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I’m trying out io service from cable vision. They got me back with half price for a year. Plus my internet and phone drop to half.
One of the main reasons other then money is the TV channel Logo. That’s the all 24/7 gay TV station. To my surprise it’s pretty good! Some of it is over the top even for this die hard jaded fagot.
So if you can get it, you should try it out.
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You should also check out QTelevision :)
Thats a promising station :)
The fact we hold a couple of million shares in it has absolutely nothing to do with my recommendation ;)
Regards,
Lee
haven't seen that in the line up
cable vision io new york
I haven't seen Q TV yet, but I did an appearance on their talk show On Q Live the other week to promote my book. I enjoyed myself.
I'm not a big fan of Logo. It's entirely too tame for my tastes. Very complacent television. Might as well be Lifetime TV for faggots. Way too cheesy and stereotypical. That show Noah's Ark... it's wretched.
I haven't seen Here! TV yet, except for their one new show Dante's Cove, which is also simply terrible. Sensationalist approach to sex (boring!), poorly written characters and dialogue, just really bad, low-quality TV. Haven't we moved PAST this stuff yet? When do we get to see REAL gay people on TV? That's what I want to know. :)
To follow this up, I actually attended a press screening and a press junket for Brokeback Mountain over the weekend. The movie is simpy amazing. We talked with Jake Gyllenhaal and Ang Lee during the roundtables, and they were both extremely well-spoken and gracious. Ang Lee was especially awesome. The movie is just so simple and eloquent...TOTALLY unlike most gay-themed stuff, which tends toward the sensationalist and exploitative. The sad irony of it is that it took a group of STRAIGHT people (all the principal talents on Brokeback are hetero) to make quite possibly THE best gay entertainment ever made. THEY get us better than WE do. If I have to sit through one more show about beautiful twentysomethings who spend all their time in the gym or the clubs and who have these fabulous lives and who have sex every chance they get, I'm going to vomit. The phrase "gay entertainment" is becoming an oxymoron, as most of it barely passes for entertainment. I think The L Word is the only show that really manages to restain itself and present a decent portrait of lesbian life. Queer as Folk was a travesty for its first three years; it FINALLY started getting good in its last two years. Six Feet Under was good for the first three years, until David turned into a sniveling, whiney, neurotic bitch. Is this how we see ourselves? Very scary. With the exception of a few really cool indie films (Longtime Companion, Head On, Urbania, Big Eden), so much of gay entertainment focuses on overwrought, heavy-handed drama or sexually leering, exploitative camp. I'm really insulted by most of it. Sigh...Quote:
Originally Posted by XXXWriterDude
Anyway, if you're interested in checking out my review of Brokeback, you can check it out on my blog: http://talesfrommylalalife.blogspot.com
we have Logo, or so I found last week. Channel 163 for those in South Florida
One look at their lineup and I forgot they exist.
I mean ... how many times can they play Moulin Rouge. Then there's old repeats of Graham Norton that BBC America ran and repeated like 3000 times. Plus he was on COmedy Central for a while too and that got a lot of repeats.
HereTV is on Comcast here, but it's OnDemand only and not a regular channel. They want $3.99 per movie for 24hrs.
Couldn't agree more with you XXXWriterDude
I personally found QAF too typcal, predictable and stereotipical. My boyfriend liked it he'd watch it every day and said I should be casted out of the gay island for not liking QAF :frown:
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Well, I watched every episode of the show, just b/cuz I wanted to see how they were representing us, and b/cuz I actually did like a few of the characters. I acknowledge that it was a total trashy soap, a guilty pleasure, and was probably intended to be so, so I tried to look past a lot of it, but it infuriated me more times than not in its first three years. It wasn't until they fired their writing staff and brought in a brand new one in the fourth season that I sat back and said, "Whoa! This is a different show altogether." They still had occasionally silly flights of fancy, and it was still pretty much a guilty pleasure, but I was much more drawn to the character archs and to the writing, which mellowed out and became more mature. I actually cried during the final episode. The show was groundbreaking; I can at least say that about it. :)
But Dante's Cove--which has a GREAT premise--is really just Queer as Folk with supernatural tendencies. Completely unoriginal, and the sex is filmed like one of those bad late night Cinemax soft core sex flicks. Sensationaslist and exploitative. And Noah's Ark is really just Sex & the City with black people. It's WRETCHEDLY acted and BADLY written. The guy playing the queeny character should be shot. He gives effeminate gay men a bad name. Some gay guys think I"m weird for being so into The L Word, but man, it's damn good TV. The women are all pretty, sure, but at least there is depth to their characters and they go through real pain and real drama and real emotions. Most gay entertainment barely even scratches the surface, and can hardly even qualify as "fluff." It's really just time for gay people to grow the fuck up and get out of the bars and stop defining our lives by how much sex we have. And I say this as one of L.A.'s biggest sluts. :)