HAENDLER DER VIER JAHRESZEITEN

Swollen ankles and knees withstanding was helped by a horde of students, friends and admirers to pack up 8 years of being in my suite in the Schoeneberg area of Berlin. Won’t say anything more other then I am proceeding at a snails pace, but during the recent Christi Himmelfahrt holiday I had the pleasure of two young Humboldt University hotties Richard & Jacob helping with their giant muscles and wearing next to nothing providing the doll with hairy eyeball candy supreme. I asked the boys if they would mind doing their work in a thong and they didn’t object so lucky me got to see more then 25 centimeters each of rather heavy bouncing equipment, flat stomachs and bubble butts. Yowza!!!!! Later it all kind of turned into a party with guests including Daniel Hendrickson the Scandinavian Muzlim, his husband Piero Bellomo, Susanne Sachsse, Marcuse Siegel and the beautiful Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus who has also just moved into a giant privat mega compound/royal palace that overlooks Goerlitzer Park near the Wrangel kiez. Madame Schulte Strathaus’ new crib doesn’t just have a balcony but an entire rooftop terrace.

Earlier in the week I also got help from Billy Miller of Straight To Hell Magazine and the Manhattan Review of Unnatural Acts along with my former student the French beauty boy Christophe DeRohan Chabot. Billy is in Berlin for the entire month with events he is curating with Exile Gallery. Exile Gallery and its proprietor Christian Siekmeier will exit Berlin for New York Cities Lower East Side. Billy Miller is one of my alltime favourite US personalities. He is just the most sexy, adoreable creature alive. We klatched for hours gossiping some of the most scandalous items that can’t be reprinted here or anywhere else for that matter. I am so happy that Billy has found love with Jay Slot an Emmy Award winning television film editor. Billy’s long time companion had died several years ago so it makes me happy to see him in the blume of at long last love. Billy also mentioned that former US Presidential Candidate Joan Jett Black (whose slogan was “Lick Bush in 92”) is once again living in San Francisco. Back in 1990s Black use to star in her own delightful stage artist talk show in San Francisco at defunct artist space Josie's in the Castro. Joan Jett Black is a native of Detroit but lived for many years and was a fixture in Chicago queer life. Billy and Joan Jett Black go way back with each other having been best friends since high school. Billy is one of the few working class whites to have grown up in urban Detroit being that his family was too poor for white flight to the suburbs. Make no mistake Billy Miller is the real deal.
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So sad to hear about the recent deaths of cinematographer Gordon Willis(Annie Hall) and poet/actress Maya Angelou(I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings).
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Just got this missive from DJ Snax:

Snax, Random Records and the entire House Of Snaxine would like to invite you to pre-order Snax's newest ep, UP AND COMING CHILDREN, for just ¢99!*

*price in euros Your pre-order comes with an immediate download of the hot jam '%150'
You will receive a download code by email upon official release June 6th.
And the full download includes a magical video of the title track directed by Philipp Goeser!

'...Children' is a long awaited new studio production from Snax - an EP of four sparkly new tracks plus equally diverse remixes from Hard Ton, Per QX and Elias Bravo, which is already getting support from:

MIXMAG - "Cheeky cowbells, grainy disco synths and even non-cheesy string sections are all cleverly arranged into well formed songs with jazzy overtones."

DIEGO CORTEZ SALAS (DC Salas / Polar) - 'Phantom Voice is so fuuuunky! '

RICARDO BAEZ (Gomma/ Toy Tonics) - 'Up and Coming children is great! superb hard ton & Per QX - ELias Bravo remix too! well done! Thanks RB'

SAMMY FEDY (LeSale) - 'Great return of SNAX! Really like Up & Coming children and the remixes, but my fav is the laid back Nothing To Yourself'

TOM FINDLAY (Groove Armada) - 'Hard Ton rmx is brilliant, lost classic vibes.'

LUKE SOLOMON (Classic / Freaks / Music For Freaks) - 'love love love this '

OLIVER JONES (Skream) - 'AmazinG!'

SEVERINO PANZETTA (Horse Meat Disco) - 'Per QX rmx is great hard Ton too'
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And those of you in the New York Tri-State area one of my favourite New York artists Kathe Burkhart has a book launch at Participant Inc Gallery:

Kathe Burkhart
DUDES
Reading and book launch
Friday, May 30, 7-9pm

“I’ve been a fan of Kathe Burkhart’s writing since before West Virginia was even a state, when it was nothing but a mountainous region of hard drugs from which wild women emerged like they’d already escaped a lot of dumb dumb guys. Her writing says the things we all want to say but don’t even know that we know, the horror and beauty and comedy of human life, the banal complicity of desire. She shows how the art world is like the bedroom is like the work of the memoir-cum-essay, at least the guys in each.

Kathe Burkhart is one of the makers and shapers of a new American literature. The way I see it, she’s the gold standard of both showing and telling. Dudes is a remarkable achievement.”

– Kevin Killian, author of Impossible Princess, Little Men

ISBN 978-0-9802324-6-2
Design Klaus Kempenaars for xSITE
First Printing Publicide, Inc., New York, 2014
175 pages, $20
PARTICIPANT PRESS is the publishing enterprise of PARTICIPANT INC, whose primary focus is to publish artist's works of fiction. Our first book, published in 2005, was Kathe Burkhart's illustrated novella, The Double Standard. We are pleased to now publish its companion, DUDES, an illustrated collection of short stories by Kathe Burkhart. An exclusive limited edition slipcase for the set is available.

ZATZELMACHER

Rising Stars Falling Stars-We Must Have Music was packed to the rafters and bursting with gallic gaiety with our screening of Jacque Demy´s 1982 tragioperetta Une Chambre en Ville starring statuesque androgenue Dominque Sanda running rampant through Nantes naked under a fur coat.  The veteranas veteran Danielle Darrieux who is still alive at almost 100 years of age was splendid as a white wine lush of an impoverished aristrocrat. The music was not by Michel Legrand but by another Michel nee Colombier. Michel Legrand was busy at the time working with La Streisand on Yentl. In honor of the holy Frenchness of the proceedings I dug out my Giorgio St. Angelo gown from the early 1980s. Daniel Hendrickson the Scandinavian Muslim on klavier wore a lovely puce shirt to match my dress and even Axel Lambretta the cute big peniled projectionist was dressed very Francaise charmante. Didn´t expect such a huge crowd as it was the first warm spring weekend and most Berliners don´t want to be trapped inside a Kino when its so lovely outside but the hayfever has been so strong this year some people were welcoming the indoors.

Seen during the post screening wine reception American art filmmaker Liz Rosenfeld on a date with lovesexy Austrian babydyke rent boy and video installation artist Kornelia Kugler who was one of the people responsible for inviting me as a guest lecturer at the UDK back in 2010. Part of the juicy La Liz posse visiting from London: Christa Holka, Justin Hunt, Johanna Linsey, Season Butler, Sophie Robinson, and Olga Raciborska. Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus was away on VIP business in Cairo. Filling in for her was Europas handsomest man Uli Ziemons whose book on George Kuchar will be out soon so buy it on Amazon. Just back from the Canne Film Festival Vito Schnabel looking dour with his cougar girlfriend an almost unrecognizeable Heidi Klum, British writer Edward St. Aubin of the latest tome Lost For Words and the Patrick Melrose Novels, prima ballerina Trixie Schönherr aka: Beatrice Cordua with the personable Dr. Tonya and company, handsome Israeli modern dancer Asaf Hochman, a jubilant Markus Ruff, and the great GDR curatorial film goddess and Forum legend the ever amazing Frau Erika Richter. A little tidbit about Erika: she is the great granddaughter of underground cine royal Hans Richter. See what educational info you gleam from reading this very blog. Next month RSFS will screen the Shirley Clark jazz docu on Ornette Coleman.

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Had a busy Monday dealing with issues concerning my move from my flat. Susanne Sachsse of kollectiv CHEAP made a fab luncheon where we met along with Marcuse Siegel Mr. Jamie Stewart of the sensational indie rock band Xiu Xiu who was in town performing at the Volksbuhne. Jamie will be working with Susanne and I in New York on our performative installation of Mozart´s The Magic Flute. I adore Mr. Stewart who has been staying at that incredible hotel tower The Park Inn at Alexanderplatz. I first met Jamie when he was a mere weenager performing at my Sunday afternoon punk rock beer bust/performance salon Club Sucker at the Garage in Silverlake back in the last century. He was a delight back then in his radiant youth and is so handsome and sensual now that he is a fully grown man---Yowza. Jamie will continue his tour of Germany performing in Hamburg but will be back in Berlin on the 28th doing a special choral presentation as part of the Berlin Biennale.

OBEN HUI,UNTEN PFUI

Rising Stars Falling Stars - Vaginal Davis & Jacques Demy - May 2014 by Filmanzeiger on Mixcloud

MARCHING THE MARCHIONESS OF DUFFERIN

Been out of commission for the last few days confined to bed due to a painful gout attack. I guess I’ve been stressed out with having to move from my penthouse flat after eight years inhabitance. Before getting sick I had a lovely meeting with Susanne Sachsse about our 2015 New York City project a performative installation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Also had a fab luncheon with actor Viggo Mortensen who is spending a lot of time in Spain doing theatre. Viggo use to be married to one of my best gal pals the lovely and talented Exene Cervenka of the legendary LA punk band X. Viggo and Exene had a kid together named Henry who I use to babysit when he was a toddler. Whenever he started crying I would threaten to put him in the oven and make a cookie out of him. He stopped crying ASAP. I guess its obvious I’m not a huge fan of children. Well that little boy is now 27 years old and in the summer is coming to Berlin and wants to hang out with me. I think I actually did stick him in the oven once. Poor child is scarred for life. Back in the 1980s Viggo and I were part of the poetry/spoken word scene of Los Angeles. This was way before he was an A-list movie actor. One of my ex dates Tim Donnelly worked at Beyond Baroque in Venice, California and I use to perform regularly there with Viggo, Exene and Henry Rollins of Black Flag. At one event at BeBop Records in the Valley Tequila Mockingbird gave Henry Rollins and impromptu head shaving. I also threatened to beat Viggo up when I found out that he was cheating on Exene with his Indian Runner co-star Patricia Arquette of the famous Arquette acting dynasty. Viggo has a really huge penis. When I did the Sunday afternoon punque rock beer bust Club Sucker at the Garage in the 1990’s Patricia Arquette use to bring her son Enzo Rossi to the club to hang with his Argentinian dad Paul Rossi of the punk band Wasted Youth. Paul bought the Garage bar from the elderly gay dude who owned it when it was the oldest gay bar in Los Angeles called The Bunkhouse. Come to think of it. Enzo Rossi must be college age now.

Enough trolling down memory lane its making me feel too old. I also had a lovely dinner at this great Portuguese restaurant in East Berlin with Susanne her beautiful twins Richard & Salome Gersch, film historian Marcuse Siegel and the great scholar, curator and writer from New York City Douglas Crimp. Mr. Douglas Crimp is beyond brilliant, very sexy and always immaculately dressed.

One of my handsomest and sexy young students Christophe DeRohan Chabot who is a very talented young artist from a famous patrician family in France is doing some kind of zany performative event on Saturday evening. If you are visiting Berlin I highly recommend your checking it out:

Dear friends, 

I would be pleased to invite you to the opening of

informationas ( a place ) / to (a) show

at Kreuzberg Pavillon this saturday the 17th,

between 8 to 12 pm in Naunystr 53

Thank you very much

All the best,

Christophe de Rohan Chabot
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And I also received a note from the team that works with the internationally lauded German singing chanteuse Billy Ray Martin who use to be my downstairs neighbour back in 2008/9. Billy and I both worked with British musician David Harrow of Depeche Mode fame who now is an Elysian Park based music artist in Los Angeles.

Dear all.

This week sees some exciting releases on bandcamp, the main one being two previously unreleased recordings https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/two-unreleased-recordings
Fans have supported this release in a big way and have expressed their appreciation across social media. Billie would like to thank her fans massively for the love and support.

Also albums like 'Deadline for my Memories' have been made available on bandcamp with bonus tracks, as have other albums. Currently we are in the process of uploading all CD singes, then all vinyl singles, while adding bonusses and unreleased recordings whenever available. Be sure to follow Billie on bandcamp. also new on bandcamp, a previously unavailable release: Crime and Punishment EP http://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/billie-ray-martin-presents-sonnenstahl-crime-punishment and: http://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/where-fools-rush-in-including-original-demo with added demo. The release date for the next official BRM single, a Bowie cover entitled: "After All", has been set to 13th July (Germany 11th July) with promotion starting next week across all usual platforms. A video was shot last week. We'll update you on news asap. Billie Has also shot a video for the follow-up song and next month she'll shoot the video for her duet with Aerea Negrot entitled: Off The Rails.
Billie is currently in the studio recording follow-ups for the single, as well as recording for some other collaborations. A soul album is also being mixed to be released early next year. Other bits. Billie has been writing very personal notes on how her various releases were written and recorded. Fans have been loving them. One example:the mad, mad tale of how Four Ambient Tales was written and recorded. Trust me, you'll be surprised (read the 'about this album' description) https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/four-ambient-tales
Best wishes from the BRM-Team.Some info about the new single: “After All”
Four track Digital release
Release date: 13 July 2014 (Germany: 11 July 2014)
Label: Disco Activisto Records
Catalogue no: DAREC1402
Distribution: billieraymartin.bandcamp.com
and all digital stores worldwide
Style: House (Chicago) A spontaneous idea while in a writing session with Dark Storm (aka Abdullah Al-Wali), Billie casually recorded demo vocals for this Bowie cover. To record the song had been on Billie’s ‘to do’ list for a number of years and Abdullah’s production vibe lent itself perfectly to the idea.
Billie and Abdullah had come together by chance, after Billie had received the Dark Storm album promo and replied that she loved it. Soon after, they got together for a week in Berlin to work on song ideas.
Billie had a certain sound in mind for the mix of ‘After All’ and managed to create something in the studio that surpassed her own expectations. Not designed to service dancefloors in an obvious way, it still manages to create a ‘back to the roots’ groove... anyone uttering Electribe 101?
Legendary House and Techno Pioneer Mijk van Dijk’s mixes give this release a serious old school house vibe with an Electribe 101 feel, while the chilled Caesar Gergess Dub adds the theremin (!!) and jazzy trumpet to the package.
Tracklist:‘After All’
Original version Mijk van Dijk remix Mijk van Dijk dub Caesar Gergess mix
Written by: David Bowie
Produced by: Abdullah Al-wali & Billie Ray Martin
Mixed by: Billie Ray Martin & Steve Honest at Hackney Road Studios
Additional Guitar: Steve Honest

billie ray martin disco activisto records
www.billieraymartin.com

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And if you are interested in some rollicking phun queer coursework during the summer:

Summer Writing Workshops at the Kotti-Shop

All writers and their unique styles are welcome: Poets, Narrative, Broken Language, Essays, Correspondence, Scripts & Plays, Lyrics for Music.

No previous experience required.
at the Kotti-Shop - Adalberstr. 4 - www.kotti-shop.net / www.facebook.com/kottishop
60 € for all 6 sessions. All materials included.
Questions and registration at: ameliabande77(at)gmail.com

Wednesday's Workshop "Dancing with Words": Experimenting with writing in all forms. Everybody is welcome.
Wednesdays from 19:00 to 21:00 / 6 weekly sessions / Dates: June 4th to July 9th
(Find further details below)

Tuesday's Workshop "Read the Writing Electric": Write your own work while reading the work of others. For people who have a project (or several) in mind they want to work on / edit / receive feedback on / expand / share.
Tuesdays from 19:00 to 21:00 / 6 weekly sessions / Dates: June 10th to July 15th
(Find further details below)
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WORKSHOP ONE: DANCING WITH WORDS
Language: English, though you can write in your preferred language.
Wednesdays from 19:00 to 21:00 / 6 weekly sessions / Dates: June 4th to July 9th

Every week we will work with a specific theme or assignment leading to a piece of written material. We will experiment with various types of writing while learning about rhythm, tone and the power of what we write about. During the workshop we will run a series of simple and practical writing exercises to help develop personal style and voice in the creation of texts from things we observe, experience or imagine. We will also write collectively, using cut-and-paste techniques.

This workshop wants to offer a safe space to write while learning how to give and take useful feedback. It doesn't matter if you already have a specific project you are working on, or if you just want to come and develop fragmented ideas. This will be 6 weeks of hard work mutating into a fun and experimental choreography of words.

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WORKSHOP TWO: READ THE WRITING ELECTRIC
Language: English.
Tuesdays from 19:00 to 21:00 / 6 weekly sessions / Dates: June 10th to July 15th



Every week we will read or see the work of a specific writer (These will be short pieces: a poem, a youtube video, a story or fragment of a longer text). We will respond with simple written exercises and experiments that work with notions of plagiarism, appropriation, riot writing and total admiration. Also, participants will have the option to present their own texts to the group in respectful and illuminated feedback sessions. Projects in all genres and stages of completion are welcome. This workshop wants to be a safe and useful space for discussing written materials, expanding our understanding of what writing is or can be.

If you already took one of the Dancing with Words workshops before, I recommend you register for this one, it will be all new assignments and text experiments :) Some of the writers we might read are: David Wojnarowicz, Eileen Myles, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Dante Alighieri, Assata Shakur, Raúl Zurita, Kathy Acker, Dead Prez, Walt Whitman, Lydia Davis, bell hooks, Mujeres Creando, Charles M. Schulz, the list will expand or shrink and is open to suggestions by participants.


"It is the experience of writing that matters. I am driven to write, compelled by a constant longing to choreograph, to bring words together in patterns and configurations that move the spirit. As a writer, I seek that moment of ecstasy when I am dancing with words". bell hooks in Remembered Rapture: Dancing with Words.

Register at: ameliabande77(at)gmail.com

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Oh and one final little item from the British artist Elly Clark:
Portraiture & other stories
The George Richmond Portrait Project / Instantaneous Culture / Banff / and Skype

Dear friends, family, colleagues & collaborators,

This is a rather overdue newsletter about some of the things I've been up to over the past few months. Whilst last year was largely a year of exhibitions (including FRAME_birmingham & new site-specific commission Half Crowns in their Petticoats for Thrift Radiates Happiness at Birmingham Municipal Bank), 2014 is about production and development. Thanks to a generous R&D grant from Arts Council West Midlands, I have been able to gather more material for my ongoing George Richmond Portrait Project, and to go on shoots across the country visiting portraits and their current guardians.

GEORGE RICHMOND PORTRAIT PROJECT

(My great-great-great grandfather) George Richmond RA (1809-1896) produced over 3000 portraits during a career that spanned 6 decades. I am focussing on portraits that are still owned by the same families that commissioned them. Therefore the photographs I am taking and the audio I'm recording forms a kind of double portrait of a family; of those who are living and those who came before, and whose image/s (and stories) subsequent generations have lived with since then. Over the past 3 months my team and I have done a further 9 shoots - in Scotland, Northern England, the Midlands and London - with more planned for the summer. I have also spent some time delving through letters and diaries in the Royal Academy Archives.

You can see more about this project on the project website: georgerichmondproject.com and on Soundcloud, and follow our progress on Twitter (@GRProject_) and Facebook. (/GeorgeRichmondProject).

INSTANTANEOUS CULTURE

The other thing I've been working is a series of songs about the way we communicate. For a long time I have been obsessed with mobile phones, and, when they saturated the market, with their impact on us, our sense (and presentation) of self, and our relationships. I made my first piece about this in 2002 and in 2010 I wrote a series of songs about them, for my (now disbanded) band Theodor Storm in Berlin.

Now, in collaboration with a set of brilliant music/costume/set/camera/editing people from London, Berlin & Birmingham, I am working these songs into new forms, and making videos to go with them. The first, Instantaneous Culture, made in collaboration with a bunch of pretty splendid peeps in Berlin & London you can see here: http://vimeo.com/95290394.

DISTRIBUTED INTIMACIES at The Banff Centre

I am excited to have been granted a scholarship to participate in a three-week themed residency, entitled Distributed Intimacies, taking place at the Banff Centre in Canada next month to develop this work further. I will also be producing a series of prints from Conversational Traces.

And finally, I have works as part of two projects by curator Charlie Levine: a couple of short films in the Moving Image Project (shown so far in Tokyo, Christchurch & Baroda, India), and a rendition of Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussy Cat for the Tale Tellers.

Many thanks for reading.

With best wishes,

Elly

GETTING GERTIES GARTIFICATION

The wonderfully talented Canadian born artist Ms. Karen Lofgren aka: Kara Hunger who has been living in Los Angeles for many years and was once part of the CLevel art collective has a new book out which I advice you all to check out.Trajectory Object c. 2000-2050 Artist: Karen Lofgren, Designer: Willem Henri Lucas, Writer: Ben Ehrenreich. Printing by Typecraft, Wood, & Jones, Los Angeles.Trajectory Object c. 2000-2050 was printed in conjunction with a solo project of the same title organized and presented by High Desert Test Sites. Installation shown in detail at: www.karenlofgren.net/work and http://www.highdeserttestsites.com/projects/trajectory-object-c-2000-2050Edition of 500 hand signed and numbered copies, self-published with support from The Ranch Projects; West of Rome Public Art; Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; and Royale Projects Contemporary Art.

For those of you living in Berlin and want to be involved in some very interesting independent coursework please check out the happenings surrounding one of my former Weissensee students Annette Knol and her Kotti-Shop in Kreuzberg.

C o p y r o b o t e r Z i n e W o r k s h o p
Dieser Workshop ist eine Einführung in Zine Produktion und Risografie Druck mit Annette Knol im Kotti-Shop. In dieser 1-Tägige Analoge Druck-Workshop macht jede Teilnehmer_in ihre eigene Auflage von ein Zine/Heft/Büchlein (z. B. 16 Seiten/ A5 Format)
Kosten: 40,- (inkl. Alle Materialien)
Max. Teilnehmer_innen pro Tag: 5
Sprache: Deutsch & English
Nur mit Anmeldung auf: copyroboter(at)kotti-shop.net
Samstag 7. Juni - 12-18:00
& Sonntag 8. Juni - 12-18:00
C o p y r o b o t e r Z i n e W o r k s h o p
This workshop is an introduction to zine production and Risograph print with Annette Knol.
In this 1-day workshop (pick your day) each partcipant will make their own edition of a zine/book/booklet (for example 16 pages in A5 format)
Cots: 40,- (incl. all materials)
Max. participants per day: 5
Language: German & English
Only with registration at: copyroboter(at)kotti-shop.net
Saturday 7th of June - 12-18:00
& Sunday 8th of June - 12-18:00
Kotti-Shop
Neues Kreuzberger Zentrum
Adalbertstr. 4
10999 Berlin
www.kotti-shop.net
W e i t e r e s im K o t t i - S h o p
°Samstag 24. Mai - Neues Kreuzberger Zentrums 40. Geburtstag ! mit Ausstellung & Workshop.
°Writing Workshop mit Amelia Bande (im Juni & Juli, wochentliche Workshops am Dienstag & Mitwoch)
°Neue Publishing Puppies Veröffentlichungen.
°Samstag 28. - Sonntag 29. Juni ---> Die 1. Publishing Puppies Workshop M U S T E R I N G .
Wir schicken die weitere Infos bald rum!

GENERAL GRAPPLING PHYSICALITY

One of my very beautifull young students Nick Pittadides who collaborated with me on the performance piece DEJECTA at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (MoCa) back in 2011 came through Berlin on a short visit from his homebase in London. After graduating from USC Nick worked as an assistant with the art kollective My Barbarian and lived in New York City for six months assisting another one of my high art children Marc Arthur of Performa. Was so glad I was able to hang out with Nick for a bit and catch up on every little thing. He is absolutely adoreable and I love him.

After my time with Little Nicky I was invited to a spargle dinner at the compound of Piero Bellomo at LutzoPlatz. I love Asparagus season and the food of course was divine(fertility salad, rosoto) along with hallowed company in the form of Scandinavian Muzlim Daniel Hendrickson who makes killer homemade date muffins and helped Piero with the cooking. Visiting dance world dignitary Tom Fletcher who now lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida after years in Berlin and Paris as a world renown choreographer and dance teacher extroidinaire regaled everyone at table with stories from his illustrious career in the arts. Tom gave me a belated birthday gift of a huge coffeetable book about the Musical Film which I will of course treasure and can’t seem to put down with giant photos of some of the most beloved Hollywood Musicals from the late 1920s and the advent of sound all the way to the early 1980s.
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Carla Bozulich one of my extremely talented gal pals from Los Angeles is coming to Berlin to perform. Carla is known mostly as the lead singer and creative force behind the punk country outfit The Geraldine Fibbers who were one of my all-time favourite bands. She also was in Ethyl Meatplow which was a music group that was pivotal to the burgeoning Modern Prim scene of the early 1990’s that formed around the underground nite spot in Silverlake Club Fuck and the notorious personalities known as The First Family of Fuck.

Bei Ruth in exile and La Moustache present:
CARLA BOZULICH
Friday May 9 @ West Germany

Skalitzer Straße 133, U Kottbusser Tor, 9pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/507670772675160/

Carla Bozulich is an art-punk heroine. Time and again she has headed up bands that sound like nothing else and arguably stake out genres unto themselves: the bent agit-prop of Ethyl Meatplow; the ferocious roots-tinged epic rock of The Geraldine Fibbers; the vocal-driven sound-art of Scarnella and Evangelista, her first album for Constellation in 2006, followed by three more albums between 2008-2011. She has set aside Evangelista for now, to focus on the songs that form Boy, her third record under her own name.

Boy is a refreshing and much-needed reminder of what pop – as an oblique angle, influence, and intent – can do in the hands of a ferociously commanding singer/lyricist who has cut her teeth on genre-bending, genre–blending, and DIY aesthetics. Here is a batch of ten songs that clock in at 3-5 minutes each, mostly hewing to recognizable structures of verse, chorus and bridge, but full of destabilizing accents and strategies, and nothing that could read as winking irony, gloss or mere effect/affect. (...) Boy sharpens and focuses each song's intent and structure.

While Bozulich wrote most of it, played the majority of the instruments and made the album artwork, the album’s creation was aided, abetted and sometimes rescued by the input of John Eichenseer (aka JHNO). The Italian drummer Andrea Belfi joined with his impeccable rhythmic support. http://cstrecords.com/cst102/
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I just watched a great little video film by art photographer Annette Frick that i Just love called Lenin or Lennon. Annette and her partner in art and life the legendary underground film maestro Wilhelm Hein have a wonderful little independent performance space and salon called Casabaubou which will be presenting a marvelous event for Mothers Day, so if you are visiting Berlin and want something unique to attend this is a MUST SEE:
Betreff: 11.5.2014 ab 17 Uhr im CASABAUBOU -zwei Sensationen
Liebe Freundinnen und Freunde

V E R G E S S T D I E K U R A T O R E N !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in Kürze zwei Sensationen

zurück in die Zukunft die neuen Künstler lassen sich nicht bevormunden

11.5.2014 ab 17 Uhr im CASABAUBOU

SEESTR:107 - U6 SEESTR:

W I E N E R B L U T

zum Muttertag

Malaktion von Andreea Oana Limban und Sogar Plum

außerdem : N E U E R S C H E I N U N G !!!!!!!!! conversations with bice - a cartography of desire

by bear boy 48 Seiten mit DVD nur am Muttertag im CasaBaubou 7,-Euro

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FILME - FOTOS - TEXTE - BILDER - PERFORMANCE - von WILHELM HEIN - SHIRIN BARTHEL - RUVI SIMMONS - ANNE DIPPEL - SUGAR PLUM - ANDREEA OANA LIMBAN - LEONIE BÖGER - PETER WEIBEL -

BEAR BOY - ANNETTE FRICK - KURT KREN - U.A AUßERDEM NOCH WENIGE EXEMPLARE DER LETZTEN DREI NUMMERN VON

JENSEITS DER TRAMPELPFADE HEFT 13,14, 15 z.T. mit DVD außerdem ein Film im Netz Lenin or Lennon©AnnetteFrick

Dein Video wurde unter http://youtu.be/eTYf5Qod3J4 veröffentlicht.
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Now that its spring time i find myself in a very meloncholic mood. Its always sad when a relationship ends especially when its with someone that you consider a great love, but I find that its always best to be able to let people go as a way of really showing your love for them and help them find themselves in the process. If you were meant to be with this person somehow the two of you will find your way back to each other. Time heals all wounds as the saying goes so most likely after a well proportioned amount of time the forces of the cosmos will bring you back together. In 2005 I broke off a friendship with someone very dear to me, and it took six years for us to get back together again but we did and now the relationship is stronger because of the big break and time apart healing.