Make it stop

Of course, it's an institution of higher learning in Sydney, Australia that's decided to announce that we've attained 'Peak Beard'  - i.e. in the coming years, we'll see a lot of hirsute men trading in their unkempt mouth-pubes for a more sophisticated appearance.

My one main problem with this medusa-esque approach to facial hair is simple: if it's bushy above, is it bushy below? - and do we want this? And if it's bushy above and NOT bushy below... well... erm, next please. I'll say this about the research by the University of New South Wales - I bet if we are flooded with images of men who manscape, there will not be a similar phenomenon of the bush becoming sexy. I don't know about you, but here's one situation where the principle of 'negative frequency-dependent selection' will not apply.

[photo from the first link in post]

Free Fall (Freier Fall) 2013 - Gay Movie Review

Rating - 8.5 / 10

The Quick & Nasty - Brilliant acting. Watch it for the incredible onscreen chemistry between the two main characters, Kay (Max Riemelt) and Marc (Hanno Koffler).

Review (spoilers ahead)
So there's this part of the movie where the two main characters are on the balcony again - and instead of the beautiful sun-kissed moments we had earlier (see my favourite part of the show below), it's overcast, one of them's been beaten up, and he turns to the other and says, 'you know how it is'.

And beyond their incredible onscreen chemistry (to rival even the likes of David and Fer from 'Fisica o Quimica') I think that statement was what tipped me over into a real appreciation of the film. I ended up at the end of the movie with this sense of familiar agony - haven't we watched this movie in a myriad of ways already? you know how it is. It's the the sexual awakening of a man coming to terms with this crushing attraction to another man while negotiating the preexisting relationships that crowd his life. So why then was I left mourning the end of the film, wishing that they'd thrown in one last glimpse of Max Riemelts incredible gaze as he dismantled Koffler's defences?