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Arpad Miklos, Perfume Genius Peek Under ‘Hood’
January 19, 2012 | 4 Comments
This past week, if you pay attention to the gay-media blogosphere, you’ve no doubt seen the many, many posts that have taken note of the manly presence of hairy musclebod Arpad Miklos in the new music video for Perfume Genius (a/k/a Mike Hadreas). It’s curious to note which stories involving one of our boys takes root and which simply disappears down the memory hole. (Not so many years ago, erotica stars were shot on sight if they ventured beyond the confines of GayPornLand.) This one is all over the place, on all the big gay blogs like JoeMyGod and Towleroad and HuffPo Gay Voices and Out.com and many others. The video “Hood” is from the forthcoming album Put Your Back N 2 It on Matador Records. CLICK HERE for more details, including a quickie interview with Mr. Hadreas about how he chose his burly costar. “The song’s about how if someone knew you, they would go away,” he says, and adds that he hasn’t seen any of Mr. Miklos’ blue movies. He chose a porn actor as a costar specifically, he notes, “to battle preconceptions and show that even a hulking porn star can have feelings, too.” The song has a delicate, fragile, Rufus Wainwright quality. Its YouTube clip has more than 37,000 views at post time.
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I would say it is just timing. Some weeks are slower than others, probably nothing more than that.
Well I am just about to see a revival of ‘South Pacific’, so perhaps ‘I’m going a wash that man right out of my hair’ is rather appropriate, don’t you think?
Did not expect to like this, but I did! What a pleasant surprise, it had good production, too. Very short, however.
Not bad at all, actually.