Happy Gay Pride, friends! Happy BIG 50 to the Stonewall Riots! I mean, Uprising. No, I mean, Rebellion! Yes, rebellion! The New York Times recently provided a series of pieces on the many conflicting narratives about Stonewall. Who threw the first brick–or stone–or rock–or coins? Surely, it wasn’t Roland Emmerich’s cornfed midwestern white boy laughably … Continue reading
“This homosexual dream of perfect metaphysical union is not so much a reflected heterosexual ideal as it is the compensation for having wept in the darkness.” (Thomas Yingling, Hart Crane and the Homosexual Text, quoted in Heather Love, Feeling Backward) Long, long ago, Leo Bersnai formulated a theory of the impossibility of queer desire: queer … Continue reading
THANK YOU, NEXT Full disclosure: I am gleefully out of touch with pop music. In fact, I decided to swear it off forever when that whole autotune phenomenon made Cher unlistenable. When all those queens lifted up their index fingers and pranced towards the center of the dance floor as Cher’s autotuned voice … Continue reading
“Come you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts / Unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the topful / Of direst cruelty.” (Lady Macbeth) Boo!! It’s time for another round of our annual HALLOWREEN music playlist! While prior installments were framed around campy Dracula, Frankenstein, and UFO themes, this year, … Continue reading
Oh my God, ANOTHER Pride Parade?! What? Google has a banner up? More Absolut Vodka ads? Every corporation vying to spread the rainbow? Whew, I don’t know about you queens, but we here at Filthy Dreams are hiding behind bushes. We’re tired. *SIGH* How many years have we said that Pride is over? How many … Continue reading
Hiya, kiddos!! Hey, what’s that up there in the sky? AAAAAAAAHHHH!!! My eyes, they’re burning! All I see are…disco balls in the sky! We, here at Filthy Dreams, are here for all of life’s magic moments. A total eclipse of the sun? Done and done! Hold tight to your bottle of whiskey and dance with … Continue reading
We know, we know, another Pride playlist? *YAWN* Does the (gay) world really need more Katy Perry? Oh, where has all the real pride gone! When did things become so sanitized! Ah, yesterday! We here at Filthy Dreams have fought our way to the back room to plumb the depths of Pride music. Such music … Continue reading
Screw winter! We’re goin’ West–Midwest, that is! Why, you ask? We’re going on a Hellcat voyage through neon-lit churches, strip clubs in barns, small towns and bars in search for a Great Dark Man–ahem, I mean, for Hoosiers! Kurt Vonnegut has this to say about Hoosiers: “I don’t know what it is about Hoosiers, … Continue reading
“He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.” … Continue reading
I’ve always admired Eyes Wide Shut. People poo-poo’ed over its release, which can mean either one of two things: it deserves it or people just don’t get it. When I first saw the Masked Ball scene, I firmly decided that people just didn’t get it. They were looking for more Tom and Nicole. They got … Continue reading