10K hits!

Wow!

Unfortunately probably half of that is from Youtube video whoring.

DIE HARD: RAMBO EDITION

Caught “King and the Clown” recently with a friend (oooo another arty and gay film o_O) and came up with some more things to ponder.

When is the line between being really good friends, even “brothers”, to being gay. Because the film did cause some disagreement. I felt that it could be interpreted that the 2 clowns weren’t actually gay, just really good friends, willing to die for each other. Just because one happened to be a really androgynous male (ok who am I kidding. He was just too feminine) doesn’t mean the relationship that they shared was gay.

I mean if both had been hard, Rambo type alpha males, then there wouldn’t be this discussion in the first place. Of course, if it had been 2 alpha males then it would have been called “DIE HARD: RAMBO EDITION: WITH SPECIAL APPEARANCE FROM TERMINATOR! PART X” with the body count leapfrogging over the no of people who died since the beginning of time.

But that’s digressing. When is the line crossed? There was no sex (or at least none showed) between the 2 guys. There was no kissing. Nothing. And yet people are jumping to call the 2 of them gay. People are calling this movie the Korean “Brokeback Mountain”

And for what? Because one guy looked like a female? Are we making a simple mistake of judging a book by its cover?

Think I'm semi over it. But I don't think I ever want to see her again. It still hurts too much. Did I ever mean anything to her?

Football tactics explained

How much still applies to WC2006?

OMG DAMM YOU LAZY BASTARDS!

There goes my happy childhood memories as well.

Stupid question

For all people in the IT line.

IT projects timeline

Cam girls gone wild

itsp: if you ever go into using a web cam, just make sure it doesn't turn out like this..

One liner joke of the day

"Doctor! Doctor! But if my Siamese twin is H.I.V positive.... "

Pretentious? Fake? Definately cute though!

Well we all know they aren't human anyway

The one with the gay movies, genes and SUPERBOY!

Went to catch C.R.A.Z.Y (henceforth know as CRAZY) and twas pretty good. That's one thing I really like about foreign flims. The distributors tend to bring in only the good ones.

Another thing is that there is often a lack of special visual effects and computer generated chase sequences and such. And that often forces the show to actually have a story (*gasp!*) and focus on character development and not some mindless car chase.

This particular movie was cool. I'm not going to give major spoilers in case some of you guys still want to catch it.

However there was one thing about the show that I wanted to talk about, as such spoiler ahead.


*SPOILERS START* (highlight to read)

The shows about a guy who finds out he's gay. He's father is not particularly pleased about it and the show goes on about how their lives go on and the father eventually accepting his son for who he is. More importantly, it shows how to guy tries so hard to deny his own sexuality but eventually accepts it as well.

*SPOILERS END*


What's interesting is that just days after I do a post on gay comic superheros, I catch a movie about a gay. (I swear I had no idea it was about a gay.) Some higher power indicating I should be gay? :P

Then after the show, I saw not 1 but 3 gays (not confirmed, but 1 looked like a transexual and the other 2 were holding on to each other) on the way home.

So maybe I would want to take the comment back about Singaporeans not being able to handle gays. There are comic books with gay superheros in them in the NATIONAL LIBRARY, a movie about a gay being shown and gays walking around openly. Maybe it was I who was the closed minded one.

Because despite everything, when I saw the gays, my first thought was "Oh bloody hell, more faggots!" Desperately ashamed of myself now. Despite preaching about open mindedness in my previous post, I was still unable to shake it away from myself. I still had some deep distrust(?) and hatred(?) towards them. I have to constantly and conciously remind myself that they are just like me, human beings.

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With all these trends about gays suddenly coming into my life, I did wonder if it was a sign I should turn gay. Which lead to further thoughts. How much of it is in the upbringing and how much of it is in the genes? Would I be able to turn gay now if I wanted to? Somehow the taught of "doing" it to a guy is just such a total turn off to me. And from what I know, it's the same for gays. The thought of doing it to a girl just turns them off.

So is it possible for a guy to just turn gay and a gay to just turn back to straight? How much is it due to the genes.

Read another comic the other day. This one was showcasing the Teen Titans which included the new Superboy. He was a clone and then he discovered that 50% of the genes was from Superman and the other 50% was from Lex Luthor (villian extraordinaire). It got him worried. He was worried that one day, the Lex Luthor genes will cause him to go rouge and make him hurt people and generally go bad. He desperately wanted to avoid that issue and didn't want to believe it. I'm not sure how he deals with it in the end as was left unsaid.

So how much of one's behaviour is down to genes and how much of it is down to upbringing? Would a clone of Hitler turn out to be the same dictator? Or would a caring family, the lack of WWI and other events cause him to be the artist that he hoped to be?

Something to ponder on I hope.

A long 6 year wait?

The one about gays, comics and studying

Remember Jenny Quantum that I talked about a few posts back?

Well, I've been reading quite a few comics on "The Authority" lately and guess what I found out?

Her foster parents are Apollo and Midnighter.

Apollo: Powers include all powers that Superman has	Midnighter: Powers include all powers that Batman has

They are actually analogues of more famous DC characters and share mostly the same powers. In this case Apollo = Superman and Midnighter = Batman.

And in case it still hasn't hit you yet, they're both guys and gays and married. And open about it.

They're not the first and only gay couple in comics. Others include Vivisector and Phat from X-Statix.

What is interesting is this openess about homosexuals in the US. It's not something that you will see in Singapore where the openly gay couple of Colin and Kero were basically hounded, lambasted and generally insulted. Why the intolerance? When will Singapore be able to accept such behaviour? Why such discrimination.

I'm not gay (or at least I don't think I am) but neither am I a homophobe. I don't believe that being a hetrosexual and being a homophobe are mutually exculsive. Homosexuals are just normal humans who have made a choice in life. A choice that is different from the masses. And what people do not understand they fear and hate.

I just feel that the people who cannot understand them and even worse, use religion as something to pressure them into doing the right thing are just cowards and so unsure of their own sexuality that they try to hit out at whatever that goes against the status quo.

Which leads me somewhat to discrimination. Homophobia is a sort of discrimination. Would anyone consider meritocracy a form of discrimination? After all students are differentiated by their studying skills. Is this not a form of discrimination?

Just some random thoughts and ramblings.

Still hurting and I need more time