CCV - City Call Vienna: http://kck.st/2aiDkJV

Jazz: BHBJ

I edited and cut this video, then published it on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOdMfU3S0Zc . Thanks to the Austrian ORF I could copy an old VHS to DVD in best quality, possible - on my machine. This is the Barrelhouse Jazzband located in Vienna in the 1960s of the 20th century: Heinz Feix (b), Peter Hoffmann (p), Otti Kitzler (t), Horsti Bichler (dr), Alfons Wuerzl (cl) and Norbert Vas (tb) are the musicians. They perform three pieces of Jazz, which were very popular in the 1920s: 1 is called Where Am I?, the second is the Flat Foot Floogie, the third on the Shimmy Sha Wabble.

Vienna - Barrelhouse Jazzband
This kind of Jazz focuses on entertainment, it was played in the cafés and bars, but also on the streets in the Deep South. The Barrelhouse Jazzband Vienna was honored for best classical Jazzband in the sixties, as were some of the musicians: Horsti Bichler, the drummer, and my daddy, Otti Kitzler playing trumpet and English horn. The BHBJ refers to the Chicago Style and Dixieland. They published several CDs, recently, and earlier a single and the famous Pferdeplatte.

Here I found something about the Flat Foot Floogie at Ethnopoetics including the lyrics. Jerome Rothenberg writes about lyrics:

"While the initial focus of ethnopoetics was on orality and performance, the discourse turned as well to the visible aspects of language — writing & inscription — both as a persistent contemporary concern & as an often unacknowledged kingpin of a revitalized & expanded ethnopoetics. In an age of cybernetic breakthroughs, the experimental tradition of modernist poetry & art has expanded our sense of language in all its forms, the written along with the oral. In doing this, it should also have sensitized us to the existence of a range of visual/verbal traditions and practices, not only in literate cultures but in those also that we have named "non"- or "pre"-literate — extending the meaning of literacy beyond a system of (phonetic) letters to the fact of writing itself." (Rothenberg: http://www.ubu.com/ethno/visuals.html).

Popularizing the Shimmy in America tells its story. The shimmy was a new kind of dancing dating back to 1910, and "One of the most talked-about dances of the time was `the shimmy`."(Bryant, Rebecca 2002 at JStor: American Music).

The best way to learn about Jazz is to listen to the music: Listen to the sounds and try to get the lyrics. There are lots of internet sites about Jazz. Here are related links:

All About Jazz: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/

Big Band Database: http://nfo.net/

Jazzology: http://www.jazzology.com/jazzology_records.php

Chicago Jazz Archive: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/

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The Crown

Instead of any arguments by Austrian officials, I found this group in commerce for regaining the stolen Mexican Crown, nowadays stored in the Vienna / AT / EU Mueseum of Ethnology. I would very much support an open discussion about this issue, because I not only study Socio - Cultural Anthropologies, but some of my professors mentioned, that "nobody" would want this famous and prestigious peace of pre - colonial testimony back. Dr. Christian Feest, who is now director of the museum, might be interested in this group of people, I saw performing traditional music in a mall in the 15th district of Vienna. Dr. Verena Traeger, who teaches museum services and paedagogics in presenting art, did not know about any claims, when I asked by the end of the semester 2005. Expressively, I do not want to discredit professors and doctors, but I hope to start a discussion about colonial violence, thefts and colonial treaties, which, as we know from some examples, of course were not fairly achieved, but forced, and always connected to physical and psychological violence. We know nowadays, that by the arrival of Christian churches in the Americas, Syphilis spread all over the continent and killed thousands.

I shot the pics in downtown Vienna today, hoping to provoce talks. I know, that stolen goods have to be fought for, and I know about the public hand, a slow machinery and controlling argument. My family was huge - more than hundreds of persons, and rich until the Nazis murdered systematically - nobody ever can pay mney for these social networks forever gone, nobody ever can give back the goods, handicraft of goldsmiths from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which were stolen. I simply want to be sure every day, that I did all I can and to my best knowledge, to make this world a better place: for us and our children.

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I started to make digi pics, I got a new cam. Next: Guitars. Acoustic and electric. Studies. Demo tapes. Monies lack. Webshop open?

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Wedding1

My first wedding, full of joy I married this grinning man. Well, two or three month later we parted, he changed overnight. I write about everything in my book - working title: Sybilloid.

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California & Mexico 1990

Here are some photos I shot in Tijuana, Mexico and Los Angeles, Venice in 1990. Well, true, this is already long ago, but the pictures still show a lot of impressions I had then and now. I was 26 years old and I think I started to grow up....

This is wonderful Venice, amidst Los Angeles near the beach:




Here we are in Venice Beach in Los Angeles:


Sunset near the beach:


Crossing the border:


Tijuana architecture:


Tijuana Supermarket from the inside:




Tijuana skyline:


Tijuana Taxi. One always feels like in the movies...


Having a drink inbetween. This is me, the photo could also have been shot in San Diego:


Bye, bye, Mexico:


No U - Turns, please:


Laguna Beach: Diet Center


Laguna Beach Diet Center: A little bird called Kolibri (blue on the pic, in the tree, right hand)


Laguna Beach breakfast view:


Our Seacliff motel´s fridge was too small for us and our guests:


Sleeping beauties: Waltraud, left & Sybil (me), right

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