Wenn man auseinander geht

Deliriously fun and sumptuous bruncheon at the stately Victoria Louise Platz compound of Baby Papilein Gunter Gerdes the sexy lover of Ali Jenka of the Vienna based art kollectiv Gelitin.  Ali is now Dr. Professor Jenka and is head of the sculpture and transmedia department of the Kunst Universitaet Linz. Congragulations darling Ali.  So happy that Ali wants me to be a guest professor in Linz, Austria for the Spring 2016 semester.  For those of you looking to rent out a nice studio space here in Berlin, Ali’s 35 square meter studio in Wedding at Wiesen Str 62 at the famous Gerichtshoefe atelier will be ready for sublet between October 2015 to August 2016 for the dynamically cheap price of 310 euros a month that includes heating and internet.  The space is not for living in though and you have access to toilet, shared kitchen facilities and large windows.  Please contact my assistant Glee Brevard at gleebrevard@aol.com if you are interested and he will put you in contact with Ali of Gelitin.

Had a glorious din din at Fearless leader of CHEAP Susanne Sachsse’s eastside manor along with Marcuse Siegelstein, Scandinavian Muzlim Daniel Hendrickson and his juicy ItalioGerman lover Piero Bellomo of La Collezione.  After dinner Susi screened the first three episodes on her beamer of the new British series Vicious starring Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi.  This olde school style sitcom is lovely in its British bitterness.  Mr. McKellen and Mr. Jacobi are perfect as two sniping battleaxes, but I love the supporting players even more. 

Forgot to mention that I had been invited to a preview of the Amy Schumer starring comic film several months back.  I’m not familiar with Ms. Schumer but I like big boned haus frau looking girls who are so underrepresented in the mainstream film world.  This Judd Apetow directed movie was renamed in Germany with the odd title “Dating Queen” but in the states it is known as Trainwreck.  Ms. Schumer allows the cinematographer to light her in the most horrid manner.  Is this part of what makes it a comedy?  This maudlin klunky vehicle did manage to bring forth at least one revelation----- that most straight men secretly only want to have sex with each other.

If you get the chance purchase a copy of this academic  journal out of Duke University called Radical History Review edited by NYU assistant professor Zeb Tortorici and others. The latest issue is called Queering Archives- Intimate Tracings.  There is an essay from Robert Summers called Queer Archives, Queer Movements:  The Visual and Bodily Archives of Vaginal Davis.  There is also an article about the underrated Chicano artist Mundo Meza who is a little known art world figure who died of AIDS in 1985.  Mundo also use to create the incredible window displays at the fashion forward store in Hollywood Maxfield Blue and it was because of Mundo that Simon Doonon the well regarded fashionista and former window dresser of Barneys New York even has  a career and is so well known.  Doonon and Mundo worked together at Maxfields in the late 70s and early 80s and i believe were even involved in a relationship.

Received a signed copy of the new book by Australian expat writer Stuart Braun, City of Exiles-Berlin From the Outside In which I’m quoted along with Marcuse Siegelstein, Zazie De Paris, Romy Haag and about a zillion others.  Added the book to my nightstand along with the bitchy memoir about Marlene Dietrich by her daughter Maria Riva.  I saw the legendary star perform in 1975 at LA’s Music Center.  At that time I hadn’t seen any of her films and only knew her as an old movie star.  What I remember most was that she was placed on stage by a group of male stagehands, and you could see this happening through the sheer curtain.  When she finished performing the curtain closed and the same men came and carried her away.

BLOOD WILL OUT

My womanly gout attack finally subsided during this blasted Berlin heat wave and I was able to meet with oldpal Nurse Pain aka Lauren Pine who I last saw for a hot minute when she came to my solo exhibition at Participant Inc. back in 2012 during Hurricane Sandy Duncan. Lauren who is originally from San Diego is one of those divine creatures who can do anything with style and panasche. She has lived in New York City for over 20 years having been a right hand gal to fashion designer Patricia Field, a piercing expertin, make-up artiste extroidinaire and became a well respected registered nurse around ten years ago. Lauren came to Berlina on holiday with her longtime German beau, and is looking damn hot and super voluptuous. We had a giggling girlish Gertie of a time reuniting and it feels sooooo good.Love you Miss Lady woman.

Seeing Miss Lauren reminded me of Zaldy who I knew in Los Angeles back in the 1980s when she had graduated from Otis Parsons and use to hang with a group of kids that included a girl who named herself after Edie Sedgewick, a gorgeous sweet boy named Alan who was an amazing dancer and his boyfriend Robbie who was a cruel beauty. Alan and Robbie are both dead now from Mrs. AIDS and I don’t know what ever became of the Edie Sedgewick doppleganger.  Zaldy is a top costume designer for mainstream pop stars like Britney Spears. 

Have to get ready to go back to Cork, Ireland for the second part of my Framing the Freakazoid workshop and I also have some pitstops at art congresses in Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Latvia and Poland. What a schedule what a life the Vagimule doll leads.  Just heard from the people of Document Journal Magazine and I will be their cover girl when the mag hits the stands in October.  My portrait was taken by sexy Wolfgang Tilmans.

 

Rossini zurueck ins Repertoire

Was with that Scandinavian Muslim Daniel “Haji” Hendrickson recently who is the ultimate opera queen’s queen who was giving me the royal T about Erwin Schrott the Uruguayian baritone who is obviously a bisquit but is on the down beat low as he is now amicably divorced from his super famous soprano ex-wife. Openly Dorothy is Polish baritone Mariusz Kwiecien who is known for taking off his shirt during performances. Someone who is handsome and hetero but should definitely keep his clothes on is the German tenor Jonas Kaufmann who is tall but a bit doughy in that patriarchal Teutonic way that is quite prevalent in The Fatherland.

Had a great day with my old LA art pal Alex Donis who was visiting Berlina via Venice, Italy. He told me that Marcus Kuilland Nazario of the old Highways-Santa Monica Army Game Grift is now teaching art to children in Mexico.

Was invited to a scrumptious dinner party given by handsome studkin Uli Ziemons at his new super large Skalitzer Strasse compound. A joyous time was had by all including his hot girlfriend the art curator Anja Lueckenkemper and Omar Shariff Jr. the out and proud grandson of the legendary international film star Omar Shariff who recently passed from Alzheimer’s Disease. A tragedy that is closer to home here in Berlin is the unexpected death of Bert Neumann the celebrated East German stage designer who designed the set of my first big Berlin hit CHEAP Jewelry in 2001 that was part of the Volksbuhner’s Rich & Famous Festival. Bert was a lovely man and came from a dynasty of designer’s as his father designed my favorite East Berlin building in the form of the mid century restaurant The Schoenbrunn in Friedrichshain Park. His sister Aenna Quionnes is second in command at the current administration at Hebel am Ufer (HAU). Aenna was the co-director of the Rich & Famous Festival of 2001.

I’ve been having some lovely little adventures lately on the streets of the city which is very unusual here in this town of people keeping a very healthy distance from each other. Met a patrician tall and very handsome Turkish boy on holiday from Istanbul and a tall and very nicely built Chinese boy with huge feet named Ziyan Liu who is an exchange student studying in Darmstadt. Mr. Liu regularly attends the University of Singapore where he has a material engineering scholarship.

New ill Berlin hair don’t! Spotted a light skinned black man on the street with what can only be described as an Afro dreadlock jheri curled shag. The city of bad hair never falters in coiffured amazement.

Ich hab Watt aufm Kasten

Rising Stars, Falling Stars- We Must Have Music was beyond SRO Sunday evening for Yiddish Nite with a super rare screening of the 1937 Polish musical Jewish mysticism film The Dybbuk which featured BFF male bonding of the homosexyfaygulla kind and an array of arresting images. The einlass musik for the evening was provided by the fabulous, all-talking, all-singing, all-kevetching Barry Sisters. In the audience was a pert and stylish Jewish scholarina doing research on the dulcimet resounding Sisters Barry---gotta love that! The audience for this film was completely intergenerational which has long been a staple with RSFS since it started in 2007.
Seen cavorting up a tempest, the juicy Austrian video artiste Kornelia Kugler and posse including her cute blondine younger brother Johannes, Hotsy and super fit Israeli choreographer and Catherine Sullivan collaborateur Assaf Hochman with his bubble butt longtime companion the Greek passiv filmmaker Lil Alex Tielemachos Alexiou who drives men wilde with his tight body and muscular dimunitive frame, Scandinavian Jewish Muslim Jihadist Daniel “Haji” Hendrickson in fine form on the clavier breaking hearts left and right along with his gorgeous GermanItalio hubby Piero Bellomo just back from Rimini and I don’t mean Protokol. Filling in for Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus who is off to the four corners of the world on urgent Arsenal business was that lanky drink of spring water Ulrich Ziemons and his sizzling girlfriend the curator Anja Lueckenkemper, Israeli actress Mili Avital who did Ms. Davis’ hair and make-up was fellating the possessed Dybbuk from the penisaurus of a few of the well endowed present, like  art dealer Thor Shannon.  Taking in the scene: British live artist Richard Hancock, Documenta 10 Artistic Director Catherine David, critic Sam Avidar, artist Cyprien Gaillard, "IT boy" Richard Gersch, Emaline the lovely older daughter of American scholar Heather Love and wifette Mara with a rock steady smart set crew of young,fresh, self described humpy dorks and dorkettes and that ultimate Nerds Nerd Alexis Taylor of the London music kollectiv Hot Chip.  Oy!!!!

ENTSPANNUNG UND STRESSEBE WAELTIGUNG

Breakfast  meeting with Uli Ziemons, the handsomest  young man of all Europa at the cute Tiergarten Café which is one of Berlin’s secret treasures.  Hadn’t seen Mr. Ziemons in a coons age as he has been quite busy traveling about to exotic places like Seoul Korea representing Forum Expanded at a film congress along with Nannootchka Heidenreich.  Uli also moved to a much larger flat in Kreuzberg enjoying double the space---I am so jealous.  Those of you who haven’t read Uli’s book Aufzeichnungen eines Storm Squatters about the film great George Kuchar should run out to the nearest bookseller and purchase it immediately.  You won’t regret it.  Buy Uli's book or i will kill you.

The Tiergarten Café is becoming my new favourite meeting site as I also had a breakfast klatch with the young, gifted blatina Kunstler Diana Arce and her sweet pal Anasstacia who is a student from Hampshire College where I was a visiting artist back in 2010.  I was supposed to meet my Dominican Mija Diana at the Akademie de Kunst café but it was closed for summer rennovations.  I’ve also had some business lunch and dindins with a few curators and the handsome big footed, well endowed fagpanacademe Ricardo Montez.  Mr. Montez is a beautiful TexMex assistant professor  of the New School’s Performance Studies/Public Engagement Chair on Race and Ethnicity Gender and Sexuality Department who took me to supper at the only true Mexican boite in Berlin Ta’Cabro’n Taqueria at Skalitzer Strasse 60 in Kreuzberg.  Ta’cabro’n is the real deal with Mexicans in the kitchen and a juicy staff of lovesexy and personable young people who are friendly and accommodating which is so rare in Berlina.  Besides Mr. Montez we were joined by his redhot longtime companion David Kurnick the famed Victorian literature specialist from Rutgers University, Jake Short the famed German historian from Athens Georgia and Chad Kia Harvard Persian scholar extroidinaire.

Scandinavian Muzlim jihadist Daniel Hendrickson had his yearly Tamale Party at his compound in Neu Koln which was filled with utter deliciousness.  I went a little crazy on the Margarita front but had a yowza time with my CHEAP kolleaguan including fearless leader Susanne Sachsse, Marcuse Siegelstein, kJohnny Blue and his gorgeous Napalese wife Emilie and CHEAP family innercircle: Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus who will be off traveling to New York City, Troy New York Upstate, Cairo and other parts of Europa and beyond.  Also cavorting about was dream girl Nanna Heidenreich.  New comer to the brood: the Turkish/Arab It boy of Academia Zulfukur Centin which means Sword of Ali in Arabic. After the Tamale  Party a gaggle of us went to the 27^th birthday celebration of celesbian scholarina Heather Love---who is one sizzle of a proper butch hosted by her charming and pretty ladylove Mara  at Ankerklauseand on the Kanal.  The celebutantes on view included: Lee Wallace, Annamarie Jagose, Karin Michalski, Anja Michaelsen, Jake Short, Chad Kia, Beatrice Michaelis, Luis-Manuel Garcia, Natascha Frankenberg, Emaline Kelso and Francisco Diez.

Years ago in the early 1980s I was a guest DJane on a NPR music radio program based in Los Angeles.  The substitute host of this show was Dave Lumian who was a leftist activist /indie band manager/publisher of Twist Magazine a music and style publication.  For several years I was Twist Magazines  features editor. When I was on the program I chittle chatted with Dave Lumian about my record collection and the regular host called the studio to complain abou the way I talk.  At the time I was very offended and let my anger show on air by exaggerating on purposely my public style of speaking which is now known as Upspeak, Vocal Fry and Creak.   I’ve always seen this type of criticism as an attack on the voices of young women.  Does anyone else out their in the either want to weigh in on this?

The Skate-Anlage im park am Gleisdreieck is one of the sexiest places in Berlin proper.  The skater thrasher boys in this park can be seen daily in various stages of manly undress.  Under the Ubahn bridges in the park are some gymnasts and capoeira dancers who are also quite sexy and oogle friendly.  There  are several crews in this part of the overly landscaped park who attract quite a lot of attention.  If anyone out there knows more about these boys who I am sure are kept by wealthy gentlemen or deep pocketed Landgraffs please write to me c/o of my webmaster Larry Bob or assistant Gleeson Brevard the email address is in the contact section of this blogina.

LUFTMENSCH

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