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Kick Ass Title .05

CallMeAl — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:41:50 +0000

Today’s title is:

we could be heroes

TV – Spirited (Episode 1.02)

CallMeAl — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:16:35 +0000

Remember telling you guys about this show with the dentist and ghost last week. Well Henry (the ghost) is Henry Mallet a semi famous punk star, frontman for “The Nerve” who is most likely dead as they really never found the body so he can be dead or in a coma and they don’t know who he is… All right he’s probably dead. As the two try to find more clues to his “death” Henry is causing trouble for Suzy where she talks to Henry at the most inopportune times and its making her look like a nut to everybody, especially her soon to be ex-husband who is already taking advantage of these slip-ups.

Now why this show is posted here. Is it official that Adam is in a poly relationship (Henry as a ghost can go into anybody’s apartment in the building, being dead and all and he intrudes into Adam’s home:

Henry: “Good afternoon, my gorgeous all man family. How are we today?”

It does seem that from the first where Adam and his lovers -they still have no names / Seriously, they are called Adam One and Two- called her an ice queen to second episode where some friendship has been established since Suzy left Verity for them to look after while her sister ambushed her into an intervention.

I still don’t know if they are important to the story or just happen to be one of the many groups Henry visits/ Suzy interacts peripherally in the former hotel cum apartment building but the overall storyline and characters are good.

TV – Spirited (Episode 1.01)

CallMeAl — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:04:44 +0000

Spirited is a new series from W/Foxtel network in Australia. The premise is about Suzy Darling, a stiff type dentist who leaves her egotistical husband Steve and moves her children into a hotel penthouse apartment. The twist is that it seems the apartment or should I say the hotel itself is haunted by a English amnesiac ghost who didn’t make it pass the 1970’s punk era. Apparently he can only be seen by Suzy and the cat that lives there in the hotel. I assume the mystery will be finding out how did “Henry” (he finds out his name through a pendant Suzy wears but they need to touch it together for it to work) the ghost arrive and died in Australia and what does Suzy need to get him to move on.

Now you ask: Why should you care?

Well, I am not 100% sure, but 90%+ that there is poly (secondary or tertiary storyline???) relationship in the show.

The man (Adam in apt 3) is talking to Suzy.

Adam reaches into his apartment and kisses both, these are his two companions. He tells them about talking to Suzy.

Adam, is the owner of said cat.

Adam turns in the home and watches his two companions sleeping. It looks like he is the only one that is employed.

Whether this is a gay or bisexual triad, it does seem to play out as a poly group. Whether it becomes important to the main ghost/dentist storyline later on or something else is still unknown. I will update if this (Series 1- 8 episode run) relationship becomes important or featured again.

Kick Ass Title .04

CallMeAl — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:16:58 +0000

Today’s title is:

logic of the dead

MTrailer: RED

CallMeAl — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:16:15 +0000

RED (2010) Watching for Karl Urban but Helen Mirren with a BIG ASS GUN is so freaking cool, must wait until October…

Synopsis:
[Call Me Al] Frank Moses (Willis), a former black-ops CIA agent, who is now living a quiet life. That is, until the day a hi-tech assassin shows up intent on killing him. With his identity compromised and the life of the woman he cares for, Sarah (Parker), endangered, Frank reassembles his old team (Freeman, Malkovich and Mirren) in a last ditch effort to survive. “Red” is based on the DC Comics graphic novel of the same name by Warren Ellis.

Trailer:

Kick Ass Title .03

CallMeAl — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:46:48 +0000

Today’s title is:

the last door on the right

Kick Ass Title .02

CallMeAl — Mon, 31 May 2010 13:27:06 +0000

Today’s title is:

a picture perfect day

Lambda Literary Awards 2010

CallMeAl — Sun, 30 May 2010 21:50:51 +0000

These books are finalists and winners (red bold) for the 21st Annual Lambda Literary Awards

[From their site] The Lambda Literary Awards seek to recognize excellence in the field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender literature. Each year, over 80 judges — writers, booksellers, librarians, journalists — assess the entries in more than 20 categories.

Bisexual Fiction [TIE]

Arusha, by J.E. Knowles (Spinsters Ink) [Review]
Holy Communion, by Mykola Dementiuk (Synergy Press)
The Janeid, by Bobbie Geary (The Graeae Press)
Love You Two, by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli (Random House Australia)
Torn, by Amber Lehman (Closet Case Press) [Review]

Bisexual Nonfiction

Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life, by Edna O’Brien (W. W. Norton)
Cheever: A Life, by Blake Bailey (Alfred A. Knopf)
Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents, by Minal Hajratwala (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Map, by Audrey Beth Stein (Lulu.com) [Review]
Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood’s Dark Dreamer, by Emanuel Levy (St. Martin’s Press)

Kick Ass Title .01

CallMeAl — Sat, 29 May 2010 23:11:17 +0000

When I have time and internet usage, I will post titles for books that sounds “Kick Ass!” to me anyway.

Today’s title is:

a fly in amber

About a Book .01

CallMeAl — Sat, 29 May 2010 16:29:02 +0000

My thoughts as a reader:

I think with my burgeoning new knowledge of what I like and don’t like in erotica and in particular in the grouping of (menage a trois) and apparently I really hate the switcheroo. Menage a trois implies new or established relationship that implying lasting beyond the book. The thing about romance and erotica I noticed is that they do stick to a formula. I mean the formulas are old in the genre no matter how it’s written but the idea of two or in this case three people should be in a “happy ending” between the people together. Let’s get back to the switcheroo.

The example is “TriplePlay” by Rhyannon Byrd, it started off nice and sweet and I was interested but basically it was a “one-night stand” situation where the guy was a third wheel and told him to shove off turning it into a monogamous relationship and frankly pissed me off because I kept waiting for the threesome to occur and at the end simply wasn’t satisfied.

I think there should be a classification of “ONS” one night stand for menage a trois books something that signify a relationship that I don’t want to read. You have to understand, the media in general celebrates, publishes and monetize the “heteronormative relationship” as the default. They would have to put on the thinking cap for them to stray from that situation. I discovered slash fanfic and a few years ago it filled the space that I couldn’t or wouldn’t get from TV and movies in general, so in original fiction I don’t have the need for slash nor het but I wanted a space left for triad relationships.

With an “ONS” tag maybe I don’t have to deal with het or slash relationship be but fulfilled with another aspect I want in my media.