Johnny Murdoc

Today is artist Slava Mogutin’s birthday! His partner, Brian Kenny, took the occasion to post some great photographs of Mogutin:

It’s also Cosmonautic’s Day in Russia, and last year at this time I posted part of a poem by Mogutin. I’ve since removed that posting, so I thought I’d take today to repost it:

getting laid was just as complicated as getting drunk
everyone tried to get by the best they could
grechko and sevastianov secretly humping each other in the kitchen module of the soyuz-apollo station
at first it was tricky to figure out how to catch sperm so it flew all over the station occasionally smearing across someone’s face or the monitor’s screen
everyone getting high according to their own taste
some on pills some on powders some intravenously
mutual misunderstandings layered one on top of another
they say those who’d been in the k-hole had been to outer space
I’VE BEEN THERE I’VE DONE IT

You can read the rest of the poem at Mogutin’s blog.

You can see previous posts about Mogutin here, and Kenny here.

CRUSHfanzine interviews Brian Kenny:

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I’ve written about Kenny (and his partner Slava Mogutin) before, so it should come as no surprise that I have a huge homocrush on both of them.

Slava Mogutin posted outtakes yesterday from his photo shoot with his partner, Brian Kenny, for Butt Magazine’s 2010 calendar. There’s so many things I love in these pictures: Kenny, bikes, and dogs:

I’ve written about my love for both Kenny and Mogutin before, and I love any chance to post pictures of or by them. I thought I’d throw in some pictures that Kenny illustrated. I don’t know that I’ve ever posted any before, and that’s a major oversight:

Hope everyone has a good morning.

East Village Boys posted an interesting interview between two giants of the homo art porn scene, Bruce LaBruce and Slava Mogutin. I’ve written about both of them many times on the blog before (LaBruce posts here, Mogutin posts here), and I continue to be challenged, inspired, and aroused by both their work (and in Mogutin’s case, honestly, by him.)

The interview covers everything from Mogutin’s exile from Russia to his unreleased porn film, Food Chain, as well as his art-stunt activist marriage to Robert Filippini in 1994.

For us it wasn’t so much a political demonstration as an art performance and we could never imagine that it would attract a mob scene with reporters from all the main Russian and Western newspapers. We made headlines around the world and were hailed as Russia’s gay rights pioneers, which made us heroes in the West and a sore in the eyes of the Russian authorities.

(My father) used to say to his drunken buddies: “I have a beautiful but stupid daughter and an ugly but smart son!” So I grew up thinking that I was hideously ugly. It’s not until later that I started getting attention from gay men and became comfortable with my own body and appearance. One of the reasons that I did porn and posed nude was to prove to myself (and my father) that I wasn’t that ugly!

Photos from ‘Food Chain’ will be part of Mogutin’s upcoming show at Envoy Gallery.

(via East Village Boys)

CRUSHfanzine talks to artist Slava Mogutin, who (I think we all know) is one of my artist crushes. So this kind of made my day:

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