NEVER TRAVEL ON A ONE WAY TICKET

Last night saw the amazing intro Spective on the dynamic East Village art tag team of Ela Troyano & Uzi Parnes.  Kudos to Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus for bringing this standout program to Berlin.  Its just what the city needs.  I unfortunately missed the opening and the La Lupe Queen of Latin Soul (2007)film which everyone is talking about.  During Camp/Anti-Camp I had already seen Carmelita Tropicana:  Your Kunst Is Your Waffen which is hilarious and stars the divine Carmelita who is Ela´s sensationally talented sister.  I feel horrible that I missed Uzi´s Structuralism & Sex Program of lovesexxxy shorts. 

Thank god I was able to see Uzi´s magnificent queer love home movies that includes the slide show Sex Piers, Queer Love Poem (1991) that features a stunning Latin youth lust object, the mad cap Seven Days with the Same Dick (1992) Happy Mother´s Day (1993) the disturbingly transcendent Batterer(1995) and triumphantly personal Memorimort (2010)

It was also a treat and pleasure to watch Ela´s 1997 feature Latin Boys Go to Hell which was produced by Jurgen Brunning who also did a fab job as moderator in conversation with Ela after the zany David Does Venus(1984-1989) and another rare short subject flicker featuring a riotious Nick Zedd.  When the brilliant Tante Jurgen is on, he is really ON!!!!!  Daniel Hendrickson was also charming during his Q&A with Uzi.  In the audience:  Empress Stefanie, Uli Ziemons and Pauline Beaudry and an assortment of German, & Greeks trying to escape from football madness.

Tonight is the last evening of the intro Spective with a joint program that includes some rarely seen classix like Carmelita Gets the Spirit (1988) and Loisaida Lusts(1985) and perhaps some surprises, so come on down to historic Potsdamer Platz for your ElaUzi fixxxx.

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My interview with Manuel Schubert for internet radio program Film Highlights:

 http://www.mixcloud.com/filmanzeiger/rising-stars-falling-stars-with-vaginal-davis-june-2012/

Manuel Schubert • filmanzeiger • filmhighlights
» filmanzeiger.de

» filmhighlights - das Kinomagazin

THE RUSHMORE ACADEMY

Just found out that Susan Tyrell died.  I adored SuSu the talented actress who was nominated for an academy award in  1972 for her role in the John Huston film Fat City.  SuSu and I starred in DeCoupage in the late 1980s the cable access TV show by the brilliant Craig Roose aka:  Miss Summer Caprice where we played mother and daughter frug champions.  The episode I believe is on YouTube if you care to see it. 
SuSu lost both of her legs about a decade ago.  I will always remember her performances in Andy Warhol's Bad, the new wave musical  Forbidden Zone where she played Queen Doris, Islands in the Stream opposite George C. Scott &Trish Van Devere, and John Waters Cry Baby. SuSu was one hell of a good time Sally and I miss her.
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I forgot to mention I had seen the new Wes Anderson film Moonrise Kingdom which is simply beautiful to behold.  I predict that the young ingenue Kara Heywood who looks like a tweenage ZacKary Drucker will become a huge shtar.  Her male co-star Jared Gilman also shows promise. Cinematographer Robert Yeoman is a gifted artist who has lit the picture with an orange toast glow and the original score by Alexandre Desplat----Yowzina!
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Remember to come to Arsenal Inst fuer film und Video Kunst for the Ela Troyano/Uzi Parnes Retrospectacle that continues until Saturday. I missed the opening as I had a meeting with my former editor Robin Podalsky who is going to become a queer Rabbi, but I will be there tonight and I can't wait to witness the conversation between Mr. Parnes and Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish/Muslim of CHEAP kollective.  Sunday  at 9pm as part of Rising Stars, Falling Stars-We Must Have Music is a delish screening of Chantal Ackerman's 1985 musical Golden Eighties which in the States was called Window Shopping for whatever reason.

DIE FLIEGENDE DOSER

That hot experimental film duo of Uzi and Ela of the East Village are in town this week to present a
INTROspective of their work, three nights in a row at Arsenal Inst fuer film und Video Kunst. They will be showing both their individual as well as collaborative work from June 21 to 23!  So take this hot tip and do yourself a favor and see the great Ela Troyano and lovesexy Uzi Parnes.  Your life depends upon it.

Oops i forgot to mention that Hamburg based filmmaker Peter Ott was also at the Commi Biggi Art Basel presentation last week at the Kaserne Theatre.  I just can't keep up with all these celebutants.

Had a wonderful dinner and catch up the other evening with legendary experimental filmmaker Wilhelm Hein and his hot art photog girlfriend Annette Frick.  The two have been showing work all over Europe to large enthusiastic young crowds as a new generation comes under their magical/mystical spell of outsider art appeal.  Consider yourself lucky if Wilhelm & Annette make a pitstop in your town.

DIE GLAUBWÜRDIGKEIT DEFINITIV VERSPIELT

You must all be wondering how the Communist Bigamist - Two Love Stories tour has been going.  Well we had a pitstop in Basel, Switzerland as part of Art Basel Art Faere.  The venue was the Kaserne Theatre which is a great space that presents theatre, dance, music and performance.  It was my first time in Basel so i was really excited.  Didn´t realize until the night before arriving that Basel hotels are booked a year in advance because of the tired Art Basel, so our accomodations were less then thrilling. I am not a major diva who requires to be shod in the lap of luxury but when i am on tour i need a certain level of comfort and privacy which this trip did not afford.  I was luckier then the rest of our cast and crew in that I stayed at a beautiful  Bed&Breakfast manor called The Kulture House located just minutes from the theatre, but I did have to share a bathroom which is a pain when you are on tour and you need to focus on your performance and not on worrying whether you or going to bomb the toilet out with a fierce dookie or if you´ve spread too much water all about in the shower.  Thats why I always have to insist on a private room and bath because I am a big lady who is known to make a mess.  I have been so busy lately with a million projects that I wasn´t on top of things so much with this tour so I only have myself to blame. It was nice that Tan Binh Nguyen our brilliant make-up and hair stylist was also housed in the Kulture House.  We had a hoot of a girlish time together gossiping and carrying on and causing major havoc in the city.
The performances were spectacular, and the audience ate it up royally.  Susanne Sachsse was in fine form and its always a supreme pleasure working with her and Marc Siegel who was very cute on stage with this outing.  Susanne and I got all lesbiana on the last night with Susi jumping on top of me and proving to the world what a hot femme aktive she is.  If she had been wearing a strap-on I would have been sent to the hospital for repairs.
In the audience on opening night Wed June 15th: Kaserne Artistic Director Carena Schlewitt who use to work at Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, senior Kaserne dramaturge Tobias Brenk with his über love sexxxy beau Boris who gave us all VIP passes to the Art Faere which was duller then most art fairs.  I only stayed at the giant pavillion for an hour or so.  Also scene and herd----David Velasco of Art Forum Magazine, Kosuke Mori the stylish Tokyo art collector with Julie Miyoshi the LA art advisor, architect Alex Tirziu, Rudolph Schiesser of Hotel Trois Rois who looked like he wasn´t so into my performance, former football star Yoann Goureoff with Poppy Delevingne.
On the second night was Berlin based Israeli art shtar Yael Bertrana and her gallerist, artist Daniel Marti who use to be  the boyfriend of Hollywood punk rock princess Pleasant Gehman.  Mr. Marti relocated to Basel from his native Zurich, and cooked me a fabulous dinner after my last performance and loaded the doll down with wonderous presents.  I was also introduced to the Swiss/Hollywood director Marc Forster whose movies I have never seen,  and flirted with Parisian art specialist Edouard de Moussac and Hong Kong interior designer Roy Li.
The Commi Biggi crew were all a flutter over an American performer named Miguel Gutierrez who was part of the Zap Festival at Kaserne and whose ill bearded and rainbow flag covered gender fuck image adorned a giant unattractive poster.   Mr. Gutierrez seemed personable in our limited interaction with each other, but the Commi Biggi gang who heard him rehearsing while they were setting up our show didn´t find his art to their liking.  A local curator whispered to me that Mr. Gutierrez is the newly crowned otter darling of the dance theatre world and that his performances and choreography is something of a mixture of Tim Miller circa mid 90s meets Jeremy Wade.

BERLINS ÄLTESTE BETRIEBE

Was wondering what ever became of Tyler Brule, the handsome Canadian from Winnipeg who started the magazines Wallpaper and Monocle.  Back in the late 80s when i was producing the zine Fertile La Toyah Jackson the young Mr. Brule was a huge fan and came to LA to visit with me, pick my brain for ideas and take me out as his date to some chic restaurants where we created quite a stir.  Tyler looked like Montgomery Cliff before the accident.  He was extremely fresh faced and innocent looking. 
It seems that he has led quite an interesting life since the 1980s.  He was a war correspondent in Afganistan and was shot twice by snipers and had a long recovery.  His father was a famous Canadian football player and they are estranged because of Tyler´s homosexuality.  Tyler is still quite young at 43 and is every inch of a mover and shaker.  I like to think that I had some influence on his successes.  Well i am the muse to many.
Received an email asking me about what is was like knowing the famed sci fi writer Ray Bradbury.  Well he was my mentor when i was in the 11th grade.  Mr. Bradbury was one of those rare white liberals who put his money where his penis is and actually gave back to others.  He went to Los Angeles High School and was very active in his support of the school, which is the oldest in LA.  I was a very fortunate recipient of his largesse.   Mr. Bradbury you are loved and missed as a true Angeleno of high graciousness.  Another tidbit about Mr. Bradbury is that he never learned how to drive a car, just like yours truelly.  Imagine someone born and raised in LA and not ever learning how to handle an automobile.

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I forgot to tell you dear readers, in my previous post about the old Santa Monica bookshop Midnight Special that one of their regular customers was musician Michéle Ndegecello, her girlfriend & kids.

Off to Basel Art Faere where i will be performing with the great Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel in Communist Bigamist-Two Love Stories.  Hope there is a lot of eye candy in Basel.

ES GIBT KLARE RECHTSPRECHUNGEN


Had a lovely luncheon work meeting with CHEAP fearless leader Susanne Sachsse and Nazli Kilerci going over necessary prep for the next touring segment of Communist Bigamist-Two Love Stories that features a pit stop in Basel for The Basel Art Faere.

In the morning I had breakfast with Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim at the sizzling Mehringdamn bistro East London-God Save Brit Food. Danny had me laughing out loud as he was complaining about the Royal Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth. The only Jubilee that he is interested in is the celebrated Derek Jarman film.
Danny use to work for many years at the famed Midnight Special Bookstore in Santa Monica that was owned by Lebenese Leftist culture worker Margie Ghiy. Many celebrities made the bookstore their second home including Tom Hayden, Gregory Peck who would bring his yappity lap dog, Sean Penn, Dustin Hoffman, Martin Sheen, director Paul Voerheoven, Brazilian actress Sonja Braga, perpetually tanned matinee idol George Hamilton who would come in with his cell phone when they first became popular and talk on it for hours. Susan Sontag and other bored lifeless Getty Institute visiting scholars on their lunch breaks. A black gay homeless store employee at the bookstore once yelled at actress Mariel Hemmingway, „Hey aren´t you one of those Hemmingways!“

One of my favorite memories is seeing poet Sonja Sanchez perform at the Midnight Special.

Last night I was treated to a delicious din din at the Schwartzer Cafe by my former boss at Sundance Film Festival´s New Frontíers section Ms. Shari Frilot. Shari was looking healthy and robust in a Queen Latifah like way. Lady Shari and her beautiful young Persian girlfriend Princess Roya stopped off in Berlin on their way to dOCMENTA in Kessel. It was great hanging out with Shari and catching up on all things film in the sorry United Statuals. It seems like budgets for indie film projects are back to low and no budget status and that is a good think in forcing young filmmakers to stretch their creative steroid muscles.

Was asked what I thought of the new live action film version of Snow White called Snow White and the Huntsman. I was invited to a screening ages ago and I actually liked some of it.  Chris Hemsworth should have had a few shirtless scenes but withstanding that I especially enjoyed the performance of Charlize Theron as a wounded queen slashing patriarchy the only way she knows how by killing powerful men and chewing on the hearts of ravens. Ms. Theron´s performance was very nicely shaded and she looked lovely in her fractured medieval gowns and hairstylings. I also enjoyed baby dyke ingenue Kristen Stewart who needs to make a movie about her short but steamy love affair when she was very young with Jodie Foster during the filming of Panic Room when Jodie played her mother. Just saying . . .

O Love Camel if you are reading this will you please send me a copy of the tomes the UnInvited Guests by Sadie Jones and The Astaires-Fred & Adele by Kathleen Riley. I bet many people are unware that Adele Astaire was the big star when she performed with her younger brother Fred back in the 1920s. Their dancing partnership ended when Adele married into British artistocracy when she wed Lord Cavendish. Someone should make a movie about the fabulous Astaire siblings.
Ms. Shari Frilot said that a film is in the works about Hedy Lamarr. Not only was Miss Lamarr beautiful beyond compare but she was brainy and invented a component that is responsible for cellphone technology today. See what you learn from reading this very blog.

So sad to report that Los Angeles native Ray Bradbury the great science fiction writer died yesterday age 91. I met him when I was a teenager as he went to my high school and attended a function for former grads to mentor current students.

PENIS ABORTIONIST


The pain and swelling from my gout condition is lessening, but I am still suffering a bit from it, and of course I am in no way able to leap over buildings in a single bound the way I was before the affliction. Had luncheon with Christian F. Weber who is an adoreable German Phd in Film Studies or either he is a film historian. I can´t remember which. We went to the delightful little boite Frau Rauscher in Kreuzberg which use to go under a different name a few years ago and I must admit to having a splendid dining experience. Of course the bigger joy was just being with my beautiful young Christian who worked so hard for me as my assistant on Camp/Anti-Camp: The Queer Guide to Everyday Life and VD is SFTD.

Had a lovely little studio visit at the Cheese Endique Trifecta from Columbia University grad student Tho-mas Lax who is a sexy little colored boy with a background similar to mine in that his father is a German/Jew. Of course young Tho-mas is a middleclass---- both his mother and father are physicians.
Tho-mas grew up and still lives in Harlem and we spent hours chittle chatting together. I love mentoring the young, gifted and black. Tho-mas is in Berlin on a curatorial workshop and came to me highly recommended from both the divine Hilton Als of The New Yorker Magazine and performance studies professor Tavia Nyongo.

Received a nice little emug from Tim Blue who is back in Portland, Oregon. Very dear hearing from him. The Vagimulic tentacles are far reaching so of course my Pacific Northwest spies have already relayed to me Tim Blue´s every movement back in the city of his birth since he arrived back home.  Its funny how tiny the world really is.
Despite popular rumours of the contrary I do know how to keep a secret and I don´t spill all the private fava beans of my friends and associates in this very blog you are now reading. That doesn´t mean I don´t write it all down, I just don´t publish it on the WWW for all the whurl to read.   Word to the wise!  Don´t piss me off or I will publish it one day.

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Got this emug from my sister Teresa in Los Angeles:

Hello. Always thinking of you. Our weather is nice this year! Not too hot or too cold. Terri Lynn(my niece) finally got that settlement from LA County Sherriff. But they owed her in-laws because they paid her husband´s bond and got him the lawyer. Thank goodness the lawyer didn't take any money because the settlement was too low. So Terri was able to pay her 2 months back rent. Two weeks ago we went to California Adventure and Disneyland. So that money is going fast.

Darren, her husband, found a training program and he's doing very well. Hopefully he should be getting a job soon. Otherwise they're going to be behind on their rent again. The kids are fine. Just her daughter, the 16 year old, is still getting caught with boys every time she misses taking her meds (Abilify). So Terri Lynn thinks that it may be low self esteem and depression that brings that feeling on. Plus Kristina's dad takes meds for bi-polar disorder. So that also might be her problem. She knows what's right and wrong. But, she says she can't control herself. That's why Terri Lynn thinks she needs meds. I agree with her. Kristina's father just goes from one woman to another. That is a known symptom of bi-polar disorder. So Kristina didn't get to go with the rest of the kids to Disneyland. She stayed with her father. He stays with a girl friend that lives close by right now.

Marky's (My nephew who died in 2011)daughter, Kelly, will be a senior at Hollywood High next year. She loves her school choir, H20. She says that's their name because they are the top 20 Hollywood High singers. So I think she's going to try to be a singer or dancer or actor. She didn't want to go to Disneyland and miss her rehearsal! His other daughter, Kameron, is graduating. She's very smart. I know she's going to college but I'm not sure which one because her mom is supposed to come down here. Otherwise she might go to Berkeley or San Francisco State. The boy Mark Jr. is going to Vallejo High next September. Brian(my other nephew) is still watching him to see if he needs to come here to stay with him because he was starting to have a poor choice of friends.

I told you Brian is looking for another weapons repair job. So he just came back from a month of national guard duty. Jaime has custody of the kids until October. So he wanted to keep himself busy.

I miss my sister every day. I just pray I can see her again in the resurrection. I still cry for her. Miss you so much too! Love you!!!

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Sooner or later everyone reads my blogina. Just recently reconnected with Alfredo Botello someone I first met 30 years ago. He is now married with two children and living in the Bay Area where he owns two bars and is a screenwriter. I adore Alfredo and have often thought of him so it was quite a surprise to receive an emug from him from out of the blue. Sorry but I am not sharing the contents as they are way too personal, and I have to keep somethings for myself.  There before the Grace of God Go I . . . but for the past few days I have been literally levitating with so much love in my broken, wounded, cold black heart.

The memory piece I wrote about Jabberjaw is now in the Summer issue of Art Forum Magazine.Here is a link to it online:

http://artforum.com/inprint/issue=201206&id=31088.


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This emug from filmmaker Liz Rosenfeld:

Dear, Friends, Colleagues and Community:

It is with great excitement that I announce the production of my new film " Die Neue Frau," the final film in my short film triptych the Surface Tension Series. I can't believe that it has been almost four years since I moved to Berlin with the intention of making this work, and now the series is almost complete."Die Neue Frau," is a short film presented as a reel constructed of personal home movies made by Leni Riefenstahl in 1933 (the last official year of The Weimar Republic), exposing an ambiguous relationship she had with Eva Braun. This film is an intimate portrait of two prominent women who were integral witnesses to Berlin's transition from decadence into fascism. I am also extremely excited that I will have the opportunity to work with the wonderful actress Susanne Sachsse, who will be staring as Leni Riefenstahl in "Die Neue Frau." As I mentioned above, " Die Neue Frau" is the last film in The Surface Tension Series, which queers historical narratives of the rise and fall of the Wiemar period in Germany through the perspectives of three female artists who lived in Berlin.

We need your help!

At the moment "Die Neue Frau" is in the pre- production stage,and we are gearing up to shoot the first week in July. As many of you know, making art with limited access to public funding is what artists are having to do these days, and I would be so grateful if you could please take a moment to look at my fundraising campaign. Even if you can't donate money, a small donation of your time to spread the word about this fundraiser would be hugely appreciated. Please take a moment to check out the fundraising video and further information about this project here: http://www.indiegogo.com/dieneuefrau?a=190375.

You are not just supporting me, you are supporting my community!

Since we finnished "Frida & Anita," 2 years ago, I have been working with my producers/ cinematographers ( NowMomentNow, http://nowmomentnow.com/) and local community in Berlin to finish the last two films, so that I can finally complete the entire Surface Tension Series for Autumn of 2012. These films have been created, and produced by the same group of people over the past few years, and as a result of our collaborative effort, we have also formed an amazing lexicon of artists who have worked hard to support each other in all of our creative endeavours. Because of my amazing community here, I have experienced the most productive period in my artistic career, and for this I feel incredibly blessed. You will see that all of the "perks" one may receive from donating, are all donated and created by the talented and amazing people I admire and love in Berlin. It has been an amazing ride, with screenings of the first film in the series, "Frida & Anita" at amazing venues including The Tate Modern, The British Film Institute, NYC Mix Festival, and The Raindance Film Festival.

Thank you so much for taking the time to consider donating/ spreading the word about " Die Neue Frau."

This project has changed my life, and I am so excited to finally be able to share this series in it's entirety!

Sending Love,

http://www.lizrosenfeld.com/

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Seems like Berlin is becoming a murder capital of sorts.  Just the other day not far from where I was hanging out working on a project with Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim, the on-the-run Canadian Cannibal Porno Killer was caught at an internet cafe in KreuzKölln where he was reading his press clippings.  Then right after that a Turkish man in Kreuzberg lost it and beheaded his wife in front of their brood of young schoolage children.  Reading about this tragic happening in the Berlin Local English language online newspaper and seeing the pictures of the Turkish couples apartment complex, If I had to live in a building like that it would drive me insane enough to committ murder and decapitation.

WIE BESCHLOSSEN MACHBAR

Sorry kids, but I have not been feeling like writing lately as the poor Vagimule doll has been suffering with gout for the last few days.  It’s a chronic condition that flares up with either stress or bad eating habits and can be quite painful and debilitating making it very hard for me to walk as it attacks the joints and causes swelling in the feet or knees.  This time its my left foot that is in agony.  Well I’m glad its happening now before I go back on tour with Communist Bigamist, and I am so happy it didn’t rear its ugly head during the Camp/Anti-Camp festival.That would have been a disaster.

The weather has been gorgeous in Berlin,and the tourist season is in full swing.  Before getting sick I spent some time rehearsing with Tenderloin and hanging out with the boys-Joel Gibb who is now back in Canada for a month, Felix Knoke, Landgraf Klesse and volatile Dagmar Hopfpfisterei. Also met with CHEAP fearless leader Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel to plan the tour for Camp/Anti-Camp in the fall/winter which is very exciting.  Susi made a delicious Spring Awakening luncheon with lentils, May salad and fish from the Baltic Sea.  My gout was raging but I was able to make it to the CHEAP compound by riding my bike which was easier to do then walk or navigate a bus or subway.  My only problem happened riding home when my bike chain popped off, and being tunten und technik I wasn’t able to fix it so I stopped off at the Arsenal and caught a screening of the Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall classic Dark Passage from 1947 that also features a fantastically hysterical Agnes Morehead and the stunning city of San Francisco as the best character in the film. 

Fortunately some nice Russian men helped me get the chain back on the bike so I could ride home in one piece. The next day wonderful Piero Bellomo and Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim brought me some Indian food and gave the doll some much needed nurturing. Thank god for Piero and Daniel.

One of my CHEAP collegues Tim Blue of the Blue Brothers fame went back to live in the US of A after almost a decade here in Berlin. It was quite sudden and unexpected his leaving and i didn't get a chance to bid him a proper farewell because of the haste in which he left.  Tim is quite an interesting figure, very talented and we had some really great times with each other over the years that included him and his younger brother kJohnny Blue performing live music to accompany the silent film screenings i curated at Arsenal Inst fuer film und video kunst as part of my Rising Stars, Falling Stars series.  I hear that Tim is taking care of an ill sibling in his hometown of Portland,Oregon and I think that him focusing his energies and attentions on someone in need is the best thing for him to engage in at this time of his life. Perhaps our paths will cross again and we will work on a project together in the future.  That would be nice. 

Just received this info from the good people at Hugs & Kisses Magazine:

QUEER CINEMA: Fotos von Christiane Stephan & Andrea Preysing

Ein subjektiver Blick auf die Filmgeschichte aus querer Sicht – illustriert mit einigen der besten Leinwandmomente

In der Reihenfolge sind zu sehen:
Didine van der Platenvlotbrug als Miss Marple
Sam und Zoe: „Bonnie und Clyde”
Dolly Cluster als Tippi Hedren in: „Die Vögel”
Jule als Marilyn Monroe in „Das verflixte 7. Jahr”
Miss Pünktchen als Marlene Dietrich: „Shanghai Express”
Hank Bobbit in James-Dean-Pose: „Giganten”
Hans Kellett, Sänger von Princessin Hans, à la Liza Minnelli: „Cabaret”
Tilly Creutzfeldt-Jakob like Audrey Hepburn: „Frühstück bei Tiffany”

Fotos: Christiane Stephan (www.christianestephan.com)
und Andrea Preysing (apreysing@onlinehome.de)
Styling: Manu Wolf

And this from the La Moustache queer kids:

Hooray, we have two great shows coming up next week!
Have a listen now and mark the dates in your calendar!
See you hopefully there!

Riot Grrrl Berlin & La Moustache present:
Let's celebrate Fronleichnam (or how it's called)
Thursday, June 7 @ ://about blank
Markgrafendamm 24c, S Ostkreuz
doors open at 9, show starts at 10

l i v e

SHE SAID DESTROY (Noise Pop - Bologna, Italy)
http://youtu.be/oKTH2m3ATpY
https://www.facebook.com/SheSaidDestroyy

TRANSLOLA (Post Punk - Krakow, Poland)
http://youtu.be/RwlHpBmF-TA
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Translola/108235515870760

PONY PACK (Punk Pop New Wave - Amsterdam, Netherlands)
http://youtu.be/40FjE-z1JqE
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pony-Pack/372297346728

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/358946714168638
Show poster: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fantastischelastisch/7240631478/in/photostream

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and one day later...

Raumerweiterungshalle & La Moustache present:
Friday, June 8 @ Raumerweiterungshalle
Markgrafendamm 24c, S Ostkreuz
10pm

RAE SPOON (Indie Electronics - Montreal, Canada)
www.raespoon.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=op4ywkS9MUU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ckA8ZiEBXss

LIANNE HALL ("One of the great English voices" John Peel - Brighton, UK)
www.liannehall.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpjbNqGKS6U
http://vimeo.com/15398068

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/289766951113935/
Show poster: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fantastischelastisch/7248567672/in/photostream

u p c o m i n g
Paper & Iron Booking, La Moustache & Marie-Antoinette present:
SCREAMING FEMALES
https://www.facebook.com/events/307190109360078
ticket presale: http://www.koka36.de/Screaming%20Females_ticket_47774.html

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on the 2nd august billie ray martin releases her new dvd.

Billie Ray Martin releases this 8 panel deluxe DVD, featuring five movies inspired by Andy Warhol‘s Screen Tests and printed in colour and silver metallic. The song ‘On Borrowed Time’ deals with Andy’s fictional confession, in which he reflects on his existence and a life he always experienced as less than real. With music by electronic producer and soul singer Waterson, who is riding high on the airwaves with his single 'When You Tell Me That You Love Me'. “Five Takes (A Song About Andy)“

Five Movie Deluxe DVD & digital release
Release date: 5 August 2012

Label: Disco Activisto Records
Distribution: Cargo
Webshop: www.billieraymartin.com/mart

the launch takes place at tha art'otel (warhol hotel) berlin on the 2nd of august. the hotel offers a special 60 euro rate for the night's stay for brm fans and friends. live performance, dj, film showings and some special surprise goodies take place and we hope that waterson, the director and everyone involved in the project will be there and strutt their stuff. email us for hotel details and join billie on facebook for updates on more launch dates, updates on the berlin event etc. www.facebook.com/billieraymartinmusic

launch events in other cities are planned.

please feel free to shout with any questions and ideas.

meanwhile to keep you happy here's a free download from the opiates: http://soundcloud.com/billie-ray-martin/the-opiates-feat-naommon

finally, we've had a small shipment of 50 more copies of the opiates double cd. it's at the webshop.

billie ray martin

disco activisto records

www.billieraymartin.com

IN MASKS OUTRAGEOUS AND AUSTERE

Last night´s Rising Stars, Falling Stars was out of control! It was the first really hot day of the late Spring season, so when it gets this warm most people want to spend their time hanging at the Berlin River, Canal or Lakes and not inside watching a movie, but the power of John Cassavettes won out and the fact we were screening a rare film of his---Killing of a Chinese Bookie that is hardly ever seen in cinemas contributed to an SRO crowd of unfamiliar faces, but those faces known: the lovely Miss Ela of bbooks kollektive, the personable Markus Ruff of Living Archive, Ulrich Ziemons and his beautiful girlfriend. Uli was filling in for Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus who is in India with a special film program that travels to four cities. Uli is also teaching a block seminar on Weather in Film at the famous film school in Potsdam. Also getting into the rakish spirit of the Cassavettes film Ms. Susanne Sachsse, free from her Venge Vengard/Ida Müller John Gabriel Borkman assignment at Volksbuhne/Prater chittle chatting with young French booty pie DeRohan Chabot, American art student Acme Singt with Christine Himmelsfahrt, prima ballerina Trixi Cordua, film historian Marc Siegel in heated discussion with The Whitney´s Scott Rothkopf, Little Alex of Macedonia who did Ms. Davis´s make-up and hair design, lovesexy posh British author Owen Jones of the tome Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, spirited Nanna Heidenreich of Arsenal Experimental, Daniel Hendrickson and beau Piero Bellomo with curator Masimilliano Gioni, John Maturri and his sweet and vivacious friend Linda. John is a photographer and teacher of philosophy and film at Queens College. He worked with Jack Smith, Richard Foreman, Ken Jacobs, and Stuart Sherman (about whom he co-curated the very much talked about exhibition back in 2009. And yes its true Ms. Davis did leave with the patrician Mr. Louis Marie de Castelbajac.

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DIE JUNGFRAU AUF DEM DACH Felix Knocke of Der Spiegel Online and the hot Berlin based band Tenderloin was my lovesexy young date at the Passion Church to see the Magnetic Fields in action. We arrived as the opening band was performing. I didnt catch their name but they sounded like they were playing the same song catatonically over and over again. It was lovely seeing Miss Claudia Gonson per post preggers glow. She was in fine voice and was as spirited as ever on stage. The audience was eating up her hilarious back&forth banter with Mr. Stephin Merritt. La Merritt is sporting one of those gay beards that all the kids are wearing and it becomes him with his deep registered vocalizing. Gonson&Merrit are the Ingeborg Bachmann / Hans Werner Henze of the indie music world. When I saw them play at the Passion Church a few years ago it was my first time seeing and hearing live Miss Shirley Simms with the band. She is an incredible singer with an understated country phrasing that comes across as a delicate warble. The rest of the group: John Woo on guitar and Eurasian lawyer/cello player Sam Davol are as stoic as ever. They have aged a bit but Mr. Woo and Mr. Davol are still extremely handsome in that classical music long hair Mr. Paganini way. It also felt refreshing being in an audience where I wasn´t the oldest person in the room.

Someone sent me an emug asking If I had seen the Johnny Depp film Dark Shadows. I did go to a screening of it a few months back only because I am old enough to have memories of the original TV soap from the late 60s and early 70s starring Joan Bennett, a young Kate Jackson pre Charlie´s Angels fame Lara Parker and Jonathan Frid as Barnabus Collins. The Tim Burton film is a complete waste of time even though I adore his wife Helena Bonham Carter, the ex Mr. Angelina Jolie-Johnny Lee Miller (looking very long on the tooth) and Eva Green as a histrionic Angelique. One of my talented NYU students is having an exhibit in Paris. See the info below and go check it out. In another post I will give you the latest on singer Billie Ray Martin´s big Warhol inspired project. But I have to run out the door or I will be late for a radio interview.

The Superfluidity of an Interior une exposition de Carlos Reyes vernissage, samedi 19 mai 18 - 21h 19 mai - 9 juin, 2012 TAON 18-20 rue Ledru Rollin 94200 Ivry sur Seine jeudi - samedi / 11 - 18h et sur rendez-vous contact@taon.fr

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Thursday May 17th is a religious holiday in Berlin called Christi Himmelfahrt also known as Father´s Day and Männer aktuel tag, so all the stores will be closed. Thank you to Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim for reminding me about this holiday.

WEH DEM, DER LUGT Had a delightful visit from my god son Man Martin who is the oldest child of my Afro Sister “PopThatCherry” Jefferson aka: Priscilla Hazelwood. Priscilla lives in the Bay Area and is the niece of Hollywood actor Richard Widmark. She also has a daughter named Mira Bai who lives in San Francisco with her husband and child. Man was on a business trip to Stuttgard, and decided to take the train to Berlin to spend some time with me, before heading to Dusseldorf for further business responsibilities. Man or Immanuel, has been living for the last three years inTokyo,Japan where he works for a corporate concern, but is also a filmmaker and makes deliciously subversive pieces of cinema gold. His daughter is now 15 years old and quite lovely. We met at the Cheese Endique Trifecta and I showed him around my Rote Insel neighborhood—he took pics of Marlene Dietrich’s birth home on Lebener Strasse and we went by the flat that David Bowie use to live at that is above the Nueus Ufer Gay Bar and also Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories apartment at Nollendorky Platz before a standout dinner of Fish & Chips at the British Eatery East London on Mehringdamm. During supper he told me about being outside on a picnic with his girlfriend when the big Earthquake in Japan struck and how surreal it was. And I think I’ve gone through culture shock living in Germany, well try living in the Orient during a natural disaster and nuclear panic. I am generally not a sentimental person, but it was wonderful seeing Man again. The last time we hung out was in 2008 when I had my Yerba Buena museum show in San Francisco. Earlier Saturday morning I had breaky at the Schwartzer Café in Charlottenberg with Anna Muelter of HAU. It was so sweet of Anna to treat me to a belated birthday breakfast. We had a sensational time catching up on all our activities and projects for the last year but also gossiping in our girlish baby dyke fashion. June 30th I will DJ a short set at the closing night festivities of the HAU season at WAU Cafe when HAU artistic director Mattias Leanthal leaves his post for greener pastures in Beirut. With Mattias leaving it is truelly the end of an era here in Berlin. Anna also gave me the horrible news that Fassbinder’s ex lover the legendary Afro German actor Gunther Kaufmann died of a heart attack at age 64. My CHEAP collegues Susanne Sachsse, Marc Siegel and director Judy LaBruce went to see the star perform in a play in prison years ago. The famed actor took the rap for his wife in some kind of crime that I can’t remember the exact details to. Friday I had a scintilatingly girlish day with my Arsenal big boss Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus. We celebrated her belated birthday at the Osteria No.1 at Kreuzberger Strasse 71. Usually every year Stefanie and I celebrate together at The Kaiserstein on Mehringdamm but that restaurant has suddenly gone out of business. We didn’t mind so much as their service wasn’t the best, but I did like their outdoor patio. Well now we have a new place to be all girleney at, and the Osteria No. 1 has the most divine patio in existence, excellent food and top notch service plus the patio is nestled very far away from the street to insure privacy in conversation. Wouldn’t you like to know what two beautiful women talk about when they get together? Well I am not going to tell you as somethings need to remain private.

DER DIENER ZWEIER HERREN So thrilled after almost seven years living in Berlin I think I have found a breakfast place to eat at on a regular basis that has the feel of an old fashion diner or greasy spoon. The café is called East London-God Save Brit Food, and its an all-day eating establishment serving the finest in British cooking combining fresh produce, imported delicacies and classic recipes. They are located at Mehringdamm 33 10961 Berlin info@eastlondon.de tel +49(0)30 69 53 32 05 hours Mon-Thu 8-10pm Fri 8-11pm Sat & sun 10-11pm so you can go from breakfast to dinner. They have been open for a year. How I missed them is beyond me. The place is cute with a décor that is clever but doesn’t try too hard like restaurants and shops in Mitte, and I have been there now twice once for breakfast where I had the classic but without sweet baked beans, thank god it doesn’t come with blood pudding, but the fried tomatoes & mushrooms are just what Doctor Faustus ordered. For dinner I had a most delish Fish&Chips with sticky peas & a pert lemonade. The staff is also friendly and accommodating which is a rarety in glum Berlina. Last night I went to Berghain to see Gossip perform. Its been a while since I’ve seen the band and they were of course in top form with Miss Beth looking ravishing in a gold sequined frock that she quickly took off to sport a chic Marc Jacobs little black dress. Their new album on Sony is called A Joyful Noize. The bands super hot baby dyke drummer Hannah Blilie is one of the best punk skin pounders short of my cousin Carla Duplantier of the legendary LA punk outfit The Controllers. Of course the place was packed to capacity and then some. I came with my Tenderloin boys Felix Knoke, Landgraf Klesse & Baby Diaper Joel Gibb. Tenderloin’s 17 year old lead singer Dagmar Hopfisterei with Tiffany Middlesex the bands Minister of DisIdentification DisInformation exchanged make-up tips with Ms. Ditto and her major ms. gorgeous manager Tara aka: Annie Oakley of the Sex Workers Art Show. Also seen backstage: Javier Peres of Peres Projects looking good and healthy now that he is completely clean & sober with his lovesexy trusty right hand man at his side. Ran into cutie pie Jasmin who worked on the ZacKary Drucker film that I made last summer where I starred as my Whoracle et Delphi persona. ZacKary is in need of funds to complete the film so please donate to the cause. More info on that at the end of this posting. Also saw in major schmooze mode La Negressa as she use to be called in the 90s when I first ran into her in New York on the fringes of the post queer core scene. Someone whispered to me that she is still working the same Klaus Nomi counter tenor shtick only now she has added Diamanda Galas and a bit of Antebellum identity politiks posturing to the mix and goes under the name of M. Lamar, and was in town for the badly named Earl Dax party Pussy Faggot. M. Lamar and Earl Dax seem like they are perfect to work with each other. I would change the name of the party from Pussy Faggot to Eve Harrington. I guess Earl has latched on to Zvonko of Queer Zagreb in a big way. Lord Love a Duck and more power to them! Thank you Love Camel aka: Andrea Novarin for sending me the book The World and its Double--The Life and Work of Otto Preminger by Chris Fujiwara. It’s a great springtime read, and while you’re at it please send me a copy of Dropped Names-Famous Men and Women as I Knew Them by Frank Langella and Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel. This Monday I am going to see Claudia Gonson and Stephin Merritt and their band The Magnetic Fields play at the Passion Chuch at 8pm. Claudia was kind enough to contact me that she was coming to town and put me on the guest list. *** Wasn't able to catch the opening but here is a group show recommended to me by my former Arts Editor boss when I wrote regularly at the LA Weekly Mr.Tom Christie: Unblinking Eye Adrian Buschmann - Aaron GM - Sonja Gerdes - Fabian Hartmann Eric Legris - Maeghan Reid - Jason Starr April 27th until June 24th 2012 Opening reception - April 27th from 6 to 9PM 'It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality.' Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972) Kavi Gupta BERLIN is proud to present Unblinking Eye, a group exhibition including the work of Adrian Buschmann, Aaron GM, Sonja Gerdes, Fabian Hartmann, Eric Legris, Maeghan Reid, and Jason Starr. Drawing from the histories of surrealism and symbolism in contemporary art, the exhibition is an acknowledgment of the value of quixotic folly, a nod to Shandyistic strategy, and a critique of the arrogance of rationalism. Adrian Buschmann (b. 1976 in Kattowitz, PL) lives and works in Berlin. Recent exhibitions include Schimmeliges Brot (2010) at Schlectriem Brothers in Berlin, Adrian Buschmann (2010) at Kunstgarten in Graz, Austria, and Say Hello To Palmtreeman (2009) at Galerie Fiebach & Minninger in Cologne. Buschman graduated from Berlin's Universität der Künste in 2002, studying under Prof. Daniel Richter. Aaron GM (b. 1978 in Washington D.C.) lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions include IMOM-M (2011) at Green Gallery in Milwaukee, capezio (2010) at ltd los angeles in Los Angeles, and Timeshares (2009) at Parker Jones Gallery in Los Angeles. Sonja Gerdes (b. 1979 in Clarholz, DE) lives and works in Berlin. Recent exhibitions include Pie Of Trouble. Let's Hang. The Energy Plan (2012) at Elephant in Los Angeles, Gyre and Gimble (with Lucy Teasdale) (2011) at Galerie Gebr. Lehmann in Berlin, and XXXL Die Schmiede featuring Talisman for Oxygenenergizer (2011) at Galerie Lena Brüning in Berlin. Sonja Gerdes' performance 'Pie of Trouble, Let's hang. Breathe. Air is free' will begin at 8PM. Fabian Hartmann (b. 1986 in Bottrop, DE) lives and works in Düsseldorf. Recent exhibitions include Aurum (2011) at Gallery Artary in Stuttgart and Peppi Bottrop - Arm der Cunst (2011) at Sammlung Helene Zimmerman in Hamburg. Hartmann currently attends the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, studying under Prof. Albert Oehlen. Eric Legris (b. 1981 in Lubec, Maine) lives and works in New York. Legris attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine from 1999 until 2003 and received his Master's of Fine Arts from Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of The Arts in 2011. Recent exhibitions of Legris' work include Jellyfish (2011) at Kavi Gupta BERLIN, New American Values (2010) at Atelierhof Kreuzberg in Berlin, Ich Habe Stimmen Gehört (2009) at Galerie Im Regierungsviertel in Berlin, and It's not the sandwich we enjoy, it's the pickle (2009) at Objectiv Gallery in Prague. Maeghan Reid (b. 1980 in California) lives and works in Berlin. Recent exhibitions include Splint (2011) at Kunstverein Heppenheim in Heppenheim, DE, The Great Lumbering (2011) at Jack Hanley Gallery in New York, and Dorothea (2011) at Ancient & Modern in London. Jason Starr (b. 1975 in Los Angeles, USA) lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions include Adult Contemporary (2011) Kavi Gupta BERLIN, Fresh Silent Auction (2009) at Los Angeles Museum Of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Inevitable Continuum (2009) at Locust Projects in Miami. Starr received his Masters of Fine Arts from The University of Southern California in 2007. For further information and/or images please contact the gallery at info@kavigupta.com or call +49 030 544 65010 ON VIEW IN CHICAGO: ARI MARCOPOULUS - MIDWAY CHICAGO 835 West Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL 60607 312.432.0708 Tuesday - Friday, 10-6PM Saturday, 11-5PM BERLIN Kluckstraße 31 10785 Berlin Germany +49 030 544 65010 Wednesday - Saturday, 12-6PM *** ZacKary Drucker projects info to donate and support: Dear Everyone who is Everyone, As you may know, I'm close to finishing my largest and most ambitious project to date. She Gone Rogue is a fantastical narrative short film shot across the US and in Europe that features legendary performers Holly Woodlawn, Vaginal Davis, and Flawless Sabrina. My collaborator Rhys Ernst and I have been hard at work over the last 12 months on the film and it is truly a labor of love. It will be premiering in June at the first ever Los Angeles Biennial, and will play for three months on a continuos loop at the Hammer Museum-- a prestigious opportunity indeed. We need your help for the final push. Filmmaking has hard costs and we're still $2,000 away from our goal. If we don't reach the Kickstarter goal we receive nothing and have no way to pay for the finishing costs of the film (with our premiere only weeks away)! CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO AND DONATE For those of you who have already donated, THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!! If you haven't gotten around to it yet, please consider donating to our Kickstarter. There are amazing perks available and if you haven't seen it already, check out our Kickstarter cooking concept video featuring Rhys and I as rodeo clowns. Thank you so much for you support. Raising awareness about it also really helps. Reposting, sending an email on our behalf, tweeting about it, anything you can do to spread the word is much appreciated. THANK YOU, i love you more than ever, Z

DAS LIED VON DER GLOCKE Just saw the Peaches opera LÓrfeo von Claudio Monteverdi at HAU Eins. Its an ambitious production and a lot of love, pain and the whole damn thing obviously went into it. I found the singing enchanting, and the orchestra Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop a delicious musical marvel. I´ve been a longtime fan of Miss Peaches, and thought her Peaches Christ Superstar a brilliant confection with its pure simplicity in form and staging. The lady Peaches is definitely flexing her roid rage muscles with this piece, and the six months or so of training and study has definitely paid off in earnest. My favorite moment was the end when she and the lovesexy orchestra share a bit of whimsy with each other. Peaches and her young performers and musicians are a joy complete, but the staging, set, costumes, make-up and hair design left me a little puzzled. Peaches has a great body and looks good in almost anything. I´d love to see her in a new look though. I have a photo of her from some summer festival concert a few years ago where she was working a natural hair color that was styled very 1940s Pachuca and she looked sensational. I found the costumes in this piece distracting----ill catsuits matched with lumpy seperates that didn’t flatter any of the cast. Maybe that was the point? Does being queer mean you are forced into a life sentence of exceptionally bad jewelry options and clunky post-rave footwear? Earlier I grabbed a bite with Marc Siegel and the handsome Israeli artist Yael Bertana at the WAU café. Yesterday I had dinner with the Mr. Siegel and we were able to have a nice lesbian processing session about Camp/Anti-Camp at the vegetarian restaurant Rose´s on the Mehrindgamn Corridor. He then was off to see Tim & kJohnny Blue´s farewell concert. I had a date with a visiting curator and couldn´t go the send off for Tim Blue who returns to his hometown of Portland Oregon Monday. Earlier that afternoon I was treated to a splendid Spargel luncheon by the lovely Miss Jane Beese who is head of Contemporary Music for Southbank Center in London. Jane handles all the administrative stuff for the Meltdown Festival in London that is being curated by Antony of Antony and the Johnsons. Hanging out with Miss Jane was pure pleasure, as we were like old girlfriends catching up after a couple of years apart and before we knew it the time had flown by. It was also nice meeting Jane´s good friend Bernadette who is also sweet, pretty and personable like Miss Jane. A German woman who goes by the name Mother of Anna joined our little party and she was a riotous hoot. I don´t know where this woman came from, she was elderly in her mid sixties with sparkling blue eyes and had an infectious radikal spirit about her. When you open yourself to meeting new people you get rewarded with these kind of one-of-a-kind episodes. Only in Berlin kids.

EINSATZ FUER DEN TATORT VORSPANN I am exhausted! The Camp/Anti-Camp and Rising Stars, Falling Stars: We Must Have Music re-launch has knackered me out like something otherworldly. I don’t know where to begin in writing about the last week or so. Berlin has been an utter whirlwind of activity. Well my screening of George Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess starring Dorothy Dandridge, Sidney Portier, Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll and Sammy Davis Jr. was a huge hit and the perfect way to jumpstart the RSFS series with a new spark. I even liked how the print was turning a reddish pink. It made this Hollywood Golden era film take on a decidedly more experimental aura. Re-vamping RSFS would have been impossible without the tireless efforts of Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Daniel Hendrickson, the Jewish Muslim with help from Markus Ruff of Living Archive Project and of course Jeffreyland Hilbert of Kustom Kreative the genius of design wizardry who created the postcard fliers and posters that has everyones mouths agape. Jeffrey is a genius. After the screening Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn dropped by as a special guest star during the wine reception held in Kino II. Of course it is always a joy being in the presense of such an astounding talent, but I felt her companion Nico should have let the great lady rest a bit in preparation for her long plane trip to Los Angeles. Her fans were of course excited to catch one more glimpse of her divinity. On hand were Blue Bros kJohnny & Tim who is leaving Berlin permanently in a few weeks and returning to Portland, Oregon, delicious Toby Rauscher & French hotsy totsy Xavier who were so wonderful as my living sculpture boys in my talk show/installation VD is SFTD, they were joined by Little Alex of Macedonia, art video maven Nguyen Tan Hoang, Jonathan Berger and his cute NYU student Joy, Senol Senturk, Mikki the sprightly C/A-C stage manager, gorgeous Nazli Kilerci, Romy Haag, with singer Billie Ray Martin, Piero Bellomo, New Zealand scholar Pete Limbrick, Kyle Keyser, Susanne Sachsse & Marc Siegel, curator Hannah Keller, Verena von Hodel, Lars Denicke, video artist Bjorn Melhus, Salome Gersch and handsome Uli Ziemons. Everyone was talking about how faggoty Sammy Davis Jr. was in the film Porgy & Bess playing Sportin’ Life. Well Sammy is a well known womanizer but he also had some sugar in his proverbial tank and that is a fact many don´t know about the Rat Packer who also packed quite a penile punch in his tiny frame. Funny lady Pearl Bailey was a hoot playing Cat Fish Row wiseacre a Mariah. Of course the beauty of Dorothy Dandridge couldn’t be denied, and she somehow conveyed a modern edge to her low key performance. Sidney Portier has such a masculine voice and ardour and Diahann Carroll made to look plain and ordinary also packed quite a wallup. The Last night of Camp/Anti-Camp was a marvel with the concert performance by the music and art kollektive The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black starring the amazing Kembra Pfahler who had the audience revitted. It was so wonderous hearing the Karen Black hit songs again. I haven’t seen the band play in almost a decade. The extra Karen Black treat was guitar god Samoa returning to the lineup. No one short of Glen Meadmore plays guitar like Samoa. He defines the Karen Black sound and seeing Kembra & Samoa together was my ultimate fantasy come true. The Lady Kembra is a consummate artist and one of the planets smartest and most gifted women. Every move she makes is perfection personified, and Berlin was able to experience a rare treat. I was also happy to see Tenderloin perform and Dagmar Hofpfisterei the teenage lead singer was in good form despite having almost OD’d just a few hours before the gig. The crowd seemed to really enjoy their music and songs like Empty, Eat Me Like The Good Book Sez, Salome’s Last Dance which takes text directly from Oscar Wilde, Cheeseburger, No Soul, Octavia and Incitement to Discourse. I especially loved the animated text behind the band that was created by Jean Y. Kim who also did the video for SFTD. Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras is quite a good drummer and he also managed to play keyboards and guitar at the same time, plus Felix Knoke and Landgraf Jan Klesse are very attractive on stage and had lots of the girls going wild over their manly appeal. Tenderloin’s next gig with VHoKB is August 10th in London England during the Olympics when Antony of Antony & the Johnsons curates The Meltdown Festival. The last day of C/A-C featured celebrity sightings as diverse as Peaches and The Pet Shops Boys, Wolfgang Tilmans, Katy Perry, and Jens Friebe the German indie pop singer/songwriter. The last SFTD was a speed talk show/installation that was over in 27 minutes and featured as guests a playful Tim Studkin masquerading as a former Bel Ami porn model turned scholar and activist, Swedish poet Eli Lev’en and good time Charlie of a writer/journalista Travis Jeppesen who has very pretty bare feet that the Vagimule managed to shrimp as the packed audience squeeled uncomfortably. The Love Camel aka: Andrea Novarin of the BFI didn’t offend anyone with his video selection of Turkish film remakes of Hollywood Blockbusters like Star Wars and the Exorcist. Co-hostess Nanna Heidenreich was sublime. It seems like everyone’s favorite SFTD evening was the Friday salute to Jayne County that featured Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and her dynamic 16mm film presentation. This evening also had everyone talking about the kickboxing demo by Richard Gersch and Georg that was so earnest and sexy in a quiet way and of course the nude rapping by New York sensation Gio Black Peter that featured just a bit of analingus and felatio, not to mention a mock Court of Good Taste by Langraf Jan Klesse with an inspired Liz Rosenfeld of Foodgasm. Kembra Pfahler and Wieland Speck (accepting a CHEAPY Underground Über Alles Award for Jayne County were other highlights of Friday, and everyone was admiring the beautiful set that was designed by Jonathan Berger and Senol Senturk that featured a fetching wall of cacti. Catching every moment of the three day festival: Peter Limbrick, New Zealand film scholar who lives in San Francisco,Pet Shop Bears Disco Club proprietors,Mobile Academy’s Hannah Hurtzig,Sophia of Plan b,Katja Sander and artist Phil Colllins with their gaggle of art students in tow. Plus the lovesexy Angela Melitopoulos,Jan Kunemund of Sissy Magazine,Piero Bellomo,Sabeth Buchmann the wonderful art theorist who teaches in Wien,Dragan Asler and the Serbian Art Mafia, the Great Alessio who did a splendid make-up job on Teodora Tabacki making her look all Serbi-camp, Koen Clarehout,Maeke Harmsen, Katrin Dod the Beauty of HAU, Steffan Faupel and his music writing partner, Art shtar Ming Wong, scholars: Anja Michaelson and Kimiko Suda, supermodel Akira Knightly with make up artist Tan Binh Nguyen who not only beats the face of curator Susanne Sachsse, but Vaginal Davis and Holly Woodlawn, DJane Olga Damnitz, Angie Anderson,Christina the hot Romy Schneider looking girlfriend of sexy Sasha, dancer Asaf Hochman,Earl Dax of Pussy Faggot, Juan Luis Mielgo Castellanos, the sexy Spanish teacher, academic Todd Sekuler and Hanno Stecher of Catchfire blog.

HUMOR IST, WENN MAN NICT IMMER LACHT It is now the third day of the art festival Camp/Anti-Camp: The Queer Guide to Everyday Life and it’s a sterling success on all counts. Congrats to curators Susanne Sachsse & Marc Siegel and guest Tropicamp curator Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz. Yesterday there were packed lectures with a program beginning at 12:00 noon. The gorgeous scholar Juliane Rebentisch hit it out of the ballpark with her talk on Camp Materialism and the Tropi-camp section of Camp/Anti-Camp was also feverishly mobbed. Carmelita Tropicana’s performance ”Meine Box Berlin” had the New York legend conquering Berlin with the same charm and dexterity that is so apparent in the 1993 film by her sister Ela Troyano YOUR KUNST IST YOUR WAFFEN. It was amazing seeing a young Alistair & Julie Tolentino make cameo appearances in that film as well as posters on the East Village streets advertising a Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black performance. Unfortunately for the Vagimule doll my issues with losing my voice emerged so I didn’t get to see any of the lectures or performances, but got a reliable first hand account from Jewish Muslim Daniel Hendrickson and The Love Camel. I had an interview with a German television station that was supposed to be for only 30 minutes that went on for almost two hours and that tuckered this old gal out but the TV interviewer was nice and bubbly and her cameraman and soundguy were kindof eye candyish. Beggars can´t be choosy. I didn’t get a good sleep Thursday night so I spent most of Friday in my dressing room drinking tea with honey&lemon and sucking on lozanges.I tried in vain to take a disco nap to catch up on lost sleep but that didn’t work too well. VD is SFTD went over very well on Friday with my new co-host Nanna Heidenreich who was just brilliant and looked very sexy in her skirt made from men´s suit pant ensemble. Stefanie Schulte Strathaus the lovely Empress of the Arsenal made a very unique and special 16mm presentation on the show which was quite a hit with the crowd, and it was grand to have the 16mm projector buzzing along musically in the cavernous HAU2 space. Special thanks to Arsenal senior projectionist Bodo for handling the celluloid reel changing duties. The Love Camel proceeded to offend many with his selection of German Educational films from the early 1970s and Wieland Speck was his dashing self telling stories of the glory days of Berlin in the early 80s running around with Jayne County, Zazie De Paris and Romy Haag. The evenings proclitities were dedicated to Jayne’s raucous spirit with the subtitle Jayne County’s In Love with a Russian Soldier and the drink special: If You Don’t Want to Fuck Me Baby Fuck OFF and Die featuring once again macrobiotic and vegan vodka and my special Chlymidia cocktail. Nice moments on stage with Sam & Liz of Foodgasm who presented the guests and some lucky audience members some tasty food samples from their installation in the HAU2 Foyer and a hilarious moment with Landgraf Klesse and his concept of the Court of Good Taste. Wieland Speck also accepted the CHEAPY Award on behalf of Jayne County who was supposed to perform with the band The Lazy from Munich, but couldn´t come to Berlin as she takes care of her elderly parents who are in their 90s and her mother became deathly ill. We also presented a CHEAPY to Kembra Pfahler of the VHoKB who wowed everyone with her stream of conscienceness philosophy on Future Feminism and the decrepid state of affairs in New York and the US of A in general. In the words of Kembra and I hope I am quoting her correctly, “People in New York who you run into will say they are fasting, but the actuality is that they are starving". The late nite ended with sexpert Gio Black Peter singing one of his hit songs from his album The Virgin Shuffle. While I was being painted as Venus in Furs by our Akshunist painter Yorgos the Greek Aktive Byzantine Ottoman. Gio Black Peter assaulted the audience with his lovesexy ways and wound up prancing about completely nude and the Vagimule Doll got caught up in the naughty Jayne County moment and wound up fellating the New York art and music star. Being the Lesbian that I am, of course my blow job wasn’t very good and so I wasn’t able to ignite that huge sea monster he keeps between his legs. Oh welp!I tried my best. My lesbiana girlfriend Carmelita Tropicana doesn´t mind when i fool around with boys. Thank god she is so open minded. Our Living Sculpture boys Toby, Max and cute Greek beauty Vassily were adoreable on stage, and we had the addition of Richard Gersch (curator Susanne Sachsse´s teenage son and his friend Georg doing a kickboxing demo on stage as installation that looked amazing and sent all the chicken hawks into a cardiac arrest at the sight of nubile buff teenage high school boiganzas. Tonight is the last night of the talkshow/installation and with the Karen Black concert afterwards we are going to try to make the show zip along at a record pace. Our guests are the writers Travis Jeppesen and Eli Lev’en from Sweden with a video presentation by Love Camel of Turkish re-makes of American Mainstream Box Office Hits. Yowza!