Talk about being wiped out.

I'm stumbling through the day with a blank look, a fake smile, and feigned interest. Granted, I work in Hollywood, but still, I'd like to be a little real.  Since I can't be real -- I just don't have the energy -- I can tell you that I am incredibly happy.

I mentioned that I was pleased with what we got, shot wise. 11 pages of script. 5 pages of dialogue the first day, another 5 the second, with 1 page, and one day, for the visual, unnerving scenes. Did I mention there's a love scene, too?

 But it's not all quite what you'd expect....

I'll give some shout-outs later in the week when I can better reflect. Suffice it to say that everyone, both in front of the camera and behind it, gave 100% and did a wonderful job.

The performances, as they should be, are great. The capturing of those performaces was well done too. We should have a rough cut in a week or so.

We'll refine it, add a few FX shots, compose a score and then release it on the site. We might also wind up sending a version out on DVD.  We'll see.

I've included some behind-the-scenes images from the shoot. These are raw and right off of the camera.

I'll be tweaking some of these for the press kits, but for now, and because I love you doorQs, I'm sharing them as is,

I am though excited about seeing the bloody, final copy....

....and looking forward to the day my company can shoot someplace other than my bedroom.

Another update as things develop.

Finished....

More soon. 

Hey doorQs.

Just dropping in to give you a brief -- brief-- update on the homo horror short we're doing.

In a word? Awesome. It's looking like we have the right mix of unease, comedy, intimacy, sexiness and horror to provide anyone -- fans of short films, the actors involved, horror, gay stuff, me -- a good 10 minute romp. 

We knocked out the majority of the pure acting, story scenes over the last two days. We have a few smaller bits to do on Sunday, three no-dialogue scenes and one one word shot. Oh and we also get to streak blood all across my floors. Not real blood. Well, not that I'll admit to anyway.

Sleepy time now.

But... before I go. 20 points to whomever can tell me who this otherwise well known performer is in the image above.

Give up?

I'll tell ya' tomorrow. 

Hey doorQs!

Just wanted to drop in an let you all know that postings are going to be a bit hit or miss Friday, Saturday and Sunday. (Like no FRIDAY FLANIGAN...)

I'm taking part of my team and we're shooting a short for the It's-Going-To-Open-Sooner-Or-Later-Cthulhu-Damnit Theater. Homo Horror themed. Scary. Sexy. Just the kind of stuff everyone wants to see. 

JT Tepnapah and Brent Corrigan headline the flick. My usual rogues gallery of crew are at work behind the scenes to pull it off.

I'm going to try to drop off a bit of a bit of news here and there over the weekend and let folks know how it's going. This counts as one of those posts, as it's 3:30AM, we just got done with a round of rehearsals, and I still have the rest of The Six List to get out.

Six List.

How big is that? Can't think. Must sleep. 

More later.

So if you guys want to know what to get me next year for the Holidays, why don't you chip in, raise £100,000, and send me into orbit?

On Virgin Galactic.

"Test flights are expected to begin in June, with commercial flights starting 12 months later. More than 200 potential astronauts are believed to have already paid deposits for the £100,000 flights, including actress Victoria Principal, scientist Stephen Hawking, and Princess Beatrice. Flights will last for two hours and will include four and a half minutes of weightlessness. The 60ft ship is expected to reach an altitude of 110km - 68 miles - and will be launched from underneath a mother ship called White Knight (below). Once the mother ship reaches 50,000 feet, which was the cruising altitude of Concorde, the spaceship is released and its rocket is fired, accelerating the craft up to 2,500mph, and taking it to 110km, officially making its passengers astronauts."

I know a friend of a friend has already dropped the money to catch a ride when the flights start. When he goes, I'm going to see if I can get a comment from him about the experience.

Then I'll hate him with a club of envy.

Source: Towle Road

You know, I wasn't following PRINCE CASPIAN, the sequel to CHRONICLES OF NARNIA, all that closely. I didn't really care for the first film -- I called it "The Passion of the Kitty Christ" in my take-down -- and C.S. Lewis is one of my least favorite authors.

Okay, I find him pedantic, anti-Human, and down right booring. (Girls aren't evil for wearing lipstick and "liar, lunatic or savior" is about as logically lame as one can get.) I'll see it when it comes out, mainly because I watch movies, but I wasn't really looking forward to it like so many others. 

Be that as it may...

Damn if that Prince ain't stunning.

Caspian is played by Ben Barnes, who had a brief, but wonderful role in Stardust, a film I loved, and a film just nominated for a GLAAD media award .

From Stardust, Barnes is quite a good actor. He's no doubt going to do an awesome job in the role. Big question now is if the script for the film is going to be better than CHRONICLES, if our heroes are going to movitvated the plot or just be moved along with it, sticks in a stream.  Time will tell.The rest of the kids from the first film look quite good in the production stills as well.

If nothing else, the production values will be good. Of course, I want more.

For more pics from PRINCE CASPIAN, check out the article at IESB.NET

Ack.

TMZ.com is reporting that Heath Ledger, the Joker in the upcomming BATMAN film and a doorQ fave for BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, is dead at 28.

Sad.

Update: The NY POST has a story up that sleeping pills were found in his apartment. There's no evidence yet as to suicide or simple accident.

So you know those stories released last week that gays were spreading a brand-new, antibiotic resistant, super-staff infection due to our promiscuous, anti-family lifestyles? 

Turns out we aren't.

Oooops.

From Box Turtle Bulletin, a summary of the actual science involved:

...[W]e examine[d] some of the medical research on MRSA over the past two decades — there are over 750 articles listed in the PubMed Database on community-acquired MRSA — and reach several conclusions which should be obvious to anyone familiar with the subject:

• San Francisco is not the epicenter of the new disease, 
• this disease in fact is not new, 
• and gay men are not spreading it into the “general population.”

The overwhelming medical evidence actually shows the opposite — it’s the “general population” that’s responsible for spreading MRSA into the gay community.In our report, we examine some of the communities that have been hardest hit by MRSA, including:

• Cities all across the U.S. and around the world. 
• American Indians, rural Alaskans, Native Hawaiians, prisoners, and kids in day care; 
• A religious community in upstate New York; 
• Soldiers and sailors in the U.S. and on a ship at sea; 
• And athletes. Lots of athletes. The USC Trojans, St. Louis Rams, Miami Dolphins and Washington Redskins were all hit in recent years, as were other professional, college and high school programs around the country. (One study blamed “cosmetic body shaving and turf burns,” and the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine described MSRA as “the latest sports epidemic.”) 

But for some reason, there has not been a hue and cry over a “flesh-eating jock staph” threatening the “general population.” 

Youtube has several STAR WARS toy commercials from the late 70s and early 80s.

If you want an idea of what I looked, sounded, and acted like, check these out, for they have captured my after-school and weekend playtime life.

The bastards.

When last we left my future husband fearless hero of the SGC, John and his team-mates (like Ronan Dex...who kept making eyes at him the whole night) had just defeated a Wraith Cloning Facility, the secret to their victory over the Ancients. 

Having discovered the tracker left behind by Todd, their Wraith prisoner / unlikely friend / what the hell could he be?, John, Teyla, Ronan and Rodney ventured to the edge of Wraith space where a hive had managed to get said facility operational again with the help of a stolen ZPM, taken during the recent raid on the Replicator homeworld two weeks ago. 

Faced with the prospect of having to fight even more Wraith than they already were, with still more and more coming behind that, John did the only sane and sensible thing: he crashed a damn hive ship into the facility.

I do that too. It looks like the hood of my Mustang meeting the wall of my garage. But in my imagination...

And Teyla learned a lesson about not taking on Wraith queens with a baby on board.

D'uh.

Tonight, the team faces a new crisis as the City goes on lock-down, after the Atlantis computer detects a contagion loose in the city.

It's probably that secret, simmering heat between John and Ronan.

Check out the trailer for tonight's episode here: SciFi.Com

Six is a queer number.

Sure it's easily divisible, the double of three and hand full of twos, but it's also a little out of place. We think of two as being a perfect love, three as being a guilty pleasure, four as stability and five as a reasonable space. Seven is lucky, rare, but hoped for. Six... six is just... queer.

It's with that queer spirit then that we inaugurate a new feature here at doorQ.com: The Six List.

Each week we're going to post a new topic for the list. Each day we'll post one of the members of the list. Each weekend we'll review the list and encourage you doorQs to give us yours. Pretty simple, huh?

And if you happen to be thinking this is just an excuse for us to post hot, stunning pictures, we're simply shocked (shocked!) that you'd hold such a cheap and shallow view of us.

And now for the first list:

The Six Hottest SciFi Messiahs

Big things and big ideas -- the hallmark of SciFi. With the big ideas come big dangers, earth shattering and universe destroying dangers that seek to destroy everything we've ever known. Not to fear though. There's always someone, somewhere, willing to step up to the plate and guide us to a better tomorrow. Someone with a sense of vision, of hope, of possibility.

Someone great.

Someone hot.

And #6 on that list? Captain Jack Harkness, Torchwood.

Though monsters becon, aliens threaten and friends often fail, Captain Jack stands steadfast in the night. Sure he might take a break to snog a beautiful guy (Or girl. Or eight tentacled Trevadore from Triaxis Three), when things are at their worst, Jack always manages to make things right. While little is known about his true begginings or endings, his constant, timeless presence is as reassuring as Haagen-Das.

Or a blaster.

The Six List.

Once a day.

Twice on Friday.

All at once on the weekend.

It's just like Sex.

Starting tomorrow on doorQ.com. 

When last we left my future husband STARGATE: ATLANTIS' Colonel Shepard, played by the wondglorious Joe Flanigan (did I mention he's my future husband?) our stalwart hero had just managed to defeat the Replicator Menace once and for all.

Sure, he had to make an alliance with the Wraith, deal with the duplicitous leader of the Travelers (who has the hots for him... he's mine, bitch!), and accept a sentient weapon made by the just slightly mad Rodney McKay, but at the end of the day, he got it all done right?

And how was he to know that there was just a weeeeee bit of left-over business in the debris field remains of the Replicator home-world? I mean, even I didn't see that one coming!

Tonight, the Team wonders whatever happened to their evil allies, gets an answer to those ponderings, and wishes, perhaps, that they never went there in the first place.

You know though who I'd like to see go there?

Ronan Dex.

I'd like to see him go into Shepard's occupied quarters.

Late at night.

Wielding only his pistol... 

Oh, Cthulhu, won't you come and eat us all now?

Submitted for your denigration: Star Trek: The Lost Episode, "Mission to Planet Atheist."  (And no, it's not a parody.)

In other news, India is gunning to take us down as world leaders in science and innovation.

Source: Pam's House Blend

Ripped from the headlines, indeed.

Turns out that last night's LAW & ORDER (I don't just watch scifi shows) had a bit of scifi twist -- and a gay themed one at that. The murder mystery hinged on a geneticist who was in the middle of patenting a pre-natal screening test for a gay gene, the family fall-out it caused, and the reasons to kill it provoked.  

The territory was nothing that hadn't been covered years ago by the play / movie TWILIGHT OF THE GOLDS. What was fun for me as a doorQ and as someone who has followed each new discovery in the etiology of sexual orientation, is just how far out of the realm of speculation we've come since GOLDS was staged to how close to reality a genetic screen for a marker highly correlated with the development of homosexuality (yes, that's a pretty wordy bit there, but it's the most accurate way of describing what's coming) truly is. 

The GOLDS movie, and now the L&O episode, milk the abortion angle as an outcome pretty strongly, and indeed, it is one of the most likely scenarios when... and it really does seem like a "when" as far the genetic markers are concerned... a test can be devised. The selective elimination of gay babies is a serious concern.

While sure we haven't seen the last of the finding a gay gene leads to abortion scenario, I think it's time we move beyond it. I'm more interested now in what the effects on the gay community itself are going to be -- beyond the obvious -- when such events are commonplace. How are we going to feel about abortion, child-raising, and conception itself? We gays tend to tilt to the liberal end of the spectrum.

More over, what is the impact on society, on humanity, going to be if such a test becomes commonplace. If tens of thousands, if millions of gay babies are aborted, what happens to the fabric, the richness, the diversity of society as a result? What gets lost? What gets gained? What happens when guys without those genetic markers get drunk and suck each other off anyway?

Bully for L&O, a mainstream show, for bringing the issue up. Again. But it's up to us, gay writers in general, and gay filmmakers in particular, to explore the deeper ramifications of what is, very soon, going to be science fact. 

And you know as well as I that the science fiction genre is the perfect place to do this. 

A very exhausted James IM'd me that he fixed the frak-up that came from trying to migrate to the new server. We're still stuck on the old server, but all of the mail and database functions should have been restored.

If you were having any problems logging in, those should be fixed.

In turning his attention back to the theater and the forums, he found that he'd never enabled the "Upload Profile Picture" feature to doorQ.With a few tweaks, twists, and levelers pulled, he's rectified that and transfered said code from the Beta test-bed to doorQ. 

If you click the "Settings" tab up thar on the far right, you'll see a new tab displayed for "Profile Photo." Instructions are pretty simple.

If you want, take a minute and upload a pic of yourself... nothing X-Rated (yet). I will hunt you down and kill you if you do -- and let the world see you in all your doorQiness.

James is back to work on the theater.

It's coming. It's coming...

Well, I guess I can die happy.

After Elton gives us the first look at the Mega-Man-Mac between my favorite Former Con-Man turned Galactic Hero, Captain Jack and my favorite Former Vampire turned Galactic Con Man, Spike.

Well, really it's John Barrowman and James Marsters, but why let real names get in the way of my fantasies, eh?

We linked before to the extended trailer for Season Two -- but those sneaky brits kept this lip-lock a secret from us, with nary but a come hither look traded between Jack and Spike... or whatever his name is in this series.

Another three weeks to go until TORCHWOOD, Season Two launches on BBCA.

Totally random but interesting nonetheless, here's an article from Orac over at Science Blogs outling how your colon works, how it passes um... poo... and if you really need to worry about "detoxifying" yourself, especailly after this past season of Holiday excess. 

And for the record, no, I don't regularly search the web for Poo.

I search cable for it.

If you're younger than 35, you'll probably live long enough to have sex, fall in love with, and perhaps even marry a Robot, argues David Levy in Love + Sex With Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships. 

Levy lays out his vision of a Brave New Carnal World in Love and Sex With Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships, which, despite its extended riffs on sex toys through the ages, is a snigger-free book. Levy's no Al Goldstein. Rather he's a 62-year-old British chess master turned artificial-intelligence expert persuaded that robot sex can brighten the lives of many, many unhappy people. "Great sex on tap for everyone, 24/7,'' he writes on the final page of the book. What's not to like?

Levy thinks this will take place by 2050. Given some of the dates I've had, I wonder if it isn't here now. (And I don't mean because the dates were great...)

Given the powerful role sex has had on technology in our culture ---lets not forget that one of the most powerful engines in the VCR, Digital Video, and the Web revolutions were the creation and consumption of porn--- it does seem likely that we'll be dealing with some pretty curious robot issues relatively soon. 

"Mom? Dad? I'm a Robosexual..." 

I think Tannhauser missed this.

Or he's sleeping.

Or he's drunk. 

Anyway.

Looks like we have a winner in the DVD 2.0 wars.

Everyone... and I do mean everyone... is reporting that hot on the heels of Warner's anouncement that they're going Blu-Ray later this year, the Toshiba backed HD-DVD consortium cancelled their presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show this week.

Warner's going gay, I mean Blu-ray, apparently is a serious, serious blow to HD-DVD's long term health. I think Im going to go get a PS3....

Endgaget has a bit more behind the scenes info.

Can someone just get me Joe Flannigan for my birthday?

Please?

I promise I'll treat him well. Walk him. Feed him. Bathe him...

*slap*

Umm... anyway.

SciFi Channel is having a Joe Flanigan Stargate: Atlantis Marathon all day today, leading in to Atlantis' "Winter Season" premiere tonight at 10PM.

Sure, they break the winning streak of Flannigan Fabulousness with the foul Flash Gordon -- does anyone watch FG, and if so, how can you do so without your head exploding from the sheer lousiness of it -- but nothing is ever perfect in this world.

Except Joe's beautiful eyes.

And smile.

And perky--

*slap*

Joe!

*slap*

Jooooeeeeeee!!!!! 

Gratuitous, Non-SciFi Shirtless Pic of Joe:

It's a behind the scenes picture, so no clues as to the larger story.

Buuuuuuuuuuutttttttt......

Is it just me, or does it look like these two are about to, you know, man-mac madly?

Anyone?

{cricketts chirping.}

{more crickets chirping.}

{still more crickets chirping.}

ARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHY!!!!!!

{Various doorQ.com contributors restrain Jody}

I'm okay!

{Various doorQ.com contributors slap Jody}

 Ow! Alright! I'm okay. Jeez. That's coming out of your pay.

{Contributors return to their crypts} 

 *sigh*

You know, as much as I say I know Hollywood is about commerce first... As much as I admit that I'm okay with that... as much as I've agreed to deal with the devil on those terms in order to weasel through the cracks and endevour to make something -- anything-- reasonably good... I read about films like this and find one more sacred movie from my childhood raped, dismembered and displayed upon the defiled sacred counter-space of Captain Kangaroo's home.

Oh, Mr. Moose. Mr. Moose...

I didn't know they were making Lost Boys 2: The Tribe -- a sequel to the horror film we deemed to contain the Gayest Scene Ever -- and now that I know, consider me nonplussed. Not so much about the fact that they made the film (considering the box office and DVD sales of the first one, it's surprising they waited this long) but given that it's going direct to DVD, it's probably going to be bad.

And I'll watch it anyway.

Why?

Cute guys  (he played gay in his last movie)... Blood... Monster Staking... More Blood... Did I mention cute guys? 

I'm a doorQ. 

*sigh* 

Source: Toxic Shock 

Behold, The doorQ Report, the first in an irregular series of PDF magazine communiques from doorQ.com.

"Magazine Communiques?"

What the frak is that, you ask?

Why put out a PDF document -- admittedly a nice looking PDF document but a PDF document just the same -- about a daily website when there's, you know, a daily website?

Marketing, my doorQs. Marketing.*

As we endeavor to expand our reach, provide more content, and generally be one of the best sites out there, The doorQ Report is a simple little tool to provide people a taste of doorQ.com. I know it sounds counter-intuitive, but sometimes it's easier to read a PDF document than it is to go to a website

TdQR#1, puts the doorQ.com experience in an easy to share little magazine-thingy. Read it and enjoy it for yourself, but more than that, pass it on to someone. Give it to a friend or post it in a place, real or virtual, where other doorQs might find it. Word of Mouth -- and shared PDFs -- are the best way to grow a site.

TdQR makes sharing just a little easier.

Click here to download the PDF. 

*okay... I also always wanted my own magazine... I admit it. Are you happy now?