SCHAU DOCH MAL RÜBER . . .
That Jewish Muslim Daniel Henrickson and his boyfriend Pierro Bellomo came to the rescue of the Vagimule Doll yet once again helping her with household concerns as she prepares her Cheese Endique Trifecta for the Berlinale visit of The Love Camel. Thank god for Daniel and Pierro. Afterwards we went to the Indian restaurant Moghul on Akazien Strasse where there is this little bubble butt boy who has to be the saddest waiter in Berlin. The food at this boite is very tasty and they have hired another dimunitive waiter, who seems to have a brighter outlook on life.
Went to Haus de Kulturen de Welt to see Janez Jansaś new film My Name is Janez Jansa which makes its Berlin premiere as part of the TransMedial Festival. Janez had shown me an earlier version, but this one is much better and features a dynamic performance from my old LA pal Hector Martinez and a closing aria by intermedia soprano Julianna Snapper. The film is a clever meditation on the name game, and also resolves around three multi media artists from Slovenia who all changed their name legally to that of the right wing Prime Minister of their country. Was hanging out with Mr. Jansa and his vibrant star of the film who works as a television presenter, but also got a chance to hang with Judy LaBruce producer Jurgen Bruning and the British art group Plan B. Had to rush across town to see a screening of the film Monarch's Men by Jan Peter Hammer at the NGBK gallery. The film features Sarita Choudury, Felix Ensslin and CHEAP's very own Daniel Hendrickson, but the projector was kaput. Just my Lord Love a Duck luck.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
DAS MERKWÜRDIGE KÄTZCHEN
It seems like the gorgeous Chancellor of Germany Ms. Angela
Merkel is having a bit of trouble once again with her collegues who love
plagerising their doctoral thesis. This
time it’s the Education Minister Annette Scharan. Last time it was Karl-Theodor Zu
Guttenberg. Just saying . . .
Hans Massaquoi just died at the age of 87. He was the Afro German former editor with
Ebony and Jet Magazine who grew up as a child in Nazi Germany and even wrote a
book about his experiences in the well regarded tome Destined to
Witness-Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany.
His mother was a white German Nurse and his father a diplomats son from
Liberia.
Who on earth is fuglier then British Prime Minister
David Cameron? I swear he looks like a
giant old baby.
The book I can’t seem to put down is Going
Clear-Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright. I am obsessed with Scientology and believe in
the religion whole heartedly. As a
teenage punk rocker roaming the streets of Hollywood I had major crushes on the
Scientology grunts in their uniforms chainsmoking as they walked the Blvd, and
I’ve always thought that the church founder L. Ron Hubbard was really hot. I wish people would stop picking on the
church they are just trying to make a $buck like everyone else in tired LaLa
Land, they are just a little bit more aggressive with it.
This note just came in from Davide Grassi aka Janez
Jansa. "My Name Is Janez
Janša" at transmediale.
It will be this Saturday at noon at HKW in the room
k1.
Hope to see you there!
The perfect man!
Monday, January 28, 2013
VAGINETICS
Rising Stars, Falling Stars-We Must Have Music at Arsenal Inst. für film und video kunst was packed to the high rafters last night. I guess Jim Jarmusch has a lot of fans here in Berlina because his first film Permanent Vacation from 1980 really brought the kidz out of the woodworks. The films star Chris Parker is very adoreable with his whiny little voice. My former Afro Sister Maria Duval is also featured in the film. Maria wasn´t a regular Afro Sister but did perform with me several times back in the mid 1980s when she was working at Cowboys & Poodles on Melrose Avenue where she designed some vintage repro dresses. Back in the mid 1980s Ms. Duval was also touring with the road company of Women Behind Bars where she had been an original cast member along with Divine. Maria who is half French and Puerto Rican was a very talented and gorgeous actress. When I knew her she had a bit of a drug problem, but was an overall hardworking good time Sally. Whatever happened to Chris Parker who played the lead in Permanent Vacation? I think he was for a time in Levi Dexter´s rock-a-billy band Levi and the Rockats. Another kid from that period who had a huge penis was Snuffy Smit. Whatever happened to him?
Seen shmoozing during the wine reception after the screening: film historian Marc Siegel and his beautiful lady love the director/intermedia actress Susanne Sachße, former prima ballerina Beatrice "Trixie" Cordua with artists and galpals Yam and Viola, British ginger junior pop star Alexander Geist with posse, Manuel Schubert of FilmHighlights Magazine who has just moved from Potsdam to Schöneberg and is my closest neighbor, Jochen Werner, curator with Berlin´s Porn Film Festival, cute careerist Israeli filmmaker Lior Shamriz, Felix Knoke of the band Tenderloin who also writes for Der Spiegel OnLine, Markus Ruff of Living Archive Project, Berlin legend Zazie de Paris, Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim, Little Alex of Macedonia who did Ms. Davis´hair and make-up and styled the great lady as a suffragette, Greek art shtar and curator Angela Melitoupolous, juicy Richard Birkett of NYC´s Artist Space with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin Magazine and the wonderful Mathei Bellu who is always lurking on the fringes of artistic happenings with culture worker Sebastian Bodirsky, Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus with her Forum Expanded Crew of Nanna Heidenreich who gave Ms. Davis a gorgeous silk scarf and a fluffy pink bathrobe and Uli Ziemons. Forum Expanded opens Feb 6th at the site specific location of a Crematorium in Wedding and Feb 12th there is special event at the Liquidrom at Möckernstraße 10.
*
Received some sad news from Los Angeles that James Stone died this week after a long battle with bladder cancer. James who I nicknamed "Frankenstone" during his club kingpin heyday with Sin-A-Matic and the Fetisch Ball. I had known James since he was a trendy teenager in the early 1980s from the San Gabriel Valley middle class suburb of Arcadia.
My old colleague from the LA Weekly Lina Lecaro wrote a very nice obit for him that you can find easily online.When I first met James Stone he was going under the name of Jimmy Smits and was straight with a girlfriend. Of course that didn´t last very long once he got turned out by the LA underground music and art scene. As a teen he was a hard worker sometimes holding down three jobs at one time, and he had a good business sense which came inhandy when he took over the reigns of Club Fuck that his then lover Miguel Berenstein and Cliff Diller founded in Silverake at a Latin Bar on Sunset Blvd that use to be the infamous Black Cat Pub in the 1960s which started the modern gay rights movement several years before Stonewall with riots from west coast drag queens.
Club Fuck was one of LA´s most notorious nightclub´s --- Cliff & Miguel were the masterminds behind it. Cliff and I were quite close as we were two demented queens. Cliff and Ron Athey who was an original member of the First Family of Fuck were best girlfriends. Both Cliff and Miguel died of Mrs. AIDS in the 1990s.
I had a crush on Jimmy back in the mid 1980s when he was going out with Jeff Gardner aka Buzz. I used both of them in a fashon show at the old Lhasa Club on Hudson and Santa Monica Blvd below photographer Herb Ritt´s famous Hollywood studio. Jimmy and Abel Villareal had also helped me with my home art gallery HAG in the later 1980s and he was a regular at HAG openings and my monthly club event Cafe HAG at Cafe Kafka a Slovakian Restaurant in Hollywood.
Jimmy was very sweet and muscular who later had a series of celebrated hunky black lovers that included strapping GoGo boy Kelvin, who worked with me at UCLA´s Placement & Career Planning Center, also a former Olympic ice skater who skated for either the IceCapedes or Holiday on Ice and had one of the most bubbly rear ends I have ever seen. The last lover that I saw Jimmy with regularly was a law student and a true sex champion who went by the name of Huggy Bear.
In later years we had a bit of a falling out----dragqueens are unforgiving when feeling slighted, add to that my Mexican heritage of grudge holding and well you get the picture . . . but I´d like to remember Jimmy Smits/James Stone when he was young and eager beaver to be part of a burgeoning underground scene.
Rising Stars, Falling Stars-We Must Have Music at Arsenal Inst. für film und video kunst was packed to the high rafters last night. I guess Jim Jarmusch has a lot of fans here in Berlina because his first film Permanent Vacation from 1980 really brought the kidz out of the woodworks. The films star Chris Parker is very adoreable with his whiny little voice. My former Afro Sister Maria Duval is also featured in the film. Maria wasn´t a regular Afro Sister but did perform with me several times back in the mid 1980s when she was working at Cowboys & Poodles on Melrose Avenue where she designed some vintage repro dresses. Back in the mid 1980s Ms. Duval was also touring with the road company of Women Behind Bars where she had been an original cast member along with Divine. Maria who is half French and Puerto Rican was a very talented and gorgeous actress. When I knew her she had a bit of a drug problem, but was an overall hardworking good time Sally. Whatever happened to Chris Parker who played the lead in Permanent Vacation? I think he was for a time in Levi Dexter´s rock-a-billy band Levi and the Rockats. Another kid from that period who had a huge penis was Snuffy Smit. Whatever happened to him?
Seen shmoozing during the wine reception after the screening: film historian Marc Siegel and his beautiful lady love the director/intermedia actress Susanne Sachße, former prima ballerina Beatrice "Trixie" Cordua with artists and galpals Yam and Viola, British ginger junior pop star Alexander Geist with posse, Manuel Schubert of FilmHighlights Magazine who has just moved from Potsdam to Schöneberg and is my closest neighbor, Jochen Werner, curator with Berlin´s Porn Film Festival, cute careerist Israeli filmmaker Lior Shamriz, Felix Knoke of the band Tenderloin who also writes for Der Spiegel OnLine, Markus Ruff of Living Archive Project, Berlin legend Zazie de Paris, Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim, Little Alex of Macedonia who did Ms. Davis´hair and make-up and styled the great lady as a suffragette, Greek art shtar and curator Angela Melitoupolous, juicy Richard Birkett of NYC´s Artist Space with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin Magazine and the wonderful Mathei Bellu who is always lurking on the fringes of artistic happenings with culture worker Sebastian Bodirsky, Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus with her Forum Expanded Crew of Nanna Heidenreich who gave Ms. Davis a gorgeous silk scarf and a fluffy pink bathrobe and Uli Ziemons. Forum Expanded opens Feb 6th at the site specific location of a Crematorium in Wedding and Feb 12th there is special event at the Liquidrom at Möckernstraße 10.
*
Received some sad news from Los Angeles that James Stone died this week after a long battle with bladder cancer. James who I nicknamed "Frankenstone" during his club kingpin heyday with Sin-A-Matic and the Fetisch Ball. I had known James since he was a trendy teenager in the early 1980s from the San Gabriel Valley middle class suburb of Arcadia.
My old colleague from the LA Weekly Lina Lecaro wrote a very nice obit for him that you can find easily online.When I first met James Stone he was going under the name of Jimmy Smits and was straight with a girlfriend. Of course that didn´t last very long once he got turned out by the LA underground music and art scene. As a teen he was a hard worker sometimes holding down three jobs at one time, and he had a good business sense which came inhandy when he took over the reigns of Club Fuck that his then lover Miguel Berenstein and Cliff Diller founded in Silverake at a Latin Bar on Sunset Blvd that use to be the infamous Black Cat Pub in the 1960s which started the modern gay rights movement several years before Stonewall with riots from west coast drag queens.
Club Fuck was one of LA´s most notorious nightclub´s --- Cliff & Miguel were the masterminds behind it. Cliff and I were quite close as we were two demented queens. Cliff and Ron Athey who was an original member of the First Family of Fuck were best girlfriends. Both Cliff and Miguel died of Mrs. AIDS in the 1990s.
I had a crush on Jimmy back in the mid 1980s when he was going out with Jeff Gardner aka Buzz. I used both of them in a fashon show at the old Lhasa Club on Hudson and Santa Monica Blvd below photographer Herb Ritt´s famous Hollywood studio. Jimmy and Abel Villareal had also helped me with my home art gallery HAG in the later 1980s and he was a regular at HAG openings and my monthly club event Cafe HAG at Cafe Kafka a Slovakian Restaurant in Hollywood.
Jimmy was very sweet and muscular who later had a series of celebrated hunky black lovers that included strapping GoGo boy Kelvin, who worked with me at UCLA´s Placement & Career Planning Center, also a former Olympic ice skater who skated for either the IceCapedes or Holiday on Ice and had one of the most bubbly rear ends I have ever seen. The last lover that I saw Jimmy with regularly was a law student and a true sex champion who went by the name of Huggy Bear.
In later years we had a bit of a falling out----dragqueens are unforgiving when feeling slighted, add to that my Mexican heritage of grudge holding and well you get the picture . . . but I´d like to remember Jimmy Smits/James Stone when he was young and eager beaver to be part of a burgeoning underground scene.
Friday, January 25, 2013
WOULD YOU?
That fugly Quentin Tarantino didnt invite me to any screenings of his new film Django Unchained or send me a screener so i had to do the unthinkable and go and actually pay money to see the flicker.
I waited till Tuesday when its half price
matinee as I hate paying to see stupid Hollywood
movies. I remember when Mr. Tarantino
was going out with comedienne Margaret Cho. Margaret has weird taste in men. I couldn´t imagine performing fellatio on Mr.
Tarantino. Yuck!
His film is actually quite entertaining---the first 40 minutes or so, but then it kind of goes on way too
long. I had to go to the bathroom twice during the screening. The film has been criticized for its violence,
but I found that the violence was very cartoony like Wyle E. Coyote with
gallons of orange/red fake blood spurting about. Great seeing the original Django Mr. Franco
Nero who is still quite sexxxxy. The
best part of the film was the cameos by
Russ & Amber Tamblyn, Robert Carradine, Michael Parks, Tom Wopat,
James Russo, James Remar, Don Stroud, Don Johnson, Ted Neely(Jesus Christ
Superstar) and my good friend from Los
Angeles the talented actor Dennis Christopher(Breaking Away,Chariots of Fire).
Please check out my zany radio interview with the wonderful Manuel
Schubert of Filmhighlights Magazine. Click link below:
http://www.mixcloud.com/filmanzeiger/rising-stars-falling-stars-with-vaginal-davis-january-2013/The Berlinale is just a step away. One of the highlights for Forum Expanded is the return of Isabella Rosellini with a pre-qual to her Green Porno shorts. Lots of other surprises but I won´t reveal them here you just have to wait.
John Cameron Mitchell is coming to the Berlinale and bringing a bit of New York Greenwich Village with him with his Mattachine Dance Party on Feb 14th.
http://www.facebook.com/events/414107002001510/
Ta for now!
Friday, January 18, 2013
BERLIN NEANDERPLATZ
For those of you visiting Berlin looking for something off the beaten path to do below are some hot little items that may float your proverbiliac boateng
DANCING WITH WORDS a Weekly Writing Workshop at the Kotti-Shop
by Amelia Bande
8 sessions begin January 29th /
Every Tuesday from 19:00 to 21:00
All writers and their unique styles are welcome:
Poets, Narrative, Broken Language, Essays, Scripts & Plays, Lyrics for Music.
No previous experience required.
Language: English, but you can write in any language you want.
Register early, there is a limited number of participants.
at the Kotti-Shop - Adalberstr. 4 - www.kotti-shop.net
50 € for all 8 sessions.
Contact me with any questions: ameliabande77@gmail.com
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 powerful 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 8 weeks of hard work mutating into a fun and experimental choreography of words.
At the end of the workshop we will produce a printed anthology of the texts written during this time in collaboration with Copyroboter, the Kotti-Shop's print workshop.
"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.
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Other upcoming Kotti-Shop events are:
Samstag 9. Januar - Copyroboter Zine Workshop - 12-18:00
Mitwoch 30. Januar - ANABLOG (Print Workshop) as part of Post-digital Publishing Workshop: DIY Publishing, Transmediale 2013 BWPWAP - 17-20:00
Samstag 9. Februar 2013 - GET DONE: Tape Bar celebrates the Chinese New Year with the arrival of the Black Snake & Laura Bande - from 20:00
**
The delightful Paula Winkler of Hugs and Kisses Magazine is in a group show that opens next week. Below are details:
I´m happy to invite you to Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin where I will show my work Exceptional Encounters.
Opening on Friday, January 25 at 6 pm at Galerie Tanja Wagner, Pohlstraße 64, 10785 Berlin Schöneberg.
www.tanjawagner.com
For those of you visiting Berlin looking for something off the beaten path to do below are some hot little items that may float your proverbiliac boateng
DANCING WITH WORDS a Weekly Writing Workshop at the Kotti-Shop
by Amelia Bande
8 sessions begin January 29th /
Every Tuesday from 19:00 to 21:00
All writers and their unique styles are welcome:
Poets, Narrative, Broken Language, Essays, Scripts & Plays, Lyrics for Music.
No previous experience required.
Language: English, but you can write in any language you want.
Register early, there is a limited number of participants.
at the Kotti-Shop - Adalberstr. 4 - www.kotti-shop.net
50 € for all 8 sessions.
Contact me with any questions: ameliabande77@gmail.com
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 powerful 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 8 weeks of hard work mutating into a fun and experimental choreography of words.
At the end of the workshop we will produce a printed anthology of the texts written during this time in collaboration with Copyroboter, the Kotti-Shop's print workshop.
"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.
**
Other upcoming Kotti-Shop events are:
Samstag 9. Januar - Copyroboter Zine Workshop - 12-18:00
Mitwoch 30. Januar - ANABLOG (Print Workshop) as part of Post-digital Publishing Workshop: DIY Publishing, Transmediale 2013 BWPWAP - 17-20:00
Samstag 9. Februar 2013 - GET DONE: Tape Bar celebrates the Chinese New Year with the arrival of the Black Snake & Laura Bande - from 20:00
**
The delightful Paula Winkler of Hugs and Kisses Magazine is in a group show that opens next week. Below are details:
I´m happy to invite you to Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin where I will show my work Exceptional Encounters.
Opening on Friday, January 25 at 6 pm at Galerie Tanja Wagner, Pohlstraße 64, 10785 Berlin Schöneberg.
www.tanjawagner.com
Monday, January 14, 2013
DAS DESASTER NIMMT KEIN ENDE
As most of you know I don´t have a computer anymore so my blog posts are going to be somewhat irregular. The internet cafe closest to my flat doesn´t keep their machines in such good running order so cutting and pasting is sometimes quite difficult so please be patient with me when posting items sent to me from a third party.
Couldn´t recopy and post the release sent to me so I am paraphrasing a bit, and I also missed the deadline for the opening but want to tell those of you who will be in New York to go see my former student Jonathan Berger´s brilliant show "On Creating Reality, By Andy Kaufman" which runs from Jan 12 to Feb 16th at Maccarone Inc. Gallery 630 Greenwich Street New York, New York 10014. The show will feature an ever changing array of live guests from Kaufman´s life so you need to visit the show often.
As most of you know I don´t have a computer anymore so my blog posts are going to be somewhat irregular. The internet cafe closest to my flat doesn´t keep their machines in such good running order so cutting and pasting is sometimes quite difficult so please be patient with me when posting items sent to me from a third party.
Couldn´t recopy and post the release sent to me so I am paraphrasing a bit, and I also missed the deadline for the opening but want to tell those of you who will be in New York to go see my former student Jonathan Berger´s brilliant show "On Creating Reality, By Andy Kaufman" which runs from Jan 12 to Feb 16th at Maccarone Inc. Gallery 630 Greenwich Street New York, New York 10014. The show will feature an ever changing array of live guests from Kaufman´s life so you need to visit the show often.
Sunday, January 13, 2013
GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTLER UND TECHNIK
Had a lovely birthday breaky with the handsomest man in all of Europa Uli Ziemons and his
beautiful girlfriend Juliane. They are Berlins hottest young power couple. Joining us at
East London-God Save Brit Food was writer Travis Jeppeson just back from a long visit in the
States with his patrician parents. Travis was also in Los Angeles taking meetings with film
directors who want to bring his novel Wolf at the Door to the silver screen. Travis also has
a new book coming out on Semio Texte.
After breaky I rushed across town to Susanne Sachße's compound to borrow some filmic
reading material for an essay I am writing for another art catalogue. Susanne prepared a
scrumpteous feast for bruncheon which included minced meats stuffed in savoy cabbage, quayle beans and bacon bits, sun dried tomatoes, dill, onion, parsely, sweat potato mousse nestled
in fresh herbs & saffron butter. This was all complimented with a rote begge-apple feta
salad. Beyond lecher smecher!!!! Joining us for luncheon and gossip session was film
historian Marc Siegel.
Later in the evening i ran into Susanne and Marc again at Daniel Hendrickson's littlebirthday soiree at his Neu Kölln manner where i got to hear all about what is planned for
the Berlinale's Forum Expanded from Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus. I am not
going to give anything away but I will say that one should expect the unexpectedly sublime
this year. Enjoying Champagne lather and snacks Nanna Heidenreich, DJane Olga Damnitz,
Angela Anderson who constructs most of the installations for Forum Expanded, set designer
Senol Senturk, and ItaloGerman fashion guru Piero Bellomo.
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
FRAUEN BONUS
Someone just asked me if i had seen the Wachowski´s film Cloud Atlas. I saw it at a screening ages ago but I forgot to write my comments about it. As most of you know I have a history with Ms. Lana Wachowski who use to be Larry Wachowski when she was a man. Larry was a top client of my dominatrix alter ego Mistress Veronika V’Interest way back in the 1990s. I use to work for the West Coast House of Domination run by the highly skilled and talented German Dom Mistress Ilsa Strix. To make a long story short Mistress Ilsa divorced her F2M husband Jake, who is now known as Buck Angel, the legendary pornkingpin and “Man with a Pussy” and took up with film director Larry Wachowski helping Mr. Wachowski discover that he was a lesbian woman trapped in the body of a nerdy film director.
Cloud Atlas is a very ambitious undertaking and sometimes works quite well in its humorous section involving Jim Broadbent and some other elderly thespians. I am not a fan of Tom Hanks and no matter the amount of prosthetic make-up applied he always looks like Tom Hanks. Having caucasion actors made up to look Asian was a huge mistake and is very distracting. In all the futuristic scenes were the least convincing, but I must say I liked this version of the future better then anything behind the dorky universe of The Matrix franchise.
Went to the birthday celebration of Uli Ziemons of Forum Expanded at a cute little bar in Kreuzberg called Trödler at 123 Dresdener Strasse. Very cute cozy evening with the ultra handsome Mr. Ziemons who is known as one of the best looking men in all of Europa. Uli was in fine form with his lovely girlfriend Juliana, junior curator Miss Nadja Talmi of Haus of World Cultures who just came back from a 2 month holiday in Indonesia with her beau. Canadian Mark Pennock was also on hand having just come back to Berlin from his Canuckian homelands. I had an early morning meeting so I had to leave the festivities before things got crowded and the room full of cigarette smoke.
***
For those of you feeling in a generous mode please click on the link below and make a tax deductible donation to Participan Inc. Gallery in New York on the Lower East Side. It’s a not-for-profit gallery that needs your help to keep bringing to Manhattan the kind of crazy art that the commercial galleries won´t touch. Participant is where I had my first major solo show in November that almost didn’t happen because of Hurricane Sandy and also Kembra of Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black did her solo show Fuck Island and lots of other outsider artists that Lia and Participant Inc support. So please be kind those of you of much means and deep pockets, you will reap many spiritual and sexual rewards when you are all dried up and nobody wants you.
GRATITUDE/
Our first decade of distinctive, in-depth collaborations with artists would not have been possible without you. THANK YOU.
PERSEVERANCE/
You can help us meet new challenges by making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution:
http://participantinc.org/donate/
REFLECTION/
Jeffrey Gibson receives 2012 Harpo grant:
http://www.harpofoundation.org/jeffrey-gibson/
"One way to sample a derangement of ordinary consciousness would be to subject yourself to Rose Kallal’s Start Begin Feel Again.” --New York Times
Kembra Pfahler, Fuck Island: "a cri de coeur against all things polite, conformist, and safe." --The New Yorker
HAG–small, contemporary, haggard: "a fun-house tableau full of dizzying, pervy revelations--just like Vaginal Davis herself."
--Artforum Critic's Pick
andy kaurman's 99 cent tour
February 12-24, 2013
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/news/2012-12-13/andy-kaufman-maccarone/
IT'S NOT TOO LATE/
http://participantinc.org/donate/
Someone just asked me if i had seen the Wachowski´s film Cloud Atlas. I saw it at a screening ages ago but I forgot to write my comments about it. As most of you know I have a history with Ms. Lana Wachowski who use to be Larry Wachowski when she was a man. Larry was a top client of my dominatrix alter ego Mistress Veronika V’Interest way back in the 1990s. I use to work for the West Coast House of Domination run by the highly skilled and talented German Dom Mistress Ilsa Strix. To make a long story short Mistress Ilsa divorced her F2M husband Jake, who is now known as Buck Angel, the legendary pornkingpin and “Man with a Pussy” and took up with film director Larry Wachowski helping Mr. Wachowski discover that he was a lesbian woman trapped in the body of a nerdy film director.
Cloud Atlas is a very ambitious undertaking and sometimes works quite well in its humorous section involving Jim Broadbent and some other elderly thespians. I am not a fan of Tom Hanks and no matter the amount of prosthetic make-up applied he always looks like Tom Hanks. Having caucasion actors made up to look Asian was a huge mistake and is very distracting. In all the futuristic scenes were the least convincing, but I must say I liked this version of the future better then anything behind the dorky universe of The Matrix franchise.
Went to the birthday celebration of Uli Ziemons of Forum Expanded at a cute little bar in Kreuzberg called Trödler at 123 Dresdener Strasse. Very cute cozy evening with the ultra handsome Mr. Ziemons who is known as one of the best looking men in all of Europa. Uli was in fine form with his lovely girlfriend Juliana, junior curator Miss Nadja Talmi of Haus of World Cultures who just came back from a 2 month holiday in Indonesia with her beau. Canadian Mark Pennock was also on hand having just come back to Berlin from his Canuckian homelands. I had an early morning meeting so I had to leave the festivities before things got crowded and the room full of cigarette smoke.
***
For those of you feeling in a generous mode please click on the link below and make a tax deductible donation to Participan Inc. Gallery in New York on the Lower East Side. It’s a not-for-profit gallery that needs your help to keep bringing to Manhattan the kind of crazy art that the commercial galleries won´t touch. Participant is where I had my first major solo show in November that almost didn’t happen because of Hurricane Sandy and also Kembra of Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black did her solo show Fuck Island and lots of other outsider artists that Lia and Participant Inc support. So please be kind those of you of much means and deep pockets, you will reap many spiritual and sexual rewards when you are all dried up and nobody wants you.
GRATITUDE/
Our first decade of distinctive, in-depth collaborations with artists would not have been possible without you. THANK YOU.
PERSEVERANCE/
You can help us meet new challenges by making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution:
http://participantinc.org/donate/
REFLECTION/
Jeffrey Gibson receives 2012 Harpo grant:
http://www.harpofoundation.org/jeffrey-gibson/
"One way to sample a derangement of ordinary consciousness would be to subject yourself to Rose Kallal’s Start Begin Feel Again.” --New York Times
Kembra Pfahler, Fuck Island: "a cri de coeur against all things polite, conformist, and safe." --The New Yorker
HAG–small, contemporary, haggard: "a fun-house tableau full of dizzying, pervy revelations--just like Vaginal Davis herself."
--Artforum Critic's Pick
andy kaurman's 99 cent tour
February 12-24, 2013
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/news/2012-12-13/andy-kaufman-maccarone/
IT'S NOT TOO LATE/
http://participantinc.org/donate/
Monday, December 31, 2012
MORE VAGINAL LESS DAVIS
Had a phun breakfast at East London-God Bless Brit Food on the Mehringdamn Corridor with my lesben girlfriend Anna Mülter the other morn. This place is my favourite eatery in Berlin at the moment and I highly recommend it if you are visiting.
In the evening I caught up with Anna again at Susanne Sachsse´s yearly holiday gathering at her spacious compound in the East. Frau Sachsse is the most amazing party hostess in the world and one extroidinaire gourmand cook, and to be invited to her famous table is to enter a rarefied world of delight. She prepared quite a feast this year and i wolfed down with gusto three large plates. Film historian Marc Siegel was also on hand being charming with his Catskills sense of humour. It was lovely seeing the creme de la creme of Berlin society including sexy and stylish Hannah Hurtzig of Mobile Academy, the sophisticated and stately curator Dorothee Wenner with her dapper escort Mickey, Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus who will spend the Silvester at an exclusive Spa at the Baltic Sea recovering from Berlinale Forum Expanded madness. Miss Stefanie is the hardest working woman in Europe so she deserves a nice end of year treat. Stefanie is always taking good care of her Vagimule doll, and gave me a wonderful large designer suitcase that is perfect for all my big trips for 2013 which includes location scouting for a commission performance piece in China.
Also seen at this most sublime of holiday festivities: Booty gal Nanna Heidenreich(who brought some divine deserts to the party) and DJane Olga Damnitz, "It Girl" Katrin Dodd,the sensational video artist Phil Collins aka Re(Phil) with his Serbian lover Sinisha, stage designers Neboja & Senol Senturk with pretty girlfriend Ruta, muscular Norweigan stage director Vegard Venge with stage designer and costumer Ida Müller, dreamy scholar Matthias Haase who is now teaching in Leipzig after years in Basel,Muslim warrior Daniel Hendrickson with his smoking hot Italian husband Piero Bellomo, Arab/German actor Constantine Achmed Bürger with casting agent Britt Beyer, international art shtar Yael Bartana with artist girlfriend Saskia Wendend, Susanne´s adoreable twins Richard & Salome Gersh and Richard´s sweet actress girlfriend Vicki, Guillaume Henry of the House of Carven with his beau Olivier Rousteing of Balmain who brought along Antonio Berardi, Erdem Moralioglu and French journalist Romain Dauriac who is rumoured to be Vaginal Davis´new lover but don´t believe everything you read.
Tim Blue of CHEAP kollective who is now living in his hometown of Portland, Oregon called to chit chat and give everyone holiday greetings. It was wonderful hearing from the old skallywag who sounds like he is in good spirits back in the old US of A---- KKK.
Friday, December 28, 2012
ESSIG REINIGER
The wonderful young artist Katja von Hellsdorf of the art/music group LeiseyLento came by the Cheese Endique Trifecta in the Rote Insel to make platinum sketches of the Vagimule doll for a new art project. Miss Katja who was one of my Weissensee Art Akademy students years ago is a very prolific artiste. We had a right girlish time together and she brought offering to la diva of non-alcoholic Champagne, a signed special edition, beauty products and cosmetics. My glorious children know how to take proper care of me. Afterwards we had a lively luncheon at the Vietnamese boite on Akazien Strasse Pho-viet.
Later in the evening I whisked off to KreuzKölln—Sonnen Allee to be exact, where I was invited to a Greek passive feast of ages by my sweet bubble butt and lovesexy´line Little Alex of Macedonia. Alex was with his handsome Israeli modern dancer lover Assaf Hochman, who I haven´t seen in months as he has been on tour throught Europe. Herr Hochman has one of the humpiest bodies in Berlin, and is the perfect piece of eyecandy besides being a very genuine young man. Alex & Assaf are two of my all-time favourite children in Deutschland.
After supper Alex screened a delightful shortfilm he made at his parents summer estate in Greece featuring my gorgeous Los Ang daughter, the junior art shtar ZacKary Drucker. Little Alex is a top film student here in Berlin who makes his professors proud as he lives and breathes the cinema.. He pops out a myriad of film projects that look slick and professional thanks to his topnotch director of photography Tim Schenkl and solid work habits. I hope he will start concentrating on making more playful short subjects like the one with ZacKary that are way under five minutes. I´d love to see him break his hommage pattern and develop his own style and voice as he has a great eye for detail and surface.
During dessert and coffee Little Alex showed another short film, this one a highly ambitious take on Luis Bunuel´s Simon in the Desert starring Uli Ziemons, the handsome young associate curator with the Berlinale´s Forum Expanded. Uli is marvellous in this flicker and photographs beautifully looking like Paramount Pictures silent screen male ingénue Richard Arlen at times.
Wouldn´t it be a hoot if Little Alex skipped the arty farty and went directly to the small screen. He´d be perfect as a dancing coach for the American spectacular Dancing with the Stars. With a face of a demi-god, his mad ballroom dancing champion skillz, and a tight tiny body complete with plump endowment he´d score a number one hit swivelling those saucy hips on a glossy TV dance floor.
The wonderful young artist Katja von Hellsdorf of the art/music group LeiseyLento came by the Cheese Endique Trifecta in the Rote Insel to make platinum sketches of the Vagimule doll for a new art project. Miss Katja who was one of my Weissensee Art Akademy students years ago is a very prolific artiste. We had a right girlish time together and she brought offering to la diva of non-alcoholic Champagne, a signed special edition, beauty products and cosmetics. My glorious children know how to take proper care of me. Afterwards we had a lively luncheon at the Vietnamese boite on Akazien Strasse Pho-viet.
Later in the evening I whisked off to KreuzKölln—Sonnen Allee to be exact, where I was invited to a Greek passive feast of ages by my sweet bubble butt and lovesexy´line Little Alex of Macedonia. Alex was with his handsome Israeli modern dancer lover Assaf Hochman, who I haven´t seen in months as he has been on tour throught Europe. Herr Hochman has one of the humpiest bodies in Berlin, and is the perfect piece of eyecandy besides being a very genuine young man. Alex & Assaf are two of my all-time favourite children in Deutschland.
After supper Alex screened a delightful shortfilm he made at his parents summer estate in Greece featuring my gorgeous Los Ang daughter, the junior art shtar ZacKary Drucker. Little Alex is a top film student here in Berlin who makes his professors proud as he lives and breathes the cinema.. He pops out a myriad of film projects that look slick and professional thanks to his topnotch director of photography Tim Schenkl and solid work habits. I hope he will start concentrating on making more playful short subjects like the one with ZacKary that are way under five minutes. I´d love to see him break his hommage pattern and develop his own style and voice as he has a great eye for detail and surface.
During dessert and coffee Little Alex showed another short film, this one a highly ambitious take on Luis Bunuel´s Simon in the Desert starring Uli Ziemons, the handsome young associate curator with the Berlinale´s Forum Expanded. Uli is marvellous in this flicker and photographs beautifully looking like Paramount Pictures silent screen male ingénue Richard Arlen at times.
Wouldn´t it be a hoot if Little Alex skipped the arty farty and went directly to the small screen. He´d be perfect as a dancing coach for the American spectacular Dancing with the Stars. With a face of a demi-god, his mad ballroom dancing champion skillz, and a tight tiny body complete with plump endowment he´d score a number one hit swivelling those saucy hips on a glossy TV dance floor.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
EMBALMING THE QUEEN
Had a lovely pre Christmas Judy Garland Sunday at Arsenal Inst für film und video kunst watching the restored version of A Star is Born 1954 directed by faggots faggot George Cukor starring La Judy, James Mason, Jack Carson, and a sexy/dorky Tom Noonan. This is the second year of spending the holidays ala Garlandishral. We had a nice little group with us that included the Arsenal´s beautiful Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, gorgeous Susanne Sachsse leader of CHEAP kollective, humpy film historian Marc Siegel, Skandinavian Muslim jihadist Daniel Hendrickson with his juicy Italian lover Piero Bellomo. Also spotted in the audience a lot of visiting Americans on parade and luscious curator Dorothea Wenner. After the film Daniel and I were treated to a comfy taxi ride by Frau Schulte Strathaus to the Barbi Deinhoff to attend the birthday celebration of artist Angela Melitopolous and bbooks accolade Micho. Everyone at the Deinhoff was in good holiday cheer and in a festive mood. Saw bootysexy Nanna Heidenreich, DJane Olga Damnitz, Senol Senturk with his hot girlfriend Ruth, the divine Allessio, Katja of bbooks, the sweet JewFro´d radio hostess from that station that is located inside the Pregnant Oyester aka Haus of World Cultures and many others too numerous to mention. Didn´t stay long as I couldn´t handle the cigarette smoke.
Christmas Eve was Pierro Bellomos annual feast of the Magi which was served in several radiant courses that included a Ravioli with porcini mushroom starter, SuSu Salmon entre, brussel sprouts galeon and gratin dauphinois with pomegranite seedlings. For desert a sparkling huckabee gallette unformed Apple WhyPie with Limon slices and whipped vaginal creme. Gastro delecti!!!! This year´s feast was an intimate gathering consisting of the Vagimule Doll in all her glory, Pierro, Daniel “Haji” Hendrickson and Tante Ingo the famous therapist to the gay shtars of Berlin. Pierro loves Christmas and delights in giving his favorite womanly doll a truckload of designer gifts including beauty products, make-up, winter warm clothing that included some 20 pairs of cashmere socks as I am always running out of socks. Where do they disapear to?
After a week or so of freezing temperatures and snow, its almost balmy outside and in Bavaria its even warmer. Chock it up to global warming.
Berlin during the holidays is pretty quiet as most German go back home to wherever they originally came from to be with MaMa and PaPa, and all the stores including the supermarkets are shut down solid which can be a bit of a drag. On Dec 28th they start selling fireworks so the city will begin to start sounding like a warzone with the cherry bombs and other very loud unruly firecrackers and fireworks which I simply hate. Why can´t people just watch Judy Garland movies to celebrate Christmas and New Year´s and forgo parties and loudness, eh?
Had a lovely pre Christmas Judy Garland Sunday at Arsenal Inst für film und video kunst watching the restored version of A Star is Born 1954 directed by faggots faggot George Cukor starring La Judy, James Mason, Jack Carson, and a sexy/dorky Tom Noonan. This is the second year of spending the holidays ala Garlandishral. We had a nice little group with us that included the Arsenal´s beautiful Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, gorgeous Susanne Sachsse leader of CHEAP kollective, humpy film historian Marc Siegel, Skandinavian Muslim jihadist Daniel Hendrickson with his juicy Italian lover Piero Bellomo. Also spotted in the audience a lot of visiting Americans on parade and luscious curator Dorothea Wenner. After the film Daniel and I were treated to a comfy taxi ride by Frau Schulte Strathaus to the Barbi Deinhoff to attend the birthday celebration of artist Angela Melitopolous and bbooks accolade Micho. Everyone at the Deinhoff was in good holiday cheer and in a festive mood. Saw bootysexy Nanna Heidenreich, DJane Olga Damnitz, Senol Senturk with his hot girlfriend Ruth, the divine Allessio, Katja of bbooks, the sweet JewFro´d radio hostess from that station that is located inside the Pregnant Oyester aka Haus of World Cultures and many others too numerous to mention. Didn´t stay long as I couldn´t handle the cigarette smoke.
Christmas Eve was Pierro Bellomos annual feast of the Magi which was served in several radiant courses that included a Ravioli with porcini mushroom starter, SuSu Salmon entre, brussel sprouts galeon and gratin dauphinois with pomegranite seedlings. For desert a sparkling huckabee gallette unformed Apple WhyPie with Limon slices and whipped vaginal creme. Gastro delecti!!!! This year´s feast was an intimate gathering consisting of the Vagimule Doll in all her glory, Pierro, Daniel “Haji” Hendrickson and Tante Ingo the famous therapist to the gay shtars of Berlin. Pierro loves Christmas and delights in giving his favorite womanly doll a truckload of designer gifts including beauty products, make-up, winter warm clothing that included some 20 pairs of cashmere socks as I am always running out of socks. Where do they disapear to?
After a week or so of freezing temperatures and snow, its almost balmy outside and in Bavaria its even warmer. Chock it up to global warming.
Berlin during the holidays is pretty quiet as most German go back home to wherever they originally came from to be with MaMa and PaPa, and all the stores including the supermarkets are shut down solid which can be a bit of a drag. On Dec 28th they start selling fireworks so the city will begin to start sounding like a warzone with the cherry bombs and other very loud unruly firecrackers and fireworks which I simply hate. Why can´t people just watch Judy Garland movies to celebrate Christmas and New Year´s and forgo parties and loudness, eh?
Saturday, December 22, 2012
ZEIT DER UNSCHULD
Had a delightful dinner with Daniel Hendrickson,the Skandinavian Muslim at a 24hour Kufta joint on Kott Busser Damn where we were served by a cocky pud of a waiter giving us big dique arrogance in spaids. Then it was off to Arsenal Inst für film und video kunst to see a program of films by legends legend and experimental feminist film godessa Sheila McLaughlin. Ms. McLaughlin was looking lovely and relaxed as she spoke before screening her short subject Inside Out 1978 with its major Ms. gorgeously stark patina. My favorite segment of the film features a Linda Blair-- Sarah: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic look-a-like caught in a perspiration loop.
The two narrative feature films She Must Be Seeing Things 1987 and Committed 1980-84 co-directed by Lynn Tillman where Ms. McLaughlin portrays the rebellious film startlet of 1930s Hollywood Frances Farmer are notable for their complete aesthetic rejection of typical narrative flow & ebb and the favouring of dark, moody and lingering set pieces. Like her sister in the cloth Lizzie Borden, I love how Ms. McLaughlin cares not a tinker´s damn for polished acting skillz.
Wanted to stay for the Q&A with Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus & Heinz Emigholz, but I had to rush off to Kreuzberg to see my Malmö Art Akademy student´s performance with her art/music project Easter. Seen in the audience at the McLaughlin Kino 1 event: lovesexy composer and klavier dreamgirl Eunice Martin, handsome Markus Ruff of Living Archive Project, careerist Israeli filmmaker and bootypie Lior Shamriz, video artist Isabel Spengler and the director of the Klaus Nomi documentary The Nomi Song Andrew Horn.
Arrived at Lucia on Oranienberg Strasse in time to see my former student Stine perform abstractly with her very beautiful beau as part of a record release party for their latest album. It was almost as if I was seeing a live musical Sheila McLaughlin film unfold before my thyroid eyes. A very transporting evening as the bands dark wave soundscapes and monotonous singing stylings are quite infectious with its repitition for emphasis. I am expecting great things from Ms. Stine and her Easter Parade on the rote gravure.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
TAXIDERMIA TANTRUM
Went to the Kotti Shop at Adelberger Str 4 last night.
The place is the studio of my former
Weissensee Art Akademy student Annette Knol. Its located in the storefront of one of those
block tower Turkish buildings from the 1980s at KottBusser Damn. I had the hardest time locating the place
which features occasional art events and performances. The art/music group LeiseyLento featuring
Katja von Hellsdorf (nee Maya) and Argentine Cristian Forte performed
marvelously and kept the large audience in the intimate space deeply riveted to
their alchemic soundscapes. There were
moments that transported me back to 1977 LA punk rock heyday and underground
hangouts like The Hideaway on Traction Avenue even though LeiseyLento employ
acoustic guitar, loops and feral saw. At
one point both Katja and Cristian seemed to channel former Cockette Fayette
Hauser during her post punk incarnation in the band Interpol at The Brave Dog in Little Tokyo. LeiseyLento singing “The City of My Dreams”
harkened to Interpol´s ”The Girl Who Shot Andy Warhol” Magnificent.
My mother Mary Magdelene DuPlantier barely made it to the new
century. She died June of
2000. On New Year´s day 2000 when my
mother was in relative good health she requested two very odd things from me. She wanted me to get her some frog legs to
eat, and to give her a beating from a switch made from a tree branch.
My mother never resorted to corporal
punishment with me, though I deserved a good thrashing many times for my
insolent behavior as a strong willed child.
She actually never raised her voice to anyone and barely spoke above a whisper, but when I
was being naughty she would calmly tell me to go out into the back yard and
bring back a tree branch to make into the dreaded switch. We would usually start carving it together
and it would difuse the situation and the said punishing item would never be
used.
Well on New Year´s day 2000 I went into
my mother´s yard of her dingbat mid century apartment building in Hollywood that my sister Teresita also lived in and calmly started
looking for an appropriate tree branch.
Out near the kidney shaped swimming pool were several young, humpy Latino
men sunning themselves in the 70 degree plus winter weather. The landlord of my mother´s apartment
building became enamored with juicy Latino men after his wife died, and one of
the men gladly helped me carve a switch using his Swiss Army knife. It was very nice watching him work
experiencing the flexing of his pectorals and rock hard solid abs. My sister Teresita being a fag hag was quite friendly with all the youthful Latino men in her building who didn´t seem to have jobs and were always out by the tiny pool. I suspected that the elderly white landlord of the building was keeping all of these boys as his personal harem of able bodied concubines. Of course thats just conjecture.
By the time I brought my mother the switch
she had forgotten about the frog legs ---thank god because that would have meant quite a
trek by bus into deepest darkest South Central Los Angeles to find the appropriate soul food establishment that
carried this unique culinary dish.
***
I have a picture on my refrigerator of Surfer Mike,
the beautiful blondine bubble butt drug dealer to the Silverlake 40. Mike was one of those Silverlake characters
who appeared out of nowere in the mid 90s, but was actually quite sweet, intriguing and charming. Surfer Mike
was a good time Charlie with a sweet disposition and ran what I gather was quite a
success operation as a narcotics kingpin mainly supplying drugs to the gays of
Silverlake and Echo Park. Being someone who knows nothing about drugs as my drug of choice has always been alcohol. From the grapevine I heard that Mike was the overseer of the homos faction while Ms. Carrie French took care of the east Hollywood bohemian straights. Of course this was all a longtime ago so who knows what its like in Silverlake and the Eastside now.
Mike owned several houses around the Sunset Junction. One time at
Club Sucker we even shared a smooch, and his lips were soft and
entrancing. He told me that he only
liked Middle Eastern or Armenian men and many times at my Sunday afternoon punk
rock beerbust I would see him in the company of such said men. One time I went to the discount Tuesday
evening at Midtown Spa the bathhouse that caters to Latino, Black and urban men
and their admirers that is located off of skid row and Central Avenue in Downtown LA. I was shocked and pleasantly surprised to see
Surfer Mike come out of a room with a big strapping thugzilla jubas jubilee black man with his hair in cornrow braids dripping semen from his dinosauric member.
I followed the pair to the showers and Mike seemed punch drunk from his
heavy bout of sexing from the black stallion.
After his negro paramour left him in the open shower to take in the wet sauna, I approached Mike and he was stunned by
my presence and was trying to clumsily cover himself with a towel, but it was too late I
could see it all in its golden fury, and Surfer Mike had a lovely muscular frame, tiny waist and a rather plump
flaccid penis. Like so many men of his
generation he wore baggy clothing most of the time that camouflouged his body, but seeing him
naked was a joy complete. I didn’t want
to embarrass him further so when he made the lame excuse that he was at the
bathhouse only because his shower was broke I just accepted that and let him
nervously go on his merry way. He headed
towards the locker room area on the second floor so I gathered he had his fill of sex partners and was
going home. About an hour later I was
ready to leave and noticed Surfer Mike coming out of another room this time
with a young magnificently handsome and
well whung Latino man.
Don´t you just love it when I get all Proustian and start
doing my version of rememberance of things past?
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
WENN DER
KUCHEN SPRICHT,HABEN DIE KRÜMEL PAUSE
Because of
my background having worked for the New Frontiers section of the Sundance Film Festival
and at the Arsenal Inst für film und video kunst people say that i only like
obscure movies or way out experimental films. That is far from true. The other day a friend visiting Berlin asked
me to go with him to see the most mainstream of movies namely Skyfall the 007
film starring Daniel Craig and i loved that it was pure adreny escapism. It is hard for
me to think of any James Bond other then Mr. Sean Connery, and a blondine Bond
is a bit hard to swallowkin, but the rough faced Mr. Craig has a Napoleanic
macha quality that really does something to me. He is one hot tiny pud. He must be really short in person to photograph so tiny. Could he be tinier then Lady Tom Cruise? Maybe.
The best part of the film was the
geniustrata lovemaking scene between Craig and Javier Badem as a queeny villainess. Did i see Mr.Badem sneak a tweak of Mr. Craig´s pert bullet nips, or was that just my
imagination?
The two exotic bond girls
were also quite good, and I adore Dame Judy Dench who is quite a handsome
woman.
Kathleen
Hanna of Le Tigre and Kenny Mellman of Kiki & Herb fame and their new music
project Julie Ruin have a CD that is available at T. Cooper readings and
through McSweeny's book club.
"A
collection of *mostly* original songs by *entirely* original
artists—all
inspired by the book—is also being released. Limited
edition CD
available through McSweeney’s Book Club and at author
events (CD
info below)."
I sing lead
on a nutters alternative version of their song „Girls Like Us“. I don´t know if
they used my crazed additional lyrics which i added or not, but if you come
across it check it out and tell me what you think. Special shout out to Felix Knoke of
Tenderloin who recorded my vocals at his home studio here in Berlin and sent it
to Kenny in New york.
Finished
reading the book After Claude by Iris Owen that Mark Morgan Perez gave me. It is a fun and zany read which i utterly
adored.
Met with a
cute young fan who took me to luncheon at Santa Marie, the Mexican boite in
Kreuzberg. Hadn´t eaten there in ages and the bartender remembered me. Don´t know if thats a good thing or not. Ordered their Guacamole with Chips and the
Ensalada Pera with Shrimps---lecker smecker!!!! Afterwards we had coffee and Margarete kuchen
at the Bierhimmel. Was waited on by a
cute, young German boy with a tight muscular frame who was very accomodating to
say the least.
Monday, December 17, 2012
JE NE JOUE PAS LA TROMPETTE
I love quoting James Baldwin. My secret admirer sent to the Arsenal a wonderful book as a present to the Vagimule Doll. The tome is called Dreaming in French-The Paris Years of Jackie O, Susan Sontag and Angela Davis by Alice Kaplan and I can´t put it down its so electrifying and there are some pics of a young Angela Davis from the early 1960s with a bouffant hairdo that I have never seen before. She looks incredible. I wonder who my secret admirer is. If she reads my blog I just want to say, “Haben sie vielen dank”. I am sure my secret admirer is a wo-man as men are never interested in me.
My brilliant young Malmö Art Academy student Stne O. Midtsaeter is in town with her band Easter who will be performing Thursday at Luzia at Oranienstr 34. Can´t wait to see them. Just watched their video on You Tube for the song Alien Babies which is divine and listened to one of their songs online called Champagne which I also love.
http://easterjesus.bandcamp.com/track/champagne-121212
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2snrHI_qNmI
Rising Stars, Falling Stars-We Must Have Music Sunday night was quite intriguing with a screening of the Argentine film Toca Para Mi. The evening began with my partner in Tammy Grimes Mr. Daniel Hendrickson on piano playing Cholita´s Yo No Soy Puta Soy Princessa. Enjoying la pelicula de Evita- Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus who along with right hand man Uli Ziemons are in the thrall of Forum Expanded Berlinale madness. Miss Stefanie gave the Vagimule a wonderful early Hannukah Kwanza present of stylish matching designer luggage so that when I take my next trip I won´t be looking shabby at the boutique hotel lobbies I seem to inhabit on a regular basis. Incognito checking out the Arsenal was Carnegie Int´l curator Dan Byers with hunky Photios Giovaris of Callicoon Fine Arts who was swooning over Little Alex of Macedonia who was also getting major sex attention from junior art shtar Matthew Brannon. Real life Argentine music and kunstler Cristian Forte and his Leisey Lento partner Katja von Hellsdorf royally held court while enjoying a red vino buzz. Catch Leiseylento Wednesday when they perform at the Kotti Shop. Piero Bellomo of La Colleczione was looking as handsome as ever. Earlier I had breakfast with Pierro Bellomo and Daniel Hendrickson at the new Sonnen Alle boite Bath Medina aka City House from the same people that have the restaurant City Chicken.
Jake the blondine financier from Modesto, CA., who is the nephew of Hollywood director George Lucas and has been living in Berlin for three years was flirting with Ms. Davis along with his pretty Austrian child bride David. Note to men of Berlin. If you want to live a long time on this planet brazenly flirt with Vaginal Davis. Its good for your health and well being.
A publicist for the new film remake of Anna Kerenina starring Kira Knightley emailed me a few days ago to ask if I had gone to the press screening and what did I think of the film. I went to the screening ages ago, and had forgotten to jot down a few lines about the pic so I will remedy the situation by saying that this version is quite a visual treat mainly because of the costumes, set design and the youthful male beauty of Aaron Taylor-Johnson who is this generations Maxwell Caulfield. Not only is the gorgeous manchild British like Mr. Caulfield but he is married to director Sam Taylor Johnson who is some 23 years his senior just like Mr. Caulfield´s significant other Juliet Mills of Nanny & the Professsor fame. Mr. Taylor-Johnson is only 22 and is already the father of two small children.
Once I was on a flight from LA to New York with Miss Juliet Mills, Mr. Maxwell Caulfield and their teenage daughter. Mr. Caulfield spent most of the time in the back galley doing sit ups and push-ups to maintain his bountiful pecs and abs no doubt. Who can forget those classic pics of him from the 80s clad in nothing but red shoes or his shirtless self in the Penelope Spheeris film Boys Next Door along with male ingenue Charlie Sheen.
Miss Mills and her daughter were holy terrors to the trolley dollies on the flight we were on. I guess having once been a big celebrity and having now to fly coach can turn anyone into a madwoman et charliot.
I love quoting James Baldwin. My secret admirer sent to the Arsenal a wonderful book as a present to the Vagimule Doll. The tome is called Dreaming in French-The Paris Years of Jackie O, Susan Sontag and Angela Davis by Alice Kaplan and I can´t put it down its so electrifying and there are some pics of a young Angela Davis from the early 1960s with a bouffant hairdo that I have never seen before. She looks incredible. I wonder who my secret admirer is. If she reads my blog I just want to say, “Haben sie vielen dank”. I am sure my secret admirer is a wo-man as men are never interested in me.
My brilliant young Malmö Art Academy student Stne O. Midtsaeter is in town with her band Easter who will be performing Thursday at Luzia at Oranienstr 34. Can´t wait to see them. Just watched their video on You Tube for the song Alien Babies which is divine and listened to one of their songs online called Champagne which I also love.
http://easterjesus.bandcamp.com/track/champagne-121212
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2snrHI_qNmI
Rising Stars, Falling Stars-We Must Have Music Sunday night was quite intriguing with a screening of the Argentine film Toca Para Mi. The evening began with my partner in Tammy Grimes Mr. Daniel Hendrickson on piano playing Cholita´s Yo No Soy Puta Soy Princessa. Enjoying la pelicula de Evita- Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus who along with right hand man Uli Ziemons are in the thrall of Forum Expanded Berlinale madness. Miss Stefanie gave the Vagimule a wonderful early Hannukah Kwanza present of stylish matching designer luggage so that when I take my next trip I won´t be looking shabby at the boutique hotel lobbies I seem to inhabit on a regular basis. Incognito checking out the Arsenal was Carnegie Int´l curator Dan Byers with hunky Photios Giovaris of Callicoon Fine Arts who was swooning over Little Alex of Macedonia who was also getting major sex attention from junior art shtar Matthew Brannon. Real life Argentine music and kunstler Cristian Forte and his Leisey Lento partner Katja von Hellsdorf royally held court while enjoying a red vino buzz. Catch Leiseylento Wednesday when they perform at the Kotti Shop. Piero Bellomo of La Colleczione was looking as handsome as ever. Earlier I had breakfast with Pierro Bellomo and Daniel Hendrickson at the new Sonnen Alle boite Bath Medina aka City House from the same people that have the restaurant City Chicken.
Jake the blondine financier from Modesto, CA., who is the nephew of Hollywood director George Lucas and has been living in Berlin for three years was flirting with Ms. Davis along with his pretty Austrian child bride David. Note to men of Berlin. If you want to live a long time on this planet brazenly flirt with Vaginal Davis. Its good for your health and well being.
A publicist for the new film remake of Anna Kerenina starring Kira Knightley emailed me a few days ago to ask if I had gone to the press screening and what did I think of the film. I went to the screening ages ago, and had forgotten to jot down a few lines about the pic so I will remedy the situation by saying that this version is quite a visual treat mainly because of the costumes, set design and the youthful male beauty of Aaron Taylor-Johnson who is this generations Maxwell Caulfield. Not only is the gorgeous manchild British like Mr. Caulfield but he is married to director Sam Taylor Johnson who is some 23 years his senior just like Mr. Caulfield´s significant other Juliet Mills of Nanny & the Professsor fame. Mr. Taylor-Johnson is only 22 and is already the father of two small children.
Once I was on a flight from LA to New York with Miss Juliet Mills, Mr. Maxwell Caulfield and their teenage daughter. Mr. Caulfield spent most of the time in the back galley doing sit ups and push-ups to maintain his bountiful pecs and abs no doubt. Who can forget those classic pics of him from the 80s clad in nothing but red shoes or his shirtless self in the Penelope Spheeris film Boys Next Door along with male ingenue Charlie Sheen.
Miss Mills and her daughter were holy terrors to the trolley dollies on the flight we were on. I guess having once been a big celebrity and having now to fly coach can turn anyone into a madwoman et charliot.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
BONFIRE AT THE VANITIES
For those of you visiting Berlina as we are engulfed
in early winter unending snow storms and are looking for something fun and
unusual to go to check out below an opening at Casabaubou the studio of
experimental film legends legend Wilhelm Hein and his art photographer
girlfriend Annette Frick. Also the hot
Berlin band Leiseylento are doing a bunch of local shows and they are not to be
missed as well as one of my Malmö Art Academy students Stine O Midtsaeter who
is in town with her band.
NOCHMAL(VARIATION) DA ICH HÖRTE DASS MAN ANHANG NICHT ÖFFNEN KONNTE !! SORRY
ist es soweit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sonntag 16.12.2012
16 bis 21 Uhr im CASABAUBOU -
Berlin - Wedding - Seestr.107
*MOVING THE UNDERGROUND
*UMZUG VON WILHELM HEIN
*WARUM PALESTINE ANDERS IST von Annette Frick
*THE MEDIUM IS NOT THE MESSAGE von Florian Kramer
*JOHN HEYS TRIFFT TAYLOR MEAD IN LONDON
*UNTERGRUND IN DER DDR :
*GABRIELE STÖTZER'S AKTE UND AKTEN
*THINK FILM BERLIN :
ALLE MANIFESTE UND EINSCHÄTZUNG VON
CARSTEN ZORN
*COLLAGEN WILHELM HEIN
*LE FLAIR DE L'AIR
*ZEICHNUNGEN VON SHIRIN BARTHEL
*KEINE TABUS KEINE ZENSUR ????!!!!???? von Annette Frick
*TRANSGRESSION : THE EXTREME UNDERGROUND BY NICK ZEDD
*MONICA CASANOVA AT ROTTERDAM Fotos Annette Frick
*CHILLEN UND STILLEN
*ERNTEDANK MIT SKULPTUREN VON JULIA PFEIFFER
*ZUR BLAUEN STUNDE VON FELIX PROFOS
*INKLUSIVE DVD VON WILHELM HEIN
"OVO ELLIE UND ANNETTE" MIT MUSIK VON FELIX PROFOS
JENSEITS DER TRAMPELPFADE Nr.13
AUFLAGE 100
NUR AM 16.12. 2012 für 15,- Euro sonst 30,-
ÜBERASCHUNGEN UND LIVE ACTS - FILME - FOTOS - TEXTE - VON
RUVI SIMMONS - SHIRIN BARTHEL - SISSI TAX - EVI EUROPA
-
WILHELM HEIN - JACK SMITH - FELIX PROFOS - ANNETTE
FRICK - u. A
here is the
last newslettre from leiseylento:
dear everybody,
again we are in this part of the year where darkness covers most of the day and the mood is unsteady... and we "latinos" remember sweetly the unbearable heat of south latitudes during the feast times... christmas with 40°C, plastic trees and santa-clauses in their absurdly warm clothes while everyone is sweating!
NOW , we want to CHEER you up with some concerts, come and cuddle in small dark clubs feel warmth in your hearts on the sounds of Leiseylento & Los Mares during these terrible winter nights:
29.11 21h with Los Mares EIS 36 - am Kotti (in front of Möbel Olfe) http://www.eis36.de/
14.12 20h CAFÉ BÄNSCH - Friedrichshain, Bänschstr.79 http://www.facebook.com/pages/B%C3%A4nsch/363024043735079
19.12 21h with Herr Teufelsdröckh und das Taschenmesser KOTTI SHOP - am Kotti , http://kotti-shop.net/
21.12 21h with Los Mares SOWIESO- Neukölln, Weisestr.24, http://www.sowieso-neukoelln.de/#home
26.11 20h with Los Mares LA ESCALERA- Friedrichshain, Köpernickusstr.1, http://libros-escalera.de/
5.01 19h SHARP!! with Los Mares & Daniel Decker SCHOKOLADEN- Mitte, Ackerstr.169, http://www.schokoladen-mitte.de/
12.01 20h with Los MAres GELEGENHEITEN - Neukölln http://www.gelegenheiten-berlin.de/ , Weserstr.50
Leiseylento is preparing a new album, so there will be surprises in the concerts!!
Links:
http://enlosmares.blogspot.de/
http://soundcloud.com/herr-teufelsdr-ckh
love***
--
Leiseylento **bazaar musical***
www.leiseylento.blogspot.de
www.soundcloud.com/leiseylento
www.myspace.com/leiseylento
face book: leiseylento
dear everybody,
again we are in this part of the year where darkness covers most of the day and the mood is unsteady... and we "latinos" remember sweetly the unbearable heat of south latitudes during the feast times... christmas with 40°C, plastic trees and santa-clauses in their absurdly warm clothes while everyone is sweating!
NOW , we want to CHEER you up with some concerts, come and cuddle in small dark clubs feel warmth in your hearts on the sounds of Leiseylento & Los Mares during these terrible winter nights:
29.11 21h with Los Mares EIS 36 - am Kotti (in front of Möbel Olfe) http://www.eis36.de/
14.12 20h CAFÉ BÄNSCH - Friedrichshain, Bänschstr.79 http://www.facebook.com/pages/B%C3%A4nsch/363024043735079
19.12 21h with Herr Teufelsdröckh und das Taschenmesser KOTTI SHOP - am Kotti , http://kotti-shop.net/
21.12 21h with Los Mares SOWIESO- Neukölln, Weisestr.24, http://www.sowieso-neukoelln.de/#home
26.11 20h with Los Mares LA ESCALERA- Friedrichshain, Köpernickusstr.1, http://libros-escalera.de/
5.01 19h SHARP!! with Los Mares & Daniel Decker SCHOKOLADEN- Mitte, Ackerstr.169, http://www.schokoladen-mitte.de/
12.01 20h with Los MAres GELEGENHEITEN - Neukölln http://www.gelegenheiten-berlin.de/ , Weserstr.50
Leiseylento is preparing a new album, so there will be surprises in the concerts!!
Links:
http://enlosmares.blogspot.de/
http://soundcloud.com/herr-teufelsdr-ckh
love***
--
Leiseylento **bazaar musical***
www.leiseylento.blogspot.de
www.soundcloud.com/leiseylento
www.myspace.com/leiseylento
face book: leiseylento
Darling
Davis! its been ages!
how are u?
are u in berlin these days? hoping u will be as im writing to invite u to this
huge event going down, im planning with my band EASTER, to host a night
premiering our new album that will be out the same night, THURSDAY NEXT WEEK,
THE 20TH that is, AT LUZIA in oranienstr in kreuzberg.
think it
will start at 8 and we will perform the new songs and invite a real hot dj and
party into the next day, the one supposed to be the last of all.
HOPING SO
MUCH u can make it, would be so great to see u there and i really wanna show u
the music.
heres the
event at facebook http://www.facebook.com/events/555447734471585/
kisses
Stine O
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