David Beckham Retires

David "Hot Legs" Beckham, 38, of Paris Saint-Germain FC (PSG) today announced that he is retiring from professional football (the sport which to North American's is better known as "soccer").

It is indeed sad news, even for those of us who have never given a damn about Mr. Beckham's football career, but have always enjoyed his great looking legs. Hopefully Mr. Beckham will continue his career as a model for men's underwear and swimwear a couple of years more.

European Song Contest 2013

The finals of the 58th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest is taking place this week, on May 14, 16 and 18, 2013, in Malmö Arena in Malmö, Sweden. This is after the song "Euphoria", performed by Loreen, won last year's contest. 

A total of 39 countries are competing. Six countries are already qualified for the final on Saturday May 18, these are the so called "Big Five" (France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain and Spain) and the host country (Sweden). The remaining 33 countries compete for a place in the final in two semifinals held on Tuesday May 14 and Thursday May 16. 

The ten countries that receive the highest scores in each semifinal then take part in the final on Saturday May 18, together with the six countries that are already qualified.

The town of Malmö, where I work, has during the past week been flooded with European artists and  musicians with their large entourages and many thousands of fans. In a rather small town like Malmö their presence is highly noticeable.

Although the ESC has been quite popular in Sweden the last years (especially among the gays), the event doesn't attract the same huge attention in many of the other competing countries, with the possible exception of the gay communities there.

Even if I am not a huge fan of the event I will at least have to try watch the final on Saturday to understand what everyone will be talking about next week.

Another Wonderful Brad

I know I have seem Brad Rowe in a couple of movies earlier, but I didn't really see him until I watched a movie with him on YouTube this past weekend. Brad is totally hot with a beautiful face,  the sexiest legs you can imagine and he is a great actor too!

The movie I saw was "Shelter", directed and written by Jonah Markowitz. I saw the version with Vietnamese subtitles as the original version had been blocked for copyright reasons. In spite of that, I was soon so moved and caught up by the beautiful story that I forgot my irritation with the subtitles.

In the film Brad Rowe plays the older brother of the best friend to Zach, the younger man who is the main character. Zach (played by Trevor Wright) finds comfort in surfing with Shaun (played by Brad Rowe) when his college dreams are sidelined by family obligations. The two men's friendship soon grows into love and we follow how Zach struggles  to accept that he is gay and the love they have for each other.

Its a wonderful movie with all it's Hollywood sleekness and glossiness.

What amazed me the most was that I had never heard of the film before, which perhaps is a sign of how out of touch I have been during the last few years. I urge you to see it if you can if you haven't done so already! And if you should have seen, why not watch it again?

Brad Rowe

Brad Rowe is straight and married and has a son. (Why are all the good men always either straight or taken or both, huh?).

Brad is however an outspoken straight ally. Well, he would be of course otherwise he would never had accepted the role in Shelter.

Now I am going to have to buy the DVD, because I will want to watch this movie over and over again.

Far Out!

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has been on the International Space Station since December 2012 and in command of the vessel since March. While in space he has, with the help of his sons Kyle and Evan,  built up a fan base back on Earth thanks to his Twitter feed of comments, photos and videos showing what life is like in space.

Here commander Hadfield takes farewell of the I.S.S. before heading back home to planet Earth yesterday after five months in space, by singing David Bowie´s "Space Oddity".

(via J.M.G. and others)

David Bowie's team seems happy about it too, as they should be.

CHRIS HADFIELD SINGS SPACE ODDITY IN SPACE!“Hallo Spaceboy...”Commander Chris Hadfield, currently on... fb.me/24sZNW5ly
— David Bowie Official (@DavidBowieReal) 12 maj 2013

Second Annual Spurt 24 hour DJ-Athon

Next weekend from noon on Saturday until noon on Sunday there will be a DJ-athon at Spurt Beach (SLurl) benefiting Second  Pride with 12 fabulous DJ's in 24 hours!

You had better mark the dates down in your calendars because I simply cannot believe you would want to risk  missing it!

Bubble

(via David Venter@DAVIDVENTER.NET)

Whooooooooa, Sebastian Castro tells us about what gives him pleasure. I have played this ten times in  a row already, I hope you enjoy it also!

I Am Doing Requests, Or Something...

As every good DJ and blogger knows, sometimes you must interact with your listeners or readers and give them what they crave.

Recently two of my longtime readers have expressed thoughts which I chose to interpret as discrete requests and therefor am going to fulfill in this post.

First I would like to address Chaplin Early and his novel idea on the "manscaping" of a mans nasal hairs. I will not comment on this, except for saying:
"Eeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...!"

Next I wish to honor Kahvy Sands request for recognizing and highlighting the ascension to the throne of his royal majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, my dear cousin and a friend of the Commonwealth of Southern Enchantment in SecondLife.

My cousin is the first male regent of the Netherlands in 123 years. He became king after his mother abdicated from the throne, she is now known as her royal highness.Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands.

In the picture below you see him with his consort her royal majesty Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, doesn't she look gorgeous in her coronation outfit and regalia?