www.peoplelikeus.org

The most recent show from Jan. 15 is a gem not to be missed! Way to go, Vicki!

"For 16 years Vicki Bennett has been making CDs, radio, and A/V multimedia under the name People Like Us . By animating and recontextualising found footage collages Vicki gives an equally witty and dark view of popular culture with a surrealistic edge. People Like Us does an ongoing experimental arts radio and podcast show on WFMU called "DO or DIY"

Her records can be conviently purchased at the above mentioned site or fine stores like Neurotitan which is in the back of Haus Schwarzenberg, 3rd floor.

check out Eric Hobsbawm´s Diary in the London Review of books on Weimar Germany

Found this fantastic video for Pierre Henri's knaller. BTW, he's live @ Volksbühne 25.01.

Surreptitiously discovered yesterday was the birthday of Augustus Owsley Stanley III "the unrepentant patriarch of LSD". Here a very interesting interview conducted around '93. He's living off the grid in Aussieland and has got some tidbits to share. 2007 interview with SF Chronicle scribe Joel Selvin. Wikipedia entryOwsley

Red Room - Where the Writers Are: "Through original, author-generated content, we offer a trustworthy and creative social network unlike any other. Here, you can connect with your favorite authors, access current industry news, and comment on engaging features. By fostering true community between authors and readers, Red Room showcases esteemed writers and inspires the next generation."

with his back to the window of the orderly flat overlooking Schiller’s golem at Gendarmenmarkt he writes his blog, the content of which is all his sins, from the unconscious nosepicking he once glanced to catch reflected in the u-bahn’s black glass to pulling a long one off
on the pic his memory took home of that cigsucking schoolgirl who brushed his arm on his way out of a news agent, Spiegel rolled tight in its burberry crook, her platinum fringe cinched to his fist on his belly in the daydream later like a bobbing light. regret floods in (sin's twin) as the pleasure ebbs, a grim shade shaking its head over the shock of the copious, the downright hale in a drib’s stead, the heady wipe-up job, all of it gone into the blog. Confessions of a Pedant in the Autumn of his Life draws a respectable village of hits every night, an audience delighting in foibles so nobly limned as to render, eg, his borgia fart at a christening (way back when) almost charming. logging off,

it’s out into the warm winter’s low-ceilinged bunker of sundown, hotel lobbies and monocustomered coffee shops as rundown blocks of yellow in the purpled armature of the pauline disbursion of converted light, the North American pursuant of darkling maps of homelylessness, his curiosity’s pickily feline lonelinesslessness on Jaegerstrasse fraught with clotting silhouettes, circumspect outbursts of halfchatter and horny mirth, a Geschaeftsmanner invasion from Duesseldorf platooning through, the brotherly violence of so many at march in a beerblind line against the baroque blue horizon. he sees one drop

a wallet like the pigeons’ kingsized tip; can’t wait

to write the post on spending it

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Friday 18 January Dinner 9pm Film 11pm What´s New Pussycat? (1965)

Sunday 20 January Bookshop open 12-6pm The War 5pm Who ever comes can choose a missed episode.

Tuesday 22 January 9pm Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) Joseph Mankiewicz

From now on, all nicotine freaks will have to visit the smokers lounge in the fantasy cellar downstairs (open the hatch, go down the ladder and follow the blinking lights and the fluffy white rabbits!)

No more smoking during live performances. Go outside or smoke in the little backroom upstairs if you really can't wait for 30 minutes or so.

No more smoking during the movies unless everyone agrees that it's ok. We don't want to make this too complicated. So, it would be nice if we don't have to have endless discussions about this.

Starts on thursday the 24th of January around 8.30 with the first two episodes and will continue on thursday until it's over. Nuff said!

Check out this link for an excellent article on this wonderful series.

By the way, there is a copy of the english translation of the book on the "no, no, you can't buy that"-shelf!

The shop is no. 7 of the 25 top locations in Berlin on MyDayTrip.com, a social network for globetrotters : "Part bookshop, part library, this eclectic, brainy hub is a "country" of its own. The "cult" leader of "Another Country" is Alan Raphaeline, who would be more than happy to challenge anyone and everyone in extemporaneous discussions/debates about almost any topic (except for Harry Potter)."

This Thursday 9pm Great live comedy Not to be Missed... There is a 4 euro cover for this Event, Mention the Mailing List and get your first Beer or Drink on the House

My English Class - the strangest and raunchiest language lesson you’re ever likely to have outside a Polish barber's. That’s us. We’re here. Come and lose it. Our special guest will be one of Britain’s funniest students! The show will be followed by a short and fascinating Q&A session about trans-cultural comedy chaired by Dr. Chris Ritchie, course leader in the world's only comedy degree.

(in honor of the end of an era)

you are a berlin at the center of which is a Bezirk in the heart of which is a cafe in the smoke of which rave the dogs and babies old beyond the saturated stains of all their days, the tepid milch kaffees and kretek-punctuated ennui-activated litany of welfare-subsidized complaints

you are a berlin of dogs and babies both, the merde-smirched Pony Hof, imaginary Schlosses atop ten landfill-bulges looming o’er this ganja-clouded yankee-haunted WG-rich terrain.

i love your streets, their birdshit dog-do juicyfruits, their smog-consuming, fog-excreting piss-fed trees; the orgy of the prospect of the easty beastie boulevards these trees line up in nude platoons like flashers bent and twisted in arthritic throes of esoteric agony. i love

your frank municipality; its endless wave of pidgin English ironies; the sonnet-pretty übermenschy whores of June the 17th, too late for Bloom, too blonde and cool, too cheap to prove a mystery:

they are berlin and we ride black with Ecstasy

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Search request: how can you live an exciting life in another country

This seems to be a pretty funny show! Especially if you're into TV...

Thursday 10 January Berlin Alexanderplatz - The Making of - A Mega-Movie and it's Story (2007) Juliane Lorenz (German with English Subtitles) A behind-the-scenes documentary providing viewers with an in-depth look at the making of this classic film with new interviews of cast and crew.

Friday 11 January Candy (1968) Cristian Marquand Conchita Candy Christian is an innocent young girl when she first hears NcPhito, an alcoholic Welsh poet, talk of love and self-sacrifice. Candy narrowly escapes McPhisto's attempt to rape her, only to succumb to her father's Mexican gardener, Emmanuel. When her father catches her with the gardener, he banishes her to a trip with his twin brother, Uncle Jack, and Jack's wife Aunt Livia, who are headed for New York City. As Candy makes her way to the airport, Emmanuel's three sisters attack her because she has corrupted their brother. Because of Candy, Emmanuel has now forsaken the priesthood. During the scuffle, Candy's father takes a blow to the head, resulting in a serious head injury. Candy nearly gives in to a General Smight on the plane in exchange for a blood transfusion for her father. In New York, an ego-maniacal brain surgeon Dr. Krankeit operates on her father, while Uncle Jack pursues his own operation on Candy. When Candy bashes him with a bedpan, Uncle Jack is put in her father's hospital bed, while her father wanders away without notice. Candy is now free to visit Greenwich Village where she takes part in a film by an underground movie director Jonathan J. John. It's a pornographic film, shot in a public restroom. Next, Candy becomes the pet of a benevolent hunchback in Central Park, but she escapes from his arch criminal into the truck trailer of Guru Grindl. During the drive to California, Grindl initiates her into the mysteries of the Seventh Stage and other secrets of life. In California, Candy seeks the Great Buddah, who will reveal to her the ultimate stage. In her search, she encounter a filthy hermit who leads her to a temple. There Candy and the hermit have sex. When a deluge destroys the temple and washes the hermit clean. Candy recognizes that the hermit is really her wandering father. Again Candy runs away to more trouble. The final time, however, she finds herself in a hippie orgy, reunited with her past sexual partners.

Saturday 12 January Bookshop open 12-6pm

Sunday 13 January Bookshop open 12-6pm 2pm The War Part 5, 6 and 7 5. FUBAR The Allied troops run out of fuel on the border of Germany; Commanders drop troops in Netherlands and behind enemy lines; General MacArthur prepares to land forces on the islan of Leyte. 6. The Ghost Front After nearly three years of fighting, bad news from the War Department does not stop; Adolf Hitler begins launching his counterattack in the Ardennes forest of Luxembourg and Belgium. 7. A World Without War With the Nazis on the verge of surrendering, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt warns the American citizens that the war with Japan could take several years to resolve.

Tuesday 15 January 8:30 The War Part 5, 6 and 7 (see Saturday for Info)

After the successful pilot-event with low-fi prinzessa Marzipan Marzipan - Fantasy Cellar hits again with The Lonesomes! The magical moo-core quartet conducted by Gelbart offer an amazing tribute to the great outdoors. Check it out on www.myspace.com/lonesomes

Resident band Sister Chain & Brother John will fulfill - within reason - your darker wishes.

From Smile Orange Films

"This is an intro to a short documentary depicting the drunk social lifes of human beings on the streets of england..

SFscope.com: "Apex has just published Lavie Tidhar's collection HebrewPunk. The collection of three previously published stories and one new novella combine the usual fantastical tropes (vampires, werewolves, demons) with Jewish mysticism."