2006-07-05 11:57:00
I now know the joys of Vicodin. I think thats spelled correctly. Saturday i was out with the boy and our dog and I slipped on some rocks in the water and jammed my finger. Didn't want to go to the hospital but the pain was pretty damn unbearable. So I went, nothing broken but the doctor said that I "Jammed the hell out of it". He touched it and moved it and I screamed and people heard me down the hall. Nice lady came in with two Vicodin and I was really happy in about 20 minutes. I mean REALLY happy. But the fucker is killing me today and I wonder if i can take one and still function at the office. The pain says do it... Hmmm
Rest of the weekend was also good. Say Devil Wears Prada and loved it. Need to see it again. Went to Busch Gardens on monday and sweated like 5 pounds off and saw a great fireworks display. Hung out with Ky and vegged for 4 days. It was really nice. Cant type anymore. Ow.
2006-07-06 10:06:00
Hans Zimmer.
One of the things that has followed me for the past 35 years is that I have always had an attraction to movie soundtracks. Growing up in California, my friend Tim Donner and I would spend countless hours listening to and copying soundtracks. He was also the person that got me to put a straw in my popcorn but I no longer remember how that started. For a while there growing up, I had more sound tracks than anything else. John Williams was and is still my favourite. Not quite sure why I needed to put a 'u' in there. I had the starwars sound tracks on LP and would listen to them for hours pretending that I was Han Solo or Chewie or maybe even Leia. Anywho, I still to this day have a huge collection of sound tracks from various movies and broadway shows but I think that I have become more selective of maybe there are more to choose from than there were in the day. With John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith and other classics there has always been Hans Zimmer. Looking on imdbpro from his resume shows quite an interesting lineup. I guess he can do his job perfectly by creating music and the audience not knowing that it's there. To me he has always been bombastic and loud and yes exhilerating. I remember his score from Gladiator and the piece from the beginning in the forest and it started slow and just got to this fever pitch. I listened to that over and over and over. His score for Pirates of the Caribbean is much the same. In my mind I see the orchestra just wailing on these instruments with sweat pouring down this faces, panting to get the cut. This is becomming a favorite soundtrack of mine and it is totally fun to drive to. It got me home from Ky's the other night by playing it loud and driving fast. Isn't that the epitome of geekery, blasting a soundtrack in your car. Anyway, the soundtrack lacks the subtlety of Johm Williams where his notes seems to dance around your head painting the images in your head and drawing you in. Hans Zimmer takes buckets of paint and floods your senses with imagery and noise yet each note is so crisp and clear. It is truly masterful how so much is going on and nothing seems to get lost. Now I just need to see the movie. :)
2006-07-10 12:01:00
great weekend with the boy-hub-friend.
didn't do anything earth shattering but hung out and vegged. today is the 1.5 anniversary. i can't believe it's been that long and yet it feels like we have been together forever. love you honey. saw both Superman and Pirates this weekend. saw Supers because Pirates was sold out friday. loved both movies. i think i am more a summer movie-go-boom extraganza kinda guy than Ky is but we both had a good time.
2006-07-12 09:11:00
The mind is a terrible thing.
How can you be happy and cranky and god knows what else all that the same time? I'm in a sorta good mood; had one of those cranky argument-in-my-head things about some fat woman who wouldn't get out of my way, kinda feel good about my looks today and yet kinda ugly... I need something. I guess it started with the feeling that there is so much more in life that I should be doing. Helping people, helping me, writing, acting, learning langages and all that shit. I love my job and hate it at the same time. 9 years i've been here. Holy crap. I'm scared about the move to the country, not because i'll be living with Ky and starting the next phase of our relationship (and yes that's scary but also very exciting) but I will miss leaving work and heading into the city to read or going to Best Buy on the way home. Yes I understand that is very petty and maybe it all boils down to the fact that I will be leaving the place that I have called home since i was 16. I know numerous backroads (thanks to Jen) and have memories everywhere and it's a little scary to move again. But on the other hand there have been so many wonderful moments in the country that it IS exciting to get down there. I just feel like my brain is going to explode sometimes. I love Charlottesville and it's very beautiful and I do love it down there and I love who I become which is a more relaxed focused person; I just need to get a job, hard to find, and some acting gig and all will fine. Not that Ky isn't enough but I know me, I tend to go insane...well that's it really I just tend to go insane. :) I'm just kinda tired of being a grownup sometimes. I'm also tired of being a child.
Going to Nation thursday and maybe saturday. I assume everyone else is as well?
Need to poot.
2006-07-13 10:20:00
i just smacked my already bruised and banged finger into my desk. I screamed very loud as pain shot up into my arm. I also thought i felt a small dick tingle. That was creepy. But I'm now on a vicodin, one makes the pain go away, two makes the brain go away. Ouch.
excited for Nation tonight. sad for nation tonight.
cant wait to see ky because ... well just because :)
2006-07-14 11:09:00
Tired today. Had a blast last night at Nation. The music was good, the people were fun and it was just a nice time. It was good seeing friends that I haven't had the chance to see in a while and also making new ones.
I was also very happy to have my honey there looking amazing in his new short hair. The man gets more beautiful everyday. I am the luckiest man in the world.
Have one more night to say goodbye to Nation and that's on saturday. Then it's the end of an era that in reality ended a while ago as far as gay clubs are concerned. Maybe i'm the odd man out but to me clubs were never a place to pick up people. I loved the attention and being hit on in years ago but it never went beyond that. To me clubs were a place to be gay if it was gay and open and free and listen to music and just dance. In all my 17 years, 35-18=17, of clubbing I can, on one had count the number of trists. But thats whatever. I will miss the place for the memories and just add them to vault along with Tracks and move on with life. I wonder what the next generation of gay kid will have at the disposal to dance at. There are other clubs in the city but Nation and Tracks provided great space to watch and learn dance moves and all sorts of things. Anyway, fun was had by all.
2006-07-14 12:15:00
2006-07-17 08:52:00
excellent weekend
Ah, what a nice weekend. Got lots of things done and still much more to do . Thursday was such a good night. I have thoughts of Nation running through my brain as I pass the building everyday to go to work. It's going to be sad when I crest M St SW and turn onto South Capitol and there is no black Nation building there. And Saturdays was fun as well. I look back and think of things that I should have done to be stronger and better and basically ditched my friend who was drunk AND rolling and being clingy and needy. Don't get me wrong I still had a blast but could have had more fun and stayed past 2am if I had stayed and hung with Matty. We know where Alchemy is going but will there be another Velvet?
Friday night I drove to home to the country and hung with Ky. It's still so interesting seeing his new hair cut. It's like dating a new guy! We shopped and vegged and had, as always, a wonderful time. Grrrr
Tonight I drive my mom to the airport where she'll be away for 3 weeks in Prague. I am very jealous. Course that means that I house sit and dog sit and stuff. Hey three weeks without a question about her computer is going to be great. I just had sausage, bacon and egg on a croissant. Is that bad for me?
2006-07-18 08:17:00
terrible nights sleep though i did have amazing dreams while i was alseep but I can't remember them anymore. sigh.
they are getting ready to close the main entrance to the place where I work and I fear the consequences. people are generally stupid and you close the main entrance to get on here and all chaos will ensue. just wait for a angry post(s) next week.
got scoped by this event coordinator lackie chick. feeling better about my new haircut.
dogs driving me crazy in a cute way. they are lonely.
i'm lonely. i miss ky. i mean he's not gone or anything, he's just at home but i'm not there.
i need more coffee.
2006-07-19 09:19:00
Assassins
Last night my friend Aly and I went to the Signature theatre to see Assassins. It's been a play that I have wanted to see for a while and this production was absolutly wonderful. It was my first time at the Signature theatre but certainly not the last.
The night began by the ticket taker telling us that we will not be reseating for any reason should be leave the auditorium during the show and there will be no late seating. We heard this at least three times while we were either waiting in the lobby or in the auditorium. So we get there and the first thing we see is a huge american flag in the very front of the audience hanging there like a curtain. When the show starts the flag fall and the audience is looking at a mirror picture of the seats they are sitting in. Then the show begins.
All of the acting/singing was excellent. Mika Duncan as Charles Guiteau, the man who shot president Garfield was perhaps my favorite. He played the role as manic but not totally crazy. Amazing vocals. Erin Driscoll as Squeeky Fromme and Donna Migliaccio as Sara Jane Moore were also stand outs. There were some weak vocals but that I think was due to a lack of mics and trying to sing over the 9 piece band more than anything else.
The staging was also quite interesting. Obviously with the audience looking at another audience we were supposed to imagine that any of these killers could be us. It was an interesting ideal and once it took, really worked well. The audience is frequently lit because the cast is running and using theentire stage and flooring. Again its to make us a killer but it is always fun to have a show that breaks the convention. This would have been a great show had we been starring at the usual stage set up but having people sing right on top of you in very nice.
Overall I was very impressed.
Now I think I feel a cold coming on and that's making me cranky. :(
2006-07-21 09:46:00
Do you ever type the word 'yeah' when you really mean 'yay' and wonder if the person on the other end is wondering how exciting you aren't because they see a 'yeah' and not the 'yay' that you are doing in front of your computer? There you are doing the chair dance of joy and the other person is like, well fuck you then. Then they call you a dick and log off and so you're like WTF? You try and call and nothing. So you get home and you see that a rat has been stapled to your door. So you go over and have sex with their grandmother. Then they torch your office and to get back you put a small canister of gas under their car while you sit two houses down in those yellowish flowers that you never remember the name of but they smell really good so you mean to get some for the kitchen table and take aim at their car with a 22 rifle cause it makes noise but not really enough to alert anyone and you blow the car up and stomp on his still burning skull. Anyone? Me either."
2006-07-24 11:10:00
interweb makes me smrter
Had a great weekend down in the country the Ky. We did an incredible amount of stuff this weekend without ever feeling rushed. We saw Clerks II, ohmygodilovedit and thelord of the rings kid was hysterical, he made it for me. We say Queer Duck which was funny as all get out. We saw An Inconvient Truth which was much better than I had expected it to be. There was very little Bush Bashing which would have cheapened all that he had to say, there was very little Gore agenda, but there was lots and lots of information. Some of the things that he was showing were just terrifying. There are so many things that we can do....ok i'll stop. Just go see it.
Google is cool: went on the internet because I was walking down the hall and wondering what was on the back of the dime. I had one in my had so I could see but I didn't know the story. I love that anything that I want to know is out there.
I need to fart. nevermind
2006-07-26 08:39:00
Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Yeah Brain but how are we going to get rubber pants on a monkey?
YAY! Go home last night and as I start to settle down with the Simpsons, the dogs go crazy. As the routine goes, I have to walk to the door and show them that there is nothing there ... but LO! The man in brown was walking away from my door! I look down and see the lovely brown box sitting at my door. It can't be my DVD's because they just shipped yesterday. I grab the box and tear into my room, leaping over dogs on the way. I rip open the box and see Yakko's face smiling back at me. I squeed.
I am so happy to have Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain DVDs. Working at WBSS during the time of the crazy was amazing. Working in the Gallery as a Gallery Manager and getting sent to LA and meeting the voices was incredible. Meeting Friz Freling just before he died was one of the most amazing experiences only topped by meeting Chuck Jones right before he died, hmm a trend?. I love the energy and lack of cute bullcrap the pervades a lot of other cartoons.
mmmm cartoons...."
2006-07-27 13:13:00
i'm poor. Like poor as shit, or shite if you're in Ireland. Anyone got a copy of Photoshop or Dreamweaver or Flash, or the whole creative suite, or all three, they want to give me? Just curious. PC or Mac will do.
2006-07-29 18:17:00
the fanta girls. Before the Clerks II movie began there was the slew of usual commercials. Again the fanta girls were there but to my surprise they changed girls! I was so upset especially since these girld pailed in comparison! SIGH. What is the world coming to...."