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January 08, 2007
Last Day of Christmas Vacay
I'm getting to bed about an hour later than I intended, but I accomplished all my last-minute end-of-break plans.
Today was the BF and mine's two year anniversery, and I am very happy to be starting in on year three. We celebrated via him helping me move back into my dorm (oh, romantic) and hanging out while I did some homework (even more romantic!). We ended up going on a date after all the practical stuff got done, though. We went to the Hunter Museum and I told him lots of stuff about art and then we had dinner at our favorite little resturaunt, Taboulis'.
Hunter Museum has a really neat exhibit right now called "Seeing With Photography" featuring really amazing photographs by a collective of visually impaired artists. There was also another special exhibit that was quite awe-inspiring in a different way, "Turbulent," which was a video instalation by Shirin Neshat. It focused on gender relations in Iranian culture in a very simple, compelling way. A man sings a poem by Rumi to an audience of men on one side of the screen. On the other, a veiled woman waits until he is finished, at which point she sings to her own empty auditorium. It's comments on the gender issues were quite interesting, but what really captivated me was how different her singing (or undulations as the artist's statement explained) was from even the vocal contortions of today's R&B singers. It seemed almost impossible for any human woman to make such sounds. It was truly beautiful.
After the museum and dinner we went home to watch the movie my mom got him for Christmas, Bent. It's an adaption of a play by Martin Sherman, based on true events surrounding the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The BF played Horst in a production UTK did last fall, and so it was a lot of fun for both of us to compare not only script and screenplay but directorial choices. He was taking a class on Holocaust literature at the same time, and got quite the overdose on the subject. He learned quite a lot though, especially about the non-Jewish minorities who were persecuted. Some of the info he shared has been quite interesting, such as it was primarily gay men who were taken to concentration camps, as lesbians were not considered much of a threat to population growth. I hope there's never another Holocaust.
Here's a photo I took during a post-show shoot. I only regret not getting a shot of the guy playing Ernst Rom's boyfriend, who appears on stage in a black leather man-thong. It was quite a sight, let me tell you.
| By Spike | 01:30 AM