ES LEBE DIE LIEBE
Attended the first two days of the Independent Arab Short Films and Media Art Festival at the Arsenal with Jewish Muslim Daniel Hendrickson and fearless leader of CHEAP Susanne Sachsse. Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus has scored a coup with 61 Arab Films that will be distributed through Arsenal Experimental. Miss Stefanie and the Schulte Strathaus dynasty has far reaching tentacles in the Arab world and Cairo, Egypt in particular that is very intriguing and Stefanie has matered Arabic which she used to great affect on the opening night during her introductions.
My favorites so far in the program has been the films The Valley by Firas Taybeh and With Soul,With Blood bý Rabih Mroue also Children of Fire by Mohammed Hawajiri was quite lovely and the forelorn Rice City by Sherif Al Azma which featured the illest histrionic queen with overly plucked eyebrows speaking Italian in a film noir villa along with a glum young woman in a designer dress and an andrygenous African refugee.
Sunday, July 01, 2012
ARM ABER LOVESEXXXXY
Piero Bellomo and Daniel the Jewish Muslim put up some shelving in my Cheese Endique Trifecta and it looks amazing with my high ceilings. Afterwards we went for coffee and cake at a new Italian cafe on Akazien Strasse that was very charming.
Later i went to HAU for their Abschlussfest end of the 2012 season and farewell to itendant(spelling?) Artistic Director Mattias Lienthal. It was definately the end of a Hera for Berlin with Mattias´departure for greener pastures and a lot of his staff were overcome with emotion like Stefanie Wenner and Anna Mülter. It was way too hot and humid for me to stay inside HAU 1 for the programblauf and speeches by Berlin´s dull gay Burgermeister Klaus Wolvereit. I just came for the free nosh that included tasty vegi-burgers. Hanging out with my CHEAP comrades Marc Siegel, Susanne Sachsse, Daniel Hendrickson and kJohnny Blue Tenderloin´s blondine hunk Felix Knoke and his posse of young cuties. Enjoying the warm summer evening Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Uli Ziemons and his ladylove, Nazli Kalerci, Senol Senturk, Haus of World Kulture´s Nadja Talmi & Koen Claerhout, HAU´s Katrin Dod and Meike Harmsen. Seen dancing during my DJane set late in the evening, the delightful British artist Phil Collins and crew, the lovely Mrs. Harum Farochi who is such a personable good time Sally and white wine affecionado,handsome Israeli artist Yael Bertrana and wife Saskia, Peaches and her big peniled beau Connie, dancer/choreographer Jeremy Wade and my sizzling talented NYU graduate art students who are in Berlin for a workshop before going back to Paris for a summer fellowship.
After DJaning the thunder, lightening and torrential rain made it impossible for me to get home so i took a disco nap in my dressing room till things subsided. The party raged on and was the most crowded I have ever seen the WAU cafe. Everyone was in a joyous mood even the most sour of Teutonic types who never smile and look like they are in a perpetual state of glum und drang loosened up.
The new regime at HAU will most likely make it more normative so that means that a door has certainly closed there for this lady and kollective CHEAP. I was doing pieces at HAU from its beginnings as a new Berlin art bastion so i have some great memories, or is that mammaries.
Piero Bellomo and Daniel the Jewish Muslim put up some shelving in my Cheese Endique Trifecta and it looks amazing with my high ceilings. Afterwards we went for coffee and cake at a new Italian cafe on Akazien Strasse that was very charming.
Later i went to HAU for their Abschlussfest end of the 2012 season and farewell to itendant(spelling?) Artistic Director Mattias Lienthal. It was definately the end of a Hera for Berlin with Mattias´departure for greener pastures and a lot of his staff were overcome with emotion like Stefanie Wenner and Anna Mülter. It was way too hot and humid for me to stay inside HAU 1 for the programblauf and speeches by Berlin´s dull gay Burgermeister Klaus Wolvereit. I just came for the free nosh that included tasty vegi-burgers. Hanging out with my CHEAP comrades Marc Siegel, Susanne Sachsse, Daniel Hendrickson and kJohnny Blue Tenderloin´s blondine hunk Felix Knoke and his posse of young cuties. Enjoying the warm summer evening Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Uli Ziemons and his ladylove, Nazli Kalerci, Senol Senturk, Haus of World Kulture´s Nadja Talmi & Koen Claerhout, HAU´s Katrin Dod and Meike Harmsen. Seen dancing during my DJane set late in the evening, the delightful British artist Phil Collins and crew, the lovely Mrs. Harum Farochi who is such a personable good time Sally and white wine affecionado,handsome Israeli artist Yael Bertrana and wife Saskia, Peaches and her big peniled beau Connie, dancer/choreographer Jeremy Wade and my sizzling talented NYU graduate art students who are in Berlin for a workshop before going back to Paris for a summer fellowship.
After DJaning the thunder, lightening and torrential rain made it impossible for me to get home so i took a disco nap in my dressing room till things subsided. The party raged on and was the most crowded I have ever seen the WAU cafe. Everyone was in a joyous mood even the most sour of Teutonic types who never smile and look like they are in a perpetual state of glum und drang loosened up.
The new regime at HAU will most likely make it more normative so that means that a door has certainly closed there for this lady and kollective CHEAP. I was doing pieces at HAU from its beginnings as a new Berlin art bastion so i have some great memories, or is that mammaries.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
ICH WEISS NICHT; ZU WEM ICH GEHÖRE
Last nite my date to the Talking Eyes lecture series presented by The Research Group Visual Culture was none other then the infamous Jewish Muslim Daniel Hendrickson of kollective CHEAP who is also the favored translator to all the academic shtars of the world. A little known fact about Daniel is that he is mulatto. You can see it in his phat juicy ass and giant penile swagger. One of his nephews also has subtle Negroid features. A lot of white people from the South have black in them, but are unaware of it due to light skinned black ancestors who were successful in passing for white, but alas black features have a habit of sometimes skipping a generation and pop up at the oddest and most inconvenient moments.
Daniel and I began the evening with dinner at a cute Indian boite on Akazien Strasse that features the saddest waiter in the world, then we went peddle mad on our bicycletas to see the Berlin premiere screening of United in Anger-A History of Act Up by the wonderous Jim Hubbard of New York and writer Sarah Schulman. Mr. Hubbard was in the audience and after the screening was very gracious and looked swellegant during the Q&A. Berlin Q&A´s can sometime feature a lot of showboaters, but there were also some series questions asked. I loved that Manuel Schubert of FilmHighlights Radio Magazine asked why the Panorama Section of the Berlinale didn´t accept the film back in February.
I found the film exceptionally moving, educational and informative. The film didn´t shy away from the sexual energy at play at Act Up, and gave credit to the many women whose expertise and leadership gave the movement its gravitas as well as people of color plus the class divide in the gay world that tends to be ignored. Maxine Wolf´s voice in the film was a standout, but it was also great to see people I know like Catherine Gund Saalfield, Douglas Crimp, Greg Bordowitz and Maria Majente.
In the 1980s my New York mentor was the late former model and fashionstylist/accessories designer George Byron aka: Mommy. Mommy along with others like Hudson of Feature Gallery financed my trips to New York during that era. Mommy and his boyfriend once lived in the same apartment building as Richard Gere and his then girlfriend Penelope Milford the forgotten actress who was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress for Coming Home. Whenever I was in New York I went with Mommy to the Act Up meetings and they were electrifying, so different from the west coast Act Up and Queer Nation.
The concept and organization of Talking Eyes series was based at DFG Graduate School of ´Gender as a Category of Knowledge`at Humboldt-University in Berlin with Nana Adusei-Poku, Lukas Engelmann, Marietta Kesting, Katrin Köppert, Anne-Julia Schoen and Todd Sekuler.
Earlier in the morning I was treated to breakfast at Café Berio by my handsome NYU Performance Studies Phd student Joshua Lubin Levy who was one of my young collaborators on the New York edition of VD is Speaking From the Diaphragm at PS 122 back in 2010. It was invigorating to hang out with Josh and his super hot patrician looking blondine lover and their Danish friend. After breakfast we went by the Christopher Isherwood flat in Nollendorky Platz and ran into Edwin Seth Brown a good friend and associate of Warhol superstar Bibbe Hansen. Mr. Brown is a hysterically funny black status queen who lives in Berlin only during the spring and summer, in the cold months he is back in Los Angeles where he languishes in hauteur splendour. La Seth Brown works for some kind of corporate entity the specifics of I can never remember, but he makes tons of filthy lucre---god bless him.
Josh and his posse will be going on to Leeds for an art conference but will be back in Berlin for a bit in early July.
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Looking for something to do in Berlin?. Here are some suggestions sent to me via emug:
Yaaay!
Paper & Iron Booking, La Moustache and Marie-Antoinette present:
SCREAMING FEMALES
OPA
July 4 @ Marie-Antoinette (Bogen 47, Holzmarktstr.15-18, Berlin 10179) doors: 9pm, show: 10pm
SCREAMING FEMALES (Proper Rock/US)
Dass sich Screaming Females in den Kellern ihrer Heimatstadt New Brunswick, NJ am wohlsten fühlen, hat sie nicht davon abgehalten, innerhalb von sieben Jahren mit fünf Alben (das neuste: "Ugly" von Steve Albini produziert)und 700 Konzerten Stück für Stück die coolen Musikszenen dieser Welt und nebenbei noch die internationale Presse zu erobern. Egal, was sie machen, mit ihrer unbekümmerten Energie rütteln die Screaming Females so wild und heftig an deinem Schreibtischstuhl, dass du nicht sitzen bleiben kannst. Sängerin Marissa Paternoster wurdevom amerikanischen Rolling Stone als Antwort auf das Ende Sleater-Kinneys bezeichnet und damit könnten die verdammt recht haben. Grund genug, mal herauszufinden, was an die Wand spielen eigentlich bedeutet.
www.screamingfemales.com
OPA (Punk/Berlin)
OPA are a brand new punk outfit that you haven't heard of yet because they're clever and know that for a thrilling band like them there's no better place than the rehearsal room. They are fast and loud, straightforward and know when to keep a speed and when to let go of it.
http://soundcloud.com/eine-welt-aus-hack/opa-bosniaque-two
Presale tickets: http://www.koka36.de/Screaming%20Females_ticket_47774.html FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/307190109360078/
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Newsletter Living Archive –
Archivarbeit als künstlerische und kuratorische Praxis der Gegenwart / Archive Work as a Contemporary Artistic and Curatorial Practice
In diesem Newsletter möchten wir Sie über zwei Veranstaltungen informieren. Am 1. Juli findet die Vorführung des Films ZU FRÜH, ZU SPÄT von Danièle Huillet und Jean-Marie Straub (Frankreich / Ägypten 1989) statt. Ala Younis, derzeit Stipendiatin des Goethe-Instituts, wird diesen Film gemeinsam mit dem Living-Archive-Teilnehmer Tobias Hering diskutieren. Am 7. Juli präsentiert Eunice Martins den ersten Teil ihres Projekts in Zusammenarbeit mit Mehmet Can Özer: "Pieces for the Archive", eine Live-Komposition mit Kurzfilmen aus dem Arsenal-Archiv.
In this newsletter we would like to inform you about two upcoming events. On July 1, a screening of Straub's and Huillet's ZU FRÜH, ZU SPÄT (Too Early / Too Late) will be presented and discussed by Ala Younis and Tobias Hering. On July 7, Eunice Martins will present the first part of her project in collaboration with Mehmet Can Özer. "Pieces for the Archive", a live composition drawing on short films from the Arsenal archive.
Weitere Informationen zu „Living Archive – Archivarbeit als künstlerische und kuratorische Praxis der Gegenwart“ finden Sie auf unserer Webseite: http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/living-archive/news.html
You can find further information about „Living Archive – Archive Work as a Contemporary Artistic and Curatorial Practice“ on our website: http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/living-archive.html
For English version see below!
ZU FRÜH / ZU SPÄT, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Frankreich / Ägypten 1980, dt. OF, 16mm, 104 min
Anschließend Diskussion mit Ala Younis und Tobias Hering (Sprache Englisch)
1. Juli, 16.15 Uhr in Kino Arsenal 1
„Über eine Revolution sprechen, wie es dazu kam, was darauf folgte. 1980 drehten Jean-Marie Straub und Danièle Huillet in Frankreich und Ägypten einen Film über verblasste und verpasste Revolutionen, ZU FRÜH / ZU SPÄT. Im Laufe des Jahres 2011 wurde dieser Film verschiedentlich wiederentdeckt als vermeintlich zeitgemäßer Kommentar auf die revolutionären Ereignisse in Ägypten und andernorts. Einige Kommentatoren sprachen ZU FRÜH / ZU SPÄT im Licht der aktuellen Ereignisse visionären Charakter zu. Das Screening im Arsenal soll diese jüngste Wahrnehmung des Films kritisch befragen; es ist als eine Einladung gedacht, seinen Ort und seine Zeitlichkeit neu zu diskutieren, und dabei auch auf seinen Produktionsprozess, seine Distribution und seine Rezeptionsgeschichte zu reflektieren.“ (Ala Younis, Tobias Hering)
ZU FRÜH / ZU SPÄT ist ein Film in zwei Teilen (Teil 1 : Friedrich Engels; Teil 2 : Mahmud Hussein). Teil 1 basiert auf einem Brief von Engels an Kautsky, Teil 2 auf Ausschnitten aus dem Buch „Luttes sociales en Egypte“ von Mahmud Hussein.
Engels setzt den historischen Verlauf der Französischen Revolution von 1789 – wer diese Revolution gemacht hat und wer von ihr profitiert hat – in Beziehung zur Einkommens- und Lebenssituation der französischen Land- und Stadtbevölkerung zu diesem Zeitpunkt. Mahmud Hussein skizziert die Geschichte der ländlichen und städtischen Revolten im Ägypten des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts bis zum Nasserschen Staatsstreich von 1952. Die Straubs haben die historischen Orte, um die es in den Texten geht, wieder aufgesucht und Bilder und Töne aus dem Frankreich und Ägypten der Gegenwart zu diesen Texten in Beziehung gesetzt.
PIECES FOR THE ARCHIVE
Live-Komposition von Eunice Martins und Mehmet Can Özer mit Kurzfilmen
7. Juli, 20 Uhr in Kino Arsenal 1
Eunice Martins präsentiert den ersten Teil ihres Living-Archive-Projekts: „Pieces for the Archive“, eine Live-Komposition mit Kurzfilmen aus dem Arsenal Archiv. Ausgehend von diesen Kurzfilmen, die mit Bild und Ton und deren Kombination / Abwesenheit experimentieren, entsteht live im Kinoraum ein Stück mit Eunice Martins (Piano) und Mehmet Can Özer (Live-Elektronik), das reflektiert, dialogisiert, sich abwendet oder pausiert.
Die Filme des Programms:
SUSAN THROUGH CORN, Kathleen Laughlin, USA 1974, 16mm, ohne Dialog, 2 min
TAILS, Paul Sharits, USA 1976, 16mm, stumm, 4 min
4000 FRAMES – AN EYE OPENER FILM, Arthur & Corinne Cantrill, Australien 1970, 16mm, ohne Dialog, 3 min
RAILROAD TURNBRIDGE, Richard Serra, USA 1975/76, 16mm, stumm, 17 min
LA MARCHE DES MACHINES, Eugène Deslaw, Frankreich 1928, 16mm, stumm, 7 min
EYE MYTH EDUCATIONAL, Stan Brakhage, USA 1972, 16mm, stumm, 2 min
LIGHTS, Marie Menken, USA 1964/65, 16mm, stumm, 6 min
SAILBOAT, Joyce Wieland, Kanada 1968, 16mm, ohne Dialog, 3 min
English version
ZU FRÜH / ZU SPÄT (Too Early / Too Late), Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, France/Egypt 1980, German OV, 16mm, 104 min
Afterwards discussion with Ala Younis and Tobias Hering (in English)
July 1, 4.15 pm, Arsenal Cinema 1
„How to speak of a revolution, the times before, the times that followed it. Made in 1981 on faded French and Egyptian revolutions, the rarely seen film ZU FRÜH / ZU SPÄT by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet was proposed through several screenings in 2011 as a timely means to open up and reflect on the events that had recently culminated in revolutions in Egypt and elsewhere. Many commentators praised the film for foreseeing the current, present, moment. However this screening at Arsenal is meant to take a critical perspective on these claims and to investigate how the film can be positioned in relation to its production process, temporality, circulation, and appreciation.“ (Ala Younis, Tobias Hering)
ZU FRÜH / ZU SPÄT is a film in two parts (part 1 : Friedrich Engels; part 2 : Mahmud Hussein). Part 1 is based on a letter written by Engels to Kautsky and part 2 on excerpts of the book „Luttes sociales en Egypte" by Mahmud Hussein.
Engels describes the development of the French Revolution in 1989 – who initiated it and who profited from it – in relation to the income and living standards of the french rural and urban population at that moment. Mahmud Hussein outlines the history of the rural and urban revolts in Egypt in the 19th and 20th century until the 1952 military coup d'état. Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub revisited the historical places mentioned in those texts and related images and sounds recorded in France and Egypt in the present to the texts.
PIECES FOR THE ARCHIVE
Live Composition by Eunice Martins and Mehmet Can Özer with short films
July 7, 8 pm, Arsenal Cinema 1
Eunice Martins presents the first part of her Living Archive project. „Pieces for the Archive“, a live composition drawing on short films from the Arsenal archive. Taking these short films as a starting point, which themselves experiment with image and sound and how they can be combined or treated separately, a performance piece will be created live by Eunice Martins (piano) and Mehmet Can Özer (Live-electronics) in the auditorium which reflects, enters into dialogue with, departs from or pauses the short films included in the program.
The following films are part of the program:
SUSAN THROUGH CORN, Kathleen Laughlin, USA 1974, 16mm, without dialogue, 2 min
TAILS, Paul Sharits, USA 1976, 16mm, silent, 4 min
4000 FRAMES – AN EYE OPENER FILM, Arthur & Corinne Cantrill, Australia 1970, 16mm, without dialogue, 3 min
RAILROAD TURNBRIDGE, Richard Serra, USA 1975/76, 16mm, silent, 17 min
LA MARCHE DES MACHINES, Eugène Deslaw, France 1928, 16mm, silent, 7 min
EYE MYTH EDUCATIONAL, Stan Brakhage, USA 1972, 16mm, silent, 2 min
LIGHTS, Marie Menken, USA 1964/65, 16mm, silent, 6 min
SAILBOAT, Joyce Wieland, Canada 1968, 16mm, without dialogue, 3 min
"Living Archive – Archivarbeit als künstlerische und kuratorische Praxis der Gegenwart" wird gefördert durch die Kulturstiftung des Bundes und die Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin. Das Stipendiatenprogramm des Projekts Living Archive wird gefördert durch das Goethe-Institut.
„Living Archive – Archive Work as a Contemporary Artistic and Curatorial Practice“ is funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation and the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin. The grant program of the project Living Archive is funded by the Goethe-Institut.
Für weitere Informationen / Further information
Markus Ruff
Projektkoordination
030 269 55 282
mr@arsenal-berlin.de oder livingarchive@arsenal-berlin.de
Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.
Potsdamer Straße 2
10785 Berlin
www.arsenal-berlin.de
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And this little item from one of my brilliant former Weissensee Art Akademy students
WHERE: Museum für angewandte Kunst
Schaumainkai 17, Franfurt am Main, Germany
Mi 27.6., 19 Uhr Eröffnung: Entdeckung Korea!
Schätze aus deutschen Museen
Die Ausstellung „Entdeckung Korea!“ zeigt erstmals verborgene Schätze aus zehn deutschen Museen ‐ koreanische Kunst vom 6. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert. Dabei werden mehr als einhundert hochkarätige Werke der Malerei, Kalligraphie, Skulptur, Keramik, Textil-, Lack- und Metallkunst sowie Möbel, Holz- und Jadeobjekte gezeigt.
Zur Vernissage führen die Künstler Anne Duk Hee Jordan und
Hong Yoo ihre Performance „Das Lied der Leere“ auf. Auf der
koreanischen Traversflöte Daegeum begleitet Hong Yoo mit dem
Stück Jeongseonggok (wörtlich “das Stück mit der klaren Stimme”) die Kalligraphieperformance von Anne Duk Hee Jordan, in der sie die buddhistische Idee der Leere aufnimmt.
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And please sign up for this hot opportunity to take a photo workshop with one of my sizzling ex NYU students who is working in New York and Paris but will be in Berlin soon.
(info taken from: http://berlincollective.de/consultation/art-related-business)
PHOTOGRAPHY>>>>>>>>>>
WORKSHOP DATES: July 6 & 7, 2012 (Times to be announced upon registration)
POLAROID INSTANT FILM PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
This 2 day workshop will focus on the hands-on experimentation with the newly obsolete photographic process of working with instant film. Polaroid ceased production of its legendary instant film in 2008, leading to new digital phenomenons like the Instagram App available through mobile devices, to re-live the nostalgia associated with the rich look of Polaroid photographs. This course will allow students to rediscover analog photography in a digital world without the need of a darkroom. Within the workshop we will practice image lift/transfers, classic manipulation and other creative techniques with instant film.
MATERIALS:
Polaroid Camera, PX Film Silver or Color shades, Exacto knife, scissors, hair dryer, brushes, acid-free paper
Workshop Breakdown:
DAY 1:
Introduction and brief history on the use of instant film and Polaroid photography in Contemporary Art.
Discussion of Materials, basics of analog photography: light, film speeds and contrast, composition, using your Polaroid camera correctly.
Weather permitting we will take a tour of different sites in Berlin (Templehof Former Airport now public park) to photograph nature, architecture, people, whatever your heart desires!
DAY 2:
Practice of several creative process using your instant photographs:
Turning your instant film into a transparency (works best when your film is at least 24 hrs old)
Emulsion lift technique where you will remove the image from your film and apply it to another photographic surface where you can later add other artistic materials to complete your piece.
Cost: 20 euros per day. The instructor will purchase polaroid cameras for you at a discounted rate on Ebay, if you agree. The cameras can be borrowed as well and discussed once you have registered.
Artist/ Instructor Bio:
Jessica Gispert is an artist originally from Miami, FL, works with video, photography, sculpture, and installation. Currently she lives and works in New York City and Paris. She received her MFA from New York University and has exhibited in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. Since 2009, she has specialized in photographic technique, Gispert has been teaching Black + White and Color analog photography, as well as Digital photography, at New York University Steindhardt since 2009.
Jessica Gispert: http://creeper-blog.tumblr.com
Last nite my date to the Talking Eyes lecture series presented by The Research Group Visual Culture was none other then the infamous Jewish Muslim Daniel Hendrickson of kollective CHEAP who is also the favored translator to all the academic shtars of the world. A little known fact about Daniel is that he is mulatto. You can see it in his phat juicy ass and giant penile swagger. One of his nephews also has subtle Negroid features. A lot of white people from the South have black in them, but are unaware of it due to light skinned black ancestors who were successful in passing for white, but alas black features have a habit of sometimes skipping a generation and pop up at the oddest and most inconvenient moments.
Daniel and I began the evening with dinner at a cute Indian boite on Akazien Strasse that features the saddest waiter in the world, then we went peddle mad on our bicycletas to see the Berlin premiere screening of United in Anger-A History of Act Up by the wonderous Jim Hubbard of New York and writer Sarah Schulman. Mr. Hubbard was in the audience and after the screening was very gracious and looked swellegant during the Q&A. Berlin Q&A´s can sometime feature a lot of showboaters, but there were also some series questions asked. I loved that Manuel Schubert of FilmHighlights Radio Magazine asked why the Panorama Section of the Berlinale didn´t accept the film back in February.
I found the film exceptionally moving, educational and informative. The film didn´t shy away from the sexual energy at play at Act Up, and gave credit to the many women whose expertise and leadership gave the movement its gravitas as well as people of color plus the class divide in the gay world that tends to be ignored. Maxine Wolf´s voice in the film was a standout, but it was also great to see people I know like Catherine Gund Saalfield, Douglas Crimp, Greg Bordowitz and Maria Majente.
In the 1980s my New York mentor was the late former model and fashionstylist/accessories designer George Byron aka: Mommy. Mommy along with others like Hudson of Feature Gallery financed my trips to New York during that era. Mommy and his boyfriend once lived in the same apartment building as Richard Gere and his then girlfriend Penelope Milford the forgotten actress who was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress for Coming Home. Whenever I was in New York I went with Mommy to the Act Up meetings and they were electrifying, so different from the west coast Act Up and Queer Nation.
The concept and organization of Talking Eyes series was based at DFG Graduate School of ´Gender as a Category of Knowledge`at Humboldt-University in Berlin with Nana Adusei-Poku, Lukas Engelmann, Marietta Kesting, Katrin Köppert, Anne-Julia Schoen and Todd Sekuler.
Earlier in the morning I was treated to breakfast at Café Berio by my handsome NYU Performance Studies Phd student Joshua Lubin Levy who was one of my young collaborators on the New York edition of VD is Speaking From the Diaphragm at PS 122 back in 2010. It was invigorating to hang out with Josh and his super hot patrician looking blondine lover and their Danish friend. After breakfast we went by the Christopher Isherwood flat in Nollendorky Platz and ran into Edwin Seth Brown a good friend and associate of Warhol superstar Bibbe Hansen. Mr. Brown is a hysterically funny black status queen who lives in Berlin only during the spring and summer, in the cold months he is back in Los Angeles where he languishes in hauteur splendour. La Seth Brown works for some kind of corporate entity the specifics of I can never remember, but he makes tons of filthy lucre---god bless him.
Josh and his posse will be going on to Leeds for an art conference but will be back in Berlin for a bit in early July.
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Looking for something to do in Berlin?. Here are some suggestions sent to me via emug:
Yaaay!
Paper & Iron Booking, La Moustache and Marie-Antoinette present:
SCREAMING FEMALES
OPA
July 4 @ Marie-Antoinette (Bogen 47, Holzmarktstr.15-18, Berlin 10179) doors: 9pm, show: 10pm
SCREAMING FEMALES (Proper Rock/US)
Dass sich Screaming Females in den Kellern ihrer Heimatstadt New Brunswick, NJ am wohlsten fühlen, hat sie nicht davon abgehalten, innerhalb von sieben Jahren mit fünf Alben (das neuste: "Ugly" von Steve Albini produziert)und 700 Konzerten Stück für Stück die coolen Musikszenen dieser Welt und nebenbei noch die internationale Presse zu erobern. Egal, was sie machen, mit ihrer unbekümmerten Energie rütteln die Screaming Females so wild und heftig an deinem Schreibtischstuhl, dass du nicht sitzen bleiben kannst. Sängerin Marissa Paternoster wurdevom amerikanischen Rolling Stone als Antwort auf das Ende Sleater-Kinneys bezeichnet und damit könnten die verdammt recht haben. Grund genug, mal herauszufinden, was an die Wand spielen eigentlich bedeutet.
www.screamingfemales.com
OPA (Punk/Berlin)
OPA are a brand new punk outfit that you haven't heard of yet because they're clever and know that for a thrilling band like them there's no better place than the rehearsal room. They are fast and loud, straightforward and know when to keep a speed and when to let go of it.
http://soundcloud.com/eine-welt-aus-hack/opa-bosniaque-two
Presale tickets: http://www.koka36.de/Screaming%20Females_ticket_47774.html FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/307190109360078/
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Newsletter Living Archive –
Archivarbeit als künstlerische und kuratorische Praxis der Gegenwart / Archive Work as a Contemporary Artistic and Curatorial Practice
In diesem Newsletter möchten wir Sie über zwei Veranstaltungen informieren. Am 1. Juli findet die Vorführung des Films ZU FRÜH, ZU SPÄT von Danièle Huillet und Jean-Marie Straub (Frankreich / Ägypten 1989) statt. Ala Younis, derzeit Stipendiatin des Goethe-Instituts, wird diesen Film gemeinsam mit dem Living-Archive-Teilnehmer Tobias Hering diskutieren. Am 7. Juli präsentiert Eunice Martins den ersten Teil ihres Projekts in Zusammenarbeit mit Mehmet Can Özer: "Pieces for the Archive", eine Live-Komposition mit Kurzfilmen aus dem Arsenal-Archiv.
In this newsletter we would like to inform you about two upcoming events. On July 1, a screening of Straub's and Huillet's ZU FRÜH, ZU SPÄT (Too Early / Too Late) will be presented and discussed by Ala Younis and Tobias Hering. On July 7, Eunice Martins will present the first part of her project in collaboration with Mehmet Can Özer. "Pieces for the Archive", a live composition drawing on short films from the Arsenal archive.
Weitere Informationen zu „Living Archive – Archivarbeit als künstlerische und kuratorische Praxis der Gegenwart“ finden Sie auf unserer Webseite: http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/living-archive/news.html
You can find further information about „Living Archive – Archive Work as a Contemporary Artistic and Curatorial Practice“ on our website: http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/living-archive.html
For English version see below!
ZU FRÜH / ZU SPÄT, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Frankreich / Ägypten 1980, dt. OF, 16mm, 104 min
Anschließend Diskussion mit Ala Younis und Tobias Hering (Sprache Englisch)
1. Juli, 16.15 Uhr in Kino Arsenal 1
„Über eine Revolution sprechen, wie es dazu kam, was darauf folgte. 1980 drehten Jean-Marie Straub und Danièle Huillet in Frankreich und Ägypten einen Film über verblasste und verpasste Revolutionen, ZU FRÜH / ZU SPÄT. Im Laufe des Jahres 2011 wurde dieser Film verschiedentlich wiederentdeckt als vermeintlich zeitgemäßer Kommentar auf die revolutionären Ereignisse in Ägypten und andernorts. Einige Kommentatoren sprachen ZU FRÜH / ZU SPÄT im Licht der aktuellen Ereignisse visionären Charakter zu. Das Screening im Arsenal soll diese jüngste Wahrnehmung des Films kritisch befragen; es ist als eine Einladung gedacht, seinen Ort und seine Zeitlichkeit neu zu diskutieren, und dabei auch auf seinen Produktionsprozess, seine Distribution und seine Rezeptionsgeschichte zu reflektieren.“ (Ala Younis, Tobias Hering)
ZU FRÜH / ZU SPÄT ist ein Film in zwei Teilen (Teil 1 : Friedrich Engels; Teil 2 : Mahmud Hussein). Teil 1 basiert auf einem Brief von Engels an Kautsky, Teil 2 auf Ausschnitten aus dem Buch „Luttes sociales en Egypte“ von Mahmud Hussein.
Engels setzt den historischen Verlauf der Französischen Revolution von 1789 – wer diese Revolution gemacht hat und wer von ihr profitiert hat – in Beziehung zur Einkommens- und Lebenssituation der französischen Land- und Stadtbevölkerung zu diesem Zeitpunkt. Mahmud Hussein skizziert die Geschichte der ländlichen und städtischen Revolten im Ägypten des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts bis zum Nasserschen Staatsstreich von 1952. Die Straubs haben die historischen Orte, um die es in den Texten geht, wieder aufgesucht und Bilder und Töne aus dem Frankreich und Ägypten der Gegenwart zu diesen Texten in Beziehung gesetzt.
PIECES FOR THE ARCHIVE
Live-Komposition von Eunice Martins und Mehmet Can Özer mit Kurzfilmen
7. Juli, 20 Uhr in Kino Arsenal 1
Eunice Martins präsentiert den ersten Teil ihres Living-Archive-Projekts: „Pieces for the Archive“, eine Live-Komposition mit Kurzfilmen aus dem Arsenal Archiv. Ausgehend von diesen Kurzfilmen, die mit Bild und Ton und deren Kombination / Abwesenheit experimentieren, entsteht live im Kinoraum ein Stück mit Eunice Martins (Piano) und Mehmet Can Özer (Live-Elektronik), das reflektiert, dialogisiert, sich abwendet oder pausiert.
Die Filme des Programms:
SUSAN THROUGH CORN, Kathleen Laughlin, USA 1974, 16mm, ohne Dialog, 2 min
TAILS, Paul Sharits, USA 1976, 16mm, stumm, 4 min
4000 FRAMES – AN EYE OPENER FILM, Arthur & Corinne Cantrill, Australien 1970, 16mm, ohne Dialog, 3 min
RAILROAD TURNBRIDGE, Richard Serra, USA 1975/76, 16mm, stumm, 17 min
LA MARCHE DES MACHINES, Eugène Deslaw, Frankreich 1928, 16mm, stumm, 7 min
EYE MYTH EDUCATIONAL, Stan Brakhage, USA 1972, 16mm, stumm, 2 min
LIGHTS, Marie Menken, USA 1964/65, 16mm, stumm, 6 min
SAILBOAT, Joyce Wieland, Kanada 1968, 16mm, ohne Dialog, 3 min
English version
ZU FRÜH / ZU SPÄT (Too Early / Too Late), Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, France/Egypt 1980, German OV, 16mm, 104 min
Afterwards discussion with Ala Younis and Tobias Hering (in English)
July 1, 4.15 pm, Arsenal Cinema 1
„How to speak of a revolution, the times before, the times that followed it. Made in 1981 on faded French and Egyptian revolutions, the rarely seen film ZU FRÜH / ZU SPÄT by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet was proposed through several screenings in 2011 as a timely means to open up and reflect on the events that had recently culminated in revolutions in Egypt and elsewhere. Many commentators praised the film for foreseeing the current, present, moment. However this screening at Arsenal is meant to take a critical perspective on these claims and to investigate how the film can be positioned in relation to its production process, temporality, circulation, and appreciation.“ (Ala Younis, Tobias Hering)
ZU FRÜH / ZU SPÄT is a film in two parts (part 1 : Friedrich Engels; part 2 : Mahmud Hussein). Part 1 is based on a letter written by Engels to Kautsky and part 2 on excerpts of the book „Luttes sociales en Egypte" by Mahmud Hussein.
Engels describes the development of the French Revolution in 1989 – who initiated it and who profited from it – in relation to the income and living standards of the french rural and urban population at that moment. Mahmud Hussein outlines the history of the rural and urban revolts in Egypt in the 19th and 20th century until the 1952 military coup d'état. Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub revisited the historical places mentioned in those texts and related images and sounds recorded in France and Egypt in the present to the texts.
PIECES FOR THE ARCHIVE
Live Composition by Eunice Martins and Mehmet Can Özer with short films
July 7, 8 pm, Arsenal Cinema 1
Eunice Martins presents the first part of her Living Archive project. „Pieces for the Archive“, a live composition drawing on short films from the Arsenal archive. Taking these short films as a starting point, which themselves experiment with image and sound and how they can be combined or treated separately, a performance piece will be created live by Eunice Martins (piano) and Mehmet Can Özer (Live-electronics) in the auditorium which reflects, enters into dialogue with, departs from or pauses the short films included in the program.
The following films are part of the program:
SUSAN THROUGH CORN, Kathleen Laughlin, USA 1974, 16mm, without dialogue, 2 min
TAILS, Paul Sharits, USA 1976, 16mm, silent, 4 min
4000 FRAMES – AN EYE OPENER FILM, Arthur & Corinne Cantrill, Australia 1970, 16mm, without dialogue, 3 min
RAILROAD TURNBRIDGE, Richard Serra, USA 1975/76, 16mm, silent, 17 min
LA MARCHE DES MACHINES, Eugène Deslaw, France 1928, 16mm, silent, 7 min
EYE MYTH EDUCATIONAL, Stan Brakhage, USA 1972, 16mm, silent, 2 min
LIGHTS, Marie Menken, USA 1964/65, 16mm, silent, 6 min
SAILBOAT, Joyce Wieland, Canada 1968, 16mm, without dialogue, 3 min
"Living Archive – Archivarbeit als künstlerische und kuratorische Praxis der Gegenwart" wird gefördert durch die Kulturstiftung des Bundes und die Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin. Das Stipendiatenprogramm des Projekts Living Archive wird gefördert durch das Goethe-Institut.
„Living Archive – Archive Work as a Contemporary Artistic and Curatorial Practice“ is funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation and the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin. The grant program of the project Living Archive is funded by the Goethe-Institut.
Für weitere Informationen / Further information
Markus Ruff
Projektkoordination
030 269 55 282
mr@arsenal-berlin.de oder livingarchive@arsenal-berlin.de
Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.
Potsdamer Straße 2
10785 Berlin
www.arsenal-berlin.de
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And this little item from one of my brilliant former Weissensee Art Akademy students
WHERE: Museum für angewandte Kunst
Schaumainkai 17, Franfurt am Main, Germany
Mi 27.6., 19 Uhr Eröffnung: Entdeckung Korea!
Schätze aus deutschen Museen
Die Ausstellung „Entdeckung Korea!“ zeigt erstmals verborgene Schätze aus zehn deutschen Museen ‐ koreanische Kunst vom 6. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert. Dabei werden mehr als einhundert hochkarätige Werke der Malerei, Kalligraphie, Skulptur, Keramik, Textil-, Lack- und Metallkunst sowie Möbel, Holz- und Jadeobjekte gezeigt.
Zur Vernissage führen die Künstler Anne Duk Hee Jordan und
Hong Yoo ihre Performance „Das Lied der Leere“ auf. Auf der
koreanischen Traversflöte Daegeum begleitet Hong Yoo mit dem
Stück Jeongseonggok (wörtlich “das Stück mit der klaren Stimme”) die Kalligraphieperformance von Anne Duk Hee Jordan, in der sie die buddhistische Idee der Leere aufnimmt.
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And please sign up for this hot opportunity to take a photo workshop with one of my sizzling ex NYU students who is working in New York and Paris but will be in Berlin soon.
(info taken from: http://berlincollective.de/consultation/art-related-business)
PHOTOGRAPHY>>>>>>>>>>
WORKSHOP DATES: July 6 & 7, 2012 (Times to be announced upon registration)
POLAROID INSTANT FILM PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
This 2 day workshop will focus on the hands-on experimentation with the newly obsolete photographic process of working with instant film. Polaroid ceased production of its legendary instant film in 2008, leading to new digital phenomenons like the Instagram App available through mobile devices, to re-live the nostalgia associated with the rich look of Polaroid photographs. This course will allow students to rediscover analog photography in a digital world without the need of a darkroom. Within the workshop we will practice image lift/transfers, classic manipulation and other creative techniques with instant film.
MATERIALS:
Polaroid Camera, PX Film Silver or Color shades, Exacto knife, scissors, hair dryer, brushes, acid-free paper
Workshop Breakdown:
DAY 1:
Introduction and brief history on the use of instant film and Polaroid photography in Contemporary Art.
Discussion of Materials, basics of analog photography: light, film speeds and contrast, composition, using your Polaroid camera correctly.
Weather permitting we will take a tour of different sites in Berlin (Templehof Former Airport now public park) to photograph nature, architecture, people, whatever your heart desires!
DAY 2:
Practice of several creative process using your instant photographs:
Turning your instant film into a transparency (works best when your film is at least 24 hrs old)
Emulsion lift technique where you will remove the image from your film and apply it to another photographic surface where you can later add other artistic materials to complete your piece.
Cost: 20 euros per day. The instructor will purchase polaroid cameras for you at a discounted rate on Ebay, if you agree. The cameras can be borrowed as well and discussed once you have registered.
Artist/ Instructor Bio:
Jessica Gispert is an artist originally from Miami, FL, works with video, photography, sculpture, and installation. Currently she lives and works in New York City and Paris. She received her MFA from New York University and has exhibited in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. Since 2009, she has specialized in photographic technique, Gispert has been teaching Black + White and Color analog photography, as well as Digital photography, at New York University Steindhardt since 2009.
Jessica Gispert: http://creeper-blog.tumblr.com
Monday, June 25, 2012
THE GENDER TROLL AND BUGGY FARM
Last nights Rising Stars, Falling Stars-We Must Have Music screening of the 1985 Chantal Ackerman musical Golden Eighties was an SRO delight. The film which stars a radiant Delphine Seyrig captivated the crowd even though there were no English or German subtitles for this French speaking romp. The VIP celebrity quotient in the audience was high with stellar appearances by New York royalty Ela Troyano and Uzi Parnes whose closing program of their IntroSpective at Arsenal was full of wonder and surpirse with screenings of Carmelita Gets the Spirit(1988) Loisaida Lusts (1985) and Jack Smith in the Silence of Marcel Duchamp(2010). Seen chittle chatting with the power tag team of Ela&Uzi the gorgeous curator Dorothee Wenner, Daniel Hendrickson, Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Uli Ziemons and the stunning experimental filmmaker Pauline Beaudry with hot girl gang posse. Also seen: the manlische art porn shtar Colby Keller of the lovesexxxy blogina Big Shoe Diaries. Mr. Keller is one dynamic ginger boy who is virility plus and very John Wayne is big leggy with tragic gay mulatto actor Wentworth Miller. Straight from Art Basel the pretty British artist Hilary Lloyd, junior art star Jeremy Shaw, dealer JeanClaude Freymond-Guth Whitney Museum curator Scott Rothkopf, and Little Alex Telemachos of Macedonia and the Chocolate Grinder Kollective who did a fab job on Ms. Davis hair and make-up. The VD doll was sporting a Slauson Super Mall multi-colored $1.99 frock which was a gift from her West of Rome assistant Daniel Flores Estrella, on her clop hoppers Rick Owens wedgies that were especially designed for her.
Last nights Rising Stars, Falling Stars-We Must Have Music screening of the 1985 Chantal Ackerman musical Golden Eighties was an SRO delight. The film which stars a radiant Delphine Seyrig captivated the crowd even though there were no English or German subtitles for this French speaking romp. The VIP celebrity quotient in the audience was high with stellar appearances by New York royalty Ela Troyano and Uzi Parnes whose closing program of their IntroSpective at Arsenal was full of wonder and surpirse with screenings of Carmelita Gets the Spirit(1988) Loisaida Lusts (1985) and Jack Smith in the Silence of Marcel Duchamp(2010). Seen chittle chatting with the power tag team of Ela&Uzi the gorgeous curator Dorothee Wenner, Daniel Hendrickson, Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Uli Ziemons and the stunning experimental filmmaker Pauline Beaudry with hot girl gang posse. Also seen: the manlische art porn shtar Colby Keller of the lovesexxxy blogina Big Shoe Diaries. Mr. Keller is one dynamic ginger boy who is virility plus and very John Wayne is big leggy with tragic gay mulatto actor Wentworth Miller. Straight from Art Basel the pretty British artist Hilary Lloyd, junior art star Jeremy Shaw, dealer JeanClaude Freymond-Guth Whitney Museum curator Scott Rothkopf, and Little Alex Telemachos of Macedonia and the Chocolate Grinder Kollective who did a fab job on Ms. Davis hair and make-up. The VD doll was sporting a Slauson Super Mall multi-colored $1.99 frock which was a gift from her West of Rome assistant Daniel Flores Estrella, on her clop hoppers Rick Owens wedgies that were especially designed for her.
Saturday, June 23, 2012
NEVER TRAVEL
ON A ONE WAY TICKET
Last night
saw the amazing intro Spective on the dynamic East Village art tag team of Ela
Troyano & Uzi Parnes. Kudos to
Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus for bringing this standout program
to Berlin. Its just what the city
needs. I unfortunately missed the
opening and the La Lupe Queen of Latin Soul (2007)film which everyone is
talking about. During Camp/Anti-Camp I had
already seen Carmelita Tropicana: Your
Kunst Is Your Waffen which is hilarious and stars the divine Carmelita who is
Ela´s sensationally talented sister. I
feel horrible that I missed Uzi´s Structuralism & Sex Program of lovesexxxy
shorts.
Thank god I was
able to see Uzi´s magnificent queer love home movies that includes the slide
show Sex Piers, Queer Love Poem (1991) that features a stunning Latin youth lust object,
the mad cap Seven Days with the Same Dick (1992) Happy Mother´s Day (1993) the
disturbingly transcendent Batterer(1995) and triumphantly personal Memorimort
(2010)
It was also
a treat and pleasure to watch Ela´s 1997 feature Latin Boys Go to Hell which was produced
by Jurgen Brunning who also did a fab job as moderator in conversation with Ela
after the zany David Does Venus(1984-1989) and another rare short subject
flicker featuring a riotious Nick Zedd. When
the brilliant Tante Jurgen is on, he is really ON!!!!! Daniel Hendrickson was also charming during
his Q&A with Uzi. In the
audience: Empress Stefanie, Uli Ziemons
and Pauline Beaudry and an assortment of German, & Greeks trying to escape
from football madness.
Tonight is the
last evening of the intro Spective with a joint program that includes some
rarely seen classix like Carmelita Gets the Spirit (1988) and Loisaida
Lusts(1985) and perhaps some surprises, so come on down to historic Potsdamer Platz for your ElaUzi fixxxx.
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My interview
with Manuel Schubert for internet radio program Film Highlights:
» filmhighlights - das Kinomagazin
Friday, June 22, 2012
THE RUSHMORE ACADEMY
Just found out that Susan Tyrell died. I adored SuSu the talented actress who was nominated for an academy award in 1972 for her role in the John Huston film Fat City. SuSu and I starred in DeCoupage in the late 1980s the cable access TV show by the brilliant Craig Roose aka: Miss Summer Caprice where we played mother and daughter frug champions. The episode I believe is on YouTube if you care to see it.
SuSu lost both of her legs about a decade ago. I will always remember her performances in Andy Warhol's Bad, the new wave musical Forbidden Zone where she played Queen Doris, Islands in the Stream opposite George C. Scott &Trish Van Devere, and John Waters Cry Baby. SuSu was one hell of a good time Sally and I miss her.
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I forgot to mention I had seen the new Wes Anderson film Moonrise Kingdom which is simply beautiful to behold. I predict that the young ingenue Kara Heywood who looks like a tweenage ZacKary Drucker will become a huge shtar. Her male co-star Jared Gilman also shows promise. Cinematographer Robert Yeoman is a gifted artist who has lit the picture with an orange toast glow and the original score by Alexandre Desplat----Yowzina!
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Remember to come to Arsenal Inst fuer film und Video Kunst for the Ela Troyano/Uzi Parnes Retrospectacle that continues until Saturday. I missed the opening as I had a meeting with my former editor Robin Podalsky who is going to become a queer Rabbi, but I will be there tonight and I can't wait to witness the conversation between Mr. Parnes and Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish/Muslim of CHEAP kollective. Sunday at 9pm as part of Rising Stars, Falling Stars-We Must Have Music is a delish screening of Chantal Ackerman's 1985 musical Golden Eighties which in the States was called Window Shopping for whatever reason.
Just found out that Susan Tyrell died. I adored SuSu the talented actress who was nominated for an academy award in 1972 for her role in the John Huston film Fat City. SuSu and I starred in DeCoupage in the late 1980s the cable access TV show by the brilliant Craig Roose aka: Miss Summer Caprice where we played mother and daughter frug champions. The episode I believe is on YouTube if you care to see it.
SuSu lost both of her legs about a decade ago. I will always remember her performances in Andy Warhol's Bad, the new wave musical Forbidden Zone where she played Queen Doris, Islands in the Stream opposite George C. Scott &Trish Van Devere, and John Waters Cry Baby. SuSu was one hell of a good time Sally and I miss her.
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I forgot to mention I had seen the new Wes Anderson film Moonrise Kingdom which is simply beautiful to behold. I predict that the young ingenue Kara Heywood who looks like a tweenage ZacKary Drucker will become a huge shtar. Her male co-star Jared Gilman also shows promise. Cinematographer Robert Yeoman is a gifted artist who has lit the picture with an orange toast glow and the original score by Alexandre Desplat----Yowzina!
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Remember to come to Arsenal Inst fuer film und Video Kunst for the Ela Troyano/Uzi Parnes Retrospectacle that continues until Saturday. I missed the opening as I had a meeting with my former editor Robin Podalsky who is going to become a queer Rabbi, but I will be there tonight and I can't wait to witness the conversation between Mr. Parnes and Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish/Muslim of CHEAP kollective. Sunday at 9pm as part of Rising Stars, Falling Stars-We Must Have Music is a delish screening of Chantal Ackerman's 1985 musical Golden Eighties which in the States was called Window Shopping for whatever reason.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
DIE FLIEGENDE DOSER
That hot experimental film duo of Uzi and Ela of the East Village are in town this week to present a
INTROspective of their work, three nights in a row at Arsenal Inst fuer film und Video Kunst. They will be showing both their individual as well as collaborative work from June 21 to 23! So take this hot tip and do yourself a favor and see the great Ela Troyano and lovesexy Uzi Parnes. Your life depends upon it.
Oops i forgot to mention that Hamburg based filmmaker Peter Ott was also at the Commi Biggi Art Basel presentation last week at the Kaserne Theatre. I just can't keep up with all these celebutants.
Had a wonderful dinner and catch up the other evening with legendary experimental filmmaker Wilhelm Hein and his hot art photog girlfriend Annette Frick. The two have been showing work all over Europe to large enthusiastic young crowds as a new generation comes under their magical/mystical spell of outsider art appeal. Consider yourself lucky if Wilhelm & Annette make a pitstop in your town.
That hot experimental film duo of Uzi and Ela of the East Village are in town this week to present a
INTROspective of their work, three nights in a row at Arsenal Inst fuer film und Video Kunst. They will be showing both their individual as well as collaborative work from June 21 to 23! So take this hot tip and do yourself a favor and see the great Ela Troyano and lovesexy Uzi Parnes. Your life depends upon it.
Oops i forgot to mention that Hamburg based filmmaker Peter Ott was also at the Commi Biggi Art Basel presentation last week at the Kaserne Theatre. I just can't keep up with all these celebutants.
Had a wonderful dinner and catch up the other evening with legendary experimental filmmaker Wilhelm Hein and his hot art photog girlfriend Annette Frick. The two have been showing work all over Europe to large enthusiastic young crowds as a new generation comes under their magical/mystical spell of outsider art appeal. Consider yourself lucky if Wilhelm & Annette make a pitstop in your town.
Saturday, June 16, 2012
DIE GLAUBWÜRDIGKEIT DEFINITIV VERSPIELT
You must all be wondering how the Communist Bigamist - Two Love Stories tour has been going. Well we had a pitstop in Basel, Switzerland as part of Art Basel Art Faere. The venue was the Kaserne Theatre which is a great space that presents theatre, dance, music and performance. It was my first time in Basel so i was really excited. Didn´t realize until the night before arriving that Basel hotels are booked a year in advance because of the tired Art Basel, so our accomodations were less then thrilling. I am not a major diva who requires to be shod in the lap of luxury but when i am on tour i need a certain level of comfort and privacy which this trip did not afford. I was luckier then the rest of our cast and crew in that I stayed at a beautiful Bed&Breakfast manor called The Kulture House located just minutes from the theatre, but I did have to share a bathroom which is a pain when you are on tour and you need to focus on your performance and not on worrying whether you or going to bomb the toilet out with a fierce dookie or if you´ve spread too much water all about in the shower. Thats why I always have to insist on a private room and bath because I am a big lady who is known to make a mess. I have been so busy lately with a million projects that I wasn´t on top of things so much with this tour so I only have myself to blame. It was nice that Tan Binh Nguyen our brilliant make-up and hair stylist was also housed in the Kulture House. We had a hoot of a girlish time together gossiping and carrying on and causing major havoc in the city.
The performances were spectacular, and the audience ate it up royally. Susanne Sachsse was in fine form and its always a supreme pleasure working with her and Marc Siegel who was very cute on stage with this outing. Susanne and I got all lesbiana on the last night with Susi jumping on top of me and proving to the world what a hot femme aktive she is. If she had been wearing a strap-on I would have been sent to the hospital for repairs.
In the audience on opening night Wed June 15th: Kaserne Artistic Director Carena Schlewitt who use to work at Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, senior Kaserne dramaturge Tobias Brenk with his über love sexxxy beau Boris who gave us all VIP passes to the Art Faere which was duller then most art fairs. I only stayed at the giant pavillion for an hour or so. Also scene and herd----David Velasco of Art Forum Magazine, Kosuke Mori the stylish Tokyo art collector with Julie Miyoshi the LA art advisor, architect Alex Tirziu, Rudolph Schiesser of Hotel Trois Rois who looked like he wasn´t so into my performance, former football star Yoann Goureoff with Poppy Delevingne.
On the second night was Berlin based Israeli art shtar Yael Bertrana and her gallerist, artist Daniel Marti who use to be the boyfriend of Hollywood punk rock princess Pleasant Gehman. Mr. Marti relocated to Basel from his native Zurich, and cooked me a fabulous dinner after my last performance and loaded the doll down with wonderous presents. I was also introduced to the Swiss/Hollywood director Marc Forster whose movies I have never seen, and flirted with Parisian art specialist Edouard de Moussac and Hong Kong interior designer Roy Li.
The Commi Biggi crew were all a flutter over an American performer named Miguel Gutierrez who was part of the Zap Festival at Kaserne and whose ill bearded and rainbow flag covered gender fuck image adorned a giant unattractive poster. Mr. Gutierrez seemed personable in our limited interaction with each other, but the Commi Biggi gang who heard him rehearsing while they were setting up our show didn´t find his art to their liking. A local curator whispered to me that Mr. Gutierrez is the newly crowned otter darling of the dance theatre world and that his performances and choreography is something of a mixture of Tim Miller circa mid 90s meets Jeremy Wade.
You must all be wondering how the Communist Bigamist - Two Love Stories tour has been going. Well we had a pitstop in Basel, Switzerland as part of Art Basel Art Faere. The venue was the Kaserne Theatre which is a great space that presents theatre, dance, music and performance. It was my first time in Basel so i was really excited. Didn´t realize until the night before arriving that Basel hotels are booked a year in advance because of the tired Art Basel, so our accomodations were less then thrilling. I am not a major diva who requires to be shod in the lap of luxury but when i am on tour i need a certain level of comfort and privacy which this trip did not afford. I was luckier then the rest of our cast and crew in that I stayed at a beautiful Bed&Breakfast manor called The Kulture House located just minutes from the theatre, but I did have to share a bathroom which is a pain when you are on tour and you need to focus on your performance and not on worrying whether you or going to bomb the toilet out with a fierce dookie or if you´ve spread too much water all about in the shower. Thats why I always have to insist on a private room and bath because I am a big lady who is known to make a mess. I have been so busy lately with a million projects that I wasn´t on top of things so much with this tour so I only have myself to blame. It was nice that Tan Binh Nguyen our brilliant make-up and hair stylist was also housed in the Kulture House. We had a hoot of a girlish time together gossiping and carrying on and causing major havoc in the city.
The performances were spectacular, and the audience ate it up royally. Susanne Sachsse was in fine form and its always a supreme pleasure working with her and Marc Siegel who was very cute on stage with this outing. Susanne and I got all lesbiana on the last night with Susi jumping on top of me and proving to the world what a hot femme aktive she is. If she had been wearing a strap-on I would have been sent to the hospital for repairs.
In the audience on opening night Wed June 15th: Kaserne Artistic Director Carena Schlewitt who use to work at Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, senior Kaserne dramaturge Tobias Brenk with his über love sexxxy beau Boris who gave us all VIP passes to the Art Faere which was duller then most art fairs. I only stayed at the giant pavillion for an hour or so. Also scene and herd----David Velasco of Art Forum Magazine, Kosuke Mori the stylish Tokyo art collector with Julie Miyoshi the LA art advisor, architect Alex Tirziu, Rudolph Schiesser of Hotel Trois Rois who looked like he wasn´t so into my performance, former football star Yoann Goureoff with Poppy Delevingne.
On the second night was Berlin based Israeli art shtar Yael Bertrana and her gallerist, artist Daniel Marti who use to be the boyfriend of Hollywood punk rock princess Pleasant Gehman. Mr. Marti relocated to Basel from his native Zurich, and cooked me a fabulous dinner after my last performance and loaded the doll down with wonderous presents. I was also introduced to the Swiss/Hollywood director Marc Forster whose movies I have never seen, and flirted with Parisian art specialist Edouard de Moussac and Hong Kong interior designer Roy Li.
The Commi Biggi crew were all a flutter over an American performer named Miguel Gutierrez who was part of the Zap Festival at Kaserne and whose ill bearded and rainbow flag covered gender fuck image adorned a giant unattractive poster. Mr. Gutierrez seemed personable in our limited interaction with each other, but the Commi Biggi gang who heard him rehearsing while they were setting up our show didn´t find his art to their liking. A local curator whispered to me that Mr. Gutierrez is the newly crowned otter darling of the dance theatre world and that his performances and choreography is something of a mixture of Tim Miller circa mid 90s meets Jeremy Wade.
Monday, June 11, 2012
BERLINS ÄLTESTE BETRIEBE
Was wondering what ever became of Tyler Brule, the handsome Canadian from Winnipeg who started the magazines Wallpaper and Monocle. Back in the late 80s when i was producing the zine Fertile La Toyah Jackson the young Mr. Brule was a huge fan and came to LA to visit with me, pick my brain for ideas and take me out as his date to some chic restaurants where we created quite a stir. Tyler looked like Montgomery Cliff before the accident. He was extremely fresh faced and innocent looking.
It seems that he has led quite an interesting life since the 1980s. He was a war correspondent in Afganistan and was shot twice by snipers and had a long recovery. His father was a famous Canadian football player and they are estranged because of Tyler´s homosexuality. Tyler is still quite young at 43 and is every inch of a mover and shaker. I like to think that I had some influence on his successes. Well i am the muse to many.
Received an email asking me about what is was like knowing the famed sci fi writer Ray Bradbury. Well he was my mentor when i was in the 11th grade. Mr. Bradbury was one of those rare white liberals who put his money where his penis is and actually gave back to others. He went to Los Angeles High School and was very active in his support of the school, which is the oldest in LA. I was a very fortunate recipient of his largesse. Mr. Bradbury you are loved and missed as a true Angeleno of high graciousness. Another tidbit about Mr. Bradbury is that he never learned how to drive a car, just like yours truelly. Imagine someone born and raised in LA and not ever learning how to handle an automobile.
***
I forgot to tell you dear readers, in my previous post about the old Santa Monica bookshop Midnight Special that one of their regular customers was musician Michéle Ndegecello, her girlfriend & kids.
Off to Basel Art Faere where i will be performing with the great Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel in Communist Bigamist-Two Love Stories. Hope there is a lot of eye candy in Basel.
Was wondering what ever became of Tyler Brule, the handsome Canadian from Winnipeg who started the magazines Wallpaper and Monocle. Back in the late 80s when i was producing the zine Fertile La Toyah Jackson the young Mr. Brule was a huge fan and came to LA to visit with me, pick my brain for ideas and take me out as his date to some chic restaurants where we created quite a stir. Tyler looked like Montgomery Cliff before the accident. He was extremely fresh faced and innocent looking.
It seems that he has led quite an interesting life since the 1980s. He was a war correspondent in Afganistan and was shot twice by snipers and had a long recovery. His father was a famous Canadian football player and they are estranged because of Tyler´s homosexuality. Tyler is still quite young at 43 and is every inch of a mover and shaker. I like to think that I had some influence on his successes. Well i am the muse to many.
Received an email asking me about what is was like knowing the famed sci fi writer Ray Bradbury. Well he was my mentor when i was in the 11th grade. Mr. Bradbury was one of those rare white liberals who put his money where his penis is and actually gave back to others. He went to Los Angeles High School and was very active in his support of the school, which is the oldest in LA. I was a very fortunate recipient of his largesse. Mr. Bradbury you are loved and missed as a true Angeleno of high graciousness. Another tidbit about Mr. Bradbury is that he never learned how to drive a car, just like yours truelly. Imagine someone born and raised in LA and not ever learning how to handle an automobile.
***
I forgot to tell you dear readers, in my previous post about the old Santa Monica bookshop Midnight Special that one of their regular customers was musician Michéle Ndegecello, her girlfriend & kids.
Off to Basel Art Faere where i will be performing with the great Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel in Communist Bigamist-Two Love Stories. Hope there is a lot of eye candy in Basel.
Thursday, June 07, 2012
ES GIBT KLARE RECHTSPRECHUNGEN
Had a lovely luncheon work meeting with CHEAP fearless leader Susanne Sachsse and Nazli Kilerci going over necessary prep for the next touring segment of Communist Bigamist-Two Love Stories that features a pit stop in Basel for The Basel Art Faere.
In the morning I had breakfast with Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim at the sizzling Mehringdamn bistro East London-God Save Brit Food. Danny had me laughing out loud as he was complaining about the Royal Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth. The only Jubilee that he is interested in is the celebrated Derek Jarman film.
Danny use to work for many years at the famed Midnight Special Bookstore in Santa Monica that was owned by Lebenese Leftist culture worker Margie Ghiy. Many celebrities made the bookstore their second home including Tom Hayden, Gregory Peck who would bring his yappity lap dog, Sean Penn, Dustin Hoffman, Martin Sheen, director Paul Voerheoven, Brazilian actress Sonja Braga, perpetually tanned matinee idol George Hamilton who would come in with his cell phone when they first became popular and talk on it for hours. Susan Sontag and other bored lifeless Getty Institute visiting scholars on their lunch breaks. A black gay homeless store employee at the bookstore once yelled at actress Mariel Hemmingway, „Hey aren´t you one of those Hemmingways!“
One of my favorite memories is seeing poet Sonja Sanchez perform at the Midnight Special.
Last night I was treated to a delicious din din at the Schwartzer Cafe by my former boss at Sundance Film Festival´s New Frontíers section Ms. Shari Frilot. Shari was looking healthy and robust in a Queen Latifah like way. Lady Shari and her beautiful young Persian girlfriend Princess Roya stopped off in Berlin on their way to dOCMENTA in Kessel. It was great hanging out with Shari and catching up on all things film in the sorry United Statuals. It seems like budgets for indie film projects are back to low and no budget status and that is a good think in forcing young filmmakers to stretch their creative steroid muscles.
Was asked what I thought of the new live action film version of Snow White called Snow White and the Huntsman. I was invited to a screening ages ago and I actually liked some of it. Chris Hemsworth should have had a few shirtless scenes but withstanding that I especially enjoyed the performance of Charlize Theron as a wounded queen slashing patriarchy the only way she knows how by killing powerful men and chewing on the hearts of ravens. Ms. Theron´s performance was very nicely shaded and she looked lovely in her fractured medieval gowns and hairstylings. I also enjoyed baby dyke ingenue Kristen Stewart who needs to make a movie about her short but steamy love affair when she was very young with Jodie Foster during the filming of Panic Room when Jodie played her mother. Just saying . . .
O Love Camel if you are reading this will you please send me a copy of the tomes the UnInvited Guests by Sadie Jones and The Astaires-Fred & Adele by Kathleen Riley. I bet many people are unware that Adele Astaire was the big star when she performed with her younger brother Fred back in the 1920s. Their dancing partnership ended when Adele married into British artistocracy when she wed Lord Cavendish. Someone should make a movie about the fabulous Astaire siblings.
Ms. Shari Frilot said that a film is in the works about Hedy Lamarr. Not only was Miss Lamarr beautiful beyond compare but she was brainy and invented a component that is responsible for cellphone technology today. See what you learn from reading this very blog.
So sad to report that Los Angeles native Ray Bradbury the great science fiction writer died yesterday age 91. I met him when I was a teenager as he went to my high school and attended a function for former grads to mentor current students.
Had a lovely luncheon work meeting with CHEAP fearless leader Susanne Sachsse and Nazli Kilerci going over necessary prep for the next touring segment of Communist Bigamist-Two Love Stories that features a pit stop in Basel for The Basel Art Faere.
In the morning I had breakfast with Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim at the sizzling Mehringdamn bistro East London-God Save Brit Food. Danny had me laughing out loud as he was complaining about the Royal Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth. The only Jubilee that he is interested in is the celebrated Derek Jarman film.
Danny use to work for many years at the famed Midnight Special Bookstore in Santa Monica that was owned by Lebenese Leftist culture worker Margie Ghiy. Many celebrities made the bookstore their second home including Tom Hayden, Gregory Peck who would bring his yappity lap dog, Sean Penn, Dustin Hoffman, Martin Sheen, director Paul Voerheoven, Brazilian actress Sonja Braga, perpetually tanned matinee idol George Hamilton who would come in with his cell phone when they first became popular and talk on it for hours. Susan Sontag and other bored lifeless Getty Institute visiting scholars on their lunch breaks. A black gay homeless store employee at the bookstore once yelled at actress Mariel Hemmingway, „Hey aren´t you one of those Hemmingways!“
One of my favorite memories is seeing poet Sonja Sanchez perform at the Midnight Special.
Last night I was treated to a delicious din din at the Schwartzer Cafe by my former boss at Sundance Film Festival´s New Frontíers section Ms. Shari Frilot. Shari was looking healthy and robust in a Queen Latifah like way. Lady Shari and her beautiful young Persian girlfriend Princess Roya stopped off in Berlin on their way to dOCMENTA in Kessel. It was great hanging out with Shari and catching up on all things film in the sorry United Statuals. It seems like budgets for indie film projects are back to low and no budget status and that is a good think in forcing young filmmakers to stretch their creative steroid muscles.
Was asked what I thought of the new live action film version of Snow White called Snow White and the Huntsman. I was invited to a screening ages ago and I actually liked some of it. Chris Hemsworth should have had a few shirtless scenes but withstanding that I especially enjoyed the performance of Charlize Theron as a wounded queen slashing patriarchy the only way she knows how by killing powerful men and chewing on the hearts of ravens. Ms. Theron´s performance was very nicely shaded and she looked lovely in her fractured medieval gowns and hairstylings. I also enjoyed baby dyke ingenue Kristen Stewart who needs to make a movie about her short but steamy love affair when she was very young with Jodie Foster during the filming of Panic Room when Jodie played her mother. Just saying . . .
O Love Camel if you are reading this will you please send me a copy of the tomes the UnInvited Guests by Sadie Jones and The Astaires-Fred & Adele by Kathleen Riley. I bet many people are unware that Adele Astaire was the big star when she performed with her younger brother Fred back in the 1920s. Their dancing partnership ended when Adele married into British artistocracy when she wed Lord Cavendish. Someone should make a movie about the fabulous Astaire siblings.
Ms. Shari Frilot said that a film is in the works about Hedy Lamarr. Not only was Miss Lamarr beautiful beyond compare but she was brainy and invented a component that is responsible for cellphone technology today. See what you learn from reading this very blog.
So sad to report that Los Angeles native Ray Bradbury the great science fiction writer died yesterday age 91. I met him when I was a teenager as he went to my high school and attended a function for former grads to mentor current students.
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
PENIS ABORTIONIST
The pain and swelling from my gout condition is lessening, but I am still suffering a bit from it, and of course I am in no way able to leap over buildings in a single bound the way I was before the affliction. Had luncheon with Christian F. Weber who is an adoreable German Phd in Film Studies or either he is a film historian. I can´t remember which. We went to the delightful little boite Frau Rauscher in Kreuzberg which use to go under a different name a few years ago and I must admit to having a splendid dining experience. Of course the bigger joy was just being with my beautiful young Christian who worked so hard for me as my assistant on Camp/Anti-Camp: The Queer Guide to Everyday Life and VD is SFTD.
Had a lovely little studio visit at the Cheese Endique Trifecta from Columbia University grad student Tho-mas Lax who is a sexy little colored boy with a background similar to mine in that his father is a German/Jew. Of course young Tho-mas is a middleclass---- both his mother and father are physicians.
Tho-mas grew up and still lives in Harlem and we spent hours chittle chatting together. I love mentoring the young, gifted and black. Tho-mas is in Berlin on a curatorial workshop and came to me highly recommended from both the divine Hilton Als of The New Yorker Magazine and performance studies professor Tavia Nyongo.
Received a nice little emug from Tim Blue who is back in Portland, Oregon. Very dear hearing from him. The Vagimulic tentacles are far reaching so of course my Pacific Northwest spies have already relayed to me Tim Blue´s every movement back in the city of his birth since he arrived back home. Its funny how tiny the world really is.
Despite popular rumours of the contrary I do know how to keep a secret and I don´t spill all the private fava beans of my friends and associates in this very blog you are now reading. That doesn´t mean I don´t write it all down, I just don´t publish it on the WWW for all the whurl to read. Word to the wise! Don´t piss me off or I will publish it one day.
***
Got this emug from my sister Teresa in Los Angeles:
Hello. Always thinking of you. Our weather is nice this year! Not too hot or too cold. Terri Lynn(my niece) finally got that settlement from LA County Sherriff. But they owed her in-laws because they paid her husband´s bond and got him the lawyer. Thank goodness the lawyer didn't take any money because the settlement was too low. So Terri was able to pay her 2 months back rent. Two weeks ago we went to California Adventure and Disneyland. So that money is going fast.
Darren, her husband, found a training program and he's doing very well. Hopefully he should be getting a job soon. Otherwise they're going to be behind on their rent again. The kids are fine. Just her daughter, the 16 year old, is still getting caught with boys every time she misses taking her meds (Abilify). So Terri Lynn thinks that it may be low self esteem and depression that brings that feeling on. Plus Kristina's dad takes meds for bi-polar disorder. So that also might be her problem. She knows what's right and wrong. But, she says she can't control herself. That's why Terri Lynn thinks she needs meds. I agree with her. Kristina's father just goes from one woman to another. That is a known symptom of bi-polar disorder. So Kristina didn't get to go with the rest of the kids to Disneyland. She stayed with her father. He stays with a girl friend that lives close by right now.
Marky's (My nephew who died in 2011)daughter, Kelly, will be a senior at Hollywood High next year. She loves her school choir, H20. She says that's their name because they are the top 20 Hollywood High singers. So I think she's going to try to be a singer or dancer or actor. She didn't want to go to Disneyland and miss her rehearsal! His other daughter, Kameron, is graduating. She's very smart. I know she's going to college but I'm not sure which one because her mom is supposed to come down here. Otherwise she might go to Berkeley or San Francisco State. The boy Mark Jr. is going to Vallejo High next September. Brian(my other nephew) is still watching him to see if he needs to come here to stay with him because he was starting to have a poor choice of friends.
I told you Brian is looking for another weapons repair job. So he just came back from a month of national guard duty. Jaime has custody of the kids until October. So he wanted to keep himself busy.
I miss my sister every day. I just pray I can see her again in the resurrection. I still cry for her. Miss you so much too! Love you!!!
**
Sooner or later everyone reads my blogina. Just recently reconnected with Alfredo Botello someone I first met 30 years ago. He is now married with two children and living in the Bay Area where he owns two bars and is a screenwriter. I adore Alfredo and have often thought of him so it was quite a surprise to receive an emug from him from out of the blue. Sorry but I am not sharing the contents as they are way too personal, and I have to keep somethings for myself. There before the Grace of God Go I . . . but for the past few days I have been literally levitating with so much love in my broken, wounded, cold black heart.
The memory piece I wrote about Jabberjaw is now in the Summer issue of Art Forum Magazine.Here is a link to it online:
http://artforum.com/inprint/issue=201206&id=31088.
***
This emug from filmmaker Liz Rosenfeld:
Dear, Friends, Colleagues and Community:
It is with great excitement that I announce the production of my new film " Die Neue Frau," the final film in my short film triptych the Surface Tension Series. I can't believe that it has been almost four years since I moved to Berlin with the intention of making this work, and now the series is almost complete."Die Neue Frau," is a short film presented as a reel constructed of personal home movies made by Leni Riefenstahl in 1933 (the last official year of The Weimar Republic), exposing an ambiguous relationship she had with Eva Braun. This film is an intimate portrait of two prominent women who were integral witnesses to Berlin's transition from decadence into fascism. I am also extremely excited that I will have the opportunity to work with the wonderful actress Susanne Sachsse, who will be staring as Leni Riefenstahl in "Die Neue Frau." As I mentioned above, " Die Neue Frau" is the last film in The Surface Tension Series, which queers historical narratives of the rise and fall of the Wiemar period in Germany through the perspectives of three female artists who lived in Berlin.
We need your help!
At the moment "Die Neue Frau" is in the pre- production stage,and we are gearing up to shoot the first week in July. As many of you know, making art with limited access to public funding is what artists are having to do these days, and I would be so grateful if you could please take a moment to look at my fundraising campaign. Even if you can't donate money, a small donation of your time to spread the word about this fundraiser would be hugely appreciated. Please take a moment to check out the fundraising video and further information about this project here: http://www.indiegogo.com/dieneuefrau?a=190375.
You are not just supporting me, you are supporting my community!
Since we finnished "Frida & Anita," 2 years ago, I have been working with my producers/ cinematographers ( NowMomentNow, http://nowmomentnow.com/) and local community in Berlin to finish the last two films, so that I can finally complete the entire Surface Tension Series for Autumn of 2012. These films have been created, and produced by the same group of people over the past few years, and as a result of our collaborative effort, we have also formed an amazing lexicon of artists who have worked hard to support each other in all of our creative endeavours. Because of my amazing community here, I have experienced the most productive period in my artistic career, and for this I feel incredibly blessed. You will see that all of the "perks" one may receive from donating, are all donated and created by the talented and amazing people I admire and love in Berlin. It has been an amazing ride, with screenings of the first film in the series, "Frida & Anita" at amazing venues including The Tate Modern, The British Film Institute, NYC Mix Festival, and The Raindance Film Festival.
Thank you so much for taking the time to consider donating/ spreading the word about " Die Neue Frau."
This project has changed my life, and I am so excited to finally be able to share this series in it's entirety!
Sending Love,
http://www.lizrosenfeld.com/
***
Seems like Berlin is becoming a murder capital of sorts. Just the other day not far from where I was hanging out working on a project with Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim, the on-the-run Canadian Cannibal Porno Killer was caught at an internet cafe in KreuzKölln where he was reading his press clippings. Then right after that a Turkish man in Kreuzberg lost it and beheaded his wife in front of their brood of young schoolage children. Reading about this tragic happening in the Berlin Local English language online newspaper and seeing the pictures of the Turkish couples apartment complex, If I had to live in a building like that it would drive me insane enough to committ murder and decapitation.
The pain and swelling from my gout condition is lessening, but I am still suffering a bit from it, and of course I am in no way able to leap over buildings in a single bound the way I was before the affliction. Had luncheon with Christian F. Weber who is an adoreable German Phd in Film Studies or either he is a film historian. I can´t remember which. We went to the delightful little boite Frau Rauscher in Kreuzberg which use to go under a different name a few years ago and I must admit to having a splendid dining experience. Of course the bigger joy was just being with my beautiful young Christian who worked so hard for me as my assistant on Camp/Anti-Camp: The Queer Guide to Everyday Life and VD is SFTD.
Had a lovely little studio visit at the Cheese Endique Trifecta from Columbia University grad student Tho-mas Lax who is a sexy little colored boy with a background similar to mine in that his father is a German/Jew. Of course young Tho-mas is a middleclass---- both his mother and father are physicians.
Tho-mas grew up and still lives in Harlem and we spent hours chittle chatting together. I love mentoring the young, gifted and black. Tho-mas is in Berlin on a curatorial workshop and came to me highly recommended from both the divine Hilton Als of The New Yorker Magazine and performance studies professor Tavia Nyongo.
Received a nice little emug from Tim Blue who is back in Portland, Oregon. Very dear hearing from him. The Vagimulic tentacles are far reaching so of course my Pacific Northwest spies have already relayed to me Tim Blue´s every movement back in the city of his birth since he arrived back home. Its funny how tiny the world really is.
Despite popular rumours of the contrary I do know how to keep a secret and I don´t spill all the private fava beans of my friends and associates in this very blog you are now reading. That doesn´t mean I don´t write it all down, I just don´t publish it on the WWW for all the whurl to read. Word to the wise! Don´t piss me off or I will publish it one day.
***
Got this emug from my sister Teresa in Los Angeles:
Hello. Always thinking of you. Our weather is nice this year! Not too hot or too cold. Terri Lynn(my niece) finally got that settlement from LA County Sherriff. But they owed her in-laws because they paid her husband´s bond and got him the lawyer. Thank goodness the lawyer didn't take any money because the settlement was too low. So Terri was able to pay her 2 months back rent. Two weeks ago we went to California Adventure and Disneyland. So that money is going fast.
Darren, her husband, found a training program and he's doing very well. Hopefully he should be getting a job soon. Otherwise they're going to be behind on their rent again. The kids are fine. Just her daughter, the 16 year old, is still getting caught with boys every time she misses taking her meds (Abilify). So Terri Lynn thinks that it may be low self esteem and depression that brings that feeling on. Plus Kristina's dad takes meds for bi-polar disorder. So that also might be her problem. She knows what's right and wrong. But, she says she can't control herself. That's why Terri Lynn thinks she needs meds. I agree with her. Kristina's father just goes from one woman to another. That is a known symptom of bi-polar disorder. So Kristina didn't get to go with the rest of the kids to Disneyland. She stayed with her father. He stays with a girl friend that lives close by right now.
Marky's (My nephew who died in 2011)daughter, Kelly, will be a senior at Hollywood High next year. She loves her school choir, H20. She says that's their name because they are the top 20 Hollywood High singers. So I think she's going to try to be a singer or dancer or actor. She didn't want to go to Disneyland and miss her rehearsal! His other daughter, Kameron, is graduating. She's very smart. I know she's going to college but I'm not sure which one because her mom is supposed to come down here. Otherwise she might go to Berkeley or San Francisco State. The boy Mark Jr. is going to Vallejo High next September. Brian(my other nephew) is still watching him to see if he needs to come here to stay with him because he was starting to have a poor choice of friends.
I told you Brian is looking for another weapons repair job. So he just came back from a month of national guard duty. Jaime has custody of the kids until October. So he wanted to keep himself busy.
I miss my sister every day. I just pray I can see her again in the resurrection. I still cry for her. Miss you so much too! Love you!!!
**
Sooner or later everyone reads my blogina. Just recently reconnected with Alfredo Botello someone I first met 30 years ago. He is now married with two children and living in the Bay Area where he owns two bars and is a screenwriter. I adore Alfredo and have often thought of him so it was quite a surprise to receive an emug from him from out of the blue. Sorry but I am not sharing the contents as they are way too personal, and I have to keep somethings for myself. There before the Grace of God Go I . . . but for the past few days I have been literally levitating with so much love in my broken, wounded, cold black heart.
The memory piece I wrote about Jabberjaw is now in the Summer issue of Art Forum Magazine.Here is a link to it online:
http://artforum.com/inprint/issue=201206&id=31088.
***
This emug from filmmaker Liz Rosenfeld:
Dear, Friends, Colleagues and Community:
It is with great excitement that I announce the production of my new film " Die Neue Frau," the final film in my short film triptych the Surface Tension Series. I can't believe that it has been almost four years since I moved to Berlin with the intention of making this work, and now the series is almost complete."Die Neue Frau," is a short film presented as a reel constructed of personal home movies made by Leni Riefenstahl in 1933 (the last official year of The Weimar Republic), exposing an ambiguous relationship she had with Eva Braun. This film is an intimate portrait of two prominent women who were integral witnesses to Berlin's transition from decadence into fascism. I am also extremely excited that I will have the opportunity to work with the wonderful actress Susanne Sachsse, who will be staring as Leni Riefenstahl in "Die Neue Frau." As I mentioned above, " Die Neue Frau" is the last film in The Surface Tension Series, which queers historical narratives of the rise and fall of the Wiemar period in Germany through the perspectives of three female artists who lived in Berlin.
We need your help!
At the moment "Die Neue Frau" is in the pre- production stage,and we are gearing up to shoot the first week in July. As many of you know, making art with limited access to public funding is what artists are having to do these days, and I would be so grateful if you could please take a moment to look at my fundraising campaign. Even if you can't donate money, a small donation of your time to spread the word about this fundraiser would be hugely appreciated. Please take a moment to check out the fundraising video and further information about this project here: http://www.indiegogo.com/dieneuefrau?a=190375.
You are not just supporting me, you are supporting my community!
Since we finnished "Frida & Anita," 2 years ago, I have been working with my producers/ cinematographers ( NowMomentNow, http://nowmomentnow.com/) and local community in Berlin to finish the last two films, so that I can finally complete the entire Surface Tension Series for Autumn of 2012. These films have been created, and produced by the same group of people over the past few years, and as a result of our collaborative effort, we have also formed an amazing lexicon of artists who have worked hard to support each other in all of our creative endeavours. Because of my amazing community here, I have experienced the most productive period in my artistic career, and for this I feel incredibly blessed. You will see that all of the "perks" one may receive from donating, are all donated and created by the talented and amazing people I admire and love in Berlin. It has been an amazing ride, with screenings of the first film in the series, "Frida & Anita" at amazing venues including The Tate Modern, The British Film Institute, NYC Mix Festival, and The Raindance Film Festival.
Thank you so much for taking the time to consider donating/ spreading the word about " Die Neue Frau."
This project has changed my life, and I am so excited to finally be able to share this series in it's entirety!
Sending Love,
http://www.lizrosenfeld.com/
***
Seems like Berlin is becoming a murder capital of sorts. Just the other day not far from where I was hanging out working on a project with Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim, the on-the-run Canadian Cannibal Porno Killer was caught at an internet cafe in KreuzKölln where he was reading his press clippings. Then right after that a Turkish man in Kreuzberg lost it and beheaded his wife in front of their brood of young schoolage children. Reading about this tragic happening in the Berlin Local English language online newspaper and seeing the pictures of the Turkish couples apartment complex, If I had to live in a building like that it would drive me insane enough to committ murder and decapitation.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
WIE
BESCHLOSSEN MACHBAR
Sorry
kids, but I have not been feeling like writing lately as the poor Vagimule doll
has been suffering with gout for the last few days. It’s a chronic condition that flares up with
either stress or bad eating habits and can be quite painful and debilitating
making it very hard for me to walk as it attacks the joints and causes swelling
in the feet or knees. This time its my
left foot that is in agony. Well I’m
glad its happening now before I go back on tour with Communist Bigamist, and I
am so happy it didn’t rear its ugly head during the Camp/Anti-Camp
festival.That would have been a
disaster.
The
weather has been gorgeous in Berlin,and the tourist season is in full
swing. Before getting sick I spent some
time rehearsing with Tenderloin and hanging out with the boys-Joel Gibb who is now back in Canada for a month, Felix Knoke, Landgraf Klesse and volatile
Dagmar Hopfpfisterei. Also met with CHEAP fearless leader Susanne Sachsse and
Marc Siegel to plan the tour for Camp/Anti-Camp in the fall/winter which is
very exciting. Susi made a delicious Spring
Awakening luncheon with lentils, May salad and fish from the Baltic Sea. My gout was raging but I was able to make it
to the CHEAP compound by riding my bike which was easier to do then walk or
navigate a bus or subway. My only
problem happened riding home when my
bike chain popped off, and being tunten und technik I wasn’t able to fix it so I
stopped off at the Arsenal and caught a screening of the Humphrey Bogart/Lauren
Bacall classic Dark Passage from 1947 that also features a fantastically
hysterical Agnes Morehead and the stunning city of San Francisco as the best
character in the film.
Fortunately
some nice Russian men helped me get the chain back on the bike so I could ride
home in one piece. The next day
wonderful Piero Bellomo and Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim brought me
some Indian food and gave the doll some much needed nurturing. Thank god for Piero and Daniel.
One of my CHEAP collegues Tim Blue of the Blue Brothers fame went back to live in the US of A after almost a decade here in Berlin. It was quite sudden and unexpected his leaving and i didn't get a chance to bid him a proper farewell because of the haste in which he left. Tim is quite an interesting figure, very talented and we had some really great times with each other over the years that included him and his younger brother kJohnny Blue performing live music to accompany the silent film screenings i curated at Arsenal Inst fuer film und video kunst as part of my Rising Stars, Falling Stars series. I hear that Tim is taking care of an ill sibling in his hometown of Portland,Oregon and I think that him focusing his energies and attentions on someone in need is the best thing for him to engage in at this time of his life. Perhaps our paths will cross again and we will work on a project together in the future. That would be nice.
Just
received this info from the good people at Hugs & Kisses Magazine:
QUEER CINEMA: Fotos von
Christiane Stephan & Andrea Preysing
Ein
subjektiver Blick auf die Filmgeschichte aus querer Sicht – illustriert mit
einigen der besten Leinwandmomente
In
der Reihenfolge sind zu sehen:
Didine van der Platenvlotbrug als Miss Marple
Sam und Zoe: „Bonnie und Clyde”
Dolly Cluster als Tippi Hedren in: „Die Vögel”
Jule als Marilyn Monroe in „Das verflixte 7. Jahr”
Miss Pünktchen als Marlene Dietrich: „Shanghai Express”
Hank Bobbit in James-Dean-Pose: „Giganten”
Hans Kellett, Sänger von Princessin Hans, à la Liza Minnelli: „Cabaret”
Tilly Creutzfeldt-Jakob like Audrey Hepburn: „Frühstück bei Tiffany”
Didine van der Platenvlotbrug als Miss Marple
Sam und Zoe: „Bonnie und Clyde”
Dolly Cluster als Tippi Hedren in: „Die Vögel”
Jule als Marilyn Monroe in „Das verflixte 7. Jahr”
Miss Pünktchen als Marlene Dietrich: „Shanghai Express”
Hank Bobbit in James-Dean-Pose: „Giganten”
Hans Kellett, Sänger von Princessin Hans, à la Liza Minnelli: „Cabaret”
Tilly Creutzfeldt-Jakob like Audrey Hepburn: „Frühstück bei Tiffany”
Fotos:
Christiane Stephan (www.christianestephan.com)
und Andrea Preysing (apreysing@onlinehome.de)
Styling: Manu Wolf
und Andrea Preysing (apreysing@onlinehome.de)
Styling: Manu Wolf
And
this from the La Moustache queer kids:
Hooray, we have two great shows coming up next week!
Have a listen now and mark the dates in your calendar!
See you hopefully there!
Riot Grrrl Berlin & La Moustache present:
Let's celebrate Fronleichnam (or how it's called)
Thursday, June 7 @ ://about blank
Markgrafendamm 24c, S Ostkreuz
doors open at 9, show starts at 10
l i v e
SHE SAID DESTROY (Noise Pop - Bologna, Italy)
http://youtu.be/oKTH2m3ATpY
https://www.facebook.com/SheSaidDestroyy
TRANSLOLA (Post Punk - Krakow, Poland)
http://youtu.be/RwlHpBmF-TA
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Translola/108235515870760
PONY PACK (Punk Pop New Wave - Amsterdam, Netherlands)
http://youtu.be/40FjE-z1JqE
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pony-Pack/372297346728
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/358946714168638
Show poster: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fantastischelastisch/7240631478/in/photostream
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and one day later...
Raumerweiterungshalle & La Moustache present:
Friday, June 8 @ Raumerweiterungshalle
Markgrafendamm 24c, S Ostkreuz
10pm
RAE SPOON (Indie Electronics - Montreal, Canada)
www.raespoon.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=op4ywkS9MUU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ckA8ZiEBXss
LIANNE HALL ("One of the great English voices" John Peel - Brighton, UK)
www.liannehall.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpjbNqGKS6U
http://vimeo.com/15398068
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/289766951113935/
Show poster: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fantastischelastisch/7248567672/in/photostream
u p c o m i n g
Paper & Iron Booking, La Moustache & Marie-Antoinette present:
SCREAMING FEMALES
https://www.facebook.com/events/307190109360078
ticket presale: http://www.koka36.de/Screaming%20Females_ticket_47774.html
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on the 2nd august billie ray martin
releases her new dvd.
Billie Ray Martin releases this 8 panel deluxe DVD, featuring five movies inspired by Andy Warhol‘s Screen Tests and printed in colour and silver metallic. The song ‘On Borrowed Time’ deals with Andy’s fictional confession, in which he reflects on his existence and a life he always experienced as less than real. With music by electronic producer and soul singer Waterson, who is riding high on the airwaves with his single 'When You Tell Me That You Love Me'. “Five Takes (A Song About Andy)“
Five Movie Deluxe DVD & digital release
Release date: 5 August 2012
Release date: 5 August 2012
Label: Disco Activisto Records
Distribution: Cargo
Webshop: www.billieraymartin.com/mart
Distribution: Cargo
Webshop: www.billieraymartin.com/mart
the launch takes place at tha art'otel
(warhol hotel) berlin on the 2nd of august. the hotel offers a
special 60 euro rate for the night's stay for brm fans and friends. live
performance, dj, film showings and some special surprise goodies take
place and we hope that waterson, the director and everyone involved in the
project will be there and strutt their stuff. email us for hotel details and
join billie on facebook for updates on more launch dates, updates on the berlin
event etc. www.facebook.com/billieraymartinmusic
launch events in other cities are planned.
please feel free to shout with any questions and ideas.
meanwhile to keep you happy here's a free download from
the opiates: http://soundcloud.com/billie-ray-martin/the-opiates-feat-naommon
finally, we've had a small shipment of 50 more copies of
the opiates double cd. it's at the webshop.
billie
ray martin
disco activisto records
Monday, May 21, 2012
IN MASKS OUTRAGEOUS AND AUSTERE
Last night´s Rising Stars,
Falling Stars was out of control! It was the first really hot day of
the late Spring season, so when it gets this warm most people want to
spend their time hanging at the Berlin River, Canal or Lakes and not
inside watching a movie, but the power of John Cassavettes won out
and the fact we were screening a rare film of his---Killing of a
Chinese Bookie that is hardly ever seen in cinemas contributed to an
SRO crowd of unfamiliar faces, but those faces known: the lovely
Miss Ela of bbooks kollektive, the personable Markus Ruff of Living
Archive, Ulrich Ziemons and his beautiful girlfriend. Uli was
filling in for Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus who is in
India with a special film program that travels to four cities. Uli
is also teaching a block seminar on Weather in Film at the famous
film school in Potsdam. Also getting into the rakish spirit of the
Cassavettes film Ms. Susanne Sachsse, free from her Venge Vengard/Ida
Müller John Gabriel Borkman assignment at Volksbuhne/Prater
chittle chatting with young French booty pie DeRohan Chabot, American
art student Acme Singt with Christine Himmelsfahrt, prima ballerina
Trixi Cordua, film historian Marc Siegel in heated discussion with
The Whitney´s Scott Rothkopf, Little Alex of Macedonia who did
Ms. Davis´s make-up and hair design, lovesexy posh British
author Owen Jones of the tome Chavs: The Demonization of the Working
Class, spirited Nanna Heidenreich of Arsenal Experimental, Daniel
Hendrickson and beau Piero Bellomo with curator Masimilliano Gioni,
John Maturri and his sweet and vivacious friend Linda. John is a
photographer and teacher of philosophy and film at Queens College. He
worked with Jack Smith, Richard Foreman, Ken Jacobs, and Stuart
Sherman (about whom he co-curated the very much talked about
exhibition back in 2009. And yes its true Ms. Davis did leave with
the patrician Mr. Louis Marie de Castelbajac.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
http://www.mixcloud.com/filmanzeiger/rising-stars-falling-stars-with-vaginal-davis-may-2012/?utm_source=widget&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=base_links&utm_term=resource_link" target="_blank" style="color:#02a0c7; font-weight:bold;"> Rising Stars Falling Stars - with Vaginal Davis - May 2012 by http://www.mixcloud.com/filmanzeiger/?utm_source=widget&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=base_links&utm_term=profile_link" target="_blank" style="color:#02a0c7; font-weight:bold;">Filmanzeiger on http://www.mixcloud.com/?utm_source=widget&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=base_links&utm_term=homepage_link" target="_blank" style="color:#02a0c7; font-weight:bold;"> Mixcloud
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
DIE JUNGFRAU AUF DEM DACH Felix Knocke of Der Spiegel Online and the hot Berlin based band Tenderloin was my lovesexy young date at the Passion Church to see the Magnetic Fields in action. We arrived as the opening band was performing. I didnt catch their name but they sounded like they were playing the same song catatonically over and over again. It was lovely seeing Miss Claudia Gonson per post preggers glow. She was in fine voice and was as spirited as ever on stage. The audience was eating up her hilarious back&forth banter with Mr. Stephin Merritt. La Merritt is sporting one of those gay beards that all the kids are wearing and it becomes him with his deep registered vocalizing. Gonson&Merrit are the Ingeborg Bachmann / Hans Werner Henze of the indie music world. When I saw them play at the Passion Church a few years ago it was my first time seeing and hearing live Miss Shirley Simms with the band. She is an incredible singer with an understated country phrasing that comes across as a delicate warble. The rest of the group: John Woo on guitar and Eurasian lawyer/cello player Sam Davol are as stoic as ever. They have aged a bit but Mr. Woo and Mr. Davol are still extremely handsome in that classical music long hair Mr. Paganini way. It also felt refreshing being in an audience where I wasn´t the oldest person in the room.
Someone sent me an emug asking If I had seen the Johnny Depp film Dark Shadows. I did go to a screening of it a few months back only because I am old enough to have memories of the original TV soap from the late 60s and early 70s starring Joan Bennett, a young Kate Jackson pre Charlie´s Angels fame Lara Parker and Jonathan Frid as Barnabus Collins. The Tim Burton film is a complete waste of time even though I adore his wife Helena Bonham Carter, the ex Mr. Angelina Jolie-Johnny Lee Miller (looking very long on the tooth) and Eva Green as a histrionic Angelique. One of my talented NYU students is having an exhibit in Paris. See the info below and go check it out. In another post I will give you the latest on singer Billie Ray Martin´s big Warhol inspired project. But I have to run out the door or I will be late for a radio interview.
The Superfluidity of an Interior une exposition de Carlos Reyes vernissage, samedi 19 mai 18 - 21h 19 mai - 9 juin, 2012 TAON 18-20 rue Ledru Rollin 94200 Ivry sur Seine jeudi - samedi / 11 - 18h et sur rendez-vous contact@taon.fr
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Thursday May 17th is a religious holiday in Berlin called Christi Himmelfahrt also known as Father´s Day and Männer aktuel tag, so all the stores will be closed. Thank you to Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim for reminding me about this holiday.
Someone sent me an emug asking If I had seen the Johnny Depp film Dark Shadows. I did go to a screening of it a few months back only because I am old enough to have memories of the original TV soap from the late 60s and early 70s starring Joan Bennett, a young Kate Jackson pre Charlie´s Angels fame Lara Parker and Jonathan Frid as Barnabus Collins. The Tim Burton film is a complete waste of time even though I adore his wife Helena Bonham Carter, the ex Mr. Angelina Jolie-Johnny Lee Miller (looking very long on the tooth) and Eva Green as a histrionic Angelique. One of my talented NYU students is having an exhibit in Paris. See the info below and go check it out. In another post I will give you the latest on singer Billie Ray Martin´s big Warhol inspired project. But I have to run out the door or I will be late for a radio interview.
The Superfluidity of an Interior une exposition de Carlos Reyes vernissage, samedi 19 mai 18 - 21h 19 mai - 9 juin, 2012 TAON 18-20 rue Ledru Rollin 94200 Ivry sur Seine jeudi - samedi / 11 - 18h et sur rendez-vous contact@taon.fr
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Thursday May 17th is a religious holiday in Berlin called Christi Himmelfahrt also known as Father´s Day and Männer aktuel tag, so all the stores will be closed. Thank you to Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim for reminding me about this holiday.
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