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Just an Illusion

We don't generally post random YouTube content here, but sometimes you gotta just say, "hey -- every now and then video of people dancing around in their apartments is kind of cute and not at all a bad way to kill a few minutes of a rainy day".

Especially when the people are two incredibly happy guys from Rome and the song is the early 80's synth-pop hit "Just an Illusion", one of the gayest songs ever recorded (the song itself is by Imagination).

So enjoy these two fellas enjoying their bathrobes, some awesomely cheesy music, and each other. And for fun and contrast, I've also posted the original video for the song ... and I'll just let you make up your own minds about it.

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Sissy-Boy Slap-Party

And no, I'm not whining again about Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest's schoolyard behavior...

Canadian art-house fave Guy Maddin (you might know him from the wonderfully retro Careful, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, or Twlight of the Ice Nymphs) made the minutes-long Sissy-Boy Slap-Party in 1995 and it recently showed up on the DVD extras for his film The Saddest Music in the World. The bizarre short parades out an assortment of gay stereotypes from cinema's days past, and then has them engage in a frenzied sissy slap-off that emphasizes the inherent homoeroticism of male-male violence. Think Fight Club meets Glee Club.

There's really very little more that I can say about it other than that it's pretty much the most insane four minutes of cinema I've probably ever seen. I'm posting a rather crappy YouTube version below so that you can see what it's all about, but I strongly recommend that you head over to iFilm to watch it in its high-res, slap-happy glory.

So what do you think? Hilarious? Offensive? Brilliant? Stupid?


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