Scenes From a Social Network/Modern Youth

Remember what it was like to be a teen? Remember what it was like to be a teen and think other teens are retarded? I just thought I would post this amusing exchange i stumbled upon on last.fm between two teenager, A Boy and A girl. Toggle between http://www.last.fm/user/autobiographer & http://www.last.fm/user/Wolf_Diamond. Scroll down to the comments sections to witness this cute little fight between boy and girl. It will make you smile. I thought it was cute. Oh Youth.


Quote of Day: (From autobiographer): "This is why the world should have exterminated all sixteen year old boys, not the jews."

Kids Say the darndest things!

Speak NOW or forever hold your peace: Why coming out of the closet is sooo over.

http://music-mix.ew.com/2010/03/29/ricky-martin-gay/

When Sean Hayes "came out of the closet" a few weeks ago in an article, falsely claiming he was in, I think we all yawned. Let's start with the obvious, "We" already knew He was a gay actor. If Sean Hayes' physical mannerism didn't point him being a fussy mo', his career pattern did. Post Will and Grace Sean Hayes was relegated to character actor status staring as the villain or whimsical peripheral character in kids flicks. Not that he could do much else but play that... Sean Hayes doesn't really come off as versatile *hey no "pun" intended..i think*. The point is that it was absolutely no secret but he played it as such. I would have rather had him come out as a middle aged Lesbian woman who for 8 years played an annoying gay, Gay-male stereotype, The Theater Queen. The irony would be rich and raw. Yawn.



At some point in the middle of the day I got an message on facebook from a friend who attached an article stating Ricky Martin declared he was a homosexual man. Oh really now?! The world stopped turning for 5 minutes as i caught my breath.... I had just finished running 5 miles. I've been a non-repentant smoker for 6 years.

I find it rather insulting these days that in the day and age of Johnny Weir and Adam Lambert, Big companies funding marketing divisions to to cut campaigns tailored to the gay and lesbian consumer with all that disposable income...and lets not mention the glut of openly gay head honchos a television stations and film studios, that these once A-List stars decide to come out of the closet to a press in amazement, jumping at interviews seemingly on the backs of a much younger generation who are beginning their careers out of the closet and facing both an embrace from a segment of middle America while still being somewhat patronized for their bravery by the GAY PRESS. Johnny has been laughed at by many while still capturing attention...but it's laced with a bit of joke in there somewhere. On the other hand you have Evan Lysecek, clearly homo and clearly closeted is now the American Olympic Hero of the minute and dancing away on one of Americas favorite television events, Dancing with Stars. Is Evan being rewarded for being closeted? Was Ricky Martin right to stay in the closet during the height of his career? Are both missing out on an opportunity that Johnny Weir and Adam Lambert took up without apologies?

See, what i am getting at is that although I do not believe any celebrity should be "forced" out of the closet, Staying in that box perpetuates notions that you can not have a successful career and be out. I DO believe the days of Rupert Everett, who famously declared coming out the worst decision he made in his career. And He was right. But he broke some ground while breaking his career. Hey you gotta Break some eggs....

By staying in the closet, hell yeah the perception that you must keep your orientation a secret for "demographic reasons" is going to be and stay quite true. I look at Lambert and Weir as somewhat products of my generation that caught the first wave of gays and lesbians breaking into the nascent expanding media. Cable allowed more avenues to be explored. MTV gave us the story of Pedro Zamora on the Real world, and Ellen at the Height of the success of her Sitcom, came out as lesbian on and off screen. The next year you had Will& Grace and in 2000 Showtimes Queer as Folk, followed by The L word. I was 17 when Queer As Folk debuted the fall of 2000. I had just came out to my mother and she was prepared, a little frightened of what would come next, but accepting nonetheless. To this day she muses on how Queer As Folk served somehow as window into my life, To get closer to me through these characters and their mothers. That bred tolerance in her and understanding compassion for the process.

I think The new wave of Non-come-out stars are partially due to those steps taken in the later half of the 90's and earlier part of our last decade. I wonder right now, IF Ricky would have come out when Barbara Walters asked him if he was a homo back in 2000, what would have occurred. Walters recently remarked she regretted asking him that question, hinting she might have helped destroy his career..which I don't personally believe. But what would have happened. Fuck George Michael and Elton John came out and actually rode a resurgence in their careers thanks to the "come out". Now the power of coming is lost. We shrug and move on.. because we actually don't care. And because we don't care- that should be sign enough that things HAVE changed. If you come out, you help to further diminish old rusty rules that no longer need to exist in this world. They only continue to live because celebrities are clinging to the closet sighting privacy in a world where now a sex tape can get you a reality show on E television and then a spokesperson gig for Carls Jr. or at least a spot on Celebrity Fit club.

These are just reverberations of a post i posted a few weeks ago in reference to Sean Hayes.

My bottom line is that "coming out" is sooooo 1999. Get over it just BE out. I have much gratitude for the Weir and Lambert... my examples i've been touting this entire entry. I see them now as unsung anti-heroes to the perverted logic that one can not be who they are in order to be an entertainer.

Lysacek could do right NOW, what Ricky Martin didn't do. Come out and show America "Hey, Openly gay men can get medals too." Ah That will never happen.. well not soon. It's a shame, just like Tyler Perry could come out of his closet and possibly shake up Religious African American views on homosexuality existing in their community.


A boat missed.

Straight Talk

I just spent the last 2 hours playing straight for the first time in LONG time.. i think EVER, actually with this dude at the gym who sparked up a conversation with me which lead to us training together. It was bizarre.. i don't know why i felt compelled to.. but i did.. I turned up the "bro" talk and somehow managed to keep a conversation about antique cars and Gangs and Prison and "weed" because straights are obsessed with weed. Then he asked for my number to hang out at some straight bar.. and i was like "Yeah.. I'm down brah!"

I hang my head in shame at my shamelessness. It's actually easy to relate to straight people. Sure, I am one of those gays who upon coming out went to seek solace in my community... only later to find out there was none there and the community is gas, one that exist only in print and is broken up into these potentially combustible microcosms. The Drag Queens, The A Gays, The art fag, The Holister A&F crews.... then those seperate within into more sub-cultures. The beat goes on.

When talking with a straight person, it's easy to first approach them with a firm handshake. This shows you are strong.. then say Brah. Especially if you are black. White boys gay or straight will almost always greet me with a "Bro" or "Brah" or "What up Son." .... words that are not naturally in my dialect. I do often use "man". Straight like this. It appeals to my "downess". You gotta have the downness to hang with the straight male.

Throughout those two hours we worked out together, unplanned.. He was a Latin guy and I, of course black. I kept asking myself silently, why am I instantly hiding the fact I am a mo. And I thought..well Being a mo isn't all i am. I can have a conversation with him and be neutral. I kept asking myself; "Just how much does it really matter that i am gay?" but as we progressed in our interaction, topics like women and violence..and getting jumped, and Weed, yes they love WEED, came up. And car shows and Nascar. And I became determined to have myself engage in this line conversation as some kind of test. But the test led to lies. I was nodding like i knew what he was talking about. The initial thoughts of separation between he and I deminished. I was having fun. It felt out of body almost. Then I mentioned attending a Nascar event "once" and he was filled with glee. He went on for a half an hour about cars and I would reply with hues of deceit. I have never been to a Nascar event in my life. However I could relate to him when he started to talk about restoring cars. That was "gay" enough for me... art. This is topic i can dig.

Before long we started talking about nite life, and he asked me which clubs i went to and I felt compelled to flat out lie. I was like, what do I do? I've gained this guys respect and trust, what if i name a joint that he identifies as a gay joint, then i am out? What do I do then? I decided then I would Lie MORE... and say "Oh i haven't been out much since I've been in Texas MAN... I went to one club, i forget the name." He says "was it Chrome?" and I cringed beneath my next breath and nodded and said "I think so! Bro".

I officially painted myself in the closet with this guy, and It came with a bit of exhilaration. I was thinking "How am I doing? Am i coning him? Lets play it up a tad bit more." I was IN. And it became a bit of a dare to myself. I've finally stepped into the shoes of some of the "poor closeted homos" whom i have somewhat look upon with mixture of pity, contempt, apathy and little bit of empathy and distrust and disappointment. Being in Texas, I am exposed to more closeted gay men and women than ever. I consider myself an understanding man. I try my damnedest to understand every subset i can.. even the majority. Most white people don't care to know my experience and how i interact to my environment, How I feel about it and why I might feel the way i do. But for two hours I unwittingly became a man in the closet. I wondered what would this guy say if i told him i don't date women and prefer to date men? Would he be my friend? Thoughts I haven't thought since I was fucking 16!! I've been out since then and Never have i given a damn about how someone might feel about me being who i am. Simply I would not gravitate towards conversation or relationships with people who could possibly be homophobic. And I THINK i come off clearly as a gay male. Ooooooo what if he thought i was just a metro-sexual? eh. No, i've been dressing like shit these days.

The threshold has been weakened to give us strength?

http://www.slatev.com/video/how-i-ran-ad-fox-news/

Interesting little video i found on Slate.com. Apparently google is running an television advertising service which allows YOU, yes YOU.. the everyman to run your commercials on national Tv for as little as 100 dollars. Sounds too good to be true, Doesn't it?

This little development is both a blessing and a curse. It would seem plausible that now that we have the internet teaming with blogs and viral videos that have made micro-celebrities out of joe blows across the entire globe, television would pick up on that unbridled creativity, inexpensive creativity to moisten it's dried rivers and lakes. The reality television trend has become cannibalistic now, so what's next in programming? Will this recent innovation give way to a future where you can create your own television shows and have them broadcast on networks- much like old school cable access ? i'm going to wait a while before i try this out myself.

Bad Girls vs Trannies?

Friday Night- headed to the gym soon than out drinking and getting laid- like i SHOULD be or at least want to be. I've spent the last three hours defiling my mind with a certain television show called "Bad Girls Club"...which i was hesitant to watch. These bitches are CRUEL!! Which led me to daydream of survivor between Drag queens and Bitchy bratty females. Who would win?


The Trannies:




The Bad Girls:




Fat women can throw down too:

Gay Porn actor dies on video camera after stuffing pot baggy in mouth and being tasered.... FAIL!

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/03/09/2010-03-09_cops_taser_kill_gay_porn_star_dustin_michaels_as_video_cameras_roll.html


I'll actually admit I don't recommend watching the video below, because it does indeed show the last minutes of a man, a extremely stupid man- but man nonetheless struggling to survive after resisting arrest and putting a pot baggy in his mouth and then being fucking tasered.

Ok... Here are the number of problems i have with this shit:

1. Of course he's white. A "Brutha" knows best not to fuck with the police. They got these newish things called tasers that they are barely trained on how to use but they look real cool and they are itching to use these. I know from first hand knowledge... when they say get down. You get the fuck down.

2.POT?!? Gabe, where are you? Whats the worse he would he faced? Misdemeanor pot possession.. Now if it were crack or heroine, I can see that..and anyways those come in bags small enough to enough to ingest. I am being pragmatic here. What the fuck would possess him to resist arrest...and swallow a POT baggy? I feel for the dude but.... hell no am i gonna die for pot. It better be high grade Colombian coke and I'm facing 25 years for intent to sell on top of other serious charges.

3. It got caught on tape and will be played again and again.... somehow this feels appropriate... and inappropriate.

anyhow.. very sad. I have nothing else more to say about This.

White goes Live

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20350436,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines

The People spoke and their wishes granted. Betty White to host, for the first time ever at that, SNL, at age 88. From the people article she turned downed SNL three times because it was "Too New York". May 8th will be her debut on a special mother's Day themed episode, which to me is too far away... this bitches clock is ticking...Get her IN as soon as possible. 88!?

The "Cute Corey" dead at 38 of overdose

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2010/03/corey-haim-dead-possible-overdose.html

Woke up to reports from all News sources that actor and 80's teen icon Corey Haim had died overnight of a possible drug overdose. New outlets choose their words wisely, but it probably WAS an overdose, and the saddest part is that it isn't shocking and prompts one to think under their thoughts "What took so long?" considering his mental state, his fast L.A. living lifestyle which became the bed rock of his post success profile. He was forever tied to "River Pheonix Era" young hollywood..and appeared to have made it out alive.

Not So, now.

He will be forever chained, even in death to actor Corey Feldman who is best known for being Michael Jacksons friend... i mean...also being a teen heart throb. To me, the Coreys were not in my era. This news will effect late 80's kids-adults 35 and up more- than me.

There's a moral to this story, that is still being focused as details emerge. Sometimes you can't exactly control the gravity or lack thereof of your career. Lets watch the fallout.

Better Late than never: Oscar Night provides first time gold for Female Director and Chewbaccan relative.

Oscar Night was filled with tears and joy and the lamest dead celebrities montage in recent memory. I didn't watch the telecast live. I tuned in only for most of the major categories ( I missed best supporting actor... snoooze) because i was busy tending to other things. If it weren't for the innovation of the Digital Video Recorder, more commonly referred to as the DVR, i would have totally missed out on a event that would have put Terri Schiavo into a DEEPER coma. Am I the only one who thought last years affair was far more jubilant and out-of-the-box creative than this year? And I would think- with 10 Best picture nominees ranging from Sci-fi to fantasy to dark urban drama to whimsical family film to Sober war film- that there would be a creative surge that would affect the celebrities in the rows wearing gowns and tuxedos that equal the down payment on modest flat in the city or a down payment on a house in suburbs. Things that really consume us.

But I could not be any happier that Katherine Bigelow walked away with the prize for best Directing AND Picture for the Hurt Locker. God...didn't we all want to be piece of James Cameron's brain matter for at least an hour after that! Actually as Barbra Streisand rattled off that a woman could be the FIRST to take home the prize I was soooooo certain Sophia Coppola had won that prize already for the incredibly boring "Lost in Translation"- But i was wrong and she was right and Bigelow raced up to that stage and took one golden statue and in less than 5 minutes later got ANOTHER. One could imagine the sound of glass breaking in James Cameron's smug little mind. I don't know for a fact he is smug but he smell of it to me... and I was actually overjoyed a film about the trauma soldiers undergo in Iraq under senselessness and a sense of duty was chosen than a fantasy film dubbed the most expensive film EVER by press- a rather disgusting feat only Americans could dream up and manage into reality. To spend $500M, according to The Times, on a single film boggles my fragile little mind. It took only $15 million to make the Hurt Locker. You do the maths- how Hurt Lockers fit into Pandora. So I was quite thrilled at that result. Again... god i wanna be in his BRAIN! Damn!


I was also Thrilled with Mo'Niques win for the portrayal of Mary Jones, The abusive, despicable and completely un-empathizable (If that isn't a word a made one up) welfare mom to Gabourey Sidibe's Precious. The performance was the definition of grit and I couldn't possibly have imagined that Mo'Nique (best known for the blockbusting and critically acclaimed performances in Soul Plane and Phat Girlz) could pull such a black voided character out of her hat. She did! And she WON, like we knew from Day one (who as actually seen Up in the Air? I haven't met anyone yet... who were those two white women anyways?*ahem*) she'd take the prize in another first. This would be the very first Oscar given to a descent of Chewbacca. As it is widely known, Mo'Nique recently did genealogical research and found out that from a Galaxy Far Far away Her great great grandfather was Chewbaccan and in honor of that heritage she does not shave her legs. THAT was left out of the Barbara Walters Interview and left IN was Mo'Nique's admission to being sexually abused by her brother which was where she did pull Mary Jones out. I must admit I was underwhelmed by her acceptance speech.

Lastly Sandra Bullocks win for the Blind Side, which was like De'ja vu for me.(Remember Ellen Burstyn vs Julia Roberts in Erin Brocovich Did she deserve the win? absolutely not. Am I happy she did... ya know... yeah. Sandra Bullock career has last longer than most other cancers because, unlike most cancers she actually is likable. Sally Field 2. Her speech was heartfelt and funny... and although Siddibe truly should have won... the grace in which Bullock took her statue made it a pleasing win.

Did I miss anything?

What The FUCK Ever!

http://rumorrat.com/2010/03/08/exclusive-will-graces-jack-comes-out-fibs-about-never-having-been-in/


Sean Hayes, who for YEARS played flaming non-repentant homo Jack, On NBC's Will & Grace, has come out of the closet. This would be somewhat on the heels of earth shattering news that the blonde homely mom from Family Ties is a full blown lezzie who prefers to dip her McNuggets in 'Gyna sauce. And course before then we learned Alison Goldfrapp is lesbian..and 40 at that! and Kelly McGillis... yada...yadda..yadda. What is wrong with this picture? I thought post career coming out was out of season until this recent crop mid-life come outs, that aren't surprising at all. And more importantly why i am writing about this.

The whole debate on whether a celebrity should or should not come out is tired- as tired as waiting until you are in mid 40's and you have the Adam Lamberts and Johnny Weirs of a different generation who start their careers, straight out the gate setting off fire alarms with faggotry so electric Tesla is suing from his grave for copyright infringement. Yeah. It does bother me...especially when you have Queen Latifah and Jodi Foster waiting in the wings because being in the closet somewhat makes them look smart. Let's use Weir and Lambert as test specimen for the "early career non-come out". These men are unabashedly gay.. yet there is a residue of contention that surrounds them.... Where as People will probably run a "Yes I am gay" for Sean Hayes, while we are all like duh. For me that reinforces the closet.

Late night.. time for bed and THATS my first entry.