SUMMER NIGHT CITY: An ILX Gay Thread

walkin' in the moonlight, new-thread-startin' in the dark

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

Finally!

Woohoo! ;)

hooray!

video embed reminds me that i recently found the last ABBA album on vinyl and have been really digging it

http://ukrmedia.biz/images/Abba%20-%20The%20Visitors.jpg

the visitors is my favorite ABBA album that isn't ABBA gold or ABBA more gold! "like an angel passing through my room" = <3

i really need a better turntable. i swear that i can hear the pitch shift up slowly as a side plays through. my boyfriend doesn't notice it but it drives me crazy when i can tell a song has ended a semitone higher over where it started.

Oh no, that's awful. I remember having a turntable as a teenager that gave me a similar problem. That ABBA pic is so big! LOL. I'm not much of an ABBA fan, they're alright.

I promise not to mention the word "heteronormative" on this thread so Elmo doesn't yell at me.

Was never much of an ABBA fan until my (straight) boss forced me to download ABBA Gold as a condition of my having a vague influence/control over music in the coffeeshop. They've grown on me, although I'm not really sure where I'd go from the 20 or so tracks I have.

To "Bang-A-Boomerang," their greatest contribution to human existence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXn6AvL4wFE

i disagree. "Eagle" and its video were their biggest contribution to the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7dWFkXRCc

"Eagle" is absolutely gorgeous, better Pink Floyd than Pink Floyd ever managed. But it doesn't send you back to The Imaginary the way "Bang-A-Boomerang" does.

mayhaps, but LOOK AT THEIR ANIMAL PRINT DRESSES

i must admit that the "Eagle" video was the first thing that n!ck and i talked about the first time we met. so it has nice memories attached to it.

Yes, the animal print dresses and the video overall (esp. Agnetha's [tearful?] look skyward) are ace. "Eagle" is definitely in my all-time Abba top ten.

Looks like I'm just in time to say hi!

man, i hate ABBA.

http://images.amazon.com/media/i3d/01/priscilla3.jpg

L-R: Kevin, Morbz, Elmo

with you here, morbz

I don't know, out of the three posted, I think "Summer Night City" is the best because it's just disco-y enough that I can ignore what usually turns me off about them.

man, i hate ABBA.

Me first.

fuck all u dudez

Ned, I'm taking that as a compliment. Guy Fierce? Woof!

And to counter all the Abba negativity, here's my Abba all-time top ten:

1. "Bang-A-Boomerang"
2. "Angel Eyes"
3. "Dream World"
4. "Medley: Pick A Bale Of Cotton-On Top Of Old Smokey-Midnight Special"
5. "Does Your Mother Know"
6. "Happy Hawaii"
7. "Eagle"
8. "Dancing Queen"
9. "Mamma Mia"
10. "Hey Hey Helen"

one of the best dreams i've ever had: my friends putting on a choreographed multimedia light show extravaganza in my honor accompanied by "lovelight" (happened the night before my last birthday)

and "angel eyes" rules so hard

KJB, "Voulez-Vous" not on that list seriously diminishes your credibility, imho.

I adore it but there were only ten slots. And I don't go to Abba for disco, fine as this disco is. If you haven't heard it, check out "As Good As New" from the Voulez-Vous album. it's about as funky as Abba ever got.

Donna, the chorus to "Lovelight" is a choreographed multimedia light show extravaganza in the honor of anyone blessed with it. It's your birthday every time you hear it. I love how the voices start so morose (some of their "worst" singing ever) and slowly get more wide angle until "LOVELIGHT!!!!!!!!!"

When I first got the song on CD, a friend used some program to slow it down so we could figure out what the hell they were singing. We determined that the line we were having the most trouble with was "This songbird's seeing things a little wiser." Now the interwebs tells me that it's "This old dirty ceiling seems a little whiter."

i can't decide if i need to listen to ABBA or not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZrccOX4fGs

Hi, gays! I just ate nuts.

I'm jealous.

salted?

btw dr, I had a latte in the Dunkin Donuts on North Ave in yr hometown. I may not be returning as I don't fancy working my ass off for half the money I'm used to...

I've decided that when I get married, my song is going to be "True Colors" so that I can watch people try to keep a straight face.

either that, or I want it to be played at my funeral in a candlelight vigil. As my one last sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek hurrah.

aww, my dad used to go there every morning on the way to work

bit of a hike from bklyn also, yeah?

yeah, 4 hrs a day

Morbs, you got a job?

no.

:(

not all bad, as I'm sure I'll be Smithslike miserable when I get one.

Forgive me, but when I first read your post I thought it said you got a job at Dunkin Donuts.

no, that was a stop during a 5-hour wild-goose chase in New Jersey.

new jersey, it's been a while

:( i love the little houses. the girls and their hair.

getting coffee and stuff. ugh i miss it.

I'd rather you were Edith Massey-like happy with a job, Morbs.

i believe i am going to see LIMP WRIST tonight, for free, at the SF Eagle. if you do not know Limp Wrist...http://www.myspace.com/limpwrist

i used to be friends with martine and andrew back in the day (like the 90s jesus). should be an interesting crowd-- leather daddies, punk kiddies, some indie fuxxors....

also, i got a job interview!

ha! I went through a little limp wrist phase a few months back

i really miss Kill the Man Who Questions. they were so good. and Manual 7. and Los Crudos.

eric, you live in MN, right? don't you see crusty Profane Existence punks everywhere?

I don't know about "everywhere," but yeah, they'll pop up every here and there.

Happy birthday, Joe!!

joe served blue velvet cake at his birthday party... no naked Isabella tho.

thanks! the laura dern cake was a masterpiece, i'll post pix when i get them

good, cuz i missed Laura's image before it was eaten away.

oh, i wish i could've seen it!

the boy i was swooning over? found out he's pretty much straight. but we hung out and the problem is that i actually really like him, and want to be his friend, but yknow, that difficulty there.

also, found a new place to live! West Oakland all the way, baby, with three queer ladies. very excited.

Bleh. I'm getting so bored of taking vaguely straight men out to dinner and not copping a feel.

I don't see all that much problem with spending time with attractive straight men

Sort of makes me feel more attractive by association.

(Also makes me feel straight by association, which is admittedly a problem.)

I don't need associations to feel attractive.

Yeah, that would be pretty sweet.

i just want him, yknow, and whenever this sort of thing happens, i always get into this sad state of "why the fuck was i born this way" type feeling. it all goes away within 24 hours, but it still is a very lonely, self-pitying bullshit feeling that i wish i could squash. my queer friend j9 told me this morning that whenever i felt that way, she would drop what she was doing and play me 'too many fish in the sea' over the telephone, which made me smile and immediately made me feel good.

so anyway, i think i'm now trying for another person, who once dated k4thy 4cker, and is very good friends with d3nnis c00per.

So you're trying to get to d3nnis c00per?

that I wouldn't recommend, even if he's not really into carving boys up.

"xuxa pitts" is my fave whatever-those-login-thingies-are-called ever! happy b-day 2 u if it was your b-day, miss pitts!

not trying to get to d3nnis, though i can assure you that he is a wonderful person who doesn't cut up young boys/men, and i wouldn't mind being good friends with him.

I read his blog for awhile and like some of the novels.

tbh i don't know dennis cooper at all beyond the film frisk, which was awful imo

I think he would agree.

he pretty much disavowed any involvement with that film, elmo.

his blog is really quite something. the 80s industrial post that's still up now made me think of Bimble.

also HUNX AND HIS PUNX.

fwiw gays i have been doin one o those tumblr things, and while it's hardly as entertaining as W33D's tumblr I am certainly enjoying myself over here

URL?

i have been enjoying adamadam on tumblr, too. a little more artsy and gorgeous rather than anarchic and hilarious, but still pretty damn gaaaay.

argonaut.tumblr.com

adamadam has been inactive for a couple weeks, miss him :(

love that punk boy at the bottom of the page.

of course you would :)

also love the one with the kid winking with the cig in his mouth.

i have a large collection of photos, i might just join the insanity of tumblr soon.

OK, finally got me a tumblr too, and I can see how it could be fun, but I've already got too many of these things.

i have a stillborn tumblr (1 "intro" post about two months ago and nothing since)

well i think i'm going to move in with him. yeah it's only been two months but 1) i want to 2) his rent his hella cheap for what is basically a house 3) i'm living with my parents right now.

anyone want to share stories/pitfalls, i've never done this before.

i always say NO NO NO. but if you can always move back in with your parents, then okay.

(as in it makes the possibility of moving out an easy option if the sexy funtime goes sour)

yeah this is more than sexy funtime and tbh you're usually wrong from what i can see any way

advice noted otoh

fuck you too, asshole.

attacking me for no reason after i gave my honest opinion is definitely dud. if you knew how many people i've known who've moved in with someone, had the relationship go sour, and then suddenly been homeless, you'd understand. obviously, you're not one for that, so why did you ask in the first place?

knowing each other for 2 months before moving in is like, lightning fast lesbian cohabitation pace. BUT that doesn't mean it can't work. I'd think the success will depend on how much time you spend together / how well you know each other already, and how adaptable you both are willing to be in the new situation. Knowing practically zero about your relationship, I can't really say what sort of change you're in for. sometimes circumstances can dictate the pace of development for the relationship, and that's natural -- if your living situation with your folks really isn't working for you, you may benefit from the move just by improving your digs -- otoh, needing to move out may or may not be a good motivation here. i really can't say for your situation.

i was living with my brother -- who was slovenly & negliment as a roommate -- before moving in with my guy, so i can empathize.

knowing each other for 2 months before moving in is like, lightning fast lesbian cohabitation pace.

roffle

that woulda been the second date

haven't slept at my house in two nights. feeling extremely refreshed, iykwim.

I saw a Lady GaGa video for the first time ever, at gay happy hour tonight. Awfully bland, even for a popgirl.

How do you guys feel about "DEATH IS THE NEW BLACK: ILX Gay Autumn Thread"?

bring it

hi!

which gaga video>

I think it's called "Eh Eh"

(Pink's latest one beats it, but then she's the only queen of the last decade I like)

DEATH IS THE NEW BLACK: ILX Gay Thread for Autumn 2009