Should I go fishing or get a friend to hang around? Celebrated GAY Summer 2012

Wow, he's only 48. Actually figured he was a little older.

Carpet munching overrated (by men)

no, that's me

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they’re boring, unadventurous, and parochial queens who think vaginas smell like fish.

wait, they DON'T? That's theoretically my favorite thing about them.

His columns (Blab for Exclaim!, Feelings for Eye) were always fantastic, too

I like sushi as much as the next guy, but ...

Now I'm thinking about seasoning a vagina

Oh, sorry to presumptively upgrade from 'lurker' to 'active' on this thread. I am computer-bound this month in a place that is not home

you're reminding us of the time you looked through the wrong end of a camera finder

New meaning to the word artichoke.

idgi @ alfred

hi owen

i liked that BLaB article but then i was mildly amused/mildly eye-rolly about the original piece

Oh, if it smells like sushi, forget it. I'm holding out for a nice piece of flounder.

I am surprised BLaB has never staged a sex scene to "Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?" Or has he?

or George Clinton's "Do Fries Go With That Shake?"

really craving sushi now

it's funny seeing a few gay "guides" in str8 publications emphasise that str8 men aren't seducible etc, it's like oh ok if u say so lol

the new generation of gay dudes is far less skilled at flirting than the new generation of straight ones.

Gentrification kills creativity.

Bruce's seminal article on injaculation, v influential

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/cum-v8n5

*NSFW

but John Cheever was still getting blown and writing stories into his seventies

sorry to presumptively upgrade from 'lurker' to 'active' on this thread

You should only apologize for presumptively downgrading from "active" to "lurker."

when i see the thread title i start singing carly simon i think

you probably think this thread is about you!

how much research led you to that conclusion, Alfred?

Flirting is just not cost-effective for me. Gimme gimme gimme my man after midnight.*

*know this principally from the Leather Nun cover

ahahahahahaxp

surm, do u know where the thread title is from?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtCL1xq6hNU

how much research led you to that conclusion, Alfred

honey I've got years of post-doctoral research backing me up

injaculation! who knew?!

So many MN-based musical acts I'm so not into.

There'll always be:

Prince &
Jam &
Lewis &
Owl City

no i didn't know that morbzu!

hinjaculation! who knew?!

Who knew it would hurt like hell to piss later?!

btw the Leather Archives & Museum in Chicago has one section devoted to the growth of the Bear movement out of the S&M/Leather scene, and the title on the wall is "From Sir to Grrrr."

They also have a nice library I could've browsed for hours.

could you get an interlibrary loan

lol @ perineum is like Ontario: Yours to Discover.

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/89/220866771_08fa474e61.jpg

hi owen

loved that bruce article

def want to check out the leather archives when i'm in chicago

morbs i own (and love) that leather nun 12" in case i lost any cred in your eyes with the ABBA poll ;)

never! :D

I feel like such an awful queer for not having seen "No Skin" yet, esp after having had a New Queer Cinema phase

I pretty much prefer Araki to BLaB, even tho Gregg had a rather uninspired run in the mid to late '90s.

speaking of queer filmmakers, Morbs, do you like Gael Morel's work? He's the cutie gay protag of Techiné's Wild Reeds; now a writer-director. I watched Full Speed last night, starring Stéphane Rideau (yum) and Elodie Bbouchez: a muddled take on WR material.

Most of the Araki movies I've seen are "better" than every BLaB, but I much prefer the splatter-paint politicking in the latter's.

i haven't seen 'the living end' but the only araki i've seen and liked is 'mysterious skin'

Actually, no, both Splendor and Smiley Face are definitely worse than Otto.

I would agree that the only Araki film (that I've seen) as good as The Raspberry Reich in the last 15+ years is Mysterious Skin.

I'm sure the only Morel-directed film I've seen is The Clan aka 3 Dancing Slaves, which is just OK. This Deneuve vehicle looks intriguing, especially since I thought NYC arthouses released everything she's in, but apparently not!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0922354/

What's the best REAL (forlacknof a better word) Araki film to watch to see if I like him? Love love love MYSTERIOUS SKIN but I always figured it was anomalous (based on a book, seems more grounded/plot-centric than his 90s stuff). Have KABOOM high up in my rental queue right now.

Never seen any LaBruce, but I edited a piece on hum for PopMatters last year and it all sounds pretty yucky.

Also, hey Owen!

The Living End is okay. He's written some of the worst dialogue ever said aloud by hapless hunks.

my fave Araki film -- micro budget, louche teenagers -- is Totally F***ed Up.

I hear Kaboom! is really embarrassing but have not seen. Didn't he make a movie based on Mark Beyer's "Amy & Jordan" strips?

a friend once said of araki that "his films resist any kind of bourgeois closure" which i feel like is just a nice way to say "he doesn't really know how to write a screenplay"?

never heard that and don't know the Beyer comic, but apparently ppl see connections in The Doom Generation (which I loathed):

http://wondersinthedark.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/were-depressed-mark-beyers-amy-and-jordan-and-gregg-arakis-the-doom-generation-on-page-and-screen/

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