James's Journal

11/28/2008 00:04 #46866

How To Communicate

There is no ulterior motive in my mind when I do it. But I just can't help myself. The way I talk to gay men is by flirting. I don't do this intentionally, but every gay man I talk to is, after a fashion, flirted with no matter if the subject is shoes, Russian iconography, or the prostate and its many, manly functions. This week for example.

My mother is sick (but doing very well) and has been getting visitors a lot. Her parish priest, Father Dennis, stops by a few times a week. He is perhaps the gayest gay who ever gayed and he is wonderful for it. We were chatting about Baroque art when it hit me, was I talking about Bernini's sculpture because I liked it or because it was sexy? And while I am interested in everything that is sexy I do feel like I subconsciously chose an artist who could only see spirituality in sex. The ensuing conversation about Caravaggio and decapitation went much the same way.

Then today my cousin Robert and his boyfriend Nelson came by. At one point I was chatting about S&M furries. That isn't a subject one just arrives at after meandering through several topics. Guys, you are both great guys but I totally wasn't being incest/home-wrecker weird.

I can't help myself. It is just a default setting. Oh, is that an old lady? Let's talk about canasta leagues and Haddock recipes. Is that a gay man of any age, relationship status, or linguistic background. Let's chat about anything scandalous. To all the gay men out there, I apologize for my uncontrollable instinct. Except you (e:Jim). We got a lot out of that instinct together.

cheers

james - 11/28/08 16:34
Tiny: sign up for my seminar: Decadence, De Sade, and fur suits.

Peter: The two aren't related except in instances where they are. You can be a furry and not into S&M. You can be into S&M and not into fur. You can be into both. You can be into neither. That is what I love about fetish culture, each man his own nation of kinks.

metalpeter - 11/28/08 15:50
So I get the entire S&M thing is furies a subcatogory of that or is S&M the subcatogory of furies? I have all ready seen to much porn today to try and look that up.

tinypliny - 11/28/08 15:48
I am taking notes.

Scribble Scribble*
Wink Wink*

jim - 11/28/08 14:41
Dirty mind, J-To. :)

fellyconnelly - 11/28/08 08:17
homewrecker!

11/26/2008 14:20 #46852

Vacation

I'm breaking up concrete slabs. Of course, I'm on vacation. Why can't I be breaking up concrete slabs at a time I could be working?

tinypliny - 11/26/08 20:53
That's waay to confusing for my addled brain!

Have a great holiday ahead! :)

jim - 11/26/08 16:24
Hmmm

mrmike - 11/26/08 14:32
Rock on!

11/23/2008 13:29 #46807

This. Is. AWESOME!

Behold, musical group The Protomen's first video in their opera based on...

wait for it...

wait for it...

MegaMan!

james - 11/26/08 16:31
I am actually not a megaman fan. The games were ok (though the music in the games kicked 8-bit ass). Someone told me to give the album a listen. I have had it for three days now and I have listened to it, according to iTunes, thirteen times. It kicks so much ass.

Thanks Theli, I will give them a listen.

jason - 11/26/08 16:28
Oh, right, I think Proto Man is a character in the series. Oh God, my geek cred is really showing.

jason - 11/26/08 16:27
Mega man!?!?

There is a new Mega Man game out you know. Maybe I just suck at it, but it is almost unfairly difficult. Mega Man dies over and over and over.

theli - 11/26/08 15:23
Yeah, Protomen... Good shit.

Also good: :::link:::

The pronunciation of Ryu annoyed me to no end. (Yeah, I'm picky about SF stuff.) But can't complain too much, songs are pretty good.

11/18/2008 11:58 #46738

All the World is Rotten

There is no more pleasure left in the world. Everything is just a shadow of what used to make you happy. Turn on the faucet to slake your thirst and ash pours out. Close your eyes for sleep and you will only dream of the grave.

And why?

Because Thomas Kinkade is making a movie.

The Painter of LightTM is directing Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage. Which stars... Peter O'Toole? Seriously?

This makes me like two things much less
1)Christmas
2) Peter O'Toole

This is based on a true story in which an old, reclusive painter takes on a young painter under his wing. Making this movie a big ego masturbation session for Kinkade. Grind out a big one Tommy. Just don't shoot your load all over our holiday.

This is not the first monstrous bastard child between Kinkade and anything else. Take a look at this painting.

All that is left is to pray for a quick death.

james - 11/23/08 21:45
I believe he immortalized the talking fish in a biblical illumination once. The man is a genius.

fellyconnelly - 11/23/08 18:40
oh man... i gotta get that painting for my parents! that will look awesome between the talking fish and the talking deer head above their tv!

(i'm only half kidding-they took down the talking fish a few years ago)

metalpeter - 11/18/08 19:43
I'm not a Racing fan but that Painting is pretty amazing. His art does have its own look and he has made it. So what is so wrong about a movie based of his life that is a love story, sounds like an independent movie to me. I won't go see it because it isn't my thing, but I be it is a lot of other peoples thing.

jenks - 11/18/08 18:21
does that painting come in couch size?

zobar - 11/18/08 17:51
That painting is a big slice of Real America with buttercream frosting.

- Z

11/17/2008 23:44 #46729

Princess Di Funeral ReMix

Chris Morris, as I have said before on this site and others, is a genius. I just found this clip from his show Jam in which he remixed the funeral service of Princess Diana.

Favorite line: "We pray for the royal family as they discharge their members."