I have recently been explaining how I see ‘metrosexuality’ as a contested site where people are struggling over its meaning. The concept of metrosexuality, and metrosexuals, is not based in academia, but in the media, and people’s everyday usage. The originator of the concept, Mark Simpson, is a journalist himself, and this is significant because [...]
Archive for July, 2011
I always used to find writers kind of ridiculous, self-regarding, vain and over-sensitive in their receptions of reviews of their books. Until I got some myself. And then I became ridiculous, self-regarding, vain, and over-sensitive. So I am not sure how to even begin to give a fair account of the three reviews my [...]
Amir Khan is the latest sports star to join the Sporno ranks. (The photo is dark, sorry!) Sporno is a very important aspect of ‘macho metrosexuality’ which I am beginning to examine. Here, I think Amir makes up for that fact that he looks so pretty, and so ‘passive’ (we are used to seeing him [...]
‘Oh, a sickness that can make you so ill, Yet doesn’t have the decency to kill you. A mad free-fall that never hits the ground, Never knows even the relief of sudden shock; Just endless medium-rare shock, half-firm, half-bloody all the time. A long, slow learning curve.’ http://exold.com/quote/1184-i-carry-a-dead-relationship ‘It is easy to find one dead [...]
http://rachelrabbitwhite.tumblr.com/post/8063726200/sissy-bounce-is-the-queer-offshoot-of-bounce ‘ “Sissy Bounce” is the queer offshoot of bounce music, a genre of hip hop originating in New Orleans, perhaps most recognizable for it’s influence in tracks like the Ying Yang Twins “Shake it like a Salt Shaker”. The queer version, per usual, is way more of a fucking party. This video is from [...]
And it’s bad news, baby I’m bad news I’m just bad news bad news bad news… It’s just damage control For a walking corpse like me, like you ‘Cos we’ll all be portions for foxes…
According to my most trusted queer pop culture critic, The Big Gay Movie is over. From Victim to Brokeback Mountain, the story of the man whose only identity was his gayness is old hat. http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2011/03/01/the-last-gay-picture-show/ But in Beginners I see another Big Gay Movie. It tells the story of a man who comes out of [...]
http://queertheory.tumblr.com/ ‘Beer, as everyone knows, was invented so that men can touch and hug and kiss – and sometimes shag – one another. And not have to talk about it or even remember the next day. ‘Oh boy, was I drunk last night!’.’ – Mark Simpson: How Beer Went Queer http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2011/03/15/how-beer-went-queer/
In Defence Of… Gus Van Sant
Posted: July 23, 2011 in Gus Van Sant, Masculinities, metrosexuality, UncategorizedGus Van Sant is my Jarvis Cocker of cinema. If he’d have only made My Own Private Idaho and then retired, or died, like its star River Phoenix, I’d have been happy. If Jarvis had realised that he would never ever match the pop genius that was Babies, and had just given up there and [...]
‘Basically it was journalism, that capital invention of the 19th century, which made evident…the utopian character of this…gaze… It was the dream of a transparent society, visible and legible in each of its parts, the dream of there no longer existing any zones of darkness.’ Foucault: Power/Knowledge
