 Today I received the distressing news that Helmet has been taken unwell in Amsterdam. One of his men went to collect his empty plates from the vestibule of the Kleine Rumesflat and saw that Helmut had not eaten his Wednesday Muesli packages. He has written a note to say that the release of the 70's Porn Collection on iTunes has made him too sick to eat. He, like I, knows that Klaus Harmony composed beautiful, sensitive, multi layered musics for clever, sophisticated European Erotik Expressionist art cinema. It is simply not porn music and it never will be. How could anyone think a piece such as EJACULAKTOR or REAR VIEW LOVER could be smutty? So we must tell the publics. I have spoken to Godfrey Gilliam (Klaus's biographer) and he is saying the best way is a radio interview in London to try and set the record straight. On a different side of things all together, Mandy II is settling into her position very well. She arrives every day at 8.30 and together we work out my eating and sleeping arrangements according to the formulas created by Mandy I. Today, we know, that I am likely to eat kippers for a light lunch. And if it is likely, why should it not be so? Simple. I did pop out of my tent into the house to gather some spoons from the kitchen. I decided to use the lavatory and went upstairs to find a sickening sight.  Pupu was standing hallway up a stepladder as Bogdan the maintenance man (and not my favourite man) was fixing a light fitting. But why the naked? It was not hot. But my head did get hot. I told him in no unlikely terms that to be in my house (for it is still my house) fixing a light, naked, with my wife, also naked, was a bad, bad, bad and nasty thing. I asked him to leave and stood with my arms folded as he put his pants on giggling. Well! Pupu was hysterical and told me there and again to get out. I suggested that perhaps SHE would like to sleep in the tent as it was HER who was being nude to Bogdan. That shut her up. Then I did eat my kippers. In the kitchen. Ha! Peace, Jan Sink Add Comment Well I will not generally want to complain but I am really quite sick of this new tension between Mandy and Pupu. It puts me in mind of when Klaus was early in his music career and groupies were fighting over him.  Mandy is always at her best for me and making very good progress with the food experiment. Next I wish to use her valuable assistance for a sleep experiment which would mean her joining Pupu and me in our rooms at night. I think this is a small sacrifice when one considers the great benefits but Pupu is very mealy mouthed (if that's the right words) about this. All I did was mention a further experiment to help determine when I should visit the bathroom and she went absolutely crazy on me. She believes Mandy is after my money (what I have left of it) and when I suggested (maybe it was cruel) that it could be Mandy wanted my body, Pupu let out such a laugh that she did leave a snot on her top lip. This made her even more angry and she did then lock herself in the sauna until midnight. Well, with all this, Mandy is a little scared of coming into work but I must advise her that she should keep the faith (maintaining the funk at always) and stay focused on this task. She has reams of paperwork to do about when I was hungry this week.  And on top of this I am scheduled to fly to Amsterdam this weeks to visit Helmut who I am told mut be 'calmed down'. Since his little adventure in driving at Stanstead when he visited, he has become obsessed with the driving and now wishes to learn in the Netherlands. He is still insistant that there must be tin foil obscuring the windows and a CCTV device fitted for him to watch the road ahead but I fear that, even for the son of Klaus Harmony, the authorities will not permit this. I suggested this to him and now he will not leave his Kleine Ruimteflat and loud whinging has been heard from within. My god, must I never have an easy time of it?! Even as I write this I am expecting a call from Suzanne Watkins-Robb demanding Klaus Harmony royalties for her second swimming pool. I want a spliff. Peace, Jan Sink Klaus Encounters of Some Kind or Other 08/07/2010
There is some guy in Denmark (what's his name!?) who was obviously very taken with the music and art of Klaus and has named himself Klaus Encounters - this is a tribute act to Klaus Harmony which is, if I may say so, most touching indeed. Pupu believes he is just a leech parasite living off the name of a genius but I disagree. He keeps the flame alive and, most important to me, helps me to live up to my promise to Klaus, that I should maintain the funk at always. Try his link homepage here which has some interesting stuff about this most special guy. Klaus Encounters. Even the music is lovingly put together, though I should say it is dreadfully crappy and would have given Klaus a good laugh indeed! No matter.  Pupu has tried to persuade me not to do my eating experiments. She believes it will be bad for my psyche. But I am determined to understand when I will be hungry. To this end I have hired a most beautiful girl from Basildon with a white coat and a stopwatch (she used to work in a vetinary surgery) and she will record when I am hungry so I may understand when best to eat. I was determined that she should provide her own clipboard but she wants to be an employee rather than self employed (where she could have claimed the expense) but she is more beautiful than I expected and she posseses her own spectacles which, though I did not expressly require, will certainly help her look the part. She is called Mandy and is a very classy lady.  Today Helmut took the first in a driving course at Stanstead. He wanted to cover the windscreen with silver foil and instead use a CCTV device by Jerrick Vander strapped to the car bonnet to navigate but of course that are most strict here in regulations (and they mock the EU?) and insisted he must use his own eyes for the driving. I think he still believes he will make them agree to tin foil on the rear window at least but I am most dubious I must say. These men live for burocracy. Pupu is calling and I must fetch her a glass of Pimms which she always takes to the sunbed with her. Peace, Jan Sink A Tribute to my Great Pupu 06/30/2009
 Anyone who has been reading any entries by me soon or recently will surely know that I and Pupu are sometimes a bit 'on the rocks'. Well I make no apologies for this and nor she does also for we are a very loving and solid couple (as a rock you might say!) and those who know us would say so. But she does test my good faith at times and I must say of all times recently when she remarked to a woman at the make up counter on Harrods that I was in the business of porn. Well, of course, it is not so. And for that matter, and more importantly, is the pressing matter that Klaus Harmony was not either. It is true that he was called the 'Mozart of Porn' in the 70's: The Sad Story About Helmut Harmony 06/19/2009
People have asked me about Helmut (below) as he is most sincerely an eccentric person who does not enjoy the limelight in any way. He is certainly by now a recluse and lives in a single room at the headquarters of HarmonSink in Amsterdam (he calls this his Kleine Ruimteflat) but it is really merely a room with a basin and WC.  It is true that it is difficult often at times to communicate with Helmut about the business side of running HarmonSink and selling Klaus Harmony music but we have found a way to make this work. Generally a man is posted outside the door of Helmut's Kleine Ruimteflat and can recieve emails and SMS text messages on his handheld device. He will then write these onto a clean sheet of paper (using raspberry juice as Helmut does not like ink) which can be passed under the door into a chamber which conects to Helmut's room which he will enter to retrieve this. I was charged with custody and care of young Helmut when Klaus died in 1984 so I am family to the boy. Sometimes Pupu believes I am harsh and disloyal to him but I do love him and am only the victim of my own frustrations. But we do work very effectively together and I am very proud of him. I must visit him now to drop off this month's supply of Muesli on which he subsists completely. Peace, Jan Sink Back Again 05/07/2009
 Pupu has called and she is has agreed to come back with a proviso or few.  What I think of course is that Streef la Belle should do the idea of Godfrey Gilliam on a head to head TV interview where all things count. It would be Godfrey's opportunity for a livetime. These Klaus Sightings 04/10/2009
I suppose I should be most invigorated by these reports of the Klaus Harmony sightings (isn't it like Elvis?) but I am sure to confess that I am finding them somewhat irritating. Klaus disapeared after an explosion in London in 1984 but no body was left behind - only his desert boots, smoking in the wind. But the police said at the time that they could not find him and that he was dead.  And now these reports about a vagrant in America trying to con us for a Winnegago and Sting from The Police getting invlolved (such a busy body!) On top of this also the man from the London recordng studio who believes he saw Klaus at a party living it up and having good times. Pah! Let me say this most certainly. We (me and Klaus) were very much the closest of friends (apart from Klaus and Friedrich). I should also say we were not gay at all. But I would know if he were alive still. We had a connection which was like brothers also and a sure that Klaus died that day. It's as though someone suddenly had turned down the brightness on a television set. So tragic. |   About Jan Sink
Jan Sink was born in Utrecht, Netherlands in 1944 and, following a largely unsuccessful career as a roadie, became a recording engineer at the infamous Amsterdam recording
studio, The Velvet Glove. In 1969 he was hired by legendary erotik film composer Klaus Harmony to engineer sessions for 'Elektrische Lippen', the composer’s first collaboration with director, Friedrich Wohlfäht. Jan went on to engineer and mix and co-produce soundtracks for classics such as 'Die Sins des Apostles', 'The Ladies Man' and 'Die Sexorcist'. Following the composer’s death in 1984, Jan took the role of CEO of HarmonSink Corp founded with Klaus’ son, Helmut Harmony, to administer the Klaus Harmony publishing catalogue. In 2005 HarmonSink Corp acquired the rights to the complete recorded work of Klaus Harmony which is now being re-released in the form of the acclaimed multi-volume 'Oeuvre' series. Jan divides his time between Amsterdam and London and sometimes lives with his wife, Pupu. CategoriesAll ArchivesOctober 2010 |
