[MellySingsDoom]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

Do you remember the rocktronica nights that they used to have in there?

Have only been going for just under 2 years, and I guess I missed out on those. Were they any good?

[MellySingsDoom]

sarramkrop:

http://www.kingsarms-london.com/sundays.html

Look at the 3rd picture...BEARS!!!!!

Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom

Have only been going for just under 2 years, and I guess I missed out on those. Were they any good?

It started at West Central in China Town till they closed it down to make space for a straight bar, then it moved to the retro bar because a lot of the crowd were regulars there and mates with Wendy. After it moved there, it only lasted for a few months. I know it because an ex housemate was this girl who was friends with these two guys who DJed there regualrly and would stay at our house often. I have a compilation cdr of what they used to play there (Anal Cunt, Haddaway, Black Flag, Heart etc etc).

It's still going!


CLUB FEATURE

RocktronicaWHEN?Saturday 19th MayWHERE?
FROM 9pm-2am AT THE VAUXHALL GRIFFIN (CURRENTLY WYVILLS) 8 WYVILL ROAD, LONDON SW8 2TH. CLICK HERE FOR MAP



THE CRAIC? ALL SORTS OF MUSIC- A BIT OF EVERYTHING- ALL THOSE OLD GEMS YOU LOVE BUT HAD FORGOTTEN ABOUT OR WERE TOO EMBARRESSED TO ADMIT TO LIKING. WILL PLAY ANYTHING IF THEY HAVE IT. REQUESTS WELCOME. EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED.ROCKTRONICA FEATURES RESIDENT DJ METALCHICK AND A DIFFERENT FEATURED DJ EVERY WEEK.CLUB FEATURE PLAYWHEN?Sat 19th May WHERE?Essence, 2 – 5 Carthusian Street, Barbican THE CRAIC? Play is the new, weekly Saturday night out from SaNdRa D and Lil'Jo. It's about fun and indie and pop. Launch night

http://www.girlguidelondon.co.uk/

[atari 2600]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

This is what they play in this large men's traditional gay pub in central london that we go to, every now and then:

Sonic Youth
Tortoise
Jesus & Mary Chain
Metallica
Captain Beefheart
Motorhead
ac/dc
Royal Trux

Yesterday i spotted this large mountain wearing a Burzum t-shirt.

pretty cool

 

 

Greg Olsen's Rap Lyrics Cause a Stir in Chicago

Posted May 1st 2007 5:08PM by Michael David Smith


is the front page of today's Chicago Sun-Times. The accompanying column by Carol Slezak expresses outrage that the Bears' first-round draft pick was a member of a rap group during his freshman year in college, and that the group had some naughty lyrics:

I lost count of the number of times I heard the word "ho," or a certain b-word or a certain f-word. And the lewd sexual acts that are described? Well, let's just say they're not appropriate for this newspaper. But apparently the Bears don't have much of a problem with them. The fact that the team's top draft pick, Greg Olsen, raps in the song doesn't bother the Bears a bit.

I'm not sure what Slezak wants the Bears to do here. Are they really supposed to avoid drafting any player who might have used some foul language in the past? Olsen's rapping isn't my personal choice of music (I've been listening to a lot of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash lately) but forgive me if I can't get too worked up about some stupid rap song that some teenagers wrote in college.

 

Dear Camille:
I've searched through your archives for guidance and wisdom. Many, many thanks. However, I've found no reference to "Bears," those big, fat, hairy gay men who meet in their own bars, have their own porn mags and even star in their own porn videos. A decade ago, the lean, smooth, muscular body was the gay ideal of manly perfection. Now it's acceptable (and sometimes more desirable) to be fat and hairy in the body-conscious gay world. What do you think about that?
Yours most humbly,
Bearmuffin

Dear Bearmuffin,
You raise a fascinating question. What is the subliminal symbolism of sexual attraction? Any gender theory worth its salt would deal head-on with these issues instead of dallying in the choking thicket of poststructuralism.
Depilation has become highly fashionable in the gay male world, as shown by the many ads in the gay press for total body waxing and tweezing. Pinpoint shaving of the genital and anal areas has become a gay beauty profession unto itself. Not since Greek athletes scraped their oiled, sandy bodies with the strigil (see Lysippus' fourth-century B.C. statue, "Apoxyomenos") have men had such a fetish for girl-smooth skin. The current fad has come from competitive bodybuilding, where depilation clarifies the outline of well-cut muscles.
In their defiant hirsutism, gay bears are more virile than the generic bubble-butt junior stud, since body hair is stimulated by testosterone. But the bears' fatness resembles not the warlike Viking mass of a Hell's Angel but the capacious bosom of the primal earth mother. The gay bear is simultaneously animalistic and nurturing, a romp in the wild followed by nap time on a comfy cushion. The Greek-style pretty ephebe is a cold visual icon, tauntingly remote and ultimately ungraspable. The bear, however, offers warm, soothing regression to what Freud calls the polymorphous perverse, the whole-body tactility of early childhood. My working theory is that the gay bear as a sexual persona is a mythic father-mother, a parental fusion like the androgynous Egyptian river god Hapi or the Roman Father Tiber, bearded and jovially recumbent amid his swarm of rollicking cherubs.
SALON | March 17, 1999
http://www.salon.com/col/pagl/1999/03/17pagl2.html/

[jico.]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

Look, jico. bears!

 

they dont look gay gay... or maybe they do.

they can be just two friends celebrating another victory of their football team.

[jico.]

and another question, is there a bear woman club too? yaikes.

[Rob Instigator]

It was my understanding that Bears are not just large men, but burly and hirsute.

There is a convenience store chain here in Houston called Hollywood Food Store and the one in the gay area of town stocks massive amopunts of lube and sex toys and porn porbn porn and all right by the register all out in the opne. I was looking at the covers of the mags and one was called "Country bears" and the tagline for the cover bear was "Look who we found at the county fair?"

hilarious. this is from bearcenter.com

 

[luxinterior]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

 

Now those are some thunder thighs.

[MellySingsDoom]

Those thighs are bigger tham my chest and torso. Yikes.

[Iain]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

It started at West Central in China Town till they closed it down to make space for a straight bar, then it moved to the retro bar because a lot of the crowd were regulars there and mates with Wendy. After it moved there, it only lasted for a few months. I know it because an ex housemate was this girl who was friends with these two guys who DJed there regualrly and would stay at our house often. I have a compilation cdr of what they used to play there (Anal Cunt, Haddaway, Black Flag, Heart etc etc).

How many compilations are there out of all the millions of compilations made by millions of music fans that feature both Anal Cunt AND Haddaway? Not many I'd be willing to wager.

[MellySingsDoom]

There's just one, I'm sure, and that's owned by sarramkrop. Will he sell it on Ebay, I wonder?

The same cd gets worse or better, depending on how you see it. When i find it, i'll post the whole tracklist. It's a joy to behold.

[MellySingsDoom]

Hurrah! Can't wait to hear it.

[SynthethicalY]

I went out with a bear once. But he had this womanly voice, it annoyed me.

[Glice]

Twinks, Silver foxes and those who chase silver foxes (whose name escapes me) have been ommited thus far.

Also, there's the two categories of Gate and Stray (used a lot less these days). The former is a gay man who 'acts' straight and the latter a straight man acting gay. .

[Toilet & Bowels]

whats a twink?

[SynthethicalY]

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

whats a twink?

A skinny guy from age 18 to 24.

[Toilet & Bowels]

what about skinny dudes aged 25 and over?