The Sun Is Shining For The First Time In Forever; We're Gay! Fagz Club Spring 2010

I agree with most boxers complaints, 'cept they permit a certain sensation of... freedom.

^^ also, easy access is a big plus

keep that note for tabes when he returns

what I haven't worn in awhile is my boxing trunks! I was gonna spar with a guy this weekend but had to cancel, too much else to do.

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haha -- i love how morbs has slowly revealed himself to be an ex-stand up comedian & now a boxer

for some reason i'd never realised they were called boxing trunks

nah he's a lightweight ;)

I've mentioned this before! I am no more a boxer than you, just someone who has made a stab at it (and usually gotten clobbered).

Surely I'm not the only one? Jesse said he used to like to glove up and fight.

Haha. Go figure that no one here figured out why McBride hates A&F. He's not necessarily against branding. Only mentions the CEO in the capacity of him having turned a struggling company into a very successful one. Doesn't complain about the fit of their clothes, although he does accuse their clothes of being very ordinary, fashionable logo aside. He doesn't really complain about fagz who wear A&F, although he does have some interesting, somewhat damning insight about them.

The problem with A&F, and this is something I've felt since high school, but could never quite articulate, is that they are selling whiteness. McBride specifically contrasts this Ralph Lauren, who, yes, are selling an upper middle class lifestyle, but one attainable to anyone who can afford it. A&F regularly discriminates against non-white employees, with store managers forced to fire them if higher-ups discover them working at their stores, and usually only able to hire them to begin with if they fit a very rigid look that avoids any ethnic cultural signifiers, as articulated by their highly race-coded company policy. They were subject to a class-action lawsuit over this.

The insight about (white) A&F fagz is that, one step removed from the Old Boys' Club, their purchase of whiteness subconsciously allows them to feel included in the Old Boys' Club which might otherwise deny them because of their sexuality. He contrasts them with gay Republicans, who are more cognizant of their one-step-away status and decide to claim the benefits of the Good Ol' Boys for themselves. As for non-white A&F fagz, they just have their shit even more twisted.

i went to an A&F store for the first time a couple of weeks ago (looking for a tie), and it blew my mind. it was like walking into a nightclub... a nightclub full of clothes! the lighting was so, so dim and the music was so, so loud. and there was this fucking awful smell, like cheap cologne, being pumped out of the aircon. i could actually smell it on my clothes after i walked out.

A&F clothes don't fit me and are really dull to boot

meanwhile about 90% of my wardrobe is from either h&m or uniqlo lol

My best gay friend M*ttie works at a Uniqlo in NYC. This is the only reason I've heard of Uniqlo.

it's the only one in the US atm (all the other stores are UK/east asia). their pants fit me like a ~*dream*~

what's up gayz?

I just DJed at The Hippo, a ridiculous gay disco in Baltimore, at this hipster party called Deep In the Game, and indulged some GayIlxor-ish tunes. Here's my playlist:

Fulgeance - "Revenge of the Nerd"
Sister Sledge - "Thinking Of You"
Jocelyn Brown - "Somebody Else's Guy"
Phantom Slasher - "Backwards Is The Best Way Forward. Baby"
33 1/3 Queen - "Disco 4"
Dave Aju - "Roundabout"
Aaron-Carl - "Homoerotic"
DJ Koze - "Mrs. Bojangels"
John Tejada - "Pivot"
Achim Maerz - "Garish"
Ralphi Rosario Feat. Xavier Gold - "You Used To Hold Me”
Armand Van Helden - "Work Me Gadamit"
Jay Karan - "Who's In Charge of the Girls?"
Titonton Duvanté- "Headbann"
Deepah Ones - "Dancin' (Doo Dew Dancin')"
Douster - "For Weirdos Only"
Dennis Ferrer - "Son of Raw"
Hardrive - "Deep Inside (The Dub)"
Hardrive - "Deep Inside"
Reboot - "Enjoy Music"
Raudive - "abc"
Colombia #1 - "colombia #1"
Dhs - "House of God"
Mescalinum United - "Mescalinum United We Have Arrived"
Untold - "I Can't Stop This Feeling"
James Tenney – “For Ann (Rising)”

^^would get down to all of that

The problem with A&F, and this is something I've felt since high school, but could never quite articulate, is that they are selling whiteness.

u never put this together til now?? so true.

Yeah, A&F have been some sort of 'roid-'luude aryan paradise since their resurgence.

I had a vague sense of it, yes.

<3

in other news, i just got these shoes in the mail

http://www.shoebuy.com/pi/radii/radii324969_179073_lg.jpg

You better find a matching scarf before winter ends!

It's weird how gradual our shift into Back to the Future, Part 2 has been.

But I do love those shoes. I only just want them in blue.

OMG DR3W you played "Deep Inside" (deep, deep, down inside). Fucking love that song. Plz tell me people when nuts when they heard it?

yeah, it was kind of the emotional peak- I thought it was fitting since the party is called Deep In the Game.

Ralphi Rosario Feat. Xavier Gold - "You Used To Hold Me”

:D would've gone so nuts to this

Dr3w will you DJ my next party?
Dr3w will you DJ an exclusive transcontinental video-streamed GAYLXtravaganza?

what does it mean that i recognize almost none of those songs or artists? :((((

It means that you're not hyper-obsessed with dance/electronic music. I only recognized 5 or 6 of them.

Yeah, none familiar here

/rockist

I like dance/electronic music a lot and have the same issue. But I have heard Drew (and his partner) DJ before. :D

Dr3w will you DJ my next party?
Dr3w will you DJ an exclusive transcontinental video-streamed GAYLXtravaganza?

How about my wedding-not-wedding? ;)

ok. i get overwhelmed simetimes at just how much music i have absolutely zero knowledge of. which is usually good (more to discover) but sometimes makes me feel woefully underexposed ("why does everyone seem to know about this shit except me").

i don't know any of those songs except for "somebody else's guy." i don't like feel bad about it, but if any of them are like "somebody else's guy," you should probably let me know because that's one of my favorite songs of all time

The Armand track is pretty hysterical. Also some of the gayest sounds ever recorded.

not that i've heard everything in that set but i'd wager that the sister sledge track is closest in sound/spirit to jocelyn, surm

yeah, "Thinking of You" was a huge Sister Sledge hit in the UK and is kind of a "deep cut" for Americans, it got sampled by lots of people (Meat Beat Manifesto used it best in "Re-Animator"). It makes me really happy everytime I hear it, without fail.

"I'm thinking of you, and the things you do / that make me love you, now I'm livin' in Ecstasy"

the person I wish was more well known is Jay Karan- he makes vogue beats and chants for drag balls, he's a legendary ball scene figure and his tracks like "Who's In Charge of the Girls?" and "I Declare War" and "Bitch You'll Gag" are the dictionary definition of *fierce cunty dramatic ovah*

wait...this is that absolutely insane track you played in seattle at the sunset tavern that mackro & I tracked down but I subsequently forgot about, isn't it?

yeah, his tracks are hard to find but I think "I Don't Like That Bitch (I Don't See her)" is on iMeem or something.

imeem doesn't exist anymore

sucks

only found a short (one minute) track on soulseek but that's been enuf to interest me in finding more

"who's in charge" is on youtube also

BACK. tho this week is crazy, don't ask me about it.

notes:
- A&F, A&E, Gap, Hollister, etc: = you are boring. sorry guys.

- i wear briefs. gave all my boxers to goodwill a while back.

- drew, that setlist is great...so funny, i actually have made some of those same transitions before (like "Homoerotic" into "Mrs. Bojangels"). i miss m4rk brown, please tell him to get his ass out to california asap.

- my friend wh!t is moving out here!! hella excited about that. you'd understand if you saw him.

so NY, Saturday w/ elmo?

Steve, I plan to make Julius' around 9:15 tom'w til I get tired. (I wouldn't worry about 'dressing,' that's just Next magazine BS.)

oops, make that 9:45

oh that's right, it's tonight!! OK then, I'll head over around 10 or so.

SATURDAY: What time should we meet, and where? Julius was nice last time, should we do that again?