+ < 1.8 > “Sowjetisches Kino im polnischen Plakat” eröffnet um 20:00 Uhr PIGASUS polish poster gallery Torstr. 62, 10119 Berlin Ausstellungsdauer: bis zum 31. August 2009 … tbc

[ Summer in the Palestinian Islands ( via dusanson) + greetings to our global citizen compas currently in Jerusalem! ] … Well, having felt a little bamboozled and of conflicted opinions re: the N.a.s.a. L.A.-style party beats last weekend ( more on that in the previous entry ), it’s a good time to clear the musical palette and assemble a list of fresh inspiring things that are on our radar… just press play ( well mostly ) : … …

< 23-25.7 > Freigest Music Festival with Brass Wood and Wires, DLC- Sudsound, Ganjaman, XLterrestrials + Media Decompression ( Sat.), Open Air + Big Tent Kino, Infostands, TV Coop, workshops, & Art resistance in many forms! all at YAAM, Berlin ( a bit subject to weather since most of Yaam is open air ) … < 24.7 > N.A.S.A. lands at Icon, Berlin Some of the Hottest shit ( at least in the pop sector ) to hit these ears this year is NASA’s 1st release, The Spirit Of Apollo.

So many thoughts are pouring thru, maybe we’ll write some down eventually, but for the moment one cannot appropriately post the music or the silence of the emotional and humbling anthropomorphic journeys. Another sign that the reductionism of the digital is a very very funny joke. Maybe a tribute to the man on the moon would fit here too, but for now Gil Scott Heron did one that already hits the spot called Whitey on The Moon. tbc… ( maybe )

< 17-19.7 > Schokoladen Hoffest # 19 with Schokoladen Venue, Club der Polnischen Versager and a whole colorful assortment of true neighborhood flavors in the Hof at Ackerstr. 169, Berlin Added: dj~vjs Youssarian + Podinski ( upstairs ) sat. nite ~ ~ ~ Recently the XLterrestrials determined that a tactical guide to surviving in the 21st century would have to entail a map and a pie-chart and a diagram for multiple escape hatches to exit the “virtual migration” - refering to the commercial+commodities vortex that sucks the libidinal energies, all yur communities’ natural resources, and yur individual hard-earned mullah into the faceless void.

Freezones were never a given, they must be created ! Having navigated Berlin for many years, the XLTerrestrials have observed that the territories for “free living” ( best defined for yourself ) have tragicly declined… and the city life is spiralling into a dismal normalized state. Fortunately the awareness is on the rise, and the time is ripe to take account of where your home is and when to fight for it: 11.7 > MegaSpree Demo ( By no means is this all that is happening, afterall this is a mostly symbolic action, a demo march from here to there to rouse the solidarity spirit and inform the wider public, another small human-scale day going only as far as one day can go.

< 8.7 > Mittwoch Abend 20.30 ~ DJ ~ VJ ~ Performance am Alten Museum in Mitte More info in english here (below): Hallo liebe kulturinteressierte Mitmenschen, am Mittwoch 8.7.09 ist es soweit: die Eröffnung des Berliner Museumsinselfestivals wird zelebriert. Dazu gibts an zentralem Ort eine einmalige Performance von DJ Shazam in Kollaboration mit dem Visual Artist Podinski aus San Francisco und special guest VJ Lillevan and Jen Mai. Ab 20.30 h gibts Musik von mir und etwas später gegen 21.

[ still from Ron Fricke’s Chronos ] < 8.7 > ETHNOTRONISCHE ZEIT & INTERKONTINENTALREISE mit DJ SHAZAM & VJ PODINSKI with special guests Lillevan and Jen-Mai at the Altes Museum, Berlin for the MuseumsInselFestival 2009 ( ab 21h in the Lustgarten ) “Combining museum archives with both cinematic bits and still imagery, XLterrestrial media ecologists provide the emotional and historical triggers to venture deeper into the anthropological overviews, which is usually reserved for a cool detached gaze, as if all these cultural artifacts were not in our being today.

< 25.6 > Freak Cabaret aus Minsk mit dj~vj Podinski im Club Der Polnischen Versager , (B-Mitte) … And more info in english here. Our :: } Little Ostblock in Btown :: } edition cont. below, but first … Liebe arts+musika+praxis organisms, } :: XLT newsletter V.101010101 :: { www.xlterrestrials.org/plog Gruesse aus the B-side-east ! As we write this newsletter, the first one in some time, the XLterrestrials are compiling some essential cultural bits from our little Ostblok hood, so that if you haven’t already joined the eastside Rev, you will have no excuses from here on ; )

[ Inside Moldavia’s Twitter Rev ] Nothing against a bit of rage at the right time and place, But… Hmmm, the last so-called “Twitter Revolution” was in Moldavia in April, and still hard to say who’s winning there. Though we can safely say that Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and his financial handlers are again dancing in the halls in their South Park office in San Francisco over all the free ads now attached to the current Iran crisis. And if ever our own countries were in crisis (YES WE CAN!

Banksy vs. Bristol Museum ( > Now thru Aug. 21st ) … Ok, we don’t usually post youtube clips, but this bit HERE might inspire the right troublemaking summer mood. Police States and protesters alike are expected to be on their best behavior this summer as a whole range of eruptions unfold around the world… Coming soon, not yur usual summer cultural tips, but an XLt guide to stay cool and in your tactical best, as things heat up in the hood.

:: 13/14.6 :: Sublime Frequencies at Festsaal, Xberg Sublime Frequencies coming to Btown, bringing the incredible Omar Souleyman and Group Doueh to Festsaal, Xberg. AND Check out this Believer Interview with co-founder Alan Bishop, and remind yurself why supporting the border-hopping pioneers might redeem you of yur sins of having bought that last piece of shit […]

:: 30.5 :: Druckerfestival Finnisage ab 14h party… Later, at dusk (ab 21h) the XLterrestrials + MDC team up to screen a rare + Must See collection of “Money Shorts” … Dr. Podinski recommends 3 out of 4 dodgy films (or more) and Everything You Need To Know About The Current Financial Fuck. Followed by […]

> 21.5 > Talib Kweli in Bohannon > 22.5 > Rope Live, Prenzlberg > 23.5 > Freiheit Statt Angst demo, everywhere… > > 26-28.5 > “Der Besuch” in Ballhaus Naunystr. > 29.5 > 5 Jahre Zentrale Randlage in Prater > 29.5-1.6 > Karneval Der Kulturen > 30.5 > 1st Intl. Druck festival Finnisage in Czentrifuga > 20.6 > Templehof Fuer Alle ! tbc… > […]

So many more Mayday things to list, standby, we’ll try to squeeze in as many as we can, while we simultaneosuly juggle amazing new content to blow yur mind in the XLterrestrials Xtra Xtra LIVE ABDUCTIONS special … see above. And please see part 1, as we won’t repeat all of those entries here. > 16.5 […]