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25 May 2012
Usually the words "web series" are enough to make me close my eyes, put my fingers in my ears and shout "La la la la la" over and over again. However, this web series, The Outs, about a gay guy and his friends as they try to find happiness, love, work and sex in New York is surprisingly watchable. It's well written and acted for the most part and in fact features a couple of really good performances, especially the slutty one and the guy he meets in the second episode. Though the leads are my least favourite - a bit annoying.
Here's the first ten minute episode, and you can find out more about the series and watch the second episode at the website.
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25 Jun 2011
Happy Pride to the Dubliners. If you see me today, don't look directly at my frock as it may damage your eyesight.
And congratulations New York! Let's get married.
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09 Sep 2009
These two videos paint a picture of a scene that was truly original, grimy, fresh, and exciting. An era that still echoes through popular culture today. It's difficult to imagine that any scene today (from the Western world anyway) will ever be looked back at like this. I was at the Electric Picnic at the weekend, which featured the gamut of today's popular culture scenes, from music to art to literature to politics, and while I loved it and had an amazing time, nothing there came anywhere close to the kind of freshness and excitement of the burgeoning hip-hop scene represented in these videos. Nostalgia is the overwhelming attribute of today's scenes. Nothing is new. The biggest acts at the Picnic were either bands that have been around for decades (Chic, ABC, Madness etc) or new bands that are retreading old ground (Florence And The Machine etc). They may be doing it well, and I'm buying the records too, but it's not new. Have we actually come to the end of popular culture? Or is it just on hiatus, waiting for a new explosion?
The fist clip is an episode of The Tube from 1983 where they explore the New York night - breakdancing, scratching, drugs, Danceteria, Klaus Nomi and more.
The second clip is an extended trailer for a feature documentary about Patti Astor's 'Fun' gallery, which was the epicenter of the East Village art scene, with Jean Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring etc, and how it intersected with the new music and dance scenes - rap, hip-hop and breakdancing.
(via TheWowReport)
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06 Aug 2009
I don't know.
But I do know that my great gay (and former partner in drag crime) Angelo, is also interested in miniatures, drag, Dolly Parton, Arab men.. and infrastructure, especially bridges.
(Though he is also interested in some rather bizarre sexual practices that even this jaded old queen would balk at!)
And New York based Angelo has just written this great piece about that city's bridges.
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