“Andy Warhol’s Lonesome Cowboys may be a bit too much for many people, but that’s their problem. Lonesome Cowboys is a magnificent and very funny satire of the American Western that is liberally seasoned with our favourite 4, 8, 10 and 12-letter words and a cornucopia of carryings-on that is – in combination – perhaps unprecedented.”
/ Critic John L Wasserman of The San Francisco Chronicle /
Released on this day (5 May 1969) at New York’s Garrick Cinema: Andy Warhol’s joyous, freewheeling homoerotic X-rated Western parody Lonesome Cowboys (tagline: “Definitely not for the young-uns!”). I vividly recall seeing this one at an impressionable age at London’s legendary much-missed grindhouse sleaze pit Scala Cinema in the early nineties. (I say “sleaze pit” with love). I caught many Warhol films there (including Couch (1964), My Hustler (1965) and Chelsea Girls (1966)) and the pattern was consistent: the theatre would start full, there would be a steady drip of walkouts who couldn’t cope with Warhol’s “challenging” pacing and filmmaking choices, and by the bitter end there was just a handful of hardcore attendees left. I for one found Warhol’s underground pop art cinema entrancing (and sexy as hell). I haven’t seen Lonesome Cowboy in decades, but I remember it featuring Warhol’s most beauteous leading men (Joe Dallesandro, Louis Waldon, Eric Emerson and Tom Hompertz), a glorious moment of Dallesandro (in tight white jeans) go-go dancing with Taylor Mead, and a long, meandering monologue from Viva.
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Thank you @eyecandyeoz for doing this commission! Goes along with my Western AU fic.
Sheriff Hackett on his high horse 😅
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So, yeah, I made this. I was rewatching Brokeback Mountain last night, and immediately started thinking of Frosthawk AUs.
It feels like fate that Jeremy Renner wore the exact outfit that Ennis del Mar did in the movie.
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the ghost of one specific homosexual cowboy regularly possesses Tumblr gays
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Finally! Ch. 11 of my Western Romance Comic is up on WebToon!
https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/steal-away-to-me/list?title_no=774579
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