Sunday 31 January 2010

Dreams I Yearn For – And Trying to Share the Unsharable





Every now and then I’m lucky enough to have one of those dreams whose sensual power and intensity lingers through the day, rather than rapidly evaporate as soon as I wake up, leaving me grasping round for the irretrievable.



This dream today began with a lot of episodes about trying to get home. I couldn’t find my flat and was endlessly entering wrong buildings and apartments. And being transported and diverted to other locations. The underlying objective seemed to be the calm and comfort and security of home.



But then Zach Randall was there as the main protagonist of another direction of the dream. Not necessarily the slutty Zach of pornodom, but an intensely warm, sensual and intimacy-seeking parallel but other one. We seemed on the edge of being together in some way – with a palpable erotic charge of imminent half buddy friendship half affaire.



After a number of episodes experienced as through glass sluiced with water, we met up again late one afternoon, now in crystal clarity, and I was chatting about my day. I’d driven up the coast with friends and to go spear fishing. Zach seemed disappointed not being asked along and in a curious and fortuitous distortion of time and space I asked him to join us. He said he couldn’t as he had to be home studying.



After one of those naked pains of disappointment mostly experienced in childhood, I asked if I could join him for coffee and he replied with an unexpectedly enthusiastic ‘Sure’.



Then came the overwhelmingly pleasurable moments of the dream.



An utter joy at the immediacy and intimacy of his face, up close. The specifics of its beauty. And the warm calmingly confident smile. He turned for us to go and another moment. Just the back of his neck – broad, with close-cropped hair shiny beaver-like hair. Creamy pink slightly blotchy skin. In the dream.



And then I woke up. And, more than desperate for more, made a great effort to get back to sleep. And - miracle of miracles - I picked up and just went on with this totally seductive and erotic dream. Which in fact had the reality of lived experience, perhaps greater.



And happily the atmosphere of this experience has permeated the whole day.



Sorry guys, just trying to share the unsharable!





Part compensation?

Monday 25 January 2010

Ballets Russes Costumes

Leon Bakst design for the Chief Eunuch 'Schéhérazade' (1910, 1930s)

I know the Ballets Russes is one of those subjects on which I could - perhaps - go on and on (and on) ... about.

But this is not going to be a yak yak yak post - just a look and have your senses pleasured aesthetically one.

As people know, the costumes and sets of the Diaghilev era of the Ballets Russes had a huge influence on fashion and interior design at the beginning of the C19. Among other things, it was the exoticism of the bold vibrant colours, often simplified geometric shapes and oriental motifs - in such stark contrast with what had gone immediately before.

Léon Bakst set design for 'Scheherazade' (1910)

This is just a very small selection from the astonishing array offered up by that extraordinary Russian enterprise.

I've tried where possible to introduce each image of an original costume with a photograph of the dancer who created the associated role. Usually, I've used an image taken at the time of the creation of the ballet concerned.

1 'Le Dieu Bleu' (1912)

Vaslav Nijinsky in 'Le Dieu Bleu' (1912)

Leon Bakst design for 'Le Dieu Bleu' Costume (1912)

Tamara Karsavina in 'Le Dieu Bleu' (1912)

2 'Le Festin' (1909)

Vaslav Nijinsky in 'Le Festin' (Variously named. 1909)

Leon Bakst design for 'Le Festin' (Variously named. 1909)

3 'Le Pavillion d'Armide' (1909)

Anna Pavlova and Vaslav Nijinsky as Armida and her slave, 'Le Pavillion d'Armide' (1909)

Alexandre Benois design for a musician, 'Le Pavillion d'Armide' (1909)

4 'Daphnis and Chloe' (1912)

Leon Bakst design for a brigand 'Daphnis and Chloë' (1912)

5 'Petroushka' (1913)

Vaslav Nijinsky as Petrushka in 'Petrushka' c.1913

Alexandre Benois design for Petrushka in 'Petrushka' c.1911

6 'Sadko' (1916)

Natalia Gontcharova design for a Sea Princess in Adolph Bolm's 'Sadko' (1916) - Front

Natalia Gontcharova design for a Sea Princess in Adolph Bolm's 'Sadko' (1916) - Back

7 'Le Sacre du Printemps' (1913)

Nicholas Roerich design for Vaslav Nijinsky's 'Le Sacre du Printemps' (1913)

8 Unknown

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9 'Chout' (1921)

Mikhail Larionov design for the Buffoon's Wife in 'Chout' (1921)

10 'The Sleeping Princess' (1921)

Leon Bakst design for a cap for the Bluebird 'The Sleeping Princess' (1921)

Leon Bakst design for the Bluebird 'The Sleeping Princess' (1921)

After the 'Tales of Beatrix Potter' post, I'm now quiet unsure how just far I can go with you guys - though much further than I'd originally imagined!

So ... ?

LOL!

Tuesday 19 January 2010

Just a Couple of Guys Getting It On, Oh Yeah!


I have a feeling the outcome of the last poll was ... well, pretty conclusive - Jay, Jay and Jay?

And because of the overwhelming 'enthusiasm', I suspect I'm going to spin Jay (and Trent, was that his name?! LOL) out into at least a couple of posts.

Intense pleasure should always be prolonged, as long as is humanly possible. With delayed 'gratification' being the object - very tantric!

So I reckon it's the 'get to know you' bit first.

And Jay (of course!) sets the tone of this post with some oral semiotics - no doubts about where the guys are going ...


After setting the compass, the guys settled into some joking ...


... and general pleasantries ...


... and a bit of cuddling to relax us (or themselves, though they don't seem altogether successful if that's the deal) ...


And to try to prove they're not New Age metro-homosexuals, they do a bit of seriously blokey horsing round ...







... but then there's that tongue again ...


... and I am curiously reminded of watching Disneyland, as a kid, and being very attracted to 'Tomorrowland' which offered 'the promise of things to come'!

Everything starts to come together (at least for me) when what's-his-name goes for the nips, and Jay drops trou to turn it up a notch and set course for the furry territory chartered in the last Jay post ...



... but not before some not-so-gratuitous or diversionary pashing ...





... and follow up ear nibbling, of a high order of eroticism, I think ...



Inevitably there's going to be the great journey south ...


.. with a bit of front door action ...



... before we get to the serious back door stuff ...



... and serious it is ...



Hot hot hot - but the guys know we wanna to get more up close and personal ...



... and get a 'play it again Sam' thing going with some high overhead work and panning in ...



And if you were wondering where that tongue had gone ...


... opps ...


... gone again ...


Now I reckon the upshot is the best seat in the house ...



... with the only better - the 'being there' seat ...




For me, there's some serious deja vu going on with these few last shots ...




Remember!

Now maybe the guys are appealing to a more specialist market here - in culinary terms, like eating sea cucumbers.

But if this IS to your taste, I've uploaded this section HERE. (Gay Up met it's expected demise a couple of days ago as you're probably aware - RIP :>>>)

But for Jay, 'To be continued'- sucking next, then fucking.

Is this okay?