DER HUND FLÜSTERER

Straddling off to Vienna, Austria for a summer gig at the famed Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Ephemeropterae 2013. Ali Jenka of Geliten Art Kollective had told me about this institution and the woman who founded it with her patrician husband from the Hapsburg Dynasty. Flying on this strange little Airline called Darling Niki which is a partner of Air Berlin. I guess its like Europes answer to Southwest Airlines as the Trolley Dollys are young and dressed very casually. The best part of this trip is an almost empty aeroplane so I have plenty of leg room with an exit row aisle seat and there are no small children or babies anywhere in sight. I lucked out. My accomodations are at a cute boutique called Hotel Kunsthof in a derelict part of Vienna that is very multi-cultural and reminds me of the Wedding area of Berlin before it got gentrified. From the outside the hotel looks like a dump but inside its actually quite glamorous in a non frilly manner. The free breakfast is quite good—simple quality cheeses, breads, cereals coldcuts, juices and strong coffee. I loved sitting out in the spacious cool garden terrace. Some icky ugly business men were eating at the same time, but thank god they left for their dreary work assignments so I had the garden mostly to myself. My first night in Vienna was invited to a country style din din at the Weinstube Josefstatd at Piaristen Gasse 27 in the 8th District. Got to the eatery early and took a ho stroll and ran into a gorgeous young man with large feet in expensive Italian sandles who recognized me in boy drag and introduced himself and said he was coming to my performance at the Ausgarten. He had the fancy name of Christophe Freiherr von Berg. Would love to chow down on his hefty package which was straining his trousers. At dinner was surprised to find the wonderous Jakob Lena Knebl wearing a skirt and Valeska Gert looking ensemble along with always amazing Hans Schirl and the gentle giants that they do their incredible performances with. Representing the institution the lovely modelesque assistant curator Miriam Kathrein with head curator Daniela Zyman who use to live in LA at the Schindler Haus and was responsible for having the Austrian government purchase it for use as an artist residence. Also met the very sweet museum coordinator Simone and her well trained and very pretty doggy Candor. After the scrumptious comfort meal the gang took me to the 25 Hours A Day Hotel Rooftop Garden Lounge for drinks and a spectacular view of the city. Unfortunately I had to be a party pooper and head back to my hotel as I was exhausted.

On the day of my performance I ate lightly as not to be bloated. I was giving my performative lecture in the Ausgarten of the museo in a sculpture designed by a Ghanian artist. I was shocked that over 500 people came out to see me. The annex of the museum is in a park not far from my hotel in an area that is off the beaten path, so people really wanted to come here to see ‘the doll’ as there is nothing else of interest in the 2nd District. Other performers who were apart of this Ausgarten series my fellow LA woman Wanda ‘Maddog’ Coleman, Blixa Bargeld, Lydia Lunch, Asdis Sif Gunnarsdottir, Antonio Caro, Lois Weinberger,Cerith Wyn Evan, Susan Stenger, John Giorno, Christian Fennesz, Anna Artaker and Chicks on Speed. After my performance there was a fabulous catered dinner in the park by Iranian temptress via Los Angeles Nessa Heschmatwho runs her own business called Nessecita

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Here is just a partial list of those who attended my performance: Ephemeropterae 2013 curator Boris Ondreicka, Rosie Huntington-Whitely British ‘IT’ Girl, Adriano DeSouza the famous Brazilian surfer, Katja Langmaier of Zaglossus Publishing House, Prinzessin Elisabeth Auersperg-Breunner, Hugo Boss Chef Herbert Gaar, Nadja, Maria Fekter, opera diva Eva Liebau, artists Caroline Schell and Johannes Porsch who was my opening act and lived in LA where he was neighbors with my former LA Weekly collegue Sam Anson,Steffan Isser of Swarovsi Wien, Markus Hausleitner and Susanne Kriemann. Special thankx to Marcus my Austrian Mandingo blondine tech stewart and Mr. MaGoo and the great Ausgarten tech staff.

Couldn’t stay in Austria for a long time as I had to rush home for Rising Stars, Falling Stars-We Must Have Music and our screening of Luchino Visconti´s Senso starring Alida Valli, Farley Granger and Massimo Giroti. Kino Arsenal 2 was packed with only standing room and after the screening because of the warm weather we had the vino reception in at the CHEAP Gossip Studio circular bar where I got to meet Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus´s lovely young mother, handsome brother Tobias and his wife. It was indeed family night as film historian Marc Siegel with girlfriend actress Susanne Sachsse had his sister and niece in tow. The celebutantes included prima ballerina Trixie Schönherr aka: Beatrice Cordua and her followers that include Dr. Tonja van Helden a young dancer and academe whose work focuses on the relationship between expression, body and gesture. Dr. van Helden has been a RSFS regular with her lovely Seven Sister pal on a fellowship from Bryn Marr College. Also seen and heard: the wonderous Zach Blas with Sam Marmer, Pinar Voldas who is Turkish living in the US as the official ‘Vilem Flusser artist in residence at Transmediale and Micha Cardenas Zack´s LA based friend and collaborator who is the current resident at the Post Media Lab. Micha is also a hacktivist, poet and performer, and you can learn more about her work at these links:

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http://twitter.com/michacardenas

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I also got to chittle chat with adoreable butch academic powerhouse Heather Love and her lovesexy NYU professor partner Mara Mills with their enchanting daughters Emma and Juliet. Piero Bellomo was looking handsome as ever with his lover Daniel Hendrickson the Scandinavian Muslim and my partner in grime, the Greek coalition of Telemachos who did my hair, make-up and styling and Hellenic Jorgos, Manuel Schubert of FilmHighlights Magazine, Uli Ziemons of Forum Expanded, Italian academic Domietta from Chicago with colleage, big peniled Arsenal projectionist Axel Lambrette, vivacious Kassa Girl Nadja with Arsenal tyro David, Israeli director Yony Leiser with a muscular Fulbright Scholar.

Just got word that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will name their firstborn son Chav.

FESTSPIELKLEID-ANPROBE FÜR LUGNERS KOLIBRIK

Rising Stars Falling Stars - with Vaginal Davis & Max Steele - July 2013 by Filmanzeiger on Mixcloud

HEXENSCHLUSS

Spent a lovely day with Manuel Schubert of FilmHighlights Radio Magazine and his pal Olivier Novitzky shopping on the K-Damn and brunching at Dolores the California Burrito emporium. The boys told me all about the new cruising application Scruff which has taken the place of Grinder in the gay sex search cosmos,and about a mutual local friend of theirs who is quite the entrepreneur hosting Tupperware style dildo parties that feature dildo quality testing with The Dildo King boutique as well as continental pharmaceutical management. I am not a fan of the sex stimulant Poppers, but I had no idea that Austria has such harsh laws that one cannot purchase Poppers legally in that country. 
Went to Berghain’s Cantina to see Baby Diaper Joel Gibb and his musical collective The Hidden Cameras perform Saturday night. The Baby D and his posse featuring Tenderloin guitarist Landgraf Jan Klesse majestically enveloped the intimate confines of the Cantina. It was a moist, sticky and lovesexy queer affair celebrating the 7inch vinyl EP Gay Goth Scene and took me back to my own gothic youth spent in Hollywood venues like Cathay De Grande, Vinyl Fetisch Club and The Veil. Enjoying the cumraderie: visiting academic royal Heather Love with childbride scholar Mara Mills and their lovely and vivacious teenage daughters, NYU’s Tavia Nyongo, Manuel Schubert, Malte & Cavalero, sweet Felix Knocke & Jan Klesse's pretty girlfriend Marie, the rock star film producer extroidinaire who just moved permanently to Berlin--Michael Stipe of REM fame was looking all ready for summer with his art photog Gallic beau Thomas Dozol. 
Caught the final presentations of the Frieda Grafe series of film screenings at Arsenal Inst fur film und Video Kunst Sunday eve with my dates Nanna Heidenriech,Uli Ziemons, Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel. An actual psychiatrist from Munich introduced the 1944 Mitchell Leisen Technicolor helmer Lady in the Dark. My German isn’t very good but the unnattractive therapist who goes by the name of Marcus Coelen spoke with such a pompous tone like a prickly Evangelische pastor.

I have always wanted to see Lady in the Dark which is more a drama with musical bits then a knockout sluggo musical film. Based on the 1941 Broadway show of the same name by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin with book and direction by Moss Hart it’s a complete WW2 oddity featuring Ginger Rogers, an icky Ray Milland, barrelchested Jon Hall and a shrill queen playing a photographer in a role which seemed tailor made for Paramount’s top pansy character actor Billy DeWolfe. The war years shortage of male top men led Hollywood to go into a miscogeny frenzy in terror that women were taking over the work world.

Charles Walter’s 1950 musical Summer Stock from MGM features the unnatural naturalness of Baby Frances Gumm aka: Judy Garland in all her spirited economy. At the end of the musical number “Happy Harvest” the camera lingers on the inflamed larnex of La Garland which is a hoot. Surrounded by a sterling cast that includes Phil Silvers, Hans Conreid, Gloria DeHaven, Majorie Main, Eddie Bracken,Ray Collins and Carleton Carpenter as well as Gene Kelly’s handsome buttocks that voraciously clears a path of all obstacles.

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.