Currently Reading: The Wild Creatures by Sam D'Allesandro
If it had not been for Suspect Thoughts Press reprinting his collection of short stories, I would never have discovered the work of Sam D'Allesandro. His prose is spare and direct, at times darkly erotic, and auto-biographically confessional in tone. What it might lack in polish it makes up for ten fold in blunt force. His micro-fiction is especially intense, with standouts "Walking to the Ocean this Morning" and "All I Want Is To Die Famous", both pieces under three pages with the same impact as being slammed by a truck. A high recommend for readers of non-mainstream queer lit and erotica.
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Currently Listening To: Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead is a band that evolves every second album, which has divided their fan base into two distinct camps. The early years were marked by the altnernarock sound captured in their most popular single, “Creep” from Pablo Honey. A split came in around their third album, as they changed into their poetic art house incarnation, notably with the release of Hail to the Thief. As richly textured as that album is, it is the dramatic sweep of their pivotal OK Computer that remains my personal favorite. If I could write the way this album makes me feel, I’d be sitting pretty. The album is soaring and achingly beautiful in it's tribute to contemplation of technology, and Thom Yorke's vocals take you along for the ride.
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Currently Watching: The Hours
This sleeper movie based on Michael Cunningham's novel won critical acclaim, but seems to have been bypassed by the audience. Perhaps they were frightened off by Philips Glass' score? It unfolds in overlapping stories of three women, Virginia Woolf, Laura Brown and Clarissa Vaughn. We enter Virginia's creation of Mrs. Dalloway and her quiet madness and eventual suicide, Laura Brown reading the book while on the brink of suicide, and Clarissa Vaughn living the life of the title character of the book. Each woman is in their own quest for unattainable perfection in the absense of happiness, which breeds a certain emotional disquiet in the viewer. Yet, since the theme is progressed through three characters who evolve past the previous woman's challenges, there is a glimmer of hope. There are two points that you come away from the movie with that dissappoint me; it feels as if Woolf kills herself after writing the draft for Mrs. Dalloway, though there were more than fifteen years between, and it makes her out to be more of a hermiting lunatic, when she was manic-depressive with extreme highs and lows. Stellar cast with outstanding performances.
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Ezines:

• Outsider Ink - Alternative literary fiction, poetry and artwork
• Velvet Mafia - Dangerous Queer Fiction
• Suspect Thoughts - A journal of subversive writing
• 3AM Magazine - Cutting edge short fiction to political satire and more

Friends & Writers:

• Jack Slomovits - Photographer (and husband)
• Jameson Currier - Author of Where the Rainbow Ends
• Ian Philips - The little sodomite who could, author of See Dick Deconstruct
• Greg Wharton - The mind behind Suspect Thoughts

Resources:

• TheGayMaleBody - Resource for and about gay men.
• Just Us Boys - The Back Door to the Gay Web