BOOZE UNDER THE BRIDGEWORK

Tonight at 9pm at Berghain Cantina Joel Gibb the baby diaper of the musical collective The Hidden Cameras returns to Berlin for a rare must see concert. Mr. Gibb and his explosive rack of chewy nips is looking high, wide and handsome these days strutting his dinosaur golden bone to full advantage. Slurp. http://thehiddencameras.com

Had a wonderful picnic in the Tiergarten oogling hot TU boys on a bench across from the SiggySaule with visiting NYU scholar Tavia Nyongo who is related to President Barack Obama. Didn’t know that Tavia is pals of the boys of the music combo Matmos who now live in Baltimore MD land of John Waters as one of the dual is a junior academe,but when he is in Berlin he loves to haunt the faded hustler bars of Nollendorky Platz in all their broken down splendour. Another one of La Nyongo’s best girlfriends is super gorgeous severe dimpled Deutche Welle correspondent Michael Scaturno who has been getting quite cozy with a Ugandan/German fashion designer making a name for himself during the recent Berlin Fashion week. Mr. Scaturno is quite a muscular and talented asphalt cutie who also works for Voice of America and is one of the most desired young men in Berlin.

Went to the Freida Grafe series at Arsenal again to see a strange little film The Honey Pot 1967 by Joseph L. Mankiewitz that I loved starring Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, Capucine, Edie Adams and a long on the tooth Cliff Robertson and Little Shop of Horrors directed by Roger Corman 1960 with a very very young Jack Nicholsen which was a laugh riot. Also saw one of my fav colleagues Nanna Heidenreich of Forum Expanded hilariously introduce the W.C Fields helmer It’s A Gift.

WARNUNG VOR EINER HEILIGEN NUTTE

 Met with Manuel Schubert of FilmHighlights Magazine for an interview session at the wonderous St. Matthew Cemetary Flower Shop Café owned by a famous Schöneberg queen.  Our celebutante guest star was the beautiful and studly New York writer and performer extroidinaire Max Steele with his friends the British cabaret ingénue Ms. Alexander Geist and mega talented Chicago artiste Stevie Hanley aka:  The Dainty Satanista.  Mr. Hanley was one of my Chicago Art Institute students who I did a studio visit with back in the Spring so it was wonderous seeing him again along with Max Steele who is my favorite jungen with very large feet a hefty piece of boy meat and bubblicious cup cakes.  During our interview I told the radio listeners that Max comes from a wealthy American family who still own black slaves.  Mr. Steele is actually a seven sisters product having graduated from Sarah Lawrence that also produced Dr. Jose Munoz and Gwen Turner.  Max will be performing at Chantal´s House of Shame tonight and Pork at Frankenstein 5000 in KreuzKölln.  Go and see him and you will not be disappointed as he plans on singing some Laura Nyro songs.  I hope he does a cover of “Stoney End”. I love me some perfection that is Max Steele!!!!!

Later I attended the Freida Grafe film series at Arsenal Inst für Film und Video Kunst.  The first film was John Ford´s Rio Grande with John Wayne is big leggy, Maureen O´Hara, Andy Devine and Victor McClagen.  I am not a John Wayne fan but of course I am all about the striking black & white compositions of Herr Ford and I have to admit Mr. Wayne is quite affective, but its Ms. O´Hara who really shines.  The second feature was Ernst Lubitsch´s The Merry Widow which was hilariously introduced by author Klaus Theweleit quoting the all too gay lyrics of Lorenz Hart.  The homo delish was very apparent in this film with both Edward Everett Horton and Sterling Holloway.  I could barely stand the muggings of a long on the tooth Maurice Chevalier.  Jeanette McDonald is sublime however.  A perfect double bill would be the 1952 version of The Merry Widow starring Lana Turner and Fernando Lamas.  After the Living Archive monthlong festival at Arsenal I still can´t get enough and have been attending regularly the series The Real 80´s-Neo Noir by the macho film curating collective Canine Condition that also has one token fagula in their group.  So nice to see Kino 1 filled with a crosssection of youthful faces for screenings of films like No Way Out starring a brilliant Sean Young with Gene Hackman who is always good and Kevin Costner who I hate.  No Way Out is a remake of the 1948 film The Big Clock directed by Mia´s dad John Farrow.  I also saw To Live and Die in LA 1985 starring a big dicque arrogant William L. Petersen and Willem Dafoe featuring the young John Turturro and my favorite Mike´s Murder 1983 directed by James Bridges starring a luminous Debra Winger and the radiant young, tight asstrovar of Mark Keyloun.  So wonderful seeing my former punk rock pals in Mike´s Murder including Spazz Attack who was boyfriends with Toni Basil of “Oh Mickey Your´re So Fine” fame and Marisol who use to perform with The Tubes.  The back story of Mikes Murder also hits close to home as its based on a true drug related murder involving a hot young hustler I use to know from my punk and dance club dayz at places like The Oddyssee, The Other Side, The Sugar Shack and The Mirror-Go-Round. 

Was invited to a scrumptious dinner party at the famous table of La Susanne Sachße at her eastside compound.  The menu included a fab cauliflower pasta with ewok noodles, mustard, chalots, balsamic butter with teragon and a most refreshing watermelon, mint and feta cheese salad.  Lecher Smecker!!!!  It was so sweet spending quality time with the great Susi the fearless leader of CHEAP collective and her film historian frau Marc Siegel who accompanied me to the Proctologist where I got the diagnosis that my prostrate is super gigantasaurus rexus and is pushing against my bladder causing me to have to pee constantly.  I hope the natural medication he gave me helps solve the problem.  Getting old is not for sissy´s.

RAEUBER SCHULDENGENITAL

Though I hate venturing to Mitte it was actually quite nice to take a trek to the Volksbuhne’s Gruner Salon to see kJohnny Blue’s The Devil’s Blind Spot-Jumping the Gate where the super stud Mr. Blue and his merry band of musical geniuses that includes guitarist Axel Scheele and drummer Daniel Grinstead rocked out with their dinosaur cocks splayed out. A nice King Crimsony Prague Rocque groove permeated as the audience was sucked into a dynamic textural whirl peppered with soundbites from Arsenal archive docus and narrative films. Hail Satan Devil Lucifer Beelzebulb!!!!

Rising Stars Falling Stars presentation of Vincente Minnelli’s 1970 psychotropic musical On A Clear Day You Can See Forever was the closing night event of a joyous Living Archive month. The 16milimeter Cinemascope print looked very experimental film with its missing sections and twerking the gate. Bodo in the projection room did a great job keeping it all together with precision and the film actually holds up as more then just an odd curio. Babs Streisand and Mr. Simone Signoret-Yves Montand’s animosity towards each other gives their cinematic pairing a weird force and drive along with Mr. Minnelli ‘s queeny posturing and framing in the Regency England scenes. The evil progeny of Ms. Streisand and sexy Elliot Gould---Jason Gould came to see his moms in one of her early films he has never seen. Mr. Gould’s low key companion was the popular international blondine concubine Christopher Tavi aka: Josh from the Corbin Fischer Pornocopia Film Studios and his pals a nearly nekkid Berlin “It” boy Acme Singt, Olivier and cute beau, Slovakian courtesan’s Manuel Rios, Kevin Warhol and Brandon Manilow turning many middle age gay male patterned balding heads.The celebutants in attendance included the beautiful and stylish curator Dorothee Wenner with her vivacious male companion Mickey, Trixie Schoenherr aka: Beatrice Cordua the former prima ballerina with her dancer fan Tonya, Berlin’s legendary chanson singer and actress Zazie de Paris, Piero Bellomo of La Collezione with husband Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim who looked dashing playing Klavier and who did a most excellent job editing Ms. Davis’ new cheaply made Rising Stars trailer,Der Spielgel writer Felix Knoke and his Slovenian friend, scholar Nanna Heidenreich with her students from Braunschweig who along with the talented students from Frankfurt’s Goethe Universitaet were part of the Living Archive project by Entuziazm: Stefan Pethke & Michael Baute that decombobulized the Fernando Birri film ORG. Film Historian Marc Siegel and his delightful and fresh faced students that included sexy Philippe Crackau, Olga Galicka and Tine Antz. Production designer Angela Anderson with DJane extroidinaire Olga Damnitz, the divine Susanne Sachsse whose mother gave Ms.Davis a snakeskin purse from the 1960s looking small town of Jena that was very Babs,art star Countessa Angela Melitopoulos looking lovely and bursting with energy even after presenting her final Moeglichkeitsraum pieces along with a special live montage aria with re.act.feminism’s Bettina Knaup, the Royal First Family of German Experimental Film-The Gregors: Erika, Ulrich & Milena, Birgit Kohler, Arsenal co-Director, kJohnny Blue and his juicy young Italian girlfriend,Arsenal studmuffins Markus Ruff and Uli Ziemons with tasty gamine Nadine Voß,Noam the Israeli video maker, modern dancer Assaf Hochman with American Ballet Theater principal Daniil Simkin, Little Alex of Macedonia who did la Diva Davis’ hair,make-up and fashion styling for the evening, an 80 year old couple who are long time Babs fanatics,Canuckian dream girl Lauren Howes, with spunky ray of light Shai Heredia Arsenal guest curator from India, filmmaker Marie Losier with artist Maggie Schneider, musician and composer Eunice Martin whose live composition Pieces for the Archive II recently wowed her fans and fluxus admirers alike, pretty Salome Gersch who manned the CHEAP Gossip Studio Bar during the festival and Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus exhausted but still sparkly graciously welcoming Arsenal newcomers like the fashion designer Guillaume Henry of the House of Carven in Berlin looking for urban inspiration and getting it with the haute mix on every level crowd at Kino 2, New York rapper Mac Miller with humpy dork nebish Jay Stull the young American playwright who is doing research on the source material for On a Clear Day which strangely enough is based on a true story of a woman in 1940s Dublin whose analyst discovered her past life. This story was also made into a British film in 1956. I received so many questions about On A Clear Day You Can See Forever and ESP. I guess Extra Sensory Perception was not a big thing in Germany. Who knew? Minnelli and Babs got along wonderfully during the filming which began in Jan, 1969 when Babs was 26 years old. Miss Minnelli was working with cinematographer Harry Stradling who made Judy Garland so beautiful in The Pirate(1947) and was doing the same to La Streisand. Some of the movie was filmed on location in New York and Brighton, England with the scene in the rose garden where she sings “Hurry Its Lovely Up Here” lensed at USC’s Exposition Park across from the Museum of Natural History. Interiors were filmed at Paramount Pictures studio in Hollywood. Minnelli hadn’t made a musical in ten years with The Bells Are Ringing 1960 with Judy Holiday, and wanted to make a few more after Clear Day with a treatment on the life of Bessie Smith to star Tina Turner and then later Aretha Franklin was attached. He also wanted to do a musical about Zelda Fitzgerald to star his daughter Liza. The next Rising Stars, Falling Stars is Sunday July 21 8pm with a 35 milimeter screening of Opera Queen Luchino Visconti’s Senso starring homo hungthrob Farley Granger and Alida Valli.

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HEISSE JUNGS IN ENGEN HUETTEN

Attended the last Living Archive presentation of Darryl Els’s, the vivaciously randy, hirsute mixed race South African filmmaker and curator whose Shifting Grounds:  Reflections on National Identity in the Archive ended with a screening of the hilarious 1971 travelogue by Adolfas Mekas aka:  Brother Fishhook to Jonas Mekas’   Uncle Fishhook the name given to the Lithuanians by Jack Smith.  The standout in the flicker is Mrs. Mekas- co-director Pola Chapelle.  My companion as usual was

that trusty Muzlim jihadist suprema Daniel Hendrickson who will be taking a well deserved holiday to Georgia, Azerbajian and Armenia in July. Mr. Hendrickson was with me for the El cine de la Transicion program by Sabine Schoebel where we saw Cincuenta y dos Domingos by Llorenc Soler 1970 16 mm which has a very leering eye on the succulent Spanish underpriviledged youth who are training as baby matadors followed by Ocana Retrat Intermittent by Ventura Pons, the 1979 docu on the late painter,performer, culture critic and Andulusian tragi queen Miss Pepe Ocana.

Film Historian Marc Siegel scored a hit with his Ludvig Schoenherr/Beatrice Cordua tribute Happy&Stupid Sructures.  Schoenherr muse Trixie Schoenherr was looking radiant at the screenings. She is 70 years old and hasn’t aged a bit since she appeared in Stephen Dwoskin’s 1971 film Trixie.  The members of the cult of Trixie at the CHEAP Gossip Studio bar manned by Richard Gersche included Darryl Els, Manuel Schubert, Nanna Heidenreich, lovesexy Djane Olga Damnitz, pretty Mediterranean art star Angela Melitopoulos looking very Melina Mercouri with a bit of Anna Magnani, art darling Maggie Schneider, Arsenal hunksters Uli Ziemons& Markus Ruff, Greek passive Little Alex of Macedonia, juicy scholar Nicole Wolf,the amazing Diana McCarty of ReBoot FM with a hot hunky swarthy date that floated my proverbial boat,Shai Heredia the vivacious & stylish Arsenal guest curator from India, Canuckian treasure Lauren Howes, the regal and stately Bettina Schulte Strathaus of the famous Schulte Strathauses and British actress Rebecca Hall of Woody Allens Vicky Cristina Barcelona who is a big Vaginal Davis fanatic who will be traveling to China on a slow boat, namely a cargo ship that will pass through dangerous pirate waters and will take over a month's time.  The only other people I know who have travelled this way are the Brazilian art & film couple Melissa Dullius and Gustave Jahn.

Marc Siegel’s Living Archive project was devoted to Ludvig and Trixie Schoenherr but he also was asked by Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus to put together an Asian program from the Archives when she realized that no other artist had chosen Asia.  Well Marc in his inemitable Catskills style showed every other curator how it is properly done with his Shuji Terayama’s Seductive Cinematic Anarchism.  A packed house of young and old gathered together in absolute grace for this screening of perverse Japanese expanded cinema experimental shorts which ended with the entire audience taking part in a lovely performative moment involving hammer & nails---sublime.

DES TEUFELS BLINDER FLECK HOLT SICH EINEN RUNTER

The Living Archive Festival closes with  Babs, Yves Montand, Jack Nicholson, Daniel Hendrickson, Vaginal Davis, cruisin, flirten, kissen, sexin und dwinken.

And with the wonderful, big footed Mr. kJohnny Blue here in the new filmhighlights-Interview...

Rising Stars Falling Stars - with Vaginal Davis & John Blue - June 2013 by Filmanzeiger on Mixcloud

TA DET SOME EN MAND, FRUE!

LivingArchive  all the way,baby! A sweet rhythmic short subject program of Pragmatische Poetik des Archivs by personable academe Senta Siewert in conversation with Simona Monizza of Eye Film Institute Netherlands  who started her career at George Eastman House in Rochester the last home of Louise Brooks, and our lovely Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus.  So wonderous seeinig two films by Bruce Conner-Looking For Mushrooms USA 1961 and Mongoloid 1976 featuring the music of my old pal Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, that Crowleyan legend Kenneth Anger and his 1965 lovesexy krotchworth Kustom Kar Kommandos , Marie Menken’s Lights 1965 and Arabesque for Kenneth Anger 1961, Her Mona, Klaus Telscher 1992, and My Name is Oona, Gunver Nelson 1969. In the steel foyer at the CHEAP Gossip Studio Bar manned by CHEAP school grad Salome Gersche who leaves Berlin for six months to work with a feminist collective in Bolivia.  Spirited conversations abound with celebutants in attendance and filmic royalty in the person of the magnificent  Heide Schlupmann and Carolla Graumann of Frankfurt’s Kino Tech Asta Nielsen, singer Cecile McLawrence Sevant whose new album Woman Child is causing quite a stir in the modern jazz world.  Film historian Marc Siegel, Susanne Sachsse, kJohnny Blue and his hot new ragazza, plus the juicy Markus Ruff and Uli Ziemons.

Took a nice summer respite with the handsome and very hard working Mr. Ziemons in the Tiergarten at the upper Gay Cancer Shelf for an olde fashion picnic in the park.  Lots of gorgons in speedos showing off, a few sex lizard nudists,  and even a bevy of voluptuous young girl supermodels sunning across from us.  Had to leave the park somewhat early in time to be back at Arsenal in Potsdamer Platz and go through security check as US President Barack Obama was spending the night at the Ritz Carleton which is right next door to the Sony Filmhaus which houses Arsenal.  Very weird being surrounded by soldiers with automatic weapons. Barely arrived on time for the second part of South Afrikan mulatto sex champion Darryl Els’ Shifting Grounds: Reflections on National Identity in the Archive. The muscle bound, hairy chested Mr. Els is a he-man of a sensitive curator as topographic hunter/gatherer. A sublime choice of short subjects:  Canadian Pacific, Canada 1974 by David Rimmer, Images of Asian Music:A Diary of Life USA Peter Hutton 1973-74, Girl From Moush, Canada 1993 and Was bleibt? Clarissa Thieme Bosnian and Herzegowina 2009 and the 1989 Bolivian feature film La Nacion Clandestina by Jorge Sanjines, which like the other films gleam with vistas, landscape and treacherous terrain.  La Nacion Clandestina featuring the high glam of the Indigenous Aymara Tribe in the Altiplano high above La Paz who not only wear stunning almost couture like clothing but even their livestock is festooned with Ziegfeldesque headdresses and sparkly accessories.With insightful programming like this its easy to see why M. Els’s  star is rising internationally.

Representing the Darryl Els fanclub: Shai Heredia Arsenal guest curator,Manuel Schubert of Film Highlights Internet Radio Magazine,Annette Schoenholzer ,Art Basel director, Gabrielle Giattini art dealer extroidinaire, artist Yngve Holen, ballet dancer Benjamin Millepied aka: Mr. Natalie Portman and Kristy Faccer the delightful Canuckian significant other of La Els.