Fried

Well, it finally died. My computer has been acting up for the last month and now it's totally dead. Won't even boot up anymore. So I'm blogging to you from the amazing iPad. Hopefully I'll get some of the money owed to me and can start building a new system soon... Else I'll be stuck using the office computer for everything... And thus spending even more time there.

Will I...

Will I lose my dignity?
Will someone care?
Will I wake tomorrow,
from this nightmare?


from Rent

For Rent

I think I've posted some of the lyrics to this in the past... and you might check back through the blog archives if you're completely bored... but I thought I'd post again just how much I love the musical "Rent".  You can blame my friend, Ky, for bringing this all up again. :)

Rent's story is a sad one... both on stage and off... but a celebratory one as well.  Here's a group of people living in the East Village and living with disease.  It's poignant message of "celebrate every day" still resonates to this day for me... nearly 14 years after it's first production.

I have never actually seen the production live... but I'd like to consider myself a Rent-Head... maybe a Rent-Head Lite?  I have seen the "Filmed Live on Broadway" and the movie version.  (I prefer the Broadway version, myself.)  I really would love to see it live sometime, but I'm not sure it's even touring anymore.  I hope it is.  The next time I see it come anywhere near Phoenix, I'm going to go see it.

And I'm probably dragging Ky and Stone with me... :)  Like there would be any dragging involved...

Responsible Procreationist

I've now heard everything.  I'm getting to the point where it's getting harder and harder to stay positive in the fight against stupidity.  I once saw an amazing quote...

"Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated,

and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever."

-Aristophanes

How right he was.  When I first heard that quote, I laughed because it's true!  There are just some people you cannot teach.  Like the old idiom about old dogs and new tricks.  They're just untrainable.

These days however, this quote is extremely depressing... for it reminds me that there are a lot of stupid people out in the world... and right now, it seems every one of them thinks it's their mission to stop equality in it's tracks.

Bad language after the jump...

Dante's Cove - First Season Done

Let me give you some backstory here.  I had heard of Dante's Cove a long time ago... when Queer as Folk was still on the air. (That gives you a bit of perspective eh?)  It was just going to be starting up that fall after QaF's run was over.  I thought at the time "Great!  I'll be able to carry my addition from QaF to DC."  But then it orignally only aired on here!, which I originally didn't get on any cable system locally.  Secondly, I was turned off by the supposed "supernatural" element that was going to be a major part of the story.  I had never really followed Buffy or Angel so I didn't think I could get interested in DC. And as I result, I pretty much ignored it when it released.  But these days, I'm looking for more and more gay-centered drama/romance stories, and decided to give Dante's Cove another look.  So using my Netflix subscription, I got DVD 1 of Season 1.

First off, this could hardly be dubbed a "Season".  It consisted of 2 episodes... the first just 84 minutes and the second 106 minutes.  However, there was some pretty nice eye candy in those 190 minutes, lemme tell ya. LOL  I'm actually VERY surprised by the amount of nudity and full on sex.  If you thought Queer as Folk was bold, you ain't seen nothing yet.  Seeing as the show is only distributed "On Demand" via here! on-demand, they can pretty much go all pornographic, which actually made me feel a little dirty watching it. LOL

The Sci-Fi elements that did crop up kind of threw me at first.  I was started to get uninterested after the spells started being cast... but figured I'd at least stick it out through the DVD.  I'm glad I did.  While the spells were turning me off... and the amount of nudity in the front started bordering on pornographic, it finally evened out a little with more story than sex.

I then found that the second episode... or season finale... was actually on a second DVD.  Luckily, I found it streaming on gay.com as well... in not as good a quality as the DVD, but still watchable.  So I caught the rest of Season 1 online.  And now I'm kicking myself for not bringing the NetFlix envelope to work so I can return the DVD and get the next on in the series. LOL

Guess you could say I'm a little hooked... but with only 2 episodes under my belt, I can't really say one way or the other yet.  Only that I'm glad the amount of nudity went down... and I'm hoping I can make it through the supernatural bits and come out on the other side still liking it. :)

Ironical

You wanna talk Ironical... the Dante's Cove post (the first one)... was post number.... (wait for it)...

Dante's Cove - Part 2

Ok I was wrong... think Queer as Folk on Playboy Channel.  This thing has more nudity than a porno!  This was allowed on TV?!

Now I'm frightened...