Now that we found love what are we gonna do? The Winter 2011-12 Gay Thread

waaaaait i think that's this piece by larry johnson:

http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_139919_507473_larry-johnson.jpg

oh shit you're right *is an idiot*

lol i'm kind of a johnson stan

he did a series of pieces about the kennedys, this one is my fave:

http://www.spence.net/collection/photos/artwork103/full_240.jpeg

so what is FGT short for?

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

oh, right

Better than Lepore IMO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrvxi1-3SDY

dude is channeling some serious diva snap

I'm trying to watch Todd Haynes' Poison right now but it is sooooo baaaaad

:(

I saw it a little over a year ago, again, and it brought back the feeling of the plague years quite vividly. Maybe only in people old enough, of course.

aw, i like it. i think i liked the faux-doc part the best but i'd have to rewatch it to make sure

that is my bf's favorite "gay" movie

I do prefer Pvt Idaho, Paris Is Burning & Fight Club

I'm just not getting the wooden acting and awful sets and ridic narrative motion

it's meta?

I guess someone's not getting a boner from the prison stuff... See if you spot a future star acting under a psedonym.

re: the sets, iirc he wasn't exactly rolling with a huge budget

Oh the prison thing I am totally into fwiw. But wouldn't it have been cheaper to just, like, go find somewhere outside with lots of rocks and dirt? It's kinda Querellian

yeah, he was coming off a banned Barbie-doll film xp

nah, more theatrical this way a la Un Chant d'Amour

OH OH Also I got season 3 of Mary Tyler Moore out of the library on a whim (I'd never really seen it before and always passed it over on Nick at Nite as a kid) and I am SO FUCKING IN LOVE W/ THIS SHOW, FUCK

Poison was his first feature iirc? The banned barbie film was his MFA thesis.

Hey gays!

I have taken a piece of candy from the pile and a sheet of paper from the stack.

hey gurl(z)

you're in NY? xp

T/judith - was the FGT curtain up at sfmoma when you visited?

Me? No. This was in Chicago and San Francisco.

Although I may be in New York at the end of April.

but which stack and which pile?

I'm all right, jack / keep your hands offa my FGT stack

The pile was the Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) piece. I don't entirely remember what the stack-of-paper piece was. I gather he's done a few different ones. This was at SFMOMA in early 2004.

The pile was at the Art Institute of Chicago, probably around the same time.

i think the Sfmoma one in early 2004 was the same one that may or may not have been there when judith visited in 2010.

i have a mental catalogue of every fgt i have seen irl. sfmoma doesnt figure. poison is great. that sirk thing is the only haynes im eh abt. poison is hilarious and sad and thaemlitz samples it and hot in some of the prison bits.

untitled placebo

maybe it was there when stevie d visited then?

i sawsome p faggy stuff there. i have notes somewhere. some late night photos of baths somewhere.

hey gays

since i decided not to go out tonight i need ur advice...

should I watch death becomes her or she-devil?

dbh

thanku

dmi

where did thaemlitz sample 'poison'?

on soil

i know corey is a fan but i can't remember which track. towards the end of the album. its from the homo child jesus storyline tho

oh wait that track at the end? the "kid has the gun" thing? never made that connection!

yeah I think that's it though I haven't seen the movie

had a terrific date yesterday - picnic at a park (he made wontons, i made brownies), followed by probably too many drinks at a gay piano bar, late night diner run, and then this morning he made us breakfast. dumb stupid super smart adorable jerks ruining my "be alone forever" policy.

:D

if there's still tickets we might be going to a john cage concert on thursday

where'd you meet?

it's weird. he found me on OKC over a year ago and we went on one date, and then, for various reasons i don't really want to recount here, we never saw each other again...until i ran into him two weeks ago out of the blue at an art opening, and we made plans to hang out. so this was technically our third date.

i think he's really wonderful and it's nice for a change to actually know for sure that the feeling is mutual.