“The House On Fire” is the name of the new free downloadable track from the Ballet. Synth-driven with Greg’s trademark melancholy rasp, poppy and making me smile. Head over to The Pirate Ship to get it, the new record “Bear LIfe” comes out November 21st.
* Man2Man – Male Stripper
What a coINcidence! Chicago’s Chrissy Murderbot’s “Year of Mixtapes” project has inevitably found its way to a gay-themed mix, and I was seriously working on my own all day today! No SHIT! Murderbot owns Sleazetone Records (home of Ssion) and just put out a new record filled with dubstep, hip hop, disco and electro. The mixtape project has promised (and so far delivered) one mixtape a week for a whole year, this “Hard Gay” mix is at week 20. Deep slices of ¢99 vinyls take us to The Boystown Gang (I have their record framed in my hallway), Man2Man, Bronski Beat, Modern Rocketry (I just posted that this week!) and many others–the 80′s disco slant of this spread has thankfully avoided hetero-tourism (I love Sylvester but You Make Me Feel is PLAYED OUT) and really, the obscure finds here show a supreme collecting passion and I’d fucking know. Murderbot’s mission and disclaimer get the cute points, tracklist below. Head over and get hard with Murderbot!
It had all the songs listed with ARTWORK and the bonus track for the real album was even the INSTRUMENTAL/LITE version of “Never Gonna Give You Up!!” PRANKSTERS THAT TAKE THEIR TIME!! Let this be a lesson to those of you trying to be skeemish with your musical longings, instead I got a hold of Captains Dead and the entire “The Con Demos” the girls were selling on tour for charity. Nice!
After being semi-absent from the comics scene since his stint on amazing Spider-Man last year, openly gay and gushingly cute comics artist Phil Jimenez makes his return this month! Phil is taking over as penciler on Astonishing X-Men starting with issue #31! Phil is no stranger to the X-Men, as he previously worked with writer extraordinaire Grant Morrison on New X-Men back in 2002-2003. Some must read issues of Phil’s New X-Men run include, New X-Men #132 which focused on a memorial of sorts to the sixteen million mutants that were killed on the former slave island of Genosha, #139 featuring a vicious cat fight between Emma Frost and Jean Grey, and #150 which culminated Grant Morrison’s run on New X-Men and presented Jean Grey dying yet again in Cyclop’s arms. Phil’s crisp clean and dramatic penciling is a most welcome addition to the Astonishing X-Men. If you’re lucky, you can run to a comic shop this week and catch the Astonishing X-Men sketchbook Marvel is putting out featuring Phil’s pencils, for free! The sketchbook also features a super cute series of interviews with Mr. Jimenez where he discusses how he broke into comics, the creative process of penciling and how Storm is his favorite character ever!
*Cover by Phil Jimenez
–Colossus Matos
Italo makes want to wear spandex and headbands. I’d try to dig a little deeper, but REALLY there are millions of random italo bands and songs, all with varying degrees of quality. It’s funny that most italo sounds the same but some is good and some isn’t, if you asked me explain it’d be POINTLESS. I’m much happier randomly coming across a good italo track than going and looking for one, it’s like spending hours digging through the 99¢ bin at the record store–ultimately not worth it. Have a looksy at this gem, though…and make sure you listen to the end for the COW MOOS.
Stream and download here:
Easy Going – Baby I Love You
Trolling around and found a site dedicated to queer art. It houses quite a few artists, thankfully from a wide range of the queer spectrum, with an emphasis on writing. I’m more a visual and audio guy, but I was very impressed with Gay Utopia‘s mission and inclusion. From the introduction:
“The gay utopia is an imaginary future in which gender, sexuality, and identity are fluid and in which pleasure is unregulated by either external or internal censors. It’s a place where taboos dissolve and sublimation vanishes; every relationship is erotic, every action sensual.”
Two of my favorites include Dewayne Slightweight and Edie Falke. Slightweight’s series ‘The Kinship Structure of Ferns’ is rewarding with closer inspections. Click on the photo for the larger image.
Edie Fake has an aesthetic that really demonstrates a worldview-cyborgs and fairy tales jostle with sex in simple, unrefined lines, referencing the un-innocent childhood we all tend to have. LOVING. He’ll also tattoo you.
*Edie Fake – “Coat of Arms”
Little information to go on, but these two young girls have done their research and thought this through. With only one post so far, I’m thinking they’ve said their piece. First paragraph below, head over to the blog for the whole essay. Food for thought, for sure.
“It’s hard for us to believe what we’re hearing these days. Thousands are losing their homes, and gays want a day named after Harvey Milk. The U.S. military is continuing its path of destruction, and gays want to be allowed to fight. Cops are still killing unarmed black men and bashing queers, and gays want more policing. More and more Americans are suffering and dying because they can’t get decent health care, and gays want weddings. What happened to us? Where have our communities gone? Did gays really sell out that easily?”
* From NBCWashington.com
* From the March in 1993
All over the country today, there are unity marches happening to coincide with the National Equality March in Washington D.C. Hoping to gather photos from all different sources today-a work schedule will make it difficult, but I’ll try. It’s also National Coming Out Day, and I hope you are already an example to the young ones in your life!
Queers United has a NEAT-O hashtag live feed for #NEM, (it’s called a TWUB) and I’d do the same if it wasn’t for my limited embedding access at wordpress.com. It’s a live feed of anyone tweeting about the National Equality March, pretty cool!
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