May. 9th, 2010

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Since a wedding is the most likely place to find a partner, it's not surprise at all that Davey, wedding planner, finds his partner in his same work field. Alan is Davey's favorite photographer, and he is bringing a torch for the handsome wedding planner from the first time he saw him. But Davey is always in motion, a blur of movement, and Alan has never found the right moment to stop and grab him.

Now Davey is following preparation for the wedding of his two best friends, the men who saved him from the street years ago. He wants everything perfect but when it's finished, maybe Davey realizes that it's time also for him to find the right partner and organize his own wedding. And lucky Alan, he is right there.

The story is tender and simple, no surprise, only a sweet tale. Very romantic, but weddings are always romantic, in only 26 pages there is not time or space to deepen the characters; you can only understand that they are perfect together and that their life will be happy... if only Davey manages to stop a moment for his Alan to catch him!

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2635

Amazon Kindle: Pomegranate - Garnet

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle
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Since a wedding is the most likely place to find a partner, it's not surprise at all that Davey, wedding planner, finds his partner in his same work field. Alan is Davey's favorite photographer, and he is bringing a torch for the handsome wedding planner from the first time he saw him. But Davey is always in motion, a blur of movement, and Alan has never found the right moment to stop and grab him.

Now Davey is following preparation for the wedding of his two best friends, the men who saved him from the street years ago. He wants everything perfect but when it's finished, maybe Davey realizes that it's time also for him to find the right partner and organize his own wedding. And lucky Alan, he is right there.

The story is tender and simple, no surprise, only a sweet tale. Very romantic, but weddings are always romantic, in only 26 pages there is not time or space to deepen the characters; you can only understand that they are perfect together and that their life will be happy... if only Davey manages to stop a moment for his Alan to catch him!

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2635

Amazon Kindle: Pomegranate - Garnet

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle
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Jessica Steele was born on May 9, 1933 in the elegant Warwickshire town of Royal Leamington Spa. She has two super brothers, Colin and George, and a lovely sister, Elizabeth. She was a delicate child and missed a lot of school. In fact, she left school at aged 14, when she was diagnosed as having tuberculosis. At 16, she started work as a junior clerk. In 1967, Jessica married with her husband, Peter and within a very short space of time they had moved from her hometown to the lovely area where they now live. Their house is built into the side of a hill, and has beautiful views over more hills and valleys. Her brothers and her sister are very close and she has plenty of nephews and nieces to make up for the fact that she and her husband have no children of their own. Both she and her husband are more than a little dog-oriented, and their current dog is a Staffordshire bull terrier named Florence. Florence is gorgeous. She loves everybody but, since she is 40 pounds of dynamite and would hurl her boisterous self at everyone she meets - given half a chance - she has to be restrained (as much as possible). She is fun.

Her husband spurred Jessica on to her writing career, giving her every support while she did what she considers her five-year apprenticeship (the rejection years) while learning how to write. She published her first books in 1979. Jessica has tried using a typewriter, but it just doesn't work for her. She is much happier writing in longhand, and in actual fact has a dozen or so fountain pens filled and ready to go at the start of any one session. A friend has a secretarial agency and, after deciphering Jessica's writing, returns an immaculately typed manuscript. To gain authentic background for her books, she has travelled and researched in Greece, Russia, Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Hong Kong, China and Japan.

First Book – Intimate Friends (1979)

Last Book - The Girl from Honeysuckle Farm (2010)

Souce: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Steele

Vintage Covers )
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Jessica Steele was born on May 9, 1933 in the elegant Warwickshire town of Royal Leamington Spa. She has two super brothers, Colin and George, and a lovely sister, Elizabeth. She was a delicate child and missed a lot of school. In fact, she left school at aged 14, when she was diagnosed as having tuberculosis. At 16, she started work as a junior clerk. In 1967, Jessica married with her husband, Peter and within a very short space of time they had moved from her hometown to the lovely area where they now live. Their house is built into the side of a hill, and has beautiful views over more hills and valleys. Her brothers and her sister are very close and she has plenty of nephews and nieces to make up for the fact that she and her husband have no children of their own. Both she and her husband are more than a little dog-oriented, and their current dog is a Staffordshire bull terrier named Florence. Florence is gorgeous. She loves everybody but, since she is 40 pounds of dynamite and would hurl her boisterous self at everyone she meets - given half a chance - she has to be restrained (as much as possible). She is fun.

Her husband spurred Jessica on to her writing career, giving her every support while she did what she considers her five-year apprenticeship (the rejection years) while learning how to write. She published her first books in 1979. Jessica has tried using a typewriter, but it just doesn't work for her. She is much happier writing in longhand, and in actual fact has a dozen or so fountain pens filled and ready to go at the start of any one session. A friend has a secretarial agency and, after deciphering Jessica's writing, returns an immaculately typed manuscript. To gain authentic background for her books, she has travelled and researched in Greece, Russia, Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Hong Kong, China and Japan.

First Book – Intimate Friends (1979)

Last Book - The Girl from Honeysuckle Farm (2010)

Souce: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Steele

Vintage Covers )
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Director: Bruce La Bruce

Writer: Bruce La Bruce (writer)

Release Date: 18 September 2008 (Germany)
19 January 2008 (Sundance Film Festival, USA)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Adult

Plot: By the director of Hustler White and Raspberry Reich!

Otto is a handsome, sensitive, neo-Goth zombie with an identity crisis. He wanders the streets of the city, never sleeping, until one day he auditions for a zombie film. The director, revolutionary Medea Yarn, is convinced that Otto is the personification of the effects of advanced capitalism on individuals. Medea begins making a film about Otto, while simultaneously shooting a film about a gay zombie revolt against consumerist society. As Medea directs the final, orgiastic scene of her film, Otto struggles to access the human emotions buried beneath his zombie exterior.

Director Bruce LaBruce toys with genre conventions, combining different media, and making use of Medea’s humorous film-within-the-film, while creating a new, sexy, hyperpoliticized zombie mythology. An Official Selection at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival.

"Hilarious, sexy and silly in just the right proportions, a cult item with a real heart." - New York Times

Awards: 2008 Best Film Award to Bruce La Bruce, Milan International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

@IMDb
@Amazon: Otto, Or, Up With Dead People
@Netflix
@Wolfe Video

 

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Cast (in credits order)
Jey Crisfar ... Otto
Marcel Schlutt ... Fritz Fritze
Nicholas Fox Ricciardi ... Young Man in Hooded Sweatshirt
Keith Böhm ... Man in a Suit and Hat
Olivia Barth ... Woman in a Black Burqa/Woman on Subway #1
Christophe Chemin ... Maximilian
Katharina Klewinghaus ... Medea Yarn/Lascivious Ballet Dancer #1
Stephanie Heinrich ... Old Woman (as Stefanie Heinrich)
John Edward Heys ... Old Man
Max Di Costanzo ... Amusement Park Zombie #1
rest of the cast )

  
Otto & Fritz

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Director: Bruce La Bruce

Writer: Bruce La Bruce (writer)

Release Date: 18 September 2008 (Germany)
19 January 2008 (Sundance Film Festival, USA)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Adult

Plot: By the director of Hustler White and Raspberry Reich!

Otto is a handsome, sensitive, neo-Goth zombie with an identity crisis. He wanders the streets of the city, never sleeping, until one day he auditions for a zombie film. The director, revolutionary Medea Yarn, is convinced that Otto is the personification of the effects of advanced capitalism on individuals. Medea begins making a film about Otto, while simultaneously shooting a film about a gay zombie revolt against consumerist society. As Medea directs the final, orgiastic scene of her film, Otto struggles to access the human emotions buried beneath his zombie exterior.

Director Bruce LaBruce toys with genre conventions, combining different media, and making use of Medea’s humorous film-within-the-film, while creating a new, sexy, hyperpoliticized zombie mythology. An Official Selection at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival.

"Hilarious, sexy and silly in just the right proportions, a cult item with a real heart." - New York Times

Awards: 2008 Best Film Award to Bruce La Bruce, Milan International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

@IMDb
@Amazon: Otto, Or, Up With Dead People
@Netflix
@Wolfe Video

 

more pics )

Cast (in credits order)
Jey Crisfar ... Otto
Marcel Schlutt ... Fritz Fritze
Nicholas Fox Ricciardi ... Young Man in Hooded Sweatshirt
Keith Böhm ... Man in a Suit and Hat
Olivia Barth ... Woman in a Black Burqa/Woman on Subway #1
Christophe Chemin ... Maximilian
Katharina Klewinghaus ... Medea Yarn/Lascivious Ballet Dancer #1
Stephanie Heinrich ... Old Woman (as Stefanie Heinrich)
John Edward Heys ... Old Man
Max Di Costanzo ... Amusement Park Zombie #1
rest of the cast )

  
Otto & Fritz

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