"Corrupt": the Most (Un?)Intentionally Gay Crooked-Cop Movie EVER

So I'm lying here watching "Corrupt", and early 80s Italian-produced crooked-cop movie starring Harvey Keitel and Johnny Rotten (imagine seeing THAT pairing on a marquee), and while the acting is actually pretty good all around, it is SO GAY I can hardly believe it.

1)Half of the plot seems to center around Keitel keeping a half-naked Johnny Rotten bound and gagged in his bathroom.
2)The above is happening an apartment Harvey Keitel shares with his fellow police officer, who's married and struggling with the fact that he's 'corrupt'– hel-LOOO, 'secret life and feelings of shame' subtext!

3) There's a lot of hair-pulling and proclamations of, "You're MINE now! And you're going to do what I say!" that, when shouted by a middle-aged man wearing a bathrobe to a half-naked 20-something man tied up in his bathroom, takes on a WHOLE different meaning.
4) Continual uses of phrasing like, "don't feel guilty, you wouldn't have done that if I hadn't forced you" and "you must make a lovely couple" abound
5) Life-size portrait of Johnny Rotten as St. Sebastian (clearly using a promotional photo from his Sex Pistols days)
6) Seriously, I'm not kidding about how few clothes Johnny Rotten's wearing in this movie. Boxer shorts, a towel, Keitel's bathrobe (a LOT)...I don't know why they bothered hiring a costume designer.

So, yeah, in conclusion, I loved it.

I would recommend this if you're looking for something where you can turn your brain off and revel in the "What the HELL?"-ness for 90 minutes. The film stock and lighting is TERRIBLE (you'll just have to assume that things are happening onscreen at times), but Harvey Keitel is Harvey Keitel, and Johnny Rotten actually turns out a pretty good performance and uses his trademark insane stare for good effect. And, if like me, you like kinda scrawny pale redheads who don't wear a lot of clothes, this movie's for you.

Seriously, they HAD to have known how gay this movie was, right? I mean, this all COULDN'T have been unintentional, could it?! There's just so much of it!

From the Sketchpad (or, Tears Dry on Their AUUGH!)

So, I don't normally do anything involving recent celebrities since, Scarlett, I frankly don't give a damn, but Amy Winehouse beating the shit out of her husband in a mutual crackhead lovefest really called for something special. For there's indeed no greater love, than crackhead love. That's in the Bible. Really. You can look it up.
(And, how great would a comic strip be starring these two? aside from the whole "being sued eight ways from Sunday" bit)





Medium, graphite & colored pencil. Inspiration.

Work-in-Progress

Man, my scanner bed is FILTHY.
Anyway, this bizarre little girl popped into my head while I was listening to Nouvelle Vague's cover of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'. That's going to be on the wall, in Japanese calligraphy (in blood, natch) when it's done.
She'd make a swell doll. I hope I get famous in a really nerdy way so I can get dolls or action figures made out of my work. How cool would that be?

Getting Organized (in a bare minimal way)

Okay- I have GOT to figure out a better way to get mentally organized than "hey, I feel like doing this for awhile, for the first time in 3 years, provided I'm not immediately distracted by this, that, and the other!"
There's at least 5 (lemme count- 'Evangeline', 'Lyuba', 'Stay', 'Conquest of Neem', 'Deuce'- yeah, that's 5 so far) fully fleshed storylines I want to work on (I don't know whether to call them graphic novels or not, so 'storylines' has to do), THEN a bunch of standalone art I'd like to do, but I just cannot get my ass to get focused enough to work on something for a longish time, then go to something else. ARG! I'm going to be of those old women that the authorities find dead because a 50,000-lb pile of papers fell on her. I might not even get to the 'old woman' part.

I can relate

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Yeeeeeeeeeah.....that about sums it all up. Well, at least it's Sunday so I don't have to deal with the mailman attempting to shove a bunch of catalogs in my mouth...

(strip, 'Pearls Before Swine', contributed by Dad)

Without a doubt, the BEST SONG EVER

Nudist Colony Of The Dead Music Video - For more amazing video clips, click here

I'm going to have this stuck in my head the rest of my life.

The Black Dahlia

I'm getting better at this. Poor Elizabeth Short- she wanted to be famous, and God knows she got there, but I doubt that's how she wanted it...









Graphite and digital color

Shock! Horror! Mormons!

These were across the aisle from each other, fittingly in the 'tabloid and soap opera digest' section. Hell, Archie, don't look so surprised, you were kinda asking for it in the first comic. I especially love how horrified- horrified- Betty looks at the prospect of her boyfriend being dumped by...er, his other girlfriend.
Never could quite understand that dynamic. Betty seemed extremely desperate for attention, so I can understand why she'd stay with Archie when he's opening seeing Veronica, but Veronica was too brassy to put up with any of that. And, sometimes SHE was seeing Reggie. Jeez, Riverdale High was just a hotbed of playas and hos.
Unless they were all Mormon, which would explain a lot.

Outage? OutRAGE!

48-Hour Internet Outage Plunges Nation Into Productivity

I think this best describes my past couple of days most effectively. Finally sent some packages that've been hanging around for months! Learned to sauté mushrooms tastily! Canceled gym membership, which had been put off since February! Went to work! Bought pillow after needing a new one for a year!
...you get the point.

Turkey Basting

I readily admit I bought this for the art. Isn't it great? I'm going to die flat broke but with a collection of seasoning boxes to be positively green over.

Hot DAMN, if I do say so myself

Just finished this– pretty damn good in my (totally unbiased) opinion! She's Erzulie, the Voodoo version of the Virgin Mary (basically). She's the spirit of femininity, compassion, love, beauty, jewellery, dancing, luxury, and flowers, and is often associated with gay men. So, yeah, I can relate.

Graphite with digital color.

Websites

I hope to God I don't end up doing these things for a living. I mean, I like doing them and all, and it's fun to design stuff, but if it's going to come around that I've paid god knows amount for school, only to do something that's basically self-taught for a living, I'm going to be...upset.
I'd show pics if I was positive I'm allowed to do so at this point. You never know. So, in place, here's the protagonist of "The Final Sacrifice" one of the worst movies ever to come out of Canada (and that's saying a lot). With a main hero name like "Zap Rosdower", how can you go wrong?
In a myriad of horrifying ways, it turns out.