but he had to cancel at the last minute because of a festival gig in Milan, so I had Aussie Axel of Team Plastique be my co-DJ. Axel is a spirited good time Charley and boyfriend to one of my talented Weissensee Art Academy students Joana Coppi who is also a Djane. I spun the early shift and Axel took over for the late crowd who usually just want to bop up and down to techno so they can ride their drug highs. A nice crowd came out including Djane Olga Damnitz, bbooks associate Torsten, Brazilian lovers Mario and Karim (the director of the film Madame Sata), Tavia Nyong’o of NYU’s Performance Studies Department, Croatian scholar Sasha Vukadinovic who brought along musclebound academe David J. Getsy who is a Goldabelle McComb Finn Distinguished Professor of Art History Dept of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Dr. Getsy would like me to make a return to the Chicago Art Institute, someplace I haven’t been at since the late 90s when I did a series of performances and workshops with students. Also enjoying the evening of queer possibilities: Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim of Neu Koelln with his designer boyfriend Piero Bellomo of La Collecione, Montenegro Journalist Tanja Pancevic with a Yugaslav posse, British artist James Richard Hancock, actress Franka Potenta with actors Max Riemelt & August Diehl, fagademic Sean Nye who leaves Berlin soon to teach in Minneapolis, David of Jamaica the former lover of CHEAP kollective’s Tim Blue. David has lived in Berlin for over 20 years and use to be a concert pianist. He was dancing up a storm with a funloving gal pal,the brothers Casiraghi- Pierre & Andrea the grandchildren of Princess Grace of Monaco who were with Pierre Sarkozy the DJ son of the French president and a huge international posse of youth quaking celebutantes. Twenty seven year old Andrea Casiraghi came up to me in the DJ both asking about my musical selections like Brian Eno’s “Needle in the Camel’s Eye” Karen Young’s “Hot Shot” and the Pointer Sister’s “Going Down Slowly” which never fails to get the crowd in a dry hump mood. I told the young royal that I would love to walk barefoot through his full head of shiny hair and he and his brother took photos with me.
It was lovely seeing my pretty and wonderful Malmo Art Academy Swedish student Maria Norrman with her dapper boyfriend Eddie Svärd, No one requested Lady GaGa thank god, but I did get several people asking me to play tired Madonna and some corporate hip hop. I had a good time, and Mischa the booker at Schwuz is always sweet, and so are the staff at the club including one of the veteranos who got excited when I played Joan Armatrading.
My hot date for the evening was my bandmate in Tenderloin the lovesexy Jan Klesse who was in town to celebrate the birthday of Felix Knoke who is also in Tenderloin and Felix's beautiful girlfriend Joana. Both Felix & Joana were born on the same day.
Jan is so dear buying his doll dinner and helping her crate her record collection to the club. We left Schwuz at around 5am and Jan was there making sure that no mashers took advantage of me. It was nice having a big strong, muscular and masculine young man spending the evening with me and staying the night. It was like a slumber party. The next day we slept in till past noon which is unusual for me and had breakfast at Cafe Berio at Nollendorky Platz where they have this very friendly tall tranny waitress. Later we parted as i had Commie Biggie rehearsal and he was going spend time with Felix and Joana.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Sunday, July 10, 2011
DRACULA IN PAKISTAN
Had breakfast with Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim at the Turkish boite Vadi on Karl Marx Strasse Friday morning before we headed to kJohnny Blue’s recording studio in Kreuzkoelln to work on Commie Biggie with Susi Su and Nazli. Daniel and I recorded bill&coo sounds for our big love scene in the piece where my character makes mincemeat of Communisms tiny sphincter.
For you devoted fanatics who have been following my internet radio broadcasts with Manuel Schubert of Film Highlights Magazine. Please click on the link below for Manuel’s new blogina with all the pod sounds we have recorded and other giblets.
http://redislandrecords.blogspot.com/
O and I received this email from Berlin artist Liz Rosenfeld:
Dear Friends,
As many of you know, I have been spending the last year and half working on my film- triptych, " Surface Tension," which looks at moments in the lives of three- female artists ( Anita Berber, Hannah Höch, and Leni Riefenstahl) who lived during the Weimar Period in Berlin. With the donations and help of my amazing international and local community of friends and colleagues, I have successfully been able to complete Frida & Anita ( already screened at The Tate Modern, The British Film Institute, and Moviemento in Berlin) and most recently have completed the pre- production and shooting for the second film in this series HÖCH (currently in the editing process.) I want to thank you all for your previous support for the first two films in the series.
We are slated to film the third and final piece in the series, Die Neue Frau, a constructed " uncovered" real of Third Reich filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl's home movies revealing an ambiguous relationship she may or may not have had with Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress. Die Neue Frau takes place in 1933 ( the last official year of The Weimar Republic) and tracks the transition of Berlin from decadence into fascism.
We are slated to film in early August, but must meet our funding goal in order to be able to afford the film stock and post- production costs. I would be extremely grateful if you could take a moment to read more about this project, and consider our fundraising campaign: http://www.indiegogo.com/Die-Neue-Frau.
Sending Love and Many Wishes from Berlin,
Liz --
www.lizrosenfeld.com
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O and the baby diaper of the Hidden Cameras that gorgeous male creature known the world over as Joel Gibb just posted his new video he directed ala the old Hollywood film musical helmer Stanley Donen. Check it out here: http://vimeo.com/25775173 and let me know what you think.
This little emug from love camel, Andrea Novarin in London:
Oh Doll, the camel had the most horrible experience of his humped life. I went to a kinky night called Collared that used to be fine a few months ago. But this time, I felt like Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner or Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now when they mention they have witnessed the horror, the horrors. There were no more than 20 people. Amongst them: a young chubby queen in a harness dancing horribly to Lady Gaga, an old skinny thing with a hairy back and a raven colored toupee; an even older obese black man in a white g string probably bought from Lidl for 99 pence; an octogenarian clone of Peter Murphy from Bauhaus with spikey hair and the smell of hairspray coming from him that was permeating the entire club. It was like a freak show, in the worst possible way. It was revulsion therapy! I managed to stay 25 minutes just to finish my drink but wanted to leave after 5!!!!! I almost wanted to be amongst all the Nosferatus and Nosferitas of Berlin instead!! Kissy
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Big peniled writer Travis Jeppeson also emailed me that he is in Beijing on a fellowship with German artist Christian Schoeler till August. I had contacted Travis to see if he could book a performer from Austin Texas at Pork@ Ficken 3000 as a favour to designer Rick Owens. Rick Owens and his ladylove and muse Michele Lamy have brought the charms of the lowrent dive bar The Spotlight to Paris, and have recreated the famed Hollywood Blvd hole-in-the-wall for the Gallic conneisseur. Glen Meadmore just did a show at The Spotlight-Paris, and its actually a fab idea as the city of light is in much need of new nightlife additives.
Had breakfast with Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim at the Turkish boite Vadi on Karl Marx Strasse Friday morning before we headed to kJohnny Blue’s recording studio in Kreuzkoelln to work on Commie Biggie with Susi Su and Nazli. Daniel and I recorded bill&coo sounds for our big love scene in the piece where my character makes mincemeat of Communisms tiny sphincter.
For you devoted fanatics who have been following my internet radio broadcasts with Manuel Schubert of Film Highlights Magazine. Please click on the link below for Manuel’s new blogina with all the pod sounds we have recorded and other giblets.
http://redislandrecords.blogspot.com/
O and I received this email from Berlin artist Liz Rosenfeld:
Dear Friends,
As many of you know, I have been spending the last year and half working on my film- triptych, " Surface Tension," which looks at moments in the lives of three- female artists ( Anita Berber, Hannah Höch, and Leni Riefenstahl) who lived during the Weimar Period in Berlin. With the donations and help of my amazing international and local community of friends and colleagues, I have successfully been able to complete Frida & Anita ( already screened at The Tate Modern, The British Film Institute, and Moviemento in Berlin) and most recently have completed the pre- production and shooting for the second film in this series HÖCH (currently in the editing process.) I want to thank you all for your previous support for the first two films in the series.
We are slated to film the third and final piece in the series, Die Neue Frau, a constructed " uncovered" real of Third Reich filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl's home movies revealing an ambiguous relationship she may or may not have had with Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress. Die Neue Frau takes place in 1933 ( the last official year of The Weimar Republic) and tracks the transition of Berlin from decadence into fascism.
We are slated to film in early August, but must meet our funding goal in order to be able to afford the film stock and post- production costs. I would be extremely grateful if you could take a moment to read more about this project, and consider our fundraising campaign: http://www.indiegogo.com/Die-Neue-Frau.
Sending Love and Many Wishes from Berlin,
Liz --
www.lizrosenfeld.com
*
O and the baby diaper of the Hidden Cameras that gorgeous male creature known the world over as Joel Gibb just posted his new video he directed ala the old Hollywood film musical helmer Stanley Donen. Check it out here: http://vimeo.com/25775173 and let me know what you think.
This little emug from love camel, Andrea Novarin in London:
Oh Doll, the camel had the most horrible experience of his humped life. I went to a kinky night called Collared that used to be fine a few months ago. But this time, I felt like Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner or Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now when they mention they have witnessed the horror, the horrors. There were no more than 20 people. Amongst them: a young chubby queen in a harness dancing horribly to Lady Gaga, an old skinny thing with a hairy back and a raven colored toupee; an even older obese black man in a white g string probably bought from Lidl for 99 pence; an octogenarian clone of Peter Murphy from Bauhaus with spikey hair and the smell of hairspray coming from him that was permeating the entire club. It was like a freak show, in the worst possible way. It was revulsion therapy! I managed to stay 25 minutes just to finish my drink but wanted to leave after 5!!!!! I almost wanted to be amongst all the Nosferatus and Nosferitas of Berlin instead!! Kissy
*
Big peniled writer Travis Jeppeson also emailed me that he is in Beijing on a fellowship with German artist Christian Schoeler till August. I had contacted Travis to see if he could book a performer from Austin Texas at Pork@ Ficken 3000 as a favour to designer Rick Owens. Rick Owens and his ladylove and muse Michele Lamy have brought the charms of the lowrent dive bar The Spotlight to Paris, and have recreated the famed Hollywood Blvd hole-in-the-wall for the Gallic conneisseur. Glen Meadmore just did a show at The Spotlight-Paris, and its actually a fab idea as the city of light is in much need of new nightlife additives.
Friday, July 08, 2011
LESEN LASSEN
Monday we started Communist Bigamist-Two Love Stories rehearsals. Well we aren’t actually rehearsing but putting together the multi media sections of the new piece Communist Bigamist that I am collaborating on with the divine Susanne Sachsse of CHEAP kollective. This new project is based on the 1950s film The Bigamist starring Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino and Edmund O’Brian that was directed by Miss Lupino. In our version Susi and I play Ruth Fischer and Angela Davis who are both married to Communism which will be represented on stage by light and sound. As Angela Davis, Communism and I adopt the Black Panthers while married to Ruth Fischer Communism has a biological child that takes the form of Socialism. John Blue aka:kJohnny is doing the sound design, while the beautiful Nazli Kilerci who is half Turkish half Kurdish is the production assistant. The sets will be designed by Nebojsa Tabacki who designed Stofel, the CHEAP kollectives children’s piece at the Parkaue Theatre. The lighting is by Jackie Shemesh the Israeli lighting designer who works with international art shtar Yael Bertrana and lives in London. The costumes will be designed by Jacob Lena Knebl of Vienna’s Tanzquartier. Makeup and hair will be created by that fashion powerhouse - the gorgeous Tan Binh Nguyen who designed the makeup for CHEAP Blacky in 2007 and Daddy in 2009. Tan Binh is singlehandedly taking over Fashion Week in Paris working with designer Boris Bedjian and also Commes Des Garcson. In fact Tan Binh was flying to Paris to do a photo shot with Asha Mines, who use to be Rick Owens assistant and is now one of the most in demand fashion photographers on the planet. I first met Asha when she was a student of mine at Cal Arts with Scarlette Rouge, the daughter of Michele Lamy. See how interconnected life can be.
On Monday we met at Frau Sachsse’s compound where she cooked a deliciously nutritious luncheon and we went over the script outline and watched the movie The Bigamist. Tuesday we met at Tan Binh’s spacious Kranoldplatz flat for make-up tests and Wednesday at Jurgen Brunnings Wurst Film studio on the Haupt Strasse where we started photographing the elaborate projections that will be part of the performance piece with lighting help by Jurgen’s editor Michael. Nazli took the photos. The 50s era pulp fiction detective novel adverts were our inspiration and TB beat a flawless face on the doll that left everyone in utter hysteria.
Later I met up with Ms. Susi at the Veneklassen Werner Gallery at Checkpoint Charlie for a film presentation Zurueck in Die Zukuntt (Back Into the Future) by the German guru of experimental film Wilhelm Hein. The program began with the rare screenings of Kali Filme that featured a collage grouping of wit and profundity ranging from ladies in prison, women with weapons, sexploitation and the brutalities of war and death mashup ending with a lesbenisch flirtation and passionate kiss. Simply Perfect. After a short beer intermission Tim and John(kJohnny) Blue performed rivetting live music to the rarely seen W&B Hein classic Doppelprojektionen. What an evening of love it was. On hand sharing in the magic: steamy French booty pies Michel Belague and Guillaume, prima ballerina Trixi Cordua and her art/filmmaker husband Ludvig Schoenherr, art photog Annette Frick, Susanne Sachsse looking very sommer sportive, American painter Matt who will be living in Berlin for four months and whose prinzlauber flat and studio are provided for by the Veneklasen Werner galerie. Matt use to live in Neu Koelln a few years ago and I first met him through photographer Ryan McGinley at the turn of this century. He has been living back in New York, and with his gay clone beard and scraggly hair was almost unrecognizable from the cute young cleanshaven dark ginger fag I meet at Carnegie Hall in 2001. Well the last time I saw Ryan McGinley he had morphed into an Amanda Bearsely style lesbian so I guess no one ever remains the same.
Thursday Susi, Nazli and I were at kJohnny Blue’s Kreuzkoelln recording studio working on sound collages that will feature in The Communist Bigamist. It was tough work but lots of fun. We went around the corner for luncheon at the famous Kofte Boite and really chowed down.
Later in the evening I was back at the Veneklasen Werner Gallery for the second half of the Wilhelm Hein program that featured a screening of his masterwork You Killed the Underground or the Real Meaning of Kunst Bleibt Bleibt.The section featuring Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel fornicating with a strap-on and black double headed dildo was just so amazingly beautiful in a classically poised way. I love the color of their skin which seemed to glow and the music from Tristan & Isolde. The other scenes featuring Annette Frick in the Canary Islands was also quite lovely and with everything that Wilhelm does there is so much whimsy, humour and youthful zest and affirmative love of life.Its hard to believe that Wilhelm is now 70 years old. His spirit is that of youth personified. Among those in the audience: Prima ballerina Trixi Cordua, Nazli Kalerci and her hot Greek artist boyfriend Yorgos, Tim and kJohnny Blue, Susanne Sachsen & Marc Siegel, drag queen gallerist Juwelia, the Montgomery Gallery girlz and whordes of Hein followers both new and old. I was starving after the screening so I whisked off with Frau Sachsse and Herr Siegel for grub at Andy’s Diner in nearbye Potsdamer Platz. The food isn’t great there but its one of the few places opened late. Around Checkpoint Charlie and also at Potsdamer Platz the summer evening was producing skads of juicy scantily clad tourist boys who were a constant source of distraction to the doll.
In the morning at the Chocolate Grinder film Kollective offices I had a Skype conference call with video artist Wu and her producer Roya who is also the girlfriend of Shari Frilot the head programmer with Sundance’s New Frontiers.Shari use to be my boss at Sundance and for the Platinum Experimental Film Festival in Los Angeles. Wu is going to have me voice the Silver Platter Bar in Westlake/MacArthur Park for the majjical realness documentary film Wildness that centers on the famed art party night at the historical immigrant tranny bar in downtown Los Angeles.
Monday we started Communist Bigamist-Two Love Stories rehearsals. Well we aren’t actually rehearsing but putting together the multi media sections of the new piece Communist Bigamist that I am collaborating on with the divine Susanne Sachsse of CHEAP kollective. This new project is based on the 1950s film The Bigamist starring Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino and Edmund O’Brian that was directed by Miss Lupino. In our version Susi and I play Ruth Fischer and Angela Davis who are both married to Communism which will be represented on stage by light and sound. As Angela Davis, Communism and I adopt the Black Panthers while married to Ruth Fischer Communism has a biological child that takes the form of Socialism. John Blue aka:kJohnny is doing the sound design, while the beautiful Nazli Kilerci who is half Turkish half Kurdish is the production assistant. The sets will be designed by Nebojsa Tabacki who designed Stofel, the CHEAP kollectives children’s piece at the Parkaue Theatre. The lighting is by Jackie Shemesh the Israeli lighting designer who works with international art shtar Yael Bertrana and lives in London. The costumes will be designed by Jacob Lena Knebl of Vienna’s Tanzquartier. Makeup and hair will be created by that fashion powerhouse - the gorgeous Tan Binh Nguyen who designed the makeup for CHEAP Blacky in 2007 and Daddy in 2009. Tan Binh is singlehandedly taking over Fashion Week in Paris working with designer Boris Bedjian and also Commes Des Garcson. In fact Tan Binh was flying to Paris to do a photo shot with Asha Mines, who use to be Rick Owens assistant and is now one of the most in demand fashion photographers on the planet. I first met Asha when she was a student of mine at Cal Arts with Scarlette Rouge, the daughter of Michele Lamy. See how interconnected life can be.
On Monday we met at Frau Sachsse’s compound where she cooked a deliciously nutritious luncheon and we went over the script outline and watched the movie The Bigamist. Tuesday we met at Tan Binh’s spacious Kranoldplatz flat for make-up tests and Wednesday at Jurgen Brunnings Wurst Film studio on the Haupt Strasse where we started photographing the elaborate projections that will be part of the performance piece with lighting help by Jurgen’s editor Michael. Nazli took the photos. The 50s era pulp fiction detective novel adverts were our inspiration and TB beat a flawless face on the doll that left everyone in utter hysteria.
Later I met up with Ms. Susi at the Veneklassen Werner Gallery at Checkpoint Charlie for a film presentation Zurueck in Die Zukuntt (Back Into the Future) by the German guru of experimental film Wilhelm Hein. The program began with the rare screenings of Kali Filme that featured a collage grouping of wit and profundity ranging from ladies in prison, women with weapons, sexploitation and the brutalities of war and death mashup ending with a lesbenisch flirtation and passionate kiss. Simply Perfect. After a short beer intermission Tim and John(kJohnny) Blue performed rivetting live music to the rarely seen W&B Hein classic Doppelprojektionen. What an evening of love it was. On hand sharing in the magic: steamy French booty pies Michel Belague and Guillaume, prima ballerina Trixi Cordua and her art/filmmaker husband Ludvig Schoenherr, art photog Annette Frick, Susanne Sachsse looking very sommer sportive, American painter Matt who will be living in Berlin for four months and whose prinzlauber flat and studio are provided for by the Veneklasen Werner galerie. Matt use to live in Neu Koelln a few years ago and I first met him through photographer Ryan McGinley at the turn of this century. He has been living back in New York, and with his gay clone beard and scraggly hair was almost unrecognizable from the cute young cleanshaven dark ginger fag I meet at Carnegie Hall in 2001. Well the last time I saw Ryan McGinley he had morphed into an Amanda Bearsely style lesbian so I guess no one ever remains the same.
Thursday Susi, Nazli and I were at kJohnny Blue’s Kreuzkoelln recording studio working on sound collages that will feature in The Communist Bigamist. It was tough work but lots of fun. We went around the corner for luncheon at the famous Kofte Boite and really chowed down.
Later in the evening I was back at the Veneklasen Werner Gallery for the second half of the Wilhelm Hein program that featured a screening of his masterwork You Killed the Underground or the Real Meaning of Kunst Bleibt Bleibt.The section featuring Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel fornicating with a strap-on and black double headed dildo was just so amazingly beautiful in a classically poised way. I love the color of their skin which seemed to glow and the music from Tristan & Isolde. The other scenes featuring Annette Frick in the Canary Islands was also quite lovely and with everything that Wilhelm does there is so much whimsy, humour and youthful zest and affirmative love of life.Its hard to believe that Wilhelm is now 70 years old. His spirit is that of youth personified. Among those in the audience: Prima ballerina Trixi Cordua, Nazli Kalerci and her hot Greek artist boyfriend Yorgos, Tim and kJohnny Blue, Susanne Sachsen & Marc Siegel, drag queen gallerist Juwelia, the Montgomery Gallery girlz and whordes of Hein followers both new and old. I was starving after the screening so I whisked off with Frau Sachsse and Herr Siegel for grub at Andy’s Diner in nearbye Potsdamer Platz. The food isn’t great there but its one of the few places opened late. Around Checkpoint Charlie and also at Potsdamer Platz the summer evening was producing skads of juicy scantily clad tourist boys who were a constant source of distraction to the doll.
In the morning at the Chocolate Grinder film Kollective offices I had a Skype conference call with video artist Wu and her producer Roya who is also the girlfriend of Shari Frilot the head programmer with Sundance’s New Frontiers.Shari use to be my boss at Sundance and for the Platinum Experimental Film Festival in Los Angeles. Wu is going to have me voice the Silver Platter Bar in Westlake/MacArthur Park for the majjical realness documentary film Wildness that centers on the famed art party night at the historical immigrant tranny bar in downtown Los Angeles.
Monday, July 04, 2011
NUR DAS TRANSVESTIT
Your Vagimule Davis doll is one sickly little lady. Well let me preface this announcement by saying I am a bit of a hypochondriac, but after going to the Lung Lab the other day and getting the pronouncement by the doctor that I have Asthma it was a bit of a shockerooney to be sure. It’s a mild form of asthma, but nonetheless I am reminded of my late sister´s travails with the disease, the inhaler and constant emergency room visits. Now that I have health insurance I have been on a kick to take care of all the things I couldn’t when I lived in the United Statuals. So slowly I have been having dental work done that I neglected for years and also doing up follow-up from my Henry the 8th diagnosis of gout that I received here in Berlin back in 2008. When I first moved to Germany I was going from project to project and didn’t have time do go to the doctor but now I am making time and seeing the famous Dr. Stephen Minkx who not only does western medicine but eastern as well. Will keep you informed on my health issues. Alas the decay of age.
Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim was my date for the HAU Theatre sommer party behind HAU 1 Friday evening. It was a chilly summer night, but the BBQ and alcohol kept everyone in warm spirits. Joining the CHEAP brigade of Marc Siegel, Susanne Sachsse and Salome Gersh at the picnic tables: Sexxxy Sascha Woelck, Suave Rogier one of the queer bearded Pierrot Lunaire bandits, my old crush Paul Plamper, the radio play director who was Martin Wutke´s assistant when we were working on the film LA Faustus,Brit artist Phil Collins, curator supreme Christoph Gurk who is now the ex of artist Karen Cytter, luscious Nanna Heidenreich, demure and sweet Nadja Talmi, the gracious and elegant Susanne Goris the HAU tech directrix,
Manlische HAU bossman Mattias Lianthal looking dapper and cracking jokes in a professorial sports jacket,charming Kerstin from pressabteilung,
good time Sally´s Elisabeth and Sonja spreading joy with their portable vodka shots and the divine beauty of HAU Katrin Dodd.
I had to leave early as the next day I was performing with the feminist art band Piss Göttin at Kunst Werke Inst for Contemporary Art. The goddess was surely blessing us as it poured rain the entire day guaranteeing us a soaked by spirited crowd that included Wilhelm Hein and his art photog girlfriend Annette Frick, Tim Blue, Axel & Joanna, Lydia, Susanne Sachsse, Saul the art curator from the Frankfurt Museum with his rock steady crew and handsome Japanese/Swedish filmmaker Cary Fukunaga(Jane Eyre)with his squeeze American actress Michele Williams. Mr. Fukunaga told me that I played a mean electrikkkk guitar. As my character of Senta Burma I was only making noise as I don´t know how to play any instrument. As a free jazz punk outfit we sounded better then I thought we would. It was the drum playing of Wanya aka: Neam Lhok that kept it all together, but I certainly had a wonderful time with my musical comrades Katja von Hellendorf, Cristian Forte, Sophie Heartbreakin Fatale and the spoken word goddess Lady Gaby whose Australian accent makes everything sound sensual. The wonderful visuals and sound design by Paloma Merchan, Vika Kirchenbauer and Clara Valverde also contributed to making this quite an event. And I was happy with my yarn sculpture that surrounded the playing field. The museum posted a video if you want to see the action unfold for yourself
Das Video ist Online: http://vimeo.com/25944347
I was exhausted and didn’t party with everyone, but went straight home to feed my face and get some sleep because the next morning I was finishing the ZacKary Drucker film along with the Chocolate Grinder collective of Little Alex, Assaf Hochman and hunky Tim Schenkl the nude director of photography. Tasty Tim is one of the most gifted, talented cinematographers working in Europe, he makes everything glow and is so utterly a focused lensman, and he is very easy on the eyes with a muscular body, big thick hands and feet and a penis that can open raw clams.
One of my talented NYU students Alexander Casso is in a group show that opens tonight from 5 to 10 at this secret space:
Jardem
Dieffenbachstraße 33
Berlin, Berlin 10967
Germany
Please check it out as well as these links of this multi talented gorgeous young art star who is conquering the world with his vision. You won´t be disappointed.
http://alexcasso.tumblr.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xIq5KODXGk
Gotta run to Commie Biggie rehearsal. Ta!
Your Vagimule Davis doll is one sickly little lady. Well let me preface this announcement by saying I am a bit of a hypochondriac, but after going to the Lung Lab the other day and getting the pronouncement by the doctor that I have Asthma it was a bit of a shockerooney to be sure. It’s a mild form of asthma, but nonetheless I am reminded of my late sister´s travails with the disease, the inhaler and constant emergency room visits. Now that I have health insurance I have been on a kick to take care of all the things I couldn’t when I lived in the United Statuals. So slowly I have been having dental work done that I neglected for years and also doing up follow-up from my Henry the 8th diagnosis of gout that I received here in Berlin back in 2008. When I first moved to Germany I was going from project to project and didn’t have time do go to the doctor but now I am making time and seeing the famous Dr. Stephen Minkx who not only does western medicine but eastern as well. Will keep you informed on my health issues. Alas the decay of age.
Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim was my date for the HAU Theatre sommer party behind HAU 1 Friday evening. It was a chilly summer night, but the BBQ and alcohol kept everyone in warm spirits. Joining the CHEAP brigade of Marc Siegel, Susanne Sachsse and Salome Gersh at the picnic tables: Sexxxy Sascha Woelck, Suave Rogier one of the queer bearded Pierrot Lunaire bandits, my old crush Paul Plamper, the radio play director who was Martin Wutke´s assistant when we were working on the film LA Faustus,Brit artist Phil Collins, curator supreme Christoph Gurk who is now the ex of artist Karen Cytter, luscious Nanna Heidenreich, demure and sweet Nadja Talmi, the gracious and elegant Susanne Goris the HAU tech directrix,
Manlische HAU bossman Mattias Lianthal looking dapper and cracking jokes in a professorial sports jacket,charming Kerstin from pressabteilung,
good time Sally´s Elisabeth and Sonja spreading joy with their portable vodka shots and the divine beauty of HAU Katrin Dodd.
I had to leave early as the next day I was performing with the feminist art band Piss Göttin at Kunst Werke Inst for Contemporary Art. The goddess was surely blessing us as it poured rain the entire day guaranteeing us a soaked by spirited crowd that included Wilhelm Hein and his art photog girlfriend Annette Frick, Tim Blue, Axel & Joanna, Lydia, Susanne Sachsse, Saul the art curator from the Frankfurt Museum with his rock steady crew and handsome Japanese/Swedish filmmaker Cary Fukunaga(Jane Eyre)with his squeeze American actress Michele Williams. Mr. Fukunaga told me that I played a mean electrikkkk guitar. As my character of Senta Burma I was only making noise as I don´t know how to play any instrument. As a free jazz punk outfit we sounded better then I thought we would. It was the drum playing of Wanya aka: Neam Lhok that kept it all together, but I certainly had a wonderful time with my musical comrades Katja von Hellendorf, Cristian Forte, Sophie Heartbreakin Fatale and the spoken word goddess Lady Gaby whose Australian accent makes everything sound sensual. The wonderful visuals and sound design by Paloma Merchan, Vika Kirchenbauer and Clara Valverde also contributed to making this quite an event. And I was happy with my yarn sculpture that surrounded the playing field. The museum posted a video if you want to see the action unfold for yourself
Das Video ist Online: http://vimeo.com/25944347
I was exhausted and didn’t party with everyone, but went straight home to feed my face and get some sleep because the next morning I was finishing the ZacKary Drucker film along with the Chocolate Grinder collective of Little Alex, Assaf Hochman and hunky Tim Schenkl the nude director of photography. Tasty Tim is one of the most gifted, talented cinematographers working in Europe, he makes everything glow and is so utterly a focused lensman, and he is very easy on the eyes with a muscular body, big thick hands and feet and a penis that can open raw clams.
One of my talented NYU students Alexander Casso is in a group show that opens tonight from 5 to 10 at this secret space:
Jardem
Dieffenbachstraße 33
Berlin, Berlin 10967
Germany
Please check it out as well as these links of this multi talented gorgeous young art star who is conquering the world with his vision. You won´t be disappointed.
http://alexcasso.tumblr.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xIq5KODXGk
Gotta run to Commie Biggie rehearsal. Ta!
Thursday, June 30, 2011
LECKEREIEN
Had a lovely moviola dinner evening at Flemish royal Koen Claerhout´s spacious Greifwalder Strasse flat with Koen´s sweet young American roommate Jess Newman, Katrin Dodd the beauty of HAU and the vivacious curator Cordula Daus. I brought the films The Thin Man (1934) starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick&Nora Charles. The film also featured a very young Maureen O´Sullivan, the mother of actress Mia Farrow. After dinner we watched Mae West and strapping Cary Grant in She Done Him Wrong (1933)which had everyone commenting that Ms. West´s strut was very hip hop nation. Well the rumour about the late superstar was that she was a light skinned black woman passing as white.
Koen is a magnificent cook and delighted us with Tagliatele with chicken, spinach and Belgian herbs, the starter was a refreshing mozzerella rucula summer salad and desert the most heavenly cappucino creme berry dainty. Koen graciously gave the Vagimule doll her comfortable bed to sleep on and i was soon awash in dreamland.
Koen was living in Egypt for six months studying the Arabic language and culture. He was sharing a flat with Hannah Al Bayati the famous Iraqi political analyst whose father started the Bath Party in Iraq before Sadam Husain got his hands on it. I have met Hannah before and she is a fascinating young woman very much committed to social change in the world.
Yesterday morning my juicy daughter ZacKary Drucker took me and Little Alex of Chocolate Grinder Film Kollective out for breakfast. We were having a quasi business meeting ironing out details for the next film shoot for the project that Lady Z is making while here in Berlina.
Tuesday i was taken to breakfast by Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim. We ate at the cute new Neu Kölln boite Vadi on Karl Marx Strasse and oggled all the humpy Turkish and Arab boys, then i went to luncheon at Baby Diaper Joel Gibb´s compound in RixDorf where he showed the latest video he directed for his band The Hidden Cameras which is pure genius and super sexxxy. Baby Diaper had been back in Toronto for almost a month and I really missed him and it was nice catching up. He is super busy with summer festival tours and he is also going to perform with Wieland Speck and Zazi De Paris at the Arsenal in August as part of the tribute to Herr Speck´s illustrious film career. Later i went to the Arsenal to see an amazing print of Stanley Kubrick´s Barry Lyndon (1975) starring a gorgeous Ryan O´Neal and the goddess that is Marisa Berenson. Ryan plays the character of Redmund Barry which is what he named his drug addled son by actress Farrah Fawcette .
Speaking of films i forgot to mention that several months ago i was invited to a special screening of the new Cameron Diaz comedy Bad Teacher. I have to give Ms. Diaz credit for allowing herself to be photographed so unflatteringly. It worked with her character. Now that she is getting a bit long on the tooth her rubbery features really lend themselves to slapstick and potty humour, and i did find the film entertaining in a guilty pleasure like manner. The highlight for me was a scene where Ms. Diaz and Justin Timberlake are dry humping, which i thought was pretty brave that they would chose to recreate what their actual sex life was all about as it is commonly known that Mr. Timberlake has a frottage fetisch of the rare extremis. O and the adoreable actor Jason Seagel is also in the film. Before Mr Seagel became known he and i had a brief flirtation with each other that never went anywhere. Jason is chunky but delightfully funky.
O and actor Peter Falk died age 83. He was the star of the successful Columbo detective series on TV in the 70s but was also a fantastic film actor in such movies as Woman Under the Influence.(1972) directed by John Cassavettes and Husbands (1970)
Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springstein´s E Street Band also passed age 69 of a stroke. I don´t think it was known by too many people that Mr. Springstein and Mr. Clemons were sometime lovers. Their relationship really blossomed in the 1970s, and they actually hadn´t fornicated with each other since then. See all the hot gossip you learn from me? You won´t read any of this on Janet Charleton´s Hollywood blog.
Had a lovely moviola dinner evening at Flemish royal Koen Claerhout´s spacious Greifwalder Strasse flat with Koen´s sweet young American roommate Jess Newman, Katrin Dodd the beauty of HAU and the vivacious curator Cordula Daus. I brought the films The Thin Man (1934) starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick&Nora Charles. The film also featured a very young Maureen O´Sullivan, the mother of actress Mia Farrow. After dinner we watched Mae West and strapping Cary Grant in She Done Him Wrong (1933)which had everyone commenting that Ms. West´s strut was very hip hop nation. Well the rumour about the late superstar was that she was a light skinned black woman passing as white.
Koen is a magnificent cook and delighted us with Tagliatele with chicken, spinach and Belgian herbs, the starter was a refreshing mozzerella rucula summer salad and desert the most heavenly cappucino creme berry dainty. Koen graciously gave the Vagimule doll her comfortable bed to sleep on and i was soon awash in dreamland.
Koen was living in Egypt for six months studying the Arabic language and culture. He was sharing a flat with Hannah Al Bayati the famous Iraqi political analyst whose father started the Bath Party in Iraq before Sadam Husain got his hands on it. I have met Hannah before and she is a fascinating young woman very much committed to social change in the world.
Yesterday morning my juicy daughter ZacKary Drucker took me and Little Alex of Chocolate Grinder Film Kollective out for breakfast. We were having a quasi business meeting ironing out details for the next film shoot for the project that Lady Z is making while here in Berlina.
Tuesday i was taken to breakfast by Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim. We ate at the cute new Neu Kölln boite Vadi on Karl Marx Strasse and oggled all the humpy Turkish and Arab boys, then i went to luncheon at Baby Diaper Joel Gibb´s compound in RixDorf where he showed the latest video he directed for his band The Hidden Cameras which is pure genius and super sexxxy. Baby Diaper had been back in Toronto for almost a month and I really missed him and it was nice catching up. He is super busy with summer festival tours and he is also going to perform with Wieland Speck and Zazi De Paris at the Arsenal in August as part of the tribute to Herr Speck´s illustrious film career. Later i went to the Arsenal to see an amazing print of Stanley Kubrick´s Barry Lyndon (1975) starring a gorgeous Ryan O´Neal and the goddess that is Marisa Berenson. Ryan plays the character of Redmund Barry which is what he named his drug addled son by actress Farrah Fawcette .
Speaking of films i forgot to mention that several months ago i was invited to a special screening of the new Cameron Diaz comedy Bad Teacher. I have to give Ms. Diaz credit for allowing herself to be photographed so unflatteringly. It worked with her character. Now that she is getting a bit long on the tooth her rubbery features really lend themselves to slapstick and potty humour, and i did find the film entertaining in a guilty pleasure like manner. The highlight for me was a scene where Ms. Diaz and Justin Timberlake are dry humping, which i thought was pretty brave that they would chose to recreate what their actual sex life was all about as it is commonly known that Mr. Timberlake has a frottage fetisch of the rare extremis. O and the adoreable actor Jason Seagel is also in the film. Before Mr Seagel became known he and i had a brief flirtation with each other that never went anywhere. Jason is chunky but delightfully funky.
O and actor Peter Falk died age 83. He was the star of the successful Columbo detective series on TV in the 70s but was also a fantastic film actor in such movies as Woman Under the Influence.(1972) directed by John Cassavettes and Husbands (1970)
Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springstein´s E Street Band also passed age 69 of a stroke. I don´t think it was known by too many people that Mr. Springstein and Mr. Clemons were sometime lovers. Their relationship really blossomed in the 1970s, and they actually hadn´t fornicated with each other since then. See all the hot gossip you learn from me? You won´t read any of this on Janet Charleton´s Hollywood blog.
Monday, June 27, 2011
UND WIR STELLEN DIE KNALLHARTEN FRAGEN
Rising Stars, Falling Stars was packed to the proverbial rafters last night for our tributata to Mabel Normand the woman responsible for molding what later became the film auteur Charlie Chaplin. Some of the younger children in the audience were surprised how entertaining a film almost a century old can be. Some things are just eternal as was the musical accompaniment by the divine Eunice Martin who tore into Tillie´s Punctured Romance directed by Mack Sennett with humour and finesse. Ms. Martin is indeed a Berlin musical treasure. The film´s star is Marie Dressler who is a comic wonder. After the screening in the Rote Foyer the lovely Empress of the Arsenal Stefanie Schulte Strathaus who is off to her secret vacationland today for some well earned R&R. Frau Schulte Strathaus is the hardest working woman in film curatorialdom. Wishing her well for her holiday retreat the beautiful film curator Dorothea Wenner and winsome escort Mickey, lovesexxxy artist/programmer Angela Melitoupoulous, prima ballerina Trixie Cordua, charming Portugese actress and artist Elsa Aleluia who is the biggest fan and supporter of the Arsenal and a new RSFS devotee, Paulo the sauve Italian architect and old CHEAP klub regular who was grilling Ms. Schulte Strathaus about the beautiful and talented Eunice Martin, and wanting to know everything about all the marvelous programs and screenings that Arsenal Inst für film und video kunst has to offer.
Film Historian Marc Siegel and his intermedia actress and curator girlfriend Susanne Sachsse with their brilliant 18 year old daughter Salome Gersh were looking majestic with delight in the happy news that their latest art festival project that will premiere at HAU in April 2012 Camp Anti-Camp just received green lighted funding. That means I will be able to mount a Berlin version of my award winning chat show/akshunist installation Vaginal Davis is Speaking From The Diaphragm. In July I begin work on The Communist Bigamist with Susanne Sachsse. Commmie Biggie as we are calling it is our new two woman performance piece that is loosely based on the Ida Lupino/Joan Fontaine film The Bigamist from 1953. Giving congrats to Marc and Susie: NYU Performance Studies professor Tavia Nyongo with his sweet water polo playing pal Sebastiane, Sean Nye the American ethnomusicologist scholar who sadly leaves Berlin at the end of July,pierced nose booty pie Matt who studies continental philosophy, Manuel Schubert of Film Highlights Internet Radio Magazine,young Josef the Ulrike´s Brain assistant,Walid Raad the Lebanese artist of the imaginary foundation Atlas Group,dancer Assaf Hochman with beau Little Telemacos Alex of the Chocolate Grinder Film Kollective who did a magnificent job styling my outfit, hair and beating on the doll an amazing face---he even managed to make my shapely gams magically do an Ann Miller pop on stage during my Bob Fosse style introduction, Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim who helped write my opening song and dance routine as well as accompanying me on clavier, Katja Maya aka: Katja von Hellendorf of the band Leisey Lento and the new free jazz punk noise combo Piss Göttin that will urinate on Berlin´s gay burgermeister when they perform at Kunst Werke Museum on July 2 at 6pm.
First timers to RSFS included my fabulous art star daughter Ms. ZacKary Drucker, Javier Peres of Peres Projects who brought along a hot boy bevy that included 17 year old jail bait stud Gerardo Contreras who is the gallerista with the notorious Mexico City cutting edge gallery PreTeen, Winnipeg Canada art fag couple Pzemeck & Travis and DJ Pierre Sarkozy the blondine son of französischen Präsidenten.
The next Rising Stars is Friday July 29th 9pm with a screening of the feminist classic La Souriante Madame Beudet directed by Germaine Dulac with the Blue Bros Tim&kJohnny playing live music and on August 20th a special edition Rising Stars celebrating Wieland Speck of the Berlinale´s Panorama Section with a screening of the first gay German film Anders Als Die Anderen (1919) directed by Richard Oswald with Eunice Martin accompanying on clavier. Yowza!
Rising Stars, Falling Stars was packed to the proverbial rafters last night for our tributata to Mabel Normand the woman responsible for molding what later became the film auteur Charlie Chaplin. Some of the younger children in the audience were surprised how entertaining a film almost a century old can be. Some things are just eternal as was the musical accompaniment by the divine Eunice Martin who tore into Tillie´s Punctured Romance directed by Mack Sennett with humour and finesse. Ms. Martin is indeed a Berlin musical treasure. The film´s star is Marie Dressler who is a comic wonder. After the screening in the Rote Foyer the lovely Empress of the Arsenal Stefanie Schulte Strathaus who is off to her secret vacationland today for some well earned R&R. Frau Schulte Strathaus is the hardest working woman in film curatorialdom. Wishing her well for her holiday retreat the beautiful film curator Dorothea Wenner and winsome escort Mickey, lovesexxxy artist/programmer Angela Melitoupoulous, prima ballerina Trixie Cordua, charming Portugese actress and artist Elsa Aleluia who is the biggest fan and supporter of the Arsenal and a new RSFS devotee, Paulo the sauve Italian architect and old CHEAP klub regular who was grilling Ms. Schulte Strathaus about the beautiful and talented Eunice Martin, and wanting to know everything about all the marvelous programs and screenings that Arsenal Inst für film und video kunst has to offer.
Film Historian Marc Siegel and his intermedia actress and curator girlfriend Susanne Sachsse with their brilliant 18 year old daughter Salome Gersh were looking majestic with delight in the happy news that their latest art festival project that will premiere at HAU in April 2012 Camp Anti-Camp just received green lighted funding. That means I will be able to mount a Berlin version of my award winning chat show/akshunist installation Vaginal Davis is Speaking From The Diaphragm. In July I begin work on The Communist Bigamist with Susanne Sachsse. Commmie Biggie as we are calling it is our new two woman performance piece that is loosely based on the Ida Lupino/Joan Fontaine film The Bigamist from 1953. Giving congrats to Marc and Susie: NYU Performance Studies professor Tavia Nyongo with his sweet water polo playing pal Sebastiane, Sean Nye the American ethnomusicologist scholar who sadly leaves Berlin at the end of July,pierced nose booty pie Matt who studies continental philosophy, Manuel Schubert of Film Highlights Internet Radio Magazine,young Josef the Ulrike´s Brain assistant,Walid Raad the Lebanese artist of the imaginary foundation Atlas Group,dancer Assaf Hochman with beau Little Telemacos Alex of the Chocolate Grinder Film Kollective who did a magnificent job styling my outfit, hair and beating on the doll an amazing face---he even managed to make my shapely gams magically do an Ann Miller pop on stage during my Bob Fosse style introduction, Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim who helped write my opening song and dance routine as well as accompanying me on clavier, Katja Maya aka: Katja von Hellendorf of the band Leisey Lento and the new free jazz punk noise combo Piss Göttin that will urinate on Berlin´s gay burgermeister when they perform at Kunst Werke Museum on July 2 at 6pm.
First timers to RSFS included my fabulous art star daughter Ms. ZacKary Drucker, Javier Peres of Peres Projects who brought along a hot boy bevy that included 17 year old jail bait stud Gerardo Contreras who is the gallerista with the notorious Mexico City cutting edge gallery PreTeen, Winnipeg Canada art fag couple Pzemeck & Travis and DJ Pierre Sarkozy the blondine son of französischen Präsidenten.
The next Rising Stars is Friday July 29th 9pm with a screening of the feminist classic La Souriante Madame Beudet directed by Germaine Dulac with the Blue Bros Tim&kJohnny playing live music and on August 20th a special edition Rising Stars celebrating Wieland Speck of the Berlinale´s Panorama Section with a screening of the first gay German film Anders Als Die Anderen (1919) directed by Richard Oswald with Eunice Martin accompanying on clavier. Yowza!
Thursday, June 23, 2011
VOR DEM STURM
Went last nite with Daniel „Mae Cheetum“ Hendrickson to the Arsenal for their Unabhängiger Arabischer mini film festival co-sponsored by the Goethe Institut of Cairo to see the Egyptian film Microphone (2010) directed by the young attractive Alexandria, Egypt director/musician Ahmad Abdalla. The screening was packed which shows there is a huge interest for films from the Arab World. During the Berlinale, before the Arab Spring with little publicity the Arsenal showed a series of Arab films that attracted SRO crowds. I really think this should be a regular focus and the Arsenal needs to do some outreach to the Arab and Middle Eastern communities in Berlin to mix the audience. I enjoyed the film and the cute kids that populated it especially the hot skaterboard rats and one young documentary filmmaker boy who reminded me of my college crush Kaveh Kamooneh who at the time was this super beautiful young Iranian lad.
My interview with Manuel Schubert of Filmhighlights Internet Radio is up and running. Here is the link:
Rising Stars Falling Stars - with Vaginal D
avis - June 2011 by filmanzeiger
Went last nite with Daniel „Mae Cheetum“ Hendrickson to the Arsenal for their Unabhängiger Arabischer mini film festival co-sponsored by the Goethe Institut of Cairo to see the Egyptian film Microphone (2010) directed by the young attractive Alexandria, Egypt director/musician Ahmad Abdalla. The screening was packed which shows there is a huge interest for films from the Arab World. During the Berlinale, before the Arab Spring with little publicity the Arsenal showed a series of Arab films that attracted SRO crowds. I really think this should be a regular focus and the Arsenal needs to do some outreach to the Arab and Middle Eastern communities in Berlin to mix the audience. I enjoyed the film and the cute kids that populated it especially the hot skaterboard rats and one young documentary filmmaker boy who reminded me of my college crush Kaveh Kamooneh who at the time was this super beautiful young Iranian lad.
My interview with Manuel Schubert of Filmhighlights Internet Radio is up and running. Here is the link:
Rising Stars Falling Stars - with Vaginal D
avis - June 2011 by filmanzeiger
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
PUNCTUATION AND GLAMOUR
Went to the Arsenal the other eve to see Fritz Lang´s Rancho Notorious (1952) starring Marlene Dietrich. La Lilli Marlene was looking hot cha cha giving every bit of the sex queen at age 50. Leave it to the first eyebrow gal to floor the ageless wonder quotient . Before going to the Arsenal was treated to luncheon with Anna Muelter of HAU. Anna and I had a fab time sitting al fresco style in front of the WAU café catching up on our busy lady lives. Got to meet the new 20 year old HAU intern Timon who is a cute, personable German boy who is into free jazz. I told him all about my new musical art project Piss Göttin which combines punk & noize and and mentioned that Wilhelm Hein´s older brother brought Free Jazz to Germany in the late 60s. Later that night I went to Koen Claerhouten´s Dirty Birthday Party to celebrate his 30th. I have known Koen who is a Flemmish Royal since he interned with the CHEAP collective back in 2004-2005. Koen was living in Egypt earlier this year studying Arabic during the political turmoil. I am glad he is back safe and sound on teutonic soil. His party was cute and I chittle chatted with Katrin Dodd, the beauty of HAU, lovely Nadja Talmi, lovesexxxy Michele Belague,Easy Target Heike of Vienna´s Brut Theatre, soul singer Barbara Panther of the Black Panthers and a charming young curator friend of Koen´s who came to the last Rising Stars, Falling Stars whose name escapes me at the moment. I love Koen´s huge Greifswalder Strasse compound with a glorious view of the Soviet Park.
The next night i was taken to dinner by my darling tranny daughter ZacKary Drucker who will be in Berlin for three weeks. ZacKary is the mulatta daughter I share with Ron Athey, and she is beauty and refinement incarnate. Tuesday morning we filmed at my studio a little short subject project where I play my persona of The Whoracle et Delphi. ZacKary´s assistant was a beautiful young Mexican girl name Jasmine who hails from the Bay Area and has been living in Berlin for the past 2 years. This new art video film also features Warhol Superstar Miss Holly Woodlawn and Flawless Mother Sabrina of the 1968 cult docu The Queen.
After a grueling day of filming I hosted a studio visit with young junior curator from Lithuania Liutauras Psibilskis who now lives in Manhattan. Mr. Psibilskis is a former student of the divine Gavin Butt of Goldsmith College in London and also an associate of the silver fox French legend Michel Audair and Participant Inc.´s Lia Gangitano.
Hector Martinez emugged me the other day with some hot gossip. Hector participated in a spoken word night produced by someone named William Wright, whose young boyfriend is the same former student of Ron Athey´s when he taught at UCLA. This kid became notorious for his performance piece of Russian Roulette where he used a loaded revolver. I thought the young man was a macho straight, but I guess when you play with guns you eventually will wind up turning into a FAG-GOT:
Went to the Arsenal the other eve to see Fritz Lang´s Rancho Notorious (1952) starring Marlene Dietrich. La Lilli Marlene was looking hot cha cha giving every bit of the sex queen at age 50. Leave it to the first eyebrow gal to floor the ageless wonder quotient . Before going to the Arsenal was treated to luncheon with Anna Muelter of HAU. Anna and I had a fab time sitting al fresco style in front of the WAU café catching up on our busy lady lives. Got to meet the new 20 year old HAU intern Timon who is a cute, personable German boy who is into free jazz. I told him all about my new musical art project Piss Göttin which combines punk & noize and and mentioned that Wilhelm Hein´s older brother brought Free Jazz to Germany in the late 60s. Later that night I went to Koen Claerhouten´s Dirty Birthday Party to celebrate his 30th. I have known Koen who is a Flemmish Royal since he interned with the CHEAP collective back in 2004-2005. Koen was living in Egypt earlier this year studying Arabic during the political turmoil. I am glad he is back safe and sound on teutonic soil. His party was cute and I chittle chatted with Katrin Dodd, the beauty of HAU, lovely Nadja Talmi, lovesexxxy Michele Belague,Easy Target Heike of Vienna´s Brut Theatre, soul singer Barbara Panther of the Black Panthers and a charming young curator friend of Koen´s who came to the last Rising Stars, Falling Stars whose name escapes me at the moment. I love Koen´s huge Greifswalder Strasse compound with a glorious view of the Soviet Park.
The next night i was taken to dinner by my darling tranny daughter ZacKary Drucker who will be in Berlin for three weeks. ZacKary is the mulatta daughter I share with Ron Athey, and she is beauty and refinement incarnate. Tuesday morning we filmed at my studio a little short subject project where I play my persona of The Whoracle et Delphi. ZacKary´s assistant was a beautiful young Mexican girl name Jasmine who hails from the Bay Area and has been living in Berlin for the past 2 years. This new art video film also features Warhol Superstar Miss Holly Woodlawn and Flawless Mother Sabrina of the 1968 cult docu The Queen.
After a grueling day of filming I hosted a studio visit with young junior curator from Lithuania Liutauras Psibilskis who now lives in Manhattan. Mr. Psibilskis is a former student of the divine Gavin Butt of Goldsmith College in London and also an associate of the silver fox French legend Michel Audair and Participant Inc.´s Lia Gangitano.
Hector Martinez emugged me the other day with some hot gossip. Hector participated in a spoken word night produced by someone named William Wright, whose young boyfriend is the same former student of Ron Athey´s when he taught at UCLA. This kid became notorious for his performance piece of Russian Roulette where he used a loaded revolver. I thought the young man was a macho straight, but I guess when you play with guns you eventually will wind up turning into a FAG-GOT:
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
DONFELD ABBY
After recovering from my diarrhea, I am now gifted with constipation so attending a lengthy Living Archive meeting at Arsenal the other day was difficult to say the least. Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus is a very good facilitator, doing a good job keeping things flowing. I have to admit I am more of a Rachel Rosenberg DBD (Doing-by-Doing) personality type then someone who enjoys the discussion process with a project.
Susanne Sachsse, Eunice Martin, & kJohnny Blue shared their plans with the Living Archive project that really sound interesting, and some others in Tuesday´s large grouping expressed ideas that sounded intriguing. I plan on working with Chocolate Grinder Film Kollective to make some kind of experimental coming attraction reel that promotes Rising Stars, Falling Stars. I want to combine the art of projection with some kind of interview with Arsenal projectionists but the specifics still need to be ironed out.
Manuel Schubert of Film Highlights Internet Radio came to Rote Insel to interview me this morning. We first met up with Max Steele and Joseph Bibby for breakfast at Toughstein Café. Max from New York & Joseph from Liverpool are two delightful young artists. Max was on my Speaking From the Diaphragm talkshow installation piece in New York last year. He also publishes a lovely zine called Scorcher. He gifted me a copy of issue number 6 and a bouquet of flowers. I can´t wait to read his zine. Max is also performing Thursday at Chantal´s House of Shame. Max & Joseph joined me in conversation on FilmHighlights and it was a riot of laughs and titular information
After recovering from my diarrhea, I am now gifted with constipation so attending a lengthy Living Archive meeting at Arsenal the other day was difficult to say the least. Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus is a very good facilitator, doing a good job keeping things flowing. I have to admit I am more of a Rachel Rosenberg DBD (Doing-by-Doing) personality type then someone who enjoys the discussion process with a project.
Susanne Sachsse, Eunice Martin, & kJohnny Blue shared their plans with the Living Archive project that really sound interesting, and some others in Tuesday´s large grouping expressed ideas that sounded intriguing. I plan on working with Chocolate Grinder Film Kollective to make some kind of experimental coming attraction reel that promotes Rising Stars, Falling Stars. I want to combine the art of projection with some kind of interview with Arsenal projectionists but the specifics still need to be ironed out.
Manuel Schubert of Film Highlights Internet Radio came to Rote Insel to interview me this morning. We first met up with Max Steele and Joseph Bibby for breakfast at Toughstein Café. Max from New York & Joseph from Liverpool are two delightful young artists. Max was on my Speaking From the Diaphragm talkshow installation piece in New York last year. He also publishes a lovely zine called Scorcher. He gifted me a copy of issue number 6 and a bouquet of flowers. I can´t wait to read his zine. Max is also performing Thursday at Chantal´s House of Shame. Max & Joseph joined me in conversation on FilmHighlights and it was a riot of laughs and titular information
Saturday, June 11, 2011
O WHAT A LONELY BOY
Andrew Gold died last week age 59. The singer songwriter worked with Linda Ronstadt in the 1970s and besides the hit song Lonely Boy from 1979, he wrote and sang the theme song “Thank You For Being A Friend” from the beloved TV comedy Golden Girls. I knew his sister Melanie Gold who sang on Glen Meadmore´s 1987 album Squawbread along with Iris Parker, Rupaul and I. Mr. Gold´s mother is the famous Marni Nixon(the singing voice of Natalie Wood in WestSideStory(1961) and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady(1964) and his father is movie composer Ernest Gold(Exodus).
The fabulous Susanne Sachsse treated me and film historian Marc Siegel to the Theater an der Parkaue production of Anybody Out There? An enchanting musical piece for children created by lovesexy Stefan Faupel and CHEAP´s own campus cutup Tim Blue. The work is a delightfully halfbaked conceptualizing of Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz with Herr Faupel and Mr. Blue as space aliens DorothyandAlice literally fisting a super computer named R.I.C. wonderfully voiced by Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim, and played via video by a regal looking John Blue. The videos and music by The Brothers Blue and Faupel are exceptional, and nicely complimented by Katja Schmidt´s striking costume design. Kudos to an inspiring production and set designed and built by Senol Senturk that references the movie musical The Wiz and Tron. I was hoping for a little more Wizard of Oz in the proceedings but this is a piece that is perfect for very small children- toddlers to about 6 years of age who are kinky, and love to rock out!
Went to first rehearsal with Piss Goddess, the new art band that I am playing electric guitar in as my new persona of Senta Burma along with Katja von Helldorf & Company. It feels great not being the lead singer of a musical project, and I love all the people involved in this little experiment. Something tells me that we are on the verge of creating a new rock n roll movement. Will keep you posted as things develop so keep your ears open for Piss Goddess.
Daniel Hendrickson the darling Jewish Muslim invited me to a sumptuous feast at his Neu Koelln compound where we ate Syrian meatballs cooked on his Arabic Tejine. Daniel surprised me with some out of this holy world Rote Beta & Turnip Greens with KoosKoos. Super yummsville. Leaving NeuKoelln ---Flughafen Strasse was covered with literally hundreds of Police units and what looked like the German version of the batteram, an ode to LA´s brutal police enforcement of the late 1970s and early 80s. I was happy to return to Rote Insel in one piece.
The Berlin touring season has begun in full force. Next week my darling young pretty American daughter ZacKary Drucker will be visiting and we will work on a film project together that also features Holly Woodlawn and Mother Flawless Sabrina.
Andrew Gold died last week age 59. The singer songwriter worked with Linda Ronstadt in the 1970s and besides the hit song Lonely Boy from 1979, he wrote and sang the theme song “Thank You For Being A Friend” from the beloved TV comedy Golden Girls. I knew his sister Melanie Gold who sang on Glen Meadmore´s 1987 album Squawbread along with Iris Parker, Rupaul and I. Mr. Gold´s mother is the famous Marni Nixon(the singing voice of Natalie Wood in WestSideStory(1961) and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady(1964) and his father is movie composer Ernest Gold(Exodus).
The fabulous Susanne Sachsse treated me and film historian Marc Siegel to the Theater an der Parkaue production of Anybody Out There? An enchanting musical piece for children created by lovesexy Stefan Faupel and CHEAP´s own campus cutup Tim Blue. The work is a delightfully halfbaked conceptualizing of Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz with Herr Faupel and Mr. Blue as space aliens DorothyandAlice literally fisting a super computer named R.I.C. wonderfully voiced by Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim, and played via video by a regal looking John Blue. The videos and music by The Brothers Blue and Faupel are exceptional, and nicely complimented by Katja Schmidt´s striking costume design. Kudos to an inspiring production and set designed and built by Senol Senturk that references the movie musical The Wiz and Tron. I was hoping for a little more Wizard of Oz in the proceedings but this is a piece that is perfect for very small children- toddlers to about 6 years of age who are kinky, and love to rock out!
Went to first rehearsal with Piss Goddess, the new art band that I am playing electric guitar in as my new persona of Senta Burma along with Katja von Helldorf & Company. It feels great not being the lead singer of a musical project, and I love all the people involved in this little experiment. Something tells me that we are on the verge of creating a new rock n roll movement. Will keep you posted as things develop so keep your ears open for Piss Goddess.
Daniel Hendrickson the darling Jewish Muslim invited me to a sumptuous feast at his Neu Koelln compound where we ate Syrian meatballs cooked on his Arabic Tejine. Daniel surprised me with some out of this holy world Rote Beta & Turnip Greens with KoosKoos. Super yummsville. Leaving NeuKoelln ---Flughafen Strasse was covered with literally hundreds of Police units and what looked like the German version of the batteram, an ode to LA´s brutal police enforcement of the late 1970s and early 80s. I was happy to return to Rote Insel in one piece.
The Berlin touring season has begun in full force. Next week my darling young pretty American daughter ZacKary Drucker will be visiting and we will work on a film project together that also features Holly Woodlawn and Mother Flawless Sabrina.
Thursday, June 09, 2011
COSI FANNI TUTTI FRUTTI
Had a delightful din din at Santa Maria Mexican boite with NYU Performance Studies professor Tavia Nyongo the relative of President Barrach Obama who is in Berlin till the end of August. Tavia like President Obama has a Kenyan black father and a white American mother. Tavia commissioned a painting from me for an exhibit he is planning on the notorious transgendered African America prostititute from the 19th Century Peter Sewally. It just so happens that I had written a brief outline years ago on directing a short film where I would play the so called man monster. The working title for my film was The Five Points.
Another NYU Performance Studies professor Barbara Browing sent me a copy of her novel The Correspondence Artist which i started pouring into and can´t put down. Its funny and reviting. She also sent me the manuscript for another book in the works called I`m Trying To Reach You where I make a cameo appearance. I guess my summer reading list is growing. I have also added Jane Austin´s Emma which i have read before but many years ago and the novel Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada.
Just got this cute missive from the delightful young artist and curator Elly Clarke, who is back in Berlin.
Dear Friends,
After a bit of a break since the last show due to my moving part time to the UK for a teaching job at Coventry University, I have the great pleasure in enclosing an invitation to the latest Clarke Gallery exhibition, The Mobility Project, which is taking place at Galerie Suvi Lehtinen, Novalisstrasse 7, 10115 Berlin.
Private View: Friday 24th June, 19.00.
The exhibition is then open Tuesday-Saturday 12-18.00 from 25th June - 23rd July.
It would be brilliant to see you there.
With very best wishes,
Elly
Had a delightful din din at Santa Maria Mexican boite with NYU Performance Studies professor Tavia Nyongo the relative of President Barrach Obama who is in Berlin till the end of August. Tavia like President Obama has a Kenyan black father and a white American mother. Tavia commissioned a painting from me for an exhibit he is planning on the notorious transgendered African America prostititute from the 19th Century Peter Sewally. It just so happens that I had written a brief outline years ago on directing a short film where I would play the so called man monster. The working title for my film was The Five Points.
Another NYU Performance Studies professor Barbara Browing sent me a copy of her novel The Correspondence Artist which i started pouring into and can´t put down. Its funny and reviting. She also sent me the manuscript for another book in the works called I`m Trying To Reach You where I make a cameo appearance. I guess my summer reading list is growing. I have also added Jane Austin´s Emma which i have read before but many years ago and the novel Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada.
Just got this cute missive from the delightful young artist and curator Elly Clarke, who is back in Berlin.
Dear Friends,
After a bit of a break since the last show due to my moving part time to the UK for a teaching job at Coventry University, I have the great pleasure in enclosing an invitation to the latest Clarke Gallery exhibition, The Mobility Project, which is taking place at Galerie Suvi Lehtinen, Novalisstrasse 7, 10115 Berlin.
Private View: Friday 24th June, 19.00.
The exhibition is then open Tuesday-Saturday 12-18.00 from 25th June - 23rd July.
It would be brilliant to see you there.
With very best wishes,
Elly
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
THE FLYING PATOOTIES
With this Ecoli scare here in Germany and my being the biggest Woody Allen style hypochondriac on the planet of course the Vagimule doll is in a sorry state.The news media reported that the Ecoli strain was possibly in lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers or bean sprouts.Basically they don´t have a clue.All day yesterday I was nursing my porcelain potty.No cramps or blood in the stool thank god, but I feel horrible.How I made it to Evie Ruesseler´s Queer Animal Praxis at bbooks is a miracle, but I was glad I could support Ms. Evie Europa who is one of the hottest young artist-filmmaker talents in Germany, and a true artist in every sense of the word.Her retrospectacle at bbooks was delightful.Tim Studkin and the Lady Theodora waxing theoretical ala Spinoza were delicious co-hosts and kept everything whimsical.I was laughing so much that I forgot my stomach woes.Only with my beautiful Evie are the Animals on parade-bears, unicorns, hippos and doggie doddle´s getting their joyous climb that tree Squirrel and chomp the proverbial gnut.
The Evie admirers in attendance: Marc Siegel, Susanne Sachsse, Daniel Hendrickson, Angela Melatoupolous, DJane Olga Damnitz,Alessio, Nico, Stefan, Dragon Ansler, Premel,Tavia Nyongo, Liz Rosenfeld, Jaspir Pue, Anna Muelter,Annette Frick and Wilhelm Hein.
With this Ecoli scare here in Germany and my being the biggest Woody Allen style hypochondriac on the planet of course the Vagimule doll is in a sorry state.The news media reported that the Ecoli strain was possibly in lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers or bean sprouts.Basically they don´t have a clue.All day yesterday I was nursing my porcelain potty.No cramps or blood in the stool thank god, but I feel horrible.How I made it to Evie Ruesseler´s Queer Animal Praxis at bbooks is a miracle, but I was glad I could support Ms. Evie Europa who is one of the hottest young artist-filmmaker talents in Germany, and a true artist in every sense of the word.Her retrospectacle at bbooks was delightful.Tim Studkin and the Lady Theodora waxing theoretical ala Spinoza were delicious co-hosts and kept everything whimsical.I was laughing so much that I forgot my stomach woes.Only with my beautiful Evie are the Animals on parade-bears, unicorns, hippos and doggie doddle´s getting their joyous climb that tree Squirrel and chomp the proverbial gnut.
The Evie admirers in attendance: Marc Siegel, Susanne Sachsse, Daniel Hendrickson, Angela Melatoupolous, DJane Olga Damnitz,Alessio, Nico, Stefan, Dragon Ansler, Premel,Tavia Nyongo, Liz Rosenfeld, Jaspir Pue, Anna Muelter,Annette Frick and Wilhelm Hein.
Thursday, June 02, 2011
DER GANZ NORMALE HYPE?
Ran into the S&M masked artist Master Patrick the other day while out bike riding on a lovely spring day. Master Patrick lives in the heart of the old west Gay Ghetto of Nollendorky Platz across the street from the Blue Boy Hustler Bar. I had never seen Master Patrick without his leather hooded mask that made him ebiquitisk as the doorman of Pork at Frankenstein 5000 in Kreuzkoelln. The wonderfull Master P invited me into his ground floor studio for a drink and we chittle chatted the night away having a girl-acious time about how the Nollendorf area is changing with the new recent rich Russians and how the owner of the bar Blonde which I like to refer to as Bland is trying to get rid of the boy hookers who are just desperately trying to make a living in a poor town. I find out that Master Patrick is also friends with Desmond Cadogan the hunky former black model and muse to Thierry Mugler, the artist Salome and the long time boyfriend of artist Rainer Fetting. Desmond also did duty as the lover of outrageously sexxxy Russian art photog and poet Slava Mogutin.
DJ Snax just sent me an emug with the latest news of his very interesting Berlin based career.
Here's a little update from the World Of Snax:
** First up, Random Records is proud to release Special Guest Remix this month!! This attractive package (designed by Mario Dzurila-see below) contains a 12inch vinyl labor or love, a free CD and if you pre-order, a free download!
Special Guest Remix features reworks of two tracks from Snax's last album, Special Guest Star: “Special Guest Star” remixed by Sven Brede aka Toxic Twin and “The Spark (feat. Eric D. Clark)” remixed by The Rimshooters.
Toxic Twin was the big winner in Snax’s remix contest presented by tracksandfields.com. The Rimshooters are the fresh new production team of Massimiliano Pagliara and Rotciv.
Also included are the original versions of both tracks.
But wait, there’s more! Look inside and discover a bonus CD of Snax’s entire Special Guest Star album.
Still more…Those who pre-order the vinyl at Snax’s online store receive a free extra remix of "Special Guest Star" by Damir Bojanic to download.
Wow!
** Tomorrow night (Friday June 3rd), Snax will join Lemercier and his group Lalaby for the song "A Game" at Lalaby's "Charivari" record release party at Berghain Cantine.
Info sent in a previous mail.
** Snax joins Joel Gibb and the Hidden Cameras on keyboards this summer!
Check the Cameras'web site for dates and info.
** Catch Snax live:
July 25th
Calajunco Beach Club
Regio Calabria, Italy
Septmeber 2011
Australia! (tba)
** And if you haven't yet, please visit Snax's Soundcloud page and download his brand new track "Gratitude" for free!
It's just a little thank you to friends and fans for all your love and support. :)
Guess that's all for now...see you on stage!
S N A X
***
Got together with Felix Knoke and Jan Klesse of Tenderloin to knock out some more songs. I always have a supurb time with my beautiful hunky German boys. Jan's pretty girlfriend Marie also helped with laying down some vocal tracts on two songs. Tenderloin rules.
Ran into the S&M masked artist Master Patrick the other day while out bike riding on a lovely spring day. Master Patrick lives in the heart of the old west Gay Ghetto of Nollendorky Platz across the street from the Blue Boy Hustler Bar. I had never seen Master Patrick without his leather hooded mask that made him ebiquitisk as the doorman of Pork at Frankenstein 5000 in Kreuzkoelln. The wonderfull Master P invited me into his ground floor studio for a drink and we chittle chatted the night away having a girl-acious time about how the Nollendorf area is changing with the new recent rich Russians and how the owner of the bar Blonde which I like to refer to as Bland is trying to get rid of the boy hookers who are just desperately trying to make a living in a poor town. I find out that Master Patrick is also friends with Desmond Cadogan the hunky former black model and muse to Thierry Mugler, the artist Salome and the long time boyfriend of artist Rainer Fetting. Desmond also did duty as the lover of outrageously sexxxy Russian art photog and poet Slava Mogutin.
DJ Snax just sent me an emug with the latest news of his very interesting Berlin based career.
Here's a little update from the World Of Snax:
** First up, Random Records is proud to release Special Guest Remix this month!! This attractive package (designed by Mario Dzurila-see below) contains a 12inch vinyl labor or love, a free CD and if you pre-order, a free download!
Special Guest Remix features reworks of two tracks from Snax's last album, Special Guest Star: “Special Guest Star” remixed by Sven Brede aka Toxic Twin and “The Spark (feat. Eric D. Clark)” remixed by The Rimshooters.
Toxic Twin was the big winner in Snax’s remix contest presented by tracksandfields.com. The Rimshooters are the fresh new production team of Massimiliano Pagliara and Rotciv.
Also included are the original versions of both tracks.
But wait, there’s more! Look inside and discover a bonus CD of Snax’s entire Special Guest Star album.
Still more…Those who pre-order the vinyl at Snax’s online store receive a free extra remix of "Special Guest Star" by Damir Bojanic to download.
Wow!
** Tomorrow night (Friday June 3rd), Snax will join Lemercier and his group Lalaby for the song "A Game" at Lalaby's "Charivari" record release party at Berghain Cantine.
Info sent in a previous mail.
** Snax joins Joel Gibb and the Hidden Cameras on keyboards this summer!
Check the Cameras'web site for dates and info.
** Catch Snax live:
July 25th
Calajunco Beach Club
Regio Calabria, Italy
Septmeber 2011
Australia! (tba)
** And if you haven't yet, please visit Snax's Soundcloud page and download his brand new track "Gratitude" for free!
It's just a little thank you to friends and fans for all your love and support. :)
Guess that's all for now...see you on stage!
S N A X
***
Got together with Felix Knoke and Jan Klesse of Tenderloin to knock out some more songs. I always have a supurb time with my beautiful hunky German boys. Jan's pretty girlfriend Marie also helped with laying down some vocal tracts on two songs. Tenderloin rules.
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
ANOREXIA IS THE SODIUM OF THE MASSES
The tabloid media has been barreling down on me because of my relationship with Ronan Farrow the beautiful blondine son of actress Mia Farrow and director/writer Woody Allen.Ronan use to go by the name of Satchel Allen, "Satchel" being the name his father gave him. But when the Woodman broke up with Ms. Farrow to shack up with her adopted daughter Ronan and the other children started to use their mother's surname. Ms. Farrow's mother is the MGM actress Maureen O'Sullivan who starred in the Tarzan series of the 1930s and 40s. Ms. Farrow's father is legendary director John Farrow. Mia Farrow is Hollywood nobility and has been a star since she was a teenager featured in the nitetime TV soap opera Peyton Place. Mia Farrow has been married to such diverse men as Frank Sinatra and Andre Previn.
Thank god I live in Germany where it’s a lot harder for the American media to get ahold of me. So far all the yellow journalists can do is email my booking agent and webmaster as they don’t have my personal email or an address to reach me. As of last week the papparazi is staking out the CHEAP kollective offices in Neu Koelln in hopes of catching me going in or out. But they are so stupid in that they only know what I look like in drag. As a boy I can walk right past them and they don’t even recognize me.
The film i collaborated on with the great feminist filmmaker and artist supreme Evie Europa Ruessler is finally making it premiera at bbooks on Monday June 6th 8pm. Evie is calling the evening “Queer Animal Praxis” which is such a cool name. The event will features some of her short films followed by a theory and textual presentation by Tim Studkin and Theodora. b_books is located at Lübbener Str. 14, in the street triangle of Skalitzer -, Wrangel- and Lübbener Str., glass-front to street.
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My sexy young Italian friend Davide Grassi and his beautiful wife Marcela Okretic have an exhibition up as part of the Venice Biennale.Here is the info below for all you hot intercontinental types.
Italian Institute of Culture in Slovenia
Breg 12 , Ljubljana
1 June – 31 August 2011
Opening: 1 June 2011 at 7 pm
and
The Italian Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale
Arsenale, Venice
4 June – 27 November 2011
The unpublished work Generalitá by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša – conceived in September 2007, immediately after the legal name change of the 3 Slovenian artists into Janez Janša (the name of the then economic-liberal and conservative Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia) – will be on display at the Italian Institute of Culture in Slovenia and at the Italian Pavilion as part of an event curated by Vittorio Sgarbi within the frame of the 54th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale for the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Unified Italy.
The event has been realised by the coordinator of the Italian Institutes of Culture Francesca Valente, for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Pavilion thanks to a joint initiative of the Direzione Generale per la Promozione del Sistema Paese, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Italian Ministry of Culture.
Bilingual catalogue (ITA/ENG) edited by Skirŕ available at the Venice Biennale.
On 1 June 2011, during the opening ceremony at the Italian Institute of Culture in Slovenia, the preview of the new work Ceci n’est pas Janez Janša by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša will be screened. The premiere of this work will take place in the fall at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina at the exhibition Un-proper Names curated by Miško Šuvaković.
Images available for free download at:
www.aksioma.org/press/generalita_01.zip
www.aksioma.org/press/generalita_02.zip
www.aksioma.org/press/generalita_03.zip
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Generalitá and Ceci n’est pas Janez Janša by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša
have been produced by
Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2011
www.aksioma.org
With the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the City of Ljubljana – Department of Culture and the Italian Institute of Culture in Slovenia.
Executive Producers: Marcela Okretič and Janez Janša
Editing: Jurij Moškon
Thanks: Monica Zecca
Contact:
Marcela Okretič
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Neubergerjeva 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
tel.: + 386 – (0)590 - 54360
gsm: + 386 – (0)41 - 250 830
e-mail: aksioma4@siol.net
www.aksioma.org
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My young, and inventive NYU student Joey Tang is curating a two part show that takes place in New York and LA. See the info below:
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Leverage
Four New York-based artists, will create distinct but related works for The Notary Public, New York and Workspace, Los Angeles.
SONJA ENGELHARDT
LUKE STETTNER
GUSTABO VELAZQUEZ
CLAUDIA WEBER
The Notary Public
Opening: Sat June 4th, 5-7pm
1289 Madison Ave, #3A, NY
thenotarypublic.tumblr.com
Workspace
Opening: Sun June 12th, 3-7pm
2601 Pasadena Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90031
workspace2601.com
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A pair of scissors is one way.
A wheelbarrow another.
Also a human mandible.
the mind too….
exert a large force over a small distance at one end by exerting only a small force over a greater distance at the other.
influence the other side to move closer to the negotiating position.
pull away from each other with an equal and opposite force. the arms do not originate this force alone, but are assisted by tension in trunk musculature, through body weight and by momentum.
borrow money, buy fixed assets, use derivatives, multiply gains and losses.
identifying those observations which have a large effect on the outcome of fitting regression models.
attempting to block a kick, jumps off a teammate to attain a better position.
Volume and distance become leverage.
The Notary Public = 192” long x 135” wide = 180 square feet
Workspace = 216” long x 120” wide = 180 square feet
But maybe only a mental projection of where we are and will be standing.
We leverage our ways.
We have to.
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Sonja Engelhardt - * 1975 in Mönchengladbach, Germany.
Luke Stettner's first solo exhibition, The Fold, opened at Stene Projects in Stockholm, Sweden, and his solo project for the Present/Future prize opened in Torino, Italy, both in 2010. He will has his first solo exhibition in New York in September 2011 at Kate Werble Gallery. Luke is an editor of thehighlights.org, an online arts journal dedicated to artists writings and web-based projects.
Gustabo Velazquez was born in Upland, California in 1971. He received his MFA from New York University in 2010.
Claudia Weber was born in Germany where she received her MFA from the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Offenbach. She has had solo exhibitions in Berlin, Frankfurt and Vienna, as well as at Momenta Art and currently at WaveHill in New York. In September she will be featured in a solo exhibition at Vox Populi, Philadelphia. Her work has been included in recent group shows at White Columns, New York; Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York; Croxhapox, Ghent, and the Contemporary Art Center, Bretigny, France.
The tabloid media has been barreling down on me because of my relationship with Ronan Farrow the beautiful blondine son of actress Mia Farrow and director/writer Woody Allen.Ronan use to go by the name of Satchel Allen, "Satchel" being the name his father gave him. But when the Woodman broke up with Ms. Farrow to shack up with her adopted daughter Ronan and the other children started to use their mother's surname. Ms. Farrow's mother is the MGM actress Maureen O'Sullivan who starred in the Tarzan series of the 1930s and 40s. Ms. Farrow's father is legendary director John Farrow. Mia Farrow is Hollywood nobility and has been a star since she was a teenager featured in the nitetime TV soap opera Peyton Place. Mia Farrow has been married to such diverse men as Frank Sinatra and Andre Previn.
Thank god I live in Germany where it’s a lot harder for the American media to get ahold of me. So far all the yellow journalists can do is email my booking agent and webmaster as they don’t have my personal email or an address to reach me. As of last week the papparazi is staking out the CHEAP kollective offices in Neu Koelln in hopes of catching me going in or out. But they are so stupid in that they only know what I look like in drag. As a boy I can walk right past them and they don’t even recognize me.
The film i collaborated on with the great feminist filmmaker and artist supreme Evie Europa Ruessler is finally making it premiera at bbooks on Monday June 6th 8pm. Evie is calling the evening “Queer Animal Praxis” which is such a cool name. The event will features some of her short films followed by a theory and textual presentation by Tim Studkin and Theodora. b_books is located at Lübbener Str. 14, in the street triangle of Skalitzer -, Wrangel- and Lübbener Str., glass-front to street.
***
My sexy young Italian friend Davide Grassi and his beautiful wife Marcela Okretic have an exhibition up as part of the Venice Biennale.Here is the info below for all you hot intercontinental types.
Italian Institute of Culture in Slovenia
Breg 12 , Ljubljana
1 June – 31 August 2011
Opening: 1 June 2011 at 7 pm
and
The Italian Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale
Arsenale, Venice
4 June – 27 November 2011
The unpublished work Generalitá by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša – conceived in September 2007, immediately after the legal name change of the 3 Slovenian artists into Janez Janša (the name of the then economic-liberal and conservative Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia) – will be on display at the Italian Institute of Culture in Slovenia and at the Italian Pavilion as part of an event curated by Vittorio Sgarbi within the frame of the 54th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale for the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Unified Italy.
The event has been realised by the coordinator of the Italian Institutes of Culture Francesca Valente, for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Pavilion thanks to a joint initiative of the Direzione Generale per la Promozione del Sistema Paese, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Italian Ministry of Culture.
Bilingual catalogue (ITA/ENG) edited by Skirŕ available at the Venice Biennale.
On 1 June 2011, during the opening ceremony at the Italian Institute of Culture in Slovenia, the preview of the new work Ceci n’est pas Janez Janša by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša will be screened. The premiere of this work will take place in the fall at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina at the exhibition Un-proper Names curated by Miško Šuvaković.
Images available for free download at:
www.aksioma.org/press/generalita_01.zip
www.aksioma.org/press/generalita_02.zip
www.aksioma.org/press/generalita_03.zip
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Generalitá and Ceci n’est pas Janez Janša by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša
have been produced by
Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2011
www.aksioma.org
With the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the City of Ljubljana – Department of Culture and the Italian Institute of Culture in Slovenia.
Executive Producers: Marcela Okretič and Janez Janša
Editing: Jurij Moškon
Thanks: Monica Zecca
Contact:
Marcela Okretič
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Neubergerjeva 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
tel.: + 386 – (0)590 - 54360
gsm: + 386 – (0)41 - 250 830
e-mail: aksioma4@siol.net
www.aksioma.org
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My young, and inventive NYU student Joey Tang is curating a two part show that takes place in New York and LA. See the info below:
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Leverage
Four New York-based artists, will create distinct but related works for The Notary Public, New York and Workspace, Los Angeles.
SONJA ENGELHARDT
LUKE STETTNER
GUSTABO VELAZQUEZ
CLAUDIA WEBER
The Notary Public
Opening: Sat June 4th, 5-7pm
1289 Madison Ave, #3A, NY
thenotarypublic.tumblr.com
Workspace
Opening: Sun June 12th, 3-7pm
2601 Pasadena Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90031
workspace2601.com
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A pair of scissors is one way.
A wheelbarrow another.
Also a human mandible.
the mind too….
exert a large force over a small distance at one end by exerting only a small force over a greater distance at the other.
influence the other side to move closer to the negotiating position.
pull away from each other with an equal and opposite force. the arms do not originate this force alone, but are assisted by tension in trunk musculature, through body weight and by momentum.
borrow money, buy fixed assets, use derivatives, multiply gains and losses.
identifying those observations which have a large effect on the outcome of fitting regression models.
attempting to block a kick, jumps off a teammate to attain a better position.
Volume and distance become leverage.
The Notary Public = 192” long x 135” wide = 180 square feet
Workspace = 216” long x 120” wide = 180 square feet
But maybe only a mental projection of where we are and will be standing.
We leverage our ways.
We have to.
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Sonja Engelhardt - * 1975 in Mönchengladbach, Germany.
Luke Stettner's first solo exhibition, The Fold, opened at Stene Projects in Stockholm, Sweden, and his solo project for the Present/Future prize opened in Torino, Italy, both in 2010. He will has his first solo exhibition in New York in September 2011 at Kate Werble Gallery. Luke is an editor of thehighlights.org, an online arts journal dedicated to artists writings and web-based projects.
Gustabo Velazquez was born in Upland, California in 1971. He received his MFA from New York University in 2010.
Claudia Weber was born in Germany where she received her MFA from the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Offenbach. She has had solo exhibitions in Berlin, Frankfurt and Vienna, as well as at Momenta Art and currently at WaveHill in New York. In September she will be featured in a solo exhibition at Vox Populi, Philadelphia. Her work has been included in recent group shows at White Columns, New York; Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York; Croxhapox, Ghent, and the Contemporary Art Center, Bretigny, France.
Sunday, May 29, 2011
REJUVENATE WITH KAREN CARPENTER
Rising Stars, Falling Stars Hans Richter tribute last night at Arsenal Institute fur film und video kunst was a blast. The Blue Bros Tim & kJohnny played their little hearts out with great virtuosity, and steamheat was rising from their cello and violin stabbings. And what an audience of international dignataries with a command appearance by the great Lisa Steele(Birthday Suit) and Kim Tomczak the founders of Toronto’s famous Vtape. Lisa and Kim are filled with lovesexxxy Canuckian charms galore. Lisa even had the dearly departed and very much missed artist Will Munroe(Club Vaseline) and Karen Lundgren as students of hers at York University. Miss Karen aka: Kara Hunger is now one of my LA children who I’ve adored since first meeting her when she moved to Los Angeles for grad school at Cal Arts where Ron Athey and I were teaching a block seminar. The vivacious Ms. Steele and Mr. Tomczak are good friends with Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, who was looking very bright and girlish chatting with artist Maggie Schneider, personable filmmaker and curator Angela Melitopolous, prima ballerina Trixi Cordua, Manuel Schubert of Filmhighlights Internet Radio Magazine and the Portoguese artist Elsa. Little Alex of the Chocolate Grinder Filmkollective styled my wardrobe for the evening and designed my hair and make-up, and I must say I looked ravishing. Alex hails from Greece and is Greek passive, and this evening met a Greek active hunk from his hometown named Jorgos who is the boyfriend of the beautiful Nazli Kilerci who is collaborating with Susanne Sachsse and I on The Communist Bigamist which goes into rehearsal in July. The fearless leader of kollective CHEAP Ms. Sachsse was resplendid as always with her beau film historian Marc Siegel and gorgeous daughter Salome Gersh with her co-star Zofia from the Yael Bertran installation film that will be part of the Polish Pavillion at the Venice Biennale. Also seen: Australian fagademic Damon Young with Anand his cute Malgaysian scientist pal from Harvard and Rising Stars virgins DJ Snax with his hot humpy young boyfriend.
I don’t know what possessed me to go to the closing night of The Wilde Duck at Praeter, but with Little Alex we made the trek to Casting Couch Allee. The akshunist installation was mobbed by drunken Saturday nite revellers who were not getting it for the most part. Marc Siegel and Susanne Sachsse braved the binge drinking hordes which I couldn’t take so I left. Here is Marc’s report:
Hey Ms. D RSFS was a pleasure last night! you looked splendid. Susi and I did stay at the Wilde Duck to the bitter end last night-until 5am. But Vegard never showed us his thick meat again and instead the irritating audience got drunker and louder and stupider throughout the night, so that at the end, before they even finished the final scene, Vegard simply closed the curtains on the windows and the lights went on and it was over. But before hand we saw some amazing scenes.
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Jeffreyland Hilbert is one of the funniest, most talented and sexiest men i know. While everyone else in Los Angeles ages he gets younger and younger looking. I don´t know what his secret is. Perhaps it has something to do with coming from Idaho.
When he found out about my little medical procedure he sent me these words of encouragement:
Ladybird,
It’s not really a big deal. I had one about 5 or 6 years ago. They put you under into a “twilight sleep” but you are awake during the procedure – at least I was. It’s better to take this precautionary step now.
It really is a fairly routine procedure and I’m sure most of your male friends have already done it.
Maybe they will find buried treasure in your culo and you can retire.
Xoxox
Rising Stars, Falling Stars Hans Richter tribute last night at Arsenal Institute fur film und video kunst was a blast. The Blue Bros Tim & kJohnny played their little hearts out with great virtuosity, and steamheat was rising from their cello and violin stabbings. And what an audience of international dignataries with a command appearance by the great Lisa Steele(Birthday Suit) and Kim Tomczak the founders of Toronto’s famous Vtape. Lisa and Kim are filled with lovesexxxy Canuckian charms galore. Lisa even had the dearly departed and very much missed artist Will Munroe(Club Vaseline) and Karen Lundgren as students of hers at York University. Miss Karen aka: Kara Hunger is now one of my LA children who I’ve adored since first meeting her when she moved to Los Angeles for grad school at Cal Arts where Ron Athey and I were teaching a block seminar. The vivacious Ms. Steele and Mr. Tomczak are good friends with Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, who was looking very bright and girlish chatting with artist Maggie Schneider, personable filmmaker and curator Angela Melitopolous, prima ballerina Trixi Cordua, Manuel Schubert of Filmhighlights Internet Radio Magazine and the Portoguese artist Elsa. Little Alex of the Chocolate Grinder Filmkollective styled my wardrobe for the evening and designed my hair and make-up, and I must say I looked ravishing. Alex hails from Greece and is Greek passive, and this evening met a Greek active hunk from his hometown named Jorgos who is the boyfriend of the beautiful Nazli Kilerci who is collaborating with Susanne Sachsse and I on The Communist Bigamist which goes into rehearsal in July. The fearless leader of kollective CHEAP Ms. Sachsse was resplendid as always with her beau film historian Marc Siegel and gorgeous daughter Salome Gersh with her co-star Zofia from the Yael Bertran installation film that will be part of the Polish Pavillion at the Venice Biennale. Also seen: Australian fagademic Damon Young with Anand his cute Malgaysian scientist pal from Harvard and Rising Stars virgins DJ Snax with his hot humpy young boyfriend.
I don’t know what possessed me to go to the closing night of The Wilde Duck at Praeter, but with Little Alex we made the trek to Casting Couch Allee. The akshunist installation was mobbed by drunken Saturday nite revellers who were not getting it for the most part. Marc Siegel and Susanne Sachsse braved the binge drinking hordes which I couldn’t take so I left. Here is Marc’s report:
Hey Ms. D RSFS was a pleasure last night! you looked splendid. Susi and I did stay at the Wilde Duck to the bitter end last night-until 5am. But Vegard never showed us his thick meat again and instead the irritating audience got drunker and louder and stupider throughout the night, so that at the end, before they even finished the final scene, Vegard simply closed the curtains on the windows and the lights went on and it was over. But before hand we saw some amazing scenes.
***
Jeffreyland Hilbert is one of the funniest, most talented and sexiest men i know. While everyone else in Los Angeles ages he gets younger and younger looking. I don´t know what his secret is. Perhaps it has something to do with coming from Idaho.
When he found out about my little medical procedure he sent me these words of encouragement:
Ladybird,
It’s not really a big deal. I had one about 5 or 6 years ago. They put you under into a “twilight sleep” but you are awake during the procedure – at least I was. It’s better to take this precautionary step now.
It really is a fairly routine procedure and I’m sure most of your male friends have already done it.
Maybe they will find buried treasure in your culo and you can retire.
Xoxox
Friday, May 27, 2011
SCHWEINEFLEISCH BAUCHTANZ
That hilarious Love Camel aka Andrea Novarin just said i should rename my blog in honor of my colonoscopy to Speaking From the Colon. What a card she is. Got lovely emails from big daddy Ron Athey in London, Dr. Jennifer Doyle, Jeffreyland Hilbert, Glen Belverio from Singapore and many others to numerous to mention wishing me well and giving me advice about the colonoscopy procedure. I hate hospitals and going to the doctor. I remember Andy Warhol going to the hospital for a very minor procedure which led to his untimely demise.
The other day i had a sweet breakfast in the Mehringdamn Corridor at the lovely Atlantic Cafe with the handsomest man in Europe Ulrich Ziemons who is off to Chicago and San Francisco where he is working on a project about the legendary underground filmmaker George Kuchar. I connected Uli with my webmaster Larry Bob, and i think they will love each other when Uli gets to the Bay Area. Larry is like a walking encyclopedia and has a German background and can speak fluent Deutsch.
Before starting my fasting and cleansing for my little operation I met with this German man named Holger who has his own private museum devoted to all things Tony Ward. Talk about obsessive. The small museum has photos, sculptures and even a Tony Ward diarama. I was shocked to see an entire wallpaper section of the museum with a photo of Tony that features me from an old magazine in the 80s that we modeled for called In Style. Albert Sanchez took the picture and it was a recreation of a painting by Paul Cadmus. Tony was quite young and very muscular and the location of the photo was the parking lot of the J.J. Newberry's on Hollywood Blvd. I have to admit that HOlger did a good job in displaying this photo with the repetition he uses. I even signed several different copies of Hustler White that he has. Next time you're in Berlin go to the Tony Ward Museum, talk about an adventure off the beaten path.
Someone sent me a link to a YouTube video by the late great Nelson Sullivan that featured Glen Meadmore, Rupaul and I performing "No Money. No Honey" at the Pyramid Club in New York back in the 1980s. I was such a skinny, young bitch back in those days, and the first black queen to wear the platinum blonde look. Rupaul was still in his gritty Starbooty stage. During the performance Glen and I assault a cute young boy which really shocked the New York crowd. I can remember Mommy George Byron admonishing me in her imperial tone, "We don't do that in New York!" In the backstage footage I am handing out old copies of Fertile La Toyah Jackson Magazine to Larry T, LaHoma Van Zandt,Taboo, Santiago aka Hag and Hapi Phace who was the hostess of that evening at The Pyramid. Later in the evening Dean Johnson gave Glen and I serious shade because he wasn't having two queens taller then he was. The only one missing that particular evening was Lady Bunny.
That hilarious Love Camel aka Andrea Novarin just said i should rename my blog in honor of my colonoscopy to Speaking From the Colon. What a card she is. Got lovely emails from big daddy Ron Athey in London, Dr. Jennifer Doyle, Jeffreyland Hilbert, Glen Belverio from Singapore and many others to numerous to mention wishing me well and giving me advice about the colonoscopy procedure. I hate hospitals and going to the doctor. I remember Andy Warhol going to the hospital for a very minor procedure which led to his untimely demise.
The other day i had a sweet breakfast in the Mehringdamn Corridor at the lovely Atlantic Cafe with the handsomest man in Europe Ulrich Ziemons who is off to Chicago and San Francisco where he is working on a project about the legendary underground filmmaker George Kuchar. I connected Uli with my webmaster Larry Bob, and i think they will love each other when Uli gets to the Bay Area. Larry is like a walking encyclopedia and has a German background and can speak fluent Deutsch.
Before starting my fasting and cleansing for my little operation I met with this German man named Holger who has his own private museum devoted to all things Tony Ward. Talk about obsessive. The small museum has photos, sculptures and even a Tony Ward diarama. I was shocked to see an entire wallpaper section of the museum with a photo of Tony that features me from an old magazine in the 80s that we modeled for called In Style. Albert Sanchez took the picture and it was a recreation of a painting by Paul Cadmus. Tony was quite young and very muscular and the location of the photo was the parking lot of the J.J. Newberry's on Hollywood Blvd. I have to admit that HOlger did a good job in displaying this photo with the repetition he uses. I even signed several different copies of Hustler White that he has. Next time you're in Berlin go to the Tony Ward Museum, talk about an adventure off the beaten path.
Someone sent me a link to a YouTube video by the late great Nelson Sullivan that featured Glen Meadmore, Rupaul and I performing "No Money. No Honey" at the Pyramid Club in New York back in the 1980s. I was such a skinny, young bitch back in those days, and the first black queen to wear the platinum blonde look. Rupaul was still in his gritty Starbooty stage. During the performance Glen and I assault a cute young boy which really shocked the New York crowd. I can remember Mommy George Byron admonishing me in her imperial tone, "We don't do that in New York!" In the backstage footage I am handing out old copies of Fertile La Toyah Jackson Magazine to Larry T, LaHoma Van Zandt,Taboo, Santiago aka Hag and Hapi Phace who was the hostess of that evening at The Pyramid. Later in the evening Dean Johnson gave Glen and I serious shade because he wasn't having two queens taller then he was. The only one missing that particular evening was Lady Bunny.
MOEGLICHE BESCHWERDEN NACH DER SEDLERUNG
Just got back from the hospital and my colonoscopy. The prep tonic that you have to take the day before is disgusting.The vanilla flavouring makes it worse.Yuk. The procedure didnt take that long.I didnt even realize I had been put to sleep when i was waking up. Joel Gibb the baby diaper of the Hidden Cameras and his sweet boyfriend Enrico who is a physiotherapist came and fetched me from the klinik. Joel made me a nice little luncheon with carrot and ginger soup as i can't eat solids. Joel and I went had breakfast together Thursday morning and went to see the Wilde Duck at Praeter. We had seen it also on Wednesday night after a lovely dinner with Judy LaBruce and Susanne Sachsse at Azul in Kreuzeberg. Wednesday at The Wilde Duck there were too many people so we grabbed a late nite snack at the Biergarten where i was served by the hunkiest bearded boy with huge hands and dorky glasses. What a pretty creature. I'd love to turn this kid into my new contemporary temporary husband.
Make sure you listen to my internet radio interview with Manuel Schubert of FilmHighlights MultiCult FM. Below is the link if i copy it correctly.
Rising Stars Falling Stars - with Vaginal Davis - May 2011 by filmanzeiger
Just got back from the hospital and my colonoscopy. The prep tonic that you have to take the day before is disgusting.The vanilla flavouring makes it worse.Yuk. The procedure didnt take that long.I didnt even realize I had been put to sleep when i was waking up. Joel Gibb the baby diaper of the Hidden Cameras and his sweet boyfriend Enrico who is a physiotherapist came and fetched me from the klinik. Joel made me a nice little luncheon with carrot and ginger soup as i can't eat solids. Joel and I went had breakfast together Thursday morning and went to see the Wilde Duck at Praeter. We had seen it also on Wednesday night after a lovely dinner with Judy LaBruce and Susanne Sachsse at Azul in Kreuzeberg. Wednesday at The Wilde Duck there were too many people so we grabbed a late nite snack at the Biergarten where i was served by the hunkiest bearded boy with huge hands and dorky glasses. What a pretty creature. I'd love to turn this kid into my new contemporary temporary husband.
Make sure you listen to my internet radio interview with Manuel Schubert of FilmHighlights MultiCult FM. Below is the link if i copy it correctly.
Rising Stars Falling Stars - with Vaginal Davis - May 2011 by filmanzeiger
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
EL CHAPINATOR
That’s what the press in Guatamala is calling the bastard child of The Arnold and his former housekeeper. Looks like Arnold’s children are dropping his surname and using their mother’s name of Shriver in solidarity with her. Well those in the know have given me credit for being the first person to report his infedelities with both women and men. When he was a Venice, CA bodybuilder he was definitely gay for pay to a lot of well-to-do and prominent trolls in Hollywood. That’s how he worked his way into a film career in the first place, like everybody else in LaLaland.
Ran into the sweet and lovely young California scholar Alena Williams the other day. Alena use to be girlfriends with Senol Senturk who has collaborated with me on many CHEAP kollective projects in Berlin. Alena is working on her Phd here in Berlin but she grew up in Valencia, California near Cal Arts went to undergrad at Columbia University and grad school at Harvard. She is a very personable and stylish young lady and has been living in Berlin since 2005 sharing a flat in Kreuzberg with artist/filmmaker Angela Melitoupolous. Gabbing on the street with Alena made me late for dinner at 8 with Katja von Hellsdorf aka Katja Maya who was one of my students from Weissensee Art Academy who I am collaborating on a new music art project in the summer. The dinner meeting went really well and I am thrilled to be doing this project.
Felix Knoke who is in my band Tenderloin and writes for Der Spiegel Online accompanied me to the DRK Klinik in Charlottenberg this afternoon. I was so lucky to have handsome Felix by my side. Friday I will have a colonoscopy procedure performed, which means I will drink some potion that will clean me out completely like an enema, I also have to fast for 24 hours so they can stick a giant dildo TV camera up my tight little astragal. Not looking forward to this in the slightest unless the doctor on Friday is extremely handsome and well built, which I doubt will be the case. Wish me pluck that they don’t find an Alien I or II monster inhabiting my lower intestines or something equally repulsive or troublesome. Please send me some good wishes and healing energies.
Had a wonderful dinner with Djane Olga Damnitz at the Mexican boite Santa Maria in Kreuzberg. Olga is working on a new movie with the German artist/filmmaker Jan Peter Hammer and his Mexican born girlfriend Anna who is writing the scenario. This new film Of Monarchs and Men is a companion piece to his other film The Anarchists Banker. Of Monarchs and Men will star the international star Sarita Choudry of Mississippi Masala and Felix Enslin, the academic son of the RAF’s Gundrin Enslin.
Just received this short story from Hector Martinez in Los Angeles. He wrote it for some friend of his who is collecting an anthology of texts written by gay men about straight men. Hector will read his text aloud at an event, the first time this insurance executive will being doing something like this. I have been encouraging Hector in the creative arena since he was a teenager and its nice to see him taking root and blossoming.
In the 5th grade, this lil Vato was already being called a sissy and most of my elementary buds were keeping their distance from me. In the 6th grade I exploded with fantastic acne formations that led to more distance between me and the regular boys. By the 7th grade I was dealt with the most severe acne-- dried blood, purple lumps that led to tons of name calling. My dude friends that I grew up with would talk to me in class, but most would never have anything to do with me outside of class. I knew and understood the rules, I still recognize and respect those rules.
Petey was a hot blond haired blue eyed boy with a hot ass, and I was in love with him since the 3rd grade. I also knew I wanted to eat his ass! He lived by me and was a white cholo/gangster dude living in South Gate when white people still resided in this lower middleclass south LA suburb. He was absolutely beyond hot!
I was walking home from Jr High, when he rode up behind me on his black Mongoose. He asked me if I was walking home, I said, yes, (it was far), he asked me why I was a Sissy! I said, I wasn't. He asked what was wrong with my face. I rambled off the list of failed medicine and four doctor’s that I had seen.
He asked if I wanted a ride home. I said, where do I sit? He had a boom box tied to the handle bars. He said, “stand on the back wheel stupid.” So I did. He told me to hold on, I put my hands on his shoulders, he said, “You are going to fall stupid”. He put my hands under his arms. I held on to him and he turned his boom box on. “Wishing on A Star” blares out of it. I held on and he rode his bike, super fast, he was jumping off and on the sidewalk, all the way down Southern Ave, from Otis to State Street. I was holding him tightly, touching his body and smelling his 7th grade body odor. I was staring at his gold peach fuzz trail down his lower back and into his white boxers. I was closing my eyes imagining that I was just as pretty as he was. I was hoping that we were friends and I was in love with him in real life. The song ended and he stopped to rewind the cassette and played it again. I took a sneak sniff of my hands that reaked of his pits! I was so happy, but I didn't want him to see me smile, he kept telling me, hold on, stupid! I was holding on, my chin hit his white t-shirt and left a small blood mark on it. I was always bleeding from somewhere on my face. I looked at the stain and closed my eyes. I kept hearing every lyric from the song in slow motion as he sang along and peddled.
As we hit State Street, we had to make a left and pass thru some ghetto Apartments. I knew that we would possibly see his homies, Gibby, Angel and Ruben. All of whom I knew and grew up with and all of them terrorized me. We made a left on State Street and Petey jumped onto the curb as we crossed the street. When we landed he pushed his body back and knocked me off the bike. I fell on the side walk, he took off, I cleaned myself off and crossed to the opposite side of the street. I did not want to pass by Petey and his homies on the same side of the street.
As I passed by them on the opposite side of the street, they all started calling me the usual names, spitting loogies at me, and making girly gestures, but it didn't matter. In the background was Petey’s boom box playing “Wishing on a Star” once again.
I made it home, locked myself in the bathroom and jacked off while smelling my hands with Petey’s arm pit smell on them thinking about his light peach fuzz trail.
The song “Wising on a Star” I’ve held in high esteem in my music collection ever since that day. I have fucked young men to that song. I had made pacts with the Devil with that song, despite all my semen offerings to Satan that punk ass Beelzebub motherfucker never came thru to rid me of the acne that plagued me well into my days in the United States Marines.
So there you have it! I wish I had been smart enuf to have elevated myself from mere ugly fucked up skin kid, to the respectable status of a noble young monster.
That’s what the press in Guatamala is calling the bastard child of The Arnold and his former housekeeper. Looks like Arnold’s children are dropping his surname and using their mother’s name of Shriver in solidarity with her. Well those in the know have given me credit for being the first person to report his infedelities with both women and men. When he was a Venice, CA bodybuilder he was definitely gay for pay to a lot of well-to-do and prominent trolls in Hollywood. That’s how he worked his way into a film career in the first place, like everybody else in LaLaland.
Ran into the sweet and lovely young California scholar Alena Williams the other day. Alena use to be girlfriends with Senol Senturk who has collaborated with me on many CHEAP kollective projects in Berlin. Alena is working on her Phd here in Berlin but she grew up in Valencia, California near Cal Arts went to undergrad at Columbia University and grad school at Harvard. She is a very personable and stylish young lady and has been living in Berlin since 2005 sharing a flat in Kreuzberg with artist/filmmaker Angela Melitoupolous. Gabbing on the street with Alena made me late for dinner at 8 with Katja von Hellsdorf aka Katja Maya who was one of my students from Weissensee Art Academy who I am collaborating on a new music art project in the summer. The dinner meeting went really well and I am thrilled to be doing this project.
Felix Knoke who is in my band Tenderloin and writes for Der Spiegel Online accompanied me to the DRK Klinik in Charlottenberg this afternoon. I was so lucky to have handsome Felix by my side. Friday I will have a colonoscopy procedure performed, which means I will drink some potion that will clean me out completely like an enema, I also have to fast for 24 hours so they can stick a giant dildo TV camera up my tight little astragal. Not looking forward to this in the slightest unless the doctor on Friday is extremely handsome and well built, which I doubt will be the case. Wish me pluck that they don’t find an Alien I or II monster inhabiting my lower intestines or something equally repulsive or troublesome. Please send me some good wishes and healing energies.
Had a wonderful dinner with Djane Olga Damnitz at the Mexican boite Santa Maria in Kreuzberg. Olga is working on a new movie with the German artist/filmmaker Jan Peter Hammer and his Mexican born girlfriend Anna who is writing the scenario. This new film Of Monarchs and Men is a companion piece to his other film The Anarchists Banker. Of Monarchs and Men will star the international star Sarita Choudry of Mississippi Masala and Felix Enslin, the academic son of the RAF’s Gundrin Enslin.
Just received this short story from Hector Martinez in Los Angeles. He wrote it for some friend of his who is collecting an anthology of texts written by gay men about straight men. Hector will read his text aloud at an event, the first time this insurance executive will being doing something like this. I have been encouraging Hector in the creative arena since he was a teenager and its nice to see him taking root and blossoming.
In the 5th grade, this lil Vato was already being called a sissy and most of my elementary buds were keeping their distance from me. In the 6th grade I exploded with fantastic acne formations that led to more distance between me and the regular boys. By the 7th grade I was dealt with the most severe acne-- dried blood, purple lumps that led to tons of name calling. My dude friends that I grew up with would talk to me in class, but most would never have anything to do with me outside of class. I knew and understood the rules, I still recognize and respect those rules.
Petey was a hot blond haired blue eyed boy with a hot ass, and I was in love with him since the 3rd grade. I also knew I wanted to eat his ass! He lived by me and was a white cholo/gangster dude living in South Gate when white people still resided in this lower middleclass south LA suburb. He was absolutely beyond hot!
I was walking home from Jr High, when he rode up behind me on his black Mongoose. He asked me if I was walking home, I said, yes, (it was far), he asked me why I was a Sissy! I said, I wasn't. He asked what was wrong with my face. I rambled off the list of failed medicine and four doctor’s that I had seen.
He asked if I wanted a ride home. I said, where do I sit? He had a boom box tied to the handle bars. He said, “stand on the back wheel stupid.” So I did. He told me to hold on, I put my hands on his shoulders, he said, “You are going to fall stupid”. He put my hands under his arms. I held on to him and he turned his boom box on. “Wishing on A Star” blares out of it. I held on and he rode his bike, super fast, he was jumping off and on the sidewalk, all the way down Southern Ave, from Otis to State Street. I was holding him tightly, touching his body and smelling his 7th grade body odor. I was staring at his gold peach fuzz trail down his lower back and into his white boxers. I was closing my eyes imagining that I was just as pretty as he was. I was hoping that we were friends and I was in love with him in real life. The song ended and he stopped to rewind the cassette and played it again. I took a sneak sniff of my hands that reaked of his pits! I was so happy, but I didn't want him to see me smile, he kept telling me, hold on, stupid! I was holding on, my chin hit his white t-shirt and left a small blood mark on it. I was always bleeding from somewhere on my face. I looked at the stain and closed my eyes. I kept hearing every lyric from the song in slow motion as he sang along and peddled.
As we hit State Street, we had to make a left and pass thru some ghetto Apartments. I knew that we would possibly see his homies, Gibby, Angel and Ruben. All of whom I knew and grew up with and all of them terrorized me. We made a left on State Street and Petey jumped onto the curb as we crossed the street. When we landed he pushed his body back and knocked me off the bike. I fell on the side walk, he took off, I cleaned myself off and crossed to the opposite side of the street. I did not want to pass by Petey and his homies on the same side of the street.
As I passed by them on the opposite side of the street, they all started calling me the usual names, spitting loogies at me, and making girly gestures, but it didn't matter. In the background was Petey’s boom box playing “Wishing on a Star” once again.
I made it home, locked myself in the bathroom and jacked off while smelling my hands with Petey’s arm pit smell on them thinking about his light peach fuzz trail.
The song “Wising on a Star” I’ve held in high esteem in my music collection ever since that day. I have fucked young men to that song. I had made pacts with the Devil with that song, despite all my semen offerings to Satan that punk ass Beelzebub motherfucker never came thru to rid me of the acne that plagued me well into my days in the United States Marines.
So there you have it! I wish I had been smart enuf to have elevated myself from mere ugly fucked up skin kid, to the respectable status of a noble young monster.
Monday, May 23, 2011
SCHWANGERSCHAFT UND STILLZEIT
Phillip Rossler the rising star of Germany’s conservative FDP party is ethnically Vietnamese adopted by Germans. When I saw him splashed across the TV news in my hotel I thought that maybe he was Eursasian. So it seems his collegue the uber icky major fug trunket Guido Westewelle is out of the political last picture show.
On the weekend i went back to The Wilde Duck, the akshunist crack cocaine piece by Vegard Vinge and Ida Mueller that is in front of the Praeter. Some nice scenes of big dicque thickerousness, psychik surgery, shrill domesticata, music squall and economic bladdery. Ms. Mueller’s creepy mask’s and genius costumes& cardboard cobbler sets seem to mirror the gross leaders of the world. I took a dinner break from viewing to munch at Maria Bonita on Danziger Strasse the best Mexican eatery in Berlina.
Wouldn’t it be grand if Vinge/Mueller were on Broadway? Reminds me of when my dearly departed New York mentor Miss Mommy George Bryon treated me to Carol Channing in a revival of Hello! Dolly. Every time she opened that famous mouth she received a standing ovation. It was so old school it was new school. Loved it! Mommy also took me to see David Drake’s The Night Larry Kramer Fist Fucked Me which I hated.
Phillip Rossler the rising star of Germany’s conservative FDP party is ethnically Vietnamese adopted by Germans. When I saw him splashed across the TV news in my hotel I thought that maybe he was Eursasian. So it seems his collegue the uber icky major fug trunket Guido Westewelle is out of the political last picture show.
On the weekend i went back to The Wilde Duck, the akshunist crack cocaine piece by Vegard Vinge and Ida Mueller that is in front of the Praeter. Some nice scenes of big dicque thickerousness, psychik surgery, shrill domesticata, music squall and economic bladdery. Ms. Mueller’s creepy mask’s and genius costumes& cardboard cobbler sets seem to mirror the gross leaders of the world. I took a dinner break from viewing to munch at Maria Bonita on Danziger Strasse the best Mexican eatery in Berlina.
Wouldn’t it be grand if Vinge/Mueller were on Broadway? Reminds me of when my dearly departed New York mentor Miss Mommy George Bryon treated me to Carol Channing in a revival of Hello! Dolly. Every time she opened that famous mouth she received a standing ovation. It was so old school it was new school. Loved it! Mommy also took me to see David Drake’s The Night Larry Kramer Fist Fucked Me which I hated.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
NUR EIN WÖLKCHEN
That studly Syberian artist extroidinaire Slava Mogutin who i love dearly is having a big solo show in New York. Below is the info:
Dear art stars and their admirers,
Please save the date for my upcoming NY solo show SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, opening on Saturday June 4th, from 3 to 6 PM, at AS IF Gallery in Harlem:
529 Manhattan Ave @ 122 Street
New York, NY 10027
http://www.asifgallery.com/
Tel: 646 338 2140
Curated by the legendary Diego Cortez, the show is based on my brand-new medium-format series of intimate portraits of friends and lovers shot last summer in natural settings of New York and Colorado.
The title is inspired by the Tennessee Williams classic play about repressed homosexuality, lobotomy
and cannibalism--a seemingly perfect combination (in 1959 the play was made into a brilliant movie with Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, and Katharine Hepburn).
In conjunction with the show I'm presenting a box set of 25 images, 5" x 5" each, edition of 25 copies.
Please contact AS IF for further details and inquiries: asif@asifgallery.com
Look forward to seeing you all at the opening!
With love always,
Slava
***
O and the latest CHEAP mailing list by that Ernie Kovaks of film historians Marc Siegel.
Dear CHEAP Friends,
It has been a long time since I've recommended something at the Volksbühne,
but Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller's DIE WILDENTE playing right now (for free!)
24 hours a day until May 28 at Prater is truly remarkable. They are
presenting a "Kastanienallee Tourist Version" of their notorious over twelve
hour production of Ibsen's play. It is funny, perverse, brilliant, moving,
addictive...the best thing I've seen in theater since Reza Abdoh. But you
neither have to know jack (or even care) about Ibsen, nor give a hoot for
theater to enjoy it. Vinge/Müller's piecepart installation, part actionis
something else. Check it out one or more than one day this week or your life
might just be lacking!
...and don't forget to mark your calendars for the next Rising Stars,
Falling Stars, the breast way to appreciate silent films! This Saturday, May
28 at 9pm at the Arsenal Vaginal Davis presents films by radical German
experimentalist Hans Richter with live musical accompaniment by the Brothers
Blue, Tim and Kjohnny.This internationally celebrated film chitchat event
with its post-screening redhot foyer reception hosted by Ms Davis attracts
the young and the evil, the provincial and the non-Berliners, the tired and
the non-academics, the beautiful and the Canadians, the entertaining and the
curators, the politically acceptable and the Netanyahu supporters, the
Badiou fans and the interesting, the film scholars and those you like to
talk to, the fashionable and our friends, the Vaginal Davis enthusiasts and
the sane....and many many more, maybe even you too!
Rising Stars Falling Stars: A Tribute to Hans Richter
Sat, May 28 at 9pm
Arsenal
Potsdamerstr. 2
www.arsenal-berlin.de
Hope to see you there!
Warmly
Marc
*****
CHEAP Summer Plans
*Spend a few days of your summer with Mario Montez and me (and many others)
in Wroclaw, Poland at the fabulous Era New Horizons Festival! Many Germans
seem unaware of the fact that there is a country with a rich cultural past
and present right next door to them. Join Mario and me in Wroclaw from July
23-28 for a Jack Smith retrospective featuring the likes of Jim Hoberman,
Ela Troyano, Uzi Parnes, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and others! a great
city, delicious food, tons of great films, and some wonderful people! for
info:
http://www.enh.pl/index.do?lang=en
*AND get ready for One Flaming Day in a Rented World: A Rare Berlin Evening
with MARIO MONTEZ at the Arsenal at the end of July 2011!
and this other little note from Marcu about The Wild Duck:
Oh, and miss d: you are bumming that you weren't at the wild duck last
night. Susi and I struck pay dirt as we not only saw four or five amazing
scenes, but then went to get a beer and came back for a last look only get
Vegard jumping around conducting the music and then jumping up right in
front of our window and whipping out his dick and rubbing it around
literally as if he were doing it for just us two. Then he lied on the ground
took out the dick and conducted it, slapping it, playing with it and then
slapping his fine ass until he turned over on his back and pissed on himself
again, before getting up and crazily conducting and leaving again. Wow!
We're off to it again today later in the afternoon/evening!
Love
m
That studly Syberian artist extroidinaire Slava Mogutin who i love dearly is having a big solo show in New York. Below is the info:
Dear art stars and their admirers,
Please save the date for my upcoming NY solo show SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, opening on Saturday June 4th, from 3 to 6 PM, at AS IF Gallery in Harlem:
529 Manhattan Ave @ 122 Street
New York, NY 10027
http://www.asifgallery.com/
Tel: 646 338 2140
Curated by the legendary Diego Cortez, the show is based on my brand-new medium-format series of intimate portraits of friends and lovers shot last summer in natural settings of New York and Colorado.
The title is inspired by the Tennessee Williams classic play about repressed homosexuality, lobotomy
and cannibalism--a seemingly perfect combination (in 1959 the play was made into a brilliant movie with Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, and Katharine Hepburn).
In conjunction with the show I'm presenting a box set of 25 images, 5" x 5" each, edition of 25 copies.
Please contact AS IF for further details and inquiries: asif@asifgallery.com
Look forward to seeing you all at the opening!
With love always,
Slava
***
O and the latest CHEAP mailing list by that Ernie Kovaks of film historians Marc Siegel.
Dear CHEAP Friends,
It has been a long time since I've recommended something at the Volksbühne,
but Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller's DIE WILDENTE playing right now (for free!)
24 hours a day until May 28 at Prater is truly remarkable. They are
presenting a "Kastanienallee Tourist Version" of their notorious over twelve
hour production of Ibsen's play. It is funny, perverse, brilliant, moving,
addictive...the best thing I've seen in theater since Reza Abdoh. But you
neither have to know jack (or even care) about Ibsen, nor give a hoot for
theater to enjoy it. Vinge/Müller's piecepart installation, part actionis
something else. Check it out one or more than one day this week or your life
might just be lacking!
...and don't forget to mark your calendars for the next Rising Stars,
Falling Stars, the breast way to appreciate silent films! This Saturday, May
28 at 9pm at the Arsenal Vaginal Davis presents films by radical German
experimentalist Hans Richter with live musical accompaniment by the Brothers
Blue, Tim and Kjohnny.This internationally celebrated film chitchat event
with its post-screening redhot foyer reception hosted by Ms Davis attracts
the young and the evil, the provincial and the non-Berliners, the tired and
the non-academics, the beautiful and the Canadians, the entertaining and the
curators, the politically acceptable and the Netanyahu supporters, the
Badiou fans and the interesting, the film scholars and those you like to
talk to, the fashionable and our friends, the Vaginal Davis enthusiasts and
the sane....and many many more, maybe even you too!
Rising Stars Falling Stars: A Tribute to Hans Richter
Sat, May 28 at 9pm
Arsenal
Potsdamerstr. 2
www.arsenal-berlin.de
Hope to see you there!
Warmly
Marc
*****
CHEAP Summer Plans
*Spend a few days of your summer with Mario Montez and me (and many others)
in Wroclaw, Poland at the fabulous Era New Horizons Festival! Many Germans
seem unaware of the fact that there is a country with a rich cultural past
and present right next door to them. Join Mario and me in Wroclaw from July
23-28 for a Jack Smith retrospective featuring the likes of Jim Hoberman,
Ela Troyano, Uzi Parnes, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and others! a great
city, delicious food, tons of great films, and some wonderful people! for
info:
http://www.enh.pl/index.do?lang=en
*AND get ready for One Flaming Day in a Rented World: A Rare Berlin Evening
with MARIO MONTEZ at the Arsenal at the end of July 2011!
and this other little note from Marcu about The Wild Duck:
Oh, and miss d: you are bumming that you weren't at the wild duck last
night. Susi and I struck pay dirt as we not only saw four or five amazing
scenes, but then went to get a beer and came back for a last look only get
Vegard jumping around conducting the music and then jumping up right in
front of our window and whipping out his dick and rubbing it around
literally as if he were doing it for just us two. Then he lied on the ground
took out the dick and conducted it, slapping it, playing with it and then
slapping his fine ass until he turned over on his back and pissed on himself
again, before getting up and crazily conducting and leaving again. Wow!
We're off to it again today later in the afternoon/evening!
Love
m
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