democrats convention you wondered where the huge 600 m² screen comes from? Yep, a Dutch company, also does screens at U2 concerts, sports events and the like.
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25-08-2008
fuckin with Frankenstein
As today (monday) is my birthday, everybody's invited to a bare-ass drink at the Boss (in Dutch: a BBB@B, a blote bips borrel @ Boss) from 22u30
new Dutch safesex commercial (in English with subtitles)
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24-08-2008
wow Hooray 4 the only gay sporter to win gold in Beijing: Mathew Mitcham
apart from that he has a great smile and a tonguepiercing, like me.
look at the vid of him with mum, lover and medal: so sweet!
Just could not get it across my mind to tuck this gem image away in the poz page
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23-08-2008
olympic roundup eh what? USA nr.2 on the olympic medal list and 303 mn inhabitants? China nr. 1, with 1,33 bn inhabs? forget it! If you consider the number of inhabitants of competing nations this is the list :
Jamaica - (11th on abs list) 06 gold 03 silver 01 bronze 2,8 mln inh.
Australië . (06th on abs list) 12 gold 04 silver 17 bronze 18 mln inh.
Nederland (12th on abs list) 07 gold 05 silver 04 bronze 16 mln inh.
that was our most magical and exhausing week for another year the movienight rounded up the owee with eating out 1 showing across the canal on the museum wall. (next wednesday we have the sequel). Here are some clips of the most hilarious and euforic beachparty moments:
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21-08-2008
assorted sounds dwh had a piano party, last sunday august 17th! No this is not Dutch gay historian Thomas van der Dunk, showing off at his own private soiré
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20-08-2008
face of Leonardo Da Vinci revealed by Dutch caricature artist
owee bingo dwhcomment?
19-08-2008
summer = time to study cultural history here are a few samples of guys taking us on history lessons:
and here is a guy taking us to Greece in 300 b.c. and the gay Spartans.comment?
18c-08-2008
olympic inspiration . . . sadly these superb trunks are now only used at diving!
Is that why it remains one of the few sports with gay participants?
Not really, as Aussie diver Matthew Micham says in an Advocate interview:
Not that there aren’t some who are bothered by his openness, such as the blog commenter who came to Mitcham’s attention when he wrote that the diver couldn’t win a medal now that he’s come out. Such absurd thinking doesn’t surprise him -- “Elite sport is such a macho thing” -- but it also doesn’t faze him. After all, there’ve been openly gay Olympians before, and some have even won medals, such as Dutch swimmer Johan Kenkhuis, who took home a silver at the 100-meter freestyle relay in 2004.
Johan no US prude, also poses naked. That's my kind of olympic celeb!
Johan, together with US equestrian Robert Dover will end up in history books as the earliest olympic sporters not to wait till the end of his carreer to come out and win medals. (this makes a nice series of bronze silver and gold for gay competitors in 2000, 04 and 08). For details see outsports. I saw him on Dutch tv just a few minits ago, looking hotter then ever and predicting that one of our Dutch girls will win another swimming silver and gold tonight and tomorrow. Which will keep NL in the medal top 10 and, if you consider our number of inhabitants, way above China and the USA! How's that for patriotism? comment?
18a-08-2008
texas Just re assured myself that this song remains the best they èver made. Sharleen, the singer, just made a solo album comment?
out tv = fout, if not oud (dutch for old)! and probably on the way out, if they don't move to the basic digital+ package The growth in digital tv subscribers has halted, NL newspapers said today; the price is way too high and the quality is much less then promissed! Most people nowadays ask their friends how they like the service they contemplate. Here's my consumer experience with digital tv:
As one of the early subscribers to Dutch digital channels, and sufferer of the various company take-overs, I want to say to all other gay subscribers, who went from Casema, via Orange and Wanadoo to Ziggo: DONT ! The digital channels work like SHIT : all the time channels break up in JPG dots and then take a number of seconds to reset. This does not happen on the channels you never watch, like the 15 German channels, the 6 French ones, or TV noord, oost, Limburg, but all the time at VPRO geschiedenis, het gesprek, AT5 (completely gone during canalpride day), History channel, Discovery world, discovery science, BBC3, 4, and Private spice, the free hetero sex channel, that shows more cock and bareback fucking then the gay channel (you know I have no problems with bareback). If you just forget it is a female ass they fuck, who needs a homo channel for an additional €10,- ? Also no distortion on all the channels that are already on the analog channels or on sterren.nl, tv oranje, but plenty of dropouts on VH1, TMF-dance, VPRO-2voor12 and Mezzo Classic !
All the guys who had Dutch Out on trial discontinued it, as there just wasn't enough worthwhile content.
UIT ! (hey, this does not involve Canadian Out-tv)comment?
15-08-2008
'fout+fout=fout', or 'beter wordt 't toch nooit', eh, or 'gaggety attention party', new name for dwh sex and dance parties ?
Been thinking a while about names for the new dwh parties. The film I saw last night, boy culture, I liked it a lot, as it was not your typical romantic gay dream, but had depth, intensity and good music. The title was a line in that film.
Our original "queer dance parties" had lost their value when they left our own building and started touring around other venues in Delft. That may have been a good idea as integration strategy once, when we thought we could do huge "gay friendly (?)" events at a time we had problems with soundproofing our own place, but also meant they lost their original homo identity and integrity. In this day and age, rather then huge crowds, we need real homo parties again, more then èver!
comment? and Joey winks 4 an hour untill his right eye falls asleep,it's true!
14-08-2008
fagotty attention
thinking of running a queer music list as part of this here weblog on a more frequent basis. Like maybe a quarterly top 10. One that could get in is Adam Joseph
gaggotty attention is a great title for my list!
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13-08-2008
schort
as you may have seen last month in the nostalgia series at one of the 1st gay prides in Roermond, I'm a huge apron fan, in black, white or transparent rubber.
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12-08-2008
Village people Als this year we celebrate the 8th lustrum at DWH we went deel into some serious music history:
Back in the seventies, on my first trip to NYC, I was one of the lucky few to buy the first Village People record. It had just four songs, that amazingly are very rare on youtube or elsewhere to this day. Still, they sound so much more fresh and authentic than the megasmashes they did later on that we can all mime to and I've been bored with last weekend at the homo top 100. Fire Island is now in the blue box at the right and below we have San Fransisco.
And here's "Everybody is a star in Holly Holly Wood". With Michael Kirwan, below, I can only agree:
As you may have seen, at the bottom of this log's entrypage you passed links to several dwh youtube-jukeboxes with over 1200 queer music history gems playing nontop. Like me you'll find back some long lost old favorites. Clicking on the vids themselves links to the corresponding youtube page with lots more information on that particular song.
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11-08-2008
more olympic inspiration, a few hours before the men's diving starts: See how much nicer the classic greek olympics were. Sadly this clip is USA made. Their petty prudishness has forced them to falsify history by putting loincloths on all atletes.
even when nudity is discussed, we see nothing of it; how silly can you get:
It would have been so much nicer had this documentary been made by the more "naturalist Germans":
intro of Leny Riefenstahl's 'Fest der Schönheit' made for olympics of 1936.
Interesting to note is that this film was 'denazified' (~censored) and then shown in Germany around 1958 under the title "The Gods of the stadium"; the name of the French version was: Les Dieux du stade, now used as title that glorifies nude French major leage rugby players. here's a compilation of her photo work on the Nubians, and maybe we should end this bit with her film on the olympic divers of 1936:
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10-08-2008
Mrs Middler = beautiful, dammit! just got this great illustrated dancetune clip by Divine Bette:
it's called the Danny Tenaglia Continental Club Mix and has some superb illustrations by Kent, Beau, ToF, . More amazing performances of Miss M at the continental Baths, with fantastic jokes about sex at Fire Island and Barry Manilow on piano to be found at around nr 180 of my history playlist.
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9-08-2008
summer = magic oh oh oh, dear, what a great Italo song! more Italo's from nr 79 in the wrong & from nr.169 in the queer dance lists the memories, like fuckin in the dunes @ Hook of Holland . . . oh oh oh: comment?
08-08-2008
summer = magic moments guaranteed, oh, Donna, rreeeds! live in Rotterdam, sound coördination by my friend Ton Damen at Ampco
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07-08-2008
more pride pix my +&proud friends managed to banner up the Haarlemmerstraat bridge:
yes, on both sides. Their next landmark event will be this:
to be announced shorty?
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06-08-2008
sooo sweeet If your master leaves you alone and tied to a tree to get a better whip from the car, you do run the risk of being attacked by a ferocious dog!
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05-08-2008
oops! Defrosted the fridge, long overdue, as I heard the compressor running almost nonstop. So in my humble attempt to save the planet, I ate all icecream last week and then, dropped the wine cooling elements from the freezer to the cooler, switched off, and opened the freezer door. At around 30° Celcius, it only took one hour for the icewall to let loose and after cleaning I transferred milk and fresh stuff to the freezer and plugged in again, to clean the cooler section
(which took a lot longer). Strangely however, there was no sign of cooling whatso ever, nor the sound of the compressor. Even after checking the thermostat, and kicking the Miele on the back, nothing happened, so I settled with the fact that my agressive cleaning had broken it down and was even asessing new models to order the next day. The next morning, before placing the order for a € 2000,- model, with ice cube, milk, water and juice outlets and tv monitor in the door, I had one more look at the 15 year old set, to see if it had miraculously fired up again, when I noticed I had plugged in the other white cord, of the toaster, instead of the fridge. After switching the plugs I heard the familiar compressor, and half an hour later had ice cubes again. Sadly a new fridge will have to wait a few more decades.
own pride vid
got 2 batches batch of this weekend's a'dam canalpride vid uploaded:
maybe I should explain: on the 1st boat you see Dutch crooner nr 1, called Gordon, singing in a pink sailor outfit; on boat nr 2 you see the mayor of Amsterdam, acting very unconfortable between his gay staff, on boat 3 you see the national minister of education, culture and gay affairs, with the ministor of the interior, and lots of other top brass acting quite nice. Then also the police was not only taking care of security, but also part of the parade. They had serious discussions about their outfit: shout they be in pink jogstraps, gala outfit, the heavy duty fetish outfit or in drag? They decided on the basic uniform.
here's the second bit, plus recovery the day after at our own canal in Delft
it is ridiculous to decrease 12 megapixel/frame HD widescreen video to youtube, but at least it gets there and does wonders for Gordon's belly!
So if your connection can handle it, here is a true widescreen wmv version at 49 meg, also in two bits.
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03-08-2008
eric's pix
despite of dwh or bnn homo top tune lists, after this weekend, with both Gordon, and Gerard Joling singing live on boats, a poor act of the mayor and a pretty good one by minister Plasterk, I can only conclude this is the nr. 1 homo song this year :
here's a little fast slideshow of early pride'08 pix from Erix:
and to finish off, the Mr.B boat, (thnx 2 gr8+fl*r.nl):
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03-08-2008
Homo 100
Always nice that BNN waits one day with broadcasting the homo 100 on national radio 3, until we're back home to enjoy the sleep inducing Westland Pride in front of our own house.
As you may have noticed we have a Delft queer music lists now and above clip from 'Jerry Springer the Opera' is definitely the nr 1 in Delft !
here is the top 10:
Poz interiors
Always had a thing with ceiling frescos, so this ultimately gay one is fitting as start of the summer month
This one is dedicated to Steve Sherer . . .aka Falco
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01-08-2008
Gewoon Anders & analpride , eh, canal ?
Anybody going to Amsterdam this weekend, do include a visit to the gay exhibition at the Cobra museum, Amstelveen :
I already reviewed it on 17b-06; it's worth it!
I did record some of last years water pride, and the eve of the event of '08 is as good a time as any to show you that despite all pathetic events, there still is no other city better suited for the world's greatest pride: comment?
31-07-2008
church 3, hooray !
As argued below, we are very well capable of organising our own church, thank you very munch!
the Gala org, an Amsterdam combination of gay political strategy and entrepreneurs put their money where their mouth is:
long awaited dresscode fuck and dance bar opens at pride on Kerkstraat!
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Adventures log
Ships that pass in the night
and speak each other in passing; Only a signal shown;
a distant voice in the darkness
So on the ocean of life we pass
Only a look and a voice;
a touch extacy
then darkness again and a silence.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
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