Pic(k) of the Day

A rare find...

Art Deco Series: Can't Help Lovin' That Man

1. Can't Help Lovin' That Man - Bud Freeman & His Orchestra
2. Masculine Women, Feminine Men - Merritt Brunies & His Friars Inn Orchestra
3. Help! - Earl Gresh & His Gangplank Orchestra
4. Right Kind Of Man, The - Golden Gate Orch.
5. He's My Kind Of A Man - The Flamingo Melodians
6. He's So Unusual - Fred Rich & His Orchestra
7. Man I Love, The - Sam Lanin's Famous Players
8. I Want To Be Bad - Ray Ventura & His Collegians (previously unreleased)
9. Gay Love - Bing Crosby
10. Am I Blue? - The Travelers
11. Can't We Be Friends? - The Georgians
12. In My Little Hope Chest - The Clevelanders
13. He's A Good Man To Have Around - Dick Cherwin & His Orchestra
14. I Got Rhythm - Harold Lem & His Orchestra
15. What Wouldn't I Do For That Man? - Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra
16. But I Can't Make A Man - The Travelers
17. One That I Love Loves Me, The - Meyer Davis & His Orchestra
18. Buy, Buy For Baby - The Columbians
19. He's My Secret Passion - Danny Yates & His Orchestra
20. Love For Sale - The Hotchkiss Dance Orch.
21. Can't Do Without His Love - Joe Haymes & His Orchestra
22. Hold Your Man - Will Osborne & His Orchestra
23. Pu-Leeze! Mr. Hemmingway - Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians
24. Come Up And See Me Sometime - Cliff Edwards (previously unreleased)
25. Beach Boy - Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra

Check the comments for links.

Queer-Colored Glasses: The Queer Experience Through Cinema

OutCentral Cultural Center and The Nashville Film Festival collaborate to present

Queer Colored Glasses: The Queer Experience Through Cinema

WHO: OutCentral Cultural Center in collaboration with Nashville Film Festival (NaFF)

WHAT: Queer Colored Glasses: The Queer Experience Through Cinema

WHEN: 4th Saturday of every month at 7:00 PM

WHERE: OutCentral Cultural Center 1709 Church Street (between Revive Café and Vibe. On the same block as OutLoud! and Blue Genes) Nashville, TN 37209

COST: $5 for members $8 for non-members. No one turned away for lack of funds.


CONTACT INFORMATION:

For Queer-Colored Glasses: The Queer Experience through Cinema:
FanboyQ@gmail.com


For OutCentral:
info@outcentral.org


OutCentral Cultural Center is proud to be partnering with The Nashville Film Festival for a twelve month, twelve film series entitled Queer-Colored Glasses: The Queer Experience through Cinema that will focus on filmmakers, actors, writers, stories and plots of particular interest to the “queer” spectator.

From the first flickering images that ever lit up a screen, cinema has been a place where queer voices have called out and demanded to be heard with varying degrees of success. From films made by LGBT filmmakers and performers to the particular phenomenon that gay people often “see” a film differently than their straight counterparts.

“Images of GLBTQ people on the big screen--both positive and negative--have had such a tremendous influence on our lives,” said Jim Hawk, Executive Director of OutCentral Cultural Center.

“Most of us can remember the first time we saw "one of us" on the screen. This series takes an important look at those images and how they effected our lives--and the lives of generations of GLBTQ people.”

Historically, most LGBT filmmakers were forced to work in relative secrecy about who they were, being mostly relegated to avant-garde and independent film circles. Thus, cinema is also the forum for the queer voice of the “other” – stories and characters that – while not necessarily gay – represent the outsider whose story queer audiences identify with.

"I am extremely excited about the partnership between the Nashville Film Festival and OutCentral,” said QCG Artistic Director Joshua Thomas.

“I believe one of the most important tools we in the gay community have for examining our past is in film theory. Gay audiences have historically experienced films differently than the rest of society. In examining the past through this collection of films, we'll have the unique opportunity to watch society's views on homosexuality change throughout the years."

With the enormous cultural and historic differences between films made in the 1930’s and those made in modern times the characteristics that gay culture use to signify homosexuality have also changed dramatically over the years. While present-day films are allowed to be relatively forthright about sexuality in their presentations older films were often forced to only hint at it in varied ways. Thus, many classic Hollywood performances, directors, actors and – in some cases – entire genres must be closely examined in order to hear the queer voice within them.

“NaFF is thrilled to partner with OutCentral to present a unique collection of voices from film history,” said NaFF Artistic Director Brian Owens.

"We believe that film represents a great opportunity for those unheard or seldom heard to present their stories in ways that create dialogue, understanding, and bind us all together as a greater community. We hope people will come and enjoy and talk about these films and what they mean to the GLBT community and community at large.”

Pic(k) of the Day

Top 10 Songs of the Decade

It's hard to believe that in just a few short weeks the 2000s will be over. Obviously, it's been an interesting and troubling decade.

The Hubs and I were talking the other day about the way music has changed over the past 10 years. That got us talking about what we would consider our favorite song of the decade.

I can never do just one.

Here's a list of my favorite songs that were released from 2000 - 2009. I'd like to hear what your favorite song (or list of songs) from this decade is.

10. Umbrella - Rihanna

9. Hurt - Johnny Cash

8. Get Together - Madonna

7. Music - Leela James

6. Sexy Back - Justin Timberlake

5. Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) - Beyonce

4. Passive Aggressive - Placebo

3. Maps - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2. Rehab - Amy Winehouse

1. All These Things That I Have Done - The Killers

Remember

No matter the cliche, I still remember that day like it was yesterday.

I was a department manager at Wal-Mart in Lebanon. All the department managers got to work an hour early and sat around the break room until 7:00 am. I clocked in and went about my day.

A little after 8, one of the managers called over the walkie-talkie to tell me that a plane had just hit the WTC - didn't my boyfriend work in the North Tower?

At first it almost sounded like a joke. I answered back and asked where he had heard about the plane, and he said the lady in receiving had heard it on the radio.

I tried to call my boyfriend Edward, who worked on the 78th floor of the North Tower. The cell phones were already down, and I started to get worried.

I went to the back to see if there was anymore info, and that's when the second plane hit. Now I was freaking out, desperately calling everyone I knew in NY, trying to see if anyone knew where Ed was.

We all sat in the receiving office and listened, first as the South Tower collapsed and then the North. When the North Tower fell, I crumbled. I was convinced that Edward was dead.

My friend Alicia drove me home. I just left my car at Wal-Mart. I remember looking out the car window and thinking it was such a beautiful day as well.

When I got home I stuck a tape in the VCR and just hit record. I still have that tape somewhere...no VCR anymore though.

I finally talked to Ed late that night. He had been late for work that morning, and hadn't made it into the Tower yet when the first plane hit.

Even today, I can't watch Tv or movies from pre-9/11 - it just gives me chills.

Woof!!!

Pic(k) of the Day

FanboyQ #MusicMonday Mix for August 3, 2009

May You Live in Interesting Times: Music for the End of the World

Our Day Will Come - Jamie Cullum

1999 (AudioDile Goes Astray Mix) - Prince

The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning - Smashing Pumpkins

We Didn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel

Lake of Fire - Nirvana

Black Hole Sun (Chew Fu 128 bpm refix) - Soundgarden

The End of the World - Skeeter Davis

Outbreak! - The Groovie Ghoulies

Sympathy for the Devil (Who Killed the Kennedys?) - Laibach

It's Only the End of the World - Black Box Recorder

Gimme Shelter (Streetlab Mix) - Streetlab

How It Ends - DeVotchka

Time Of The Season - The Zombies

Apocalypse Please - Muse

Armageddon Days Are Here Again - The The

Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks

The Last Day on Earth - Marilyn Manson

Who Wants to Live Forever - Queen

Highway to Hell - AC/DC

Justify My Love [The Beast Within Mix] - Madonna

Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire

Goodbye Cruel World - Pink Floyd

This Is The End (Dirty South Remix) - The Doors

Fade to Black - Metallica

It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.

What a Wonderful World - Nick Cave & Shane MacGowan

Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival

A Warm Place - Nine Inch Nails featuring Stella Soleil

End of the World - Armor for Sleep

Astro Zombies - The Misfits

The End of the World - The Cure

Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Dave Stewart & His Fabulous Rock Orchestra


listen to this week's show HERE

Fanboy Q In the News

My first mention in the press!! Kind of!!



My mother would be so proud.

Cemetery workers charged after allegedly dumping corpses

Four cemetery workers have been charged with illegally dismembering human bodies after digging up more than 300 corpses and dumping them in a pit in order to resell the graves.

Illinois police discovered the decomposing bodies at the historic Burr Oak cemetery in Alsip where a number of prominent African Americans are buried, including Emmett Till, the 14 year-old boy whose lynching in 1955 for flirting with a white woman helped galvanise the civil rights movement, and blues legend Dinah Washington.

"What we found was beyond startling and revolting," the Cook county sheriff, Tom Dart, said.

The police say the bodies were dug up and dumped in an overgrown area fenced off from the rest of the cemetery, 20 miles south of Chicago. The graves were then resold with the four arrested workers believed to have made about $300,000 over several years.

Relatives of the dead descended on the cemetery to discover if their loved ones had been disinterred. They included Simeon Wright, a cousin of Till, who told the Chicago Tribune: "I've got several generations of my family buried there, and I've never had any problems. ... But this is a pretty ghoulish story."

Dart said that Till's grave appears to have been undisturbed but he was not sure about Washington's or that of the heavyweight boxing champion Ezzard Charles.

The principal target appears to have been older graves that had not been visited for many years so that the removal of the bodies would not be noticed by relatives.
Dart said the FBI has been called in and that forensic medical examiners are working to identify the remains.

"I've been in this business for 35 years, and I have never heard of employees committing these kinds of terrible acts," Vickie Hand, treasurer of the Illinois Cemetery & Funeral Home Association, told the Chicago Tribune. "There's no words that can express it; it's just absolutely unbelievable."

Read more here.

The New Twenty

The New Twenty (2009) Starring Bill Sage, Terry Serpico, Nicole Bilderback, Colin Fickes, Andrew Wei Lin, Ryan Locke, Thomas Sadoski – Directed by Chris Mason Johnson



The New Twenty tells the story of five college friends that are approaching thirty and questioning the bonds they once shared. In a post 9-11 world where ‘text is the new sex, gay is the new straight, and friends are the new family’ Chris Mason Johnson has given us the most dysfunctional ‘family’ ever. There’s Julie (Nicole Bilderback – Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Bring It On, Clueless) an over-achiever, and her aggressive fiancé Andrew (model Ryan Locke from Beyonce’s If I Were a Boy video). Then there’s Julie’s gay brother Tony (Andrew Wei Lin) and his addict roommate Felix (soap star Thomas Sadoski). Tony is dating the HIV+ teacher Robert (Bill Sage – Sex & the City, Mysterious Skin, Boy Wonder). Then there’s woof-y Colin Fickes as Ben Barr, a bearish geeky guy that spends most of the movie trying unsuccessfully to hook up online. Julie is incredibly successful at her job which threatens Andrew. He becomes fixated on his own success and partners with a stereotypical money-grubbing investment banker. He also tries to bring in Tony who refuses after her overhears the banker verbally gay bash him. Tony and Robert are having problems as well – although there’s only one real scene that conveys that – and eventually they break up. All the tension (I know, *what* tension?) builds until the climactic finale at Andrew’s bachelor party. This is a movie that gets everything and nothing right. The performances are top caliber from this ensemble of back-players, but that can’t help a talk-y script that confuses, ignores, and generally falls flat. There’s so much importance plot-wise on the careers of the two leads – and yet you’re never quite sure what *anyone* in the story does for a living. For example, Andrew’s job apparently consisted of yelling obscenities and scarring his staff of two. And there was also some confusion on my part about Felix’s addict status; we see him meet up with some girl and they go back to her apartment. Next we see a baggie with something inside and a glass pipe – I’m thinking pot, right? Also, cue ‘girl-with-a-guitar’ music. But the movie treats it like he’s addicted to heroin. Now, it may have been heroin in the baggie, but there’s really nothing else in the movie that would indicate *what* the guy is addicted to. And the tacked-on fifth wheel Ben is completely pointless and spends the entire movie maybe hating his body, smoking, and being incredibly needy. At the end of the movie I felt like if thirty is the new twenty then I feel sixty. Killer soundtrack though. The New Twenty will be available on DVD on July 21st.

LURID DIGS : Horrifying Gay Amateur Interiors

LURID DIGS : Horrifying Gay Amateur Interiors

Shared via AddThis

The Michael Jackson Memorial

No one threw themselves on the coffin. Elizabeth Taylor didn't choke on her jewels (she wasn't even there). LaToya even kept all of her clothes on.

All in all, it was a fitting and tasteful tribute to the King of Pop.

Berry Gordy claimed that 'King of Pop' was no longer big enough - instead he called Jackson 'the greatest entertainer that ever lived.'

Al Sharpton told the Jackson children 'There wasn't nothing strange about your daddy, but it was strange what he had to deal with.' - a comment that has already created controversy among Jackson's detractors.

The most poignant moment came at the end when Jackson's 11 year old daughter Paris spoke: "I just wanted to say, ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just wanted to say I love him. So much."

Rest well, Michael. You will be missed.

Michael Jackson's body Arrives at Staple Center