NIGGEMEIERS MEDIENLEXIKON
Its countdown time to Camp/Anti-Camp: The Queer Guide to Everyday Life Art Festival at HAU 2 and concurrent film program at Arsenal Inst. fuer film und video kunst. I am so excited that not only is Jonathan Berger involved designing the set of the entire production with Senol Senturk but also Jean Kim as the mistress of animated video prowess. I worked with Jonathan and Jean in Los Angeles for my big commission piece in 2011 for MoCa and also in 2010 for PS 1 so it is a double pleasure to have them as part of my crack ass team in Berlina, colloborating with me on the Berlin version of my talkshow/klatch/installation VD is Speaking From the Diaphragm. Once again Downtown New York legendina Carmelita Tropicana is my co-hostess in collaboration with Nanna Heidenreich, Ulrich Ziemons and Christian F. Weber. Here is the list of confirmed guests for the talk show that starts Thursday April 19th at 11:30 pm at HAU 2:

For Thursday dedicated to Holly Woodlawn-What Would Holly Woodlawn Do? co-host Carmelita Tropicana:
1.Elly Clarke
2.Evelyn Rüsseler and 3.Teodora Tabacki
4.Love Camel aka: Andrea Novarin of the BFI
5.Travis Jeppeson - novelist/journalist/poet
6.John Heys and 7.Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn
8.Leiseylento featuring Katja von Hellsdorf & Cristian Forte
Plus Daniel Hendrickson, Yorgos the Greek Active Ottoman Akshunist Automatic Painter, Beauty Moments, Human Sundaes and the CHEAPY über alles Underground Award

For Friday dedicated to punk rock god-mother Jayne County, Jayne County is in Love with a Russian Soldier co-host Nanna Heidenreich:
1. Stefanie Schulte Strathaus of Arsenal and Forum Expanded
2. Wieland Speck of the Berlinale’s Panorama
3. Landgraf Jan Klesse
4. Kembra Pfahler
5. Love Camel
6. Gio Black Peter
Maybe: Wilhelm Hein & Annette Frick (7&8)
Plus Daniel Hendrickson, Yorgos the Greek Active Ottoman Akshunist Automatic Painter, Beauty Moments, Human Sundaes and the CHEAPY über alles Underground Award

For Saturday co-host Nanna Heidenreich:
1. Tim Stuttkin
2. Övül Durmusoglu
3. Love Camel
Maybe: 4.Swedish poet and Dennis Cooper Accolyte Eli Léven
Plus Daniel Hendrickson, Yorgos the Greek Active Ottoman Akshunist Automatic Painter, Beauty Moments, Human Sundaes and special surprises.

On Tuesday went to the Tropicamp presentation at Arsenal featuring Marc Siegel in discussion with cute otter Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz where they screened a Jack Smith classic and discussed his and Mario Montez’s influence on the tropicamp work of Ivan Cardosa and Helio Oiticica. Things got heated when a feminist scholar objected to images in the Brazilian film Nosferatu in Brazil. In the audience along with curators Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel, Andrea from the Staedelschule, Daniel Hendrickson with fellow Muslim convert Sean Stone the 27 year old son of film director Oliver Stone, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Renate Lorenz and Paula Beaudry, Manuel Schubert of Film Highlights Magazine, Anna Muelter, Nazli & Yorgos, Nanna Heidenreich, DJane Olga Damnitz, Evelyn Ruesseler and Uli Ziemons. After the event several of us went across the street to Andy’s Diner to do some Lesbian processing.
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The other evening I was feeling nostalgic and started thinking about What Ever Became Of . . . and popping into my head was the shadow of two hot boys of the mid to late 1980s. One was a Puerto Rican GoGo god I met in New York whose name is fuzzy . . . maybe Raul ? He was one tight bodied big peniled bubble butt concocktion of a youth who was just pure living, breathing sex, and also a sweet natured good time Charlie. He was one of the most popular GoGo boys of New York besides Ty Bassett, the muscular uninhibited ginger kid who was the big dicked lover of party priestess Susanne Barsche before she married bodybuilder David Barton. He burned out on New York and moved to San Francisco(the poor kid what was he thinking?) in the late 1980s and became part of the scene surrounding Gregg Deborah Taylor, and the late great scene queen Doris Fish and Michael Angelo who was the legendary LA DJ of Ginos II and the founder of the drag collective The Cosmetics. Michael Angelo left LA for San Francisco in the mid 80s and recreated his following at a club in the Bay Area suburb of Walnut Creek. Michael died in the Bay Area.
Another boy of that era was a blondine/ginger mix who had one of the most perfect bodies I have ever seen. His rack was purely amazing. The most well developed pectorals west of the Mississippi. Michael Angelo and Doris Fish used the kid in a mock fisting/scat performance where they ate chocolate pudding out of his ass like it was feces during one of Gregg Deborah Taylor’s events which I performed at on a bill which featured Lady Bunny, Lurleen from Atlanta,and Ms. Glen Meadmore. Poor Glen was singing a song and some overly enthusiastic fan jumped on Glen’s back and it went out causing him grievous pain and anguish the entire Gay Pride Week-end that we were in town. G.Deborah Taylor arranged a ride for Ms. Meadmore, Beulah Love and I up to the Bay Area with Jo Mama the best friend and gay boy confidante of Courtney Love. Jo Mama scored some Heroin from the projects in the Mission District and wound up ditching us at one point. I took all my stuff with me after we used the home of the girls in the band Frightwig as a place to freshen up and get dressed after the long sweltering car ride. Glen and Beulah thought they could come back to the Frighwig pad after the gig but Jo Mama was a no show strung out somewhere near the Panhandle. I wisely arranged different accomodations expecting Jo Mama to flake on us. I always trust my instincts. This was the last time I accepted a long carride as transportation to a gig, and was the last time i worked with Ms. Taylor.
If any of my readers know what happened to Raul or the blondine/ginger boy I would be delighted to find out. Perhaps both of these sexy boys succumbed to Mrs. AIDS.
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This just in from our pals at La Moustache:

Freut Euch auf Kaffee, Kuchen und den Film über das "Rampenfiber"-Festival 2009 in Wien!

Ein Mitglied des rampenfiber-Kollektivs wird vor Ort sein. Plus Heavymental Zine Distro Tisch!!
Sonntag 8.4. // 16h Kuchen und Kaffee, 17h Film.
Projektraum, 2. HH, 1. OG mitte
Hermannstraße 48, 12049 Berlin

rampenfiber. der film
(Doku, büro arbiträr, Bea Bösiger & Roland de Roo, Ö 2011, dt./engl. OV.)

Von theoretischer Auseinandersetzung und performativer Praxis.

rampenfiber ist ein queer-feministisches Musikfestival, das sich aus dem Umfeld des Zeitschriftenkollektivs fiber. werkstoff für feminismus und popkultur entwickelt hat. Im Film kann dem viertägigen Festivaltreiben noch einmal beigewohnt werden, von allen die nicht vor Ort waren oder noch einmal zurückblicken wollen. Mit der Zielsetzung dem männlich dominierten, heteronormativen Mainstream im Musikbusiness etwas entgegen zu halten startete das Festival 2009 in die zweite Runde. Ein dichtes Programm aus Diskussionen, Workshops, Filmen sowie abendlichen Konzerten und Performances wurde auf die Beine gestellt, sodass sich den Besucher_innen gleichermaßen wie Musiker_innen, Journalist_innen, Techniker_innen und Produzent_innen eine Plattform für Erfahrungsaustausch in der lokalen als auch internationalen queer-feministischen Musikszene bot.

Der Film, als kondensiertes Format, macht einmal mehr den Anspruch von rampenfiber deutlich, theoretische Auseinandersetzungen und performative Praxis zu verknüpfen. Für rampenfiber war es essentiell, einen queer-feministischen Raum zu schaffen. Die praktische Umsetzung dieser viel diskutierten Raumnahme in einem ansonsten heteronormativ geprägten Umfeld und die daraus resultierenden Maßnahmen sind genauso zu sehen wie ausgiebige Konzertmitschnitte und zahlreiche, spannende Inputs rund um die Fragen nach den eigenen als auch kollektiven politischen Forderungen.

http://www.fibrig.net
http://www.fibrig.net/?page_id=122
http://heavymentaldistro.org
http://www.facebook.com/events/344378452270515

AT HOME WITH INGRID CAVEN
That mucho macho Tenderloin studkin Jan Klesse spent the night at my Cheese Endique Trifecta and treated me to breakfast in the morning at Café Sur before heading back to Bremon and his law duties. I love all my quality time spent in the masculine company of Herr Klesse who I am forever intrigued and surprised by. Jan is super intelligent, talented with an Equifax computer like mind that is always bubbling with possibilities and if that isn't enough he also has the most dreamy matinee idol eyes.
Went with Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim and video art shtar Nguyen Tan Hoang to Gayhana Salon Oriental the Middle Easter Dance Club at historic SO36. Got all dolled up which is something I never do anymore unless I am being paid. Had a great time celebrating finishing my Jabberjaw memory essay for Art Forum Magazines summer issue.
Gayhana's late nite performance featured a sexy male belly dancer who certainly titillated the SRO crowd. After the show Hoang and his visiting academic pal Ricardo Reyes retreated to Rosa’s pub next door while Daniel and I being settled aged women left the club around 3am which is really late for us.
Earlier in the day I got together with Tenderloin at Noizy Rooms rehearsal space in Friedrichhain and later had a wonderful dinner with Jan & Joel Gibb the baby diaper of the Hidden Cameras at Santa Maria. The diaper had been running around with Judy LaBruce at Pet Shop Bears the other night so it’s a surprise he even made it to rehearsal. When we were leaving the humpy German male ingenue film star Max Riemelt and posse were arriving. The blondine actor sure is well built for a tiny lap top of a boy.
Sunday evening the super talented artist and filmmaker Evi Ruesseler and scholar Christian Weber came over for dinner to discuss ideas for VD is Speaking From the Diaphragm talk show installation that is part of camp/anti-camp. We had a lovely time and I can’t believe my cooking came out pretty good. Earlier that afternoon I had a makeup and styling consultation with Tan Binh and his cute cuddly Persian friend for SFTD and we wound up having a hoot of a girlish scream fest. Tan Binh has some incredible ideas of how he wants to glam me out for the festival.
Earlier in the week I met with Christian Weber and Jonathan Berger’s cute NYU student Kay to discuss more SFTD plans and strategies, and afterwards we ate hamburgers at Nollendorky Platz’s Zza Zza Burger where I had their famous Silence of the Lamb Burger with fries &silk worm onion rings---yummy. Eating at the restaurant was the young British actor Alex Pettyfer with a very muscular slightly older man who must be his beau or f*ck buddy. I’d sure like to be the fly on the wall or the mud from the slide when they go at each other.
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Looking for something fun to do in Berlin. Just got this sent to me:

yay, a cooperation and two bands we are really excited about!

two more nights and then..

://about band & la moustache present:
+++ CANDELILLA + JASON & THEODOR +++

Wednesday, April 4 9pm at ://about blank, Markgrafendamm 24c, S Ostkreuz

Show flyer: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fantastischelastisch/6871370662/in/photostream Announcement in Missy Magazine: http://missy-magazine.de/2012/04/02/nachsten-mittwoch-im-about-blank-candelilla/#more-14815
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/268115799934742

C A N D E L I L L A
candelilla haben im August 2011 ihr zweites Album mit Steve Albini (Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Scout Niblett) in Chicago aufgenommen, das in diesem Jahr auf dem Label ZickZack / Indigo veröffentlicht werden soll. Im Frühjahr diesen Jahres geht die Band auf eine erste kleine Tour um ihre Vorabsingle 23/33 vorzustellen. Die Tour beginnt in Berlin und führt sie einmal quer durch Deutschland um dann am 17.04. in London zu enden.
candelilla sind keine Newcomer im klassischen Sinne. Ihre Biographie beginnt vor einem guten Jahrzehnt als sich das Quartett in einem Münchner Vorort gründet. Darauf folgen drei 6-Track- Releases, eine EP im Eigenverlag (“... dont rely on what others say”/2008) und das Debüt-Album (“reasonreasonreasonreason”/2009) auf dem Münchner Underground-Label Red Can. Zum Release des Albums tourte die Band durch Deutschland, Österreich und die Schweiz. Neben Konzerten in kleinen Clubs – etwa dem Schokoladen Berlin oder dem Hafenklang in Hamburg – wurde die Band auch zu renommierten Festivals eingeladen: Zu nennen wäre hier das Donaufestival in Krems/ Österreich (2011), das Queerbeatsfestival in Berlin (2012) oder das on3-Festival im Münchner Funkhaus (2011).
Zur Vorbereitung des kommenden Albums hat candelilla im November 2011 ein Remix-Album („ReasonRemixed“) im Eigenverlag veröffentlicht. Immer ist die Nähe zu befreundeten Künstlern wichtig: für die Artworks der letzten Veröffentlichungen zeigten sich verschiedenen bildende Künstler und Graphiker verantwortlich; und auch bei der Wahl der Remixer war die stilistische Vielfalt verschiedenster Musiker ein wichtiger Aspekt: So reihen sich zwei Hip Hop-Produzenten neben den Schlagzeuger der Indie-Band Ja, Panik und der House-Track eines Nürnberger-Techno-DJs trifft auf den Pop-Appeal des Berliner Multiinstrumentalisten Petula.
http://www.candelilla.de
http://candelilla.bandcamp.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=696xcjwb_Bc

J A S O N & T H E O D O R
in love with that song... http://vimeo.com/35315418
http://jasonundtheodor.tumblr.com
http://www.soundcloud.com/jasonundtheodor http://vimeo.com/jasonundtheodor

Entrance: 6-8€

Hope to see you!!
Yr mstchs <3

UPCOMING
08.04. rampenfiber. der film at Projektraum
14.04. Female Drum Fest w/ STLS & Dark Times at Bei Roy
28.04. The Very First Riot Grrrl Compilation Release Party w/ Abstract Random & Cat Nguyen, at Schokoladen
12.05. Lovers at West Germany
03.07. Les Trucs at Bei Roy
14.09. La Moustache 5th Anniversary Festival at Bei Roy
15.09. La Moustache 5th Anniversary Festival at Festsaal Kreuzberg

IHR VERRUECKTES MAENNER-CASTING
Forgot to give my review of J. Edgar, the story of ueber hissy control queen J. Edgar Hoover who ruled the FBI for almost 50 years. This Hollywood mainstream flicker written in QBVII style by ganymede hackscrib Dustin Lance Black and directed by Clint Eastwood in the style of a somber chamber piece just thuds along at warp factor minus 470.
Poor Naomi Watts and Leo DiCaprio look embarrased and lost throughout both acting with their eyebrows. Only scooter boy Arnie Hammer comes off alright with his patrician bearing and speech.
Mr. DiCaprio and I go way back. He was a regular at my Club Sucker and even performed at Sucker with his band Old Hickory. He lived with his parents around the corner from my Finley Arms flat and next door to Dennis Cooper. I remember him hanging out at Amok Bookstore Vermont Avenue in Los Feliz Village with Mrs. Michael Glass.
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Love Camel sent me copies of American cable TV series American Horror starring Jessica Lange doing a so bad its good Blanche DeBois, and Dylan McDermott from The Practise running around nude with his sexy muscular body and penetrating eyes. Loved Breaking Bad featuring Giancarlo Esposito of Spike Lee film fame as a soft spoken drug kingpin and Enlightenment starring horseyfaced Laura Dern and her very beautiful mother Diane Ladd as well as Luke Wilson who hasn’t aged too well and Mike White who wrote and produced this show along with Ms. Dern. Funny looking dweeb Mr. White picked up quite the reputation for haunting the toilets of the Sunset Five Cineplex Theatre on Sunset & Crescents Heights looking for large drippy knoke. I wonder if now that he’s a big TV honcho if he still is a heavy hornpig on the homo prowl---god love em if he is.
My friend in los ang has become a social worker of sorts for the criminally big dicked. His latest note to me via emug:
Hey Doll,
My little project 100 Bucks has me photographing some young men from different walks that lead them to offer their wares for 100 Bucks.
I have a collection of about 11 men at this point. My favorite of the these men is a super fit and big cocked straight dude who is totally into Punk music. I have had many conversations with this dude about Music, the punk scene, food, his future and other subjects. I have photographed him more then any of the other subjects. He is smart and equally a mess. I could see the roughness in him, I've also seen the results of his weekend fights, etc... I have scolded him as if he were my son. He started to check in with me on occasion, he'd run an opportunity by me, I'd make my suggestions, and he'd go on his way. I hadn't heard from him in a few months. Last week sometime I sent him an email, It was a one line note. Are you Ok? Just checking in.
Last night I get an email back. It says, Hi, I am a friend of N. He is in jail, I don't know who you are, but he's in Oregon.
This morning I did a search, He's in jail for 1st Degree Robbery, which based on what I see on line, he attempted to rob with a weapon. His mug shot is on line, looking very handsome. So he's in a county jail in Oregon. He is good looking with a fierce body, Fierce Ass and a huge Dick. I wonder how that will work out for him in prison.
This dude grew up with a Harley Mom, and different step dads. Was first paid 10 bucks by his uncle's friend to play with his cock when he was about 14. He didn't know he had a big dick until that encounter. 10 became 20, and finally 50bucks for his first man blow job.
He was in school for culinary arts, i kept on him about his rough edge tendencies. He asked me once or twice why I was concerned about his future. I told him I saw his opportunities and that he needed to see them as well. I understood that he made a good amount of money getting his dick sucked, but for how much longer. He was already 30. He told me that nobody looked out for him, he asked me if I wanted to suck his dick in return for the photo sessions. I said, No. He was a bit uncomfortable with my reply and later told me he really respected my trust and that he was saving money as I suggested.
Well, I understand the whole situation is a complicated social issue, but I was a little disappointed to see his current situation.
Warrior
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Rehearsals at Noisy Rooms with Tenderloin and that hot 19 year old sensation Dagmar Hopfisterei have been going great in anticipation for their performance at camp/anti-camp the queer guide to everyday life at HAU 2 April 19-21st. Everyone is talking about this art festival,not just in Berlin but globally and many people are planning their vacations around it so they can check out Berlin in the Springtime.
The camp/anti-camp & Rising Stars Falling Stars merger last Friday at Arsenal Inst fuer film und video kunst was SRO with a bustling young and energetic crowd who came to see the rare screening of Alla Nazimova in Oscar Wilde’s Salome with live music by the Blue Bros Tim & kJohnny who were in fine form. The next Rising Stars will be April 22nd right after camp/anti-camp and it’s the re-launch called Rising Stars, Falling Stars-We Must Have Music with a screening of George Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess. Seen hobnobbing in the Rote Foyer: young artist Darce, Markus Ruff of Living Archive, Christian Weber, DJ Snax and his sexy young beau, beautiful Nazli Kilerci & Yorgos the Greek, Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus who is off to Cairo for 3 weeks, camp/anti-camp curators Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel, Daniel Hendrickson, Manuel Schubert, Toby Rauscher, the wonderful parents of Anna Muelter of HAU visiting their daughter from Hanover,cutesy Garrett, curator Joao Ribas, Daniel Bimbaum of Moderna Museet,Gavin Brown of Gavin Brown Enterprises,the beautiful Brazilian actress and filmmaker Melissa Dullius,Trixie Schonherr with
Daniel Heer the furniture designer,intermedia Portugese actress Elsa,DJane Tina Pornflakes,Paolo, the Italian architecture professor who is a long term CHEAP fan since CHEAP club days,Renate Kochenrath (film scholar from Mainz) and Paul
Hankinson (singer/songwriter from Brisbane; he calls himself Montmorensy on
stage; here is a link to his website, www.montmorensy.com) and humpy Turkish actor Elyas M'Barek.
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Here are some things to check out from the pals of Speaking From the Diaphragm including singer Billy Ray Martin who has a new CD album out, Participant Inc. Gallery in New York City, British artist based in Berlin Elly Clark and others:

hi all.
sorry for the second e mail about the new double cd album.
we did want to let you know that there are only about 20 copies left. we can
probably get another shipment from hong kong but it would take time.
so we wanted to let you know. people do always work us when an album is sold out
in the mart so..:))))
here it is, buy at www.billieraymartin.com/mart
but of course you can also buy or order the album worldwide (incl. asia) in your
local record store, or get it at hmv, amazon etc. etc.
also we have a bunch of lovely 'making of' photos from billie's new video shoot
for the next EP. e mail us and we'll send.

billie ray martin
disco activisto records
www.billieraymartin.com

La Moustache is happy to present:
LIANNE HALL at Silver Future
Weserstraße 206, Neukölln
Monday 26th March, 8pm (!!)
(As usual, there will be a donation hat)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_d6qaM7zlA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpjbNqGKS6U
http://liannehall.bandcamp.com

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fantastischelastisch/6856736410/in/photostream
I started writing songs when I hit my teens, growing up in deepest peterborough (UK). Would wait till I was home alone and record EPs on my cassette player and sometimes give them to my friends at school if I was feeling really brave. Have been making it up as I go along ever since. I’ve had a few partners in crime along the way: A well-spent youth making crazy jazz punk noise with Witchknot, born out of the Leeds/Bradford riot grrrl movement…where I later moved on-site and lived in a bus for five years and made acoustic folk with cellist Bela Emerson as Hiphuggers and electronica as Pico with bedroom producer Andy Wills. Here I met my hero John Peel on his channel 4 programme ‘Sounds of the Suburbs‘. I recorded 4 Peel sessions after that with a variety of line-ups/good friends. I left my bus and moved Pico to Brighton in 2000; lived in a house again and got an electric guitar and formed the Broken Heart Club with Matt Eaton, Alice Eldridge and Susanne Lambert. I released my first full length CD album in 2006 with Local Kid records entitled ‘Abandon Ship’. Around this time I met Paul Hartnoll from Orbital and co-wrote a song on his solo album, ‘the Ideal Condition’, released in 2007. We went on tour and have been collaborating on new material ever since, I’m also singing on Paul’s score for the film Tormented which came out last year. Another project I have on the go is a collaboration with d_rradio from Newcastle. Our album ‘Making Spaces’ was released in April last year, check it out here. My latest solo album ‘Crossing Wires’ is out now and you can hear it here.
When not making music I sell books to make a living and volunteer at my local community centre running West Hill Music Club which has hosted lots and lots of amazing shows over the last 3 or 4 years or so..I am very proud of the village hall..
UPCOMING
04.04. Candelilla + Jason & Theodor, ://about blank (in cooperation with ://about blank)
08.04. Rampenfiber - der Film, Projektraum H48
14.04. Female Drum Fest w/ STLS & Dark Times, Bei Roy (in cooperation with Girl Gang Zine)
28.04. The Very First Riot Grrrl Compilation Release Party w/ Abstract Random + Cat Nguyen (in cooperation with Riot Grrrl Berlin and Megapeng)
12.05. Lovers, West Germany
14.09. La Moustache 5th Birthday Festival, Bei Roy
15.09. La Moustache 5th Birthday Festival, Festsaal Kreuzberg
PARTICIPANT INC / YEAR 10 / BENEFIT AUCTION
SATURDAY APRIL 14, 2012

Matthew Higgs, Jacqueline Humphries, Tony Oursler, Mari Spirito, Joseph Wolin / PARTICIPANT 10th Anniversary Benefit Committee

Charles Atlas, Justin Vivian Bond, Gary Indiana, Stefan Kalmár, Kembra Pfahler / Host Committee

Derrick Adams, Antony, Lutz Bacher, Alvin Baltrop, Josh Blackwell, Matthew Brannon, Cecily Brown, Kathe Burkhart, Paul Chan, Dan Colen, Anne Collier, Vaginal Davis, Renée Green, Wade Guyton, Rachel Harrison, Matthew Higgs, Jonathan Horowitz, Jacqueline Humphries, Glenn Ligon, Robert Longo, Nate Lowman, Virgil Marti, Nick Mauss, Adam McEwen, Josephine Meckseper, Enoc Perez, Jack Pierson, Adam Putnam, Heather Rowe, Børre Sæthre, Spencer Sweeney, Tabboo! (Stephen Tashjian), Paul Thek, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein / Donating Artists

Justin Vivian Bond, Breyer P-Orridge, Glen Fogel, Robin Graubard, Andy Kaufman, Lisa Kirk and Jelena Behrend, Sigalit Landau, Lovett/Codagnone, Alice O’Malley, Luther Price, Shellburne Thurber, Alejandro Vidal, and Rona Yefman / Limited Editions

Tickets are $100 and can be reserved by calling 212 254 4334 or emailing lia@participantinc.org

Opening Reception and Dead Flowers book launch, Sunday, April 1, 7-9pm
FRIENDS preview hosted by NADA, Saturday, April 7, 7-9pm
AUCTION, Saturday, April 14, 7-11pm

253 East Houston Street NY NY 10002
participantinc.org

Jeffrey Gibson, one becomes the other, is made possible through the support of the Harpo Foundation and the National Museum of the American Indian, Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program

PARTICIPANT INC's exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State’s 62 counties.

Archiving and documentation projects are supported by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Our programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

PARTICIPANT INC receives generous support from the Harriett Ames Charitable Trust; The Blessing Way Foundation; Bloomberg; The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston; Foundation 20 21; Foundation for Contemporary Arts; Gesso Foundation; Harpo Foundation; The Ruth Ivor Foundation; The Daniel M. Neidich and Brooke Garber Foundation; Puffin Foundation; The Benjamin M. Rosen Family Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; an anonymous donor of the Community Foundation of Abilene; FRIENDS of PARTICIPANT INC; numerous individuals; and Materials for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs/NYC Department of Sanitation/NYC Department of Education.
And this call out from artist Elly Clarke:
The late notice of this offer (due to an unexpected gap in the programme) makes applying to the Arts Council for funding not possible. And there seems to be no other official avenue I can pursue. So I have set up a crowd funding site, with my goal being around £1500 to cover my flight plus some money to live on for the three weeks I'll be there. Here's the link: http://www.indiegogo.com/clarkegallery?a=508188

Alongside this exhibition, I will use the opportunity of being in Melbourne to chase up some (surprise) contacts I have recently discovered are there for my Richmond Project. There is also an alternative arts festival going on that month - Next Wave. Kim Donaldson will also organise an artist dinner around me, to introduce me to specific people in the art scene in Melbourne. And, finally, I plan to find and bring back work from there for the third and final part of my ongoing exhibition BERLIN / BIRMINGHAM / BEYOND / at mac birmingham.

I know that contributing money isn't possible for all of you by any means, but if you could help spread the word that would be great. There are clever 'like' buttons on the site so you can spread the news via social networks etc. Or forward this mail to any keen art supporters you might know.

It's just not possible to do this trip without cash. To make time for all this, I quit my job in Jan, and since then have been operating once again on a very tight shoestring! Any help would be most gratefully received. All sponsors will be acknowledged.

Thanks all! Hope to see you soon. Next opening at the mac, for those of you near Brum, is on 14th April.

Elly x

ellyclarke@gmail.com // art: http://www.ellyclarke.com // photography: http://www.ellyclarkephotography.co.uk // Clarke Gallery: http://www.clarkegallery.de // twitter: @elly_clarke

** current exhibition: BERLIN / from BERLIN / BIRMINGHAM / BEYOND at mac birmingham. Buy art and get to choose the next work to be displayed. **ALLES ZU IHRER BLITZHOCHZEIT

My heavenly father papa Ron Athey sent me this email from olde London town:

this is the part of getting older i find hard, the decomposition, holding onto things that you don't even know left you high and dry. watching it. isn't that part of the reason we escaped? We're crazy but somehow adapting. btw, camp/anticamp looks like a blast (1st and 3rd nights), if i can scrape up airfare without endangering my summer i'll hop over. gagging to see kembra again, she was such a treasure in new york. and you're working you're tail off, no? both the chat show and the band?

and i hear you about the spring, i'm coming back to life. arroagant enough after two days back at the gym to sun in a small park near mine, hot thick dicked italian not quite walking his whippet smiled and i popped a boner and luckily his flat was within a block. good morning spring.

i have birmingham coming up super soon, have a heavy workweek so i'd better do all my pulling in quick time. fathers love to you

ALLES ZU IHRER BLITZHOCHZEIT
Had a VD is SPTD meeting with my sweet and very cute assistant Christian Weber at the Trifecta. We got a lot accomplished and then went had a snack at the Thai food joint Papaya. The day before was the opening at the Arsenal of the camp/anti-camp film program with a screening of the 1946 musical Copacabana starring Carment Miranda, Groucho Marx and hunky Steve Cochran. Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim introduced the picture with some fab tidbits of information that primed the audience for enjoying the movie’s utter madness. It was a SRO crowd that included some divine luminaries like Noll Brinckman, Carolla Graumann and Dorothea Wenner along with Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Manuel Schubert of Film Highlights Magazine, Bruce “Judy” LaBruce, Anna Muelter, Nazli & Yorgos the Greek, Toby Raucher, Trixi Schonherr, and Paula Winkler of Hugs &Kisses Magazine and her hot friend Christian.
My latest interview with Manuel Schubert of Film Highlights Magazine:

Rising Stars Falling Stars - with Vaginal Davis - March 2012 by Filmanzeiger on Mixcloud

WIR WOLLEN MEER!
The weather has warmed up considerably and it is feeling like Spring, Spring, Spring. Considering I DJaned last night at Search&Destroy @Shwutz till 6am with Bruce “Judy” LaBruce I woke up somewhat early by 11am. I treated myself to a nice breakfast at a lil café on the Haupt Strasse and strolled to the Tiergarten to enjoy the climate temps. Saw an interesting in-bred looking young monster couple taking a walk through the park holding hands.They were like a brother/sister/husband/wife very angular with Frankenstein edges. Dying their hair black and sporting that horrid goth meets The Matrix look didn´t help matters.
Had a phun time behind the mighty wheels of steel last night. I started my set at around 11:15 and got to spin alone till about 12:30 or so. Judy took over around 1:30am and then at about 3am we tagged team. Judy has gotten much better. She uses a computer and that was always a bit problematic but since she DJ´s so much these days---at least 3x a week when in Berlin her skills have improved. Not to say that I am so amazing. I know my limitations.
Judy does date herself with her music choices of classic rock and bands like Steely Dan, and her new mixes of olde stuff don’t help things but it makes it more obvious. She should just play the record the original way and own it. We really did have a nice time together and she is looking much better now that she has stopped doing so many drugs. That Judy LaBruce is still the biggest party nigger I know. She is very Alicia Bridges I Love the Nightlife. I love to DJane, and if I am at a club holding court surrounded by beauties that is divine, but I am not one of those queens just happy to be anywhere. After Judy and I finished our set the Scream Club team of cutie pie, charming baby dykes took ever. I was happy to hightail it and finally get some sleep.
One of the evenings highlights was when I played the theme from the Brazilian Children´s TV show XuXa. That really got the crowd going, and I wasn´t sure it would work. How many of you out there in internet land remember Ms. XuXa Meneghel? She started her career at 16 as a softcore porn actress, hooked up with the famous soccer star Pele and then crossed over into the mainstream. Today she is the richest woman in Brazil with a fortune estimated in the billions. She even dated John F. Kennedy Jr.I would sometimes catch her kiddy TV show when I was in a hotel room and I loved how obvious it was that she hated children. She didn´t exactly try to hide it either which i loved.
Search&Destroy was packed to the rafters in the lounge where we spinned. The German matinee idol Moritz Bleibtreau requested I play Michael Jackson so I played his little known song “It’s the Falling in Love” which soothed him and the crowd. Gorgeous Deutsch blondine male ingénue Max Riemelt asked me to play Whitney Huston. I don´t have any Whitney records so I played her mother Sissy Huston´s disco hit from the 70s “Think it Over”. Thank god I didn’t get any requests for Lady Gaga, but one young girl did ask for Madonna which surprised me. As most young people don´t really know who she is anymore. A hot indie rock looking kid came up to the booth thanking me profusely for playing the Jonathan Fire*Eater song “No Love Like That” he asked me to pose with him and his boyfriend the male supermodel Sean O´pry. If it wasn´t Mr. O´pry it was his doppelganger. Also enjoying the evening: Daniel Hendrickson with my beautiful child of high art Jonathan Berger here in Berlin working on camp/anti-camp, Senol Senturk who is the co-production designer, bubbly Anna Muelter of HAU with her South Afrikan art curator posse, baby diaper Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras with Ricardo of Shade Inc. formerly Berlin Hilton, artists Joana Coppi and Katja von Helldorf, Tobias Raucher of Sissy Magazine and his hot barefoot boi club, and my sweet Fight Club theater kids.
In the morning I had a Speaking From the Diaphragm meeting at the cemetery compound of delicious Nanna Heidenreich. Nanna along with handsome Uli Ziemons and my assistant Christian Weber got a lot of work done, and afterwards I was able to enjoy the Springlike weather which was such a treat. Thursday was my super meeting day starting with a Living Archive/Rising Stars, Falling Stars-We Must Have Music brainstorm with Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Markus Ruff and Daniel Hendrickson. Jeffrey Hilbert of the LA based design ad agency Kustom Creative has created a fab poster for my new re-launch of Rising Stars and believe me its out of this world. Jeffrey besides being super sexy and fine with a huge penis is one of the nicest and most talented men I know. He always comes through for his doll.
Then I was off to the HAU for camp/anti-camp meetings with Jonathan, Senol Senturk, Nazli & Yoryos the Greek, Christian Weber and Anna Mülter. One last evening meeting with Christian Weber where we tried to figuring things out for VD is Speaking From the Diaphragm my klatch/installation performance.
I unfortunately had to miss going to see Lydia Lunch at the KW Institute for Contemporay Art in Mitte. The first lady of Harsh, Ms. Lunch was reading from her novel Paradoxia, A Predator´s Diary as part of the exhibition: You Killed Me First:The Cinema of Transgression.
Jonathan Berger arrived in Berlin on Tuesday. Its his first time and I love seeing the city through his eyes. He told me that he had a star sighting on his plane from New York of the famed experimental musician Lamont Young "looking like a Karl Heinz Weinberger foto". Jonathan did the production design for several of my most recent hit projects and is now designing the entire set for camp/anti-camp at HAU 2 in April which will be explosive.
The first event that is part of Camp/Anti-Camp is the film program at the Arsenal Inst. Für film und Video Kunst with a screening of the 1946 Carmen Miranda film Copacabana Monday March 19th at 8pm. The film features 1940s hunk supreme Steve Cochran. Hope to see you all at the screening and you better be bright eyed and bushy tailed.

OB DROHEND DIE WOLKEN AUCH HANGEN
Fans of this very blog in Italy. Below is a very important announcement of an art show with some of my delightfully talented Berlin children:

Dear friends & colleagues,
You are cordially invited to:
AVAILABISM
A group show with works by:
Amelia Bande
Annette Knol
Christo Wallers
Cristian Forte
Drawing Workshop
Francisca Villela
Irene Mattioli & Anna Schmidt
Katja von Helldorff
Mareike Lee
Quinten Dierick
Stefan Endewardt
Tim Greaves

curated by Annette Knol
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Opening: Saturday 17th of March
19:00 - 23:00
Superfluo - Central Park - via Annibale da Bassano 1 - Padova - Italy
For further information: http://www.superfluoproject.org/
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Availabism means to make best use of what is and was available; to take what is closest at hand as both the inspiration for your work as well as the medium. It was coined as an artistic movement by Kembra Pfahler from the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black and has a past going back as far as the Dada-ists.
I first heard the word Availabism during a workshop led by Vaginal Davis and something inside of me clicked: this is what I had been doing all along. I was delighted to find a word that described a way of working based on improvising, responding to a certain environment, creating from what is already there. Availabism is a sort of left-over dish approach to making art: the deliciousness comes from a simple idea combined with a strong sense of intuition. The result goes beyond the material bringing the artist closer to a spiritual relationship with the work. Art making becomes part of everyday life, coming down from the out of reach pedestal it often stands on.
When preparing for this exhibition, it became clear how extremely difficult it is to sum up what exactly Availabism is. Can anyone who uses lo-fi or found materials be a follower? Does your work have to be process-based?
AVAILABISM is a group show exploring the philosophy of Availabism, which simultaneously brings together a group of artists affiliated with the Kotti-Shop, an independent multi-faceted arts-space in Berlin.
Annette Knol, Berlin 2012.
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And this announcement sent to me by Jan Klesse straight from the mouth of world famous Goddess Bunny
"I want you all to know I AM CHANGING BACK TO WHO I WAS BORN AS JOHN
EDWARD BAIMA I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT. JESUS DOSEN’T WANT ME TO BE A
WOMAN"

Lets see how long this lasts and if it puts a cramp in Goddess Bunny’s business venture of teaching a master class of singing, acting, dancing and comedy from the cramped environ of her nursing home in Inglewood, California.

GOD IS JUST A BIGGER ELVIS
Received two sweet missives to-day, that I shall call A Tale of Two Cities--- Los Angeles and London.

My Sweet Negra Apestosa,

I'm waiting for my Boo at the gym. The usual characters at 6am!

All the young Hotties are now working Cross Fit into their routines. The cool
thing about Cross Fit is that shorter Shorts are ideal for all the Squatting and jumping. Today, there was a new beauty at the gym doing his Cross Fit routine. He had a very short Buzz Cut with such a pretty face and a delicious Butt!
I had a busy weekend cooking both Sat and Sunday. My family has been circling
my Aunt Dora at the hospital, she is preparing for her exit at a nice ripe age of 89. My Aunt Dora was part of the Sleepy Lagoon Pachuca crew. Lots of drama at the hospital with her children, the boxing gloves came out and the Hospital decided to discharge my Aunt partly cuz of the family drama. They pissed off the Social Worker with their Drama.

I've not seen anyone these days. The weather has been Nice.

I miss my Sweet Doll.

Have u been in touch with Emi Fontana of West of Rome?
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Oh Doll,
forget about Gaydar, Recon, Gay Romeo or Does Your Mom Know You're a Puff.com, I am having a blast using the local Craigslist here, where you can find a fair number of bi or closeted people instead of the usual tired gay mummies, Nosferatus and Nosferitas. Here is what I have been doing in the last couple of weeks, when I was not doing job hunting.
On Sunday 26, I went to a small group orgy from 3pm to 1am. There has been a
number of people coming and going, for a total of 10 or so. It was obviously a mixed bag, so I skipped the older ones there and I have concentrated on a cute 23yo student that was there. We only did lesbiana because he was passive but not into anal and, as you know, I am very much like that old Maggie Thatcher's quote 'The lady's not for turning'. We chilled out a bit then and later around 8pm a gorgeous 24yo Polish guy came by. Scalpelled cheekbones, natural muscular body and all the trimmings... he really looked like a model and we all said that to him. Obviously, I went all over him like a vulture, just like you the Doll when you see any sort of food, and me and another guy ended up double penetrating him.
On Monday 27, I had a married with kids guy in his early 30s that came to my flat for some facefucking and some fingering.
On Wed 29, some other bi guy in his late 20s came along for some spanking.
On Saturday the 3rd a 32yo rugby built married guy came around in the afternoon for some electro and sucking, then later in the early evening I went to a hotel room to fist two flight attendants from Tennessee.
I had a couple of days off then on Tuesday the 6th another married 32yo guy visited my pad for servicing my schlongy organ of delightful pleasures and some OTK spanking.
On Thursday the 8th, another young bi guy for electro... they all seem to want electro these days!
On Friday the 9th, I have treated a 23yo bi again to some electro and fucking. He was a bit tight, probably his girlfriend doesn't like to play with his young firm butt... shame on her.
On Saturday the 10th, I went to my first ballbusting party and spent a happy couple of hours slapping, pulling, hitting etc the manly balls of the small number of people there.
On Sunday the 11th, I replied to an ad of someone very local, just a 20 min walk. He was a student, whose flatmate was blindfolded and naked on bed waiting for people to come around to fuck him, so I popped in and I was sucked a bit before fucking his bubble butt. He was a gorgeous 23yo young ginger and you know how much I like them. I attached a couple of pics of him - front and back - they were sent to me before the meeting, so that you can pleasure your penile cashew a bit.
I haven't anything planned this week, apart from a Clothed Male/Naked Male party on Saturday, but I am sure that something will come up.
I will keep you posted.
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Went to the opening of feminist art gallery Alpha Nova Werkstaff & Galerie Futura at the new space at Kunst Fabrik am Flutgraben in Kruezberg with Katja von Helldorf and her hot gal posse. It was a full devil moon just perfect for Druid Wiccan sorcering and prancing about naked in the forest----blessed be. My former students at Weissensee Art Academy were all part of the exhibition including Sweet Annette Knol who was with her smoking hot South American girlfriend Amelie, Lydia Hamann, Katja and her Leiseylento bandmate Cristian Forte. The vivacious Anne Kuhl is one of the artistic directors of this new space, which was packed to and beyond the rafters. I loved the messy graduate student feel of the proceedings with everything shown in a haphazard like fashion. I would not have used standard gallery bright lighting and made things more moody and mysterious. Openings are not really for seeing the art work on display. Of course being a giantessa I was constantly bumping my head into one stretched nylon assemblage. Now that’s how your form a relationship to art. Katja’s colored drawings are so very expressive and beguiling as if stolen from an ancient cave or rescued from a book of monk etchings you’d find in a monastery like in that Sean Connery film In the Name of the Rose. Annette’s super post modernist and I might add brilliant feminist lineage plates were also a highlight. I was feeling a little claustrophobic as it was so crowded and there was no place to sit, so I had to take my swollen feet back home to the Insel missing the performance.
The next evening I went to Anna Muelter of Hebbel am Ufer’s 16th birthday party at Barbie Deinhoff. It was a joyous affair that included Senol Senturk, Katja from Piss Gottin, kJohnny Blue, Susanna Sachsse, Marc Siegel, Daniel Hendrickson, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Olga Damnitz, Uli Ziemons and his beautiful girlfriend with appearances by Angela Melitoupolous, Nanna Heidenreich, Elsa the Portugeuse intermedia actress, Katrin Dod, Koen Clarehout, Meijke Hansen and DJane Bianca Kruk behind the mighty wheels of steel. Earlier in the eve I had a camp/anti-camp dinner meeting with Susi and Marcu that was fun filled with lots of laughter and gaiety, but also hard work and prep. In fact it was an entire day of meetings. My first was in the morning with my co-host for Vaginal Davis is Speaking From the Diaphragm Nanna Heidenreich, who prepared a delish breakfast as we made plans and basically had a girlish gaggle of a time. Met Nanna’s mom who is turning 88 years of age but doesn’t look a day over 60, she is so energetic and youthful. I can see where Nanna got her good genes from.
Sunday morning I met with Daniel Hendrickson and we worked on some Rising Stars, Falling Stars re-launch duties after a robust breakfast at a Neu Koelln Turkish boite. At 4pm I joined the Noisy Rooms rehearsal studio shenanigans with Tenderloin who seem to be gelling quite well. After rehearsal the boys and 19 year old lead singer Dagmar Hofpfisterei retreated for some non spicy Indian food in Friedrichshain. Landgraf Jan Klesse followed his doll back to the Cheese Endique Trifecta where he kept me up all night reading steamy passages from a new book about John Lennon’s love affair with his manager Brian Epstein where Lennon held Epstein in a chokehold and proceeded to ram up his arse mechanical fantastical. Talk about your hard days night.
In the morning Jan and I joined sweetie pie Manuel Schubert for a breakfast radio interview from Toughstein Cafe for Film Highlights Magazine. It was my day of press-O-matic as I also finished an e-interview with ExBerliner Magazine and was interviewed at the Trifecta by Ines Meier for the German edition of Art Info Magazine. I am also sadly behind in the essay that I am supposed to write for Art Forum on the late, great rock haunt Jabberjaw that thrived in LA’s Funkytown of South Central in the early 1990s.
Tomorrow Jonathan Berger arrives in Berlin. Jonathan will be doing the production design for camp/anti-camp, and I can’t wait to cover him in pithy kisses. During breakfast at Toughstein Café a song by Gwen Stefanie and her band No Doubt was played over the loud speaker. I was asked if I knew Ms. Stefanie which brought back memories of her and the band in the late 80s when they played the mod/ska/funk/soul circuit opening up for two better bands Momma Stud and Section Eight. If anyone knows whatever happened to the kids in these bands please holler at me with the details. Section Eight were a bunch of very cute kids who use to hang out at Retail Slut on Melrose with my Afro Sister Clitoris Turner aka: Mark Maxwell. Mark is a dinge queen and had a crush on one of the boys in the band who was somewhat of a nerdy Negro who wore wire frame glasses if I am remembering correctly. Momma Stud featured two girl back-up singers and one of them Laura E., was having a Lesbian affair with Fertile La Toyah Jackson photog Beulah Love. One time Laura joined the Afro Sisters in performance at UC Santa Barbara and beat the living excrement out of a drunken co-ed who threw a drink at her. Laura was a feisty fiery Latina with a shapelier buttocks then J-Lo. The last thing I heard about her was that she was being kept in elegant style by actor Eddie Murphy in the early to mid 90s between his conjugal visitations with various pre-op transsexuals who hung out at the Santa Monica Blvd club Some R,Some aRn’t at Peanuts Disco. Laura came clean to Eddie that she had herpes and he vamoosed taking back the credit cards, fancy car and Sunset Tower rendezvous pad.Shortly after that Laura wound up preggers by some dude, and was working as a receptionist for Jiffy Lube in the suburbs.

EIN DILDO FUER DIONYSUS
Thanks to Jan Klesse of the hot new art band Tenderloin for restoring my computer to active status. It seems to be working again after crashing during the first few days of the Berlinale film festival. Lets hope that it doesn’t present me with any more problems. I need access to the laptop to work on camp/anti-camp festival and the re-vamping of Rising Stars, Falling Stars and a bunch of other projects.
After the first few days of the Berlinale International film festival I wrote a few comments that have languished in my draft folder. So happy that now I can post them for your perusal, sorry for the long delay:
Early to rise for 9am press screening at the Berlinale Palast of the lyrical French film Aujourd’hui by Alain Gomis which features a sad, poker faced Seneglese man (played by American Saul Williams)in a poetic meditation filled with vibrantly moody naturalistic Vicente Minnelli-esque set pieces. It’s like a musical without the music. After this screening I cruised about the Potsdamer Platz playa with my constant companion the baby diaper of the Hidden Cameras Joel Gibb.
We then went to see a Panorama pic called Keep the Lights On(which won a Teddy Award) directed by Ira Sachs which I left halfway through right after the dull couple in the film played by Dane Thure Lindhart and Zachary Booth had a love scene which featured a not very convincing depiction of a mudslide. The best part of the film was the Arthur Russell score. I felt sorry for poor Julianne Nicholsen of Ally McBeal fame, she deserves three cookies for giving her all in a badly underdeveloped supporting role. While in the accreditation line I ran into sweet Shannon Kelly who use to be with Outfest and now is working at UCLA in their public programming department at the Melnitz Theatre. Shannon is at the Berlinale this year on the Teddy Awards committee and its great seeing him looking as handsome as ever. Few people know that Shannon is quite a song bird. He performed years ago at my club Bricktops at the Parlour for St.Paddy’s Day and tore the house down singing Irish songs and sea shantys.
Had a wonderful Tenderloin rehearsal yesterday at Noisy Rooms off of Warschauer Strasse. Afterwards Jan, Felix and I grabbed some grub at this Indian Restaurant in Friedrichshein that had really cheap cocktails. The night before we went to see baby diaper Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras DJ at London Calling at the Schwuz along with fellow Canuck Dickey Doo. Had a nice time hanging out with the North Americans but the cigarette smoke in the club was killing me. Early in the evening had a Tenderloin dinner meeting at the Mexican Restaurant Santa Maria with Felix, Joel and Jan to discuss Tenderloin performing as part of camp/anti-camp in April. Jan has been my houseguest for the last couple of days and its been heaven having a lovely young man around the house. Besides fixing my computer he put up some shelves for me and did a lot of things that only a man or hot butch wo-man can handle. I am completely helpless when it comes to using any kind of tool or technology.
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Here is a little funny email i received from the states that i think you will enjoy:

I'm at the Starbucks in Weho reading a manual/photo guide. I have almost 3 hrs
to kill. I didn't want to drive to the east side only to drive back to the west
side.
So I'm reading and monkey-ing around with my camera, testing different light
settings. Nobody was sitting next to me, I had my coffee and my Don't Fuck with
Me ear plugs and Poker face on! Deadly combo for Weho.

This lil Chinese dude walks up to me and sits on the chair next to me. He says.
I Fashion Molel... And he strikes a pose. I break my poker face and I smile, as
I decipher Model from Molel.

He says, U visitor, I say Yes, from Lago de Plata! He says, Oh I luve Espana...

He had a hot lil body. He put his hand on my leg and says. U Top? I don't
reply, he says, Me Bollum! His next sentence. I live up street, let's have fun.
I was expecting, Me luv U long Time.

He put my book in my backpack and says, Follow me. He stands and I see all
65lbs of him. He had a Que Cute lil Butt and a cute face. Like a Fucken stray
dog, I follow this lil dude to one of them expensive Weho apts.

He immediately gets on his knees and starts to suck me. I have never been with
an Asian dude. He sucks me for about a minute or so and is ready to be Fucked,
right there on the floor. Doggy Style, I figure out the position as he's on all
fours, getting lubed and pulling condoms out from under the Couch. I put the
rubber on and feel this SMOOTH lil Butt and tiny lil hole. He says, Oh Bick
Cock! Yeah. (That doesn't work for me, although at that moment I understood
them Goofy white boys with Asian GF or BF's. Ur right, them small bodies make ur
Cock look like a Fucken Cock-a-Sorous! I felt like I was going to split this
Fucker in half. We start Doggy style, he's making a fuss, we change to him
sitting on me with his back facing my face. My preferred position. He is going
to town, his hole had this ass sucking Muscle that I have never experienced. I
didn't know what was happening, it was like a mouth in his hole Sucking my dick.
He rode me for a while and then I took over. He says, Stop, oh so good. I
turn. So now he's facing me, and he's riding my dick squating on me like an old
Chinese Grandma. His face was no longer cute, I then get a margarette Cho
vision of her strained faces. This boy was going to town, now he's loud, I
don't understand him. He says. Cum. Cum. And he cums on my chest, he had a
mighty lil Dick.

He says, touch me. I had only been touching, spreading and manhandling his hot
lil Ass. I didn't touch him. He finished, I told him to get on his side. He
did. I fucked him as he was sideways, he said, oh no mo. I said, I need to
finish, I pinned his lil body down and went at it until I unloaded, he unloaded
again, this time without his hands, as I was holding on to his arm.

I got up, he took off the rubber and I changed. He said, Oh how often u visit
from Pain? (Spain) I said every once in a while. He gave me his card, number,
email, twiller account-I told him I didn't Twitter, and every possible way for
me to contact him.

So I left with a new found respect for them Hot lil Asian men. I believe he was
Chinese.

Warrior

GERBILS ARE THE FUTURE OF MAN
That sweet Jewish Muslim Champion for Christ Jesus Daniel Hendrickson took me to a nice birthday breakfast at this cute Turkish café on the Hauptstrasse across from Oz Gida supermarket. The food was fine but our waiter was one of the most fugliest men I have ever seen. He looked like a Turkish version of Max Shreck of Nosferatu fame. I have seen many German Nosferatu but never a Turkish one. Scary.
Later in the evening Marc Siegel, Susanne Sachsse and Judy LaBruce took me for a fab birthday dinner at Azul in Kreuzberg. This restaurant is one of my fav´s and I scarfed down their tasty lamb cutlets which are superb. I never stop working my birthday which I drag out for an entire month. I am shameless!
It was great catching up with Judy LaBruce. She had a million fascinating stories to tell us about her trip to Cuba with her big dicked Afro Cuban husband and scandals in Madrid Spain with her new photography exhibition Obscenity at the LA Fresh Gallery. Not only was Judy condemned by Catholic groups but the fascist Franco Foundation was also looking for LaBrucian blood. In short everyone in Spain hates Bruce “Judy” LaBruce. She is slowly becoming the most despised wo-man on the planet, and the most controversial. All the major media in Europe is up in arms and the internet viralocity has made BLAB the top keyword. Judy was looking fit and trim though she caught a bit of a cold from a Bulgarian concubine she hired. Our Lady Judy of the Mariposa will be in Berlin for two months working on several high octane projects that she is trying to keep under wraps and will be participating in the upcoming camp/anti-camp festival Queer Guide to Everday Life at HAU 2 April 19-2st. If you are interested in BLAB product two finger rings in solid sterling silver and solid sterling silver goldplated are available in limited edition of 100 copies worldwide by European Jewelier to the shtars Jonathan Johnson. Contact him at www.Jonathan-B-Johnson.com or www.brucelabruce.com
Special thanks to writer Travis Jeppeson who connected me with the young, vivacious Portuguese film programmer Pedro Marum of Queer Lisbon Festival and his very cute lesbian husband Rita who I met with at WAU Café the other day to talk about my coming to their youthquaker film festival. Its very smart of this festival to give it over to a youthful contingent who will have fresh ideas and exuberant energy. Other Queer festivals should take heed if they want to remain relevant.
Travis Jeppesen who is also a regular writer to Art Forum Magazine will have a new novel coming out in 2013 called The Suiciders released on the Semiotext(e) imprint which all of his many fans will certainly be anticipating. Travis will most likely read from this new novel when he makes an appearance on my Speaking From the Diaphragm talkshow installation in April at HAU 2 that is part of camp/anti-camp.
Some literary kibbels I just heard on the grapevine: That hot hunky dark haired Jewish writer Nathan Englander(What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank) is having a delicious same sex love affair with Muslim writer Wael Ghonim. I love it when heterosexual men break out of middleclassism and experiment with homosexuality. I am all down for that!
Of course I´m not one to gossip so you know you didn´t hear this from me.
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I just finished reading the Scotty Bowers book Full Service and it’s a scandalous hoot. 89 year old Mr. Bowers seems to have had sex with almost every golden era Hollywood star including Vivien Leigh who he sez was great in the sack. He also procured kinky sex dates for Charles Laughton who was a scat queen who enjoyed excremental peanut butter sandwiches and Tyrone Power who savored a train of studluddites golden showering on him. My favorite pronouncement of his was that James Dean was a prissy little queen, moody and unpredictable.
Of course I believe everything he wrote. Its too outrageous to be made up plus it has the Gore Vidal seal of approval.
The other book I am enjoying is Kippenberger-The Artist and His Families by his sister Susanne Kippenberger. I had met the handsome German artist many years ago when he managed the punk club SO36 which is still a popular hot spot in Berlin.

Here is the latest project from one of my hot young German kollegues:
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Liebe Kolleg_innen, liebe Freund_innen,

wir laden Sie und Euch herzlich ein zur Wiedereröffnung von alpha nova kulturwerkstatt & galerie futura in den neuen Räumlichkeiten in der Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben und der Vernissage zur Ausstellung „Von Rosen, Nelken, Netzen – Künstlerische Statements zum Weltfrauentag“.

Am 08. März 2012 ab 19:30 Uhr
Vernissage, Performance mit Sara Ka Ka, Musik mit turbo diesel & egotrya
alpha nova kulturwerkstatt & galerie futura, Am Flutgraben (Kunstfabrik), 12453 Berlin (U1 Schlesisches Tor)

Wir freuen uns auf Ihr und Euer zahlreiches Erscheinen.
Mit besten Grüßen,

Katharina Koch und Anne Kohl
Künstlerische Leitung alpha nova kulturwerkstatt & galerie futura

www.alpha-nova-kulturwerkstatt.de

alpha nova-kulturwerkstatt & galerie futura ist ein Ausstellungs- und Veranstaltungsort in Berlin, der unter einer genderkritischen Perspektive an den Schnittstellen von Kunst, Wissenschaft und politischer Praxis arbeitet.

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Ausstellung: Von Rosen, Nelken, Netzen
Künstlerische Statements zum Weltfrauentag

Installation – Poetische Objekte – Zeichnung – Video – Foto – Sound

Künstler_innen: Birgit Cauer, Cristian Forte, Lydia Hamann/Kaj Osteroth, Sandra Haselsteiner, Katja von Helldorf, Bettina Hohorst/Tina Kiel/Mayan Printz, Roland Ibold, Annette Knol, Monika Ortmann

Rosen symbolisieren nicht nur Liebe, sondern stehen auch als Symbol für die Kämpfe streikender Textilarbeiterinnen zu Beginn des 20 Jh., die die Anfänge der Frauenbewegung markieren. Nelken wurden zum Sinnbild der „gelösten Frauenfrage“ in der DDR. Netze können zukunftsweisend sein, um aus der Differenz verschiedener Lebensentwürfe heraus gemeinsam Forderungen zu artikulieren und emanzipative Kräfte zu bündeln gegen Ungleichheitsverhältnisse und für ein selbstbestimmtes Leben aller. Dies sind nur einige Facetten des Nachdenkens über den Weltfrauentag, der auch die Frage aufwirft: Wer ist eigentlich das Subjekt des 8. März? galerie futura schließt sich der Diskussion über die Wiederaneignung des Tages an und fragt darin nach den Potentialen der Kunst. In Installationen, Objekten, Zeichnungen, Foto, Video und in Interviews setzen sich die Künstler_innen auf kritische, ernste, ironische, lustvolle, verspielte und bisweilen kämpferische Weise mit der heutigen Bedeutung des Weltfrauentags auseinander.

Künstlerische Leitung / Kuratorinnen: Anne Kohl, Katharina Koch

Ausstellung: 9. März – 20. April 2012, Mi.-Sa. 16-19 Uhr

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Dear friends and colleagues,

we cordially invite you to the re-opening of alpha nova kulturwerkstatt & galerie futura in the new space at Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben and to the opening of the exhibition „Von Rosen, Nelken, Netzen – Künstlerische Statements zum Weltfrauentag“ ("Of roses, carnations, and networks - Artistic statements on International Women's Day").

March 8th, 2012, from 7.30 P.M.
Opening, Performance with Sara Ka Ka, Music with turbo diesel & egotrya
alpha nova kulturwerkstatt & galerie futura, Am Flutgraben (Kunstfabrik), 12453 Berlin (U1 Schlesisches Tor)

We are looking forward to seeing you at the openings.
With best regards,

Katharina Koch und Anne Kohl
Artistic Directors alpha nova kulturwerkstatt & galerie futura

www.alpha-nova-kulturwerkstatt.de

alpha nova-kulturwerkstatt & galerie futura is a Berlin-based art space for exhibitions and cultural events which promotes the interaction of artistic, theoretical and political practices with an explicit gender-critical perspective.

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And the great Franko b will have a showcase for his new project Because of Love April 24, 2012 at the Laban Theatre in London. For more information and to reserve a ticket please contact Richard Oyarzabal at richard.oyarzabal@btinternet.com www.franko-b.com

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Joel sent me this newsreport. I didnt believe him about it at first, but now i do:

MAN DISMEMBERED AND COOKED AFTER SEX GAMES
The dismembered, partially cooked corpse of a missing man has been found in a Berlin apartment, where prosecutors believe he was killed after a sex game spiralled out of control.
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The BZ daily reported on Wednesday that the deceased, Carsten Srock, was found with his limbs expertly carved off with either an axe or large knife. The body pieces were then wrapped fastidiously in plastic bags and cling-wrap, and left to sit in the two-room flat for around three weeks.

His head was found, partially cooked, by the police.

Prosecutors on the case told the BZ they believe the victim was “murdered for sexual pleasure.”

Owner of the Mariendorf apartment is a 43-year-old man identified as Michael S., who was rescued by paramedics after trying to take his own life. The unemployed Berliner attempted to open a main vein, before calling the emergency services minutes after.

It was only upon the arrival of the paramedics that the gruesome truth began to come to light. The paramedics contacted the police, who arrived at the scene to find not only Michael S. bathed in blood, but the body parts of his occasional sexual partner Srock, dotted around the residence.

“Officials questioned the man in hospital,” a spokesman for the state prosecutors told the paper. During questioning Michael S. reportedly admitted to the murder. An warrant for his arrest was issued on Tuesday.

Srock was reported missing by his partner January 2. According to the gay news portal queer.de the bank manager, who reportedly worked part-time at a Berlin gay sauna called "Boiler", finished his shift behind the bar on the evening of New Years Day.

He then took out a large sum of money from a nearby cash point possibly to help Michael S. pay off debts, or to exchange for sex, reported the BZ.

Srock then rang his partner to say that he had other arrangements and would not be returning home that night. The next day, his phone had been turned off.

“It did not take long for us to narrow the search down to the 43-year-old Michael S.,” a police spokesman told Die Welt newspaper. He also added that investigators had discovered that the pair had apparently agreed to partake in sex games beforehand.

An autopsy later confirmed that the two men had taken part in sexual activity together shortly before the murder. Exact time of death remains, however, unclear.

Berlin's gay community has been rocked by the revelations, which have sparked condolences on internet forums for the 37-year-old victim.

The gruesome incident is reminiscent of the murder committed in 2001 by Armin Meiwes, dubbed the "Cannibal from Rotenburg" for castrating, butchering and eating a man. After meeting a 43-year-old engineer from Berlin online, Meiwes and his victim agreed to the killing and cannibalism.

The Local/jcw

Update on Don Cornelius of Soul Train:

When i reported that my friend Doug Gordon who lives in Thailand now went to high school with a woman who was the lover of Don Cornelius i got the info a little mixed up. Doug´s friend is named Victoria Avila and her relationship with Don Cornelius took place for many years over 20 years ago. The mainstream newsmedia also falsely reported that he was going through a bitter divorce with Victoria Avila, but as usual newssources got their facts wrong because his ex-wife a blonde European woman is also named Victoria. Victoria Avila is a beautiful dark haired Latina. Doug tells me that Don Cornelius called Ms. Avila "Big Vic" and that she was deeply in love with at one time.

Had a nice visit with Baby Diaper Joel Gibb to talk about Tenderloin at his Rix Dorf compound. The Diaper gave me a beautiful winter shirt for my belated birthday.
With Muslim champion Daniel Hendrickson I had a meeting with Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus about the Rising Stars, Falling Stars Re-Launch in April. It was a very productive meeting. Starting April 22nd is the debut of Rising Stars, Falling Stars-We Must Have Music which will shift the focus of the films i screen from silent to sound and music. After four years of exploring the Arsenal silent and early cinema archive it was high time to shake things up a bit. Of course we will still throw in a silent film with live musical accompanyment here and there. As part of camp/anti-camp we will screen the Nazimova silent of Oscar Wilde´s Salome on March 23rd at 8pm with live musical accompanyment by Tim &kJohnny Blue.
After our Rising Stars meeting, Stefanie and Uli surprised me with a little champagne birthday toast and showered me with juicy presents. It really was a festive little spur of the moment party that included a Poloroid camera, Olga Damnitz and Nanna Heidenreich.
Later in that same evening i took Little Alex of Macedonia to Yumcha Heroes in Mitte for his belated birthday and he gave me a cute little sketch book for mine. We were joined by his hot lover Asaf Hochman for a robust night of girlish klatch.

DON'T EAT PUSSY OFF THE SIDEWALK
Got this cute emug from Mark Simon of The Boyfriend who use to perform regularly at Bricktops in Los Angeles. That Mark is someone very special who i love.


Dear Dr. Davis, I can't remember if I sent you a note about how MAGICAL you were at your Bullocks event. YOU WERE. Once again
you captured every imagination in the room. From the instant you materialized behind the glass door... until THE END flashed on the screen,we were yours. Your timing is flawless,I hope you know. Bea Lillie, beware!
You also now join the ranks of Nora Bayes, Jack Norworth, Grace La Rue??, Ina Claire, Lauritz Melchoir, Eleanor Steber and Lawrence Tibbet, in having the wisdom to allow Elsa Maxwell to toss a small silver coin into the mighty roaring river of your talent. You did not put a foot wrong. Thanks too for getting us a few comps, we were glad to spring for a couple more. xoxoxoxox Mark

PS Just for the hell of it I'm including some pictures of your spawn theboyfriend.

here is the bio we use

In 2003 The Boyfriend sprang fully blown from the hip of *Vaginal Davis, on a Friday night, on top of the bar at Bricktops Speakeasy. We approach our songs from around the corner. We hope to see you there.

Having a wonderful birthday runaway with the Camel. The other day he took me to the Hawley Arms in Camden Town which was the late Amy Winehouse's favorite watering hole. It was very straight and trendy playing 60s soul and hulabaloo. There were some cute boys in their twenties and some basic British Dolly Birds. We also stopped by The Bar Fly, The Lock Tavern and The Monarch. These are some famous live music pubs that discovered groups like Coldplay. All these pubs are located in Camden Town in walking distance from Love Camel's flat. Camel took me to eat at Porchetta which is across the street from the famous Round House near Chalk Farm. I ate a delicious Porcini Risotto with a rucula salad.
I noticed walking the biways of London that the latest street look is an odd mix of Bozo the Clown/Hobo Kelly with plushy/furry cumstained seperates.
Love Camel gave me a wonderful book that i cant wait to read called Full Service by Scotty Bowers with Lionel Freiedberg its the true archive story of a handsome young former marine and gas station attendent who was the concubine and procurer to many golden era Hollywood Stars both male and female.
Now we are off for a birthday Brunch at Mexican boite Cafe Pacifico Cantina then will go to Tate Modern to see the Yayoi Kusama retrospective, thankx to the wonderful Stuart Comer.
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Back in Berlin from my wonderous birthday stay in London. Thanks to Love Camel, Stuart Comer of Tate Modern for the comp tickets to the fab Yayoi Kusama Exhibition and a delish catalogue. Ms. Kusama is one of my alltime favorite artists as she is as crazy if not more so then i am. In the 1970s she had herself committed to a mental institution and she only comes out periodically to attend her international art openings. Also kissy kisstata to big daddy Ron Athey, Franko B., Lee Adams and Lydia Lunch. The weather in London was divine. I loved eating at the Kentish Town Cantina a few doors down from Love Camel´s flat. And what can I say about those gorgeous peaches & cream complexioned London boys that drive me crazy with desire especially a tall Irish ginger haired 23 year old lad named Ronan who is an Olympic Swimmer with a body you can build a dream on.

Just got this update to who was at the Forum Party at the Volksbuhne last week:

Mickey the delightful boyfriend of beautiful Dorothee Wenner, who is like the German Glen Meadmore in that he drives stars for a living. Wynn and Sally chamberlain and their son. Tom Kalin, director of Swoon, with Rose Troche from Go Fish fame, talking heatedly with the Chamberlains about their encounters with Frank O'hara. Birgit Hein, some boring film academics.Stefan Drößler the head of the film museum munich who is bringing out the w+b hein dvd this year! Ewa Szablowska, stylishly lovely Polish Jewish programmer from Wroclaw who co-curated Jack Smith Retro and invited Mario Montez last summer. Britt, the dear friend of Achmed Bürger, who runs a casting agency and is interested in promoting the acting career of Miss Vicky, Richard Gershe´s sweet and pretty girlfriend,Ulrike Ottinger,
Karola Gramann and Heide Schlüpmann,Angelina Jolie in sunglasses and a hickey on her upper neck given by Jenny Shimizu and Stephan Geene, the affable b books leader.
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Got a lot of email from people asking me why I haven´t commented on Whitney Houston´s death. Well I was never a big fan of her music. I was one of the first writers to comment on Whitney as a lesbian way back in the 1980s, when people were telling me that I was crazy and just making things up. I always wind up proving the naysayers wrong. My performance art musical group The Afro Sisters even had a song called “We´re Lesbians” that featured the lyrics:

Florence Henderson . . . Wesson –ality
Lauren Hutton got that gap between her teeth
Whitney from Houston likes to be underneath

One thing I did forget to mention was the death of Soul Train host Don Cornelius who committed suicide at age 75. Don Cornelius was living with a woman who went to high school in Whittier California with my good friend Doug Gordon who use to design the covers of Fertile La Toyah Jackson Magazine. Doug now lives in Thailand and I just emailed him to get his take on Cornelius´suicide so I will report what he sez as soon as I hear from him. I grew up watching the dancing on Soul Train, and some kids I knew from LA High School were Soul Train regulars. A lot of the black guys dancing on the program were queens who were regulars at the Catch One Disco on Pico Blvd in funkytown.

Now I have to go into overdrive prepping for the new art festival at HAU 2 curated by Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel called camp/anti-camp A Guide to Everyday Life which will open happens April 19-21st.

LADY IN VERMIN
The Vagimule doll left Berlin with Love Camel Friday morning for London. The Camel was treating her doll to a whirlwind English birthday. We had to wake up pretty early to catch our flight from Schonefeld Airport. Not my fav aeroport to be sure. Was freaking out that the aeroport was going on strike, but that was happening in Frankfurt not Berlin as of yet. Also heard that the bus and subways would go on strike on Saturday.
The night before we were at the famed Forum Party at the Volksbuhne which was fun and laugh filled. Drank too much and made a fool out of myself because i had stupidly skipped dinner to make a screening of the Taiwanese film Love that was shown at Kino International and featured an attractive young Chinese cast. The men in the film had me all achy breaky for sticky rice. Yowza. In fact the best looking men this year at the festival were in the films, not much eye candy circulating about at screenings.
Got to flirt and kissy kiss with handsome Uli Ziemons, lovely Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Nanna Heidenreich & Olga Damnitz, CHEAP fearless leader Susanne Sachsse & Marc Siegel, Daniel Hendrickson, Nazli Kilerci & Greek Yorgos, kJohnny Blue, Superstar Mario Montez and lover Dave, Wilhelm Hein & Annette Frick, Aijoja & Marianne of bbooks, Little Alex and Tim of Chocolate Grinder, socially promiscuous BFF Darryl "Horacio" Els, Shannon Kelly of UCLA Film Archive with pals from Mix Brazil, stylish and sophisticated Dorthea Wenner, Weiland Speck, Koen Claerhout and a bunch of others that i will report on when i get the official guest list.
Love Camel lives in Kentish Town near Camden area of London in a cute split level flat that is spacious with a balcony and a fab view. Big Daddy Ron Athey cooked me a delicious pre birthday dinner at his lovely sublet on Caledonia Road. Visiting him from Barcelona the first lady of harsh that gorgeous, talented creature known to the world as Lydia Lunch. The no wave starina shared with us some of her new hit songs from her upcoming album that will be released in May and believe me this new material is explosive! Just like the fiery lady Lydia herself. She also let us sneak peak her new videos that will feature in upcoming live performances at film & music festivals. Ms. Lunch will be doing a spoken word performance at the Kunst Werker in Berlin in March. I will post a full update on her and Franko B when i get back to Berlin. Also at the intimate soiree besides Franko was Love Camel and sweet Lee Adams who gave me a birthday present of Derek Jarman's Super 8 book.
Before going to Ron's Love Camel took me for a luncheon at this little American style place called The Diner on Camden High Street and then we had a drink at this gay pub called The Black Cap that turns into a disco after the pub closes where they have low rent drag shows. In the morning Camel treated the Doll to a Polish greasy spoon breakfast at this tiny boite called Mama Mia that had some hunky pale skinned skally lads inside who were turning me on like you wouldn't believe.
Been having a wonderous time with crazy Camel. He showed me the film The Score directed by Radley Metzger from 1974 starring Casey Donavan. I had seen the other Metzger film The Lickerish Quarter which is completely insane. I think i should have Jonathan Berger use the film Lickerish Quartet as inspiration for our Speaking From the Diaphragm set when i recreate the talkshow installation in Berlin. Camel also showed me a little known Italian movie called Cosotto from 1977 starring a very young Jodie Foster and a cute young Italian actor named Michele Placido. The film features a cameo by Catherine Deneuve and also stars Passolini lover Ninetto Davoli. I'll never forget when i first met Jodie Foster in 1975 at the opening of Famous Amos Cookie store on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood. She was with her mother, and was so butch she came on to me right in front of her mom who was more like her girlfriend then parent. Jodie thought i was a girl. Also at this opening was Andy Warhol, Faye Dunaway and her then husband Peter Wolf of the J. Geills Band. I wound up at this event by accident when the Preview House that i think is now Harmony Gold up the street was too full to let me in.

HEIMSPIEL IN GOLD
Last night at Cinemaxxx´s tiny screening room 4 saw the odd Japanese film End of Puberty/Koi ni itaru yamai by the wonderfully insane young Japanese directrix Kimura Shoko. The flicker features a nubile cast of two very personable and sexxy girls and one beautiful boy with the most luscious lips, pale skin and shrimpable feet. He looks like a homo anime come to life or Japanese boyband member. The movie features the exchange of genitals in a very Petrolio like manner that would make Passolini proud. Ms. Shoko is a new voice in film to herald.
This morning i woke up pretty early to catch Egyptian Brit Sally El Hosaini´s My Brother The Devil which boasts two delicious eyecandy leads in the strapping forms of thrombone James Floyd and pillowlipped Fady Elsayed. I wanted to kidnap both stars during the q&a. This gritty urban tale is electric glide & blue with dazzling cinematography and nuanced performances. The British street patois alone is enough for realness/healness. Like Ms. Shoko of End of Puberty Ms. El Hosaini is a formidable directing & writing talenta that i am proud to tell it from the mountain about.
Love Camel went to see Salma Hayek starring in La Chispa de la Vida a film by Alexander Iglesia. The film started one hour late at the Friedrich Stad Palast which garnished the ire of the crowd who showered the facilitator, star and director with a volly of boos.

DADDY WAR MAL COOL
Last night with Love Camel in tow or is that camel toe we went to Arsenal I to see the Cambodian kinky fractured fairytale Puos Keng Kang which in English i think is The Snake Man which is part of their Cambodian cinema golden era retrospectacle. The film from 1970 directed by Tea Lim Koun was everything that you expect in world cinemá--exotic, lush & lyrical with interspecies sex, madcap mugging by effeminate supporting players and barefoot big tittied Jeffrey Hunteresque matinee idols. Joining Camel and I was gorgeous Susanne Sachsse. The director of the film not only brought to the screening the surviving stars but half of Southeast Asia with him. Nearly three hours long it was all a whirling delight of the senses. Afterward we joined film historian Marc Siegel for some hot buttery gossip at the low rent Andy´s diner across the street that stays open all night. Marc Siegel and 84 year old director Wynn Chamberlin are now official BFF´s forever.
Earlier i went to HAU2 for the Harum Farocki presentation of La Verifica Incerta that is part of the wonderful Forum Expanded experimental section of the Berlinale. Received tender hugz and kisses from a radiant Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, and her co-curators the lovesexy scholar extrodinaire Nanna Heidenreich and the handsomest man in all of Europa Uli Ziemons who is now 30 years old and very manlische. The packed house also featured Ana Muelter, Katrin Dod the legendary beauty of HAU and the glamorous Dorothea Wenner who was chatting with actor Jake Gyllenhaul who few recognized and icelandic male ingenue Hilmar Gudjonsson.
My day started with Love Camel eating delish Mexican grub at Maria Bonita before catching a screening of the film Comes a Bright Day that was in the Generation 14 plus section. There were too many children at the Cinemaxxx theatre for my liking. Camel is brilliant but sometimes his taste in films are odd. He was telling me that in London he went to a screening of the Squarebob Squarepants film and was the only adult not accompanied by a child. Leaving Cinemaxx i ran into Women in Film legends Heidi Schluptmann & Corolla Grauman of Cinematek Asta Nielsen in Frankfurt, the famed duo was looking quite stylish and elegant in their winter gear who had
just left a screening of Sydney Pollack´s Out of Africa that was part of the tribute to Meryl Streep.
Had an interview with a clueless reporter from Variety Magazine who had been to my Getty performance in Los Angeles. He took me to breakfast at the Hyatt and grilled me about everything Berlin. I told him about CHEAP kollective and Forum Expanded and the Arsenal and he was hanging on every word. He also asked what i was reading lately and i told him i was given an advanced copy of the memoir by former JF Kennedy intern Mimi Alford Once Upon a Secret about her affair with the president. I plan on digging deep into the book when i fly to London for my birthday.

HEUTE NACHT ODER NIE
The Love Camel aka: Andrea Novarin has arrived in Berlin and is staying with his doll. Camel worked for many years at the BFI but decided to quit all of a sudden. Every year he comes to the Berlinale International Film Festival to soak in its cinema Palmolive. Last night he met me at the CineStar Theatre where the Forum was screening Wynn Chamberlain´s lost cult film Brand X that stars the phenomenal Taylor Mead, along with incredible comic performances by Sally Kirkland, Sam Shepard, Tally Brown (who almost steals the film from Taylor)Ultra Violet, Candy Darling and Jimmy Hendrix in a cameo. My Fertile La Toyah Jackson Video Magazine from the early 90s is the only thing i can compare this film to. Its almost as if i had seen Brand X and channeled it when i made Fertile, but of course I wasn´t aware of its existence. The director is a complete freak and at 84 years of age he doesn´t seem to be slowing down in his freakazoid outlook which i just love. In fact his voice sounds like a man in his early twenties. So glad this film is getting the revival it deserves. One of my favorite scenes is of a couple fornicating on top of a moving convertible and the delirious monologues of Taylor Mead that are pure genius and very au courrant. Also in the audience experiencing the joyous high from the film: Nanna Heidenreich, Uli Ziemons of Forum Expanded, Susanne Sachsse, Daniel Hendrickson, Anna Muelter, Annette Frick and Wilhelm Hein. It was so wonderful seeing Wilhelm who had been seriously ill. Its really not the Berlinale without a Wilhelm Hein sighting. Wilhelm Hein is Mr. Underground Cinema.
Wilhelm&Annette will host a special event at their art salon Casabaubou at See Strasse 107 in Wedding (U6& get off at See Str) Monday Feb 20th 17-21 urh. Its called Entities and its the first European presentation of new paintings by New York City legend Nick Zedd.
After the screening of Brand X Marc Siegel hosted a nice conversation with the director and fielded questions from the audience. Earlier in the evening Marc was also in fine form at HAU I talking with artists Catherine Sullivan and Farhad Sharmini after the screening of their film The Last Days of British Honduras an adaptation of Ronald Tavel´s little known play of the same name. It was nice meeting Catherine for the first time and seeing one of the film´s stars who use to live in Berlin. Catherine has collaborated with Sean Griffin who did the evocative score and Julianna Snapper as well as Asaf Hochman and Ron Athey. Some of the performers in the film had nice theatrical voices and one in particular looked like a young Tavel. I was crushing out on one young Latino man with sculpted eyebrows and a humpy black man with luscious lips.
The abrupt shifting from naturalness to anti-naturalism was a bit jarring and fell flat, but perhaps that was an aesthetic choices for some reason that didn´t resonate with me. I loved that they went with a work of Tavel´s that has no association with Warhol, and being that Miss Catherine is an artworld darling that in and of itself was daring.
In terms of the Forum Expanded program the panel CAIRO-The City, Images, The Archives on Saturday Feb 11th at the Deutsche Kinematek Event Room on the 4th floor of the Sony Filmhaus was an invigorating pure delight, and so timely. Kudos to head programmer and Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and her crack curatorial team of Nanna Heidenreich, Uli Ziemons, Anselm Franke, & Bettina Steinbruegge. Normally I hate panel discussions but this one kicked royal ass with Khalid Abadalla , a cute British/Egyptian actor and founder of Yero Productions and the alternative media kollective Mosireen, Hala Galal (via Skype) the filmmaker, producer, director of SEMAT production and distribution company, Maha Maamoun, artist, curator and co-founder of Contemporary Image Collective and Sarah Rifky the curator of Townhouse Gallery and founder of Cairo International Resource Center for Art/Documenta 13.
My new computer that West of Rome bought me in October has crashed. What is it with me and technology? I seem to have the worse possible luck. So of course this is the reason why its taking me so long to update the blogina. Please be patient with me. Hopefully after the film festival and after i return from London i can get Olga Damnitz to use her technical wizardy on my computer to rescue at least some of my blog posts that i had written as drafts about what i saw the first few days of the Berlinale.
The last thing i will mention is that I have been having a blast with Daniel Hendrickson my Japanese/Muslim BFF and partner in scrime at the Forum´s yearly classic Japanese cinema retrospectacle at Arsenal 1 and the Delphi. The films of Kawashima Yuzo are enchanting. Between Yesterday and Today, Suzaki Paradise: Red Light and The Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate featuring comic star Frankie Sakai as a homosexual grifter running amok in a bordello were highlights of my screening antics this year. That and see cute Julius Bauer and spending quality time at the Forum Office at the Haus Huth with young South African film programmer Darryl Els who is the personification of Prince Charming.

EXTREM LAUT UND UNGLAUBLICH NAH
Back in Berlin from tour in Dusseldorf with Commi Biggi and I am still getting lots of emails about my Getty/Pacific Standard Time commission piece in Los Angeles. I forgot to mention that the awful icky fugly old bald headed queen John Kohner who manages the Bullock’s Wilshire for Southwest Law School also gave problems to the LA Conservancy when they did a much smaller less high profile event at the Bullock’s Wilshire so he has quite the bad reputation as a prissy infidel. How do people like him manage to get positions of authority?
Now its Berlinale time and since I work for the Arsenal and Forum Expanded, which is the experimental section of the international film festival I have to make my lady presence known. The first major event of the Berlinale season was the grand opening yesterday evening of Forum Expanded at the Kunstaele Salon at Bulow Strasse. I arrived with my famous dates Peaches and baby diaper Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras fresh from his sex tourism trip to Brazil. The diaper was looking tanned and humpy luscious, and had wonderful sexcapdes in San Paolo and Rio, but also hung out with Susie from the MIX Festival and Ricardo of Shade Inc. formerly Berlin Hilton. Ricardo is a famed Brazilian poet. Who knew?
Mr. Gibb is so dingy that he went to Brazil not knowing that he needed a visa and after a 36 hour plane ride was unceremoniously sent back to Berlin just to have to make the long trip again. Joel & Peaches had dinner earlier during at the Thai restaurant Papaya on the Haupt Strasse at Kleistpark.
I am so jealous of Joel's smoldering sex life. Well he is tall, handsome, talented and Canadian so of course he is going to be one hell of a desired beauty prize no matter what city he is in.
The Forum Expanded opening was packed to the rafters and everyone seemed to be in a joyous mood including Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathous the head curator of Forum Expanded and my gorgeous lady boss with her vivacious compadres Nanna Heidenreich, Uli Ziemons, and Olga Damnitz. Ran into dirty white lovesexy French boy Michele Belague, Little Alex of Chocolate Grinder Film Kollective,sweet and innocent Christian Weber who will be my assistant for Camp/Anti-Camp and Speaking From the Diaphragm at HAU2 in April. Looking all pretty and bubbly Constanze Ruhm& Angela Melitopolous, dimunitive cutie pie with the perfect smile Anselm Franke chittle chatted with me and asked about my Getty/Pacific Standard Time commission piece in LA. I don't care how tiny Anselm is i sure would love for him to sit on my face. Hung out with kJohnny and Tim Blue, Daniel Hendrickson, Nazli Kilerci, my lesbian girlfriend Anna Muelter with her boss Matthias Lilienthal and the beauty of HAU Katrin Dod, fearless leader of CHEAP Susanne Sachsse and Israeli artist living in Canada Elle Flaners.
I was holding court in Luke Fowler’s All Divided Selves single channel HD video projection black room. Even though I was engrossed in conversation the RD Laing von Furstenberg pull of the archival footage still got me wrapped up in the very destroy all monsters quality of it all.
Heike Baronowsky’s Barometer (I) with its inflated weather balloons was a pure joy to behold. Uli Ziemons was telling me about Florian Wust’s Dienst an der Notwendigkeit which I saw as a melding of Jodie Foster in the film Carny with James Bridges’ The China Syndrome. Loved the drawings surrounding the tiny flat screen TV, but Mr. Wuss, I mean Wust had to ruin things by chastising me and Frau Sachsee for chit chatting too close to his prescious art blocking the view of the guests----as if anyone but the most stridently dorky at an opening really pays that much attention. Openings are for socializing you come back later if you really are interested in the art. These kunstlers who take themselves so damn seriously. POOVAH.
The next day I went to a press screening of Benoit Jacquot’s Les Adieux a la Reine/Farewell My Queen starring the lovely ingénue Lea Seydoux and German actress Diane Kruger as Marie Antoinette. Ran into well hung young writer Travis Jepperson in line. Travis now lives in London where he is working on his Phd but still takes writing assignments for Art Forum Magazine and is covering the Berlinale for them. He didn’t give up his Berlin apartment but is subletting it while he is away studying.
I found the film intriguing and beautifully composed. Frau Kruger’s lesbianic interpretation flawless especially in her scenes with gal pal Virginie Ledoyen. Kirstin Dunst who played Queen Marie in Sofia Coppola’s film a few years ago should have done some carpet munching on Asia Argenta. Discovered that Baby Diaper Joel Gibb was also at the screening so we billed and cooed until I had to trot off to Muslim Daniel Hendrickson’s flat. Later Daniel and I went to the second Forum Expanded opening at this new and wonderfully deconstructed space on Friedrickstrasse at Hallesches Tor called Guschow Haus where the hot lesbian Israeli artist Elle Flanders couldn’t care less if guests were chatting and blocking the view of her powerful Road Movie a six channel HD video installation produced by the National Film Board of Canada. This piece features a companion soundscape by audio artist Anna Friz. Ms. Flanders is known for her critical responses to Israeli treatment of the Palestinians.
Like the evening before everyone was in a festive mood which is just what an opening should be about. Making the scene Mr. Joel Gibb who adores Ms. Flanders with his favorite companion Peaches. Joel told me that the Interview Magazine party that he and Peaches went to last night wasn’t very good, so I am glad I held my ground and didn’t go with them to it. Travis Jepperson was with visiting Canadian artist John Monteith who lives in New York but wants to move to Berlin. Mr. Jepperson got balled out by Nanna Heidenreich of Forum Expanded for smoking in the basement viewing area. I didn’t want to get in the middle of their row so I klatched with Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Olga Damnitz, Uli Ziemons, Angela Melitopoulos, Ela of bbooks, Katrin Dod with Anna Muelter of HAU and Nicole Wolf. I left with Susanne Sachsse, visiting South Afrikan film programmer Darryl Els who is the BFF of Daniel Hendrickson. I was starving so we grabbed some grub at the nearby Paracas Peruvian Restaurant where I had a delicious fish&shrimp soup and Peruvian style enchilada with guacamole and drank a banana agua fresca.