Rufus Wainwright

This message from Jorn Weisbrodt has been translated from German:

Heyho fellow Germans,

A new thing is coming from the US again and you will be able to  
experience it first hand. It is not the new Sex and the City which is  
already so out of date when you watch it and the only new thing about  
it is that there are no ads in between but the whole film is a  
constant ad, it is not the new Iphone although I am sure there is one  
and not the new Ipod that has a bigger music capacity than a person's  
average lifetime but it is blackoutsabbath. Yes, you heard right, it  
is something that sounds dark and gloomy (something that American were  
leaving up to the Europeans in the past) and it comes from the US. It  
does sound a little bit like recession and yes, that is also something  
new that we have to share. But the great thing is that the new thing  
comes with two well known things or better people; Rufus who will be  
in Berlin for a while working on something as over as Shakespeare's  
Sonnets and me. Blackoutsabbath is on the 21st of June and the only  
thing that you have to do to be part of it is: nothing. That sounds  
easy so far. You have to make sure though that nothing comes out of  
anything that you do or that you need nothing to do what you are  
doing. What does this mean? Turn of your power! Create your own  
blackout. And yes, it is a Saturday and the 21st of June happens to be  
summer solstice, the longest day during the year and in New York there  
is the Upper West Side and before I moved to New York my friend  
Adriana tried to explain to me all Jewish holidays and now I wish I  
would be working for a Jewish company because one gets 13 (yes,  
thirteen) holidays more in that culture, so now I am sure you also  
understand why it is called Blackoutsabbath. So you must not do  
anything that day and must not rely on energy. How is that possible?  
How can you get through these frightening 12 hours? By coming to the  
party that Corinna, Georg, Rufus and myself are organizing at 7PM. You  
have to ring the doorbell that says Diez. Hang on a minute...Ring a  
doorbell? No, you can't!

We will come up with a device how we upstairs will notice that you  
downstairs want to come up. And you will have to use the stairs  
because remember no power, no elevators. Rufus already volunteered  
that he will come down each time someone is ringing (let us just call  
it that for the ease of the communication sake) because climbing  
stairs makes your butt pop out. You cannot use your car or the subway  
to get here because everything is not working anymore during a  
blackout. You could drive over here before noon and hang around  
wasting your time (which would be a good thing to do that day).
Also hitchhiking, subway, even sharing cars with lots of other people  
does not work. You could use your horse or other animals that you can  
ride on or just a bicycle. Bring a candle (as it does get dark and  
again, there is no power for 12 hours) and ideas to talk about what  
one can change or wants to change about ones life, consumption and  
behavior. We will then write everything down and Rufus has really  
relentless fans that give him anything from scarves to brooches to  
toys (not THOSE toys) to fridge magnets that will make sure that our  
thoughts and ideas will stay with us for a year until the same thing  
happens again and we can have new ideas that come out of absolutely  
nothing. I wish his fans would also give us more useful things like  
new bowls (help, we really need some for cereal in the morning!), a  
beautiful day blanket for the bed (and I mean BEAUTIFUL not like the  
scarf that he got on April 1st after this one show). I even had to get  
my own juicer because I waited for three years and no fan was ready to  
give us one.

Why am I in this relationship? But let us stay on the topic.
It would be an honor if you would want to celebrate this evening with  
us. It will also be one of the few changes for me to see you again and  
vice versa even though after a certain hour we will not see that much  
anymore.

Please let me know if you are attending and if you bring someone. You  
can only bring one person and that should be the one you have the most  
regular sex with (and no sex is not regular).
Lots of love,
Jorn

P.S. And who still did not get what this is about please go to www.blackoutsabbath.org
  where this text will end up too probably eventually.

And because this was so much fun here is the same letter in Chinese  
(just kidding, but they would actually need this)