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

That sounds wonderful. Any good views?

Yeah, more dissertation work (but not enough), putting together an application package for a teaching gig in the Spring, plus I watched Happy as Lazaro (which I liked a lot). Lots of dog walking now that the cold snap is (temporarily?) over.

Eric: same question. I liked Fauve quite a bit, thought Bao and Animal Behaviour were kinda meh, and haven't seen any of the others.

I flew to Boston to see my boo for 72h, it was so lovely, I love him so much

A friend photographed me throwing a football yesterday afternoon.

I made him watch Rent which he has never seen, which I didn't think he would enjoy but wanted his commentary on as a gay Gen-X filmmaker w his own brushes w addiction and it's basically a play written abt ppl like him but for a mainstream audience. He didn't hate it as much as either of us thought! But we both agreed that it was largely wack and v straight-white-male-gazy. He said it felt very USA Today.

Fauve was awfully good. Detainment awful, thoroughly awful. The docs were all kind of middling this year, though I thought the aesthetic choices Black Sheep made were interesting.

I actually didn't watch the animated ones yet, not sure why I said "all" upthread.

I watched a Korean film at MoMA on Saturday night, then didn't go to a sex party bcz i was too tired,

^your futures

lol which party? Stevie that sounds so nice! USA Today is a great descriptor fwiw.

Also a great newspaper!

yes i've heard! my home island :)

I was looking through this old gay thread -- The Sun Is Shining For The First Time In Forever; We're Gay! Fagz Club Spring 2010 -- and ... we were all a lot nicer to each other back then.

Except Morbs.

Oh c'mon, I kid bcz I love.

surm it was the br00klyn m3atpack3rs

Had these threads kept going, I would've known who else to invite to lunch a couple frigid Saturdays ago with Morbs and j0rdan

3 is enuf in most situations

totally concur, i actually prefer 2 for the most part, i have a pretty short attention span!

nice and gray here today but someone needs to call the weather channel and have them turn this temperature down back where it belongs

don't do it

Boo's been watching that ridiculous thing about Gianni Versace on tv
it's disturbing tbh

Also overblown. Best episode concentrated on David Madson imo.

yeah it's a little rushed or something, i dunno it could have been more interesting

what's everyone got on tap for the weekend?

Dinner with friends, writing, cleaning the kitchen cabinets.

oh i'm reorganizing my kitchen drawers! lol.

(that sounds nice)

Not this weekend, but next weekend, I'm taking an enforced two week vacation with no computer no phone. Two weeks at home just reading, cooking, swimming, lifting, boyfriend, dog, shrooms, friends, practicing music. I'm looking forward to it extremely

omg. heaven!

last weekend I was in Boston, this weekend is Part 2 of rearranging my apartment that I started 2 weeks ago. Closet has already been reorganized, and an unwanted ottoman placed in the closet. Next up is a desk moving to where the ottoman was, a nightstand moving to where the desk was, a new TV unit being assembled, all my DVDs moving onto the new TV unit, and then the dozens and dozens of books lying around my apartment going onto the old DVD shelf.

awesome.

I feel that I like everyone who posts in these threads and who has posted in them over the years. It has improved my life in a small but significant way. I know conversations started happening elsewhere because they started taking place on facebook so these threads died a little but it has been very meaningful at times to connect with you all.

I dunno what inspired that but it's worth saying.

that's a really nice way of putting it and i very much agree

I'm not on Facebook, so these threads are my only lifeline to the gays of ILX.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVNlG5cZyQ

I wish I has said it more eloquently. As I recall, I've met three people from these threads, boxedjoy is a good friend of mine that I'd never have met were it not for them. There are others I consider to be friends, even though we have never met.

I will be watching old movies on a big screen, bcz it is a weekend

I don't know what I'm going to do, but a lot of it will be spent in bed.

I have a mild cold, my first since December 2017. Nevertheless, I'm going to work out in a minute and watch the new Soderbergh.

<3 jed. i very much agree. communities, of all forms, are important.

i have a friend's bday this weekend and other than that i am relaxing the fuck out. gonna write some music, do some shopping, ya know, eat stuff. maybe line up a date?

This thread's resurgence, I trust, means Facebook is really and truly coming to an end.

i mean, seriously. it's some bullshit. like stop talking about yourself and your opinions cuz honestly, i can't take it anymore.

My boyfriend and I have found an apartment and we’re moving in together

He really is the greatest

That’s wonderful! Congrats!

My weekend (and the foreseeable future) is going to be more dissertation work. I also have The Rider and Support the Girls out from the library, but kind of feel like watching Annie (RIP Albert Finney) for the first time since I was eight or so instead.

why was I being so sentimental last night? o_O

I’m feeling kind because I’m in the throes of a depressive state right now, and if it feels like there’s not a ton of kindness coming my way, at least I can try to send it out

I’m happy for you, fgti! I remember what a thrill it was to move in with mine. Didn’t hurt that it also let me sell my old place after years thinking I could never

i need to be rescued from my apartment. however,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ml-yCLSNh4

i'm working today and tomorrow. not hard work really, just listing books. i'm trying to find some equilibrium because i realize i'm at a time and a place where i can recuperate a little bit, financially and emotionally, for which i'm grateful, and i need to take advantage of that and try to keep my path from meandering too much.

on the other hand, it's so fucking boring in moab! i've been dreaming all day about clubbing, lol. i want to do a big gaycation in a few months, maybe dore alley. lazy bear weekend looks like a lot of fun. but i need to make it to california sooner than that too, maybe l.a. for a few days in march. i had a surprisingly fun, hot and romantic one-night thing with an ex-dancer there last week that maybe stirred me up a bit too much. *sigh* lol sorry this is a little princess-diary but this is the gay thread after all, and i'm VERY glad surm started a new one.

Don't ever apologize for being too princess diary!!! I also need to get back on the club tip. I'm finally in decent shape again and like, if I don't push myself soon I never will. Love me a dancer!

Fgti that's so exciting! What's the place you're moving into?

Eric hope you're hangin' in xxxx

I've triumphed over a mild hangover, the result of mixing a Sazerac, scotch, and, at a friend's new apartment, rosé. I have professional writing and a Saul Bellow bio to finish this afternoon.

Good morning!