left brain

particles of water

I honestly have no idea why I had the interest to watch Riding Giants, a documentary about the history of surfing or even how I heard about it.  My knowledge of surfing is pretty minimal and it mainly focus's around my interest in Quicksilver and the boys who wear it but needless to say, Riding Giants is one of the best documentaries I have seen.  I highly HIGHLY recommend it.  Yet I will have to admit that I was going to turn it off after the first ten minutes, which is when I asked myself why I am watching this?  It gets BETTER.  Much better actually as the history and the amazing facts unfold.  And then enter big wave riding and well.. its purely spectacular.  The history is fun and all but my excitement about the movie revolves around the massive waves, the little boy giggles that the surfers emit when talking about them, and their daredevil, out of socities norm attitude.  It all started in Hawaii by a Hawaiian it turns out and has become a multi-million dollar industry with boys and girls of all ages heading out to sea (paddling at some areas of the world) for more than 2 hours to get to these particular waves before riding a 10 foot wall of water.  Seriously.  I honestly couldn't get over the monstorous size, viciousness, and just sheer horror of these things.   I now have the biggest interest to
1. try small scale surfing (now 10 foot waves) and 2. see some 10 foot waves. 
As it turns out, they are only in a few places in the world and they all have nicknames.  Mavericks off of Half Moon Bay, Jaws in the Hawaiian Northshore, Impei, some off the coast of South America, Japan, and even France.  They are really remarkable as is this movie.  And some quotes from the movie:

"Riding a way is a form of flying.  There is a real sense of flight.  It's you, your surfboard, your trunks, and nature."

"Next to my wife and daughter, there is nothing else in life that brings out this passion."  - Laird Hamilton, big wave surfer of today.

"There are only two people ever who have walked on water.  They are God and ... (wait for it, wait for it) surfers."

my home city :(

Bringing down a Gay ad - The Boston Globe

Spencer Moore, a spokesman for Gay.com, said the company was not upset the ad is coming down a day early.  Clear Channel received about five complaint calls yesterday, Hoffman said. They were the first protests the company fielded since the billboard went up in early April, he said.  Brian Camenker, director of the Article 8 Alliance, a Waltham-based group working to overturn same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, said people affiliated with his group made the complaints. The activists posted a picture of the Gay.com ad, along with addresses and phone numbers for regional and national Clear Channel offices, on Article 8's website yesterday, he said.  ''You have two men embracing, wrapped in the American flag, advertising a porno website," Camenker said. ''How can you get more offensive than that?"  Moore, of Gay.com, said the website is not a pornographic site. It offers online dating services, along with editorial and commercial content, he said.

I myself has always wondered what the hell the billboard is doing above an MIT bar in Cambridge but I have always smiled and thought .. "awesome."  I guess I can't do that anymore when I drive by it.  It it too bad and so.. just.. typical.  Ugh.  But I guess Bostonians, Cambridgians, and the rest of Massachusetts can't have everything.  I will hold onto the dream that I can get married when I want to.

Godspeed

I know that I am a day or so behind but I really think that this photo of the space shuttle is breathakingly beautiful but more importantly ... incredibly powerful as an idea of a country even if it seems the program is over. 

And speaking of Godspeed.  I was reminded by a great musical group that I was recommended from a Turkish friend called Godspeed You Black Emperor.  The group is seriously dark yet seriously great.  Their works are inexplicable and it takes a few listenings to get used to them but they are worth every second.  I also mainly say works because they are a combination of music and lyrics but also a narrative and sound effects.  It's a little bizarre but in either case I would highly recommend their CD titled F#A# (infinity) which has three compositions that "run the gamut from grotesue to sublime."

the phallus

In some research for unknown reasons (i think the idea that I am working in my mind on paintings for next week)... I came across this little tid bit of info.  needless to say I thought you, my loyal readers would be interested.  Or maybe not.  I was.  And I think it is inspiring some new paintings.  As a protector of gardens (which has to be the first gayest thing possible) Priapus, the god of fertility, would threaten to sodomize or sexually penalize his aggressors or any thieves.  The threat?  Or shall I say threats?

• "... If I do seize you ... you shall be so stretched that you                   will think your anus never had any wrinkles."

• "He who shall plunder with dishonest hand the little field                   committed to my charge, shall feel me to be no eunuch ..

• "Why do you, watchman, hinder the thief from coming to me? Let him approach: he will return more 'open'!"                                                                                  

• "If a woman, man, or boy, thieve from me, she shall pay me with      coynte, that with his mouth, this with arse."

Priapus, Greek Mythology Link:

This god is mainly known for his huge virile member, and the size of it is so enormous that it has been called "column", "twelve-inch pole", "cypress", "spear", "pyramid", and many other names of the same kind referring to the dimensions of his penis. And just as Zeus shows his thunderbolt, Poseidon his trident, Athena her spear, Apollo his golden arrows, Hermes his caduceus, Dionysus 2 his thyrsus, Heracles 1 his club, so Priapus cannot but proudly exhibit his penis, which best represents him, and without which he is weaponless. This is the reason why his privy parts are always shameless displayed in erection

Some believe that the size of the male sexual organ has little or no relevance, but this lustful god has been assumed to think that the greatest advantage with his enormous penis is that no female can be too roomy for him.

Kolbenfresser

I felt the need to be dirty since I have had a month or so of cleanliness on this site.  So, if you are at work right now, you might not want to fully scroll down further since it is no longer going to be PG.  There is for sure more boy's than normal if you do ;) 

Kolbenfresser is the one of the newest movies out of the hot as hell German porn company Cazzo.  And they haven't lost their shit either.  The movie takes place in a mechanics shop where most of the guys are covered in sweat and dirt and grease.  oh my.  (kinda like me when I had to get my bike back to one piece after something went bad in Ptown and I drove through town covered in oil after a bike ride, haha).   I have seen clips of this movie at various places but buying German porn in this country is a little hard, unfortunateley.  If anyone knows where, please let me know!  But come on, look at these studs !  my god!  hi, you could do anything with me.... or if I wanted to do anything to someone or fuck, for that matter.. anything to me again ... you should follow the jump to see his pic but there is full blown nudity.

Steam

Even though they are homophobic, this movie is a love affair for Istanbul not for the characters in Steam: The Turkish Bath.   The hamam scenes are voluptuous and dripping with texture but the story falls a little flat for me.  The hunky Francesco is soooo handsome and his character is deeply inspiring (minus the ending) but I do feel like the movie needed just a little more.  Yet, I liked it!  haha.  I also definitely have to say that I want NEED to go to a Turkish  Hamam (even though they aren't supposed to be sexual).   They just seem spiritually relaxing.  It must be the whole cleansing of the flesh thing.  There is a real difference between a hamam and a bathhouse supposedly.

 

Solitude

I just finished reading Garcia's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" after a few week month long reading stretch.  I found his word usage to be fascinating yet you needed to follow along with them without distractions in order to appreciate the book.  So trying to read it on the T and when you are waiting around the city never worked, which is why it took me so long to read.  Thankfully, I took it to Ptown a couple weeks back where I finished it and now feel the need to rave about it.  Gabriel has instantly become one of my favorite authors mainly because his ability to transport you to another world (yet it is our world) is dramatically fantastic.  And out of the book comes one of the most gripping lines ever commited to paper:

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
- Gabriel Garcia Marqueuz

The novel chronicles, through the course of a century, life in Macondo and the lives of six Buendia generations-from Jose Arcadio and Ursula, through their son, Colonel Aureliano Buendia (who commands numerous revolutions and fathers eighteen additional Aurelianos), through three additional Jose Arcadios, through Remedios the Beauty and Renata Remedios, to the final Aureliano, child of an incestuous union.

And now on to Harry Potter book 4.

flat as can be

When a friend returned from China with one of these $500 puppies I was instantly jealous.  The Sony cybershot camera is nearly as flat as a credit card, light as one, takes video and 5.1 megapixel pictures.  Needless to say it is on the Amazon.com wishlist and I have definite plans to buy one before I travel this fall to France and whatnot.  Unless of course ... someone else does first.   ;)  I know you all want me to have one.  It means tons more pics posted here because I would have the ability to carry it EVERYWHERE !  hehe. 

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I saw "Me and You and Everyone We Know" tonight after a beautiful day strolling along the Charles hearing stories and  looking at pictures of Shanghai and HongKong since a good friend just got back and hiking an early hike in Winchester with the dog and Tom.  I do have to say that I needed a few minutes to think about the quirky movie before being able to form a full opinion of it.  And here it is:  The movie is nothing like I have ever seen before.  Not one scene was predictable or recognizable.  I absolutely loved the character development and it is certainly noticeable as it's the main part of the movie, since not a lot actually happens it could be said.  Each character is sympathetic and charming and not one of them is purely happy.  Yet as we look at the title, every person I know fits into this movie, including myself.  So, it works.  Really well, actually.   And what has to be the best yet slightly gross sentence in the movie, said by the littlest boy who is cruising online:

"You poop into my butthole and I poop into your butthole...back and forth...Forever." 

red vs. blue

Dear Red States...

We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and
we're taking the other Blue States with us.

In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon,Washington,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We
believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially
to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.
We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get Elliot
Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.

We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.
We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.
We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.
We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You
get Alabama.
We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states
pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the
Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a
bunch of single moms.