These Shades Of Grey

that moment when you turn on the light in the room where your cat is sleeping and he gives you the most heinous bitch look ever.  like, a worse look than his sassy/bitchy gay owner could ever make.

calm your tits, elliott.  your father just wanted some water.

brownidboi asked: Are you happy, where you are in life?

yes and no.  i am incredibly happy with my relationship.  i love my boyfriend so much.  i’m not always thrilled with my job but i am very good at it, so i take some pride in that.  i get distracted and lose focus on things so easily that i don’t really know what i should or want to be doing with my life right now, so that’s very frustrating.  and i wish i weren’t so depressed and anxious all the time.  i know it wears on people i care about (and i certainly would like a hearty beard again!)   but overall i am content.

Just a few hours left on TMI Tuesday...anything you may want to know?

back to the library AGAIN today.  today i got…

• The Millennium Collection: The Best of Nina Simone
• Miles Davis Quintet - Live In Europe (1967) - vols. 1 & 2
• Miles Davis - ‘Round About Midnight
• Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain
• Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus
• Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
• Genius Of Modern Music - Thelonious Monk - vols. 1 & 2
• ‘Big’ Maybelle - Got A Brand New Bag

then going to see The Avengers again tonight with a Kenny and Austen.  i think we’re going to a 3-D showing, so hopefully that won’t be too distracting.  hell, as long as i’m seeing it again, it probably won’t matter. :-)

back to the library today to return the CDs from yesterday and get a few more.  today i came home with…

• Miles Davis - Nefertiti
• The Millennium Collection: The Best Of Motown 1960’s - volumes 1 & 2
• Diana Ross & The Supremes - The Definitive Collection
• Charles Mingus - Tijuana Moods

can’t wait to get these uploaded so i can go back after work tomorrow.  saw several other Charles Mingus albums as well as some Miles Davis i have yet to hear.

made a trip up to the library today.  almost didn’t get in since there’s a big Cinco de Mayo event going on in the park behind the library, and folks were taking all the library parking to go to the event.  

picked up a few dvds and cds…

cds:

• Neko Case & Her Boyfriends - Furnace Room Lullaby
• Lykke Li - Youth Novels
• Kylie Minogue - Aphrodite Les Folies (live in London)
• #1 Hits of the 50s and 60s
• Top Billboard Hits of 1995

dvds:

• For The Bible Tells Me So - For the Bible Tells Me So is a compassionate and insightful documentary about the contemporary face of an old conflict between Christian fundamentalists and gay and lesbian people. The film looks deep into the hearts of several families—a few of them quite famous—that have struggled with making sense of having a homosexual son or daughter in the fold. At the same time, For the Bible Tells Me So is a deconstruction of thin arguments that the Bible actually condemns homosexuality in a few passages and through the story of Sodom and Gomorrah’s destruction. A number of clerics and scholars explain the cultural and historical context for Old Testament quotes routinely referenced as arguments against homosexuality, and point out translation confusion about the real meaning of the Sodom story. Unquestionably, the most compelling part of the film is its focus on various families, including that of former U.S. presidential candidate Dick Gephardt, who has a lesbian daughter for whose safety he worries. Also among the interviewees is Gene Robinson, a gay man who became bishop of New Hampshire’s Episcopal church in 2004, and his parents, as well as a gay teen whose folks joined him on the front line in protest of their church’s negative stance on gays. Not every story is affirmative: there are tragedies within these tales, too, as well as an indictment of so-called cures that supposedly banish the gay drive from homosexual men and women. 
• Stonewall Uprising - Told by those who took part - from drag queens and street hustlers to police detectives, journalists and a former mayor of New York - and featuring a rich trove of archival footage, Stonewall Uprising revisits a time when homosexual acts were illegal throughout America. Hunted and often entrapped by undercover police in their hometowns, gays from around the U.S. began fleeing to New York in search of a sanctuary. Hounded there still by an aggressive police force, they found a semblance of normalcy in a Mafia-run gay bar in Greenwich Village, the Stonewall Inn. When police raided Stonewall on June 28, 1969, gay men and women did something they hadn’t done before: they fought back. As the streets of New York erupted into violent protests and street demonstrations, the collective anger announced that the gay rights movement had arrived.
• Before I Forget - Jacques Nolot stars and directs a tale of a downward spiraling gay gigolo, struggling to cope with his advancing age, poverty, loneliness, writers block. When his wealthy benefactor dies after thirty years of lavish support, his inheritance is challenged by the benefactor’s family, leaving him destitute. Underscoring his every move is the fear of being forgotten, or worse: dying back where he started on the streets. Young hustlers, drugs, alcohol, and countless cigarettes provide momentary distractions, but ultimately, he must face his inner demons in order to be free of them.
• United States Of Tara - seasons 1 and 2