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| Friday, December 11th, 2009 | ||
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stele3 |
11:24a | Reply from Jennifer Vanasco So, Jennifer Vanasco of 365gay.com responded via email to my open letter (which was in response to her open letter to Adam Lambert in the Huffington Post). ( Jennifer's email to me. ) My reply: ( My reply. ) |
| Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 | ||
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stele3 |
9:55p | Oh well, what the hell. If I came with a warning label, what would it say? Just out of morbid curiosity. ***** So, the Adam Lambert segment on Barbara Walters special about the 10 Most Fascinating People of the Year. Short? Disappointing? What the hell was that? I did get one good laugh out of it when Babs talked about when Adam "came out" in Rolling Stone, "shocking absolutely no one." Preach it, Babs. The dude wasn't hiding a damn thing. ***** Ugh, ugh, *scours the 'net for the latest episode of Glee* C'mon, bitches, I need my Kurt fix! |
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stele3 |
5:21p | Drumming diary: Mr. Brightside II I'm gonna be giving myself another week on this one - it's a complex song, and I've just realized that I've got change up the sticking in order to play the sixteenth notes fast enough. At 140 bpm, there's no way I'll be able to play sixteenth notes while single-sticking it, so I'm going to double-stick and roll all of those notes. 'Double-sticking' is when you loosen your hold on the sticks and allow them to bounce on the drum head (or in this case, the hit-hat). The secondary hit, obviously, is not as powerful, but there's just no way I can move my limbs fast enough to single-stick those sections. That will make it tricky to hit the snare just once on 2 and 4, but I'll have to train my hand to switch back and forth. It also means I've got to retrain my limbs to play the verses, then match the rest of the song to that faster tempo. Once I get the verses (and the breaks, the breaks are kind of tricky) down, the rest of the song should be easy. *knock on wood* |
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stele3 |
10:57a | *raises eyebrow at Huffington Post* Huh. I posted my open letter to Jennifer Vanasco in the comments of her blog article over 24 hours ago. The Huffington Post staff have yet to allow them to be posted. (Comments are moderated.) Huh. *sips tea* Pardon me while I'm deeply unimpressed by a supposedly left-wing newspaper, and the free press in general. |
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stele3 |
12:47a | This is what I get for fooling around on the Internet Did anyone else notice Tom Conrad's picture of William Beckett's spread legs on the "Sex Is Not The Enemy" blog? Right here. (Note: that picture is SFW. Most of the others linked below are not.) I'm presuming that someone in the fandom sent it in...I've seen this blog making the rounds on my flist. If not, and Tomrad reads SINTE, then......yeah, I can't think of a proper response. If you're not reading this feed, you should be. There's all kinds of beautiful, sexy, strange, and just plain amazing stuff to see and read there. Like: + A naked woman in horns. + Genderfuckery galore. Half the time I have to examine the pictures before I can even take a guess as to who is what gender. When viewing an older picture I literally murmured aloud, "Okay, who does the penis belong to......?" + Gorgeous erotica. (Personally, I love the kind that doesn't necessarily show a lot, you know? You can do so much with so little. I mean, look at that picture. I am. :)) + A daily dose of awwwww. They look so sweet! + Body positivity. + Funny cartoons. + Whatever the hell is going on here. + I almost feel bad looking at this one. It seems so private. + This dude (SFW) has to be one of the most conventionally masculine-looking FTM transmen that I have ever seen in my life. DAMN. I'd expect to see that guy sauntering out of an Abercrombie and Fitch ad, or maybe moving through the pot haze of a frat party with a red plastic cup of beer in hand. ALSO, HOLY SHIT. HOLY SHIT. I don't know whether to be terrified or turned on. Anyway, yeah. Go check it out. ETA: Ahahahahahaaaaa, I just ran across pictures that my college friend Kristen drew of her wife Kim. Hi, explicit Kim! I see you haven't changed! Hee. |
| Monday, December 7th, 2009 | ||
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stele3 |
1:31p | An open letter to Jennifer Vanasco, editor-in-chief of 365gay.com Dear Jennifer, I read your recent Huffington Post article ("How Adam Lambert Is Hurting Gay Marriage") with varying degrees of frustration and horror. First of all, I find it very telling that your title focuses so exclusively on gay marriage. I guess it shouldn't be surprising: when I recently came out to a coworker she rushed to assure me that she supported gay marriage. To which I wanted to respond, "....so?" I have no desire to ever get married; yet my identity has become synonymous with that struggle...in fact, gay marriage has come to dominate any discussion of gay rights. I use "gay" here in its proper definition -- i.e. "same-sex, esp. men" - because that is exactly what gay rights has become: upper-class, white gay men and lesbians determined to make their lives exactly like those of heterosexual people. We have seen the Holy Grail, and it's a white picket fence with a house, two parents, and 2.5 children. The perfect nuclear family, modified only slightly, just a little bit, pretty please. Who could ask for anything more? No one, according to you. And here I thought we were supposed to be fighting repression, not perpetuating the practice. Which is not to say that I am against same-sex marriage -- just against the idea that it's the only dream worth aspiring to, and that a pseudo-heterosexual lifestyle should somehow be my ideal, too. Two friends of mine, lesbians, got married during that brief, precious window of opportunity in California. They had a full ceremony, one of them changed her last name, the whole works. Oh, how lovely, you'd probably croon, and put them up on a kid-friendly slideshow to show mainstream America how nice and friendly the Gays really are, how we really want to be just like them. Except, my friends were and continue to be in an open relationship, and are into the kind of scene that revels in leashes and crawling around onstage. That is the kind of marriage that makes them happy. It works for them. It's very clear which part of their marriage is palatable to mainstream America, and to you. You remind me of Frank Kameny, the gay rights activist who organized marches in the 60's. He's inarguably a pioneer; he also forced women to wear skirts, men to wear suits and ties during the marches and wouldn't allow same-sex handholding. When two women attempted to do so, he immediately broke them up saying, "None of that!" You and Kameny are both so focused on achieving the same rights as the heterosexual majority that you have adopted their tactics, too -- censorship and moral panic. Oh my god, Adam Lambert is destroying the moral fabric of America the gay community. It was the drag queens and hustlers at Stonewall, Jennifer. And it was the drag queens and hustlers who were very quickly edged out of the mainstream gay rights movement by people like Kameny because they were too gauche, too gaudy, too sexual. Sound familiar? Yes, Adam Lambert got up in front of millions of Americans and dared to openly express his sexuality; it's a sexuality that includes BDSM tones, as anyone who's seen him perform or read his interviews will know. You rushed to side with the FCC and wag your finger at him, because that's what you really want: to be part of that big happy majority and never mind what parts of your identity or community you have to repress or screen in order to make all gays seem non-threatening (acceptable, apologetic). Newsflash: if we all behaved in a way that wouldn't shock or upset mainstream American culture, none of us would be queer. And I use "queer" in its adopted definition, meaning "all of us." The married lesbians who enjoy flogging. The transman wrestling with the start of his transition and being told by his LGBT college class that chromosomes are the sole determinant of gender. The asexual currently glaring at her computer screen as she types furiously away. The glam rocker who put on a performance no more salacious than those of his straight peers. We are a far more varied community than just "gay," and no, not all of us want that white picket fence. Jumping on a high horse to condemn how anyone in our community expresses their sexuality (within the legal and moral confines of consent) is the kind of thing best left to Jerry Falwell, whose foundation Liberty Counsel has rushed to condemn Adam Lambert as well. You're on the same side as Jerry Falwell right now, Jennifer. Well done. Adam Lambert might indeed be hurting the picture of The Harmless Gays Who Just Want To Live Like Regular Folks that you're so desperately propping up, but you are hurting the queer community. But you don't care. You want to live in your pretty glass house with all the trappings of a heterosexual life, but with a chewy gay center that is properly tucked away so as not to shock the neighbors. So you go on Huffington Post and you decry a man for openly expressing his sexuality, calling it thoughtless, degrading, and dishonorable. I know a word just as dirty as "dishonor," Jennifer, and twice as damning: sellout. Regards, A Queer Woman |
| Friday, December 4th, 2009 | ||
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8:55p | Weekly Round-up: December 1-4 Hi, everyone! If you are planning to watch the community from Insanejournal, you might check out the update we posted to the Livejournal community a few days ago. This year we will be posting all gifts to the Livejournal community and posting a round-up post to Insanejournal every Friday night. Please check the links for individual fic warnings. All are rated R or NC-17, so please click with caution. ( Round-up: December 1-4 ) |
| Monday, November 30th, 2009 | ||
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stele3 |
2:33p | The bunnies have mutated, but their size remains. If I knew more about the personalities of Adam Lambert's band members (just enough to figure out their voices) I would write a Stonewall Riots AU. Adam would be the drag queen performer in the night club. He's an old hand at these raids, knows just how much to give up to stay out of jail, but not an inch more. Lisa's a fellow patron, a bull dyke who's involved in the local feminist chapter; she and Adam are best buddies and always dance close together so that when a raid starts they can quickly switch partners. Tommy's a hustler, a runaway living in the park nearby who isn't so much a fag as he is starving and living hand-to-mouth (or dick-to-mouth). Monte's a bartender in the Inn, a morally-compromised confidence man for the Mob owners. Longineu's a local civil rights activist who doesn't so much care about the fags until the riots start and he sees the police violence, and draws commonality to his own struggles. Or maybe I could start a community and other people could join in? This would be an epic project -- would anyone else be interested in participating? |
| Sunday, November 29th, 2009 | ||
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stele3 |
9:19p | Drumming diary: Mr. Brightside I had planned to do Zepp this week, but in looking at the notation I realized I need a double bass pedal. That'll have to wait until after Christmas. So, Mr. Brightside by The Killers it is. Drummer is Ronnie Vannucci Jr. Tempo's about 148, which will make it the fastest song I've played thus far. It's also probably the most complex, especially when it comes to the hi-hat. The verses have rapid-fire 16th notes on a tight hi-hat for this very harsh ticking noise; the chorus opens up the hi-hat and switches to fourth notes. Then there's a late bridge at 2:56 with eighth notes on the hi-hat. The bass drum is on its familiar place of one and three, except for when IT'S playing the eighth notes at the end of the second chorus or in the outro. The breaks jump onto the toms, too, which I'm happy about -- I need to move around the kit a bit more. It's a very chorus-happy song: there are only two of them, but they're 4 times as big as the verses or bridges. There's also a sizable intro and outro. Intro: 20 measures Verse 1: 8 measures Choruses 1 & 2: 32 measures each Bridge 1: 8 measures Verse 2: 16 measures Bridge 2: 8 measures Outro: 16 measures Total: 140 measures This is going to be a tough one. There isn't a stable "groove," per se - while the verse and chorus have a basic bass drum of 1 & 3 and snare at 2 & 4, almost every measure is slightly different. An extra bass here, a crash there. Everything's always changing. It'll be difficult to keep up, especially at that tempo. |
| Friday, November 27th, 2009 | ||
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stele3 |
9:07a | Abusive asshole >>> Gay man REALLY, Good Morning America? Really? First you cancel a gay man's appearance on your show b/c the night before he kissed another guy on national television, then in the same week you book a dude who beat the crap out of his girlfriend and threatened to kill her. Just, wow. The different layers of homophobia, hypocrisy, and female negativity wrapped up in how GMA handled this...WOULD amaze me, if I hadn't seen it a million times before. *clutches head* I hope that Adam a) is smart enough to understand that by just being "a performer" - by being HIM - he's going to walk a very certain path, b) is brave enough to walk it despite the asshats, and c) has people around him who will help. Because goddamn, this is just the start of his career. |