I'm Also in the Library and It's Raining: WINTER 2018/2019 GAY THREAD

Whoa, these things still exist?

yes, many books last for decades or longer.

(I meant the gay threads.)

We're trying again, like Janet Jackson in 2015.

Today I am starting on a score for a documentary about climate change

Anglin' for that Oscar again, I see.

An extremely nutty gay acquaintance messaged me this week that he had dinner in a NY coffee shop in the '70s with Douglas Sirk and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He said RWF smelled bad.

you're surprised

between movies, plays, writing, and venereal disease, you think he bought Speed Stick?

I was not surprised, but took it as proof that he wasn't fantasizing.

I just watched the first thirteen minutes of "Before Sunrise" (never seen it or the sequels) and why are all his films like this
Every one of his movies is an endless conversation I would excuse myself from irl

not ALL of them, just those Befores and a couple others.

The homoerotic college baseball movie is different.

Good morning! I am waking up with Enya this morning. I have a pretty crazy thing to say: at this stage of my life, I enjoy Enya more than I do Kate Bush. !!!

Hi Eric!!! I hope all is well in your world.

Update, essay finished. Bought myself a completely unrelated book to celebrate.

that's awesome! sounds like you feel good about it. congratsixo :-) what book did you buy?

I'm also in the library!

that was supposed to be congrats(ico) lol
this hangover is not doing me any favors!

lol, i bought a book by susan howe about chris marker. the essay was only okay but I hit send because i couldn't stick it any longer. I should mention that the library I was writing in, the SOAS library, is possibly the best library in London to work in:

https://bluesyemre.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/soas-library.jpg

Omg that's very cool

Lauren Berlant is a talking head in the doc I am scoring and her interviews are so fascinating that I took a break to read some snippets of "Cruel Optimism"

Berlant is cool; I’m pretty sure I read a chapter of Cruel Optimism for a class once. Her (older) essay on the Lisa goes to Washington episode of The Simpsons is great.

Hi surm! I still wish I could rock lip gloss b/c of you

:-) it's been so long since i've worn lipstuffs! but i have been wanting to get back into some fun face paints.

morning fellas! what's up today

This evening I'm probably going to ... oh wait, there's a separate thread for TMI stuff.

Finish the sentence with "see Cold War."

ohhh a TMI Monday!!! Now that's ballsy.

I'm like ready to "get out there again" after a winter's worth of not being out there. I feel like Diane Keaton in Something's Gotta Give.

omg of all the D Keaton films I... forgot almost immediately

lol i love that movie, Amanda Peet is a genius

wow hi everyone

stevie!!!! how are you pup?

life updates:

I have been working IT at a university for the past 3 years
I am dating someone in Boston who is basically a made-up queercore Wuvable Oaf fantasy come to life
I'm gay, still

surm I still think about you on a fairly regular basis, like something every couple of months reminds me of your unbridled effervescence and joie de vivre

also plax I am considering visiting London in the next year if you still live there?

My boyf and I have been dating for 8 months or so and I still cannot believe how hot and smart and cool he is and that someone as awesome as him also finds me hot and awesome??? It's like two people who feel out of each others leagues. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of house and disco, a huge Gengoroh Tagame tattoo on his thigh, 4 cats, and a position as executive director of Boston's lgbt film festival, who IS this person???

a made-up queercore Wuvable Oaf fantasy

I have no idea what this reference is, but I want you to explain it to me in person.

stevieeee that all sounds fantastic and honey, i think about you too. i've actually been following your romance on the Facebook and it just seems so lovely. i'm glad you found him.

this my boyfriend http://www.fantagraphics.com/wuvable-oaf/

omg that IS your boyfriend
hi stevie!

Every time I see a photo of your boyfriend I feel like I'm seeing a post-credits happy ending vignette

I had a nightmare last night about my ex-bf yelling at me, and I woke up and it was 4:45am, so I walked down to the 24/7 to buy a stupid kombucha (it's a good sleep aid, oddly). I walked by an early-riser whose car was stuck in a snowdrift and I stopped to help him shovel and push. It took about 12 minutes and we were successful, he offered to buy me breakfast but I declined. I went on to the store and bought the stupid kombucha and walked back in the snowy night with frozen fingers. I washed my face and applied a moisturizer by a company whose former CEO killed himself a couple weeks ago. I got into bed and my boyfriend asked me what was wrong and I told him about the nightmare and cried a little. He drew me in close and told me he loved me more than anything else in the world. I went back to sleep for a few hours and then got up and made scrambled eggs, back bacon, sliced tomatoes and rye toast. My back yard is 3-feet deep in show and I enjoyed watching my dog struggle to navigate it while she was doing her morning pee. When she came inside, I sang to her, "Audrey you're a young dog, good dog, playing in the yard, gonna be a big dog someday / you got snow on your face, big disgrace, wagging your tail all over the place / we will, we will walk you". Then I got some e-mails from clients asking for revisions and I am waiting for phone calls with further instructions. I am listening to Morton Feldman's 2nd String Quartet (again, it's been on repeat the last few days).

"Audrey you're a young dog, good dog, playing in the yard, gonna be a big dog someday / you got snow on your face, big disgrace, wagging your tail all over the place / we will, we will walk you"

I love it! I improvised dog-related song parodies all the time, the ones that have stuck in our house being those based on Sheila E's "Holly Rock" and the "Marty Moose" song from National Lampoon's Vacation.

In gayer news, I recorded Querelle from TCM the other night and am both excited and slightly nervous to watch.

I'm getting close to three years with my dude, and it's like I don't even recognize myself anymore, reading previous gay threads.

I should use a moisturizer, I'm 31 and people often guess mid to late 20s so I guess I have decent skin so far in life and I'd like to maintain that? Should I get an SPF facial moisturizer?

THREE YEARS !!! ??? does this mean you've learned to enjoy life's carnal pleasures???

Up to and including last night, yeah! (We were hoping to host a third, but the weather outside was frightful.)

I feel like we have all grown so much

I'm growing right now.

Congrats, Eric!

I like reading that

♡

Just checking in to say I've had really hot passionate sex with two French daddies while on holiday and I could get used to this French kissing business. Hi y'all! Also table I really enjoyed reading your update and have missed you on here. Quite a wild and adventurous life you lead and it makes me kind of envious except for the run ins with crazies and morans

Very generous of you, surm. :)

It's an assistant production ed at an academic-affiliated publisher, ie gold compared to hourly wage slavery for the world's most famous children's books.

let's have a qiqing.

I've probably posted that 100 times. Apols.

That sounds interesting for sure doc.

Always feel like I should be tough and shit on Father's Day. In truth it kinda blows.

I just had this guy over. We had fun. Then he started talking about music because he noticed my portrait of Britney (Girl With A Grey Hoodie). He then proceeded to give me three fascinating observations. He was like, I appreciate Britney but she's not a good singer, she's not a good dancer, and I hate Mariah Carey. I was like, hi! Please stop talking because I have 3 things to say. 1) Britney Spears is a great vocalist. 2) Britney Spears is a wonderful dancer. And 3) Mariah Carey is my favorite artist of all time. And then I asked him to leave. 💙💚💛🧡💜🖤

"where is the loooove...."

Hehehe standards man it's real

discussions I will never have

Do we talk about tmi here or only in tmi thread? I have a dr ruth q

Take it to TMI. I'm on tenterhooks

No idea where that thread is!
Whatever I'll figure it out lol

I posted in the obituary thread, but my mentor and friend and queer icon Kevin Killian passed away on this weekend. through him i met Dennis Cooper, John Waters, Eileen Myles, George Kuchar, and a host of other queer luminaries. i'll miss him a lot.

here's more about him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Killian

So sorry to see that :-(
I hope you can keep his memories alive with the people that knew him

I Lost A Coughdrop in His Asshole: The ILX Gays TMI Thread

sorry, that was quite the wrong moment to link that thread.

lol

Sad to hear about your mentor, table

Sad to hear about your mentor, table

Kevin would have approved, tbh!! He loved cock.

Also, can't believe that I started that thread all those years ago.

:)

so glad you did!

He loved cock.

so say we all!

i like, got nervous with a guy on grindr the other night. first time in a while. he's just too cute. i think i peppered him with too many questions.

i think my friend Jeremy is coming over today since i have the house to myself. and tonight i'm going out to give Ryan the house to himself so he can entertain. definitely not in Kansas anymore lol.

also what r our thoughts on checking grindr at work? i have a sneaking suspicion my boss is on it...

Just stay off the workplace wifi is all.

good call!

How did the interview go, Morbs? (Unless you said already and I missed it.)

good q

I did well on the test (I think) but no one from the actual university press was available that day after the HR person. So I'm waiting for a second call.

I do chatrooms at my gig job, but I clearly don't give a shit.

<3 fingers crossed!

happy 50th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih9F5iPUGK0

Is it your birthday?

It's raining and I'm not in the library!

It's the Stonewall queens' birthday

(or Thursday was)

Stonewall the QUEER SUMMER 2019