Call Me Al
Bi/Poly/Other Movie and Books Review Journal
Hello world!
0If you’re here, the site was messed up and eventually I had to start the journal all over again and I am taking the opportunity to steamline and add stuff to the post to make it prettier and hopefully don’t have to do this again. I will slowly get everything back on the site but until the meantime I am far enough to open the site again.
Just be patient. PS, I added a CMA facebook page if you’re there as well.
Books!: In One Person
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[Publishers Weekly] Prep school. Wrestling. Unconventional sexual practices. Viennese interlude. This bill of particulars could only fit one American author: John Irving. His 13th novel (after Last Night in Twisted River) tells the oftentimes outrageous story of bisexual novelist Billy Abbott, who comes of age in the uptight 1950s and explores his sexuality through two decadent decades into the plague-ridden 1980s and finally to a more positive present day. Sexual confusion sets in early for Billy, simultaneously attracted to both the local female librarian and golden boy wrestler Jacques Kittredge, who treats Billy with the same disdain he shows Billy’s best friend (and occasional lover) Elaine. Faced with an unsympathetic mother and an absent father who might have been gay, Billy travels to Europe, where he has affairs with a transgendered female and an older male poet, an early AIDS activist. Irving’s take on the AIDS epidemic in New York is not totally persuasive (not enough confusion, terror, or anger), and his fractured time and place doesn’t allow him to generate the melodramatic string of incidents that his novels are famous for. In the end, sexual secrets abound in this novel, which intermittently touches the heart as it fitfully illuminates the mutability of human desire.
MTrailer: Bideology (2012)
0Bideology (2012)
M/M M/F
Synopsis:
[arielleloren.com] BIDEOLOGY is a compelling, feature-length documentary that explores women dating bisexual men. Originally conceptualized as a web series, The Bi-deology Project, it sparked an important conversation on the “heterosexual” relationship, as many assume it involves two strictly heterosexual individuals. What do women expect from male partners attracted to both sexes? How are their belief systems informed? In the media, there are limited references to male bisexuality, leaving the “down low” as the public’s favorite synonym. The cast of BIDEOLOGY exposes the diversity in “heterosexual” relationships, and what all women can learn from men who don’t have a straight sexual identity.
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01 month ago
by whiskey
in Mod Update
I am looking for more information on a movie called:
All Happy Mornings
Docaviv 2012 – Israeli Films in Competition
Synopsis: A personal journey into bisexuality. The film exposes the passionate, wild world in which the filmmaker is found while documenting his relationship with Chen, a rising rock star. Facing pressure from his surrounding, Yefman tries to find a way to feel complete without having to explain. Alongside the personal dilemma stands his unique family: his brother lives with a gay partner, his sister is in NY, and the parents long for grandchildren. They make him confront the conflict of his life, much like the men he talks to confidentially. As the crisis becomes inevitable, a new factor emerges and illuminates things in a new light.
Does anybody know if it playing here in the States?
MTrailer: Habana Muda (2010)
0Habana Muda (2010)
M/F – M/M
Synopsis:
Documentary Director E. Brach spent 3 years in Havana filming Chino, a deaf-mute who works on a farm. Together Chino and his deaf-mute friends and wife go over the pros and cons of him fleeing Cuba to join Jose, a gay Mexican who has fallen in love with him and is ready to help him leave the country and obtain papers to work in Mexico. But Jose wonders if Chino’s loves him or if he just wants to earn himself a better life and send money back to his needy wife and young children. As the months go by we get to know each of the protagonists more intimately and discover the doubts and bouts of hope each of them entertains with this singular situation.
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Articles!: Collection
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Bisexuality: “In your Own Words”
The Double Life of Gillian Anderson
Father gets Inked to Support Bisexual Son
Bisexual Basics
Bisexual Invisibility Has Dangerous Consequences
The first time I was called “greedy” it was by a drag queen at the Michigan Pride Festival. She wasn’t talking to me directly. She was calling out audience members in the unapologetic, hilarious, and crass way only a drag queen can, asking one attendee if she was a lesbian. The woman said, “No, I’m bi.” The drag queen responded, “Oh, you’re GREEEDY.” Everyone laughed, myself included. But I also left thinking, “So that’s how it is.”
MTrailer: American Translation (2011)
0American Translation (2011)
M/F – M/M
Synopsis:
American Translation follows a sexually ambiguous Frenchman as he tours his native countryside with his naive American lover in pursuit of the ultimate thrill. From the moment they meet, brooding Chris (Pierre Perrier) and the beautiful Aurore (Lizzie Brocherè) fall instantly and passionately in love but it’s not long before their intense connection is consumed by Chris’s dark obsession with gay men. Before long, the pair embarks on a violent and sexual journey filled with seduction and destruction of young gay hustlers. Hard-hitting, intensely sexy and wildly controversial, American Translation is a twisted Bonnie and Clyde for a new generation. American Translation, will arrive on DVD on April 17, 2012.
Note: While this blog tries to be biased towards positive bisexuals in media, I also do recognize that in every group there is variety (or the ubiquitous “shades of gray”). So while I’m going to try at some point to get and review this movie, I’m getting tired of only type of bisexuals that gets most attention in film (unless they don’t exist) is the “Depraved Bisexual”.
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New! About a Book .01
0My thoughts as a reader:
I think with my burgeoning new knowledge of what I like and don’t like in erotica and in particular in the grouping of (menage a trois) and apparently I really hate the switcheroo. Menage a trois implies new or established relationship that implying lasting beyond the book. The thing about romance and erotica I noticed is that they do stick to a formula. I mean the formulas are old in the genre no matter how it’s written but the idea of two or in this case three people should be in a “happy ending” between the people together. Let’s get back to the switcheroo.
The example is “TriplePlay” by Rhyannon Byrd, it started off nice and sweet and I was interested but basically it was a “one-night stand” situation where the guy was a third wheel and told him to shove off turning it into a monogamous relationship and frankly pissed me off because I kept waiting for the threesome to occur and at the end simply wasn’t satisfied.
I think there should be a classification of “ONS” one night stand for menage a trois books something that signify a relationship that I don’t want to read. You have to understand, the media in general celebrates, publishes and monetize the “heteronormative relationship” as the default. They would have to put on the thinking cap for them to stray from that situation. I discovered slash fanfic and a few years ago it filled the space that I couldn’t or wouldn’t get from TV and movies in general, so in original fiction I don’t have the need for slash nor het but I wanted a space left for triad relationships.
With an “ONS” tag maybe I don’t have to deal with het or slash relationship be but fulfilled with another aspect I want in my media.
Featured Film: Mysteries of Pittsburgh
0A new free movie for your enjoyment! Another “You Watch, You Review”. Only available from LogoTV.com. Watch it as Logo is removing any lgbt content in the future.
Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2008)
M/F – M/M
Synopsis:
Hoping to escape his family’s mob legacy, recent college grad Art settles into a 9-to-5 job. His newfound normalcy is threatened when he meets and falls for beautiful Jane and her bisexual biker boyfriend. Can Art ever find happiness in this unlikely threesome?
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Articles!: Character News!
01 month ago
Nolan Ross (Gabriel Mann) is a tech genius and social misfit. A Mark Zuckerberg meets Howard Hughes type, he has more money than nearly anyone on the island, but has learned the hard lesson that it takes more than vast fortune to cull social acceptance in the Hamptons. Nolan’s pompous and arrogant, but secretly starved for human connection. Though in public he’s unfamiliar with Emily Thorne, the truth is he shares a link to her past, present, and above all, her secret. Being the one and only person who knows who Emily really is makes him either a useful accessory or a live wire threat to her true agenda.
Articles!: Character News!
01 month ago
Lenny Kravitz appears in the movie Hunger Games playing the part of Cinna, a stylist/designer for the tributes of District 12 during the 74th and 75th Games. He has the task of playing Cinna, the man responsible for Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) making a solid aesthetic impression to save her life.
