June 2011
It's Not For Me To Say
Johnny Mathis
Johnny Mathis | It’s Not For Me To Say
Listen
Julie London | Cry Me A River
“Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language. Use the word ‘not’ as a means of denial or in antithesis, never as a means of evasion.”
—William Strunk Jr. (via inquotation)
“Many gay men spend their adolescence as outcasts or misfits, and when they finally get to a place where they can join the gay culture at large, they react to their years of social solitude by conforming with the sort of fervor usually reserved for packs of teenage girls. That means looking the part, which, of course, means joining the gym and becoming a regular.”
— Brian Moylan on Simon Doonan’s diet book manuscript Gay Men Don’t Get Fat (via inquotation)
Sing Sing Sing
Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman | Sing Sing Sing
“If this world won’t give you the things that you want - love, kids, a family - then I am going to have to change the world, because I will not have it change you!”
—From a mother to her gay son, in “You Should Meet My Son”
it was amazing. solid story.
brilliant acting. intense and strong dialogue. poetic.
i really enjoyed the movie. :)
Yesssssssssss!! Good to know. On my list. Yes!
“In western society, the system has managed to drag the masses so deeply into their own crap that they seem to have lost any feeling of their position as exploited and oppressed, so that they dream of nothing more than a car, a holiday, and a toweled bathroom.”
—Ulrike Meinhof (via weknowsolittle)
Sometimes, I want to be a Southern Belle.
With big red hair. With pale, pale skin. And lots of freckles. Sitting on a front porch swing, sun setting on my face, eating a big juicy Georgia peach.
In leather chaps.
You said you have to fight for your degree. What did your parents want you to study btw and become ?
When I said I had to fight for my degree, I meant it in the sense I have to defend my degree of choice often. It’s a constant battle, trying to inform everyone who asks what I’m studying at school that English is worthwhile.
My parents would have loved for me to go into business, medicine or law. Something safe, something practical. But I defied their practicality for the joys of a risk.
Smart me. Yay risk. So much fun.
Maybe This Time
John Kander & Liza Minnelli
Liza Minnelli | Maybe This Time
Sometimes, you just have to cha-cha-cha your way home.
