no, I'm not dorian gray; a mature view here, I hope . . .
31-07-2009 Mission Statement (warning: not a pretty picture)

Once, every now and then, I have to point out [to myself?] what I'm doing here and what kept this blog and the other sites I run going while I see others drop by the side of the road and re-adress the issues I feel strongly about:
one word: Pieter and his favorite song: "diving for dear life, when we could be diving for pearls". And yes, before reading on, just listen to this song once again in an even better version.
Right now, with canalpride coming up, organised by Frank van Dalen, former COC CEO and thus responsible for a lot what's wrong and in desparate need of re-adressing these days in our culture, is the best time of the year to do so.

strategische gedragsverandering ? anyway: when the water recedes, then is the time to watch ou of a huge unstopable wave
I do have a little hope with the new COC chairman, but, when I talked with him at the recent DWH lustrum he too, tried to sweet talk and cover up or lay blame at another level, of what I consider fundamental errors of past strategies.
Sure I come from the Rooie Flikker era, when we had to shake up the stale bedding in which the fifties and sixties gay culture hade fallen into insomnia. Right now, the only org left from those days is de Trut, for the rest everything is left to a much too young generation, only trained in market strategy and suit & tie networking, to see what's going wrong. Corporatism between politics, subsidisers and screaming media campaign designers, all just as busy maitaining the status quo, without adressing mistakes. Without questioning themselves: stupid! Nobody analises why Amsterdam lost its position as gay capital, National COC started with the strategy of licking up and kicking down: Move to Den Haag; where you can lobby, and forget about your own community hungering out on the street without a place to meet in Amsterdam. Even there National COC blames COC Amsterdam, for the desastrous strategies of kicking out all the great events that had rooted in their building through the eighties and early nineties (like XXX leather, popular till the end and a legend to thousands) and then making a loss and having to sell the place.
I N S A N I T Y !
flush out the white stripe suits and everybody responsible for those disasters: Amsterdam does not need to be turned into one huge homo museum:
it needs a fitting venue for our minority to celebrate its diverity!
and we had it !
The same happened in my hometown, where the sex parties were banned and the entire community that built up this local org for decades was kicked out. Luckily: what comes around goes around, or you only harvest what you sow, so the guys who think they hold the fort there will have an increasingly hard time hangin on to it: for decades I have defended the Delft homo-monopoly at LG 22, but that was a good thing only as long as it was progressive and renewing and was a guiding light for most local gay orgs in the country, which was kept up for over 30 years. Now sadly it's just as chocking as COC Amsterdam. It's time to let competition show them what market strategy does not work for a minority: we are doomed to be part it it; we do not have to be convinced by watery ad campains! They failed to see in their Dutch Reformed Puritan Lutheranism and have allowed sectarism to devastatingly chew away at the fundaments of their small but vigilant community, in their small building rooted unshakable in Delft clay. They've failed to see that if you climb out of your hole, you're likely to be blown away, or eaten!
We are perverts and everybody who tries to cover up our erect cocks or deny the only bit of good analysis the religious fanatic powers that be ever did is betraying, forsaking our cause! What good is selling us commercially, so that half a million heterosexuals come to watch our ZOO making a fool of ourselves each year in the Amsterdam canals? What good is it that politicians and big comnpanies fall for the trick and sail along in ever increasing numbers, while the number of suicides amongst gay youth is rising alarmingly each year? That is because they paint a picture of us that is acceptable for our mums, our political parties, advertisement campaigns, but not for our testosterone filled genitals.
Should we cut them off?
should we cover up in shame?
hier sta ik; ik kan niet anders!
seriously forget about the only thing that undeniably sets us apart of procreating heterosexual fellow residents of this cringing planet that have, some argue, a purpose in keeping their genitals hidden under their marital duvet?
sure, club-church is nice, but . . .
Canalpride should invite back the strategic nudity, inuendo, dare and challenge of gorgeous strippers they had on the floats of Cockring, MrB, Trash and Cuckoos Nest years ago, to scare away the politicions.
where have the great parties gone ?
Is there anything good to report? YEP! Out tv! Not sure how they will look on their Amsterdam boat première, but this past year has been a sigh of relief on my home screen: it just made me feel priviledged to be alive and unemployed at this moment in time! Such whealth! At last programming that does not take homos for ignorent mindless, dickless, shallow nitwits! Showing for instance that it is not insane to choose life instead of market strategy: better to have lived then to have survived way too far into the wheelchair days (even if you don't consider healthcare doom and gloom).
a Great UK series based on Alan Hollinghurst's materpiece on Dutch out tv right now. So: another bit:
If there is anything I would like to see now is Poz & Proud promoting the pil van Drion because I do not think there's much chance of us turning our future perspectives around anytime soon. And that has little or nothing to do with that virus, which queer culture and scarecrows allowed to ruin our lives for some 30 years (but should not have to from now on, if only we would make real decisions).
It would be sooo environmentally friendly and hopefully leave our planet to a wiser generation. (and help NS reach its target of running trains on time, now obstructed by the mess of people jumping in front of em)
And, no, I'm not turning my back on our community: au contraire! Next week I'll once again delve in at the deep end, where I hope to meet some of you, to receive your semen or discuss above at some of the venues mentioned below (entry of 20-07).
If somebody will seriously make work of an Amsterdam Homo Museum, then I surely would leave it in my will, on the precondition that it does show the difference between pride and shame, shows our folly of following politicions, believing in religion, so not look anything like IHLIA, COC, RIJKS, DWH or or any of the so-called reputable institutions that our minisser Plasterk is so fond of: it should smell, be dirty, spit- puke or vaselin lubed, be alive, dangerous (HI Michael!), open to creativity instead of obstructing it. comment?
30-07-2009 C.R.A.Z.Y.

Just saw it on out tv! God Bless Canada for its movies! comment?
29-01-2008 amazing
looking up speedos for yesterdays entry I refound the slideshow highlighting db/queerart content. It amazingly never got deleted for violating "terms of service".
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28-07-2009 Sebastiaan Verschuren, new NL swim god:


US swimmer Ricky Berens took designer swimsuits to a new level in Rome; if it goes on that way we won't mind them covering up ever more leg. Sadly, it was only an incidental tear; even more sad it was not on the front side.
Anyways,
The rubber suits seem to be banned again for future championships:
PLEEZ GOD give us back good old speedos! comment?
27-07-2009 Culture, a turnaround in canal pride programming, YEAH!

Started last night with a marathon of 6 hours programmed by fashion designers Victor and Rolf on VPRO TV. One of the remarkable items next to moviesclips from Ludwig by Visconti, Paris is burning, Reve's 4th Man by Verhoeven, Leigh Bowery and a full showing of Maurice was this commercial:
They argued that's "not funny", just like BNN's homo top 100 is not funny; just bad taste wih only cliché records showing how pathetic and SICK their image of queer culture is: FUCK OFF!! we do not need heteros making sick gay programs; they had poor taste all along, but their concept of homo music taste is the pitts. Lets see if its the Village People again at nr 1 or is it Gloria Gaynor or the Wheathergirls this year? I suggest we throw some pink paintbombs on their boat. And if we got paint left, lets throw some more on boats of ABN-AMRO, ING and all other companies that
  1. paint a de-sexualised picture of us homos
  2. stole tax payers money and don't even help us find jobs in return.
  3. what really makes us throw up is that they even let Wouter Bos pay for their boat hire, as they deduct that (and even all the alcohol they consume with their croonies) as expenses

Lily Allen, nr 4 this week at our own HaHaHaaglandenHomoHundred comment?
26-07-2009 sunday worship, with a Harry Potter and the half blood prince actor





also saw "Don't be denied" film on Neil Young on the BBC. Never knew his 1st inspiration was the Shadows. I'm sure he also loves the guitar song I included yesterday. But now I just have to add 2 all time fav Young songs comment?
251b-07-2009 Fiction b
1st commment today: it's feminine to be into reading. That's not entirely new in our circles, but; a) I read far too little, b) I've been accused of being a child molester, a pervert, a queerulant . . . This new accusation makes me feel quite proud!
Liked the GJ interview this afternoon: Why so much morbidity in this Beasty Book? answer: everybody's gotta die sometime, it's inevitable. And if you're gonna die, I might ad, why not make headline news, and play it out in all those locations we cannot but admit to know all too well. It's kind of 'gezellig' (cosey) to recognise familiar places 'op de tast'.
and there is a follow up thursday:
And if the parties are all declining direction: bland, boring, a-sexual, safe, then surely one of the last remaining safe havens to find some adventure in Amsterdam is in a literature tour! At least contrary to visual arts and actual risky activity, literature is the one field our religious fanatic governement has not dared to tackle just yet, and may offer some protection under the UN freedom of thought chapter. Or? we're bound to be safer to move to Afghanistan and set up our own "radical movement": at least the hairy guys there are a lot more exiting and testosterone overloaded. Besides, do they really care what's inside the burkina? comment?
25-07-2009 Fiction
This saturday I'll drop in at Prik, to listen to GJ Wielinga reading from his new gay horror novel around 17h00. To wind down I'll dive into the mix of hot and cool in the Cellars at Cuckoos Nest or Web.
Also been reading a lot in "Nomads on the Amstel" by Dave Richardson. That's written in English but plays in Amsterdam. wrote about this writer earlier this month on 14-7, a first for this blog to delve into gay fiction. Since then I've read more (he sent me 2 books) and I may see him at above reading. I'm amazed by how his work grabs me, and have been thinking, because it is Homo Holland seen through the eyes of an Englishman, painted vividly, humerously, with engaged sharp observations of 'our ways', 'our politics', 'our strategies', it lends itself to turning it into a tv series that could be fitting for out-tv, logo, or here. I thought it would be nice to have a dutch gay filmmaker like Tim Oliehoek, go to work on this. Just hope he is adult enough to be able to paint the pictures with the depth it should maintain. He already has a reputation in special effects. Now let's see if I can get him to read the PDF-file. I'm sure he would be perfect to turn the nightmarish scenes into hairraising imagery to haunt to in your sleep for weeks . young dutch gay film director
Tim above, below music from the days of my own sexual awakening,

when I had steamy encounters in sheds behind the 'tuinderskassen' of Pijnacker, with guys al least 10 years over my own age; exiting, dangerous, hot! Maybe I should turn those sweet memories into a book as well. comment?
24-07-2009 Michael mania continues (with me):

here's a brandnew clip I found not only showing gorgeous tightywhities but also how a bland song like Justin TimberLake's Rock your body can be spiced up when you add a twist of Michael:
I obviously have not had enough yet:
but last sunday Amsterdam was awash with Thriller Flashmob acts:
above Leidseplein, brought me to tears again, below Dam:
Do hope there is more unreleased original material and some mindblowing remixin in the pipeline.
I was waiting with this entry until the investigations would have shed some light, but they do seem to take more time then I have, so, as life goes on, let me present Waylon, finalist of Holland's got talent, who signed today with the (in)famous Motown label: comment?
23-07-2009 Arthur Rimbaud
A small hommage to the godfather of us dirty ass-worshippin' perverts and one of the most treasured movies (nr. 19 in my all time movie list) with an amazing lead by Leonardo DiCaprio and as bonus the tribute to the asshole, in French, German, Dutch and English languages on the db/queerart site.



and yes the frontal shot is in the movie too, just mentioning it to add respect for Dicaprio. But then, Lots of Rimbaud quotes in the songs of Jim Morrisson, Dylan, Lennon and many others:

Just telling all this because the new generation does not get educated these days, even if forwarding music or movie history makes me run the risk of being sued by Viacom or Warner-media who claim they own copyright on history ?¿
but should anybody who was fan of the Doors in 1966 care ? ( also saw Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd live in '76 at the old Ahoy, Hofplein Rotterdam , for that matter and yes, the link is to a recording made there and then)
I am beyond that.
Just sad about the fact that young Greeks and Macedonians get in all sorts of states on Youtube comments about the fact that Alexander the Great was gay. Going so far as to deny that, by which their pathetic writing only belittles their nations supreme heritage, preceeding the rest of the world by two millennia in having an open gay leader.
Most sad however,
I am seeing young homos in my home town bending themselves in all kinds of unnatural reasoning, trying to convince their undevelloped nerd-brains they are not perverts.
Who said they were, but a few of the most perverted religions? comment?
22-07-2009 Miss Piggy Lee
yep, good old miss Fever is nr 1 again in the HAHaHaHoHoH the ridiculously horny and demented queer vidclip top hundred for the larger region around Delft (extending to suburbs like West Hollywwood, Berghain, Cherry Grove, Westzaan)
there are some amazing numbers in there to get you in the dancin mood for the canalpride events
I suggest you start the autoplayer here (Youtube look) or here (my camp look) to get the flab off your belly, dance around the kitchen and get in shape for the most exhausting week of the year! (my resistence (to flue) obviously is [not so] looooww) it may be time to fall in love
the top 10 features:
  1. Peggy Lee in a Serbian dancemix
  2. Jay Brennan, my love, ever since Shortbus
  3. Boney M (or should I say Boner?) at a French McDonalds
  4. a gay Michael Jackson Timberlake mashup
  5. The botox wonderwoman
  6. an invite to treat your ass to some lovejuice!
  7. some glorification of the good old days
  8. bare assed walk through paris
  9. More CUM on the big Cruise
  10. Madonna and bare asses on the california surf
So get crackin' comment?
21-07-2009 pigflue
really thought I had it; all the usual flue symptoms, week knees, sore throat, headache, light fever. And, yes, I could have contracted it at the care center where my mother is recovering after the stroke she had a while back.

But, not one to panic or join hysteric hypochondriac behavior, as it was weekend I thought it wise to just stay home on the couch and watch some good movies, and if it was still the same on mondaymorning, go to the gp and get me a tamiflu prescription. If I did contract this specific virus, my resistance may be better then expected, coz mondaymorning the worst seems over; have just shopped to replenish the fridge and will resume work in a few hours.
Further reading showed getting the drug so late in the flue would not have done much good anyway, and then there were the usual side effects:
nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and headache. Rare ones included: hepatitis and elevated liver enzymes, rash, allergic reactions including anaphylaxis, toxic epidermal necrolysis, cardiac arrhythmia, seizure, confusion and hallucinations, aggravation of diabetes, and haemorrhagic colitis.
And then I did not even mention neurologic effects: oseltamivir may cause dangerous psychological, neuropsychiatric side effects including self harm in some users. These dangerous side effects occur more commonly in children than in adults. This stems from cases in Japan, where the drug is most heavily prescribed. Concern has focused on teenagers, but problems have also been reported in children and adults. In March 2007, Japan's Health Ministry warned that oseltamivir should not be given to those aged 10 to 19. According to Japan's Health Ministry, fifteen people aged 10 to 19 have been injured or killed by jumps or fallen from buildings after taking oseltamivir, and one 17-year-old died after he jumped in front of a truck.
Roche states that influenza may itself cause the psychological problems.
(kept the blog going anyway, noticed any incoherence, erratics, fatalistics, more typos, English spelling mistakes?). comment?
20-07-2009 anal sex seminar and other Canalpride options . . .
Just started sifting through the overwhelming amount of events that hitch a ride with Amsterdam Canalpride Here's my first selection:
  1. My thursday evening starts with Grey Pride, an open-air party/concert held on and around the Oude Zijds Voorburgwal nr. 15 in front of Paleis Van De Weemoed, followed by a visit of at least 2 of my fav bars on the good old Warmoesstraat.
  2. My friday afternoon is starting at Amsterdam Historic Museum, Kalverstraat 92, for a sponsored pink brunch for the elderly gay (which comprises me, I'm sure, although I never use tha G word), where homo poetry by Willem Kloos, who was born 150 years ago will be recited.
  3. Then I start off on an incredibly exhausing art afternoon setting off at SERIEUZE ZAKEN STUDIOOS, Lauriergracht 96, New work and highlights from the oeuvre of Theo van den Boogaard, an old fav of mine, who had another cover page only last month at my homo erotic art site. known by most non gay dutchmen for his Sjef Van Oekel cartoons. Oekel was a real person, eh, In fact he was a failed opera singer playing a tv caracter invented by Wim T. Schippers
  4. Then on to the other side of the Jordaan, to GO Gallery, Prinsengracht 64, for an exhib highligting Rinalo Hopf, Jan van Breda en Gerard de Haan, with lots of Tattoo art.
    2 works by Rinaldo
  5. OUTside at Gay Monument Westermarkt
  6. till 18 uur (sunday till 17 uur) h\HAPPY 4u group exhib of 20 gay artists at ABC Treehouse Gallery, Voetboogstraat 11
  7. Nothing gay in the Russian equivalent (yet), due to homophobe retarded mayors and ministers, but the Amsterdam hermitage makes up for that with a special gay edition presenting the sumptuous court life of the Tsars in the nineteenth century, with its festive balls, its glorious costumes (and its rigid protocol!)
  8. for your EVENING :
    At 19h00 is the start of the drag queen olympics at homomonument:
  9. I'll gladly promote the ANAL SEX SEMINAR:


    a one time event at 8.00 PM; free entrance & gay only
    not sure what it is about, but sounds like fun!
  10. after a bite to eat I'll end up at the
    Club Church bare ass party (seems speedos and briefs are also allowed for the occasion)
  11. saTURDay, for the canal parade I'll try to find the Poz & Proud guys at the corner of Amstel & Prinsengracht.
  12. to escape the masses at prinsegracht I'll find refuge at Museum Geelvinck, Keizersgracht 633 to delve into Roccoco interiors and gardens
  13. From there I'll make my way to Tea of gays and Gadgets and have a look at their foto exhib of Rene Zuiderveld work.
  14. and if by then I'll have energy left, I might wind up at perverts at Church!
  15. the sunday is Westland pride here in Delft; we all congregate on the canal in front of the house to see agricultural and sexual produce sailing past here for our seniour citizens enjoyment. This year I've also invited my mum and dad, but I don't exclude a dive into de Schie when the view gets TOO HOT !
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19-07-2009 sunday worship






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18-07-2009 jeugdsentiment 2 (sorry, dutch entry for a change)


Af en toe gaan pa en moe,
met ons naar de speeltuin toe,
dat is voor ons kinderen,
het fijnste wat bestaat.
't Is een eind bij ons vandaan,
en daarom gaat de karavaan
's morgens vroeg op weg
dan zijn wij er niet zo laat.

Heeft mama een goede bui
en is papa niet te lui
Nou dan gaan we naar de speeltuin!
Ma draagt broodjes in een mand
Pa de trommel met verband
Ja dan gaan we naar de speeltuin.
En we wippen en we draaien en we schommelen zo fijn
tot we mis'lijk van het draaien en de limonade zijn.
Heel de dag is het dan feest
tot we er uit zien als een beest
en we heerlijk in de speeltuin zijn geweest.

Kleine Jan valt van de wip,
valt z'n tanden door de lip
hij brult als een wilde als papa verbinden wil,
Mien draait in de molen rond
jankend als een jonge hond
want ze wil eruit en dat ding dat staat niet stil

Heeft Mama een goede bui
en is papa niet te lui
nou dan gaan we naar de speeltuin.
Ma draagt broodjes in een mand,
pa de trommel met verband
en dan gaan we naar de speeltuin.
En we wippen en we draaien en we schommelen zo fijn
tot we mis'lijk van het draaien en de limonade zijn.
Heel de dag is het dan feest,
tot we'r uitzien als een beest
en we heerlijk naar de speeltuin zijn geweest.

Komen wij dan 's avonds thuis,
vuil van zand en stof en gruis,
dan zegt Papa boos: Dat was beslist de laatste keer
Maar we zeuren al weer gauw:
mama wanneer gaan we nou
nog es naar de speeltuin? En spoedig gaan we weer!

Heeft Mama een goede bui
en is papa niet te lui
nou dan gaan we naar de speeltuin.
Ma draagt broodjes in een mand,
pa de trommel met verband
en dan gaan we naar de speeltuin.
En we wippen en we draaien en we schommelen zo fijn
tot we mis'lijk van het draaien en de limonade zijn.
Heel de dag is het dan feest,
tot we'r uitzien als een beest
en we heerlijk naar de speeltuin zijn geweest. comment?
17-07-2009 the Obama pussyfooting continues:


Nooo,
Then, look at the mayor of Amsterdam who created a website to promote gay marriage to Americans who look for alternatives to legally marry as long as they cannot do so at home. comment?
16-07-2009 more memories
you know, I'm not a fan of rechewing those old 'ghay' classics, but exceptions confirm the rule: this is a whole different ballgame: Gladys Knight from a 1986 special (with Patty Labelle and Dionne Warwick): Just to show, now we try to survive Michael histeria, that there are soul divas left: (forget the 1st 2 minits)comment?
15-07-2009 By your grace

this was once used as a VPRO radio tune
Beaver and Krause, 1969. Just got the Ghandharva cd from Amazon
an lp I had in back in 1970. Will use some tracks in the background of the queer art history cd I'm plannning. comment?
14-07-2009 impressive heavy drama:
Good to find another Dutch guy (eh, expat?) writing gay fiction (or is it biographical?). I was Impressed! An exquisite bit of writing from a guy who commented on my pages recently: Dave Richardson, is what we dutch would say, Dave Rich, geen kattePitch, eh pis, or "No childs play" !
As this weblog will never shy away from drama, I'd like to share a fragment where he comes to an apocalyptic end in what is also the name of this diary, I suggest you read at least that fragment, from chapter 30 on page 46 of this PDF file .
darkroom He mixes nightmarish (Jeroen Bosch) scenes with your (not so) average dutch gay daily life. His website tells me his work can be obtained in print from Intermale, Vrolijk or ABC (American Book Center). Good to see, as since the departure of Reve and Komrij taking his distance, there is very little dutch gay fiction left. Maybe, because it is in English and about the Dutch, much, it appeals to me. Maybe he should talk with GJ Wielinga, who recently published a gay book called "schaduwland". comment?
13-07-2009 another big gay musical in the making, OW film 2009?
we already had Timothy! Now musicals really start to get made by us snotty gaiys, I kinda start to like ´m. How about this one? and the second song in the blue box right column?
you can already get the soundtrack and CD:

while on movies: Just saw Misterious skin on out TV.

If you have bad memories of early sexual experiences you probably should not see it, but if, like me, you only have fond memories, do see it!
Joseph Gordon-Levitt played Neil, Brady Corbet played Brian, Jeffrey Licon ls Eric, Bill Sage played the Coach
another superb discovery this weekend on the (fresh fm) dance front:
peggy lee in the mix! comment?
12b-07-2009 sunday worship Too much of a good thing is wonderfull (Simon Vinkenoog)




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12-07-2009 jeugdsentiment :
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11-07-2009 memories

Flikker (Queer), made by Arthur Bueno from 8mm material of Rob de Vries about the emerging Dutch queer culture of the late seventies was on out-tv last nite.
From the moment that de Vries came out, homosexuality played a role in all his films. Rob was the only filmmaker to document the Dutch fight for gay liberation from within the movement. After some thirty years, these images have literally come out of the closet. De Vries watches them again for the first time, together with the audience, and provides a cheerful commentary that carries us along a winding road of home movies, reportage, video diary avant la lettre, and hilarious fiction. The images bear witness to the joy, freedom, honesty and lack of pretension typical of the period and also to the sunny mentality of the man behind the camera.
Of course my ass is in there multiple times and from multiple angles too. If you have trouble recognizing it: my head was not shaved back then; my hair was multiple shades of henna-red, and no nosering! comment?
10-07-2009 google Chrome: I have my doubts . . .
Everybody in his right mind knows: free never means free. With google free means selling advertisement in exchange for your personal data. And if that wasn't enough: they want to influence your personal behaviour and tell you what's right or wrong and how they want you to behave. In view of my recent experiences with youtube I wouldn't be too sure: With MS Vista, you pay for what you get and further on Bill Gates and associates couldn't care less about what you do with it. When the operating system is no longer your own, but based on international servers, you, no doubt, will have to register, and agree with T.O.S. that specify you are not allowed to do things that might offend US citizenz or other religious fanatics, I'm sure.
Yep, I was waiting for the 1st Apple nerd to raise his voice: that corp just washed its reputation down the drain with a spell of hyper hypocrite censorship in witholding apps for their I-phone; looking like a repeat of Philips not wanting porn on their superior V2000 system, which almost led to their collapse . . . I bet Google and Apple have already signed agreements with the Persian, North Korean and Chinese governements . . .
For the moment
wild horses couldn't drag me to a phone with google operating system.
NL filmtips today:
out-tv: 15u00 Flikker by Rob de Vries
RTL5 20u30 CET Cruise control Speed 2 by Jan de Bont comment?
09-07-2009 Michiel
Just read his article in gaynews about two legends of postwar Dutch cult: Robert Jasper Grootveld and Benno Premsela. As I already wrote about the latter here at the time of his exhibition at Amsterdam Archive (26a-02-08),
I much rather talk here about the Provo Hash promotor, known for his 'happenings' at Lieverdje, Spui and later on for his 'hash'-house-boat in the Amstel.
Appropriate, now discussion is flaring up here to start governement controlled weed production. As the half hearted strategy of allowing 700 coffeeshops to sell but keeping production illegal, does get out of control just as it did with alcohol in the days of USA prohibition. Our agricultural scientists together with drug cartells have in 2 decades managed to increase THC strength of 'Nederwiet' to it being the strongest in the world, thus fueling the argument it can no longer be called a 'soft' drug.
I never knew Grootveld had a homosexual history, and even less that it was, to say the least 'unglamerous' In fact: he was a biznis boy, who even went as far as to blackmail the bank-c.e.o. he had an affair with, presuming he would never dare to go to the police; but he miscalculated the courage of his victim, who did just that!
Well, it just goes to show: our lives are sooo much more colorful if we do not shy away of showing the gory details! And if we do not shy away of walking the tightrope of the law. Which reminds me, of an event that happened to a friend of mine, who took home a punk hustler for an S&M session, who in turn tied him nude to a chair and robbed his house. It took him 2 days to make it 2 flights of stairs down to the front door, still tied to the chair and nude, to get rescued. It reminds me also of the increased risk I run myself with taking guys home for a fuck, as I still do. But then, why just get old and not live?
Michiel of course had his share of experiences: I remember being with him in NYC and he told me at breakfast that he got fucked the night before by a gorgeous black boy on the backseat of a taxi, and asked me if I thought that was 'low risk'. On which I remember replying: "sure, if the driver kept his eyes on the road". I just found out last week he's now in the board of our national HIV org. With Michiel I also worked on a play about the life of de Merode, who got fired back in 1924 from his teaching job in the Groningen countryside for writing boy-poetry.

voorstellingsposter Brakke Grond ~1985, here as historic evidence of what was perfectly acceptable as a street poster back then, and could get you in trouble nowadays
Merode only wrote poetry, was a much loved teacher and never any evidence was found that he even touched somebody, so in the end he got rehabilitated and even knighted, but still, it shows how then, just as it now seems to be possible AGAIN for religious fanatic moral dictators to ruin noble and righteous carreers. Unlike in the USA, where homo's are fighting for equal rights first time, we here in NL are forced into a battle to defend liberties we once had. And they are mostly under attack from within the 'gay' community.
Now let's see if I can dish up a Michiel song from the past and get it online, without infringing on some service's user requirements. (read 20-06, 04-07)


Well, if push comes to shove, I resort to personal serverspace.
Which might prove Microsoft to be be more tolerant than Google, Yahoo and Apple combined after all! comment?
08-07-2009 it's a rap:
Maybe I was a bit harsh, the entry below. I should'nt lash out to others in grief. But I will only withdraw my remarks on the black community, once they have voted to extend the rights they all enjoy to my own minority. Watching last nights proceeding shows: there's still much to be done. So in his spirit, we could celebrate our uniqueness and respect our differences and try to get our minority groups to work together in good old-fashioned solidarity. comment?
07-07-2009 to close the Michael chapter:
one big final SCREEEEAAAM!!! (a-capella version):

Of course everybody is entitled to their rolemodel/heroe. But don't you feel sorry for the the black community? Claiming Michael Jackson back now he's dead: He wanted to be everything but black! It proves that It was his OWN community and his FAMILY that could not keep their hands off Michael! He only wanted to be a child lover; he even managed to ´obtain´ 3 superblond kids! His love for them and his desire to be both strong and soft / delicate surely was not too popular in black circles, the same circles that recently managed to deny homos in California the equal rights they themselves already enjoy for decades. And because he had astronomical amounts of money at his disposal he could pay legal fees to get away with it; and rightfully so, as the Orange County court and I agree, he never did kids any harm. So may he rest in peace, together with all those less whealthy who did find themselves in jail or murdered for the same or less. Let's be clear about this: mob justice when there is no evidence of any wrong doing, we call that hate crimes. Prevention of which AGAIN Obama again seems to need decades for to sign into law. comment?
06-07-2009 don't always agree with Jan Mulder, but saturday I did:
pathetic that we need to revert to Jan Mulder, coz our own community is too feeble minded, or are we back here :
do we now need a heterosexual to irritate self righteous religious idiots?
in the seventies we did it ourselves (distributing "vies = lekker" little yellow cartoon books to kids exiting R.C. churches in Brabant on sunday mornings; thanx Roze Driehoek, later known as Vagevuur [purgatory], nowadays too 'complacent' to defend themselves; at the 1st sign of opposition they just dissolved the org) comment?
05-07-2009 sunday worship, again, finally
coz june was the most event-overloaded month in decades


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04-07-2009 uncensored video
today I could access my youtube acount again, so I deleted all that could possibly be in violation of their terms (which in my case had nothing to do with copyright, nor frontal nudity. Only with 'so called' material that still could be considered offensive. The problem here is: it's not what I do that is considered offensive, but what I am. Just like blacks were offensive untill recently in the USA, or lepers in Africa). Well, I rebased the clips concerned immediately to gay owned servers, of course, because I now know youtube stands on the side of religious fanatics, who will object to everything that does not comply with their idea of 'god's plan'.
Lesson leant:
don't trust those so called advocates of the "normal" strategy: we are damned, doomed, and so my choice is to remain the pervert they say I am. Just secure our own fort instead of watering down of our basic values. That will get us nowhere, but to masses of useless suicides, wasted lives, and continuing hate crimes.
They may look big and strong, but being intolerant to minorities will be the youtube downfall in the long run. If only I could trust Q companies, but most likely, they're even worse, and what's more: their video servers for now remain less powerful and their scripts less stable, so bear with me . . . Nerds can make you wet your pants,
with jaw dropping new strides in technology
but sadly
they hardly ever have a heart,
they never show a soul,
they don't have a cock
they don't have a hole.
click for Jay Brannan, can't have it all new nr. 1 in the HahahaHoHoHo ! comment?
03-07-2009 continuing on the theme of july 1st: demonic sex
While I'm on the more fantastic and demonic side of things,
Sean Platter, movie
One of the guys I always look forward to meeting 'in the flesh', when I attend the Tom of Finland artfair is Sean Platter. I might as well update you guys on the amazing plans of reproducing my fav cartoon of all time into a movie. I've chatted with art director Sean about the project: of course its virgin (?) territory that's being treaded here, both in financing as in the fact that this will be a cross over of animation, CGI or rendering, porn and regular acting. Sean who had his basic training in Hollywood and Disney cartoons has quite a network all through the bizniss. With the recession raging some of them have time on their hand and like the challenge of entering in a project that could change the future landscape rather then fill their wallets. Of course screenwriter Clive Barker (of Hellraiser fame) and porn actor Zak Spears, who already makes an apearance in the new episode of Demomic Sex (nr 4) that is due for release right now. I can only suggest you guys do get the hard copy version of the cartoon from hard tribe 666 to pull this project through the recession. I could fantasise on: they could enlist Brent Corrigan, as he's already proved he can transition between 'straight' acting and porn, or how about Dustin Lance Black, to revise the script, as he does now know the ins and outs of seeding and breeding, it could be a (George Michael way) to defend himself and regain respect, honesty and credibility. comment?
02-07-2009 Obama, continues to treat 5 % of his citizens like shit.
while he's got so much to thank the civil liberties movement for,
he lies and cheats, instead of coming forward
with promised equal rights to the last U.S. minority
"This sounds like a decision made by a group of closet queens".
The big loss of 'don't ask, don't tell' is to the Army
'Dismissed,' Army board tells gay soldier
Openly gay West Point grad thrown out for doing the honorable thing.

Army National Guard Lt. Dan Choi, an Arabic-speaking specialist, has been dismissed through the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy.
SYRACUSE, july 1st:
a U.S. Army board recommended dismissal for Lt. Daniel Choi, a West Point graduate who stands to become the first New York National Guard member discharged under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. A panel of four officers reviewed the case for more than eight hours on Tuesday in a closed hearing at Hancock Air Base in Syracuse. Their decision asserts that Choi, a platoon leader with the 69th Infantry Regiment out of Manhattan, violated a federal statute that forbids homosexual soldiers from serving openly in the military.

Choi, 28, of New York City, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 2003 and joined the 10th mountain Division at Fort Drum. He spent 15 months in Iraq as an Arabic interpreter and joined the Guard in June 2007.This spring, Choi came out as a gay man and helped found a West Point alumni group called Knights Out (West Point's mascot is the Black Knight) to advocate for equal rights among strait, homosexual and transgender troops.

After Tuesday's hearing, he defended his military career. "I understand the Army values," Choi said. "A soldier must have integrity. I learned that from day one at West Point." "All I did was tell the truth," he said. "I refused to lie about my boyfriend. His name is Matthew, not Martha."

The panel's decision heads next to the commanding general of the First U.S. Army, then on to the chief of the National Guard Bureau. If all agree with the board, the chief will decide the terms of Choi's discharge. That process could take weeks or years. Choi's defense counsel plans to appeal. "Don't ask, don't tell was built on assumptions," said Maj. Ray Diehl. "I don't know of anyone who's shown that being gay is a predictor of bad actions." Soldiers can be lazy, insubordinate or fail a drug test with less ramification, he said. Choi submitted some 260,000 signatures and letters of support to the Army board, including messages from generals, West Point alumni and members of the Guard. Choi's unit — one of the nation's oldest and most revered — has gained a new sort of notoriety since he came out. While the battalion finished urban warfare training in Kentucky last Sunday, Choi, who'd been excused, was grand marshaling the gay pride parade in San Francisco.

When asked if the controversy was tough on the rest of the troops, Lt. Col. Paul Fanning, spokesman for the unit, quipped, "Compared to what?" Sifting through rubble at the World Trade Center? Losing soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan? "We just continue to do our mission," he said. Choi said he'll stay the course, too. "I'm grateful to the Army for making me who I am," he said, rubbing the West Point class ring on his right hand. "Living those values has brought me to this situation."
words again . . .

We already knew he could speech, but if they are not followed by immediate action he's responsible for over 300 servicemen losing their jobs since he took office!comment?

01-07-2009 derek jarman (1942-1994)
came across this early work of him :

not sure what it is about, but like the soundrack by Throbbing Gristle.
quotes from john coulthart: In 1973, Jarman shot the central sequences for his first lengthy film, and most ambitious to date, In the Shadow of the Sun, which in fact was not shown publicly until 1980, at the Berlin Film Festival. In the film he incorporated two early films, A Journey to Avebury a romantic landscape film, and The Magician (a.k.a. Tarot). The final sequences were shot on Fire Island in the following year. Fire Island survives as a separate film. In this period, Jarman had begun to express a mythology which he felt underpinned the film. He writes in Dancing Ledge of discovering “the key to the imagery that I had created quite unconsciously in the preceding months”, namely Jung’s Alchemical Studies and Seven Sermons to the Dead.
John Coulthart, No beast 2
Above work of Coulthart connects in my mind with the Demonic Sex work of Sean Platter, I used on my poz page. Jarmans LSD filming does remind me of my early sexual adventures back in the early seventies. I shyed away from cannabis and LSD around then, when things went seriously wrong with my younger brother. Still don't think I need to get back there, but I'm not as frightened by the fantasies anymore these days. Also have fond mid seventies memories of Fire Island. There is a lot of other stuff on UBUweb that takes me back . . .
and of course, more demonic stuff on db/queerart's armageddon comment?


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