Die Notgeilen

So sorry my dear fruitful faithfull for not having written a thing in weeks but my old business style Hewlett Packard PC that the Love Camel of Merry ole London towneship donated to me years ago went kaput right before the Berlinale madness began to ensue.  I am still computerless writing this very text in the lounge of the wellness center where I am being graciously treated for my 455th birthday.  Thank you to Love Camel, Marcuse Siegelstein, Susanne Sachsse, Piero Bellomo, Daniel Hendrickson, Nora Molitor, my next door neighbor Sabine Ludke, Felix Knoke and my student assistant at the Universität Giessen Christoph Bovermann and his lover JP for all the birthday treats and well wishes.  I didnt grow up celebrating birthdays as my mother in the 1960s and early 1970s went through a Jehovah's Witness phase.  Long story. . .
If anyone out there in the known world has an extra lap top they are not using and want to send it my way It would greatly appreciated.

At the beginning of Feb I went to the Berliner Institüt fur Psychotherapie und Psychoanalyse and met for an hour with the kindly Frau Klingeberg.  Yes the little Ms. Davis doll is seeking help from a therapist to tackle her increasing mania tissues.  Even Ozma of Oz the all powerful ruler of the Fairyland of Oz has problemas of histrionic porportions.

The grand opening of the 11th Forum Expanded Exhibition Wed Feb 10th at Akademy de Kunste in the Tiergarten was joyous and triumphant.  Arsenal Empress and Forum Expanded founder Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and her curatorial team headed by dimunitive cutiepie Anselm Franke, Nanna Heidenreich, Bettina Steinbrügge and Ulrich Ziemons outdid themselves this year with their Lacanian themed spectacle Traversing the Phantasm.  The specific perspective of the selected films, installations, performances and lectures manifested in the geopolitik vareen.  With all thats going on in our troubled society how could it not?

I spent four days and up to four hours plus in the Forum Expanded exhibition space until my back went out.  I just couldn't get enough of the granada on display.  My personal highlights:  Girl Talk a single channel nugget by my LA homegirl and child of high art Wu Tsang that features poet and critical theorist Fred Moten in ecstatic rad fairy drag.  Hygiene/Swachh by Pushpamel N. where she is washing the right rev'rend brain out of the hairy headula of a highly cooperative vassel.  James T. Hong's Terra Nullius or:  How To Be a Nationalist which was downright upright motherfucking son of a preachers bitch perfection in addressing the East China Seas cunnundrum almost better then the Jean Harlow MGM classic from 1935.

Covering similar terrain in a unique fashion was the brilliantine The Refrain.  The best ever by Angela Melitopoulos and her dynamic collaborating posse headed by that genius Angela Anderson with Maurizio Lazzarato and Aya Hanabusal.  Ms. Anderson, besides her yearly ForEx duties as exhibition designer and technical coordinator also contributed to Natascha Sadr Haghighian's stellar soundscape phonetic survey denouncing Germany's top selling tank export as realized in Lego paillettes.  Yowza!

Seen hovering in the exhibition space incognito: David Gandy the hot holy dark haired British manq with the proud crotch and polar nips, Matthew Rushing of the Alvin Ailey Dance Company and Hollywood director Adam McKay of The Big Short which my old LA gal pal Crepe Suzette(Susan Mathelson) is the costume designer of, Thorsten Schumacher of HanWay Films, actor/lovers and other strangers Roman Kolinka and Dan Stevens.

Judy LaBruce was in town to walk the red carpet as an actor playing the Canadian Prime Minister in the Competition feature Boris sans Beatrice by Denis Cote.  Didnt see the flick but heard that La Judy was the best thing going for it.  I have always said that Judyline is a magnify whitetress.  Fearless Leader of kollektiv CHEAP Susanne Sachsse had Judy and I over for one of  her stylish dindins and you should have seen us ladies having a hoot of a time.

In the Forum Expanded Program Screenings and Think Film Congress #4 the archeologic river running through motif was present in Canadian ForEx veterano Mark Lewis' Invention, Ahmad Ghossein's lecture performance When the Ventriloquist Came and Spoke To Me and film The Fourth Stage, Joe Namy's Stones God People, the sublime As Birds Flying by Heba Y. Amin and Larissa Sansour's In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain.  The Think Film lecture starinas:  Ala Younis and her The Unbelievable Photos Taken by the Crazy Russians Who Illegally Climbed Egypts Great Pyramid, bigger then Cher and Beyonce together Edwin of Indonesia and his Rotting Away Behind Locked Doors Lab Laba Laba Initiative, reclaiming History, Unveiling Memory by off Nollywood filmmaker and critic Didi Cheeka, VHS Cypus:  A Lost History by the energetic Constantinos Tallotis and the new wave comedy team of Mariam Ghani and Engineer Latif Ahmadi in What We Left Unfinished which had the audience cracking up about the Afghan Film Industry where they don't use blanks but actual amunition, and all the actors perform the most dangerous stunts.  Because of using real amo its not unheard of that death will occur on set as they take realism further then any Hollywood production that likes to toss the word authentic around.

Because of my back problems I didnt see so many films this year.  Loved Austrian director Ruth Beckermann's Die Geträumten that featured the letters of Ingeborg Bachman and Paul Celan as read by cute Anja Plaschg of the bad haircut.  Couldnt stand the tiny actor Laurence Rupp reading for Celan with his small hands and feet that resembled satanic hooves.

For some strange reason i felt compelled to see the Sci Fi flicker Midnight Special by Jeff Nichols which isn't a great film but i did enjoy the earnest portrayals by Kirsten Dunst,young Jaeden Lieberher, Henry Fonda-ish Michael Shannon, Sam Shepard and humpy humpies Adam Driver and blondine beauty Joel Edgerton----who I can´t live without him digging in my sugar walls.

The Panorama Doc's Strike a Pose, Uncle Howard and Kiki were only good because of the subjects on hand.  I was expecting to hate Strike which profiles the boy dancers from Madonna's  1990 Blonde Ambition tour and Truth or Dare film.  It was lovely seeing Carleton who Judy LaBruce tricked with at the Detour during her first film tour in LA with No Skin Off My Ass and Kevin who modeled along with me for the Michele Lamy menswear line.  Uncle Howard is about the late handsome film director Howard Brookner.  It’s a family tribute by his sexy look-a-like nephew Aaron Brookner.  I kept thinking of the Danny Williams docu by his niece that was part of Forum Expanded in 2007.  I must say that Brad Gooch the 80s golden boy who was Howard Brookner's lover has aged well. 
I got to meet two of the delicious stars of KiKi at the Panorama reception and in the movie I was mesmerized by the beautiful and articulate Gia Marie Love who i predict will have a very bright future.

I wasn't expecting much from horn pig French directors Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau's Theo et Hugo which starts off with a very long explicit sex club scene with the young skinny, narrow shouldered and pigeon chested actors.  Once the boys had their clothes on they grew on me and when I saw them in person during the Q&A they looked downright adoreable.

Hate that I didn’t get to see everything on my viewing list like Kate Plays Christine, Le Fils de Joseph, Andre´Te’chines’ latest Quand on al 17 ans, the Berlinale Classics screenings of John Huston’s Fat City with my late dear friend Susan Tyrrell and James Whale´s The Road Back.
Glad to report that this year there weren´t so many ugly men at the festival.  Next year I will have to check out the Berlin Talent Campus as I´ve been told by multiple sources that its where the juicy boys reside.  You all know how the Doll needs her fill of eye candy.

This year the Forum Party was smaller and held at the AdK for the first time.  Usually the soiree takes place at the Volksbühne.  Since I live close to AdK in the Tiergarten I was overjoyed at the new location.  The AdK staff are a little precious, but the mid century building and furnishings are major Ms. Gorgeous so I can understand how prickly they can be.

My DJane set went really well and Frau Birgit and her crew did a great job in presenting my little station with a modernist sculpture flanking me with excellent flattering lighting.  Was lucky that DJane extroidinaire Olga Damnitz, the sexy popular Berlin baby dyke spinmistress gave me a pee break by taking over for an hour or so.  DJane Olga is a real DJ and knows how to properly mix and do all the things that I can´t do.  She was laying down some very wicked beats.

Thriving on the spacious carpeted dance floor:  Nick Jonas of the pop group The Jonas Brothers, who was starring in a Panorama film called Goat, was wildly dancing to The Misfits, “London Dungeon” with what must be his hunky beau.  Logan Lerman the male ingénue and star of the film Indignation was getting cozy with Swiss German weenager Joel Basman and mulatto hottie Kelynan Lonsdale while power press agent Stephen Huvane was giving the youngsters the old hairy eye ball.  Hidetoshi Nishijima(Creepy) was spending a lot of time slow dancing to fast songs with Benjamin Millepied.  Isn´t Ben married to Natalie Portman?  He wasn´t acting very married, but was all boymantic with a bunch of nubile male acting gorgons like Victor Ezenfils, Miles Teller, and Kacey Mottet Klein.  I´m not one to gossip so you know you didn´t hear this from me.

Who else was at the party you ask?  well here is just a partial list compiled by my Stassi Spies------

Raphel Grisey, Havarie team & cast: Rhim Ibrir and Abdallah Benhamou, Houari Bouchenak Khelladi,73 years young Ulrike Ottinger who this year made a 12 hour endurance film where she was camping in Siberia and hiking but still had energy to  dance with her beautiful girlfriend Katharina Sykora, the art historian deluxe, some Canuckians including Coral Short, sexpert filmmaker, Lauren Howes from CFMD, Steve Reinke and his lovely Chicago husband Brian.  Handsome manchild Uli Ziemons  and his lady love the feminist art supercurator Anja Lückenkemper. Video documentarian, artist and forex setup team captain Noam Gorbat, Bbooks Stephan Geene, gallant Markus Ruff who is the undisputed King of Archiving with Clarissa Thieme, the very smart video artist / filmmaker, Mediterranean hottie Angela Melitopoulos, Manuela aka djane Bianca kruk, who is also a great sound designer, Masha Nehls who was big heart and big brain of organizing Forex exhibition this year and is part of the Entzaubert Festival Collective, Fine Freiberg also from the Forex team and Entzaubert Collective and Berlinale projectionista, analog-inclined filmmaker and also dj/musician---whew!  Everyones fav party central “It” girl Diana McCarthy who is the brainy muscle of Reboot FM radio, Filipa Cesar, the beautiful Sisters Schulte Strathaus Stefanie & Bettina of the famous Schulte Strathaus clan.  Also shmoozing Anselm Franke, the wonderful Angelika Ramlow, Ousshi the Arsenal´s number one projectionist idol who retired last year.  So great seeing Ousshi as its not the Berlinale without an Oushi sighting. Volker Sattel, Marcuse Siegelstein and Fearless Leader of CHEAP Susanne Sachsse who led the crowd on the dancefloor, Forum crew: Sara, Caroline, Marie, Anna Hoffmann, Christoph Terhechte, the divine Dorothee Wenner who always looks like a billion dollars,Adina Pintille (director of Bucharest International Film Festival)Sonia Campanini, film scholar with her sexy lover from Naples Luciano, Gizem Bayiksel from Ankara Pink Fest,Philip Scheffner and Merle Kröger with their big Pong film team families, Colorado Velcu and his Roma family Melissa Dullius and Gustavo Jahn the Brazilian filmmaking partners of the film Muito Romantico, Nicole Wolf, Tamer el Said, Marcin Malaczsak of the Caligari prize winning film In the Last Days of the City, Michel Belague and his ravishing girlfriend, Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, the French directors of Théo et Hugo dans le même bateau - the film with the notorious 18-minutes-dark-room-sex-scene, which won the Audience Teddy Award on Saturday, Geoffrey Couët and François Nambot, their two sexy young actors, Ramon Zürcher, director of the Forum-hit from 2014, Das merkwürdige Kätzchen, and documentary veteran Volker Koepp.

Plus Katya Diefenbach, Daniel Haji Hendrickson, Karim Ainouz, Christian Weber of Salzgeber Editions with the directors of Theo et Hugo and the films young French stars who requested the doll play Madonna,the wonderous Theodora Tabacki, Nora Melitor, Florian Zeyfang who is the nice&very sweet Florian,Alyosha, Ela Wuensch,Ewa Szablowska and Ula Sniegowska from New Horizons Film Fest in Wroclaw Poland who brought CHEAP to Polski for the first time in 2002.
See u next year filmfilas!

DIE SPRITZIGSTE

Rising Stars, Falling Stars-Briefe aus der Garderobe screening Sunday of Pina Bausch´s Die Klage der Kaiserin(Lament of an Empress,1989) was knockoutsluggo SRO with 30 people having to be turned away who didn’t reserve their ticket before hand.  Those not admitted included Israeli choreographer Assaf Hochman, make-up artiste and bon vivante Akira Knightly who creates the fab looks of the Boris Bidjan collection, actor Garrett Hedlund, Martin Cracium and Documenta director Adam Szymcyzk.

The lucky ones able to join Ms. Davis, wearing a regal Rick Owens gown, her partner in grime Daniel “Haji” Hendrickson the Scandinavian Jewish Muzlim extremist and Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus in the joyous celebration of climbing onto the shoulders of others while in a drunken state included cavorting  film scholar Marcuse Siegelstein with ladylove Susanne Sachsse the fearless leader of CHEAP kollektiv, artists Lydia Hamann and Kay Osteroth who are producing a new project and book called Radical Admiration Society, My German baby sis the Afro Deutsch entrepreneur Clarisse Mehring and her sweet pal Sonja, musicians Caroline Polachek & Patrick Wimberly with blondine German acting tyro Max von der Groeben, DJ Kygo from Norway, beautiful British hungthrob Edward Holcroft, Forum Expanded´s  Uli Ziemons the handsomest man in Europa, Nadine Voß with comrades Anna and Linda from Silent Green Kulture Quartier, junior art curators from the Goethe Universität and Frankfurt´s Staedeschule Clare, Marie, Marinka & Phillip, Markus Ruff of Arsenal Experimental, Trixie and Ludvig Schonherr, artist Maggie Schneider, Salome Gersch with her super sexy Columbian pal from the Friei Universität Camilo of the Valley.  

 

Inadvertently ran into a dingequeen delight with breath worse then Sean DeLear who uses his large Nubian phallus to dickmatize lonely heartsclub caucasion men with a sweet tooth for some kind of exotica love.  Hadn't seen this dubious persona for sometime on the Berlin city streets so I thought that people were on to his grifty ways, but obviously he is still able to “werk it” with impunity as he is still in Germany and hasn't been run out of town with a pitchfork up his ass.  I guess there is no such thing as being a victim only a volunteer.  And the people he dupes deserve what they get.  After talking to this character for ten minutes and hearing him rattle on nonsensically anyone with a working brain would flee in terror not withstanding breath that smells like a small animule died in his mouth.

Zukunftsmusik

Sunday January 31^st at 8pm its Rising Stars, Falling Stars-Briefe aus der Garderobe at Arsenal Institut fur film und video kunst at Kino 2 in the basement of the Sony Center for a rare screening of the Pina Bausch directed film Lament of the Empress (Die Klage der Kaiserin).  Listen to the radio conversation with Tante Manuel “Vicki Baum” Schubert of die tageszeitung.

Rising Stars, Falling Stars - January 2016 - Vaginal Davis meets Pina Bausch by Filmanzeiger on  

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Jonathan Berger:  A Future Life

Feb 12-March 12, 2016

Adams and Ollman Gallery

Portland, Oregon

 

My most beautiful and lovesexy super talented young child of New York high art Jonathan Berger who was production designer and producer of  my recent revamp of Mozart in the Jungle Fever of The Magic Flute at the 80 WSE Gallery has a brilliant solo exhibition of his own that opens Feb 12 to March 12 at the renown Adams and Ollman Gallery at 209 SW 9^th Street in Portland Oregon.  I have known Jonathan since he was a weenager and coed at California Institute of the Arts where I taught a performance art class with tattoo love god Ron Athey back at the end of the last century. 

I fell madly in love with Jonathan and his intoxicating architecturally pulsar body of sculpt specific work, and way of thinking that was light years ahead of his peers, or anyone else for that matter.  Jonathan stands alone in an art world filled with mawkish poseurs and insipid frauds.  The gifted Mr. Berger is one baby manchild Prince of Judea of not only the promised land but the Attavey Real Madrid-McCoy.  There aren’t enough superlatives to describe the alchemy Jonathan Berger is able to invoke.

So I implore all you bi & tri-sexual coastals to not hesistate in flying and or skipping to the  mighty Pacific Northwest to see Jonathan Bergers solo exhibit A Future Life.  Your life will depend upon it.  

I predict this show will be at the top of the critics lists come the end of 2016 and the name Jonathan Berger will be a household word.

Spaete Einsichten

Large crowds at the Arsenal’s screwball comedy program with screening of You Can’t Take It With You the other evening directed by Frank Capra 1938, starring Miss Jean “I Only Photograph Good on My Right Side”Arthur  a skinny baby faced Jimmy Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Spring Byington, Eddie Rochester Anderson mugging more then Mickey Rooney, Edwrd Arnold and 14 year old Ann Miller running around in a tutu on point.  All these depression era comedies seem like they were written for todays economic turmoil and come with lots of lessons that I think really resonate with a German audience.  Ran into my Blood of Abraham Israeli art son Assaf Hochman who got kicked off of an Easy Jet plane to Greece because of his ultra tight bubble butt, and Jozo Juric the Croatian publicist BFF of Jamaica Troy from the Rosa Caletta Café.

Went back to Dr. Weigel in the Mehringdamn kiez for my second appointment.  Was expecting just to have a filling but it turned out I needed a root canal.  With any other dentist this would have been a big problema, but not with Dr.Weigel who has such a lovely manner about her and is so comforting  with personality plus.  Dr. Weigel is also related to East German cinema royalty, as her father Kurt Maetzig was a very important film director in the GDR who directed some of the banned films of the 1960s along with the state endorsed bio pic of Ernst Thaelmann.  Herr Maetzig was also the first artistic director of the film school in Babelsberg and only died a few years ago at age 101.

I just got a signed copy of the booklette The Dynamics of the Queer Movement in Turkey before and during the Conservative AKP Government by the hot tiny muscular sexy Turkish/Arab scholar and stud Zuelfukar Cetin.  Zuelfukar is one of those new breed of young academics who is getting a lot of attention at the moment.  Zuelfukar is from the ancient city of Antioche and has been living and working in Berlin as a scholar, prolific writer and activist for several years.  You can read his booklet the first of his tomes translated into English by Scandinavian Muzlim Daniel Hendrickson here:

http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/arbeitspapiere/WP_RG_Europe_2016_01.pdf

Over a decade ago I got upgraded  to business class on a flight from Europe to Amerikkka I sat next to an old gay white man who struck up a lively conversation with me.  He told me his name was Fred Koch and that he worked in art philanthropy.  I told him about my work as an artist and it seemed to peek his curiosity.  I didn’t think much about this encounter until a few years later when I was in a hotel in the States and I saw a news report about these conservative  industrialists brothers named Koch.  The news report showed a picture of the two brothers whose names I don’t remember now, but it also showed the eldest brother who was the man I met on the plane who is not part of his brothers business.  If I had known he was from a super duper billionaire clan I should have worked my feminine wiles on him and turned the rich geezer inito my sugar Opa.  He must be a dinge queen because he was certainly giving me the hairy eyeball on the plane.
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I normally do not like crowd funding announcements as I feel crowdfunding takes the responsibility away from institutions to finance artists projects where it should be and turns artists into art panhandlers and beggars of life. I would never do a crowdfunding myself but I will on occasional recommend the funding of certain projects of people whose work I admire and respect.  This is indeed the case with the work of the young Israeli artist Miss Liad.  Read on and donate accordingly:

Hi there!

if you're getting this email, there's a chance that you've heard that I just started a kickstarter campaign to fundraise my upcoming short film “No Democracy Here”, or even seen the trailer.

In case you didn't here's a link. Watch it til the end! It's fun! 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/763505520/no-democracy-here?ref=email

the film deals with a left-leaning dominatrix who conducts 'political domination' with her right-leaning slaves and teaches them about democracy and free will through power-based bdsm techniques. It was shot live and on location in israel on election day, in and out of the voting poles and includes participation from the public at hand. It challenges notions of what electoral democracy is, and of all sides who partake in it.

The film was shot a few years ago, before the unfortunate degeneration of israel into a much tighter-controlled fascist-leaning state. We got detained by police – and we have great footage from it that we wanna use in the film. Today such actions would be impossible to commit, as they'd land us in jail or beaten in the street. So it's important that we get a chance to turn it into a film.

To finish the editing process - we need money. This money isn't simply a 'donation'. You're not just helping us complete this project, you're actually buying something, in most cases at least an ability to see the film or part thereof.

I really only try to send it to people that aren't dirt-ass broke. And 10 euros is really an affordable amount for many people I know. If you can give more (and perhaps you can), consider doing so. If you're totally broke, but you've got facebook or twitter, spread the word and the link.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/763505520/no-democracy-here?ref=email

If by chance you got this by both email and facebook – sorry for the spamming. I'm desperate here.

Thank you so so much!!!!

Liad.

Alles andere zeigt die Zeit

I love the Arsenal’s screwball comedy series that has been screening for the months of December and January. The George Cukor directed Katherine Hepburn/Cary Grant starrer Holiday from the play by Philip Barry which I’d never seen before I found unexpectedly timely to the current political/economic situation. Was woofing on young humpy Henry Fonda opposite openly Lesbian Hollywood Golden era star Barbara Stanwick in Preston Sturges The Lady Eve.
Watched ganymede Cary Grant in two Howard Hawk films 1938’s Bringing Up Baby and 1949’s I Was a Male War Bride which the last time I saw was in the 1970s on TV. I didn’t remember Ann Sheridan being so butch nor that the movie was filmed mostly on location  in post war Germany.
Can’t wait to see Frank Capra’s You Can’t Take It WithYou and Preston Sturges’ 1948 film Unfaithfully Yours starring Linda Darnell and Sexy Rexy Harrison. Ran into my juicy son the blood of Abrahamic covenant Assaf Hochman and his prima flat Israeli stomach. Assaf is a modern dancer and choreographer who sometimes is a part of Catherine Sullivan’s inner sanctum. He just returned from Chicago with Sullivan and spent some holiday time in Los Angeles staying with my darling high art daughter ZacKery Drucker who is a producer on the Emmy award winning TV series Transparent. Assaf and his dimunitive husband Lil Alex Telemachos enjoyed their stay in Californication going up and down in the elevators of the Bonaventure Hotel and eating at the Grand Central Marketa that is now gone completely upscale. Lil Alex who is no longer a twinkypie at age 30 is back in his native Greece writing yet ANOTHER film treatment. Alex is fast becoming the Armand Rizzo of queer cinema.

Have a brand new dentist named Dr. Weigl who did an amazing job cleaning my one and only tooth left in my big flapping horsey mouth. Dr. Weigl is a no-nonsense east German lady with a great personality and nice manner as a dentist who is very sensitive to my pain issues and overall hysteria when it comes down to dentistry.

Had a wonderous breakfast meeting with Ali Jenka of the Vienna Austria kollektiv Gelitin at his baby papi lover Gunther’s spacious flat at Viktoria Louise Platz. Ali is the new chief of the sculpture and transmedial department at the Kunst Universitaet in Linz and he wants me to come to his school to teach one of my popular seminars. I am certainly one lady in high demand, getting offer after offer since even before all my accolades in NYC with the Magic Flute.

Die Neue Sachlichkeit

Haven’t seen for a coons age that crazed older black busker that usually haunts the Yorkstrasse U7 station with his big keyboard and erratic behavior. He looks like a cross between a spinster Rick James and Peaches from Peaches & Herb fame. I can’t remember if he wears his hair in dreadlocks, cornrows, a gherri curl or some combination thereof. A lot of Americans who long for a mainstream career in the entertainment arena come to Germany where I gather they think there is less competition and lower standards. I guess they rationalize if mediocre types like David Hasselhoff can become household names in Deutschland so can they. This poor man in the U7 singing maudlin, histrionic renditions of the lamest pop hits becomes downright psychotic if those passing his music station don’t give him a tip. I guess he is so deluded he thinks that people aren’t there to ride the train but to hear him perform. His occasional outbursts have been recorded into urban lore and most likely have resulted in him becoming persona non grata on the Yorkstrasse platform. Now if only the subway adverts of American expat cabaret singer Gayle Tufts frequent performances could also get the same treatment. In all fairness I have never seen a performance of Ms. Tufts and her Dinglish shtick, but I have been told that  the creator of such hot buttons titles as Some Like it Heisse and Love appears often on German television and is quite cheesy in a bad way and not anyones ideal of a guilty pleasure. One ItalioGerman pal who has been living in Berlin for over 25 years and is vaguely aquainted with the Gayle Tufts orbit told me she is married to a German man is financially independent and popular with a certain middleclass Deutche element, but my young German students share my eyerolling disdain of her very visage lurking in the metro.

Received a cute little new years missive from someone who is actually a true talent the electro soul diva Billie Ray Martin who use to be my Rote Insel downstairs neighbour a couple of years ago when she moved back to Berlin from Hamburg. From what I can muster she is inviting a select number of fans to witness a studio recording session. Check out the links below for details:

Hi all.

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That milkman of human humpiness The Love Camel aka:  Andrea Novarin had sent me two rare film titles that I have never heard of.  The strange 1969 incest tale In Search of Gregory starring Julie Christy, John Hurt(pre Naked Civil Servant) and hot-to-trot Michael Sarrazin as the title character, and 1968's trippy Wonderwall starring a gorgeous Jane Birkin.
With my Rising Stars, Falling Stars partner in grime Daniel Hendrickson the Scandinavian Muzlim we had a very fruitfull meeting with the lovely Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus at her gorgeous spacious compound overlooking Gorlitzter Park. Rising Stars will move in the spring from Arsenal Institut fur film und Videokunst in Postsdamer Platz to the new cultural institution of the Silent Green Kulture Quartier the former crematorium in Wedding. I playfully refer to the Silent Green as the Soylent Green. When we move to Silent Green which already houses the Arsenal public film archive and is headquarters to the Music Board Berlin, the label K-7 Records and other productions and projects we will screen from the archive a quarterly program of sweet 16 milimeter films. I’ve been presenting RSFS now for 8 years at Arsenal so moving to a new locale is very exciting.