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Friday, April 13, 2007

Music To Do It To: Mims

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It’s Friday, and seeing as for once, I swear, the entirety of The Sexerati Squad is getting action — aren’t you glad you stuck around ’til the weekend for that bit? it’s true, not once during the four months Lux has double-teamed the blog with me have we both, at the same time, and no, not like that, been [redacting] [redacted]s on a regular [redacted] and damn, it’s about [redacted] time — it’s time to bring back our favorite ‘having too much fun to blog’ feature, Music To Do It To.

Band: Mims

Sounds Like: Sexerati is totally punting… no, it’s just that, how can you not give a little love to someone who eternal elitists (and we heart them for it, we do) like the Village Voice bow to by way of a Venn diagram of his fuckability? Don’t believe us? Mims’ “This Is Why I’m Hot” gives a literal picture:

Of all the hot women, set X, we see the subset that Mims has had vs. the subset the Voice can claim. If that doesn’t make it clear for you, then maybe listen to the track with your honey even. Logic models alone don’t get most girls wet, after all.

Perfect For: West Coast: Sexy Irony. East Coast: Ironic Making Out That Turns A Little Ugly, But Not As Ugly As Your Plastic Jellie Shoes/Belt/Hair.

Where To Find It: As if there were a doubt, MySpace, fellas.

Friday, April 13, 2007

Best of SMS Livedating: Pre(text of) (-)Dating Edition

filed under: SMS Livedating by Melissa Gira | 1 Comment

Let this be not a warning to empty your phone of textflirts, lest some intrepid researcher, sex technologist, or promiscuous blogger thumb through looking for the best bits. No, instead, please send them in here, so we can savor the choicest, like this week’s Best of SMS Livedating: The Pre-dating Edition.

It began innocently enough via Dodgeball:

A:@ [redacted] ! what does a href= orig. refer to anyway?

But once things moved, as they say, direct:

B: a href = Anchor, Hypertext, Reference
A: Was my text geekbait? Oh now I’m blushing. Hi.
B: Total geekbait. I don’t think I realized how sexy HTML tag trivia was.

Stay compliant, my darlings, and happy texting this weekend.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

We Are The Sex Media: You’re Only as Gay as Your… Car?

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I don’t drive.

I never have: I moved to Manhattan when I was sixteen, and getting a license didn’t make much sense.

When I was nineteen, I got a learner’s permit, but I never actually used it: it’s since expired.

So since I don’t drive, and I don’t really know anyone who drives, I don’t really give much thought to cars.  And I especially don’t give much thought to what a specific car says about one’s sexual identity.

Apparently, I’m alone in that one: the New York Times has an article in today’s style section analyzing the orientation assumptions that come prepackaged with different types of cars.  While the article makes some semi-valid points about about orientation and choice of car (since gays — and I assume they mean gay men — have, on average, a higher amount of disposable income, and are less likely to have children, they might be more drawn to less “practical” cars; like, say, a convertible or a two seater — though of course it would be remiss of us not to point out that the whole “childless rich gay man” thing is a bit of a tired stereotype), I can’t help but wonder, yet again, why any of this matters.

I mean, seriously: why should who I fuck affect my choice of car?  Or music?  Or anything about my lifestyle separate from, well, who I fuck?

My feelings might be best summed up by Adam Bernard, a GM employee interviewed for the article:

Company executives, he said, do not seem to feel skittish about losing market share among straight consumers if gay buyers suddenly seize on a particular model. “I don’t think internally we ever asked the question, ‘If we put Cadillac in The Advocate, are we going to lose straight Cadillac buyers?’ ”

“Frankly,” he added, “the money’s all the same color.”

And the cars all run on the same gasoline.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Web Sex Index: How We (All) Got Justin.tv Laid

filed under: Web Sex Index by Melissa Gira | 1 Comment

We were too occupied [redacting] [redacted] ourselves to watch live, but as the morning Twitters came rolling in, it became clear: finally, after 22 days, camboy-cum-lately Justin.tv had sex, on camera. Sort of.

Of course the best part of vlogebrity sex tapes is taking the credit-slash-blame.

Scott Beale, who organized the Justin meetup a few weeks back, where I (late-to-the-game disclosure) had the problematic honor of being Justin’s first webcasted kiss after teasing him about his lack of onscreen sex, kindly links to Chuck Olsen’s video capture of the near-non-event:

The astute sex tape viewer will clearly identify the blurry shot of a kitchen floor (ie: not sex), though upon viewing, perhaps the piped-in porno music care of Justin’s roommates/business partners will provide a thrilling 320×240 frisson.

Annalee Newitz says that, really, it was all her fault, for telling Justin that if he didn’t get laid in a week, no one would watch his show anymore:

So Justin tells me that what he really wants to do is get another show going on the Justin.tv network — something with a sexy girl in New York City who will do a Sex in the City thing and go out with celebrities for nights of wild parties and naughty hijinks. “It’s good from a business perspective,” he said. Then he noticed that I was wearing a suit and looked like one of those feminist dyke people, so he added contritely, “It may not be the best thing for society, though.”

Justin, you are so socially-conscious! But why get girls to do the dirty work for you when you’ve got such a sweet body and are slutting around town right now? Nobody cares if there’s some dumb NYC chick getting laid — we’ve seen that a million times before. We want to see Web 2.0 entrepreneurs getting it on. That’s novelty! That’s entertainment! That’s good from a business perspective, and you know what? It’s good for society too.

What was that?

We want to see Web 2.0 entrepreneurs getting it on.

Screw Justin. Let’s all get to it. Start a company or something if you have to, don’t be shy. Just remember where to send the results, yes?