{ Guardian UK reports: Guy Laliberté returns red-nosed to Earth after space odyssey Cirque du Soleil tycoon lands in Kazakhstan after 10 days aboard the International Space Station wearing his clown’s nose } This is inspiring and disturbing at the same time… Does it really take a clown in space to tell us all to get a clue??! […]

Today’s the day NASA blows things up on the moon. Yep they’re launching a missile at the moon. Are the boys just getting bored at Cape Canaveral again ? Not sure how many people are really afraid of the moon being destroyed or pushed out of its orbit or an explosion having some unknown repercussions. It […]

{ the Giantess passing thru the Tiergarten } One cannot just step in during a perfectly executed Grand National Episode, and say “Excuse me, BUt… “ Royal De Luxe created perhaps one of the most photogenic fairytale enactments in the history of historical commemoration. Surely more than a million spectators were on hand to to be mesmerized, in person, over a 4-day anniversary event of the reunification of Germany. Everyone else will be swimming thru the archives … for however long the magic spell will last.

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{ checkpoint, Europa Stunde Null } Swamp, Europa Year Zero. One of the best deconstructions your likely to see about the end of communism told thru a kind of time-travelling backstage history blowjob, but not at Roger Water’s newly styrofoam-christened Postdamerplatz … rather somewhere on a dark bridge between Sarajevo, a Lexus car dealership, 1973 and […]

( a Barbie execution : source unknown ) Work in Progress : Operation Dancing Polanski … A beautiful weekend that felt like spring was cycling back in a full erotic dance in defiance of the calendar. And then the horrible german election news. The idiots won… it wasn’t a surprise, ya know, but then the morning after is a little bit like waking up with a decapitated horse head in your bed. Monday hit with a full gray plunge, cold, wet, an awaiting flat bike tire, piles of work, bank account looking like a ship getting torn in two by a reef in the shallows… and debates about whether Roman Polanksi deserves a bloody nose or a noose or should be given slack for the rape of a 13 yr.

… www.MauerPark-Fertigstellen.de Rule Your Own Backyard and The Rest Will Follow ; ) No Buildings Here Mother$%^#ers ! ::: A messy reportback: We received a note that the Really Really Free Market was happening yesterday in San Francisco’s Dolores Park. Big REsPeX to Kirsten Brydum ( Murdered in NOLa 2008 ) … Long Live the Really ReallY FRee!!! Here in Btown, […]

[ Ana Kiri eludes the waketime thieves ] XLterrestrials are developing a backdoor to the outlands, a new XLt Psy ~ Fi tale… coming soon. If you didn’t yet catch the 1st… it’s here at Plotki.net

{ XLt + Fela } We were so busy with our latest performances, there’s a lot of news we weren’t able to keep up with. Here’s a few bits … and random and not-so-random perceptions: Woke up this morning listening to some older tunes on LastFM and wondering what sucked the life out of that notorious revolt […]

[ XLt meets Piranha meets Ramadan meets Pasolini meets … the Muse + Electric Sheep ; ) ] « 21.9 » Piranha’s Nights of Ramadan finale of a 3 week multi-kulti Ramadan festival featuring U-Cef & The Arab League ( Morocco/Uk ) with Dr. Das (Sri Lanka/UK ) :: Visual System by the XLterrestrials/MDc Crew + Green Sun ( San Fran/Berlin/Wien ) :: Afel Bocoum ( Mali ) :: Skarabaeus (Turkey/Berlin ) :: Kamilya Jubran ( Palestine/France ) :: Mahmoud Fadl & Delta Ensemble ( Egypt/ Berlin ) :: Sidare ( Iran ) and dj Ipek ( Kreuztanbul ) … and many more scared and juicy bits from the Islamic worldS… [ see Links below ]

< 5.9 > w/ djs Pod~inski, Jemek Jemowit, und DJ Maurus Gee …and special guests Dieter Putnigam (Wien) ~ live e-graffiti ( tagtool ) on top of the XLterrestrials’ Psychotronic Ostblok mix :: ab 21h / free at Club der Polnischen Versager, B-mitte “In 10 Jahren sind wir erwachsen! Bis dahin feiern wir Jahr für […]

< 23.8. > Jahcoozi w/ Roots Manuva and Radio Clit … 15 Years of YAAM ! … < 21.8 > Watcha Clan & Sista Fa at Glashaus/Arena Berlin … Popdeurope’s world music season finale with Piranha label representin! … < 13-15.10 > Royal De Luxe comes to Berlin for 20th anniversary of the Mauerfall… Die Riesen Kommen/ The Giants Arrive http://www.riesen-in-berlin.de/die-riesen-kommen/die-riesen-kommen.html ok, […]

[ A wordcloud generated from workshop/discussions of what results are sought from a “media lab” ] … [ foto from Maria - ptqk blog ] … An XLt Analysis of the the entire Sommercamp + Workstation 09 at Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt… coming soon, but hey the tropical btown weather is melting large portions of our critical + […]

With all due respex + affection, some folks have a fUNNy way of celebrating summertime : + + < 10-16.8 > Sommercamp +Workstation 2009 : Labor fuer Kunst und Medien Berlin < 9.8 > Opening performance evening with Jessica Rylan (US), Ciat Lonbarde/Peter Blasser (US), Hildur Gudnadottir (IS), Halldor Ulfarsson (IS/F), Tore Honore Boe (N/E), […]

REWIND: [ Steve Bell. 2006 ] To analyze the media world’s portrayal and subsequent popular parroting + echoes of what goes on with interpreting the upheaval in Iran, one might rewind the tape just a few years back to 2006, and take a look at Steve Bell’s ripping comic interventions. Replace Bush with let’s say an average […]