JE NE JOUE PAS LA TROMPETTE


I love quoting James Baldwin. My secret admirer sent to the Arsenal a wonderful book as a present to the Vagimule Doll. The tome is called Dreaming in French-The Paris Years of Jackie O, Susan Sontag and Angela Davis by Alice Kaplan and I can´t put it down its so electrifying and there are some pics of a young Angela Davis from the early 1960s with a bouffant hairdo that I have never seen before. She looks incredible. I wonder who my secret admirer is. If she reads my blog I just want to say, “Haben sie vielen dank”. I am sure my secret admirer is a wo-man as men are never interested in me.

My brilliant young Malmö Art Academy student Stne O. Midtsaeter is in town with her band Easter who will be performing Thursday at Luzia at Oranienstr 34. Can´t wait to see them. Just watched their video on You Tube for the song Alien Babies which is divine and listened to one of their songs online called Champagne which I also love.

http://easterjesus.bandcamp.com/track/champagne-121212

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2snrHI_qNmI

Rising Stars, Falling Stars-We Must Have Music Sunday night was quite intriguing with a screening of the Argentine film Toca Para Mi. The evening began with my partner in Tammy Grimes Mr. Daniel Hendrickson on piano playing Cholita´s Yo No Soy Puta Soy Princessa. Enjoying la pelicula de Evita- Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus who along with right hand man Uli Ziemons are in the thrall of Forum Expanded Berlinale madness. Miss Stefanie gave the Vagimule a wonderful early Hannukah Kwanza present of stylish matching designer luggage so that when I take my next trip I won´t be looking shabby at the boutique hotel lobbies I seem to inhabit on a regular basis. Incognito checking out the Arsenal was Carnegie Int´l curator Dan Byers with hunky Photios Giovaris of Callicoon Fine Arts who was swooning over Little Alex of Macedonia who was also getting major sex attention from junior art shtar Matthew Brannon. Real life Argentine music and kunstler Cristian Forte and his Leisey Lento partner Katja von Hellsdorf royally held court while enjoying a red vino buzz.  Catch Leiseylento Wednesday when they perform at the Kotti Shop.  Piero Bellomo of La Colleczione was looking as handsome as ever. Earlier I had breakfast with Pierro Bellomo and Daniel Hendrickson at the new Sonnen Alle boite Bath Medina aka City House from the same people that have the restaurant City Chicken.
Jake the blondine financier from Modesto, CA., who is the nephew of Hollywood director George Lucas and has been living in Berlin for three years was flirting with Ms. Davis along  with his pretty Austrian child bride David.   Note to men of Berlin.  If you want to live a long time on this planet brazenly flirt with Vaginal Davis.  Its good for your health and well being.

A publicist for the new film remake of Anna Kerenina starring Kira Knightley emailed me a few days ago to ask if I had gone to the press screening and what did I think of the film. I went to the screening ages ago, and had forgotten to jot down a few lines about the pic so I will remedy the situation by saying that this version is quite a visual treat mainly because of the costumes, set design and the youthful male beauty of Aaron Taylor-Johnson who is this generations Maxwell Caulfield. Not only is the gorgeous manchild British like Mr. Caulfield but he is married to director Sam Taylor Johnson who is some 23 years his senior just like Mr. Caulfield´s significant other Juliet Mills of Nanny & the Professsor fame.  Mr. Taylor-Johnson is only 22 and is already the father of two small children. 
Once I was on a flight from LA to New York with Miss Juliet Mills, Mr. Maxwell Caulfield and their teenage daughter. Mr. Caulfield spent most of the time in the back galley doing sit ups and push-ups to maintain his bountiful pecs and abs no doubt. Who can forget those classic pics of him from the 80s clad in nothing but red shoes or his shirtless self in the Penelope Spheeris film Boys Next Door along with male ingenue Charlie Sheen.
Miss Mills and her daughter were holy terrors to the trolley dollies on the flight we were on. I guess having once been a big celebrity and having now to fly coach can turn anyone into a madwoman et charliot.

BONFIRE AT THE VANITIES

For those of you visiting Berlina as we are engulfed in early winter unending snow storms and are looking for something fun and unusual to go to check out below an opening at Casabaubou the studio of experimental film legends legend Wilhelm Hein and his art photographer girlfriend Annette Frick.  Also the hot Berlin band Leiseylento are doing a bunch of local shows and they are not to be missed as well as one of my Malmö Art Academy students Stine O Midtsaeter who is in town with her band.

NOCHMAL(VARIATION) DA ICH HÖRTE DASS MAN ANHANG NICHT ÖFFNEN KONNTE !! SORRY

ist es soweit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sonntag 16.12.2012 

16 bis 21 Uhr im CASABAUBOU -

Berlin - Wedding -  Seestr.107

*MOVING THE UNDERGROUND

 *UMZUG VON WILHELM HEIN

*WARUM PALESTINE ANDERS IST von Annette Frick

*THE MEDIUM IS NOT THE MESSAGE von Florian Kramer

*JOHN HEYS TRIFFT TAYLOR MEAD IN LONDON

*UNTERGRUND IN DER DDR :

*GABRIELE STÖTZER'S  AKTE UND AKTEN

*THINK FILM BERLIN :

  ALLE MANIFESTE UND EINSCHÄTZUNG VON CARSTEN ZORN

*COLLAGEN WILHELM HEIN

*LE FLAIR DE L'AIR

*ZEICHNUNGEN VON SHIRIN BARTHEL

*KEINE TABUS KEINE ZENSUR ????!!!!???? von Annette Frick

*TRANSGRESSION : THE EXTREME UNDERGROUND BY NICK ZEDD

*MONICA CASANOVA AT ROTTERDAM  Fotos Annette Frick

*CHILLEN UND STILLEN

*ERNTEDANK MIT SKULPTUREN VON JULIA PFEIFFER

*ZUR BLAUEN STUNDE VON FELIX PROFOS

*INKLUSIVE DVD VON WILHELM HEIN

"OVO ELLIE UND ANNETTE" MIT MUSIK VON FELIX PROFOS

JENSEITS DER TRAMPELPFADE Nr.13

AUFLAGE 100

NUR AM 16.12. 2012 für 15,- Euro sonst 30,-

ÜBERASCHUNGEN UND LIVE ACTS - FILME - FOTOS - TEXTE - VON

RUVI SIMMONS - SHIRIN BARTHEL - SISSI TAX - EVI EUROPA -

WILHELM HEIN - JACK SMITH - FELIX PROFOS - ANNETTE FRICK - u. A

here is the last newslettre from leiseylento:

dear everybody,

again we are in this part of the year where darkness covers most of the day and the mood is unsteady... and we "latinos" remember sweetly the unbearable heat of south latitudes during the feast times... christmas with 40°C, plastic trees and santa-clauses in their absurdly warm clothes while everyone is sweating!
NOW , we want to CHEER you up with some concerts, come and cuddle in small dark clubs feel warmth in your hearts on the sounds of Leiseylento & Los Mares during these terrible winter nights:
29.11  21h with Los Mares   EIS 36 - am Kotti (in front of Möbel Olfe) http://www.eis36.de/
14.12  20h       CAFÉ BÄNSCH - Friedrichshain, Bänschstr.79 http://www.facebook.com/pages/B%C3%A4nsch/363024043735079
19.12  21h  with Herr Teufelsdröckh und das Taschenmesser  KOTTI SHOP - am Kotti , http://kotti-shop.net/
21.12  21h  with Los Mares   SOWIESO- Neukölln, Weisestr.24, http://www.sowieso-neukoelln.de/#home
26.11  20h  with Los Mares    LA ESCALERA- Friedrichshain, Köpernickusstr.1, http://libros-escalera.de/
 5.01  19h SHARP!!  with Los Mares & Daniel Decker  SCHOKOLADEN- Mitte, Ackerstr.169, http://www.schokoladen-mitte.de/
12.01  20h with Los MAres  GELEGENHEITEN - Neukölln http://www.gelegenheiten-berlin.de/ , Weserstr.50

Leiseylento is preparing a new album, so there will be surprises in the concerts!!
Links:
http://enlosmares.blogspot.de/
http://soundcloud.com/herr-teufelsdr-ckh

love***

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Leiseylento  **bazaar musical***
www.leiseylento.blogspot.de
www.soundcloud.com/leiseylento
www.myspace.com/leiseylento
face book: leiseylento

Darling Davis! its been ages!

how are u? are u in berlin these days? hoping u will be as im writing to invite u to this huge event going down, im planning with my band EASTER, to host a night premiering our new album that will be out the same night, THURSDAY NEXT WEEK, THE 20TH that is, AT LUZIA in oranienstr in kreuzberg.

think it will start at 8 and we will perform the new songs and invite a real hot dj and party into the next day, the one supposed to be the last of all.

HOPING SO MUCH u can make it, would be so great to see u there and i really wanna show u the music.

heres the event at facebook http://www.facebook.com/events/555447734471585/

kisses

Stine O

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Rising Stars Falling Stars - with Vaginal Davis & Leise Y Lento - December 2012 by Filmanzeiger on Mixcloud

DIALETECTICAL MARXIST MELBA MOORE HIJINKS


Had a lovely breaky at Rueben at Mehringdamn with Anna Muelter formerly of HAU who is now working with Mattias Lienthal and Katrin Dod on a Theatre Festival in Mannheim. Anna had been in Beirut with Mattias right after the infamous bombing. Mr. Lienthal is teaching in Beirut for a year before working on the Theatre Festival in Mannheim. Anna and I we were supposed to have breakfast at my favourite boite East London-God Save Brit Food but it was closed. The night before Manuel Schubert of FilmHighlights Magazine came by the Cheese Endique Trifecta to interview me along with Katja von Helldorf and Cristian Forte of my favourite Berlin band LeiseyLento. Senior Forte is from Buenos Aires and because I am showing an Argentinian film Toca Para Mi as part of RSFS-We Must Have Music Sunday at Arsenal Kino 2 8:30pm I thought it would be a good idea to interview the band, and it was. We had a delightful time together and the interview was in Deutsch, English and Spanish. Earlier in the day I was working on an essay I am writing for a museum art catalogue which I am forced to do longhand because I don´t have a computer anymore—which is a drag, but while writing I was while listening to NPR Berlin´s rebroadcast of Fresh Air with Terry Gross that featured the children´s writer Daniel Handler aka: Lemony Snicket of the famed tome A Series of Unfortunate Events. Mr. Handler who is from San Francisco also collaborates from time-to-time with Stephin Merritt of the beloved indie rock band Magnetic Fields. Mr. Handler is featured quite heavily on The Magnetic Fields classic 69 Love Songs album. I was surprised to discover that Mr. Handler is married with child. I always assumed he was a Ganymede. Never assume anything about anothers sexuality.

My poor family in the states is going through some horrible hardships. Both my nephew and niece are homeless, and my nephew wants me to take care of his two children ages 5 and 14, as he and his wife who are estranged can´t seem to keep anything together. My nephew is finally calling it quits with his wife who has left him a million times for some hip hop thugs she meets from the internet. She is a lower middle class white girl from Washington State, and her family of Neo Nazi´s dis-owned her when she married my nephew. She was hoping my nephew would be more fun to be with, but because of his military background he is actually quite conservative and staid. I feel sorry for his wife who has a severe case of jungle fever. I only met her once, but she seemed nice, just a little bit of a know-it-all. When they married she was quite svelte, but now like most Americans she is the size of a large refrigerator. My nephew is also obese. Their two children are very pretty with blondish blonde hair and aqua marine eye color. The oldest boy had a growth spurt and is 14 going on 25. My older sister tells me the kid has started using the internet to turn himself into a concubine to older men and women. Kids these day really know their worth on the open market. I have only met my nephew´s oldest son with his white wife when the child was an infant. I doubt if he will appreciate being shipped off to Germany to stay with a distant Auntie. I haven´t taken care of children since my nephew and niece were babies back in the 1970s. My nephew actually has two other children from a previous marriage who are in their early twenties who live in Las Vegas.

Outside of Olympia or Seattle most of Washington State is super hickxville just like California and the rest of the USofA. Now I have to figure out how I can take care of these children who are related to me, enrolling them in school in Germany and what not. I have my work cut out for me, not to mention I have a million projects I am involved in during the 2014-15 season.

It was nice to forget all my woes and attend Jewish Scandanavian Muslim Daniel Hendrickson´s annual Hannukah Party at his Neu Kölln compound. The food was extra lecker smecker and the company divine including Marc Siegel with a NYC Skype appearance from his famous Grandma Stella, the beautiful Susanne Sachsse who after doing Camp/Anti-Camp in Frankfurt had a series of performances in Vienna with Israeli art shtar Yael Bertrana, gorgeous Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus who just came back from Cairo, Egypt where things are quite tumultuous to say the least and love sexy Senol Senturk who designed the set for my VD is SFTD in Frankfurt.

The day before I got together for a Vietnamese dinner on Akazien Strasse with my Tenderloin comrades Joel Gibb the baby diaper of the Hidden Cameras and Felix Knoke who just got a new job as editor of the new Berlin based publication DeBug Magazine. Felix will also continue to contribute to Der Spiegel Online. Joel Gibb is planning on doing the route 66 drive from Toronto to Los Angeles during the Christmas holiday with pop star Feist. I can never keep up with Mr. Gibb who is constantly being chased by hunky male admirers. Rumour has it that at the last Pet Shop Bears club he was swooped on by dinosaur donged ginger blue movie kingpin Tim Krueger of Tim´s Tales. You know I am not one to gossip so you didn´t hear it from me.

One thing I did hear on the eurograpevine is that the queer German director Marco Kreuzpainter is working on a biopic about Rainer Werner Fassbinder with the amazingly creative title of Rainer. The director in question became known a few years back for a popular coming of age film called Summer Storm 2004 and also directing the 2008 film Krabat starring Daniel Brühl. I won´t say anything more about this project. I´ll let you infer what I think about it.
NO SHE DIDN’T!!! YES SHE DID!!!!!

THE FISCAL CLIT

Was at the American Bibliotech the other day doing some research for these art catalogs i have been contracted to write an essay for. One is for the Tate Liverpool and one for a museum in Hong Kong. Very excited about getting work in the East, and also being invited to China  and Korea for a commission piece. Lets face it kids China is the future. I need to start taking Chinese language lessons soon in anticipation for the takeover.
Read the Guardian newspaper section on birthdays and discovered that my old pal director Penelope Spheeris (Decline of Western Civilization) just turned 67 along with Bette Midler, actress Julie Harris(A Member of the Wedding) is 87 and my olde disco dolly partner Charlene Tilton from TV´s Dynasty is 54. The sweet British actress Emily Mortimer is now 41. I met her and her handsome husband Alessandro Nivola through Milena of Los Super Elegantes when they use to live in Echo Park. Now they are on the east coast. Hunky Treat Williams of Hair the movie is 61, Woody Allen is 77 and Deana Durbin the high C susie of Universal Pictures in the 30s and 40s and star of Three Smart Girls and Up in Central Park is still kicking it at 91.
I just found out that the writer Robert Greene(48 Laws of Power/The Art of Seduction) is a Vaginal Davis fanatica, and has even purchased some of my paintings from Participant Inc. Gallery in New York. Last year someone gave me a copy of his book 33 Strategies of War for Christmas, but i still haven´t read it.
Last night i had drinks at Anderes Ufer with Jason Byrne my former Cal Arts film student blondine who has been living in Tanzania from 2008. He took a leave of absence from his duties with the genocide tribunal to breathe in Berlin till January 2013. Jason is such a delightful booty pie and we had a wonderout time catching up.
Been receiving tons of major kudos for Camp/Anti-Camp VD is SFTD in Frankfurt. Phil Collins sent me a lovely note along with Manuela Monk, some  international curators who were in the audience and are interested in us doing it in Brazil and France, and sweet young, talented and beautiful Ale Bachlechner of KHM Köln. I was very touched by the outpourings.
This morning had breaky at East London-God Bless British Food with Christian Weber my VD is SFTD-Berlin assistant and his adoreable friend Florian. Christian is a young film scholar who did his Phd on Gus Van Sant and is very love sexy and extremely juicy. We all had The Full Monty olde fashion English Breakfast and then started gossiping. Christian and Florian told me all about George Gänswein who is the man behind the Pope. The fellow who is known as the George Clooney of the Vatican who convinced his holiness to donn Prada. Herr Gänswein is also the personal secretary to Lady Pope and the one who gets to service all his mighty needs as the most rocking bottom in Christendom. For his devotion he has been promoted to Arch Bishop and during a recent interview with the Bundespresident Gauck and the Pope, Mr. Gauck presented the papel prinzessin with a platinum and silver imodium dilda to which his holy roly exclaimed it was the biggest he had ever seen and was so thankful that he added a sensual grimace and accompanying gesture along with his appreciation.
On a similar note I was told that legendary actor Helmet Burger will be on the German addition of I´m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here also known as Jungle Camp on the Deutsch station RTL. The star is a bit down on his luck and is in need of the $monies the program provides. I applaud Mr. Burger for his candidness. 

UND AM ENDE DAS LEUCHTEN

Back from Frankfurt am Main where I performed Vaginal Davis is Speaking From the Diaphragm my talkshow/installation as part of Camp/Anti-Camp:  The Queer Guide to Everyday Life that was connected to the Jack Smith flavoured art festival Extra Trouble that was curated by Kino Tech Asta Nielsen´s Lesbian super stars Heidi Schluptmann and Carolla Graumann who I adore. 

Had a marvelous time in Frankfurt, but it was a lot of work, not only for me but my colleguean with collective CHEAP Susanne Sachsse, Marc Siegel and Daniel Hendrickson.  Fortunately we had able assist in the form of our stage designer extrodinaire Senol Senturk and make-up artiste and stylist Tan Bihn Neguyen aka Akira Kurasara Knightly who made me look extra gorgeous during the run of the performances.  Shout outs to our lovely assistants Hannah and Timo who were divine. 

This version of VD is SFTD was so different from New York and  Berlin.  As our living sculpture we had the gifted young students of the Art Academy of Cologne who performed as a group and doing solos under the name Just Cuz U Feel It Doesn´t Mean Its Real.  The students worked under the guidance of  international British art shtar Phil Collins who is a good time Charlie if ever there was one.  I had a marvelous time with Phil, his Serbian boyfriend and his student assistant Alla who is a terrifically talented young artist and whipped all the other kids in shape during the prep work on this project. I loved Alla´s piece The Anti Limosine LapDance, and so many of the other works of live art from the students and of course Phil´s brilliant choreography which really complemented CHEAP set pieces like re-doing movements from the 1941 film Ziegfeld Girl that starred Judy Garland, Lana Turner and Hedy Lamar.  Other highlights from the students was Drunken GoGo, Speed Faust,Walkman Breathing Soundscape and Hungry Chicken/Crazy Zombie and of course Sina of Persia, who did a shyness performance that completely rocked. Sina reminds me of a young Reza Abdu mixed with Andy Kaufmann, also all my love and kisses to Mariam, Patrick, France Saba, Marat of Israel, Arjian, Leon the mega hot trumpet playing boy, Bastian, DonHay, Lena, Yiling, Karen and her Hula Hoop Kareoki, Renata, Carolina, Daniel, Lina, Alexander, Mattias, and Stefan.

The first evening my co-host was the legends legend Carmelita Tropicana who always thrills an audience no matter what country she performs in, the theme was Hate is a Very Strong Emotion from the 1946 film Gilda starring Rita Hayworth with special  guests Mittenacht Kino Frankfurt´s Sophie and Fabian, Louise Burkart and her 16mm Apparati, experimental filmmaker Jaska Kloche, Hans Scheirl, Jacob Lena Knebl and the gentle giants Das Em und Andreas Riegler,  junior art shtar Zac Dempster of New York, on the second night my co-host was the divine Manuela Mock who is a local Frankfurt goddess plus Zusanna Cebetal and her Vagina Dentata modern dance piece that featured a muscular lovesexy black dancer who had everyone panting, Spanish scholar Juan Suarez who gave a lecturina that riveted the audience,  Phil Collins charming everyone with his zany behavior, cute young booty pie activist Michael Stadnick and Carmelita who did a performance that completely wowed  and exemplified the evenings theme of booty politic.  The celebutants seen in the audience: Bettina Schulte Strathaus, Heidi & Corolla of Kinotech Asta Nielsen and their gay psychotherapist posse, Anna Muelter formerly with HAU now working in Mannheim for their theatre festival, beautiful black scholar Ruth who is Senol Senturk´s lady love, Nicolette the feminist DJane, Michael Krebber who heads the Staedle Schule Frankfurt, Saul Judd of Filmtage Frankfurt, Martina Gross the sweat and supportive theatre Phd student, up and coming art stars Christian Kettlehout with hunky Jan Richter, USA Fellow Award winner Nicholas van der Kolk and Carlos Fitz-James Stuart y Martinez de Irujo the son of the Duchess of Alba and Duke of Huescar. 

I was put up at the comfy boutique Hotel Bristol in the red light district which had a most delish complimentary breakfast, and was taken out for some extroidinary meals at the local restaurants the names of which I forgot to write down.  The only sad, tragic note to the proceedings was that the Artistic Director of the Monsounturm  Theatre had committed suicide before the festival began.

 

REINE KOPFSACHE

Everyone knows that the Vagimule doll doesnt travel well. Getting off and on aeroplanes sends the lady into a classic tin thizzy of epic pork portions. Still suffering from a cough and cold congestion caught on my Air Berlin flight from Manhattan and Hurricane Sandy Dennis. Before I got dropkicked with a fever artist Nicole Blackman came by the Cheese Endique Trifecta for a New York minute. Nicole is a famous beauty in the Talmadge Sisters tradition known for her exquisite theatre for one piece The Courtesan Tales. She was looking resplendid and is one super hot glam NYC girl who occasionally makes pitstops in Berlin because her hot French boyfriend is a power executive with this company that has a Berlin branch.

I was still a bit feverish when I went to the eastside compound of la Susanne Sachsse for one of her otherworldy feasts of pure deliciousness. Before getting down with some serious gourmand eating we had a conference call with the delightful British artist Phil Collins and his sweet assistant as we will all be collaborating on the new edition of Camp/Anti-Camp and VD is SFTD that will take place Friday Nov 30 and Sat Dec 1st at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt am Main. The proceedings will also feature Daniel Hendrickson, Marc Siegel, Senol Senturk, Tan Bihn Nguyen as well as my lesbiana lover Carmelita Tropicana, Hans & Jacob Lena Knebl, Juan saurez and a host of special surprise guests.

Before I left the East Coast I had one bit of business with Dr. Jose Munoz at NYU´s Performance Studies Dept with the conversation No One Leaves Delilah – A (W)rap on Race that was filled beyond capacity and some superstars had to be turned away like the great writer Hilton Als of The New Yorker with his protégé Thomas Lax and many others. Luckily Hilton and Thomas were able to join us afterwards for din din at this old fashion boite in the Village called North Square in the Washington Square Hotel. Those who were able to listen in on the doctor´s perky conv: Zach and Andrea, Lia Gangitano, Baseera Khan, Andrew Blakely, Allesandro Cadagone, the wonderful Jim Foratt who I have known for years who gave me a special gift of an olde school red receiver mobile phone adapter, the lovely Alexander Casso, Prince of Judeah Leon Hilton, Max Steele Mark Morgan Perez humpy Brian Greenberg, Viktor Rusuk and numerous other five acre celebutants.

Treated to a final breaky at A7 before I was off to JFK by that generous angel Mark MorganPerez who is just as cute cuddly and love sexy as I remember him when we first met back in the late 1990s.

Recently re-connected with old 1980s pal Alfredo Botello who is writing and directing original programming for You Tube. He sent me a sample and the series features a very hunky dark haired male ingénue. My advice to Alfie is make sure his youthful star appears with little or no clothing on and he will have a guaranteed hit.



For those looking for something to do while visiting Berlin check out the posts below:



BONSOIR!!

*************

Am KOMMENDEN Sonntag, DEN 25.November,

ZEIGEN WIR DIE LETZTE STAFFEL VON

FANTÔMAS von LOUIS FEUILLADE –

(FRANKREICH, 1913)



DIESMAL MUSIKALISCH BEGLEITET VON

ANDREAS KRACH.

UM 20:00 ÖFFNEN WIR DIE TÜREN.

UM 20:30 GIBT ES EINE KURZE ZUSAMMENFASSUNG DER LETZTEN FOLGEN.

AB 21:00 ZEIGEN WIR DIE FOLGEN 1–5 DER LETZTEN STAFFEL " THE FALSE

MAGISTRATE".

ES GIBT SUPPE UND GETRÄNKE.

WIR FREUEN UNS WIE IMMER SEHR AUF EUER KOMMEN!



HERZLICHST,

eure gabis!



M:Soundtrack & La Moustache present:

Plaided (Fettkakao/Wien) + Just Friends and Lovers (Fettkakao/Graz)

26. November @ 8 p.m. Sharp! (Doors at 7 p.m.)

@ Schokoladen, Ackerstrasse 169/170, 10115 Berlin

Plaided (Fettkakao/Wien)

Julia Mitterbauer and Veronika Eberhart got to know each other while organizing the Ladyfest Vienna back in 2005. All those motivated people in that DIY-community, the workshops, shows and discussions inspired them to start a band of their own. Together with Alena Pfoser they formed their first band Ilsebill, while at the same time all three of them were wrapped up in Grounded Theory to write their Master Thesis. As none of them had played the drums or an e-guitar before, their approach to music was and still is intuitive, direct and self-taught, They improved their skills simply by playing, laughing and crying. Following a great time of exciting rehearsals and concerts, Andi Dvorak asked them to release a 7inch record on his label Fettkakao, which Ilsebill happily agreed to do. Not long after the release Alena headed to St. Petersburg to start her scientific career.

Back in Vienna Julia and Veronika started their new project Plaided by playing a concert at the Frauenbandenfest, a feminist concert evening which takes place in Vienna regularly to support local, all-female, start-up bands and offers an open stage and a well-meaning audience.

They continued experimenting with different instruments and invited guests such as Ana Threat, Stefanie Sourial, Sushi, Andi Dvorak, Natali and A Thousand Fuegos on stage. They still love DIY, Riot Grrrls, Punk, cats and big hearts. Next to their band they have a lot of other stuff on the side, while Julia creates beautiful things out of wood and drawings of birds, Veronika helps to organize the Girls Rock Camp in Wr. Neustadt, takes pictures of houses and faces, animates, and slowly starts her solo project Tirana, which already published a song on the Fettkakao Sampler (2011).

http://www.plaided.org

https://www.facebook.com/pages/plaided/335262309060

Just Friends and Lovers (Fettkakao/Graz)

Just Friends and Lovers is a Trio from Graz, Austria. the Band bloomed out of the Wilhelmine thing they are part of. Lina was in Lady Lynch before, a really great post punk band i can only encourage you to listen to. JFaL or "Jafalos" as the Plaideds call them, formed in 2011, and in no time did this spilt tape with their friends from Moscow called Love Is. you guessed right: i became a friend of the JFaLs pretty soon, and not long after begged them to work something out together on fettkakao. their first record on fettkakao is called "This Tune" and is a 7" ep (fett030).

http://justfriendsandlovers.muxtape.com

http://diestandard.at/1345165895877/Lost-in-Music

P R E V I E W

15.02. Les Reines Prochaines @ Festsaal Kreuzberg

NEUES AUS MODE,KUNST

So sorry its taken me such a long time to write something on the old blogina, but I have been extremely busy with putting up my HAG exhibit, keeping late nite installing hours that have left me physically drained.  Add to that creepy diarrhea and you have the perfect recipe for a protracted Vagimule doll.

Fridays opening at Participant Inc. was a smash success with SRO crowds gathering in the darkened environs to see HAG-small, contemporary, haggard which was bathed in a Josephine Baker style pink light.  My bread sculptures Dirty Mariah and Three Pronged Ryan Gossling were hung just before the doors opened and were greatly appreciated by the throng who could still smell their whyte dough aroma.  A calvalcade of shtars filled out every surface with a receiving line in the back for la Diva who was holding court.  Those able to eek out an audience with her most deludedness Vaginal Davis, Prinzessin von Ho!Henzollern  ----the dynamically handsome Michael Stipe of REM wearing a No Drama Obama chapeau with his high fashion French posse, filmmaker Tessa Freeland Hughes, bon vivante Maynard Monroe, writer Bruce Benderson, artists Slava Mogutin, Brian Kenny, Gio Black Peter with lover, Billy Miller of Straight to Hell Magazine, entrepreneur Mark Morgan Perez back in New York from Argentina,  Downtown Royals Ela Troyano & Uzi Parnes, the effervescent Miss Joan Moossy with legends legend Penny Arcade and the dazzling Agosto Machado in yummy boy drag who gifted the lady with a diadem ring she made herself, culture writer Glenn Belverio, sexpert Patty Powers, Serbian jeweler and lesbian goddess Jelena Behrend and her lovely Lithuanian lawyer wife Ruta, humpy architect Carlos Huber, dorky theatre actor Ari Brand, Narcissister with NYU dance professor Barbara Browning, the amazing Dynasty Handbag, Justin Bond looking very Joan Hackett, Kenny Mellman of Julie Ruin Band, the stylish and chic Michelle Handleman, handsome Raj Roy of MoMa,  yummy David Everitt Howe, lovesexxxy cartoonist Anonymous Boy with juicy husband Ron, the divine Bibbe Hanson with her main squeeze Sean Carrillo, Adam Baran of Butt Magazine, well hung novelist Christopher Stoddard, burlesque queen and showboater Miss Angel Eyedealism of the East Village, my former LA Weekly Arts Editor Tom Christie with posse, genius experimental film duo Sherrie Milner & Ernie Larsen, Mauritzio Catalan with Miss Cecelia the Highline curator and Mousse Magazine  editor, Michael of Vidal Sassoon, Risa & Benjamin of Invisible Exports Gallery, Tavia Nyongo of NYU Performance Studies with his southern beau and his entire Black Performance Theory Class, Dr. Jose Munoz, Adrianne Edwards & Marc Arthur of Performa, Josh Lubin Levy, Leon Hilton with new Mexican lover Yvonne, and The Big Dipper the gay bear Jewish rap star of Chicago, artist F.P. Boue and Matthew Lyons the curator of the Kitchen, Scandanavian artist Borre Saethre with partner James Hoff of Primary Colors, Elizabeth Subrin, Jenny Schlenska Performance Curator with PS1, Charles Atlas, Alex Jovanovich, Ellen Cantor, Scott Ewalt, David Colman of the New York Times, dapper dandy Theodor Sheldon Berger of the Joan Mitchell Foundation who use to be the head of the New York Foundation of the Arts with his handsome son Jonathan,  pretty video artist Jean Y. Kim, Alexander Casso, Mr. Uncertain, Claudia Gonson of the Magnetic Fields, Jack Waters & Peter, Travis Boyer, the macho  Dr. Ricardo Montez of The New School, Nurse Pain-Lauren Pine, Doug McClemont of Saatchi Gallery who use to be the mortician to the stars, Ed Halter of Light Industry, Alec Hollenbach, Nick Vogelson of Document Journal, Beautiful Bassera Khan and her delicious lifepartner Jason Thomas Fox.

This morning at 9am was taken to breakfast  at Veselkas by Mark Morgan Perez where we were joined by Patty Powers and Glenn Belverio.  After breaky we all sat in the sun  at Gramercy Park to gossip and chittle chat.  The night before Tavia Nyongo treated the doll to din din at Hecho in Dumbo at 354 Bowery.  The contemporary Mexican food was delicious, and the service and atmosphere top notch.  The weather is warm again and boys are back in tank tops, shorts and flip flops.  Just the other day when I did the sculpting at the GranDaisy Bakery the weather was ice cold and slushy.  I had no energy when I did a presentation for the young art students at the Barney Art Building of NYU.  Afterward Jons Berger took me to eat at Westville East on Avenue A @11^th Street where I had a most scrumpy clam chowder and lamb burger.  There was one Mexican bus boy who was beyond major Ms. Gorgeous.

When Love Camel was in town staying at the Thompson Hotel Lower East Side saw a celebrity sighting in the lobby of Filipino pop star Bruno Mars.  That wonderful Camel also took me to see the movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower starring Emma Watson and Ezra Miller who is quite lovely, but I liked the young star Logan Lerman the best.  He has quite a tight body.

Haven’t been able to see everyone that I wanted to because of illness and a very tight schedule here in New York.  Special shoutouts to Leon Hilton, Camel and Dr. Munoz who all took me out for wonderful bruncheons.

The new  Filmhighlights interview is up and online. Find it here: http://i.mixcloud.com/CBsW3V

CASTRATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
Sorry for the delay in giving you a report of what is happening to me in post Hurricane Sandy New York.  Well its a mess let me tell you.  All of lower Manhattan is still in the dark.  No lights, phone, heat, hot water.  Just awful.  But it could be worse.  I am still alive.  I lived through my first hurricane and it was very frightening let me tell you as i cant swim and my biggest fear is drowning in a flash flood.
In regards to my first major visual art exhibition at participant inc. it will not happen on sunday Nov 4th.  Please keep checking the participant inc facebook page for updates.  My Gallery is on the lower east  side and with no power, no show.  Hopefullly power will be restored and we can proceed with mounting the show.  Love Camel is with me and we are squabbling as usual.  He leaves Nov 6th.  Hopefully my Bricktops husband Andrew Gould will also come.  I miss him so much.  Writing this blog at the gorgeous downtown Brooklyn penthouse apartment of Lia's gorgeous sister.  I was able to take a nice hot bath.  With no heat in my apartment that means no showers, so i have been very funky.  The other day we walked across the Williamsburg bridge to shower and check emails at Lia's pal Roberts gorgeous spacious flat where we watched a crazy zombie movie starring sexy nerd Jesse Eisenberg, with Emma Stone , Woody Harrelson and Bill Murray.
Special thank you shout out to my child of high art Jonathan Berger who brought me plenty of water, seltzer, juice, fruit, snacks, flashlights and candles to last me through the disaster. 
Before hurricane i had a nice interview with a lovely journalist named Ryann Donnelly from Interview Magazine.

AUF DER SUCHE NACH DER VERLORENEN ZEIT

Traveling from Berlin to New York on Air Berlin came off without any major complications.  The pursor felt sorry for me and gave me an exit row aisle seat and there was no one sitting next to me which was divine.  The only bad things being that I wasn't able to get any sleep the night before and this weird stomach flu re-emerged keeping me projectile excreting in the lavatory during most of the flight.  A lot of the passengers thought I was a junky.  I was also freezing from either a fever or hot flashes.  I don't know which.  Being trapped on a plane sick is the worst.  My dooky is still liquid but at least I am able to eat some solid foods.  Lia and the Participant Inc gang of Bassera, Tom, Cy & Company have been divine.  My east village flat is cute with a large loft bed turret.  I am close to everything, and everyone I love like Bruce Benderson, Glenn Belverio, Patty Powers, Slava Mogutin and Brian Kenny.
There is a TV in my flat and I watched two late night old movies: Billy the Kid vs Dracula starring a cockeyed John Carradine and Jesse James vs Frankenstein's Daughter.  Both are hilarious!!!!!
A big perfect storm combined with a Hurricane strangely named Sandy is barreling in on the Tri-State area with predicted floods, high winds and assorted damages.  So I guess I picked the perfect time to come to Man!hattan.
The transgressive independent Japanese director Koji Wakamatsu who produced Nagisa Oshima's In The Realm of Senses died age 76.  I love kinky Japanese men.  He was all over me at the Berlinale Film Festival back in 2010.

DIE STOOGES-DREI VOLPFUSTEN
Someone the other day asked me if I had seen Oliver Stones latest film Savages. I had forgotten I had seen it at a screening many months ago. I thought it was very designy living with its threegy the hardway with studkin thrombone Taylor”Hetero” Kitsch lovely suck-ulent Aaron Taylor Johnson (who I also saw in the remake of Anna Kerenina starring Kira Knightely)and bland blondine Blake UnLively. The piece could have benefited from having the boy beauties beating up each others pussy´s. Maybe they filmed this scene and it was edited out in the final mix. Ms. Travolta is revolting but Selma Hyak and Benecio Del Toro are a hoot.

Berlin is experiencing Indian summer and its major Ms. Gorgeous with all the leaves turning delicious Fall colors. In German Indian Summer is called Old Woman´s Summer.
Just received this note from sexxxxy Gio Black Peter who will be performing in Japan soon. Yes all my fans in Japan you are in for a treat, and I am sure they will be lining up to get a chance to chow down on Gio´s giant peterfication.

Friends & Family,

I will be in Tokyo from Oct 19-24, performing on Oct 20. If you (or someone you know) happens to be there as well then I would like to forward this invite :
FANCYHIM SKYSCRAPERS 2012/10/20　
OPEN 23:00 at ageHa WATER (POOL SIDE) @studio coast　
Shangri-La 10 Years History Special Shangri-La 35 "TRIBAL JOURNEY" 　
special guest live:　GIO BLACK PETER (from NYC)
djs:　YORUKO BANZAI / Kosuke Adam / DETTO K
DJ AKKUN (THE FURS) / CLOUDOM + MATCHA / fancyBOYS (SZK & LEO) / ROUI
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SCHWARZ GEMACHT
Sorry to all of you who wrote to my webmaster and student intern wondering why the postings are so sporadic.  I have been crazed lately working on my first major solo visual art exhibition that opens Nov 4th at Participant Inc in New York, and my computer that was donated to me by the generous folks at West of Rome Public Art Agency crashed and is kaput.  I have the worse luck with computers.  As they say in Deutschland "Tunten und Technik".  A few years ago the kindly professors Dr. Munoz, Doyle and Montez bought me a computer that met a similar fate to this one.
Just wanted to add to the report list of who was at the 5 year anniversary of Rising Stars, Falling Stars.  Humpy and LoveSexxxy Bolivian/German scholar and curator Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, Yorgos the handsome Greek Byzantine Ottoman,Berlin art couple extrodinaire Christian and Karen Boras who live in a WW2 Bunker with their fab art kollection and Vito Schnabel.

IX BUFFEN BITTE

The 5 year Rising Stars, Falling Stars-We Must Have Music was packed to overload last night. I can´t believe i have been curating this monthly program for so long. In addition to a myriad of celebutants we also rejoiced in the publication of a book of my insane rants, notes and introduction texts for the series which was designed by the well hungariac Daniel Hendrickson the Scandanavian Muslim who has been my partner in grime these last five years and who also puts together the before and after screening musique. For the first time ever i screen the 1929 Louise Brooks GW Pabst collab Diary of a Lost Girl (Das Tagebuch Einer Verlorenen) which also features the divine Valeska Gert. Eunice Martin knocked it out of the proverbial ballpark last night with her performance on klavier. So many international shtars in the audience because of the ThinkFilm Congress that was curated by Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus which had everyone in Berlin talking. I am so stoked that I asked Marc Siegel and Uli Ziemons to give me the list of names of who came last night. From Marc with his handsome film historian flare:
Beautiful stage and costume production designer Ida Müller with huge peniled theater radical Vegard Vinge (who greeted audiences in the foyer with a show of his gorgeous celebrated cock from the glass elevators –this is true!!!) the acting legend that is Volker Spengler with his trusted hashish pipe, Ed Halter of Light Industries,seductive Bangalore filmmaker Shai Heredia, leader of Experimenta,the only experimental film festival in India, soft spoken British-Egyptian actor, artist and media activist Khalid Abdalla (star of Hollywood film United 93)committed and intense heavy browed Egyptian filmmaker and activist Tamer El Said, Jordanian curator beauty Ala Younis
canadian fim distribution goddess Lauren Howes of CFMDC,Nadja Talmi of Haus of World Cultures, Little Alex parading his tight ass to volker(he also did Ms. Davis´s Make-up and frightwig) Caem, France based New Zealand curator Brent Klinkum of Transit Video, New York film aristocrats Ela Troyano and Uzi Parnes, glamorous Susanne Sachsse, and Kjohnny Blue
Seen by Uli:Trixie and Ludwig Schonherr, Markus Ruff of Living Archive project, guest curator from Brazil Joel Pizzini, Artists Cyprien Caillard, Knut Asdam,Alexander Ruthner, David Kidman, Joseph Abatti, Elsa Halalujah of Portugal, Clarissa Thieme the video artist who teaches at UDK, Julian & Tatiana, Olivier & Toby, Brit It Girl Alexa Chung model Alessandra Ambrosio, actor Shiloh Fernandez, Dylan Efron brother of Zac, Cara Delevingne the Chanel Ohrmanschette,Shameless UK star Qasim Akhtar and the daughter of Gloria--- Prinzessin Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis.

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Tuesday, 16.10.2012

Little Annie & Baby Dee (Tin Angel Records, New York / Cleveland)
Jordan Hunt (London)
Roter Salon / Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Linienstr. 227, 10178 Berlin, 20:00
get ready for two of the ultimate divas:
growing up in late 1970ies NEW YORK, ANNIE BANDEZ O'CONNER aka LITTLE ANNIE lived a funky and dangerous teenage life. with some 16 years she was the singer of the atonal dance-punk band ANNIE AND THE ASEXUALS, "screaming about thorazine and being in mental hospital“. during the following decade she left her home country, moved to the UK and teamed up with the folks of the adventurous polit-punk band CRASS as well as the pioneers of electronic music, COIL. after these procreative collaborations her artistic path crossed the one of famous producer ADRIAN SHERWOOD and his influential ON-U SOUND imprint - founded in the early 1980ies undoubtedly one of UK's important independent label, fusing reggae, dub, spoken word and post-punk to a widely respected experimental hybrid.
over the years she broadened her artistic horizon via collaborations with artists like KID CONGO POWERS, CURRENT 93, ANTONY HEGARTY and composer / pianist PAUL WALLFISCH. with him she extensively recorded while the last 10 years, defining a new balladic, jazzy, warm and fuzzy cabaret singing style.right now, LITTLE ANNIE and her dear friend, the equally extraordinary singer and pianist BABY DEE, are realizing the long-standing plan of a mutual album to be released later in 2012 on britain's TIN ANGEL RECORDS.
like Annie, Dee has a wild and vivid biography. born in CLEVELAND in the 1950ies, she moved to NEW YORK in the early 1970ies, worked as a choir leader and music teacher at a catholic church for 10 years, to later join the CONEY ISLAND SIDESHOW CIRCUS. eventually she rode through the city on a rebuilt tricycle with a harp mounted in front of it. now she’s back in CLEVELAND and fully concentrates on her musical career.
BABY DEE has worked together with companions like MARC ALMOND, DAVID TIBET from CURRENT 93, ANTONY HEGARTY and BONNIE „PRINCE“ BILLY.
JORDAN HUNT, in his regular dayjob principal violinist of the legendary queer chamber orchestra THE IRREPRESSIBLES, will accompany LITTLE ANNIE & BABY DEE and open the evening with a rare solo set.
weblinks:
http://littleanxietyannie.wordpress.com/
http://www.babydee.org

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

WO ODER WANN
Listening to NPR Berlin’s This American Life with Ira Glass recently I was surprised to find that the correspondent on this nonsense story on Private Eye Mom’s is none other then my former colleague at the LA Weekly dimunitive Josh Bearman. Joshua was a cute nebishy Jewish boy with a huge passive aggressive streak who became known for his habit of wearing 70s style Jews for Jesus sandles that showcased his manly humpy dork feetsis. If Josh had climbed into bed with me I wouldn’t have kicked him out.
It seems like everyone I use to work with at the LA Weekly now does reporting for NPR --Ben Adair, Queena Kim. Are there any more that I don’t know about?

Little Annie and Baby Dee will be performing in Berlin soon at the Volksbuhner’s Grune Salon. If you’re in town looking for something to do go and see these tremendously talented ladies. I wish I could go but I have to focus on my first solo visual art exhibition that will be at Participant Inc. Gallery in New York.

SEXUAL EMOTIONS OF A DONKEY

Cute early morning photo shoot for Candy Magazine taken by good looking stranger baby art photog Benjamin Huseby who is a sexy Norweigan mix of caucausion and Pakistani---nice combination. The term stranger baby was coined by my old boss from Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontiers Section the wonderful Shari Frilot. Shari is mixed race black/white and latina and uses the phrase when describing people whose ethnic origins are in question.
Helping me get dressed for my shoot was Scandanavian Muslim Daniel Hendrickson who whipped up a lovely chartreuse velour caftan and turban combi for “the doll” making me look quite fetching. I wasn’t so happy with my make-up as I had to do it myself and I don’t have madd skills in tiretracking.
I was told later by a friend that Mr. Huseby’s beau who I think was the same man who accompanied him to my studio creates wearable art for pop starlette Lady GaGa. I’ve never been a fan of Lady GaGa but I have to admire the relentless chug of machinery surrounding her climb to fame and fortune. I guess one person she definitely owes her success to is Enrique Ongpin from Los Angeles. Enrique is a record label/radio promoter and music industry shark/dragon lady who championed Lady GaGa before anyone else. Enrique and I have a long history as he was partner’s with the amazing Jeffreyland Hilbert in the long running Hollywood queer club nite Hai Karate where he DJ’d under the name Enrique the Hip Flip.I have to give Enrique credit for his tenacity in staying on top in that cutthroat music industry world. Enrique reminds me of my old middle school Filipino friend Edgar Bautista’s great aunt. The Phillipine Islands have been the bitch of the Japanese, the Spanish and the Americans so they learn early how to maneuver in treacherous waters. Edgar’s Aunt was a matriarch who guided the entire family from lower middle to upper middle class status in less then a generation. She was the ultimate social climber using her light skin resemblance to the young beauty queen Imelda Marcos with a bit of Evita Peron thrown in for good measure to attract powerful men who could get her and her family out of the Phillipines into the United States.
Old school crooner Andy Williams died age 84 of bladder cancer. His long running TV variety show was on NBC from 1959-1971 and introduced to the world the ever grinning Mormen Osmond Family including Donny & Marie. Williams who turned a bit right wing in his old age had a smooth and silky singing style and started his career with his brothers and backing up the gifted chanteuse, song arranger and personality Kay Thompson in her celebrated nightclub act. The well endowed Mr. Williams also had a long standing affair with Miss Thompson who was many years his senior as well as some man-on-man tettes with actor Van Johnson and Farley Granger. In the early 1970s his world was rocked by a scandal involving his ex-wife the French singer Claudine Longet who shot her lover the humpy ski bum Spider Savage.
Little Alex of Macedonia screened for me the Zackary Drucker film She Gone Rogue that I co-star in alongside legendary legends Ms. Holly Woodlawn and Flawless Mother Sabrina. The experimental short subject is quite good and Ms. Woodlawn and Ms. Flawless Mother are sensational as one would expect from such stellar talents. ZacKary is definitely the premiere voice of her generation. Little Alex also told me about the scandals in Greece his home country, where top officials have run off with billions of extorted $monies. Poor Miss Greece the original home of Greek active and Greek passive homosexuality.
The time is ticking until my first big solo visual art exhibition in New York called HAG-small, contemporary, haggard that opens Nov 4th at Participant Inc. Gallery on the lower east side on east Houston Street. This gallery is run by the sensational Lia Gangitano. My exhibit will run until Dec 16, 2012. Currently at the gallery is the solo show of Kembra Pfahler called Fuck Island. I have to focus on putting this show together so for the next month I will be a bit illcommunicado and wont be accepting any engagements unless they pay super big bucks.

JE SUIS UN TROU DU CUL

Rising Stars, Falling Stars-We Must Have Music was feeling very romantic Sunday evening with a screening of the French musical classic The Umbrellas of Cherbourg starring the divine Catherine Denueve.  All the homos in the crowd were going gaga over handsome young Nino Castelnuovo, the handsome male lead who is indeed a tiny specimen of extreme beauty.  Enjoying the aura of happy melancholia Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Uli Ziemons, Markus Ruff of Living Archive, my partner in cinematic crime Daniel Hendrickson the Scandanavian Muslim, Berlin legend Zazie de Paris looking super love sexxxy, expat Sam Marmer with the gorgeous Anna Vieira of San Paulo, Andrea Bellu with her brother Matei, an entire French language studies class, Little Alex of Macedonia who did my maquillage, writer Marco Roth(The Scientist) plus visiting indie pop royalty Romy Madley Croft, Jamie Smith and Oliver Sim of the British  Mercury Prize winning band xx.

FAR FROM THE MADDING BOY GEORGE O DOWD

here is the new interview from Filmhighlights Magazine with host Manuel Schubert:
http://i.mixcloud.com/CBknBn

enjoy












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DAS GANZ NORMALE CHAOS

Spent a glorious day with one of my best girlfriends and sister of the clothe Glenn Belverio aka Glennda Orgasm. Glenn is an international fashion and culture writer and was one of the first people to predict the ascension of China as a force to reckon with in his writings in the Asian Magazine East/West. Glenn is also a regular contributor to the well respected fashion blog by Diane Pernet A Jaded View on Fashion. Glenn treated me to breakfast at East London – God Bless British Food and we then had ice cream and walked the course of the canal in Kreuzberg, stopping to snack and then we went by the apartments of Hildegard Knef and Marlene Dietrich before coming back to the Cheese Endique Trifecta where I cooked us a dinner of Bulgar and Endive. Glenn had been in Vienna for their fashion week and will be off to Amsterdam and China before returning to his guilded life in New York where he lives in the East Village.
Also visiting Berlin was one of my beautiful young Bricktops at the Parlour Club children, the gifted singer and musician Jose Promis who I met for a little coffee and cake klatch. So divine seeing Jose who collaborated with me on my last big commission piece in LA for the Getty/Pacific Standard Time. Jose has triple USA-Chilean and EU citizenship so he may move to either Berlin, Spain or Portugal in the next year. I am so glad that he is coming into his own and realizing that he was being taken advantage of by certain elements in Los Angeles that prey on the gullible nature of performers in that town where everyone is so hungry for a venue and exposure. I told him to follow the adage of the great Diane Vreeland, “There is elegance in refusal.”
When I was sitting on a bench along the canal with Glenn two women approached me about being in a movie with Nastassia Kinski. I use to hang out with Ms. Kinski in LA in the early 1980s when she was making Francis Ford Coppolla’s One From the Heart. She is beautiful, but I would not want to be reunited with her as she can be a bit much to take. In all fairness so am I, so we cancel each other out. I feel sorry for Quincy Jones who was married to her back in the last century.
Hope to see you all Sunday at Kino Arsenal 2 9pm at Sony Center at Potsdamer Platz for Rising Stars, Falling Stars-We Must Have Music when we screen the French musical classic The Umbrellas of Cherbourg directed by Jacques Demy (Agnes Vardas’ late husband) starring divine beauty Catherine Deneuve.

UNRESPONSIVE MONDAY CHAKRA
Below is a little note from those fab kids of Hugs & Kisses Magazine:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUGS AND KISSESWir feiern die Jubiläumsausgabe des Magazins Hugs and Kisses und unseren 5 jährigen Geburtstag mit tollen Gästen.Live spielen und performen wunderbare Gäste aus Wien und aus Berlin und HamburgDen Anfang macht Rosebutt ( Berlin ) mit einer tollen Burlesque Show und der musikalischen Unterstützung
von Le Roi et Moi aus Hamburg ca. 23 Uhr Crazy Bitch in a Cave( Wien)
Disco als Ort der großen, übergroßen Gefühle, und wo
Jimmy Sommerville und Sylvester im Duett singen.” (Skug)
„Exquisiter Elektropop mit Referenzen in alle Himmelsrichtungen, großes Kino” (the gap)
„Das ist heißer ScheißDie Turntablerocker sind
Didine van der Platenvlotbrug : Dragtronics
Inger : Post-70-Soul: Modern Soul - Funk - Phillysound - Boogie (Delicious Biscuits )
Julie Wood : indie pop rocks ( Bang Bang)Einlass 22 Uhr / Ende 5 Uhr / Eintritt 5 euro
Stopped by the Bloodyminded Opening of Invisible Exports Gallery of NYU Saturday at The Wye in Kreuzberg that is part of Berlin’s Art Week. The exhibition looked incredible. Gen’s video wasn’t working when I was watching it but it was very early in the evening. Wish I could have stayed longer then 30 minutes but I had to get back to the Cheese Endique Trifecta to work on my solo show for Participant Inc. Gallery that opens Nov 4th. Saw my Tenderloin hottie Felix Knoke at the show and he sent me this report on the entire event at The Wye:

My lovely Lady Vag,
I didn't spend a lot of time at the exhibition: saw the installations on the second floor (for example the danish artists' room with the shot mannequins, lying lifeless on their faces or sitting in the corner with a puddle of blood under their heads and bodies) and talked with some publisher-friends on the third but quickly fled from those people whose outfits made me doubt their art a lot: is it really "their" art or is, for them, art just another facade or fountain or extension of their ego? Do they communicate and reveal or do they dictate and hide? Their art felt cold and shallow - but I'm not sure if that's a deep insight or just me being irritated by their uniform unique/unique uniform appearence.
Also it didn't help, that the Gin n Tonic I drank was warm like pony piss.
Your pictures, to be sure, stuck out - just because they didn't try so hard to be special and clever and meaningful and provocative and deep while everything else was just being pretentious. It didn't surprise me when those two souther german art students in the toilet cubicle next to me took some drugs (while whispering like two school kids smoking half a cigarette) instead of having sex. I gave me best to make them feel unpleasent.
I'm surprised that no one's mentioned yet that the aura of the gesture notates the larger
carcass.With regard to the issue of content, the subaqueous qualities of the negative space endangers
the devious simplicity of the essentially transitional quality. It should be added that the sublime beauty
of the facture makes resonant the eloquence of these pieces. As an advocate of the Big Mac Aesthetic, I
feel that the metaphorical resonance of the sexy fish threatens to penetrate the exploration of montage
elements. It's difficult to enter into this work because of how the mechanical mark-making of the
figurative-narrative line-space matrix spatially undermines the substructure of critical thinking."
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 Sunday morning I met with Benjamin of Invisible Exports for a lovely studio visit before he heads back to New York. He actually lived in Berlin briefly in 2000. Then I was off to have a meeting with the wonderful British artist Phil Collins in the former east. Phil and his students will be collaborating with me on Camp/Anti-Camp in Frankfurt in late November/early December which will be a lot of fun as Phil is a sweet good time Charley.



In the morning had radio interview with Manuel Schubert of Filmhighlight Magazine, and I am writing to you from the Schoeberg Bibliotek which is right next to the Schoeneberg Bad just around the corner from my Cheese Endique Trifecta.