Just Stuff

[perzephone]

Mah toof hurts. And my allergies are acting up. It's runny-nose allergies, too, not stuffed up congested allergies. I suppose that can be considered a blessing, because if my sinuses were stuffed up it would probably make my tooth hurt more. It hit me last night at the Luxor - I think something in their A/C set it off, but it's still pretty bad tonight. My throat's sore & itchy. My ears itch.

I spent the past week at the Luxor learning about their night audit processes. They've got a couple of problems w/their 'room and tax' revenue that need to be fixed. Apparently their NA has been complaining about it, but nothing gets done. I'm usually able to get things done, so on Wednesday that's what I've got to do. Scream & holler, "Fix it! Fix it!" to the right people. /sigh

The last time I was promoted to night auditor, I honestly wanted the job. I worked hard at changing the 'face' of the night audit position, worked hard on building the business relationships, making it more transparent... Will & Harley have tossed a lot of that out the window because they just don't give a fuck. I don't want to go back into the audit, honestly, but it's job security. It'll be mine as long as I want it. I just have to remind myself that I'm not emotionally invested in it this time around. I can quit whenever I want. The shift is a serious pain in the ass, though. I don't know how I did it for 5 fucking years. It's not so much the graveyard as it is the 10 hours.

Been watching Torchwood on Netflix. It's a fantastic show, but I'm a little creeped out. It says a lot about American broadcast television that I find a regular ol' gay man to be weird. Usually, in sit-coms & stuff - Will & Grace f'ex - the gay males are over-the-top flaming queers. Affected manner of speaking, exaggerated hand movements, uber-feminine, catty, etc. Capt. Jack Harkness is not (ok, he has made a couple of catty remarks about certain relationships, but I think it was more to provoke a reaction than it is innate cattiness). He's GQ, but he's just a regular guy (if a little eccentric, but being immortal probably does that to a person). John Barrowman, the guy who plays Harkness is gay IRL, and apparently got turned down for the part of Will in W&G because he didn't act 'gay enough'. Seeing his character & the relationship with Ianto, who is also a regular guy, is a little discomforting. Seeing him fully kiss another man - especially the guy who played Spike on Buffy - was almost embarrassing, like, "OMG I can't watch this!" It doesn't help that Barrowman is good-looking in that plastic fantastic Tom Cruise way. He doesn't look quite real. I mean, human beings just don't look that handsome. It's unnatural. Even if he was straight, it'd still be unnatural. Rob's having trouble coping, too, but moreso because it was Spike, not necessarily because Harkness is openly gay.

I'm having problems dealing w/my own reaction to it. I mean, I'm bi, for Gods' sakes. I've had several gay male friends over the years. I've seen men kiss other men in person (and do quite a bit more, too). But watching it on t.v. hits me in the sensibilities & makes me feel like a prude.

In other news, I'm working on getting a wonderful Yule/birthday present for Rob :D

Comments

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

My exposure to gay people, as a child, was pretty diverse. And so by the time I was watching Queer as Folk: US (of which the majority of the cast are non-campy gays), it was just 'yay a TV show that I like!' (and I liked the sex scenes too). I mean even when I write slash, I predominantly write with non-campy men, simply because it's more comfortable for me, and in some ways, it's what I know.

I haven't seen Torchwood, I can't get into any of the Dr. Who's, so I'm not sure how I'll go with it. But apparently there is a lot of the man sex!

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[perzephone.livejournal.com]

I never watched Queer as Folk, mainly because it seemed like a soap opera, so I didn't get their 'gay people are not comic relief or social deviants' message. It's almost like gay people (gay men especially) are going through a similar media evolution that black people went through. Originally, black people were just comedic elements added to a script - the bumbling service people or dimwitted burglar. I remember for awhile there, almost every serial killer & sociopath in movies & crime dramas had some kind of homosexual/alternative sexual background.

Torchwood plays off the time-traveling elements of Dr. Who, but you don't really need the Dr. Who back story to watch it. Torchwood is a special ops agency created to monitor things that fall through a rift in space & time - aliens, artifacts & other weirdness. One of my favorite episodes so far dealt with local faeries - the faeries were not all light and love and New Age good feelings >:D

In fact, it might be better as a stand-alone series because Rob's freaking out over the fact that Torchwood is making Harkness out to possibly be a bad guy when in Dr. Who he was 100% 'lawful good'. Spike's going to be in the second season a lot from the looks of it - I don't know if Rob's gonna make it or not :P