kumimonster: (cmwSix)
according to [livejournal.com profile] suka_off

"... a very important polish magazine Polityka called CLONE FACTORY one of the 10 most important theatre events in 2005!!!"

nice
http://www.polityka.pl/

but dont ask me to find it
it's all in polish


hopefully our SanFrancisco show will not disappoint!
kumimonster: (Default)
so yeah.
the older part of town was great.
super fabulous.
reminded me a bit of the other cities that i dig here.
hated the cold though.

kept walking around.
the area was filled with academies of this or that. university of this or that.
lots of students and people learning things.
then we turned down this other street and found the shops. shoes, gloves, bears.
didn't buy the bear though.
got gloves instead. love leather gloves. more to add to my collection.
bear. grr.

^^^

there were also tea houses.
and adjacent to many of those were chocolate houses.
where people could shop for chocolate treats, gifts, or whatnot
or just simply mainline the stuff.
hmmm hot cocoa. hot white cocoa. with frothy creamy heated milk to get one all comfy warm
until the cramps arrive and then the body realizes it's poison. Grrr. we didn't go in obviously.

^^^

there's a store called traffic.
kind of like your media megaplex.
DVDs CDs magazines books gifts food. even a gallery of images for show/purchase.
inside, there was a wall of glass where stained glass images added a really nice touch to the place.
people were tapping away at their laptops or browsing books or potential purchases.
oh, and the DVD section has monitors set up so you could actually just watch the movies there.
sylvie walked to the magazine area and pointed me out among the racks
yippee

^^^

was getting late so had dinner at some resto where all the boys looked alike,
then rushed back to the tomba tomba club to collect our things


instead of going straight to M25, we headed off for a theater where a show of some sort was going on.
we had tix to see and it seemed really interesting.
forgot the title though.
we were lead into the theater by men in white. somewhat medical type uniforms.
videos were shown on the walls of maggots and worms squirming around.
there was a cellist playing in one of the doorways as we walked by.
nice touch. as we walked into the main seating area, red lights started to dim leaving only a single semi naked dude hanging from a red bit of material. he was shouting something. i guess along the lines of 'meat meat i am meat'.
he ended up moving in his suspension until the fabric that first held him in a comfortable cradle became simple bands around his ankles.
he lowered himself with his hands and then left the stage. then a bunch of video showing a couple. dancing bending. um. more video, then curtain rises to show more bodies calm at first then going into jerky movements.
dancing n stuff and then we were led up to the stage to see the couple on some big table with the 'i am meat guy' crawling around them before departing. crazy video of eclectic scenes portraying humans as flesh and meat and nothing blasted on 3 walls. i guess the theme of the show had something to do with bodies and meat and flesh and nothing but.
though i question in the end, why couldnt the dancers just be nude? if we're just supposed to be alike and a pile of meat, then wouldnt the message be better stated if the performers were shown as such? and not concerned with modesty (their own or ours).
oh well. the end of the show came and as we were escorted off the stage, the cellist came back with a singer. that was nice. the seating are we were in had the other dances strewn across them in various spots. lots of red. i guess they were supposed to be dead.
parts of the show were really nice. almost too pretty.
they shoulda been naked.
no pix of the show of course.
not that rude.
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kumimonster: (roman bw)
not that long a drive actually.
even stopped at a mcdonalds.
i ate at mcdonalds in belgium too. mechelin was the name of the city actually. out side of bruxelles. i read in one of the exhibits at auschwitz that mechelin was one of the locations that some of the gypsies were held on the way to the 'work' camp.
anyways, it didn't make me ill.
the cheese at mcdonalds is most definitely not the real thing.
tea was good though. warmth to help with the cold and snow. of course with about 5 sugars.

^^^

parts of the city look like any other city. grey mostly. somewhat bleak and a bit dreary. huge neon signs and billboards advertising stores and and brand name items. publicity posters spread out over massive concrete constructs. almost want to obliterate them all, or else yank my beanie cap over my eyes and wish i was elsewhere.
i didn't take many photos of this part. i guess i was just unamazed. i wanted more BANG for my buck.


After getting into the city we headed over to our home for the weekend.
A club called TombaTomba. more like an oversized bar cafe on 3 floors or so. we stayed on one of the upper floors and though we could hear the music it wasn't that bad at all. oh, the club is 'heterofriendly' too btw. there was even some art on the wall of one floor just below ours.

^^^
The club serves food at 8am and at 11am for the guests that are still awake and present. eggs earlier and toasties later on.
the kitchen was on our floor.
piotr threatened me with a block of cheese.

^^^

after getting to the bar/home, we went to hit leMadame (another gay friendly place as evidenced by the name. well, either that or just bad grammar by someone who failed french). The clubs were owned by the same person too. i think they also owned the M25 venue where we were to perform as well.

we also stopped in to see M25. the downstairs was quite nice, though dark. red and concrete grey were the main colors. the doors were heavy metal and solid. loved those. oh and the wrought iron cages doors were nice too. i slept in one room where the bed hung from the ceiling. thick chains hung from hooks embedded inot the rock above. the photo i got was fuzzy though. grr darkness.
upstairs was one large space. all the sound and lights were controlled from the booth hanging above the floor. like two inverted pyramids side by side.one with just a skeleton frame and the other with it's sides punched through from the inside. the bars/veins of the thing splayed out.
got a pic. yup yup.


the area in which we stayed rocked. we walked out the front door and went up the stairs that lead to the back door of the club. then continued up just a bit more to a short little sidewalk that opened up to this view. too bad my camera is the suck at times.

^^^

it was completely the opposite from what i saw when we first entered the city.
it was more like the old area, only the area wasnt really that old considering it was rebuilt after ww2. the large open plaza was great. reminded me of the one i just walked thru a couple weeks prior in madrid. only colder, and with fewer vendors. of course there were tourists, but again, not as many.
i loved the fountain of the syren in the middle though.


lots more walking done and even more fotos taken.
must add more now.
finish up warsaw blathering later too before i forget.

all the pix that are up so far are here
http://kumimonster.blogspot.com
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kumimonster: (aaron Light)
hahah
i just added another gig to my site
wheeee!

at the Le Madame in Warsaw.





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