BOOK: As I Lay Frying by Fay Jacobs ★★★★★

Ok this book was really fun. If you like to read blogs (and who doesn't???) and/or "stream of consciousness" type writing, then this is the book for you!

First of all -- if you've ever wanted to go to Rehoboth before -- you're gonna wanna go even more now! I know I DO! And if I wasn't so damn broke I'd already be booked.

Oh and the cover is a frickin' riot. :)

After reading this book I felt as if I know Fay and Bonnie! Which is really upsetting since they have yet to invite us down for the weekend.

Some friends they are. Hmph.

MUST READ. :)

MOVIE: Holy Smoke ★★★

This was a surprise "gay" movie.

I threw this on the DVR because I'm a big fan of Kate Winslet and I saw that it was playing and hadn't seen it despite it being nearly 10 years old (came out in '99).

There was a superfluous gay character in the film who at first I was very excited to see. He steals a kiss from his partner at one point that I thought was so sweet.

He also seemed to be the "normal" child out of the 3 in the family. Dressed conservatively and just was an every day Joe.

Until all of a sudden he had on a fishnet shirt and nipple ring for no damn reason at all.

I didn't get it.

But the surprise of this movie wasn't him. It was Kate.

She looked SMOKING F#CKING HOT in this movie. We were about 1/2 way through the movie when Jess and I turned to each other and said - nearly simultaneously - "Damn she looks hot in this movie!"

And we hadn't even seen the full-body nekkid shot yet! Or the lesbian makeout scene!

Seriously -- Kate Winslet had (I'm sure she's gone super skinny by now) such a HOT body in this movie! Not the usually Hollywood anorexic at ALL... I mean HOT smokin' frickin' hot.

Ehem -- the movie itself wasn't so good. It was very promising for a while then about 2/3 of the way through it takes this horrible detour and you're sitting there thinking "why hasn't this movie ended already?" for a while.

The very end picks up a bit then takes another detour where you're once again thinking that if had ended sooner it would've been better.

I'm gonna recommend this just because of Kate.

I heart Kate.



p.s. while you're stalking Kate, check out Heavenly Creatures.

MOVIE: Azul Oscuro Casi Negro ★★★★

This is a foreign film and not primarily "gay" BUT I really enjoyed this movie... a character in the movie discovers that they are gay and while this isn't the central storyline -- well, I love how it was handled in this film.

The acting was well done and believable and the director/cinematographer really did a great job with the filming of it.

I love the gritty "real-ness" of foreign films. Only our independents still have any reality left to them -- and even there the "beauty queens" of Hollywood are invading.

BOOK: Queen of the Oddballs by Hillary Carlip ★★★★★

I really enjoyed this book! The book isn't really about her being a lesbian so much as the crazy antics she pulled growing up as a non-celebrity in a celebrity world.

The stuff this girl gets into borders on impossible but the book is laced with pictures and notes of all of her craziness.

The fact that she's a lesbian in this book is kind of just an aside. The real meat of the story is the sh!t this girl gets herself into.

Hillary is actually pretty cool people. I added her to my mysp@ce page and told her that we were reading her book in our May, '08 book club and she actually wrote me back!

Her new book looks like a riot.

Highly recommended.