Booth of the queer university groups of Berlin & Brandenburg.

We at Berlin's 16^th Lesbian and Gay City Festival.

Six more pictures on my flickr photostream.

We at Berlin's 16^th Lesbian and Gay City Festival.

Six more pictures on my flickr photostream.

Booth of the queer university groups of Berlin & Brandenburg.

Who's f**king who?

A little bit of backstory for the YouTube videos down below: Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel (host of the Jimmy Kimmel Show - a late night show on ABC) are dating for quite some time now and they pulled of really nice pranks on each other. So for all those who've been living behind a rock since yesterday, here comes:



And Jimmy's revenge:



However Mr. Kimmel pulled that off for his post-Oscars-show, this one is hilarious and will go down in TV history, I'm sure. There's Harrison Ford for christ's sake!

A little bit of backstory for the YouTube videos down below: Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel (host of the Jimmy Kimmel Show - a late night show on ABC) are dating for quite some time now and they pulled of really nice pranks on each other. So for all those who've been living behind a rock since yesterday, here comes:



And Jimmy's revenge:



However Mr. Kimmel pulled that off for his post-Oscars-show, this one is hilarious and will go down in TV history, I'm sure. There's Harrison Ford for christ's sake!

Who's f**king who?

School Bus : 2 = Shortbus

"It's everything you need, to get through the next two years of George Bush."

I'm sorry, I didn't write anything in October, but that month was really packed, my schedule virtually exploded with things to do. But now, while yesterday was movie night, I'm back with another short review. So, here comes...

Director John Cameron Mitchell (awarded best direction at Sundance Film Festival for his debut HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH in 2001) brings us a story of very different people, all meeting up in a salon called SHORTBUS. Just across Brooklyn Bridge, off the island of Manhattan lies a small warehouse, filled with the hopeless, those seeking for forgiveness, which they won't find in their everyday lives on the island. It is but there, where they can really live sexual liberty together and without shame. After counseling the same-sex couple Jamie & Jamie (Paul Dawson & PJ DeBoy), sex therapist Sofia (Sook-Yin Lee), joins them at the club in her desperate search for the highest of feelings, which she never has experienced, although she and her husband tried everything from the book of Kamasutra. The two gay guys feel the need to spicen up their relationship and take home the ex-model & singer Ceth (Jay Brannan), even though one of them has far darker motives in doing so. On the other side of the street lngers a silent watcher, Caleb (Peter Stickles) is a keen voyeur, documenting the life of the two Jamies. While the boys are "connecting on a much deeper level" Severin, a lonely domina (Lindsay Beamish) tries to help Sofie to get to her first big O.

This is an order to watch!

I admit, that I didn' really have a clue about the film and the description "porn meets social study" doens't quite fit it. Mitchell shows explicit sex, but no ponrography. That might sound strange, but you'll know what I mean with that when you've seen it. Because most of the sex portrayed in the film is really silly and hillarious, it gets unexpectedly funny, including some of the most wicked remarks on contemporary, post 9/11 America, and esp. New York as a city.

Places of national grief, those that have left scars on the hearts and minds of the american people, become ordinary, when in a bedroom nearby lust is sold and baught and as a result a Jackson Pollock gets another "splatter of color" on it. Even the national anthem.. well.. you'll never see it like that during a broadcast of Superbowl. The movie has an intense capability to get the audience involved; as soon as one falls for the comedy of one moment, another traumatic moment follows, so you gotta be careful not to get hickups from suddenly suppressed laughter.

Within in the club itself one feels remembered of those Hippie-days of free love, which is supported by the strokes on an acoustic guitar by some bearded guy in a self-made sweater. Next to the Mistress and Dragqueen of the club, there's a testosterone-free zone, next to the buffet and screen, there's the multi-sexual playground. A family aside the family, giving love and forgiveness to a city, longing for salvation (which was represented as a really sweet paper model). The costumes and ideas for drag where sometimes off the chart.

This film is sexy, it is thrilling, it's got eytremely good music, it shows people from next door, it's a fantasy, it's real, it is funny - you wanna scream. Make Love, Not War.

"And then there was light".

still here in theaters

Facts:

- Drama - USA 2006
- FSK: no clearance (ages 18 and up)
- Running Time: 101 Min.
- German Publisher: Senator
- German Publish Date: 19.10.2006

Visit the Shortbus MySpace-Page and Blog.

for more information:
Senator Minipage
Official German Site
Official US Site

"It's everything you need, to get through the next two years of George Bush."

I'm sorry, I didn't write anything in October, but that month was really packed, my schedule virtually exploded with things to do. But now, while yesterday was movie night, I'm back with another short review. So, here comes...

Director John Cameron Mitchell (awarded best direction at Sundance Film Festival for his debut HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH in 2001) brings us a story of very different people, all meeting up in a salon called SHORTBUS. Just across Brooklyn Bridge, off the island of Manhattan lies a small warehouse, filled with the hopeless, those seeking for forgiveness, which they won't find in their everyday lives on the island. It is but there, where they can really live sexual liberty together and without shame. After counseling the same-sex couple Jamie & Jamie (Paul Dawson & PJ DeBoy), sex therapist Sofia (Sook-Yin Lee), joins them at the club in her desperate search for the highest of feelings, which she never has experienced, although she and her husband tried everything from the book of Kamasutra. The two gay guys feel the need to spicen up their relationship and take home the ex-model & singer Ceth (Jay Brannan), even though one of them has far darker motives in doing so. On the other side of the street lngers a silent watcher, Caleb (Peter Stickles) is a keen voyeur, documenting the life of the two Jamies. While the boys are "connecting on a much deeper level" Severin, a lonely domina (Lindsay Beamish) tries to help Sofie to get to her first big O.

This is an order to watch!

I admit, that I didn' really have a clue about the film and the description "porn meets social study" doens't quite fit it. Mitchell shows explicit sex, but no ponrography. That might sound strange, but you'll know what I mean with that when you've seen it. Because most of the sex portrayed in the film is really silly and hillarious, it gets unexpectedly funny, including some of the most wicked remarks on contemporary, post 9/11 America, and esp. New York as a city.

Places of national grief, those that have left scars on the hearts and minds of the american people, become ordinary, when in a bedroom nearby lust is sold and baught and as a result a Jackson Pollock gets another "splatter of color" on it. Even the national anthem.. well.. you'll never see it like that during a broadcast of Superbowl. The movie has an intense capability to get the audience involved; as soon as one falls for the comedy of one moment, another traumatic moment follows, so you gotta be careful not to get hickups from suddenly suppressed laughter.

Within in the club itself one feels remembered of those Hippie-days of free love, which is supported by the strokes on an acoustic guitar by some bearded guy in a self-made sweater. Next to the Mistress and Dragqueen of the club, there's a testosterone-free zone, next to the buffet and screen, there's the multi-sexual playground. A family aside the family, giving love and forgiveness to a city, longing for salvation (which was represented as a really sweet paper model). The costumes and ideas for drag where sometimes off the chart.

This film is sexy, it is thrilling, it's got eytremely good music, it shows people from next door, it's a fantasy, it's real, it is funny - you wanna scream. Make Love, Not War.

"And then there was light".

still here in theaters

Facts:

- Drama - USA 2006
- FSK: no clearance (ages 18 and up)
- Running Time: 101 Min.
- German Publisher: Senator
- German Publish Date: 19.10.2006

Visit the Shortbus MySpace-Page and Blog.

for more information:
Senator Minipage
Official German Site
Official US Site

School Bus : 2 = Shortbus

Two real fathers.

As long as there are kids like this boy from the Netherlands, stepping up on stage performing for "Songs from Children for Children", I would like to believe, that the world's moving in the right direction.



via SeiDu.Blog

As long as there are kids like this boy from the Netherlands, stepping up on stage performing for "Songs from Children for Children", I would like to believe, that the world's moving in the right direction.



via SeiDu.Blog

Two real fathers.

queer BBQ

Yesterday we met up in Potsdam's BUGA-Park celebrating the leave of Stefan - you will be dearly missed, but oh well, six months aren't the world. So as we say bon soir to you, your new home in France welcomes you: Bonjour!.

Lots of beverages and fine foods went down our throats and as the night had fallen upon us remaining few, we knew: this young, we'll never meet again.

Yesterday we met up in Potsdam's BUGA-Park celebrating the leave of Stefan - you will be dearly missed, but oh well, six months aren't the world. So as we say bon soir to you, your new home in France welcomes you: Bonjour!.

Lots of beverages and fine foods went down our throats and as the night had fallen upon us remaining few, we knew: this young, we'll never meet again.

queer BBQ

Frequently Asked Questions OR a synonym for the word used most

So, tonight I went out with a bunch of Queens to watch FAQs, the new film from Luster-maker Everett Lewis.

Story: Hustler gets into trouble with supposedly gay bashers and is rescued by a tall, afro-american Drag Queen called Destiny. She gives him somehting to eat and takes him home, but he's to obey some house-rules: 2 hours of nudity each day, for "we" aren't ashamed of our bodies and: always wear a condom.

Watcha gettin': So this all-too typical start for any Hustler-movie out there (streetkid sells his body, is taken in by s.o. -> new life!) is nice only because it's over soon enough. Afterwards the movie's comedy (while I'm not sure if this humor is intentionally or not) is the one thing setting it above the real real awful Sugar. The more it progresses, the more time is spent on kissing or having sex or getting in or out of bed. As finally the white police officer and the gay bashers from the beginning of the movie join the gay community, this piece of motion picture gets incredibly trashy and kitschy.

There are a lot of guns pointed at each and everyone of the characters, but no-one dies, so there's absolutely no drama at all. The problems of the characters seem to be all the same: family is white and christian so they got rid of their faggot kids, and their quick solution is wanting revenge by killing them or blowing them up with home-made bombs (WTF?!) - which they don't do. So in the end, the movie is all but West Hollywood - it's Hollywood, because there's a Happy Ending, with too much gays per square feet. Credibilty = Zero. But hey, it's funny.

So, don't watch it in a theater, borrow the DVD, have some friends over with popcorn and laugh off your asses.

Facts:

· USA 2005
· Writer/Director: Everett Lewis
· Camera: Gavin Kelly
· Actors: Lance Lee Davis, Tera Green, Adam Larson, Joe Lia...
· Length: 96 min.
· DVD: Code 0, PAL · Color · 16:9 · english w/ german subtitles
· in German theaters since: 10. August 2006
· German Publisher: GMfilms

So, tonight I went out with a bunch of Queens to watch FAQs, the new film from Luster-maker Everett Lewis.

Story: Hustler gets into trouble with supposedly gay bashers and is rescued by a tall, afro-american Drag Queen called Destiny. She gives him somehting to eat and takes him home, but he's to obey some house-rules: 2 hours of nudity each day, for "we" aren't ashamed of our bodies and: always wear a condom.

Watcha gettin': So this all-too typical start for any Hustler-movie out there (streetkid sells his body, is taken in by s.o. -> new life!) is nice only because it's over soon enough. Afterwards the movie's comedy (while I'm not sure if this humor is intentionally or not) is the one thing setting it above the real real awful Sugar. The more it progresses, the more time is spent on kissing or having sex or getting in or out of bed. As finally the white police officer and the gay bashers from the beginning of the movie join the gay community, this piece of motion picture gets incredibly trashy and kitschy.

There are a lot of guns pointed at each and everyone of the characters, but no-one dies, so there's absolutely no drama at all. The problems of the characters seem to be all the same: family is white and christian so they got rid of their faggot kids, and their quick solution is wanting revenge by killing them or blowing them up with home-made bombs (WTF?!) - which they don't do. So in the end, the movie is all but West Hollywood - it's Hollywood, because there's a Happy Ending, with too much gays per square feet. Credibilty = Zero. But hey, it's funny.

So, don't watch it in a theater, borrow the DVD, have some friends over with popcorn and laugh off your asses.

Facts:

· USA 2005
· Writer/Director: Everett Lewis
· Camera: Gavin Kelly
· Actors: Lance Lee Davis, Tera Green, Adam Larson, Joe Lia...
· Length: 96 min.
· DVD: Code 0, PAL · Color · 16:9 · english w/ german subtitles
· in German theaters since: 10. August 2006
· German Publisher: GMfilms

Frequently Asked Questions OR a synonym for the word used most

OMG another blog!

Oh yes, here it is. Another blog - by another idiot - who thinks anyone's gonna read, what he's gonna publish here.

A friend of mine finally convinced me to do this, because my life is oh so interesting. Well, we'll see about that. This first entry is actually worth nothing at all, I just needed to write anything to be able to preview and change my template. So guess what, you just lost 30sec. of your life to no information at all.

Have a nice day.

Oh yes, here it is. Another blog - by another idiot - who thinks anyone's gonna read, what he's gonna publish here.

A friend of mine finally convinced me to do this, because my life is oh so interesting. Well, we'll see about that. This first entry is actually worth nothing at all, I just needed to write anything to be able to preview and change my template. So guess what, you just lost 30sec. of your life to no information at all.

Have a nice day.

OMG another blog!