poz exteriors, apropriate for halloween, or in Europe 'all souls' weekend
a gorgeous house by Eldridge Smerin in Highgate London, overlooking a cemetery
was wondering why the USA, which prides itself on its strong religious base has de-religionised holidays like this one and christmas. more mouthwatering interior pixcomment?
28-10-2008
continuing on the leatherpride theme . . . Tom of Finland on video
see you guys saturdaynight at Lexion, yeeehaah !comment?
27-10-2008
continuing on the leather theme and flyers . . .
one of the last signs of life of the slowly demising MSR, Rotterdam's gay Bikers club was this flyer I made for them:
note: this pc does not hold the work files on that flyer, so I rescanned the only print left, that had been in my wallet for some time: luv the stains!
another note: the difference between meet @ COC on one side and and meat @ gayplay on the other.
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26-10-2008
continuing on the T-dance, we got the flyer (for november 16) done . . . and to get you into the spirit and polish your chaps for our 'rodeo' theme:
and my personal motto: comment?
25-10-2008
one more trip to the gates of hell, that pit of sodomy, the dwh!
Sunday 26th at 16:00 Dr. Gert Hekma, who teaches homo-lesbian studies at the University of Amsterdam, will hold a lecture on the theme: ´The normalization of the homo, or how the heteronorm finally got our culture in its grip
I don´t understand that that group of scary fruitcakes has decided to let Gert Hekma do a lecture: are they not afraid that his audience might get infected with develish thoughts? Do they not know that his questioning the recent rise of the age of consent in NL from 16 to 18 does make him a abject pederast? Will that not result in even less young gays (I don´t dare to use the word `homo` here) taking that leap into their pit of fornication? Furthermore, I have it on very good authority (my own experience) that this Mr. Hekma is a notorious and fierce bottom pincher!
but I have been a good friend of Gert since the late seventies and I will not let this group of nerds keep me away from one of his rare shows in Dellufcomment?
24-10-2008
continuing on nostalgia . . . oh, those sweet memories !
Like everybody now over 40, we got one at age 16. My first moped was a Mobylette. Not the Macho Kreidler nor the fashionable fast guy´s Puch, but the queeny/softy Moby. Would also have liked the Solex though . . . Although that was a bit slow.
Nobody then would have guessed that I´d turn into a true motorcycle leatherguy. Sadly changes in legislation and mobility led to a decline of this form of transportation between 1980 and 2000, but we see new two wheelers resurface, although I still don´t think much of current day scooter varieties: we call those recycled Tupperware.
Sorry Drub, your variety of original Vespa´s are not what I ment there.
Hardly dare to bring it up below these pix, but Amsterdam Leatherpride is due next weekend!comment?
23-10-2008
continuing on real men . . . (if you can handle explicit) comment?
22-10-2008
continuing on my hometown . . .
Was on the top floor of the Bacinol building, on the other side of town, last week for the local art gallery tour. That building will either be torn down or moved in coming years as the railway-viaduct, you still see on this image, goes undergroud. Saw amazing light fixture designs
(enlightment arts), intriguing textiles (it´s really true, gorgeous shawls and mouthwatering acoustic panels), and there was a funny Thijs Rietveld, who, hilariously makes fireproof Rietveld chairs (with a wink to the bouwkunde building where the collection of the old Rietveld almost went up in smoke), made entirely out of old bicycles he fished out of the canals. Speaking of canals, we could now hop to the various galleries for free with the new electric canaltaxis :
Above Delft Pottery. Below Rietveld chair, twice Mark Van Huystee, and Max Schellenbach shows how our good old railway station may look once the trains have moved underground, not at all fictitious, considering the trouble Amsterdam has with drilling a new metro line under Vijzelstraat!
still something queer . . .comment?
21-10-2008
continuing on the economy . . . always pass this building on my way into Amstardam; so much nicer that the hideous, presumptuous ABNAMRO building just a bit further down the A 10. It good to see that this bank, which also holds my own good old Postbank (of which i'm sad to see the name go together with the good old post office, why? I'd rather have the ING with a name that doesnt mean fuck move into postbank then the other way around) passed the crisis with just a 10 billion Euro loan from the gov:) Anyway, as we move on on the other end of the bank crisis we see a Dutch landscape where ABN-AMRO, which once stood for Algemene Bank Nederland AMsterdamse bank ROtterdamse Bank, stays fully DUTCH instead of becoming a superbank run from Bruxelles. Now the last thing that needs to be done, in my humble opinion, is to curb the influence of the stock exchange alltogether: I´m getting sick and tired of its prominent place in the news. Hedge funds should be the first thing to be completely thrown out !
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20-10-2008
continuing on our history, when we were not afraid to cause a riot (or 3) . . . Bluelips' Betty Bourne
the Bluelips once performed on Pieter, Wijnand, André's and my 30est birthday @ Waagtheater Delluf
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19-10-2008
continuing on vests; from vintage to present day
as you can see, with time, things can only get better
and high time too: I've not been to the 'SchADUWLAND' book signing this afternoon, still working hard on A) A new lid for my water meter pit, as the old one was dangerously rotten, B) the edit of Coen's mixing last friday, quite disappointing, as the first mp3 was overmodulated and the last one got switched off before the directory was written so I cannot read it back. If you dont mind some weird earpounding now and then, do listen to the 2 sections here and herecomment?
18-10-2008
continuing on faces
eh, did I ever start on them? I doubt it, as the young generations all look like weak, nelly, softies, but nevertheless: I'm happy to say that my last public show at LG 22 is over and done with. A heavy load has been taken off my chest. Although it was received well, both Coen and myself did not really enjoy it; I had a hard time controlling my anger, especially towards the nitwits who caused this tragic turn of event. Anyway, lets fast forget about it and direct attention to loadz of sweeter things:
and if you expected the (small) faces: both bands still sound terriffic! At the moment I'm listening to new Dance to relief my depression, with good old Peter v Leeuwen on fRESH and still enjoy dance with real guitar samples best (it starts at 2:43).
Ad@ Bak & Brad@ does not consume . . . Just came from the designers & party organisers site on the left. What I liked most there was that all the members had a list of what they felt was most disgusting. Here's my list of what I will not consume:
anything growing/living in water: juk ! any smoke, most vegetables, but most definitely NOT: sprouts, cauliflower, cucumber, radicio, beetroot, watercress, sweet coctail drinks, guiness or any beer close to that color, testicles, anything alive, and most certainly not guys, ignorance, religion, caffeine free coffee, tiësto. Don't get me started on what I DO consume; again starting with guys, and most substances they produce, excluding only shortsighted/hypocrit/adolescent fear-induced ignorant brain excretions emitted through too loud mouths .
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16-10-2008
continuing on movies Luckily, at a time we more or less had given up on the idea that anything good could still come from across the Atlantic Ocean, a few decent movies seem to emerge, not only two on George W, that all least will imprint on posterity that republicans have a strong tendency to cohort with, favour and condone super rich crooks, while misleading cheating and lying to their own average hard working citizens; keep on yelling tax cuts, but meanwhile see it feasible to increase federal spending on the military and at the same time fund their enemies by carrying off buckets of money to the oil producing arabs.
I found an hilarious bit of American logic in this comparison I saw in a comment with Heath Ledger as the Joker in the record breaking Batman this summer:
The logic is brilliant: leftists think things are relative and complex and thus can’t make decisions, conservatives (and Batman) know that things are easy, especially morality: sometimes you have to totally kick ass and kill lots of people to show them that you know what is right.
Don’t you idiots see??? It’s not complicated at all! As all of our anti-heros have shown us (Jack Bauer, Dr. House, Batman, Dick Cheney, *insert Repub caught in gay tryst*), sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to be right. Especially the guys who took one up the butt to show those homo-terrorists how right it was to be straight.
Another interesting movie is the above, that amongst other things questions why Americans think that going to church on sundays will save the economy and why all religions have such a thing against us homos: comment?
16-10-2008
very likely the last time I ever do a project at LG 22
ok, others may be treacherous; I can't do the same and let people who count on me down, so tomorrow Corrit@ and Ad@ will be doing audio & video at the 'after' as promissed. And remember, my own Brideshead story 'se racounte' from page 26 to 34 of the google preentation (click image)
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15-10-2008
do see Erwin's exhibition rain hope grief and fall fotomuseum Den Haag jantje lacht, jantje huilt:
above image was on the front cover of 'de Pers' newspaper this weekend, on the occasion of national coming out day
DWH magazine said to print some of the above/below, but again: they are too chicken to offend the luckily married types there. BOOH!
With Erwin's pix one can show years of life and loss in a few images, from sweet fresh, Norman Rockwell inspired, innocense . . .
to drama: some people hide true identity behind market strategy:
especially those have no scruples to stab knives in backs of old supporters
why not keep a clear view, stay open, fair and don't panik about nudity
last 3 are older Erwin pix I picked here to make a point. If you want to see more of the exhib, click below and see the hilarious interview good old trava Margreet Dolman did with Erwin on Cultura tv.
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14-10-2008
continuing on our local dialect (sorry requires some knowledge of Dutch)
according to this:
In Delluf, kos allus nognie de helluf en de hoohmoos durrevuh niks zellufcomment?
13-10-2008
Ultimate betrayal !
showing off with the assets the Wasdag has delivered for them, like a boiler delivering huge quantities of hot water, showers, a pool, on the front cover of their magazine and then showing the guys who gave you all that the door, the gotspe!
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12-10-2008
Uplifing idea: not in Delft, but in A'dam there is still room for real homos!
Just in time for Leatherpride, wich comes around again the last weekend of this month in A'dam, a new site - launch:
and 'Amen', Poz & Proud T-dance will start off at Church sunday november 16th, 16hr. Look out for promo material soon.
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11-10-2008
Uplifing idea: buy another book! And if you do choose superb homo erotic art like Roscoe´s Sketchbook!
Always better than following the news about panicking money skavengers
Just started reading 'Schaduwland', the book I wrote about on 4-10 Book signing sunday 19-10 16u at Vrolijk and Martin ordered the Roscoe sketchbook for me at HO-editions.
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10-10-2008
D.O.M. or time for a POZitive outlook again! For anybody wondering: that stands for Dirty Old Men, the 3 degrees superhit of the seventies, when gay men had enough sense of humor to make that a super cult hit. DOM also is Dutch for ultra stupid and we used that as 'ultrafout' partyname more then once in those good old days, when dwh was an anarchist students group with no union and no board. It was also used as the mock name for ultra consurvative gays, what in the USA would be the Republican gays, or the Log Cabin group, or a 'contradictio in terminis', as they didn't have a clue anyway, they were nicknamed 'Dirty and Stupid Pervs'
I just thought: instead of sitting down and complaining about the pityful state of local queer culture today, we could go back to that era, and do exactly what some may remember made us into what we were, until some years back: a proud strong minority community, not afraid of some setbacks, but determined, self-concious and proud to be the perverts and misfits of current "normal gay" (braak) society: lets get back to what we were then and do it the same way as back then: The planned party could go ahead, but as a "home event". Everybody is invited to come along at my place, saturday, november 9th!
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, plays a Bowie pastiche as homo glamrock superstar Brian Slade and forms controverial loveduo with Ewan McGregor as Iggy Pop equivalent Curt Wilde in the cult movie that goes back to the revolutionary Queer Cultrure era: Velvet Goldmine, which for years now is nr 1 in my queer movie top 30, where you can find some songs from it in the box player.
Market Strtategy? My ass! Let us
"help" the only "squeeky clean" gays in the village of Delft be just that!
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09-10-2008
some uplifting and some depressing stuff:
I went to the wedding of a friend of mine at the still very sweet looking Delft townhall. Although I don't believe in gay marriage for myself, there are others that still do.
and whether you do or don't, I don't care, but you still may want to see the 1st clips of Delft's society gay wedding of the year
And consider: a wedding is as good an excuse as any, to flee this most hypoctite country, city, homo org, of the E.U.
Probably because the under 30 kid board members are practically on their own now, apart from some pedo heel lickers, they never bothered to study homo culture history in the 1st place and still live in the dream that you can use market strategy to promote homosexuality: They will someday find out there is nothing to promote there: it is not a choice, it 's a fate, full of sorrow and self hate!
And you can twist and turn whatever you want: that does not change, nor can it be covered up with hypocricy, nor market strategy, even if they knew the 1st thing about that!
On the other hand you can only once betray your founding members, who kept this club alive through thick and thin and many a crisis in the past. It kept this club alive through many a monetary, ideologist, fundamentalist, crisis. No longer: let them eat their own shit.
insane!
Hope some old farts will still be prepaired to bail them out when they need it. I doubt it, though.
Sadly, this is another nail in the coffin of a club I've been part of for over 25 years: They may be young, they're surely dementing faster than I was: why do they allow a women only night, an under 25 (sorry, 26, sorry, 35, sorry 50) night, while they do not give us permission to re-instate an old farts night, where we would not even leave anybody out on the street. Only because we know and recognize, we are indeed demented unsalvagable perverts no good for nothing but a good old fuck in da butt?
Obviously!
but what differrence does it make: this is a club of "homosexual pervs" condemned by pope, allah, and neo liberal politicians alike, so you can just as well throw stones through the windows (wait 2 more days till they're repaired); you'll get 20 virgins to fuck after your death, oh sorry, I don't know the word for male virgin, if there is one. In my humble opinion there never was a noticable difference between gay virgin or prostitute. Or maybe one: the last species not only had a better trained asshole they certainly had some more braincells.
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08-10-2008
more real men (or is it inflation too, when I do 2 at once?) too many pix here? can it be seen as a sign of instability? oh, sure, you can see whatever you want in whatever you see: it (still) is a free world!
But I'm not a bank!
and to tell the truth: I'm getting sick of listening to my usual newsradio BNR with just one kind of news: "going down, going down".
and let's just rejoice that these bankers are finally getting a cookie from their own dough! eh dough?
I can only say: if the party in charge in the USA and their current president cannot postpone a bank crisis till after the elections, they are even more stupid then we already thought they were.
So I switched for the first time to my own blue box music player to the right here (which starts with 2 uplifting songs indeed)
and leave you guys here with stuff I got in my folder called "uplifting" : comment?
07-10-2008
real man who needs Pierre & Gilles when we have Francois and Exterface, both in the links column, sure he has a cock and ass I would not toss out either:
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06-10-2008
exhibition "aangeraakt" (touched)
exhibition opens sunday october 5th 16h00 at Speeldoos theater Baarn.
Congratulations for Ton Kas,
Who won the gouden kalf (dutch oscar) for his role in Vox Populi, (de stem des volks , voice of the people) comment?
05-10-2008
politics oh, yep, after last night this image from New Orleans art friend roscoe needs a priority entry:
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04-10-2008
summer = time to read (as is fall) well the book launch (and this entry) was originally planned in august. Sadly, delays at the printers urged postponing of the presentation. It's now fall, and it's finally printed and for sale (see right column): Schaduwland!
The entry was supposed to come up behind the one about the good old vintage dance-hit "the summer = magic". Now instead of an italo, a spanish song from 1973, used in the clip below has to do:
The good thing is that I can already add quotes here from the first review, that made me drool and eager to get my hands on the book, The author's photo also helped some:
This photo, according to the review, leads you to think the author must be just as kinky as the main caracter:
oh, yep, after last night this image from New Orleans art friend roscoe comment?
03-10-2008
home views
buuf Eric (downstairs neighbour) has been flying over Delft, and took a few pix of our house. Yep, it's the one with the two steel arches, which hold up my domed bedroom ceiling.
thought it would be nice to add a still life of the dinner corner of my living room, which shows the view outside to the houses of the Vermeer street, and also my scattered clothing after the fuck session I went on last night at the Boss.comment?
02-10-2008
child porn alert, or pompes funebres at €7,75 in R'dam with the risk of being accused of distributing child porn by our over-zealous family-values defenders of fanatic religious origin, I again present to you some baroque naked infant imagery with wings attached:
DWH in Delft also sells and displays (recently obscured from view because of a brick that has been thrown through their window, about which we're in a fierce debate with the police, that does not want to register it as anti-gay violence but as normal weekend alcohol induced recreational activity)
delft blue statuettes of two farmer boys or 2 girls. They are decently dressed in traditional clothes, but they do rub their crotches and they don't have wings, so nothing celestial but something purely carnal is suggested there. This surely can be seen as an attempt to poison infants innocence and seed obscene ideas into the minds of Delft youth. I herewith challenge authorities to maintain a straight(?) policy-line and treat dwh the same way as they did my artist friend Bernard in A'dam.
Strangely enough our police or local district atorney have not been around to charge us with infringement of obscenity laws, nor have they confiscated our stock.
We've even been so bold as to plaster those farmer boys on our posters all over Delft! Fuckin Hell :
+&proud chose to skip the dwh-movie for a change last week and went to the PozNproud meeting where Ton Stevens and Leo Schenk said goodbye as coördinators. One thing I must say is that I hope the two successors do some voice training: they still have a lot to catch up as the old duo both had such great speakers voices. Nice to find 3 other people from Delft there too!
funny, this image that Leo had on his website not only shows him, but also me, behind his pointing finger talking to Jelderik and Thomas !
Looks like the tea dance at church finally gets underway too, probably 1st one on sunday november 16th, but wait for the official publicity! A good motive to move my lazy ass over to A'dam a bit more often. Anybody know a good name for it?
and to come back to last months last entry: looks like today all the sissie scarecrows have left the building (beursplein 5), so it's time we put some 'durfkapitaal' (audacity capital) into Fortis once again. Their promo slogan for 2008: "here today, where tonorrow?" proved to be the most visionary èver!
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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.
! this = soundtrack !
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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