FAG4LIFE, my first podcast with the incisive team at EXTRA EXTRA. Ocean Vuong, Twin Peaks, Death, Queerness, Funerals, Spinoza, but most importantly: Chosen Family.
Cannot thank you enough:
@extraextramagazine @coachdevide @ocean_vuong @verymoderno
And the whole team. â„ïž đ
âMy fag friend Tomaso went to his fatherâs wedding in Milan, a quick flit of flamboyant nuptials to another fallen hetero with not a care for deprivation and certainly a lust for curiosity. Curiosity is Godâs best and most squeamish creation. Tomasoâs celebration of queers became a hit parade of tears via mid-showtime SMS from his histrionic mother. (His word, not mine) Her brother was dead, Tomasoâs uncle, dead! defunto! morto! But the show must go on. Straightening themselves out from glitter aisles and five overwrought Camparis, they traveled to the funeral some distance away. It was a remarkably fresh funeral, bleak and briefly gorgeous, short-lived and relevant. (Death is always relevant; more specifically, death is relevant to eroticism. But weâll get to that.) As they lowered the casket, a hot Italian priest reading scriptures from the book of Paul or Corinthians, there was a jaded communal urgency for serious-face, yet, and Iâm not sure how to put this, backgrounding the cemetery was a fluorescent amusement park straight out of Twin Peaks. Flying saucers, red velvet curtains, zigzags, house of mirrors, merry-go-round, people walking through walls, Laura Palmer look-alikes, the screams of 12-year-olds, and a lone 50-something divorcee on a rollercoaster from hell. Tomaso always tries to be sweet and kind, a disgusting, short-sighted pursuit, but here among the dead, dressed in Ermeneglido Zegna, the snickers of irreverent laughter could not be suppressed. Background talent a dozen or so times: WHEEEEEEEEEE !!! Whatâs this got to do with Ocean Vuong, or even eroticism? Tomaso, like Vuong, was trying to act ânormal.â Donât tell me queers canât walk through walls. Or closets?â
Podcast âThe Protagonist of the Eroticâ now online at Extra Extra Magazine website.