Welcome to Filthy Dreams
Well hello there! Welcome to Filthy Dreams, a blog that analyzes culture through a queer lens. Rather than jumping right into new content, we thought it best to introduce ourselves and our aesthetics with our Trash Manifesto
Latest Entries
Mama Does Party Out Of Bounds: Nightlife As Activism Since 1980
Why, hello honeys! Mama’s gonna take you on a tour of the current NYC exhibit Party Out Of Bounds: Nightlife As Activism Since 1980 (throughout Oct. 10) at La MaMa Galleria presented by Visual AIDS. Now, I know many of you can’t attend the exhibit so Mama brought her trusty little iPhone and took a pot-load … Continue reading
Mama’s Weekly W(h)ine: All The News That’s Not Fit To Print
Co-Founder’s note: As you dearest of the dear Filthy Dreams readers know, I (as well as our intrepid contributor Osman) are currently working away on Party Out Of Bounds: Nightlife As Activism Since 1980, which is only a little over a month away *breathes into a paper bag/huffs poppers* Unsurprisingly because of this, we have been a little … Continue reading
*Cough Cough* Filthy Dreams Goes Viral With A Video Mixtape
Why hello there, dearest Filthy Dreams readers…and soon to be viewers! Well, are you ready to be glued to the tube? We recently went to an evening entitled Boob Tube Tuesdays at Jerome’s in the Lower East Side. Hosted by nightlife-er’s Earl Dax, Shane O’Neill and Jill Pangallo, as well as DJ-ed by Amber Martin, Boob … Continue reading
You Have to Try the Shrimp!: Anthony Iacono’s Solo Show at PPOW Gallery
“My films exist only to remind audiences the absolute certainty that they do not live in the best of all possible worlds,” once said Luis Buñuel, whose exuberant lens bore some of the most buoyant and triggering representations of 20th century. Anthony Iacono’s Crudités at Sunset, on view at PPOW Gallery through August 7th, imbues … Continue reading
Hellhound On My Trail: The Intergenerational Blues Of James ‘Son Ford’ Thomas and Cy Gavin
“I got to keep movin’, I’ve got to keep movin’ Blues fallin’ down like hail, blues fallin’ down like hail” –Robert Johnson “Hellhound On My Trail” As the end of the summer gallery season quickly approaches and temperatures reach their boiling point, the blues, as Robert Johnson (or was it the devil?) croons, is falling down like … Continue reading
You Are Invited To–Party Out Of Bounds: Nightlife As Activism Since 1980
Why hello there, dearest Filthy Dreams readers and fellow filth fanatics! It’s about the right time to announce what your co-founder Emily Colucci and intrepid contributor Osman Yerebakan have been working hard on since December 2013. As you know, Filthy Dreams was originally conceptualized as a sleazy bar before we lowered our expectations and started … Continue reading
Mama Does The Furry Convention…Well, From A Bar Across The Street
Filthy Dreams Editor’s Note: From yiffing to erotic Furry illustrations (warning–don’t Google) to men in suits with tails attached wandering through Downtown Pittsburgh, Anthrocon is a yearly dose of be-furred hilarity in a city that already tends toward the surreal. Unfortunately stuck in New York and missing this year’s annual gawking at the Furries, I asked … Continue reading
5 Films/Videos To Help You Find Your Inner Patriot This 4th of July
Why hello there, dearest Filthy Dreams patriots! Come on in and grab yourself a cold one. What’s that? Oh don’t get snotty, queens, it’s July 4th so we only have shitty domestic beer tall-boys. Just a few of those and you’ll be singing at the top of your lungs about amber waves of grain in … Continue reading
I’m A Cruiser: Tom of Finland’s Subcultural Smut At Artists Space
As the Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage this week, everyone on the Twitters was declaring #LoveWins. Well, maybe, but let’s remember that love doesn’t just win in chapels and courthouses. Love can also win in sex clubs and bathhouses, in parks and public restrooms. Like John Waters says, I miss perverts! Well, … Continue reading
Filthy Dreams’ Shameful Pride Playlist
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