In this broadcast, I've assembled selections from the award winning Brokeback Mountain Soundtrack. Argentine composer Gustavo Santaolalla's evocative theme opens and closes this playlist. In between you'll hear music from Rufus Wainwright, Roger Miller, Bob Dylan, Teddy Thompson and Bernie Taupin with performances by Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris. Download QVF Podcast Eleven (mp3) or Subscribe to the QVF Podcast Feed (iTunes, MyYahoo, Odeo, etc.).

In this broadcast, I present for your listening pleasure a few choice highlights from Sondheim's A Little Night Music. Selections include Now, Remember, You Must Meet My Wife, The Sun Won't Set and of course Send In The Clowns. The recording is from the Royal National Theatre's revival starring Judy Dench. Download QVF Podcast Eight (mp3) or Subscribe to the QVF Podcast Feed (iTunes, MyYahoo, Odeo, etc.).

In this broadcast, Latin Jazz is our theme. First up, three selections from Cal Tjader's album Soul Sauce: Guachi Guaro, Cuando Cuando Que Sera and Afro Blue. Next, a brilliant performance by guitarist Al Di Meola entitled Mediterranean Sundance. Then, the British Jazz Fusion group Acoustic Alchemy gives us the beautiful The Wind of Change. Download QVF Podcast Nine (mp3) or Subscribe to the QVF Podcast Feed (iTunes, MyYahoo, Odeo, etc.).

In this broadcast, we'll be exploring a few variations on the Jerome Kern standard All The Things You Are. First, Sarah Vaughan uses her sultry voice to lay out the basics for us. Then, you'll hear the sax of Sonny Rollins, the trumpet of Chet Baker and the piano of Keith Jarrett. Can you identify the other perfomers? Who's the guitarist after Sarah and whose magnificent orchestra concludes this playlist? Download QVF Podcast Ten (mp3) or Subscribe to the QVF Podcast Feed (iTunes, MyYahoo, Odeo, etc.).

In this broadcast, I'll be reading the fourth and final part to Annie Proulx's short story Brokeback Mountain. This was my second time reading a short story aloud. In an earlier podcast, I read the shorter story entitled 'Gravity' by David Leavitt. Write to me and let me know if I read too slow or too dry or too emotional or whatever. I welcome the feedback. *Read the text of the short story here. *Buy Close Range: Wyoming Stories - Annie Proulx's collection which includes Brokeback. *Preview the film adaptation theatrical trailer. *Watch an interview with film director Ang Lee about his film, the screenplay and the short story. *Download the Brokeback Mountain Movie Special as seen on Logo TV. (torrent file) *Browse numerous reviews - both professional and viewer submitted - for the film at MetaCritic. Download QVF Podcast Six (mp3) or Subscribe to the Queer Visions Podcast Feed (iTunes, MyYahoo, Odeo, etc.). This broadcast is 36 minutes in duration.

In this broadcast, The Reverend Seamus P. Coy finally answers the question "Is belief in a supernatural omnipotent god being necessary?" Then I'll be reading part 3 of Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain. Listen! 1. Faith Without A God Being by Reverend Seamus P. Coy The sincere and fictitious Reverend Seamus P. Coy explains the basic core power within all of us to make heatlhy balanced choices without the need to resort to superstitious wishful thinking. With a style described as "nuanced overacting" and "overt peculiarness", the Reverend has no doubt won wide support in some parts of a section of his hometown neighborhood. 2. Brokeback Mountain Part 3 by Annie Proulx "The film is gorgeous to look at from its opening scene — a truck winding its way across big sky country; the gray, wooly rivers of sheep the cowboys drive up the side of the mountain; and an impossibly idyllic buttery moon that flickers over those lust-hungry nights on Brokeback Mountain. Gustavo Santaolalla's score is spare and haunting." - from Towleroad's review of Ang Lee's soon-to-be released film version of Brokeback Mountain Download Queer Visions Podcast Five (mp3) or Subscribe to the Queer Visions Podcast Feed (iTunes, MyYahoo, Odeo, etc.). This broadcast is 22 minutes in duration.

In this broadcast, I will be reading two short stories. The first is by the award-winning gay author David Leavitt entitled Gravity. Leavitt's story explores the minute ways small everyday events take on special significance in the face of death and a mother's love. The second is by the award-winning author Annie Proulx entitled Brokeback Mountain in which an uncommon love story set in mountain country unfolds between the ranch hands Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist. Because of its length, I'll be splitting the story into four parts. I'll be reading the first part on this podcast. Listen! 1. Gravity by David Leavitt Among the many imaginative works --- poetry, prose, plays, memois, polemics --- written in an epoch of AIDS, when the very source of all creativity in certain quarters of our culture has been threatened, none is more powerfully succinct and more humansly moving than David Leavitt's "Gravity," in which the unspeakable is depicted in domestic and wholly convincing terms. The victory that constitutes the story's epiphany is a small one, but it is a victory. (excerpt from the introduction for Gravity in The Oxford Book of American Short Stories edited by Joyce Carol Oates) 2. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (part 1 of 4). Annie Proulx, a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, packs a tremendous amount of information and incredible prose in 58 short pages. "Brokeback Mountain" is a heart-wrenching, gritty novella about two tough ranch hands who meet on a job, and, inexplicably, fall in love. These stoic, impecunious, high-school dropouts, who live rough lives, are desperately in need of a job. Both Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist sign up with "Farm and Ranch Employment" and end up herding for the same sheep operation on Brokeback Mountain. Ennis is engaged to be married when he meets Jack and doesn't consider himself "queer." Neither does Jack. The two men embark on an intimacy that they feel is their own business, as long as it isn't hurting anybody else. It's just sex between two, lonely, horny, guys and it means nothing. When the summer is over and they part, Ennis feels horrible about leaving Jack. If, what they had together meant nothing, then why can't Ennis shake the bad feeling separation brings? (excerpt from Cheri Rosenberg's review of Brokeback Mountain on Amazon.com) Download Queer Visions Podcast Three (mp3) or Subscribe to the Queer Visions Podcast Feed (iTunes, MyYahoo, Odeo, etc.). This broadcast is 20 minutes in duration.

In this broadcast, I have assembled audio clips from various mainstream corporate media from those first days after Hurricane Katrina. Listen as previously 'well-behaved' and compliant newsreaders and reporters begin to show their humanity and reveal their outrage. They're 'not going to take it anymore'! Those who fail to grasp the depth of failures that have occured and all the important questions and concerns that have arisen are not allowed to get away with official spin and empty rhetoric. Listen! Hurricane Katrina cannot be blamed for all of the deaths occurring in New Orleans. The local, state and federal government failed those who - for various reasons - stayed behind. Confronted with the overwhelming suffering during the first week after Katrina, even mainstream corporate media could no longer ignore the ugly truths revealed about how our country neglects its poor. The excuses made by not just the leaders of our governmental institutions but also by fellow citizens - uninterested in confronting unattractive historic realities - revealed arrogant, dismissive, supremacist attitudes. 1. 2002 New Orleans Times-Picayune Newspaper 2. CNN's Anderson Cooper and US Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana 3. Fox News' Shepard Smith, Geraldo Rivera and Sean Hannity 4. CNN's Paula Zahn and FEMA's Michael Brown 5. NPR's Robert Siegel and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff 6. CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Jack Cafferty 7. PBS' Jim Lehrer, NYTimes' David Brooks, Boston Globe's Tom Oliphant and Chicago's Clarence Page 8. Nightline's Ted Koppel and FEMA's Michael Brown 9. CNN's Anderson Cooper and US Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi 10. CNN's Larry King and Celine Dion 11. ABC's George Stephanapoulos and US Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana 12. NBC's Tim Russert and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff 13. NBC's Tim Russert and New Orleans Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard 14. CBS' Bob Schieffer Download Queer Visions Podcast Two (mp3) or Subscribe to the Queer Visions Podcast Feed (iTunes, MyYahoo, Odeo, etc.). This broadcast is 60 minutes in duration.

The introductory theme music features the rhythmic nuances of an agile accordion doing the tango with playful percussive interjections and sound effects along the way. This is a fun piece I call "Absurdity" which leads to the first of our four segments: 1. "Time Is On Our Side" begins our pilot broadcast. This actually is the old Queer Visions Mission Statement turned into an over the top sermon as performed by the fictitious Reverend Seamus P. Coy. ;) 2. "Creation" is a yearning musical contemplation featuring the Harp and Electric Piano over a lush synthesized bass line. 3. "The Invitation" takes me into the deep waters of the poet Oriah Mountain Dreamer. This poem expresses beautifully many existential ideals I find inspiring. 4. "Out of the Darkness" could be considered my own version of William Earnest Henley's Invictus - an autobiographical statement of self-determination and resolve. My version used a dreamy trio of two clarinets and an english horn overtop a gradually building synthesized bass. Download QVF Podcast One (mp3) or Subscribe to the QVF Podcast Feed (iTunes, MyYahoo, Odeo, etc.). This broadcast is 19 minutes in duration.

In this broadcast, The Reverend Seamus P. Coy once again preaches fire and brimstone to those hypocrites who seek to devalue queer people. Then I'll be reading part 2 of Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain. Finally, a few extemporaneous thoughts from me. Listen! 1. Naturally Normally Queer! by Reverend Seamus P. Coy The fictitious and always bombastic Reverend Seamus P. Coy takes to the streets once again to spread the word that no one has the right to tell you your life or your love is unnatural or abnormal. In fact, those who do he calls hypocrites through and through. With a voice described as a mix between the Looney Tunes Foghorn Leghorn and disgraced televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, Reverend Coy implores us to "live in dignity, y'all". 2. Brokeback Mountain Part 2 by Annie Proulx Annie Proulx, a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, packs a tremendous amount of information and incredible prose in 58 short pages. "Brokeback Mountain" is a heart-wrenching, gritty novella about two tough ranch hands who meet on a job, and, inexplicably, fall in love. These stoic, impecunious, high-school dropouts, who live rough lives, are desperately in need of a job. Both Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist sign up with "Farm and Ranch Employment" and end up herding for the same sheep operation on Brokeback Mountain. Ennis is engaged to be married when he meets Jack and doesn't consider himself "queer." Neither does Jack. The two men embark on an intimacy that they feel is their own business, as long as it isn't hurting anybody else. It's just sex between two, lonely, horny, guys and it means nothing. When the summer is over and they part, Ennis feels horrible about leaving Jack. If, what they had together meant nothing, then why can't Ennis shake the bad feeling separation brings? (excerpt from Cheri Rosenberg's review of Brokeback Mountain on Amazon.com) 3. Transcending Thought Turds a personal reflection Download Queer Visions Podcast Four (mp3) or Subscribe to the Queer Visions Podcast Feed (iTunes, MyYahoo, Odeo, etc.). This broadcast is 20 minutes in duration.