February 2012
50 posts
“It is the constitution of witness that makes the marriage; the silence of...”
– Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick & Andrew Parker, Performativity and Performance
Cash payments help cut HIV infection rate in young... →
Fascinating.
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
Research in Malawi finds girls who receive regular payments are able to resist attentions of older men and avoid infection
WatchReliable lunacy for a sad day.
“Tom Cruise’s son Connor, whose homophobic text to a former publicist was...”
– Towleroad (Wow, thanks Connor.)
WatchHappy Galentine’s Day
Watch“Being gay these days is so easy, but being gay and weird? - it’s downright hard.”
- SHARON NEEDLES
Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but the traffic was acting exactly like the sky and suddenly I see a headline LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED! there is no snow in Hollywood there is no rain in...
“I almost didn’t make it to the forum. I hesitated at the door and even as I...”
– Eliza Sprague, on the “NOT OVER: You, Me, Us & AIDS” series that I helped curate at the New School for Quorum Forum 2012. (Full piece HERE.)
“I just want to hear the true voices of women self-expressing–smart ones, stupid...”
– Liz Phair talking about Lana Del Rey (but it could easily be me talking about Madonna)
“After dying at the end of her fantastic Live To Tell performance on the...”
– The caption from the YouTube clip of said performance.
There are two different Madonna songs called “Forbidden Love.” #gayrights
“I have this theory about people who don’t eat. They annoy me.”
– MADONNA #queertheory
“There are so many inspiring people, artists and philosophers. I’m inspired...”
– MADONNA
Everyone Wants To Be Peter Griffin. Please Stop...
My friend Michael asked me what I thought of this super bizarre article about Tyler Clementi’s suicide, and I didn’t have time to really collect my thoughts, so I made a list:
-tyler clementi sounds totally cool! he could play violin while riding a unicycle! i would have totally been his friend. -his roommate was a major choad, but should have been expelled, with no criminal...
WatchWoah! Check it out: Casey is sending the digital guitar track from my song “Machine Boy” into an old timey reel-to-reel contraption, and then directly recording the tape back to digital. Attention to detail, folks. Album drops in April.
framedfractions:
having dorky audio fun looping an acoustic guitar track out to my sony TC-377 reel-to-reel and back into pro tools for some good...
I don’t wanna belabor this, but on Glee this week, one gay kid tried to blind another gay kid by throwing rock salt in his eye, but missed and almost blinded a different gay kid, and rather than prosecuting this act of violence, the victims’ response is to get even by singing a Michael Jackson song. I just wanted to clarify that that is what happened.
