OK as everyone knows there is a u-bahn strike today until 3pm tomorrow so we switching to Plan 8 from Kreuzberg... There will be a light Meal tonight around 9 followed by the film if anyone is up for it.

Tomorrow (Saturday) we will be doing an expanded hot lunch (Roast Pork etc.) around 3pm followed by Berlin Alexanderplatz part one (For the last Time) then the first episode of LOST season 4

So come on by tonight for a mellow hang out night and tomorrow for some great German and American Television

Part 2 and 3 of Berlin Alexanderplatz will be on Sunday at 5

the paper explains how the wolves are driven from natural environs by dins and poison of compulsion’s development, the bipedals’ greedful encroach at epochgreen level of forest floor to force growling dreambrothers to bound from the brush, dogshaking oddments, needle and leaf, from toothcolored coats, noses to the road, after time long (as the cooling of new diamonds) in exile. a floss-haired child of Siemens’ managerial class reports being sniffed by creatures too cool to be dogs, too rank to be phantasms, in their country garden, l’heure bleue, late june, case two: retired insomniac circumnavigating a private lake on a bike costing twice what equivalent Romanians take home in a year was paced for what seemed like hours by loping blurs so rich in odor he fainted, waking shoeless, bent-biked in gentian.

the North American grins a glance over his paper at a waif on the long seat facing, gulpsniffing tears, thumbs mothwingwhite beating handy’s stampsized keypad of vapid lights, we fears it’s a bad breakup with her Abelard via texting. beside her to the right a woman Val recognizes, her legs entwined with a man’s who cannot be quite twin, but co-lingual cousin, flicking her lips with slim tongue in macho-feminist grace like young South Americans, black manes fused above marvelously lupine brows, then oilspilled down her shoulders, breasts, jeanlegs folded over the seat and his bold hands separating her thighs in futile’s best gesture. hidden by his paper and coat, the old jester, made stiff as a goat by the rutting display, contemplates taking what they would not freely give, this sin of pre-human

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Here a double shot of the man, the legend, the Philadelphian from Alabama by way of infinity and beyond..SUN RA

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the wallet is warm, ruddybrown, fleshily complex as an arrant organ or suave soft coprolite, baklava of the middlemanager’s luther-ordered life, clean as bleak boredom yet implicit sins are packed wherein a condom abides in a compartment beside five photos of lost kids, the cats, old boat, fat wife, a crescent worn through on the royalblue foil wrapper like islam’s caliper moon plus three hundred eighty nine euros the first two of which go to the purchase of a BZ screaming “wolf sighted on the outskirts of Berlin” plus a Ritter Sport savouring richly of sin he’ll eat on the Underground while reading it. underlit

as though by klieg light by welders he descends, chewing, the operaset of the stairsteps at the Friedrichstrasse stop to accomplished Bach on a Slavbusker’s pearl-mullioned accordion, the brown cascading fingers on toccataworn keys the North American tips with a fifty at which gypsy kicks free of stool, stands to switch to a pumping Lohengrin, the platform whelmed black in overcoats, sorrel furs, hell-blue veins, red chins, gold helms of Wagnerian hair raked by the tunneling winds

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Tuesday 29 January 8:30 The Dixie Chicks Documentary Shut Up & Sing (2006) Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck

Wednesday 30 January Reading Group 8:00 History of Love by Nicole Krauss

Thursday 31 January 8:30 Berlin Alexanderplatz Part 2 and 3 (1980) R.W. Fassbinder

Friday 01 February 9pm Dinner around 11 Film SURPRISE FILM

Saturday 02 February Bookshop open 12-6pm

Sunday 03 February Bookshop open 12-6pm around 5pm Film Berlin Alexanderplatz Part 2 and 3 (1980) R.W. Fassbinder

Monday 04 February Bookshop Closed

Tuesday 05 February 8:30 Catch 22 (1970) Mike Nichols

Wednesday 06 February 8:30 (FREE) Sister Chain and Brother John present The Fantasy Cellar with The Lonesomes! The magical moo-core quartet conducted by Gelbart

Thursday 07 February 8:30 Berlin Alexanderplatz Part 4 and 5 (1980) R.W. Fassbinder

Friday 08 February 9pm Dinner around 11 Film MAS*H (1970) Robert Altman

Saturday 09 February Bookshop open 12-6pm

Sunday 10 February Bookshop open 12-6pm around 5pm Film Berlin Alexanderplatz Part 4 and 5 (1980) R.W. Fassbinder

Monday 11 February Bookshop Closed

Two decades after the end of the Berlin ... Two decades before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Girls Who Loved Beatles and the Beatles Who Hated Them, "Them" Being "Beatles".

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The Week at a Glance....

Thursday 24 January 8:30 Berlin Alexanderplatz Part 1 Die Strafe beginnt (1980)

Friday 25 January 9pm Dinner around 11 Film HELP! (1965) Richard Lester and the Beatles..... need I say more

Saturday 26 January Bookshop open 12-6pm

Sunday 27 January Bookshop open 12-6pm around 5pm Film Berlin Alexanderplatz Part 1 Die Strafe beginnt (1980) Click here for Trailer from Bavaria Film

Monday 28 December Bookshop Closed

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TIME - The Musical by Dave Clark opened on April 9th, 1986 in the Dominion Theatre in London's West End.

The original cast boast Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir Cliff Richard.

The concept album (vinyl LP and cassette) was released in 1986. Including performances by- Sir Cliff Richard Freddie Mercury Dionne Warwick Stevie Wonder Julian Lennon Leo Sayer Sir Laurence Olivier John Christie

Time tells the story of the Rock Star named Chris Wilder, Cliff Richard, (later by David Cassidy) who has been transported, with backup singers Louise, Babs and Carol, from his concert on Earth to the High Court of the Universe. There they face three other-worldly judges to defend the Earth in the case of the Time Lord vs. the people of the planet Earth. From the programme: "...Now that man is venturing to the stars and has already walked on the Moon, 'Melchisedic', The Time Lord, has decided that the time has come to examine the Earth's people to determine whether they shall be an asset or a threat to Universal peace.” Wilder convinces the judges that the Earth is worth sparing and he is transported back to his concert at the same time that he left. (Unbelievable, you say? It gets better.) Laurence Olivier portrayed a holographic floating head named Akash (his role was filmed) who is a pseudo-narrator throughout the show.

"Songs of death, destruction and disaster, recorded by black and white performers from the dawn of American roots recording are here, assembled together for the first time. Whether they document world-shattering events like the sinking of the Titanic or memorialize long forgotten local murders or catastrophes, these 70 recordings – over 30 never before reissued – are audio messages in a bottle reflecting a lost world where age old ballads rubbed up against songs inspired by the day's headlines." Available here fo' free.