Still perving on our boys in uniform...
My field of operation has shifted somewhat as it does when faced with the our boys in olive drab and cammies, back to the Vietnam War and the show Tour of Duty.
Tour of Duty doesn't have a very big presence on LJ. There's a comm but it seems to be populated mostly with announcements for vid postings. ToD is one of the fandoms that's kept a large and very active presence in the yahoo.groups though and a very active and complete site call Notes From the Underground.
I've been pimping ToD like a mad thing to thisisbone *G* and it's made me want to watch the episodes again. I have all 3 seasons on DVD and it's been about a year since I've watched them.
If you've never watched the show but have a military kink and you have Netflix you might want to give it a try. It played from 1987-1990 and for it's time it was very gritty and realistic, down to occasionally killing off or wounding and rotating out regular cast members. The one thing I miss on the DVDs is the kick ass sound track that the show had that the DVD producers decided not to spend the money on. They replaced the great, original 60s music with a generic soundtrack. It's a shame really. But the show is still kick ass.
Being nostalgic over this time period has reminded me of a book I read a long time ago. I still have it and I think I'll dig it out and re-read. It's called The Boy Who Picked the Bullets Up by Charles Nelson. It was originally written in 1988 during the wave of popularity after the movie Platoon was released which, if you've never seen it, you really should.
The Boy Who Picked the Bullets Up is the story of Kurt Strom, a gay Big League Baseball player turned Navy Corpsman (closeted of course) serving with a Marine unit in Vietnam. The story is told in a series of letters he writes to 4 different people back home, only 2 of which know he's gay: his grandmother, who raised him and he calls 'Mom'; his old baseball roommate; and the ones who know he's gay - an old lover who remained a friend and his cousin Chloe. I originally thought I wouldn't like the letter format but I found this book absolutely riveting. The different voices he uses for each person and the way he disseminates information to each one is really fascinating. It looks almost schizophrenic in a way until you stop and think about the fact that we do the same thing in our own lives. Very few of us will talk the same way about the same information as we do with our families, people at work, intimate friends or fellow fen on LJ.
About 12-13 years later Nelson wrote a sequel called Panthers in the Skins of Men about Kurt's life when he's discharged from the Navy. It's told in novel form and it's not nearly as good. The original book was re-released in trade paperback when the second was released. They're both out of print but available used at ridiculously low prices, even with P&H.
Now, off to the first season of ToD. How can you not perv over one hot man giving mouth to mouth to another? And we're not talking trick photography here, we're talking full-on, slobber all over the other guy's face, mouth to mouth. *G* I really need to cap that scene and make an icon!
Tour of Duty doesn't have a very big presence on LJ. There's a comm but it seems to be populated mostly with announcements for vid postings. ToD is one of the fandoms that's kept a large and very active presence in the yahoo.groups though and a very active and complete site call Notes From the Underground.
I've been pimping ToD like a mad thing to thisisbone *G* and it's made me want to watch the episodes again. I have all 3 seasons on DVD and it's been about a year since I've watched them.
If you've never watched the show but have a military kink and you have Netflix you might want to give it a try. It played from 1987-1990 and for it's time it was very gritty and realistic, down to occasionally killing off or wounding and rotating out regular cast members. The one thing I miss on the DVDs is the kick ass sound track that the show had that the DVD producers decided not to spend the money on. They replaced the great, original 60s music with a generic soundtrack. It's a shame really. But the show is still kick ass.
Being nostalgic over this time period has reminded me of a book I read a long time ago. I still have it and I think I'll dig it out and re-read. It's called The Boy Who Picked the Bullets Up by Charles Nelson. It was originally written in 1988 during the wave of popularity after the movie Platoon was released which, if you've never seen it, you really should.
The Boy Who Picked the Bullets Up is the story of Kurt Strom, a gay Big League Baseball player turned Navy Corpsman (closeted of course) serving with a Marine unit in Vietnam. The story is told in a series of letters he writes to 4 different people back home, only 2 of which know he's gay: his grandmother, who raised him and he calls 'Mom'; his old baseball roommate; and the ones who know he's gay - an old lover who remained a friend and his cousin Chloe. I originally thought I wouldn't like the letter format but I found this book absolutely riveting. The different voices he uses for each person and the way he disseminates information to each one is really fascinating. It looks almost schizophrenic in a way until you stop and think about the fact that we do the same thing in our own lives. Very few of us will talk the same way about the same information as we do with our families, people at work, intimate friends or fellow fen on LJ.
About 12-13 years later Nelson wrote a sequel called Panthers in the Skins of Men about Kurt's life when he's discharged from the Navy. It's told in novel form and it's not nearly as good. The original book was re-released in trade paperback when the second was released. They're both out of print but available used at ridiculously low prices, even with P&H.
Now, off to the first season of ToD. How can you not perv over one hot man giving mouth to mouth to another? And we're not talking trick photography here, we're talking full-on, slobber all over the other guy's face, mouth to mouth. *G* I really need to cap that scene and make an icon!