Weee! So this is the video I directed for SEBASTIEN GRAINGER (click on that link to see Sebastien's pubic hair, no joke) in the summer. I'll put a best quality crab version up on my videos page at some point.
MIKE LEBLANC did the beautiful camerawork on the video, JEREMY BAILEY art directed, and the girls were amazing. You should have heard them screaming on set. It was unreal. Sebastien's wife EVA MICHON did the makeup. She's the best. And if you look closely you can see that the purple leopard face paint matches the shoes she's wearing.
Otherwise things are good. I'm writing a paper on Otto Preminger's film Laura at the moment, working on figuring out some music rights for a short I've written about a girl named Ariel who stalks her lifeguard while singing Part of Your World from The Little Mermaid, getting ready to shoot another short film over the break, finishing my treatment for a feature film about a body-switching homo, and getting ready to launch the screening series that CHARLOTTE and I are starting at Columbia. The series will be of queer film and video artists. The first event is a co-sponsorship with the MA Film Program bringing queer theorist Tom Waugh to screen and speak about the film Montreal Main. The next event is a screening of Matt Wolf's Arthur Russell documentary, Wild Combination. Matt is going to come speak about the film as well.
I'll post more info about those as they happen. They are Columbia events but outsiders can attend.
Okay gotta run! Class on a Sunday yuck! But yay!
Labels: FILM, I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., MUSIC, REALLY FUCKING GAY, YOUTUBE
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 11/15/2009 -
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I finally saw Fassbinder's final film, Querelle, today. I watched it after class in the media library at school. Maybe not the most appropriate place to watch a murderous sailor gay porno. However, I think I got the eye from the fellow sitting across from me. So apropos getting cruised while watching such a cruisey movie.
I'm interested in the film's philosophy - is Querelle such a despicable character/emotional sociopath because faggots had to be monsters back in 1966 (when the book was written)? Or is it a self-loathing thing? Or is his behaviour not meant to be connected to his sex? His desires seem to change so rapidly and whimsically in contrast to Seblon's devotion. Obviously Seblon is a good gay, so they existed, just not in leading roles.
I am gonna go look up some reviews of the film to find out more...
Labels: ART, FILM, REALLY FUCKING GAY
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 9/16/2009 -
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Laying With My Father by Ryan Pfluger
Luke Gilford
So I'm in nature now, the crickets are chirping outside my window and I am left in the quiet with my thoughts and still, somehow, a poo-load of work to do. I arrived at my new old home today after seeing both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans in one day and then packing and driving all my earthly possessions up here in an overstuffed GMC with a huge iced coffee from McDonald's.
San Francisco was everything I could have hoped for. Such a great place and such a great experience. I managed to escape Pride Day for the most part and go to the beach and Marin Headlands with Parker and Ryan. Ryan Pfluger is a fantastic photographer that I've been following for a long time but for some reason have never linked to him from my own blog before. It was really cool to watch him work and then to be photographed by him on the edge of the ocean and high up on cliffs. I can't wait to see his photos as well as Parker's and mine. Hopefully I'll have my film back by next week. You can see a sneak peek of Ryan's photos HERE and make sure to check out his other work HERE.
I also got to meet another great photographer, LUKE GILFORD, while I was in San Francisco. Luke is a New York based photographer who graduated from UCLA. All around it was a bunch of cute faggots taking pictures in the gayest city on earth. It seemed pretty right.
Labels: ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, REALLY FUCKING GAY
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 6/30/2009 -
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I made these worlds but they're too pretty. The only problem is that it takes like 5 hours to render a 10 second animation on my computer, so by the time they've finished rendering I can't spend another 5 hours fixing them. Excuses excuses. I think I need some violence in my worlds. Something darker. TBD.
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I think that was the most nerve-wracking thing I've ever done! After six weeks (SIX WEEKS) of costume building, prep, and rehearsal, it all came down to performing in front of a big live audience.
I had a wireless mic that turned out not to work at the last second so I had to use a wired mic without ever having practiced with it before. In any case, having popped my drag cherry, I have a whole new respect for queens and what it takes to get an audience's attention. But I am so happy that I went all out and that my crew was so helpful. Thanks to Jeremy, Ryan, Vanessa, and of course Proddy and Mary for letting me jump onto a giant wiener in front of an audience.
Labels: BAD DOG, I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., MAYBE THE FUTURE WILL BE BETTER, NARCISSISM, REALLY FUCKING GAY
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 3/29/2009 -
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Seriously. Tonight. March 28, 2009. The Beaver. 1192 Queen Street West. Show at midnight, be there before to avoid lines. $5. Free if you're in drag/getup.
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 3/28/2009 -
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Girlfriends you all need to come to Hotnuts this Saturday night at The Beaver in Toronto:
Performance by Olive Oyl (HINT HINT)
Certified Dipping Sauce Contest
Hosted by Mary Messhausen
DJs Bitz and produzentin
Bitz is finally back from Frankfurt and working the turntables. After 4 weeks of pilates, Mary is slim as a birch. And from what we heard, Olive Oyl has something rather special to dip.
Get ready for the certified dipping sauce contest.
We need cute girls & boys with super sensitive taste buds on stage.
Of course, the wonderful El Bear Ho will greet you at the door.
$5 cover, free in drag
See you Saturday, Sweetpeas!
Labels: BAD DOG, REALLY FUCKING GAY
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 3/26/2009 -
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Next up: "iTunes Essentials: Black People Music."
When are people going to stop doing shit like this?
Lord almighty.
Labels: BAD DOG, DEATH AND DRAMA, DESPERATE AND SAD, MUSIC, REALLY FUCKING GAY
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 5/07/2008 -
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Tonight's your last chance in Toronto to see DANIEL BARROW perform "Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry":
Daniel Barrow's newest "manual animation" combines overhead projection, with video, music, and live narration to tell the story of a garbage man with a vision to chronicle the lives of all the citizens in the city. Traversing the streets, drawing pictures of people as they sleep and gleaning what he can of people's lives through their trash, what he doesn't know is that a deranged lunatic is trailing him, killing off each citizen he records in his book, thus rendering his cataloguing efforts obsolete.
Maybe I misinterpreted it but I didn't think the central character was a garbage-man, but Barrow himself...or maybe I'm not so smart.
Either way, you shold BUY TICKETS NOW!
Labels: BOOKS MOVIES AND OTHER CULTURALISTICALITIES, DESPERATE AND SAD, REALLY FUCKING GAY, THINGS I WISH I'D DONE
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 4/12/2008 -
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I'm sure it's in a million movies, but Mahogany struck me as an inspiration for Almodovar...
And am I crazy or is the original cut of the cab-ride through Barcelona longer?
Labels: REALLY FUCKING GAY
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 4/10/2008 -
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I know La Pequeña is totally overplayed by now, but I love it when shit like this happens - YouTube videos of television shows of YouTube videos. It's meta-Pequeña.
Maybe we should TEAM UP.
Labels: I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., NARCISSISM, REALLY FUCKING GAY, THINGS I WISH I'D DONE
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 3/26/2008 -
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POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 3/13/2008 -
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I have $13.50 left on an iTunes gift certificate. Should I buy Enya or Ennio Morricone?
Vote in comments if you care.
Labels: DESPERATE AND SAD, REALLY FUCKING GAY
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 1/30/2008 -
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Posting will be light to nil here while I'm being unbelievably gay over at !! OMG BLOG !! until mid-February.
Good news is I'll be doing 5 posts a day for OMG, so you'll get more of me than you ever wanted, though in a more saccharine form.
Labels: REALLY FUCKING GAY
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 1/13/2008 -
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Happened to come across KAISERIN MAGAZINE, "A magazine for boys with problems." I haven't actually seen it in person but it sounds about right. I want it.
Labels: BUY ME THIS, REALLY FUCKING GAY, SEX
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Labels: BOOKS MOVIES AND OTHER CULTURALISTICALITIES, BUY ME THIS, REALLY FUCKING GAY
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