This blog started as a spontaneous thing and I wanted to keep it like that. unfortunately there are moments and post that have not been that spontaneous, or there were thoughts that have never been expressed because i censored myself. I wanted to avoid any post that was not true, any comment on things I have no idea.
At a point I lost it I think. I loved writing things like that, even with my mistakes, my misspelling, my peculiar syntax. I loved the idea of a blog because of the chance o be free to write stuff. I loved reading blogs because contrary to newspaper articles there was this feeling of reading someone’s experiences and opinions. I don’t want to end up writing stuff that I don’t feel, i don’t want to have an opinion on everything and speaking about stuff that are not about me. i am not writing because I want to be in a top 10 or anything. I am glad if I see people reading my posts or commenting. I never tried to polish my blog or create the next best thing. I don’t want to be an agenda. i never cheated on my believes in these posts but there were posts that were not that freely conceived and written. So I have to take a break, or maybe change blog. Because this blog is supposed to be a downtown boy’s thoughts, nothing more nothing less.
I don’t if this blog goes that way, so a goodbye for now
Yes yes people after the third time that the production company of her greek Sticky n’ Sweet show has told us that the tickets are sold out we learn that there are more tickets to buy. The new tickets are half the price as well because of the problematic view. you pay half the ticket becuse you see half of the show or something like that. The new tickets cost from 60 euros up to 175 euros. And yes they are selling VIP tickets with limited view, but still you will be proud to say that I saw Madonna for one hour (the second hour she was out of sight probably) but I was VIP. The tickets of course are limited and you should rush if you lost the first chance that they gave you. Hurry up, hurry up beacuse if you have accepted your bad fate you have to cahnge things. The univesre is giving you another chance don’t miss it. At the end they are going to give you a plastic chair to sitt at the corridors and they will ask you ti pay 200 euros. I want to see the show but they already made me bored with all this hysteria they are trying to create again. Ok it’s sold out, it was expensive but it sold, so please let us in peace go on holidays and see at the end of September what we payed good money for…
And here is the the great view (probably better than these last cheap tickets) Huppy Madonna Thumbnail
Frank Oz’s In & Out is one of these movies that plays perfectly with sterotypes, has some aces in the sleeve, but survives thanks to its leading actor. Because if it hadn’t been for Kevin Kline’s joyfull performance, this whole think would have sunked completely, not even getting close to something like a success in any level.
Everything starts when, Cameron Drake, a well known actor from a small town in Indiana, while recieving an oscar for his performance of a gay character, thanks his english high school teacher, Howard Bracket, whom he based his performance on. The thing is that Howard is getting ready to marry his long time fiancé Emily and he never thought about his homosexuality. Suddenly Howard’s life turns upside down, as the whole town questions his sexuality and slowly a lot of gay stereotypes fit on him. Even worse an openly gay TV reporter, Peter Malloy, arrives in town, suspecting that Howard is just trying too hard not to accept the truth.
The film puts all the stereoptypes and tries to talk about gay people in denial, about how an information like that can change people’s reaction twoards you, about loosing your ground, your whole identity. Of cousre is a comedy, of course everthing is lightweight, of course it falls into cliches. Still there is a solid cast that manages to pull this film out of the camp, out of the hysterical and avoid it stay on the queer section film because no-one else would be intrested.
Kevin Kline is great as Howard never going to the extreme and never being afraid to play it gay. Tom Selleck tries his best but has so little to do, still he shaved his mustache and is so far away from his Magnum character he is a joy, proving that his comedy skills endure beyond Friends. My lovely Joan Cusack once more plays a role she can do in her sleep, but still is no wonder that she managed to attract award attention, even an Oscar nomination. Clever lines, great actors, comedic timing at its best and three really inspired moments save In & Out from being just another comedy on gay people.
Of course no matter what I am saying when I saw it back in 1997 the film had so much more meaning to me, no matter how distanced I can be right now. In 1997 I was myslef trying to realise what is going on with me. I knew that I was gay but still I was hoping that all the signs were fake. I was at a point of trying to avoid my homosexuality. So when I went to see this film I was pretty sure that Howard was not gay, that he was a victim of stereotypes…
You can add there Howard being a Barbra Streisand fan and you got every sign of gayness in one guy who still tries to be straight. Still I was hoping that Howard at the end will turn out to be straight, like a sign i needed to go back to the “normal” side. I was this kid that the rest of his fellow students thought of as gay, and I hope that i would prove them wrong. Things for me evolved idependantly of the film, but at that time it was a film i lived along. Nowadays I can spot easily guys like that, who have a long long road till they realise their identity… Still the signs are bullshit, onle a gaydar can spot things right.
Still as Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb sing we have nothing to be Guilty for
I was on my bicycle going to Athens, suddenly next to me stops a car. Not any car though, one of these dark glassed ones with the music playing so loud that you actually thing that time and space travell is possible and you are suddenly tranfered into a club. The proud owner of the car was so happy to listening to his music, he was around 20, having taken his dad car and ready to go at the clubs on the sea to show off. It’s true only by the volume of the music you would turn around to see what was going on.
But despite his will to show his car, I think that the actuall reason that anyone over 25 would turn around would be because of the song he desided to have in his cd player. The late John Scatman’s Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)…
It was such a shock to hear this tune in 2008 by a twnety something’s stereo. I found it so strange that anyone would remmeber this tune from 1995, a hit that I was wondering for its success back then. It’s true that it was a big hit and it was unique how a guy with a stuttering problem was actually producing a huge hit (read his story here) , still i never thought that the song could survive beyond this euro-pop area. I just wonder how things turn cassic like that…
I'm the Scatman
(Scatting by Scatman John)
I'm the Scatman
(Scatting by Scatman John)
Everybody stutters one way or the other
So check out my message to you.
As a matter of fact don't let nothin' hold you back.
If the Scatman can do it so can you.
Everybody's sayin' that the Scatman stutters
But doesn't ever stutter when he sings.
But what you don't know I'm gonna tell you right now
That the stutter and the scat is the same thing.
Yo I'm the Scatman.
Where's the Scatman ? I'm the Scatman.
Why should we be pleasin' all the politician heathens
Who would try to change the seasons if they could?
The state of the condition insults my intuitions
And it only makes me crazy and my heart like wood.
Everybody stutters one way or the other
So check out my message to you.
As a matter of fact don't let nothin' hold you back.
If the Scatman can do it brother so can you.
I'm the Scatman.
(Scatting by Scatman John)
Everybody stutters one way or the other
So check out my message to you.
As a matter of fact don't let nothin' hold you back.
If the Scatman can do it brother so can you.
I'm the Scatman.
I hear you all ask 'bout the meaning of scat.
Well I'm the professor and all I can tell you is
While you're still sleepin' the saints are still weepin' cause
Things you call dead haven't yet had the chance to be born.
I'm the Scatman.
(Scatting by Scatman John)
I'm the Scatman....repeat after me
It's a scoobie oobie doobie scoobie doobie melody
I'm the Scatman....repeat after me
It's a scoobie oobie doobie scoobie doobie melody
(Scatting by Scatman John)
