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  1. I’m overseas currently. Anyone know of a service or site that will live stream the Oscars?
  2. g56whiz

    Donnie Dean

    My fantasy is to hire one of them my first night in Waco, the other the second night. Then take on both the third night. Of course that would require two whole days in Waco (and a visit to my proctologist no doubt).
  3. And father. I mean he didn’t grow that dick on his own!! FWIW he may be following this thread. The message I got from him on RentMen read simply “Hi g56whiz”.
  4. There’s a reason hetero couples are checked. If one is Malay and the other is not then they are breaking the law. If caught they and the hotel are in deep trouble with the religious authorities.
  5. Just to clarify Musclemen Spa’s services are (or seem to be) wholly legit. Shah Alam where they are located appears to be a majority Malay hence Muslim community and fairly conservative. But then there are the many muscular posters on Grindr, Scruff, Craigslist and Cracker (the local version of BackPage) offering a wide variety of goods (viagra toys etc.) and services throughout the greater Kuala Lumpur area. Along Jalan Pudu in downtown KL almost all profiles on Grindr are handsome or muscular (or both) money boys either local or from the Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal or even Thailand.
  6. Well Tyler W has arrived in Kuala Lumpur and popped up on both Grindr and Scruff using his civilian name and with Scruff a link to his Instagram address. Be still my libido.
  7. I sit corrected. Other than perhaps Boris Godunov it wasn’t until the late 20th Century that The Met did much Czech or Russian opera at all. I should have limited my comment to the reign of James Levine who seemed to favor original languages and limit cuts. In the early history of The Met, Gounod’s Faust was performanced so often and auf Deutsch that the places was jokingly referred to as the Faustspielhaus. As for Fledermaus, the first performances of the current (or just prior) production were as I remember in German. Was it Dom DeLuise as the jailer? When the transition to English occurred it was only for the spoken text least the integrity of the music be compromised. If you had a smattering of German it made for a brain racking evening.
  8. Well not really. Handel conducted or authorized performances of Messiah with a variety of cuts or transpositions usually to accommodate the performers available (or their ability) or the limits of the hall. I doubt if there is what musicologists would consider an Urtexte. In the US the near universal use of the G Shirmer score (with the Mozart orchestration) standardized most performances, but in liturgical settings cuts were and are common. Cutting Lift Up Ye Gates may be a bit much though.
  9. FWIW the CMBYN purchase from iTunes comes with access to the Chalamet/Stuhlbarg commentary.
  10. Well curiosity got the best of me. Realizing that I will probably have missed seeing CMBYN in the theater by the time I get back to the US and since I cant find it scheduled to play here in Malaysia, I bought it from iTunes. I watched it on my iPhone6+. Even on that tiny screen it’s a beautiful film. And Chalamet is truly Oscar worthy even if the film as a whole is not. I’m triply jealous. I wish my parents had been as enlightened. I loved my parents dearly. The paradigm of their marriage caused me to seek the same. My guy and I will celebrate 29 years next week. But my folks were Edwardian at best and sex and sexuality were not suitable topics for discussion - ever. Secondly I came out so late in life I never had that youthful first love learning experience. By the time I became sexually active I looked old enough to know what I was doing. I didn’t! And lastly I want two or three languid weeks in the shabby elegance of that wonderful villa. [swoon]
  11. One of my problems with Britten’s operas is that they’re in English. As a singer, I know how difficult English diction is for a singer and I know how often singers sacrifice diction for tone. It’s done in other languages I know (the famous La Stupenda did it in all languages alas) but English is my language and I want it to be heard and understood. And here’s an anecdote about Carmelites. When The Met first presented the opera they did so in French. They always do operas in the language in which they are written. But someone must have pointed out to them that Poulenc directed that Carmelites should always be sung in the local language. The revival was in English with the French soprano, Regine Crespin as Prioress. In the entire cast, including several Americans hers was the English most clearly sung.
  12. My first experience of Carmelites literally took my breath away and it was the radio broadcast about a week before I saw it at The Met. I’d been puttering about the apartment paying scant attention to what i would soon see on stage. I knew the plot of course. Then the recurring swoosh of the Guillotine got my attention. Then the diminishing voices. Then the silence. Then the single voice of Constance as she takes up the Salve Regina. Then another swoosh. Then silence. I stood there in my apartment stunned and couldn’t breathe. There was silence in the house as well before the audience began its applause. Then a week later the same reaction twice in rapid succession: at the final silence then again a moment later at the tableaux of the prostrate nuns. Truly incredible stuff.
  13. Further proof of why the pun is the lowest form of humor - and my favorite. I’ll take Billy Budd over Grimes any day but they take a backseat to most Strauss especially Der Rosenkavalier or Die Frau Ohne Schatten or Solome or Poulenc’s Dialogue of The Carmelites. I even contributed to the Met’s first production of Lulu which I still appreciate as a great evening of theater although not necessarily of opera. Which is to say chacon a son gout!
  14. This guy looks like walking Viagra!!!
  15. OK guys I sang in the first opera I went to. The boys choir I sang in were the street urchins in our local Carmen with Phyllis Curtin. And my stage mom hussled me to audition for that choir when she discovered that I was humming on Wednesday or Thursday the tunes I’d heard the previous Saturday afternoon or earlier. I was an only child and a winter shut in who spent many Saturday afternoons playing with toy trucks Lincoln Logs or Erector Set while listening to the pretty music coming out of the little Silvertone radio with the big red dial my parents gave me for Christmas. The rest is history. I was a New Yorker and The Met was my addiction sometimes two or three times a week. There’s a reason the A B C operas (Aida Boheme and Carmen) are the most popular and most performed operas. They’re great beginner operas because they deal directly with love/passion which is an emotion we’ve all experienced or want to experience. It takes a while to get to the sophistication of pealing onion of interpretations of The Ring Cycle but the trip is enriching. The endless string of melodic inventiveness in Bel Canto, the worldly sophistication of Mozart/dePonte the drama of Puccini. There’s so much to enrich the human experience. When my local theater cancelled Live in HD I invested the savings in Met Opera On Demand. It may be a while before I look up Death in Venice. I recall it as a long evening of slumber in the house. Perhaps it’s because I’m not a big fan of Mann. I don’t think I ever made it thru Magic Mountain although I tried several times. But bring on dem Rhinemaidens and I’m over the rainbow for hours. Or Mozart or Verdi or . . .
  16. Thanks. They only gave me their Instagram address which is Musclemen.Spa. I’m itching to go back already.
  17. OMG. First opera is Death in Venice? I suggest reposting this in the Fetish Forum. A rather SM way to begin.
  18. If you’re in the KL area, Shah Alam is a short trek and worth it for an excellent legit spa treatment. I had a great experience with Hanz last year before he and his partner opened Musclemen Spa. You may need Grab Taxi to find the place but it is new and extremely clean. The complete pampering takes about 5 hours and the equivalent of nearly $300 but if you’re in the market they are the real thing and worth it. I will get to a full review when I get back to my laptop in the US.
  19. If you’re in the KL area, Shah Alam is a short trek and worth it for an excellent legit spa treatment. I had a great experience with Hanz last year before he and his partner opened Musclemen Spa. You may need Grab Taxi to find the place but it is new and extremely clean. The complete pampering takes about 5 hours and the equivalent of nearly $300 but if you’re in the market they are the real thing and worth it. I will get to a full review when I get back to my laptop in the US.
  20. He answers messages on WhatsApp real fast. At least he did when I told him he was today’s cover boy. And the NYC connection may explain his “917” phone number. And FWIW his RM 1,200 fee is the equivalent of an NYC $300 rate which is rather aggressive in a town where decent Money Boys are available at a third of that amount. I’m still hoping . . .
  21. Today’s gorgeous cover boy just happens to be here in Kuala Lumpur this weekend. Now if I can only escape from the family’s end of Chinese New Year festivities . . .
  22. g56whiz

    411 on XanderCage

    OMG!! @XanderCage AND @tristanbaldwin? Be still my libido. I’ve a cardiologist appointment soon. I’ll have to get a release.
  23. And the mug shot ain’t pretty!! Str8upgayporn.com has the detail.
  24. g56whiz

    411 on mirco

    Bump (please!!!)
  25. g56whiz

    411 on mirco

    Well he’s appropriated what aught to be my escort name; moreover, for his it’s misleading advertising!! [sWOON]
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