LGBTQ film festival next week

Hi All!

Welcome to G Spot, where you can learn more about the gendered Budapest. In my section I bring you info on gender, sexuality in general and on some current events happening in Budapest related to these topics.

I will start by telling all of you about the LGBTQ film festival coming up between Oct. 26^th and Nov. 3^rd (LGBTQ stands for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transsexual Queer. If you want to know more about these sexual orientations go watch the awesome YouTube videos linked below). The Budapest Pride film festival first took place in 1993 under the name Hungarian Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and was held at the Toldi Theater, as it is this year as well.

Old man

Every day I go out, I see an old man. He is sitting on a small chair, on one of the crossroads I pass. I don’t see him straight away as he is hiding behind the house wall. Always when I approach the crossroads I look left and right to see if I can pass the road safely. Then I see him. Just in a reach of the arm. There he is. Old man sitting on a chair. Despite the weather, despite the time. Seems like he’s always there, all the time. What he is doing. Who is he?

Sleeping around. My opinion about Couch Surfing.

What is Couch Surfing I don’t need to explain, do I? OK just a quick revive to make sure we are on the same page.

Couch Surfing is an interned community driven website witch connect people around the world. So called host and guest. Basically hosts offering place to stay for guest, usually from another country, without expecting payment. Or at least payment in currency.

How to Turn a Really Poor Night Into A Really Good One

We hadn't gone out since we come to Budapest. Of course I could find plenty of reasons for that, but the bottom line is that this Saturday night out is our first one since our first step off the bus a few weeks earlier.

Invakanz

“Is there actually a word for this kind of inner conflict that overcomes you when you plan to go on a longer journey, but still have the possibility not to do it? The spirit seems to split in two parts: A courageous and youthful part of the brain that boldly, curiously and adventuresomely wants to break out of familiar conditions. And a risk-averse, convenient and matured part, that would rather anxiously stick to the familiar surroundings. But shortly after I decided to name this self-conscious wanderlust ‘Invakanz’ it disappeared with every step in fresh air like a slight headache.” (Walter Moers: The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books)

Scavenging for goods

As it is Friday, I wanted to work little bit on this blog, before I will go to our usual Friday meeting of editors and contributors.
Do you have those days sometimes? When you want to do something but there is something else to prevent you from doing that? I think we all have those days, probably every day. But this time it wasn’t the release of my favorite TV show or anything like that. More like hardware problems. My mouse broke. I’m using a laptop so I could switch to touch pad, but somehow I don’t like working on touch pad. I prefer an old fashioned mouse, or rat as I call it.

I decided to make a quick trip to a local game shop. Maybe they will have a computer mouse I could use, I thought. Unfortunately they didn’t. Well it is a game shop but you never know. What surprised me was all that junk laying around the streets. But not like rubbish after usual Saturday night in the city center. I’m saying authentic piles for all sorts of stuff. Chairs, wardrobes, bottles you name it. Some of it was actually good stuff.

Audiences And Cultures With A Performer's Eye (or: What Is It With Hungarians?)

You know how we say that music is the universal language, but we never mention how many dialects  there are. Not only that the users can be very different but there are many types of receivers as well. I know that very well, having been a performing artist for 12 years and having lived and performed in 3 countries it always strikes me how different audiences are.

How to travel to Budapest from Poland

There are a few good ways to come from Poland to Budapest, or to Hungary in general. The best starting place is definitely Krakow (Cracow). There might be a possibility to occasionally get a better price from other main cities of Poland but only on rare occasions and usually by flying only.

So let’s see what our options are.