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		<title>T &amp; Avatar: Piranha 3D A Bloody Good Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Decker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.shawnandgwenn.com/t-avatar-piranha-3d-a-bloody-good-time/' addthis:title='T &#38; Avatar: Piranha 3D A Bloody Good Time ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve reviewed a movie with my movie-reviewing partner, Steve Schalchlin, or, as we are collectively known, the Hemo2Homo Connection.  Right now, Steve (whose partner, Jim Brochu, is starring in the hilarious play, Zero Hour) is in the process of moving from Los Angeles to New York City, so I decided [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.shawnandgwenn.com/t-avatar-piranha-3d-a-bloody-good-time/' addthis:title='T &amp; Avatar: Piranha 3D A Bloody Good Time ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><p><em>It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve reviewed a movie with my movie-reviewing partner, <a href="http://bonusroundblog.blogspot.com/">Steve Schalchlin</a>, or, as we are collectively known, the <a href="http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/archives/2009/07/hemo2homo_connection_2.html">Hemo2Homo Connection</a>.  Right now, Steve (whose partner, Jim Brochu, is starring in the hilarious play, Zero Hour) is in the process of moving from Los Angeles to New York City, so I decided not to harass him into going to see Piranha 3D.  Instead, I dedicate this review to my good friend as I wish him a happy relocation to the east coast.</em></p>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><strong>Piranha 3D: A Bloody Good Time</strong><br />
<span style="font-size: 0.8em;">by Shawn Decker</span><br />
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<p>For the thinblooded community, I cannot recommend this movie enough.  It&#8217;s got so much blood in it you may want to sneak some extra clotting factor along with that bag of smuggled candy.  If you&#8217;re a clotter who isn&#8217;t scared of the sight of human plasma, then you too should crack open this pearl.</p>
<p>Before I begin, I must say that the previews for this movie really turned me off.  Why pay extra for a 3D SyFy network-caliber movie?  It wasn&#8217;t until I read a string of great reviews on Facebook that I opened my heart to the concept.  The phrase &#8220;cleverly gory&#8221; pretty much sealed the deal the same way &#8220;starring Dolph Lundgren&#8221; had gotten me to The Expendables the weekend before.  Also, the last 3D movie I saw on the big screen may have been Jaws in 3D, so I figured I was long overdue to dip my toes into these trippy waters and I was curious to see how far 3D technology has advanced in the last two decades.</p>
<p>And after seeing Piranha, I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t ruin the effect by seeing Avatar&#8230; which I doubt had an extended underwater scene of two naked women swimming together&#8230; <em>in 3D!</em> (For my gay brothers, don&#8217;t worry, there&#8217;s more than enough beefcake in this movie to leave your sweet tooth for eye candy satisfied as well.)  Outside of the neato visuals and bloodshed, the movie maintains a fun feel throughout- charmingly goofy, not too concerned with overplotting and supported by a great cast of familiar faces peppered by capable newcomers.  Sure, the ticket price is upped a few more bucks for 3D, but in this case I didn&#8217;t leave the theater feeling cheated.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a fun summer movie and have a soft spot in your heart for bloodthirsty monsters and scantily clad victims, then run- nay, swim- as fast as you can to the nearest theater.</p>
<p>Positively Yours,<br />
Shawn</p>
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		<title>One Condoms Giving Away Free Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Decker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.shawnandgwenn.com/one-condoms-giving-away-free-music/' addthis:title='One Condoms Giving Away Free Music ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>My buddies over at One Condoms are celebrating their big splash in Target by giving away 1,000,000 free songs- I&#8217;m honored that Synthetic Division is among the bands whose music they will be sharing. To get your free song, simply do one of the following things via onecondoms.com: Signing up for their mailing list Becoming [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.shawnandgwenn.com/one-condoms-giving-away-free-music/' addthis:title='One Condoms Giving Away Free Music ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><p><strong>My buddies over at One Condoms are celebrating their big splash in Target by giving away 1,000,000 free songs- I&#8217;m honored that Synthetic Division is among the bands whose music they will be sharing.</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://onecondoms.com/"><img class="mt-image-center" style="margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;" src="http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/one-condombanner.png" alt="one-condombanner.png" hspace="10" width="250" height="335" /></a></p>
<p>To get your free song, simply do one of the following things via <a href="http://onecondoms.com/">onecondoms.com</a>: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><strong><br />
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<li><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Signing up for their mailing list</span></span></strong></li>
<li><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> Becoming a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ONECondoms">Fan of One Condoms </a>on Facebook</span></span></strong></li>
<li><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> Following <a href="http://twitter.com/onecondoms">@onecondoms</a> on Twitter</span></span></strong></li>
<li><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> Signing a Safer Sex Oath</span></span></strong></li>
<li><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> Filling out a Sex Survey</span></span></strong></li>
<li><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Touch Shawn&#8217;s Balls</span></span></strong></li>
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<p>Okay, I stuck the last one in to see if you were paying attention.  One Condoms can&#8217;t help you out on that last item, but do take them up on their offer for a free song.  They provide <a href="http://www.onecondoms.com/listen/">lots of cool bands and musicians </a>with free condoms that are passed out on tour (much like Synthetic Division did on the recent tour with Bella Morte).  I&#8217;m sure the bands feel the same way as I do about returning the kindness of One Condoms and giving away a free song.</p>
<p>Enjoy, hope everyone has a good weekend!</p>
<p>Positively Yours,<br />
Shawn</p>
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		<title>The Breakfast Club Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Decker</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.shawnandgwenn.com/the-breakfast-club-game/' addthis:title='The Breakfast Club Game ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><p><b>The passing of John Hughes is my Michael Jackson moment.&nbsp; In my opinion, three weeks of full-on news coverage of his death would be appropriate.&nbsp; I want to see Long Duk Dong on CNN explaining how Mr. Hughes brought attention to the slave trade/foreign exchange student situation of the 1980&#8242;s, the true agenda of the movie <i>Sixteen Candles.</i></b></p>
<p>That&#8217;s my favorite of all of his work.&nbsp; Just watched it last night.&nbsp; Aside from a couple of uses of the word &#8220;fag&#8221; and &#8220;faggot&#8221; as insults, the movie is perfection.&nbsp; What I like most about his work is that he championed the misfit, and really made it clear that everyone feels the isolation that is usually only acknowledged/accepted in the teenage years of our existence.</p>
<p><img alt="bclub.jpg" src="http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/bclub.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" width="293" height="220" />I was pretty young when Hughes unleashed the Holy Trinity of the 80&#8242;s (<i>Sixteen Candles</i>, <i>Pretty In Pink</i> and <i>The Breakfast Club</i>, respectively), but it still resonated with me and my friends.&nbsp; We wanted to be John Bender from the Club so badly that we invented a neighborhood game based on the movie. If you want to play in tribute of Hughes, here&#8217;s how:</p>
<p>- find the friend with the biggest house</p>
<p>- use front porch as the library/detention</p>
<p>- to avoid arguments, randomly draw characters from a hat (geek, jock, criminal, principal, whatever Ally Sheedy was)</p>
<p>- you can only use movie quotes that involve cursing</p>
<p>The Principal just walks around the house aimlessly, while the others &#8220;sneak out&#8221; from the porch from time to time.&nbsp; It was really fun when I was 10.&nbsp; I bet the game holds up today.&nbsp; Post a Comment if you play with friends.&nbsp; Bonus points if you videotape it and upload to YouTube.</p>
<p><img alt="ferris.jpg" src="http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/ferris.jpg" class="mt-image-right" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;" width="256" height="205" /><i>Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off</i>, I remember seeing that in the theater with friends. &nbsp;&nbsp; The movie came out about a year before I was diagnosed with HIV, and it must have influenced me to use my HIV status as a reason to stay home from school.&nbsp; Thank you, John Hughes, for that.&nbsp; Of course, I drew the line at stealing a friend&#8217;s dad&#8217;s car.&nbsp; But only because I was 12.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Save Ferris&#8221; campaign in the movie still cracks me up.&nbsp; I could have made <i>so much</i> lunch money if I&#8217;d been out about my status in junior high school.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s tough to make teen movies that stand the test of time, but John Hughes managed to pull it off.&nbsp; At 34 I enjoy them just as much- if not more so- than I did on first viewing.&nbsp; Sure, he made some crappy movies, but that was intentional- Hughes just wanted to show he was human.&nbsp; I was saddened by the news of his passing because of my sentimental connection to his work, but was happy to read that he&#8217;d spent the better part of the last decade with his family.</p>
<p>He took Ferris&#8217; advice about life moving pretty fast, and slowed down to take a look around.&nbsp; </p>
<p>Good for him.</p>
<p>Positively Yours,<br />Shawn</p>
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		<title>Hemo2Homo Connection: Bruno</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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BRUNO REVIEW</strong></span><br />
<strong style="color: #0000ff;">HOMO:</strong> I know why you wanted to see this.  Big homosexual terrorizes the public at large! It&#8217;s because you thought it was a horror film &#8212; &#8220;Saw&#8221; for straight men.</p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">HEMO:</strong> Actually I thought <em>Bruno</em> was the a wrestling biopic for Bruno Sammartino.  When I found out it wasn&#8217;t, I decided not to go.</p>
<p><strong style="color: #0000ff;">HOMO:</strong> You flaked on me again?</p>
<p><img class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" src="http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/benefitshawndark.jpg" alt="benefitshawndark.jpg" width="240" height="359" /><strong style="color: #ff0000;">HEMO:</strong> I was totally busy this past weekend, playing an HIV benefit with my synthpop trio.  MAC artists were there, and they totally made me up in guyliner, check it out.</p>
<p><strong style="color: #0000ff;">HOMO:</strong> Mmmmm, hmmmm&#8230; say, what band did you meet through the Make-A-Wish Foundation back in 1990?  Was that Guns N&#8217; Roses?  Motley Crue?  Bananarama?</p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">HEMO:</strong> No, Depeche Mode.  What are you getting at?</p>
<p><strong style="color: #0000ff;">HOMO:</strong> Well, I don&#8217;t want to say you look a little gay or anything, but not even Bruno wore that much eyeliner&#8230;<br />
When I first heard that there would be this insane movie about a totally exaggerated, offensive gay stereotype running around scaring straight people, I was waiting for the scene where he asks Carrie Prejean about gay marriage and then calls her names in an insane rant equal only to &#8220;Leave Britney alone.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">HEMO:</strong> Leave Hemo alone!</p>
<p><strong style="color: #0000ff;">HOMO:</strong> But it wasn&#8217;t Perez Hilton they were talking about- it was that fake Austrian oversexed sissy who once asked a skinhead, &#8220;Are there any of you who <em>aren&#8217;t</em> gay?&#8221;</p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">HEMO:</strong> Not even Bruno Sammartino would say that to a skinhead.</p>
<p><strong style="color: #0000ff;">HOMO:</strong> I thought, &#8220;What could Bruno do that&#8217;s worse than Perez, a guy who makes Ross the Intern look like Johnny Carson?&#8221;</p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">HEMO:</strong> Wait- did the Latoya Jackson scene make it in?  He asked her to talk like Michael because that way he could say he interviewed the legend.</p>
<p><img class="mt-image-right" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;" src="http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/latoya-michael-jackson.jpg" alt="latoya-michael-jackson.jpg" width="331" height="230" /><strong style="color: #0000ff;">HOMO:</strong> NO! See what I mean? This is Bruno Lite. They took that scene out.  It doesn&#8217;t matter.  After seeing the film, I realized that it has the same plot as the Kathy Griffin Show,  trying to get famous every week, except <em>Life on the D List</em> is much, MUCH gayer.</p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">HEMO:</strong> That&#8217;s one of my favorites.  On the most recent episode, she went off on Reagan for not saying &#8220;AIDS&#8221; for so long after someone gave her a jelly bean.</p>
<p><strong style="color: #0000ff;">HOMO:</strong> See, she&#8217;s a lot funnier than Bruno, who&#8217;s a bit of a hum ho.  I mean if you&#8217;re gonna do shock comedy, does anyone really think that Bruno is even REMOTELY as outrageous as Divine&#8230;</p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">HEMO:</strong> What does that hooker that Hugh Grant banged a decade ago have to do with this?</p>
<p><img src="http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/divine.jpg" alt="divine.jpg" hspace="10" width="275" height="400" align="left" /><strong style="color: #0000ff;">HOMO:</strong> Okay, maybe you&#8217;re not gay, thinblood.  <em>John Waters&#8217;</em> Divine, who picked up a piece of dog crap and ate it, and who had a character who chained lesbians in a basement so she could sell the babies.</p>
<p>My biggest problem with <em>Bruno</em> is that very few of the people they ridicule are showing homophobia. Most of them are just reacting to someone putting a dildo in their face in public, or  someone would trade a baby for an iPod. You don&#8217;t have to be homophobic to hate that. I don&#8217;t know who he&#8217;s skewering.</p>
<p>Or does it matter?</p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">HEMO:</strong> It matters.  I would have been there on opening night if his MTV Movie Awards show stunt with Eminem wasn&#8217;t totally staged.  I mean, it makes sense to drop your balls in a rapper&#8217;s face unexpectedly, right?  Em was great, acting offended, but he and MTV were in on the whole thing.</p>
<p>Which means that, despite Bruno&#8217;s balls being in Eminem&#8217;s face, the entire stunt had no <em>real</em> balls to speak of.</p>
<p><strong style="color: #0000ff;">HOMO:</strong> Exactly.  Hell, even the big scene at the end with all the wrestlers going nuts over &#8220;a same sex kiss.&#8221; Well, no.  It wasn&#8217;t a kiss.  It was a full-on sex scene with a guy who wasn&#8217;t that cute.  I was just as turned off by it as the so-called redneck haters.<br />
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HEMO:</strong> So, you think they were rioting because they found out they weren&#8217;t starring in <em>Bruno Sammartino</em>?</p>
<p><strong style="color: #0000ff;">HOMO: </strong><span style="color: #000000;">I don&#8217;t know. How cute is he?  Given how gay wrestling is &#8212; big sweaty guys, doing S&amp;M sex for pay &#8212; I wouldn&#8217;t want to miss that.</span></p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">HEMO:</strong> Here he is.<br />
<img class="mt-image-none" src="http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/sammartino-medium.jpg" alt="sammartino-medium.jpg" width="236" height="238" /></p>
<p><strong style="color: #0000ff;">HOMO: </strong><span style="color: #000000;">Never mind.</span></p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">HEMO:</strong><span style="color: #000000;"> So, how do you rate <em>Bruno</em>?</span></p>
<p><strong style="color: #0000ff;">HOMO:</strong><span style="color: #000000;"> Kinda funny, but not as gay, or as edgy, as the Republican Senate. </span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Steve&#8217;s Pick:</strong></span> <strong>If you want to see the scariest movie of the year, go see &#8220;The Hurt Locker.&#8221;  It&#8217;s only showing in parts of the country, but this is the movie that will have you on the edge of your seat, and should be nominated for best movie Oscar. </strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 0.8em;">The creators/stars of the Hemo2Homo Connection met online in 1996, and<br />
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<p><b>The Hemo2Homo Connection</b> is <a href="http://www.mypetvirus.com/">Shawn Decker</a> and <a href="http://www.bonusround.com/">Steve Schalchlin</a>. Just two guys with AIDS who like to review movies.&nbsp; </p>
<p><font style="font-size: 0.8em;">The creators/stars of the Hemo2Homo Connection met online in 1996, and posted their first movie review in 1998. Both have been living with HIV for over twenty years, and have annoyed their friends and loved ones for much longer than that.</font>&nbsp;
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</i><font style="font-size: 0.8em;"><b>Steve Schalchlin</b> (&#8220;Homo&#8221;) resides in Los Angeles, CA. He is an award-winning musician, singer and songwriter. <b>Shawn Decker</b> (&#8220;Hemo&#8221;) lives in Charlottesville, VA.  He is an HIV/AIDS educator and the author of My Pet Virus.</font></p>
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<p><u><font style="font-size: 1.5625em;"><b>The STAR TREK Review</b></font></u></p>
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<b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO</b>:&nbsp; Seen any good movies recently, Hemo?</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO2031</span>: Why yes, I have.&nbsp; <i>Star Trek</i>.&nbsp; Did you see it as well, Hemo?</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO</b>:&nbsp; I did.&nbsp; And, overall, I enjoyed this film.&nbsp; <i>Star Trek</i> is the best Space AIDS movie since <i>Starship Troopers</i>.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">HOMO</b>:&nbsp; Shawn, who the hell are you talking to?</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO</b>:&nbsp; I&#8217;ll tell you- in the future.&nbsp; For now, just know that I&#8217;m tired of being the young, wide-eyed half of this movie duo.&nbsp; You and I have been working together for 10 years now, and you always get to play the part of &#8220;Wise Sage Steve&#8221;, or &#8220;Mr. Movies&#8221; as they call you on the streets of Hollywood&#8230;</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">HOMO</b>: No one has ever called me that.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO</b>:&nbsp; Not my point.&nbsp; My point is- I&#8217;ve survived over twenty years with HIV.&nbsp; But no matter how much older I get, you age at the same rate!</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">HOMO</b>:&nbsp; Did you learn that heady stuff from <i>Star Trek</i>?&nbsp; What the hell is HEMO2031?&nbsp;</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO</b>:&nbsp; It&#8217;s me, 22 years from now.&nbsp; That makes HEMO2031 your current age- 55.&nbsp; He/me is your equal. And I brought him back from the year 2031 to review <i>Star Trek</i> with me.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">HOMO</b>: This will be fun to watch.</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO2031</span>:&nbsp; Nice to meet you, Steve.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO</b>:&nbsp; I call him &#8220;Homo&#8221;.</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO2031</span>: In the year 2031 calling a gay man &#8220;Homo&#8221; is a crime that is punishable by death.&nbsp; If you don&#8217;t mind, I&#8217;ll call Steve &#8220;Steve&#8221;.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">HOMO</b>: He doesn&#8217;t mean anything by it, Hemo2031.&nbsp; I call him &#8220;Hemo.&#8221; Is that okay?</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO2031</span>: Sure- but no one will know what you&#8217;re talking about in the year 2031, because hemophilia will be cured by then.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">HOMO</b>: Ha!&nbsp; Hear that, Hemo?&nbsp; Your kind will be extinct, and my kind will rule the Earth!&nbsp;</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO</b>: This isn&#8217;t going how I planned.&nbsp; Look, this is all fascinating stuff about the future, really, but can we get back to <i>Star Trek?</i></p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">HOMO</b>: Did you see the coming attractions?&nbsp; Previews are starting to feel longer than twenty-two years.&nbsp; This time, there was a long live-action version of that puppet film, <i>Team America</i>, complete with a fake Eiffel Tower being destroyed by some guys dressed like Iron Man who fight some multi-colored robots from outer space who are also attacking the Vatican.</p>
<p>It was called <i>G.I. Transforminator</i>.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO</b>: The G.I. Joe guys in those suits look like the NFL robots.&nbsp;</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">HOMO</b>: Hey, Hemo2031, if you&#8217;re from the future, then you&#8217;ve already seen this flick.&nbsp; Any good?</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO2031</span>: It will be deemed a classic of all time and they&#8217;ll pass a law that all movies must be sequels to <i>G.I. Transforminator</i>.&nbsp;</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">HOMO</b>: With nothing but robots as characters?&nbsp; That will be the end of the AIDS movie as we know them.&nbsp; Will there be a Hemo2Homo Connection in 2031?&nbsp; My God- I&#8217;ll be 77.&nbsp; Will I be&#8230; alive?</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO2031</span>: Yes, and yes.&nbsp; But the Hemo2Homo Connection will only review Michael Bay directed <i>G.I. Transforminator</i> movies from the year 2012 on, when President Jeb Bush signs into Michael Bay Act into law.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">HOMO</b>: That sounds like a fate far worse than death to me.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO</b>: &#8230; so no more movies about AIDS?&nbsp; We should really cherish <i>Star Trek</i>.&nbsp;</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">HOMO</b>:&nbsp; You really see this as an AIDS movie?&nbsp; I thought you&#8217;d see it as a horror movie!&nbsp; It started right at the beginning with Kirk&nbsp; sitting at a table with Kleenex stuffed up his bloody nose.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then came Kid Spock kicking some other Vulcan kid&#8217;s ass&#8230; just like they used to beat you up in school just to watch you bleed!&nbsp; Fortunately, Spock&#8217;s blood is green and not all AIDS-y like yours.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO</b>:&nbsp; I was too distracted by the green-skinned bimbo to notice the green blood.&nbsp; It wasn&#8217;t until Spock&#8217;s planet was destroyed that it all clicked for me.&nbsp; &#8220;There&#8217;s only 10,000 Vulcans remaining,&#8221; Spock said.&nbsp; An obvious reference to the 1980&#8242;s blood scandal and The Committee of Ten Thousand.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">HOMO</b>:&nbsp; So this isn&#8217;t just an AIDS movie?&nbsp; It&#8217;s a thinblooded AIDS movie?&nbsp; Geesh.&nbsp; Hey,&nbsp; I wonder if they have Vulcan blood clogger-upper or if AIDS can be transmitted into copper-based blood?&nbsp; HEMO2031, any answers?</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO</b>:&nbsp; I have a confession to make: I made up the HEMO2031 thing.</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">HOMO2031</span>:&nbsp; Past me forgives you.</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO2031</span>:&nbsp; Past me accepts.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO</b>: I can&#8217;t imagine how cranky you&#8217;ll be about movies at age 77, Homo.&nbsp; So what did you like most about <i>Star Trek</i>?</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">HOMO</b>:&nbsp; I loved how the other characters on the bridge who channeled the spirit of the originals&#8211;and not just like extras. Each of them showing motivation, strength, innocence and fortitude.&nbsp; Not as much as us, and our ability to survive with AIDS.&nbsp; But close.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO</b>:&nbsp; The cast is great.&nbsp; My only beef with <i>Star Trek</i> was the CGI snow creatures scene, and the hanging on by the fingernails scenes.&nbsp; I hate those kinds of things in any movie, especially in one where you care about the characters.&nbsp; I&#8217;d rather have seen young Spock having a private conversation with his lady than watch Kirk narrowly cheat death.&nbsp; Again.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">HOMO</b>:&nbsp; Yeah, note to directors out there: The word &#8220;cliffhanger&#8221; is a metaphor.&nbsp; Still, you gotta give it up for a Hollywood movie with actual characters. They must have hired a gay.&nbsp; It&#8217;s the only explanation.&nbsp;</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO</b>:&nbsp; It&#8217;s the only explanation for not seeing Green Alien Bimbo&#8217;s ta-tas.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">HOMO</b>:&nbsp; Kirk did look good in his undies in that scene. Maybe his not-so-light saber and her green boobs will be in the extras on the DVD?&nbsp; But <i>Star Trek</i> was just like the Hemo2Homo Connection&#8230; it was funny!&nbsp; This movie made me laugh out loud again and again. It felt like the real <i>Star Trek</i>, not like that tired <i>Wolverine</i> farce.</p>
<p>As for the rest of the summer, I&#8217;m already tired of <i>G.I. Transforminator.</i></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HEMO2031</span>:&nbsp; Just wait until the year 2017, when you&#8217;re reviewing <i>G.I. Transforminator 29: Rise Again of the Machines Again</i>.&nbsp;</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">HOMO</b>:&nbsp; Please, AIDS, take me now?</p>
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<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hemo:</b>&nbsp; Hey Homo, everyone&#8217;s all like, &#8220;Have you seen <i>Star Trek</i>?&nbsp; Have you?&nbsp; Huh?&#8221;&nbsp; It&#8217;s a recession, and I&#8217;m still counting my dollars trying to figure out if I&#8217;m going to see the Wolverine movie&#8230;</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Homo:</b>&nbsp; I&#8217;ve never been so disappointed in a movie in my life. </p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hemo:</b>&nbsp; See?&nbsp; Good thing I didn&#8217;t rush out to see <i>Star Trek</i>&#8230;</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Homo:</b>&nbsp; No, I&#8217;m talking about <i>Wolverine</i>.&nbsp; You know, positoid, that I am a lifelong X-Men fan. Growing up, they were the superhero gays that I couldn&#8217;t be. I even put this into a song in <a href="http://www.thebigvoice.com/">The Big Voice</a>.&nbsp; The first two X-Men movies were so good, especially the second one, because the filmmaker knew what most comic readers know: It ain&#8217;t about the action. It&#8217;s about the characters.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hemo:</b>&nbsp; Yes!&nbsp; That&#8217;s why <i>Watchmen</i> was so good.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Homo:</b>&nbsp; Exactly.&nbsp; Your mutant abilities are finally forming, Hemo.&nbsp; But in <i>X-Men Origins: Wolverine</i>, they manage to take all the mystery out of Wolverine, reducing him to a whiny little bitch, running around afraid of his big, bad older brother&#8230;</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hemo:</b>&nbsp; Maybe in part two of Origins they reveal that Wolverine was born a Thinblood?&nbsp; It&#8217;s scary being a little brother with a bleeding disorder, knowing that at any time your big bro can erase you from existence.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Homo:</b>&nbsp; That&#8217;s how it is for <i>all</i> little brothers.&nbsp; In this, he&#8217;s trying so hard to be a nice guy: THAT IS NOT WOLVERINE.&nbsp; That&#8217;s a whiny little bitch who hates being all mean and stuff.&nbsp; Where&#8217;s the fun?&nbsp; Where are the wisecracks?&nbsp; WHERE IS WOLVERINE??</p>
<p>So, having drained all the blood out of Wolverine, we&#8217;re treated to a movie that looks like it was made from stock footage from other &#8220;action movies&#8221; with Hugh Jackman&#8217;s face painted on the &#8220;hero.&#8221;</p>
<p>Tacky, dull, stodgy.</p>
<p>Not only that, but it&#8217;s the kind of movie where you are saying the cliched lines of dialogue along with the actors on the screen because there&#8217;s not a single original thought being expressed. And, but, for an origin story, we don&#8217;t really learn anything about what drives him.&nbsp; There&#8217;s a generic falling in love story. Bad guys kill the girl / must get revenge plot.&nbsp; But you don&#8217;t really know the girl and you don&#8217;t really fall in love with their relationship.</p>
<p>Have I mentioned how angry this makes me? </p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hemo:</b>&nbsp; Not to my knowledge.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Homo:</b>&nbsp; Wolverine is a great character.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not right for him to be the SECOND BADDEST GUY in the story.&nbsp; And who&#8217;s the bigger, badder guy?&nbsp; My most unfavorite character in the Marvel Universe whose &#8220;power&#8221; is that his fingernails grow really long.&nbsp; I saw that on RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t need it in a super not-quite-villain whose motivations are also fuzzier than a homeless man&#8217;s belly button. </p>
<p>Shall I tell you how much I loathed this movie, Hemo? </p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hemo:</b>&nbsp; Be like the old Wolverine, don&#8217;t pull any punches!</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Homo:</b>&nbsp; I walked out during the end credits.&nbsp; Not because of low t-cells or anything- I just didn&#8217;t care about the extra scene. </p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hemo:</b>&nbsp; Sounds like this film should be sent off on the Starship Enterprise, to be reviewed in a future not so far away by the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 guys.&nbsp; Thanks for saving me some money, sorry your heroes let you down.</p>
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<p>Wanna know a hero who never let Steve of the Hemo2Homo Connection down?&nbsp; Dom DeLuise. This review is dedicated to the actor&#8217;s memory, who passed this month at the age of 75. </p>
<p>Positively Yours,<br />Shawn&nbsp; </p>
<p><img alt="dom.jpg" src="http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/dom.jpg" class="mt-image-none" style="" align="left" height="241" hspace="10" width="178" /><i>&#8220;<font style="font-size: 1.25em;"><b>Jim and I are heartbroken. </b></font>Dom was one of the <font style="font-size: 1.25em;">nicest </font>persons to me.&nbsp;<br />
When we met, I think I was very ill at the time. We were invited to a<br />
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increasingly immobile, we would see Carol, but never Dom.&nbsp; He was a <font style="font-size: 1.25em;"><b>genuinely hilarious comedian</b></font>.&#8221;&nbsp; </i><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8211; <a href="http://bonusroundblog.blogspot.com/">Steve Schalchlin</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<div><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Homo</b>: Hemo, I hear you&#8217;re home sick. </p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hemo</b>:&nbsp; Pesky little cold.&nbsp; Sorry I couldn&#8217;t make it to a movie this weekend.&nbsp; But I did make this killer movie poster&#8230;</p>
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<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Homo</b>:&nbsp; Nice work!</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s OK- I&#8217;ll entertain you by telling you about what I saw.&nbsp; Nic Cage&#8217;s deliciously bad new movie might be as bad as the last M. Night movie. In fact, I&#8217;m going to tell you the entire movie so that I can save you those two and a half hours of your precious life. </p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hemo</b>:&nbsp; Please, I just have a cold.&nbsp; Enough friends already thinking I&#8217;m dying of AIDS here&#8230;&nbsp; It&#8217;s just a cold, dammit!</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Homo</b>: &#8230; or is it?</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hemo</b>:&nbsp; Seriously, you were saying something about a movie?&nbsp; Nic Cage- let me guess,&nbsp; he has a peculiar expression on his face throughout most of the film?</div>
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<div><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Homo</b>:&nbsp; Just like the audience who sat through this one.&nbsp; You couldn&#8217;t have a better weekend to catch that death plague of yours.&nbsp; I will say this: if you enjoy hearing a woman shriek, you&#8217;ll like this movie.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hemo</b>:&nbsp; &#8230; I just got a little bit hard.<br />
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Homo</b>:&nbsp; Not <i>that</i> kind of shrieking, thinblood.&nbsp; This shrieking isn&#8217;t for any good reason; it&#8217;s a generic &#8220;helpless<br />
female&#8221; role designed to make Nic Cage look even more butch than he<br />
already thinks he is &#8212; and boy does he get butch as an astrophysicist.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hemo</b>:&nbsp; Wasn&#8217;t he one of those in that last thing he did?&nbsp; <i>International Treasurer</i>?  He hasn&#8217;t branched out since <i>Valley Girl</i>, my fave Cage flick of all time.</p>
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<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Homo</b>:&nbsp; <i>National Treasure</i>, bleeder.&nbsp; But Nic&#8217;s really tough in this one.&nbsp; He hits a tree with a baseball bat to keep a roving pack of<br />
Gothic Sting lookalikes away from his kid.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hemo</b>:&nbsp; Makes sense- gothic kids hate baseball.<br />
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Homo</b>:&nbsp; As excruciating as it was, its basic concept and execution are so far off the edge of kookoo that I&#8217;m starting to like it in retrospect.&nbsp; Before I go any further&#8230; <u><b>CAUTION TO READERS</b></u>: I will reveal <i>everything</i> about this movie. Do not read this if you don&#8217;t want to know the plot and/or ending of this movie.&nbsp;</div>
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<b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hemo</b>:&nbsp; They already stopped reading.&nbsp; So tell me more about the goth kids- you know I have a small goth following?</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Homo</b>:&nbsp; They&#8217;re just waiting for you to die.&nbsp; In this movie, these skinny, black-clad male models mysteriously hang out in the woods.&nbsp; They turn out to be aliens on a gay planet filled with Sting look-alikes. I think I rented that once already, only it was in one of those dark book stores your mama warns you about and it cost 25 cents per minute.&nbsp; </p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hemo</b>:&nbsp; The true sign of being old is having ever paid for porn.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Homo</b>:&nbsp; Nic Cage is getting up there.&nbsp; But he retains his youth by jumping onto a speeding subway and protecting a woman from getting crushed in a big CGI crash sequence by just crouching over her. I guess this was to protest the fact that he didn&#8217;t get to play Superman? </p>
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<b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hemo</b>:&nbsp; Why did you see this thing?&nbsp; I was unknowing of Knowing; never heard a thing about it.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Homo</b>:&nbsp; I never miss a macho physicist movie.&nbsp; The plot, such as it is, is about the End of All There Is. There&#8217;s a page of numbers, which turn out to contain Big Spooky Movie Secrets that have Hidden Mysterious Meanings.&nbsp;</div>
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<div>And, of course, there are two adorable children who talk to the Gay Goth Aliens, referring to them as &#8220;the whisper people.&#8221; Red herrings abound in act one along with A LOT OF BORING DIALOGUE, but there is a semi-cool plane crash (featured in the ads), complete with stunt guys running around on fire, the subway crash that&#8217;s very obviously CGI (also featured in the ads), and&#8230; Hemo?</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hemo</b>:&nbsp; *sleeping*</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>Homo:</b></span> Oh, dear.&nbsp; And I haven&#8217;t even gotten to the stupid parts.&nbsp; It has one of the most asinine out of left field endings ever, complete with little kids holding bunny rabbits for some inexplicable reason&#8230; Hemo?&nbsp; You know what?&nbsp; I&#8217;ll spare you all the ending. You might be up late some night and if nothing else is on&#8230;</div>
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<div>Anyway, my score for this movie: Two weary red-eyes closed.&nbsp;&nbsp; I guessing Hemo here would second that if he were awake.
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<p><b>The Hemo2Homo Connection</b> are <a href="http://www.mypetvirus.com/">Shawn Decker</a> and <a href="http://www.bonusround.com/">Steve Schalchlin</a>. </p>
<p>The creators&nbsp;met online in 1996, and<br />
posted their first movie review in 1998. Both have been living with HIV<br />
for over twenty years, and have annoyed their friends and loved ones<br />
for longer than that.&nbsp;
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</i><font style="font-size: 0.8em;"><b>Steve Schalchlin</b> resides in Los Angeles, CA. He is an award-winning musician, singer and songwriter. <b>Shawn Decker</b> lives in Charlottesville, VA.  He is an HIV/AIDS educator and the author of My Pet Virus.</font></p>
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<div style="font-family: Arial;"><strong style="color: #ff0000;">Hemo</strong>: <span style="border-collapse: collapse;">You know, Homo, I was worried when you said you wanted to review a film called <em>Watch Men</em>&#8230; thought we were moving into the realm of gay porn.</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><strong style="color: #0000ff;">Homo</strong>: You know what&#8217;s funny, Hemo, is that <em>all</em> my straight friends made this same joke.</span></div>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Hemo</span></strong>:  What wasn&#8217;t funny was the one thing that almost ruined this movie for me: straight dudes.  Anytime a penis appeared onscreen, a few groups of twenty-something &#8220;straight guys&#8221; felt the need to audibly gasp or giggle.</p>
<p><strong style="color: #0000ff;">Homo</strong>: I did think that for a CGI penis, Dr. Manhattan&#8217;s naughty bit did seem to have a little life in it.  Oddly, though, it also seemed perfectly natural &#8212; like seeing a big blue Greek statue.  This is a character who has more or less risen beyond his humanity, so little things like blue dangly bits don&#8217;t really factor into his universe of awareness.</p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">Hemo</strong>:  If I had Dr. Manhattan&#8217;s powers, my blue penis would have been the size of Manhattan.  Hey, didn&#8217;t you think he was the &#8220;positoid&#8221; of the movie?  Society made him feel so bad about the risk of spreading his &#8220;cancer&#8221;, that he isolates himself emotionally.</p>
<p><strong style="color: #0000ff;">Homo</strong>:  But can you be a positoid if you have no blood?</p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">Hemo</strong>:  You&#8217;re tripping me out.  Hey, did your partner in crime (crime being life), Jim, see this one with you?</p>
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<div style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><strong style="color: #0000ff;">Homo</strong>:  No, <a href="http://www.jimbrochu.com/">Jim&#8217;s in Florida</a> doing his Zero Mostel show.  Here&#8217;s a photo.</p>
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<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">Hemo</strong>:  <em>Badass!</em></p>
<p><strong style="color: #0000ff;">Homo</strong>:  Jim saw the movie and it passed his &#8220;butt test.&#8221;  And he HATES long ones&#8230;</p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">Hemo</strong>:  That&#8217;s why he&#8217;s with you.</p>
<p>Homo:  Long <em>movies</em>, bleeder&#8230; anyway, Jim is not a geek like me, and he said this almost three-hour movie came and went before he realized it was over. So, he was completely engrossed.  Did Gwenn see it with you?</p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">Hemo</strong>:  No, this trip to the movies was a sausage fest.  And I&#8217;m with Jim- I get lost in long movies, too.  People assume AIDS is the worst thing that ever happened to me, but that&#8217;s not true&#8230; it was having to sit through a long movie.</p>
<p><strong style="color: #0000ff;">Homo</strong>:  Which one?</p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">Hemo</strong>:  <em>Meet Joe Black</em>- part of me never left that theater back in &#8217;98.  I thought <em><a href="http://blogs.poz.com/shawn/archives/2008/08/hemo2homo_connection_the_dark_knight_review.html">The Dark Knight</a>The Dark Knight</em> was underserved by extending the movie by twenty minutes.</p>
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<div style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Homo</strong></span>:  Totally agree.  It didn&#8217;t really give us all that much to think about.  But it was fun.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><strong style="color: #ff0000;">Hemo</strong>:  Unlike the<em> Knight</em>, <em>Watchmen</em> did not leave me looking at my watch.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><strong style="color: #0000ff;">Homo</strong>:  That&#8217;s called &#8220;pacing&#8221;, young one.  Every scene gave you a ton of information.  And the characters were terrific!  Jackie Earl Haley as Rorschach is The Anti-Joker&#8230;</p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">Hemo</strong>: I thought his name was Horshack?</p>
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<p><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><strong style="color: #0000ff;">Homo</strong>:  Honestly.  Two lame jokes in one review?  Rorschach is insane and enjoys inflicting pain, but unlike Horshack, who does it with his whiny voice, Rorschach has a raspy nihilistic tone.  And unlike The Joker, he is a moralist.  So, the torture only goes to those he believes deserves it.</span></p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">Hemo</strong>:  The blood in this film surprised me as a hemophiliac.  Not since <em>Sweeney Todd </em>have I enjoyed such grand cinematic plasma fix!</p>
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<div style="font-family: Arial;"><strong style="color: #0000ff;">Homo</strong>:  It runs in the sewers!  And <span style="border-collapse: collapse;">Rorschach in prison is worth the price of admission. </span>That sabersaw incident (which I won&#8217;t describe) matches anything in &#8220;Saw.&#8221;  You definitely get your money&#8217;s worth of grisly gore.</p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">Hemo</strong>:  (somberly) You know, I&#8217;d like to think that- if I had more clotting factor- I could put together a suit and go out and fight crime&#8230;</p>
<p><strong style="color: #0000ff;">Homo</strong>:  Please let me dwell for a moment on what your costume would look like.  I know!  Paint your pee pee red and go naked! (It&#8217;s the homo in me. I had to go there.)  But seriously, as fellow positoids, we are bound together by our blood and purpose so that others aren&#8217;t afraid of our kind.  I saw <em>Watchmen</em> as a symbol of our abiding friendship as competitive good guys making things right in the world.</p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">Hemo</strong>: &#8230; so, am I a super hero?</p>
<p><strong style="color: #0000ff;">Homo</strong>:  Yes, but the only thing you bomb people with is your jokes.</p>
<p>A warning to our readers: <em>Watchmen</em> is a violent, complex, adult drama. It is not a &#8220;Let&#8217;s get together and fight the bad guy&#8221; kind of movie, though they describe, in the film, that that&#8217;s how super heroes in costumes started &#8212; cops dressing up in reaction to bad guys dressing up like gangs.</p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">Hemo</strong>:  I also enjoyed the dark tone of the movie, how the lines were constantly being blurred.  It&#8217;s like watching the Today show, you don&#8217;t know who the bad guy is, or if there even is one.</p>
<p><strong style="color: #0000ff;">Homo</strong>:  It plays like a novel.  Dense, intelligent and captivating.  In fact I went to see it a second time and liked it even more.  There&#8217;s so much in this movie, you can&#8217;t get it all the first time.</p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">Hemo</strong>:  Kind of like a Hemo2Homo Connection review, right?</p>
<p><strong style="color: #0000ff;">Homo</strong>:  Only if someone reads my parts.</p>
<p><strong style="color: #ff0000;">Hemo</strong>:  Yeah, yeah.  Enjoy your insults while you can, thickblood.  I&#8217;m off to go work on that red pee pee suit.  There are bigger things out there in the world for me to do than review movies.  You haven&#8217;t seen the last of me, Rorschachlin!  <em>Ha ha ha ha ha ha!</em><br />
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Is this the end of the Hemo2Homo Connection?  Will Shawn return as a masked avenger, and try to take over the Hemo2Homo Connection once and for all?  Tune in next time to find out!</em></p>
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<strong style="color: #0000ff;">Steve&#8217;s addendum</strong>:  Since I really liked this movie so much, I&#8217;d like to publish some additional thoughts after having seen it again. The best review I&#8217;ve read of &#8220;Watchmen&#8221; &#8211;the one I most agree with &#8212; is <a id="lpqt" title="here" href="http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2009/03/06/watchmen/index.html">here written by Andrew O&#8217;Hehir</a>. To tell you the truth, I&#8217;m a little peeved at the negative tone of many of the reviews, dismissing this intelligent, thoughtful and complexly difficult film outright as if it were a piece of fluff. That&#8217;s just too easy. For one thing, you have Alan Moore&#8217;s full permission. (He&#8217;s the rebellious author of the source material, a comic series now available as a graphic novel, who has refused all royalties or even allow his name on the credits). And for another, no one can convert a great work into another great work. One will always be a pale imitation of the other.</p>
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<div style="font-family: Arial;">But, taken on its own terms, I think &#8220;Watchmen,&#8221; the film, is, for me, a towering artistic achievement &#8212; and just like all towering achievements, it&#8217;s going to be loathed with great scorn. It&#8217;s not a light hearted &#8220;entertainment,&#8221; even though I found it riveting from start to finish. People who go to this looking for the airy vapidity of the &#8220;Fantastic Four&#8221; movie are going to be shocked. Not even Tarrantino is this grisly.</div>
<div style="font-family: Arial;">More, plot and characterization aside, it&#8217;s a stunningly beautiful movie. From the opening montage, which details the history of super heroes (in this alternate timeline of history where super heroes help win the Vietnam war and Nixon is on his third term), through the use of stylized publicity shots done in frieze, I knew I was in for a visual feast. This is real moviemaking. An epic scale telling a small story.</div>
<div style="font-family: Arial;">And, blessedly, it&#8217;s not merely an endless series of chase scenes and fights. It has terrific dialogue and deeply emotional characters with full life stories behind them.</div>
<div style="font-family: Arial;">It would have been easy to just dumb this story down and thin it out into a messy gruel (wait for the sequel for that), like they did with &#8220;League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,&#8221; but no. Director Zach Snyder stayed faithful to the humor and pulpy tone of the original and turned out a living novel that paces itself slowly and lets this dystopian world imprint itself into your brain.</div>
<div style="font-family: Arial;">Lastly, for a piece written 20 years ago, it seems terribly relevant to how the world still feels today as the media continues to paint a world on the brink of annihilation. We&#8217;re fed a steady stream of THINGS TO BE AFRAID OF and we start thinking that this is the reality of the world. But it&#8217;s not. That&#8217;s a narrative that&#8217;s been created and developed over a period of time.</div>
<div style="font-family: Arial;">Just like &#8220;Watchmen.&#8221;</div>
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More links: Alan Moore, who created and wrote the original Watchmen, talks extensively about the role of super heroes and comic books in </em></strong><a id="xnaf" title="this stimulating and tough interview" href="http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/17-03/ff_moore_qa"><strong><em>this stimulating and tough interview</em></strong></a><strong><em>. It&#8217;s well worth reading.</em></strong></p>
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<p><strong>The Hemo2Homo Connection</strong> are <a href="http://www.mypetvirus.com/">Shawn Decker</a> and <a href="http://www.bonusround.com/">Steve Schalchlin</a>.</p>
<p>The creators met online in 1996, and posted their first movie review in 1998. Both have been living with HIV<br />
for over twenty years, and have annoyed their friends and loved ones for longer than that.</p>
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</em><span style="font-size: 0.8em;"><strong>Steve Schalchlin</strong> resides in Los Angeles, CA. He is an award-winning musician, singer and songwriter. <strong>Shawn Decker</strong> lives in Charlottesville, VA.  He is an HIV/AIDS educator and the author of My Pet Virus.</span></p>
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<p><i>&#8220;You know, Steve, when you told me you wanted to review <b>Watch Men</b>, <br />I thought you just wanted to watch a gay porn.&#8221;</i> &#8211; Hemo (Shawn)</p>
<p><b>Decker.&nbsp; <i>Schalchlin.</i>&nbsp; Hemo.&nbsp; <i>Homo.</i>&nbsp;</b> </p>
<p>Back together again as the most dynamic movie reviewing duo living with AIDS.&nbsp; Witness their dramatic return to this blog on Monday, and go see the movie so you know what the hell they are talking about.</p>
<p>And. most importantly, don&#8217;t forget to dare to believe again!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://www.shawnandgwenn.com/15-years-of-aids-at-the-oscars/' addthis:title='15 years of AIDS at the Oscars ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>There&#8217;s a great article on Poz.com, written by the talented Mr. Bob Ickes. It examines AIDS impact at the Oscars. Check it out! Also, in my post-Oscar wrap blog, I mentioned that Heath Ledger wasn&#8217;t in this year&#8217;s &#8220;Death Montage&#8221; segment. That&#8217;s because he was there last year, since he passed in January of 2008. [...]]]></description>
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<h2>There&#8217;s a great article on Poz.com, written by the talented Mr. Bob Ickes.  It examines <a href="http://www.poz.com/articles/aids_oscars_2009_401_16170.shtml">AIDS impact at the Oscars</a>.  Check it out!</h2>
<p>Also, in my post-Oscar wrap blog, I mentioned that Heath Ledger wasn&#8217;t in this year&#8217;s &#8220;Death Montage&#8221; segment.  That&#8217;s because he was there <em>last year</em>, since he passed in January of 2008.</p>
<p>Ooopsily Yours,<br />
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