archive for January, 2003

in the middle of our street

a london love story
a london love story — wouldn’t that be nice?

i had started re-reading the symposium by plato just a few days ago… partially because i received two copies of it for christmas, partially because i thoroughly enjoyed reading it the first two times back when i was dating duane, and also because i’m feeling like i’m at a very strange emotional/relationship/love sorta point in my life.

this feeling, this state is uniquely different from my neverending quest to find a husband… it’s a desire to experience some happiness, some love, and to put some meaning back into my life. it’s no coincidence, then, that after a boozy and sorta fun but very unloving evening out with simon, his mate chris and my mate mark on tuesday, i woke up on wednesday in a fit of romantic depression. i hadn’t seen simon in a week, and this was our first rondezvous, and, on top of being generally bitchy and mean to me, he left early in a huff over his cocktail being too watery.

so, yeah.

on wednesday i did quite a bit of work, but by the time the cold london evening set in, i decided to have some red wine and enjoy a film. miraculously, my long-lost dvd copy of hedwig and the angry inch had reappeared in my living room, so i dimmed the lights, and settled in to watch this madcap musical about finding that one person that completes you, and trusting destiny and fate and ignoring whatever life throws at you.

yeah, your sterotypical musical crap-ass mush. but, it’s exactly what i needed, and i was absolutely engrossed in it from start-to-finish. and, coincidentally, hedwig borrows many of its strongest themes from the symposium — the origin of love being really nothing more than a reunion with our other half, literally, the other human that we were physically attached to before the gods cut us into to separate people.
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region rat

i feel incredibly embarassed for laughing at this forward from my sister, kimmy. but, i keep it real and am true to my roots. yo.

Forty-eight ways to know if you are a Region Rat (Northwest Indiana):

48. Oil tanks are more common than trees in your neighborhood.
47. You dont know anything about farming…at least not legal farming.
46. When you need to run out to the store you go to Jewel.
45. You call the interestate the “Tollroad”
44. You know what good pizza tastes like, and its not Papa John’s.
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free lance!

routines are a form of programming, a way for modern society to control its worker ants and prevent them from all sitting in cafés and smoking all day or rising up against the McGovernment or cutting off their [collective] ears.

for the past year now, i’ve had absolutely no routine. none! my friends always tell me, wow it must be so great working remotely for an american magazine and man you can sleep whenever you want to and i bet you don’t even do any work! well, it was quite nice in the beginning, but i’m just slowly turning insane!

sometimes i have to stay in on friday nights and have conference calls with my colleagues in the states. sometimes i talk with my boss at 10am when i wake up [2am his time]. sometimes we chat at 4am when i stumble home from a club [8pm his time].

most days, though, i wake up around noon, chat with the boss, and then spend the next 6 hours or so doing what most normal people do between 800am and 830am each weekday morning. i kinda wake up, check my email, have some coffee, listen to some music, surf the web, send an email, chat with a friend online, eat something, get the mail, watch some teevee, do some work, take a shower, change the music, send an email, fix my hair, put a shirt on, shave, watch some teevee, brush my teeth, chat with friends on the phone, put some trousers on, do some real work, and then — whaddaya know — it’s like 7pm already.

it’s insane, and causes all sorts of psychological problems. last night i fell asleep at 11pm and felt guilty since i knew i wouldn’t have my nightly chat with my colleagues. but, sure enough, when i woke up this morning, we had our morning chat. my colleagues usually have no idea when i’m working 16-hour days, but at the same time they usually don’t know when i’ve tiptoed out of the country for a few days.

but all of the things i complain about are all the things i love as well — freedom, flexibility and challenges. i get to interview celebrities, run an incredibly popular website, haul heavy boxes of magazinees all over london, haggle with insane accountants, shmooze with london glitteratti, do loads of manual labor and pretend that i’m important.

i just wish, right now at 249pm, i had some clear notion of what to do this afternoon. i’ll start by putting some clothes on.

sous le dôme épais où le blanc jasmin

maybe he's not a washed up 80's icon.  maybe.
nobody touches the hat!

around 8am or so i found myself discussing politics with this lovely english lad named robin, whilst queueing for the toilets at beyond. i’ve gotten used to shorthanding a few key political issues in order to fast-forward past idle chit chat. robin, unlike most lads i chat up whilst queueing for drug-ingesting cubicles toilets, didn’t expect me to defend “my” president, george dubya. he also didn’t take the piss, understood my piqued interest in things like pmq [prime minister's question time] and how a cute gay boy like himself could be a tory. he mentions to me that he works as an aide at the house of commons and insists that i swing by sometime for a tour. in my 8am haziness, i share my excitement by stating, wow! to me, that’s would just be… just be… i mean, take the west wing for example, i mean… you know… to me…

and then i trail off, ashamed that i couldn’t successfully complete a sentence. we chat some more, and i mention that the only other person i’ve talked politics with was my friend blythe. i go on, telling him that blythe is a good friend of mine, and that he’s enlightened me on how a gay boy could just align himself with the tory party. i don’t mention that blythe just broke up with his boyf, or that i snogged him for a half hour just the previous evening.

he smiles, and sheepishly looks at the ground, before telling me that he’s the boyfriend that blythe just broke up with. what an amazing coincidence, but at the very same time, just another piece of evidence supporting my [not incredibly original] belief that my life is a tv show. eric is a self-centered egomaniac. yay, eric! :roll:

wigout at .ghetto was spectabulous as always, and as long as popstarz simon keeps the guestlist love flowing, i’ll keep bringing my mates, their dancing shoes and their alcoholism. for a white boy, i think i’ve got some pretty good moves worked out for punjabi mc’s mundian to bach ke. it’s amazing how quickly 5 or 6 hours at just one club can whiz by when surrounded by lovelies such as as atif [who forgave me for molesting his new boyf], .gregiño [who forgave me for molesting his obsessesion], mark [who forgave me for wearing his shirt] and the rest of the cast of ghettofabulous characters.

my dancecard was full until about 5am, when mark, atif and i schlepped it over to beyond. it was the first time eric had to queue for anything in a very long time. i really really can’t handle queueing. i’m not trying to be all bourgeois and pretentious and elitist and classist and haughty-taughty. i’m just saying, that if i have to choose between queueing for 60 minutes to get into great club, or queue for zero minutes to get in to a good club, i’ll always choose the latter. it’s also why i’m the last to board and last to get off every plane flight i take.

boy george started fiddling on the decks around 8am or so… and, for once, his music, his selecta, his mixing were actually far more interesting than his hat and eyeshadow combined.

ooh, don’t i sounded like a jaded queen! :cool:

personally, my few runnins with him have left me thinking that he’s a total prick… not that we can’t be friends someday [i have several friends that are total pricks], but he’s just not entirely likeable, at least not when in public/gay environments. i’m also a bit put off, since the last few times i’ve heard him spin it’s sounded more like a derailed wedding reception than a world-class superstar deejay. poor chunes, poor mixing. but, last night was ace, and mark and i spent some time wedged into the sweaty dancefloor — between the circuit boys and the fan dancers.


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it’s not like i have too much time on my hands or anything, but i’m really thinking evijhserf and bloghserf need a visual [thematic] overhaul. dark orange is proven to bring out fits of hair-pulling and arm-licking in laboratory monkeys.

mmmmmmmmm saul bass
title sequence from catch me if you can

i’m thinking a healthy scoop of saul bass coupled with some schipol airport signage. mmmmm… yes. to get a good flavor of what i’m thinking, you should check out nexus production’s brilliant title sequence they did for the spielberg/dicaprio/hanks flick catch me if you can. visit nexus’ website, then click work, showreel and then catch me if you can

cockeyed

i’m in love with rob. you really should check out his antics at cockeyed.com.

specifically, i love:

and the must-read

  • pranks [thoroughly thought-through, but usually subtle]

oh, and it somehow caused me to stumble across some of keith haring’s early work doing sketches around the new york subway system. long live the interweb!

lemon merengue

twink porn
every-now-and-then-i-get-a-little-bit-lonely-and…

i was on the verge of staying in last night, just me, some wine, a nice meal and the 7 BBCs when the phone calls started coming in. i’m glad my mom paid all my friends for the month so that i’d have people to play with! thanks, mom!

i was feeling very dark, a bit gothic almost, so i decided to wear my black-on-black depeche mode tee that i had never really worn out before. okay, that sounded really lame. what i mean to say is, rather than my usual punky/funky/skater/preppy clubwear, i dressed a bit darker than usual.

scooped up .gregiño from work, and headed into soho. it was obvious to all parties involved that there was no way eric could possibly stay in on a friday night. cousin michael didn’t show up [which is, of course, no surprise, but worth noting for the record] but instead we had the lovely atif with his beau from last week, straight john.

i really fancy straight john. he knows it, atif knows it, greg knows it. it’s dreadful. i can’t be stopped nor helped. he’s cute, he’s friendly, and he’s really truly innocent! like, a month ago he was living a happy straight life in wales or isle of white or wherever the hell he was, and now he’s freshly transplanted to london. it’s like sitting in a sushi restaurant at the start of the conveyor belt so you get first dibs on the spicy negihama maki rolls. atif knows me entirely too well, and did his best to keep my slimy claws off of john for the evening. i mean, they were on a date for chrissake! i really should be neutered.

so, yeah, we kept plying each other with cocktails and such at escape and then friendly society, which lubricated :shock: the situation nicely. greg had managed to convince us all to join him for the cock at the ghetto [not to be confused with ghetto cock] but we quickly defaulted to .popstarz after weighing massive queues at .ghetto versus guestlist at .popstarz.

at sahara nights i met up with darian, where we chatted about kevin and his disasterous photo shoot, boyfriends and birthdays. when i first met darian, i [jokingly] referred to him as my internet stalker, and was mildly freaked by his sexual prowess — whereas now i thoroughly enjoy flirting with him, knowing that he’s married or whatever.

none of my usual stalkers or stalkees were at .popstarz, which was a refreshing change, and allowed me to enjoy myself by dancing rather than chatting — i swear, if there’s one thing i learned from my 6-night affair with justin timberlake, it’s that sometimes a boy’s gotta just work it on the dancefloor. well, i learned that and also how to pick handcuff locks when someone accidentally loses the key by leaving at at their ex-girlfriend house.

the two brothers of ben from last saturday were there, and, for some reason thought they could make out with me just by buying me drinks and playing with my necklace. hrmph! after 20 minutes of that i had to make it clear that that sort of behavior is just not allowed! i slipped my card into each of their back pockets, so maybe they’ll pass it along to ben like good boys.

so, in addition to snogging my good mate’s date, i also snogged tim, greg’s #1 object of affection. do i have no morals? do i not appreciate my friends? cuz i certainly know that if i were in either of their shoes i would be fuming mad. dunno what to say, except to reiterate that, yes, i should be neutered.

over the summer, i spent a great deal of energy trying to seduce blythe… he’s so incredibly english. i may play down my love for fish and chips, avoid letting people know that i drink tea, and that, yes, i do get a bit of a thrill when boarding a red double-decker busbut i have no shame admitting that i am a sucker for an over-the-top english accent. blythe has the best — and he loves discussing overtly english topics such as cricket and tory politics and raising horses. if you search [at right] for his name in my blog, you’ll find that i gave up my seduction when he acquired a stable boyfriend some 6 months ago.

well, last night they broke up. being a friend, i consoled him for at least 3 minutes before putting the moves on him. i mean, really, i do have some morals! :mrgreen: after doing our thang in the beat bar, we went downstairs to dance, where, within minutes he’s locking lips with the cutest twink on the dancefloor. bastardo!

i dried my tears on a short lesbian dancing next to me, and danced all by my lonesome for, say, oh, 2 songs when i noticed that blythe was gone, and the boy he was with was now innocently dancing next to me.

i smiled, he smiled.

i nodded, he nodded.

and that pretty much sealed the deal. no idea what his name is, and he thinks that mine is aaron. he’s 17, a stunning kisser, and, well, i think i want me another slice of that cake.

small-town slut

i grew up in whiting, indiana, population 5,000. poor suburban me. woe was me. poor me. oh it was miserable. i had to walk five miles in the ….

anyway, it probably goes without saying that my life didn’t truly begin until i ran off after high school graduation to the spectabulous land of los angeles. if only i had some way to enjoy myself during the first 17 years of my existence, in smalltown, usa.

if only i had raymi’s guide on how to be a small town slut.

be sure to check the brothers, friends section — charming! :twisted:

thanks, jerwin

iLame

jonnyjonny in action
iSketch, therefore iLame

oh mi gawd, iSketch is so addictive and fun. it’s online pictionary, except that it’s really high-tech and fast-paced. i never ever play online/video games of any kind, but this really takes the cake. :shock:

thanks, mike

travel bug

ooh my travel bug is itching. i need to scratch it. big time.

i went to miami for christmas, which was lovely. it was relaxing, and fun. but it wasn’t filled with new experiences or stimuli. i had been before, and didn’t venture too far from south beach for the 5 days we were there.

i miss experiencing new places. there’s nothing quite as exceptionally stimulating as getting lost in a country where you don’t speak the language. i’m not going to mention clichéd experiences like oh i love trying new food or the locals were fabulous or the sunset was to DIE for! no, not i. i’m not a tourist.

tower bridge
blasé blasé blasé

i love the way that i become incredibly social and introspective and worldly and easygoing when i’m in a foreign environment. i love being exhausted at the end of the day, because my brian is processing 500% more than it normally does.

i love starting with a fresh canvas, a clean slate, and writing down exactly who i am, what i’m doing, where i’m going and why i’m living my life the way that i am. i love actually talking to people. wandering into a hardware store in a suburb of amsterdam, and listen to some techno music for 20 minutes with the 65-year old shopkeeper. enjoying beers after the horse-riding festival with a family you befriended at the nude beach in rostock, germany. watching the sun trickle through fog over the mossy hills of kilkenny, ireland after sharing souls with a lovely lad.

i’ve never had a proper travel companion. toured europe with steve, andy and adrienne. partied in ibiza with duane and tye and jaime. been to sweden with lisbeth, matt and frank. seduced ireland with two different boys named chris. i want someone, anyone, whom i can ring up, and say, hey, let’s go to sri lanka next weekend and they’ll say, alright! the only valid excuses are i can’t afford it right now or i can’t get time off work. i want someone [friend or boyfriend or whatever] who has their [traveling] priorities straight!
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