So it’s summer and the heat is upon us here in NYC, the AC in our office crapped out, and even our mighty editor Weston was sighted donning a pair of cut-off jeans!

We’ve shut the office for the weekend (for heat and sanitary reasons) and retreated to our friend Peter’s lovely rooftop deck. A gimlet in hand and some juicy sausages on their way… life couldn’t be better.

To share our heat and affection for you all, I knocked out a little summer rooftop playlist. It’s a mix of old and new, fast and slow… just how we like it at EVB… I hope you all enjoy it, and thank you for the wonderfully supportive emails you’ve sent us recently.

LOVE IS IN THE AIR AND WE LOVE IT!

Gobbledigook - Sigur Rós / I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You - Black Kids / My Mistakes Were Made For You - The Last Shadow Puppets / 24k - The Whitest Boy Alive / Pocket - Sam Sparro / Kids - MGMT / Kids In America - Kim Wilde / Rich Girls - The Virgins / Charmed Life (Frases’ Jacked Up Mix) - Pig Out / Strings - Assylum / Can You Feel It - Mr. Fingers / Radio Edit - Studio / Go Bang (François Kevorkian Mix) - Dinosaur L / Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears / Zenophile - Mylo / Club Tropicana - Wham!

So I can’t lie (well not very well) - I’ve never been to Iceland, although I was supposed to go last November with Søren, the boy I was kinda dating but then he met Marcus, who I was also kinda dating, which of course changed everything. So, no Recyatrip for me and no more Marcus… or for that matter Søren!

So I now have to console myself with a bottle of Brennivín and this delightful video for Sigor Rós’s latest track ‘Gobbledigook’ shot by original EVB Ryan McGinley.

Ok, so I’m in Paris, and by the way I don’t know what’s going on but FUCK the boys here are hot. Long shaggy hair is in in in. Anyway, there’s a show that opens here tomorrow about my daily fantasy, Gael Garcia Bernal.

The show is called “Saint Gael” by Vincent Gagliostro, who was nice enough to give EVB a preview of the show, so check it out. Vincent, by the way, is originally from New York, was a founding member of ACT UP and the political art collective GRAN FURY. Gay politics, activism, and incredible art. AMAZING! So, if you’re in Paris check out the show in real life at Miss China Beauty Gallery, 3 Rue Francaise, near Etienne Marcel, 1er, May 15 - June 9. I’ll be there rocking my cum shot shirt so say hi.

Vincent’s coming to New York in June, so count on EVB catching up with him in person!

From the artist’s statement:
SAINT GAEL (RE-USED)
statement: 1. (with a predatory gleam in his eye): “heaven’s mouth” - I thought, tearing his image from the magazine. The most beautiful mouth I had ever seen - Gael Garcia Bernal - a new subject.

Further retrieving images from numerous official and unofficial websites, it seemed I was moving from my original focus on his beauty to an encounter with my surpressed voyeuristic nature. Predatory nature. Musical nature. Music, because what I seemed to be on to was a kind of “sampling” much like a DJ/record producer does when creating a work.

Studying his (GGB) film “Y Tu Mama Tambien“, I started re-sequencing the images, removing bits here, adding bits there. For example, in one sequence Gael is fucking the girl companion of the roadtrip. By cropping her out of the movement and re-using the images I could bring my subject closer to my world of sex, desire and politics–three ideas inseparable in my fag world. This project has led me to explore my nature and find perhaps a new willingness to turn the cameras on me and my culture, gay men.

So here I am in Buenos Aires, I arrived last week, OMG its too much, I mean what more does a scruffy village boy need than mullet rocking scruffy boys, polo players and the tastiest meat I’ve ever had my chops around. Anyhow I’ll fill you in on the meat treats another day but I wanted to share this pic with you from a party I was at Saturday. It says something about doing your coke in the living room, not the bathroom. No selfish stashes in Buenos Aires, get it out and share… How civilised.

I used to be a sneakerhead, but it all just feels a little over…no? Once upon a time you could find a tasty pair of Ltd. edition sneaks (or trainers for our British friends), that were actually Ltd edition i.e not available in every Footlocker in the land. Now every neighborhood has a ‘rare’ sneaker store, and every banker to be found in the Meatpacking on a friday night is wearing them. So the search for individuality has become ever more strenuous. I can’t be paying $350 for a pair of Dior sneaks that look no different to All Stars, but I will pay $35 for these rather lovely Kung Fu shoes. Exclusively available at the Shaolin Temple in NYC’s Chinatown these sneaks are perfect  for all us boys who need encouragement to  ‘Train Harder!