are we all seeing this

Wait till Tommy hears about this one 😂

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Incredible reporting from 1964.

Moon speaks of love silentlys

Comet Leonard

horror and erotica are the same thing. flesh and meat and intensity. do you get it.

The scariest shit I see always comes from people who are quite confident that, being very loving, they could not be doing anything abusive.

Why do people think they can "gotcha" vegetarians and vegans because we still feed meat to our carnivorous pets? I don't eat meat because *I* don't need to. I'm against factory farming. I still need to feed my cats and dog a nutritionally complete diet, because I chose to be directly responsible for their wellbeing. I hope someday there will be a suitable alternative to factory farmed meat in pet food, but there isn't much of one that I'm aware of right now. So my choices are to either not have cats at all, or to feed them meat. There's no "gotcha" moment there.

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Todd Haynes on Arthur Stuart

OM: I think you would agree that the character who most personalizes the film and makes it so emotional is Arthur. He's not just the guy who walks around asking what Rosebud is.

TH: Arthur is me. He's you. He's the fan who becomes part of the story, the silhouette who has the light turned onto him. I still have a crush on him, the character, and it's largely due to Christian [Bale's] performance - there's just something so heartbreaking about it. I still can't be completely objective about Arthur. It is a very difficult part to play, and much less inviting than the more colorful roles in the film. But the weight on that character/actor to carry the film and ground you emotionally, and give you a consistent point of entry into the story - through all of these flashbacks and dizzying whirlwind of memories - was enormous. I think Christian rose to the occasion and presented us with a consistent point of ourselves as the public who buys the music. The film had to have a really strong fan point of view, not just as a framework for letting Mandy and the rest tell the story. He is there for us as a reminder of our place in the cycle of pop and consumer culture, that we're really central to it. Something about that cycle - where the kiss between Brian and Curt is photographed, the photograph gets printed, it goes through the press, it gets sold at the newsstand, some little kid in Manchester buys it, he takes it home, he opens it up, and it gives him an erection - is very real. There's something palpable about intercutting the public sexuality of the rock stars with the very private, unknown sexuality of the consumer, and how one directly affects the other. I think it all has to do with the tremendous joy that rock performers get from performing their music, the sexual connection to the audience, which film-makers cannot experience. To have lived a live moment with an audience, where some kind of charge is being let out on one end and taken in on the other, is pretty amazing. It's also why rock speaks to adolescents. They are most in need and most open to all kinds of charges like that, because it's not yet codified, or genderized or labelled.

Source - Superstardust: Talking Glam with Todd Haynes, Oren Moverman

Emphasis my own :)

they are in a cunt off

it's just. velvet goldmine is about queerness of the past and queerness of the present. ESPECIALLY as a highly sexual movie about queer men made in the 90s. that it's about the 70s and 80s. a movie that literally has the characters discuss change and nostalgia. the promise of a future. the early 1970s as a glimmer that the characters acknowledge will never come back. oscar wilde and his gemstone of gay sex that gets passed on through the centuries. the unrelenting hope for a future. the "present" being the 80s from a movie made in the 90s. it's an AIDs piece, sure, but it's a queer piece over all. how queerness manifests itself time and time again. how it's literally about a chain of events, as evident by the gemstone of gay sex getting passed along. velvet goldmine is about the promise of a future.

i love velvet goldmine bc is so unabashedly queer. like everything about it so weird and gay and cringe, just completely unacceptable to hetero audiences. the fucking oscar wilde alien gay sex broach. it all means alot to me.

mainstream modern lgbt representation doesnt go as hard as old often independent lgbt stories. so tired of yet another teenage boy liking boy in highschool give me more crossdressing and cocaine and rock and roll and lipstick

we all must get weirder and more queer. i am completely serious and genuine and this is urgent. please get weirder and gayer now. if you see me acting weird and gay mind your business a little bit.