The new hit “Rumy plays Babylon” was the timely sequel to “Beyond the Valley of the Republicrats”. And there was a line all the way around the block of humanitarian rights organizations who are more than ready to tell the courts all the nauseating details of the atrocities in this made-for-tv war against civilized society in general, arabs and muslims in particular. Oh so strange that no one wants to distribute this blockbuster thriller. Have you read any reviews about it in Your spineless and negligent corporate media outlets?

A couple weeks ago the Babylon Mitte Kino was host to Matthew Barney. Today it’s some major human rights NGOs which include RAV.de, Internationale Liga fuer Menschenrechte (FIDH) , and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) to discuss war crimes proceedings against Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and others. Should be some astounding moments in the history of law and the future of civilization. Reports coming soon. Program in german below. Michael Ratner (CCR) and the ex-general and commander of the military police in Iraq, Janis Karpinski attending.

The XL Terrestrials project heads to Croatia in 2 weeks, and one of the stops will be MAMA in Zagreb. Happened to catch a great linked essay on their site that Zizek presented at Columbia in 2003, called Too Much Democracy? Well not one of his best actually, but there are some ingenious lines that are highly appropriate to (S)election day in the US. “ “Democracy” means that, whatever electoral manipulation took place, every political agent will unconditionally respect the results.

Just received 2 emails regarding NYC Indymedia journalist Brad Will being shot by paramilitaries in Oaxaca, and been searching the international media for this breaking news, and shocked that there is so little appearing. Deep gratitude to Indymedia for covering these very tense events in Mexico so thoroughly and deep respects to Brad Will for being on the front lines to bear witness. As for the rest of the media : WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU ?!! Just a few hours earlier the BBC had a pathetic and spineless story about Vicente Fox’s need to restore order and has already been re-edited/over-written, but still the 3 deaths, one of which is a journalist, remains practically a footnote.

Last nite we went to see Matthew Barney present films for a program entitled All in the Present Must Be Transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys at the aptly named theater Babylon Mitte. Barney is in town for a new exhibition called Heal the Knive that Cuts the Wound: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys opening this weekend at the Deustche Guggenheim, which equals Deutsche Bank + Guggenheim Museum attempting to get radical and naughty with the superstar of fin de siecle cinema and “plastic shamanics” and art infiltrations, but what does it actually look like to poke oneself in The Eye of The Spectacle?

Well, i suppose we should be a little tidier in our archival trails, this is now the 3rd visible Transmigration of Cinema (TOC) remix version posted here cause we keep re-arranging the directives for our next round of touring in November… and this text for the Prague exhibition at the NOD gallery has been a challenge. And it seems useful to use the podopolog for thinking aloud, even if it hasn’t yet developed into a forum as yet. As we were trying to come up with that ursprung and backround for the XLTs … we were reminded of that strange, intense beginning, when the concept arose from a mix of deep personal changes, outrage, and despair.

[for arts and politics seminar in Prague beginning November 28 , called “Czechpoint”. will have more info in the coming weeks or feel free to contact us for more details. ] In legal language of nation-states, an alien is a person who is not a native or naturalized citizen of the land where they are found. And to stay or work within a country’s borders aliens may need special immigration documents or permits that authorize them to do so. Then at the opposite end of the vocabulary and ontological spectrum there are those regions where poetry reigns with anything from rhythmic transcendance to out-stretched tentacles of personal and crystallized meaning where our “papers” and our “i.

expect a string of short attention span versions… so we have collected a bunch of new media ecology and online diagnosis threads, but with all kinds of glitches in the air … like a laptop battery attached to a temporary I.V. - drip … yes the little apple “podmosis” brain suffered a concussion. we had a near catastrophe with short circuit - kurzschluss - at our last russen disco gig and it has knocked out some internal hardware… minor damage in the long run but while she sits in the sling … it has added to the toll of a grey week … that has wrapped itself around an autumn full moon, which makes everything appear like a hangover thru a fisheye lens … like trying to look In through the peephole to see what strangers are standing behind the door holding the key to Your office or home or future.

We have been in the lab this week trying to come up with a remix of Transmigration of Cinema to present at some venues and festivals coming up in November and beyond. One scenario in particlar is for a Czech exhibition and festival of political art which will explore “checkpoints” - those places where “an inspection or investigation is performed” - fueled by the contexts of geograhphical and political borders, points of exchange, and points of exclusion, “a selectively-permeable membrane between regimes, between economics, between beliefs”.

Dear Mr. Schlingensief, Your work would make an incredible antidote to the current cultural maladies in the USSA. Should you ever venture into That arena cloaked in your new semiotic art amidst the Broadway of wolves, ( think: Beuys NYC gallery debut ) , we have 3 working titles for you to consider: The ABCs OF DISNEYWELTSCHMERZ 2. THE ASSASSINATION OF THE TV EVANGELIST’S INTERNET PROVIDER 3. XL TERRESTRIALS, ALL U CAN EAT ! ( the XLTs are accumulating a number of anti-scripts for art upgrades , please feel free to contact us for trial downloads ) … and maybe we can get Rev.

The new Berlin theater experience from Christoph Schlingensief, the madly engaged director of electroshock cinema therapy experiments like Menu Total and The German Chainsaw Massacre, is built upon a revolving stage which beckons the audience to come for a ride into a blender of bloody good topics ranging from the overplayed and unresolved dead-end icon Lady Di to the never-made-for-Tv dramatization/hallucinations to Allan Kaprow, the american artist who gave birth to 60’s Happenings. There’s plenty more incompatible and expansive topics thrown in to ensure your personal time code and all plot lines are sufficiently scrambled so that we might each adjust our individual and uniquely human perceptions for maximum free associations.

Freitag, 29.09.2006 Soliparty… Supa-DružbaR!!! Wir tanzen euch auf dem Dach herum - fuer queere Verhaeltnisse! Soli für: Rene - seit dem CSD in Polen inhaftiert; Leinestrasse - Prozesskostensoli wegen der gewaltsamen Räumung einer Party + eine antirassistische Hochzeit. 2 dance floors: (elektro-)pop, russkaja diskoteka. (dj podski from the ussa … spielt 22:30…und den noch viel mehr djs bis ?? … 4 uhr ??) ( dear eric , if yur reading this hope ya don’t mind yur images - w/o acknowledgment - used once again for great causes… it wasn’t me : )

The opening night of Radio Revolten in Halle, with the Halle belltower, Radio Worm (Rotterdam) and Nordpol Ziguener ( “the northpole gypsy” , Berlin ). There’s daily programming for this festival, but a quik reminder if u haven’t checked the earlier entry ( below)… The main conference event is Oct. 4 and 5.

Read the whole story at : http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/20/18312766.php and the interview on Democracy Now here: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/15/1342254 … THIS IS A CRITICAL STORY regarding the new climate for journalists in the USSA. …but please , i recommend that Judith Miller’s message be used for pin-the-tail on the embedded donkey-journalist ! And if you need backround for That story read here: http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn08182003.html … it is one of Alexander Cockburn’s high-flying counterpunches that lays the entire Spineless + Warmongering NY Times flat on the mat.

Radio Revolten Festival in Halle, Germany Sept.20- Oct.21, 2006 “RR showcases installations, performances, and 0n-air projects as models of experimental radio cultures within a social context. The artistic works concern themselves primarily with the future of the medium of radio. ” News and Reports coming soon. For now, check the extensive program here: http://www.radiorevolten.radiocorax.de/ From Chantal Dumas and Mario Gauthier’s installation project, “Petite métaphysique de la radio ou la chambre d’à coté” …” Referring to philosophers as Guy Debord and Brice Parain, the installation deals with our daily use of the medium and its impact on reality reflecting on how the transindividual perception of the medium constantly changes.