Toot toot! Beep beep!…wait…what’s that, dearest Filthy Dreams readers? Sorry, I was just belting out disco queen and savior Donna Summer’s naughty hit “Bad Girls.” As you may have noticed, Donna has made more frequent appearances on our Filthy Dreams playlists as of late. Yes, I’ve been struck down with Summer fever! And since I’ve … Continue reading
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Filthy Dreams’ Candy Cane Lane Playlist
Ho Ho HO-OOH MY GOD! Quick, dearest Filthy Dreams readers! We have no time for formalities, it’s time for some panic-driven, wild-eyed Black Friday shopping! Where do we start first? Macy’s? The mall? Donald Trump’s online store with $149 Make America Great Again Christmas ornaments? Where…WHERE? It’s time for holiday hysterics again and there’s no better … Continue reading
Filthy Dreams’ Elevator Music Playlist
Why hello there, dearest of dear Filthy Dreams readers! Because our always faithful co-founder Emily is losing her mind in the middle of an apartment search and move, we are going to forgo our regular art-related post today. Instead, let’s get delve into a musical genre we like to call “gay elevator music” with our … Continue reading
Different Within Difference: Honoring Our Genderqueer Role Models At Hilton Als’ ‘One Man Show: Holly, Candy, Bobbie and the Rest’
In his book Role Models, our preeminent filth elder John Waters writes, “Explain what? A role model? Someone who has led a life even more explosive than mine, a person whose exaggerated fame or notoriety has made him or her somehow smarter and more glamorous than I could ever be? A personality frozen in an … Continue reading
Do You Want To Funk: Disco Death and Roller Requiems in Mark Bradford’s ‘Deimos’
Who would have thought that tossing orange and peach roller-skate wheels across a concrete floor to a disco tune could be so powerful? That a seemingly simple gesture could have such complex conceptual and political consequences? Continue reading
Role Model: Amanda Lear
“Faust was right have no regret Give me your soul and I’ll give you life And all the things you want to get So follow me… –Amanda Lear “Follow Me” Why, hello there, dearest Filthy Dreams readers! I know, I know…I’ll speak softly. We all had one too many glasses of our World Famous Pumpkin Punch … Continue reading
Dance With Me In The Disco Heat: Disco Memories In Bradley Wester’s ‘DISCOurse #2: Shine’
“Dancing’s total freedom be yourself and choose your feelin’ come on get up wanna see some swingin’, swayin’, movin’, groovin’, slidin’, glidin’, rockin’, reelin’, come on get up everybody dance” –Sylvester “Dance (Disco Heat)” In Fiona Buckland’s captivating and almost criminally under-read Impossible Dance: Club Culture and Queer World-Making, Buckland analyzes the queer worlds created … Continue reading