Indeed, though Runway is just going to be the "reunion episode" I think, so I'm not particularly psyched. All I really care about is hoping Sweet Pea wins the viewer's choice prize.
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My gay life hasn't been very gay of late. I thought I just had a cough but it quickly became a full on head cold. So I've just been trying not to die and also trying not to get addicted to World Of Warcraft. The game itself is sorta meh. I just really like my character, a level 20 Rogue named Valaofthefen(they don't allow spaces or capitalization for names). I've found WoW to deviate fiercely between retardedly easy and mindnumbingly hard. Guild Wars is much better than WoW but I've beaten all the games on my main character, Vala Of The Fens, and so I don't need to do much other than get loads of fancy gear and PvP. The Guild Wars 2 beta is scheduled for sometime this year and I can't wait.
In other gay news...I've decided that Sakura is the only girl for me and so I'm building a cannon to launch myself into Canada. I could get one of those new Passport Cards but building a cannon would probably be quicker. I imagine Sakura looks something like her but thats ok. Her purple text so makes up for that.
I haven't really got a lot of news. I sent in applications to McGill and Concordia, just in case my family does end up moving to Montreal, so we'll see how that goes.
And tonight I'm watching Company on PBS Great Performances, which is exciting.
Oh, and a few of my friends and I have decided to put on a production of the musical [title of show] at some point, because it's consumed my soul. It's brilliantly funny.
It depends, for instance, on whether or not the people you're dating know.
Also, the Oscars are tomorrow!
The idea of getting excited by the Oscars tickles me, but really I don't have much respect for the academy of random people, prefering (FOR INSTANCE) the Independent Spirit Awards or certain critics' associations.
Still though, the Oscars are powerful, if wrong, and fun to watch.
My Oscar wish is that Michael Clayton get a few carrots.
It depends, for instance, on whether or not the people you're dating know.
Agreed. Leading people on is bad. Though that also depends on how serious things are with these guys. I've had multiple casual things on the go before but it's not like there was much investment on the line there, no one was expecting any commitment.
Also, the Oscars are tomorrow!
The idea of getting excited by the Oscars tickles me, but really I don't have much respect for the academy of random people, prefering (FOR INSTANCE) the Independent Spirit Awards or certain critics' associations.
Still though, the Oscars are powerful, if wrong, and fun to watch.
I was nodding in agreement until the very end. I think the Oscars are pretty friggin' boring.
On a quite unrelated front (and it's just too funny not to relay here), my night last night was one for the record books.
It started with 48 Jello shots (blue raspberry pornstars with gin, strawberry-orange with Grand Marnier and Amaretto, cherry with brandy, and lime with tequila) at a friend's place. Then we moved on to a club which was hopping due to spring break.
We had some more shots, a few doubles and we're all having a great time. I'm leaning on the bar and suddenly I feel this hand just touching my back. Thinking it's just a kid trying to get at the bar, I let it slide. But like a rejected chapter from a romance novel, the mysterious hand got more insistent, and started stroking my side. Since this has now slipped into creepy/hilarious territory, I catch my friends' eyes and motion toward the hand which is now making its way to my chest (I needed people to see what was happening because it was going to be a story that needed witnesses). I'm just drunk enough to not be freaked by the pervy invasion of personal space and just when I'm deciding how far to let it go, a nipple gets tweaked. Deciding that second base is enough, I turn around to give creepo the 'ole "piss off" but I come face to face with my old boss. Who has been turned mostly the other way the whole time with his hand apparently set on auto-pilot. Now, I knew he was gay (it was a fact I'd picked up seconds into my job interview and a fact I'd shamelessly exploited to get my job) and I knew he was a drunk, but I had no idea he was such a handsy drunken perv. He didn't know it was me until I turned around and I made a few quippy comments about being good with his hands and blow him off.
My friends and I share a good laugh and we figure that was our story for the night. But no. A few minutes later, I'm chilling with my double vody and lime (the fact that I have a drink in my hand is important here) when out of nowhere I get hit in the side of the face with an empty glass. Looking to see where the airborne bit of glassware originated, I see this thick slab of beef clomping his way over to me. He starts yelling at me about what I thought I was doing throwing a glass. Now, being the one who just got hit in the face, I'm confused as to why anyone's in my face about throwing ****, and I convey this confusion and anger in the least respectful way possible. I mean, the guy was thick with meat, but he wasn't very tall and I'm not about to take **** from Beefcake Napoleon. So I get my back up and I tell him that I did nothing. He's screaming that he saw me throw a glass right at him (I hadn't, in case you had a doubt, I was watching the band in the other direction from where 'Lil Stumpy stomped out from) to which I replied that I supposed that made him blind and stupid because I was watching the band and I still have my glass. Which I show him. He's not liking the answers I'm giving him and it looks like things are going to escalate but that's when my buddy Matty steps in and tells the guy that I didn't do anything to him so he'd better kindly **** off and take his 'roid rage elsewhere. I guess two mouthy drunks were too much for the guy cuz he clomped back off with a sneer. Though being the prudent drunks that we are, my friends and I decide that the risk of a sneak attack by the caveman and his friends is too high (because that's how things work here, someone beats you down or chases you off, you come back later with your friends to pick up your slack) so we bail on the club.
The idea of getting excited by the Oscars tickles me, but really I don't have much respect for the academy of random people, prefering (FOR INSTANCE) the Independent Spirit Awards or certain critics' associations.
Haven't been excited by them since the whole Brokeback-Crash debacle. They'll need to make that one up to the gays at some point.
I had enjoyed them the past few years before that tho. This year I'm not terribly excited by the movies involved, so meh.
I'm still gonna watch Jon Stewart tho. Gonna start watching them a while after they've started tho, so I can fast forward through commercials, annoying speeches and bull**** filler.
So the producer who accepted the award for No Country for Old Men ended his speech with "And I'd like to thank my partner John [something], without you honey I'd never have gotten through this."
In other gay Oscar news, the most passionate speech was made for the acceptance of the short documentary award for Freeheld, the subject being the prosecution of same sex couples' transfering of pension benefits on death. It was quite amazing to see so much empathy come out of a married woman, who visibly shook as she accepted the award.
And it was nice to see the supporting actress award received without the actress crying. As a rule of thumb, the actress awards always get tears. Helen Mirren didn't cry last year though, so maybe it's just the British ladies who are excepted.
We had them on but were only marginally interested. Boring, useless, and I hadn't even seen any nominated movies and didn't care (though I was rooting for Ellen Page just because she was good in X-Men). I think the only movie I saw that had any nominations was Pirates 3, which deserved the ones it got (special effects and such) but was blah enough that I kinda was glad it didn't win anything.
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Art requires a significant investment on the part of the observer.
To appreciate literature, one must apply oneself to think about what one has read, and one must also have some practice in the interpretation of metaphor and symbolic language and such.
To appreciate classical music, (I should say Western because I know little to nothing about other classical musics,) one must understand the harmonic tradition behind it.
I don't appreciate theatre: I have very rarely seen any, and I don't really understand it. I expect that if I watched the Tonies they would bore me.
Kraj, when you say "Boring, useless, and I hadn't even seen any nominated movies and didn't care," it's clear that the reason you found the ceremony boring is the second half of the sentence. But when you call the whole thing boring (rather than saying something like "I found it boring" or leaving it simply at you weren't interested) it makes me feel like you don't respect my opinions.
For the point that they are useless I will counter in simpler terms: movies, and not just blockbusters, and under heavy influence of market forces, and the Oscars play a big role in shaping of those forces. Not just do sales of movies with Oscars go up, but more similar movies are more likely to be produced. This is why it was especially sad when Brokeback Mountain didn't get its Best Picture: the Academy was saying America is not ready to buy this sort of movie, and, whether or not the academy was right, we haven't seen one since.
Kraj, when you say "Boring, useless, and I hadn't even seen any nominated movies and didn't care," it's clear that the reason you found the ceremony boring is the second half of the sentence. But when you call the whole thing boring (rather than saying something like "I found it boring" or leaving it simply at you weren't interested) it makes me feel like you don't respect my opinions.
No, actually in past years I've only seen one or two nominated movies and still enjoyed the show. The Oscars can be entertaining even when you haven't seen the movies if they do someone other than show clips of old Oscars and winning movies for 2 hours.
And dude, my experience of the Oscars has absolutely nothing to do with your opinion. Get over it.
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No, actually in past years I've only seen one or two nominated movies and still enjoyed the show.
I misspoke. I meant that if you cared about the movies the Oscars would not have been boring, not that not caring about the movies necessarily makes the Oscars boring.
As to your second paragraph I should probably just leave it at "I disagree."
The Oscars just didn't matter to me this year. I didn't see many movies in '07 and none of the ones I did see were "critically acclaimed" except The Simpsons Movie. I like supernatural action movies, the occasional Disney movie, musicals(nothing modern though), and black ops thrillers. In other words I have the taste of an ADD afflicted serial killer.
It was fun to watch the dorm I visit get all decked out to have an oscars watching party. They taped names on the seats (famous stars) and some people wore evening wear (black dresses and shoals....not teddies. that's "later that evening wear")
I only saw the Best actor, some shtick with those guys from Superbad, Best picture, best screenplay, best director, and I think the documentary shorts and other short things...
Wasn't awful but I really hadn't seen enough of the movies to get all wrapped up in it. It's not the grandiose and funny event it used to be.
I usually see about 20-25% of the nominated movies in a given year... I just looked through the list and I've actually seen NONE of them. I don't know if that's sad for me or for the movie industry. I did want to see Sweeney Todd, Across the Universe and the Golden Compass... just never got the chance to go.
Oh... I guess I saw Pirates 3. Does that even count? :/
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In other gay news...I've decided that Sakura is the only girl for me and so I'm building a cannon to launch myself into Canada. I could get one of those new Passport Cards but building a cannon would probably be quicker. I imagine Sakura looks something like her but thats ok. Her purple text so makes up for that.
This makes me sad in too many ways. I would hope any parent who realizes they raised their child to react like this to an innocent valentine from the same sex would re-evaluate their lives. Likely won't though. This will vanish from the headlines in under a month, unless we can find a way to blame video games for it.
What the heck has been up with Gaymers the last few weeks? O_o How am I, generally a Lurker at best, getting more posts than anyone by posting once a week?
Is everyone ok?
Have you all caught the Straight?
* Sakura disinfects
I have been working with D3vi on a load of music lately. She has finally seemed to break her cycle of mostly silly short gibberish music and has written a whole slew of serious pieces lately and seems to have actually found a voice and style her own. She says I have influenced and inspired her alot. She's been very afraid to express herself with any depth, rejection of silly gibberish music hurts less.
What the heck has been up with Gaymers the last few weeks? O_o How am I, generally a Lurker at best, getting more posts than anyone by posting once a week?
Is everyone ok?
Have you all caught the Straight?
* Sakura disinfects
OMG thanks. Sorry I watched a men's basketball game the other day and think I got a little straight on me. Didn't notice it til it was too late. Suddenly there I was wearing a plaid shirt and trucker hat in the middle of Home Depot talking to a lesbian about power saws whilst chugging a beer considering "meh a beer belly isn't so bad. Who needs to see their own ***** anyways? Hmmm this fellow sure does have a nice mullet. ****** sounds good about now..."
Current New Favorite Person™: Mallory Archer
She knows why.
In other gay news...I've decided that Sakura is the only girl for me and so I'm building a cannon to launch myself into Canada. I could get one of those new Passport Cards but building a cannon would probably be quicker. I imagine Sakura looks something like her but thats ok. Her purple text so makes up for that.
And tonight I'm watching Company on PBS Great Performances, which is exciting.
Oh, and a few of my friends and I have decided to put on a production of the musical [title of show] at some point, because it's consumed my soul. It's brilliantly funny.
........... I don't get it.
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Katingal: Plane of Chains
Also, the Oscars are tomorrow!
The idea of getting excited by the Oscars tickles me, but really I don't have much respect for the academy of random people, prefering (FOR INSTANCE) the Independent Spirit Awards or certain critics' associations.
Still though, the Oscars are powerful, if wrong, and fun to watch.
My Oscar wish is that Michael Clayton get a few carrots.
Agreed. Leading people on is bad. Though that also depends on how serious things are with these guys. I've had multiple casual things on the go before but it's not like there was much investment on the line there, no one was expecting any commitment.
I was nodding in agreement until the very end. I think the Oscars are pretty friggin' boring.
On a quite unrelated front (and it's just too funny not to relay here), my night last night was one for the record books.
It started with 48 Jello shots (blue raspberry pornstars with gin, strawberry-orange with Grand Marnier and Amaretto, cherry with brandy, and lime with tequila) at a friend's place. Then we moved on to a club which was hopping due to spring break.
We had some more shots, a few doubles and we're all having a great time. I'm leaning on the bar and suddenly I feel this hand just touching my back. Thinking it's just a kid trying to get at the bar, I let it slide. But like a rejected chapter from a romance novel, the mysterious hand got more insistent, and started stroking my side. Since this has now slipped into creepy/hilarious territory, I catch my friends' eyes and motion toward the hand which is now making its way to my chest (I needed people to see what was happening because it was going to be a story that needed witnesses). I'm just drunk enough to not be freaked by the pervy invasion of personal space and just when I'm deciding how far to let it go, a nipple gets tweaked. Deciding that second base is enough, I turn around to give creepo the 'ole "piss off" but I come face to face with my old boss. Who has been turned mostly the other way the whole time with his hand apparently set on auto-pilot. Now, I knew he was gay (it was a fact I'd picked up seconds into my job interview and a fact I'd shamelessly exploited to get my job) and I knew he was a drunk, but I had no idea he was such a handsy drunken perv. He didn't know it was me until I turned around and I made a few quippy comments about being good with his hands and blow him off.
My friends and I share a good laugh and we figure that was our story for the night. But no. A few minutes later, I'm chilling with my double vody and lime (the fact that I have a drink in my hand is important here) when out of nowhere I get hit in the side of the face with an empty glass. Looking to see where the airborne bit of glassware originated, I see this thick slab of beef clomping his way over to me. He starts yelling at me about what I thought I was doing throwing a glass. Now, being the one who just got hit in the face, I'm confused as to why anyone's in my face about throwing ****, and I convey this confusion and anger in the least respectful way possible. I mean, the guy was thick with meat, but he wasn't very tall and I'm not about to take **** from Beefcake Napoleon. So I get my back up and I tell him that I did nothing. He's screaming that he saw me throw a glass right at him (I hadn't, in case you had a doubt, I was watching the band in the other direction from where 'Lil Stumpy stomped out from) to which I replied that I supposed that made him blind and stupid because I was watching the band and I still have my glass. Which I show him. He's not liking the answers I'm giving him and it looks like things are going to escalate but that's when my buddy Matty steps in and tells the guy that I didn't do anything to him so he'd better kindly **** off and take his 'roid rage elsewhere. I guess two mouthy drunks were too much for the guy cuz he clomped back off with a sneer. Though being the prudent drunks that we are, my friends and I decide that the risk of a sneak attack by the caveman and his friends is too high (because that's how things work here, someone beats you down or chases you off, you come back later with your friends to pick up your slack) so we bail on the club.
But still, fun night.
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Quest for the Forsaken (Set Two of the Excellion Block)
Katingal: Plane of Chains
I had enjoyed them the past few years before that tho. This year I'm not terribly excited by the movies involved, so meh.
I'm still gonna watch Jon Stewart tho. Gonna start watching them a while after they've started tho, so I can fast forward through commercials, annoying speeches and bull**** filler.
In other gay Oscar news, the most passionate speech was made for the acceptance of the short documentary award for Freeheld, the subject being the prosecution of same sex couples' transfering of pension benefits on death. It was quite amazing to see so much empathy come out of a married woman, who visibly shook as she accepted the award.
And it was nice to see the supporting actress award received without the actress crying. As a rule of thumb, the actress awards always get tears. Helen Mirren didn't cry last year though, so maybe it's just the British ladies who are excepted.
And Gary Busey molested Jennifer Garner on the red carpet.
I don't watch crap like the Oscars so I only know the noteworthy things like those little tidbits.
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Quest for the Forsaken (Set Two of the Excellion Block)
Katingal: Plane of Chains
Current New Favorite Person™: Mallory Archer
She knows why.
To appreciate literature, one must apply oneself to think about what one has read, and one must also have some practice in the interpretation of metaphor and symbolic language and such.
To appreciate classical music, (I should say Western because I know little to nothing about other classical musics,) one must understand the harmonic tradition behind it.
I don't appreciate theatre: I have very rarely seen any, and I don't really understand it. I expect that if I watched the Tonies they would bore me.
Kraj, when you say "Boring, useless, and I hadn't even seen any nominated movies and didn't care," it's clear that the reason you found the ceremony boring is the second half of the sentence. But when you call the whole thing boring (rather than saying something like "I found it boring" or leaving it simply at you weren't interested) it makes me feel like you don't respect my opinions.
For the point that they are useless I will counter in simpler terms: movies, and not just blockbusters, and under heavy influence of market forces, and the Oscars play a big role in shaping of those forces. Not just do sales of movies with Oscars go up, but more similar movies are more likely to be produced. This is why it was especially sad when Brokeback Mountain didn't get its Best Picture: the Academy was saying America is not ready to buy this sort of movie, and, whether or not the academy was right, we haven't seen one since.
No, actually in past years I've only seen one or two nominated movies and still enjoyed the show. The Oscars can be entertaining even when you haven't seen the movies if they do someone other than show clips of old Oscars and winning movies for 2 hours.
And dude, my experience of the Oscars has absolutely nothing to do with your opinion. Get over it.
Current New Favorite Person™: Mallory Archer
She knows why.
As to your second paragraph I should probably just leave it at "I disagree."
I only saw the Best actor, some shtick with those guys from Superbad, Best picture, best screenplay, best director, and I think the documentary shorts and other short things...
Wasn't awful but I really hadn't seen enough of the movies to get all wrapped up in it. It's not the grandiose and funny event it used to be.
Oh... I guess I saw Pirates 3. Does that even count? :/
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You had me at "I'm lubed"
If they are expecting something serious and do not know of each other, then yes.
If this is all casual, then no.
If this is a date with three people at the exact same time, PM me photos please thanx
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Collision (Set Two of the Fracture Block)
Quest for the Forsaken (Set Two of the Excellion Block)
Katingal: Plane of Chains
Just curious as to the possibility of becoming a member....
thanks!
EDIT: remove my request please. I don't think this site will be a helpful avenue for me after all.....
Is everyone ok?
Have you all caught the Straight?
* Sakura disinfects
I have been working with D3vi on a load of music lately. She has finally seemed to break her cycle of mostly silly short gibberish music and has written a whole slew of serious pieces lately and seems to have actually found a voice and style her own. She says I have influenced and inspired her alot. She's been very afraid to express herself with any depth, rejection of silly gibberish music hurts less.
OMG thanks. Sorry I watched a men's basketball game the other day and think I got a little straight on me. Didn't notice it til it was too late. Suddenly there I was wearing a plaid shirt and trucker hat in the middle of Home Depot talking to a lesbian about power saws whilst chugging a beer considering "meh a beer belly isn't so bad. Who needs to see their own ***** anyways? Hmmm this fellow sure does have a nice mullet. ****** sounds good about now..."
Sakura, thanks for rubbing your gay on me.