Sunday, December 12, 2004

First of all...



The pic of the front of the house, the "retro look", but after Sammy and Mike added the lights to the overgrown bush. (btw, I am trying out more colors for the text... I am so color blind... let me know if it's horrible).

Here's a family pic...



It's a pic of my sister, my brother and my niece in the pool of that cruise ship they all got to go on, with my sis-in-law and the totally adorable lil' Evan in the foreground. I love tham all dearly, but this pic of Evan just gives me total Uncle Bunny fits... he is sooo cute!



I can't believe that I forgot to watch Saturday Night live tonight!

Colin Ferrell was hosting and The Scissor Sisters were the musical guests! OMFG! I hope someone taped it! Colin was dreamy in "The Home at the End of the World"; he's such a big star and it's hard not to look at him closely on screen... but



...Lil' Jake Shears, the very, very gay lead singer for the Scissor Sisters is such lil' hottie!

And did I mention that he is sooo gay? How gay you might ask?

Well, for this kind of info, it's always important to go to a good source, and there's one resource for salascious news that always seems to provide what you need.

FleshBot! A very erudite source of sleazy info and one that I think must be extremely trustworthy as the editor, John d'Addario lives in my neighborhood. He was recently featured in the local Bywater rag and I think I would like to meet him, if he ever gets to leave his post at the high bandwidth computer station he must use to source out all this delicious material. Don't have anything to report about his personal habits. I'm not sure which team he bats for; but editorially, he seems to treat all perversions with equal glee. Straight titalation gets a lot of play here, but Gay is not ignored.

For example, this mention of a website called "Hispandex".

"Spandex might have gotten a bad rap over the years (thank you, Richard Simmons), but on those who abide by the old chestnut about it being a privilege, not a right, it can be sexy in the right circumstances. That said, we can't say that everyone on this site is doing his part to rehabilitate this much-maligned fabric (or is even wearing it, for that matter)�but if you simply appreciate the pervy thrill of checking out guys on the beach who don't know they're being photographed, we guess it really doesn't matter what kind of bathing suit they're wearing."

Bwahaha! Smart and funny writing about smut. What more can you ask for?

Wellllll, how about a link to pics of Jake Shears of the Scissor Sisters... right here. Do a search for Jake Shears and see what comes up. Or anyone else that comes to mind for that matter.

My fav X-mas songs.

Right now... x-mas songs by Rockapella, (you should hear these guys), Manhatten Transfer (sublime), any Ella, (but especially "Santa Claus Got Stuck In My Chimney", yuk yuk), Bing for good measure, Aaron Neville, (our local angel), Elvis, (Santa Claus Is Back In Town!), the Ravonettes, a few songs by the Blind Boys of Alabama, (but they scare me a bit), all of an old album called "The 1926 Wurlitzer Band Organ , Carousel Christmas" (because it was recorded from a band organ in my favorite amusement park, Seabreeze, near Rochester, NY, ... a fire in 1994 destroyed this amazing machine and the historic PTC carousel I grew up with...), "Christmas Time's A'Coming" by Emmylou Harris, and when it all gets toooo sentimental, I play all of Bob River's "Twisted Christmas" albums. They are a delightful relief from too much holiday spirit; totally nasty and brilliant parodies of any and almost every x-mas song you've ever heard.

My I-Pod.

It's an eclectic collection... what? you couldn't tell from my x-mas collection? But that's what's great about the i-pod; it takes all of this in and organizes it!

....into catagories, albums, genres, artists, and "playlists" which I get to set up, and then have the option to choose random play so I never know what's coming up next. I've filled up about 20 percent of it's capacity, (about four days of music!), and I keep finding more stuff. Unlike the old way I used to collect music, I would buy a CD and then lose it or forget it. i-pod remembers everything and where it is, and it fits in my pocket. More important; it sits on my desk, a lil' juke box with everything I want to hear right dere.

Films, this week.

This week I watched "Bad Santa". Leave it up to the Coen Brothers to come up with a story like this about a self hating alcoholic thief with a midget partner in crime, who finds a soft spot for a very strange lil' kid. Billy Bob Thorton is brilliant in this film, prolly the only actor who could have gotten away with such an unsavory role, but everyone in the film does well, and especially the strange lil' kid. He's great. But this is not a "feel good film". It has it's very funny moments, but it will not make you happy for the holidays.

I also watched "Party Monster" again, and enjoyed it. I love Seth Green and he plays a veeery gay part here, some of this film is very amusing. Some of it is not, but Macaulay Culkin, well, it's hard not to look at him, especially in the scenes after he gets out of rehab and hosts a party dressed in some strategically placed bandages and you get to see his butt. You know, Culkin is a film actor, the camera gets him and you have to look. Just wonder what mister homo alone will be able to do with his adult career...

On deck for this weekend, "Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas" which I saw when it first came out, but it deserves a second viewing. One of my team members handed me a copy of "Elf", and assured me that I was wonderfully funny... we'll see.

And I have a copy of "Neverland". The gay one from last year, not the new one.

Which reminds me... the other night at work, two of the guys were talking about Chris Rock's take on Micheal Jackson, about Micheal showing up twenty minutes late for court and "dressed like Captain Crunch!" perfect.


Well, that's it, the beginning of the fourth year of this journal. I tried doing a diary, a journal a lot of times before, but I never had any success with this journal thing until I put my ass online; suddenly, I had to produce.

And over the years, a few people have told me that it meant something to them. Recently, someone told me that I inspired them to start their own blog. This is good; how many times do you get to inspire someone to write... yeah, that's really good.

BTW, Noah needs your thoughts and whatever you can send his way in that respect. He's apparently in a coma and that's a bit scary for this rather extraordinary young man that many people have come to know and love on the net.

Special thanks to GC of GayCams and BadPuppy for hosting the message board these last three years.

And here's a blast from the past...

Parade Movie


hehe, seems like a long time ago.....


durlx









6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

the house lites rock totallee-- loox like a zydeco club outside of opelousas-- laissez les bon temps roullez!!

ken up ten

3:02 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey, nice new look Darryl--I'm only a little slow in checking out your new journal. But couldn't you make it look a little more......cheesy, hehheh! See ya. anony-mass

8:26 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Tis a mysterious cave lit by a black light revealing glowing florescence of hidden gems.

R

9:07 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hmmm...Blogger does not allow editing of comments. Okay, so let's pretend that I MEANT flowering. ;-) R

9:22 AM  
Blogger uno said...

a fluorescent florescence and it's all good.

*waves at R*

8:12 AM  
Blogger durlx said...

all the comments are vastly appreciated!

It's not difficult to register, and it's safe, and then so much easier to figure out who you are my dears...

10:05 AM  

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