6 Hours and Counting
AHHHHHHHH!!!!
Today is the day!!!!
I'll try and post some pictures from the show for ya'll that ain't goin!
Treasured Chests Gala Kick Off
6 Hours and Counting!
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July 28, 2005
July 27, 2005
Chests Gala Tomorrow Night!
Tomorrow is the big night!! The first annual Treasured Chests Gala!!! The first time I will take to runway in front of a large crowd!! I am both excited and nervous.
Yesterday we had a full run-through of the show, and today we are having a complete dress rehearsal. I guess I should not say complete because I doubt we are getting hair and makeup done today.
July 25, 2005
Demonic Possession?
So today, I am a boring little boy. I didn't really do anything all that exciting this weekend.
I did go out with Jenny and Josh to the dirty saloon again. Once more I do not know how it happened but I get pretty drunk!
We went back to Jenny's place after the saloon and were just sitting around when Josh pulled out some kind of smoking utensil that was all ready to go. Well be being a guest I could not just refuse...that would have been rude. Of course I was reminded how gross I find the experience, and went into the bathroom immediately after to spit the taste out... I did throw up a bit too. :-(
Anyway after that we went outside to get a little fresh air and smoke a cig. It was at that point we decided it was the best idea in the world to go to "Horizontal Mambo World" to buy Jenny a "Boom Boom Stick." By this point I was as high as a kite soaring in the big blue sky...Granted I only had one small hit off of the herbal pipe, but apparently it was strong.
While we were in the "Horizontal Mambo World" we met some interesting people. Josh and I ended up going up to the third floor with them, where we could not get any further than the large mechanical joy stick. The girls jumped on it and I got behind it so they could take a picture...
Looking back on all this I am surprised in myself, but like I said I was operating at an elevated state of awareness at this time. On the way home I passed out in the car as Jenny was buying White Castle because we all needed to eat something. I woke up again somewhere near Jenny's house just in time to hang my head out of the window so I did not puke in the car.
I think I must have been possessed of something on Friday because of all the things I did that were not like me.
1.) I smoked from the glass bowl
2.) I puked (we can blame that on number 1.)
3.) I ate White Castle. (Maybe I can blame number 3 on number 1 and the fact that I had a lot to drink. In which case perhaps number 2 was a result of the fumes being emitted from the bag of sliders?)
July 22, 2005
Don't Cha Wish Your Girlfriend Had A FUPA Like Me?
Ok so If you have not heard The FUPA Song on KDWB, you need to go there Immediatly to download this song.
If you are wondering what a FUPA is, it stands for Fat Upper Pussy Area. A bit grotesque, but the song is just too great to pass up.
follow the link and look for the picture.
July 21, 2005
Drop It Like It's Hot!
Yesterday at the Chests rehersal I was chosen to model some of the club wear! So I get to walk down the runway with two girls dancing all up on me!
Interesting question: Why is it called a runway when you are supposed to walk down it?
Today after school I am going to the MOA with a bunch of the other models to do a little promoting. It's gonna be pretty fun...I have already made sure that Metro Park is mine!
July 20, 2005
Within 10 Feet
On Monday morning I left the lake after eating breakfast. As I was packing and starting to leave my Aunt told me to drive carefully and call when I arrived home. Too bad she didn't tell the other drivers on the road that day the same thing.
I was just getting to Baxter where I was going to stop for gas, when suddenly the car in front of mine stopped. I had left enough room between us for myself to stop, granted I was still pretty close to their car. When I came to a stop I looked in the rearview mirror and there was a car coming but they were a ways off.
2 Seconds later I looked back in my mirror and the same car was coming at me very quickly, suddenly they must have noticed I stopped and they slammed on their brakes. The car started swerving around as they were loosing control, still coming at me at what must have been 70 miles per hour!
I realized they were probably not going to stop, so I closed my eyes and braced for impact, thinking that this was it, this is how it all was going to end. Then faces of all the people I care about raced through my mind ending with my grandfather who died of cancer in 2002.
When I got to his face I slowly opened my eyes wondering what was taking so long...At this point I was completely prepared to join my grandfather, however when I looked back in the mirror the car was not there! So I looked back in the front of my car, and saw the car zooming passed me.
They must have regained control of the car and swerved into the next lane, with what I can only guess was 10 feet or less of space.
Needless to say I was happy I was able to get off the road and fill up with gas, as I was pretty shaken up at that point. The whole way home I kept thinking about what happened and what could have happened. I figured if I was lucky I would have been paralyzed, or died...Worst case, I would have been stuck in a vegetative state for the rest of my life...
On the drive home, I thought about all the people I would left behind, and their reactions to hearing the news that I had died, which got me to think about all the things I would never have gotten the chance to do or say.
Yesterday was my grandfather’s birthday, so like tradition dictates, I went over to the cemetery with blueberry pie, and some alcoholic beverages. Like last year I ate half of the pie, and left the other half for grandpa. I also gave him a few sips of my beer as I thought to myself I was 10 feet away from being laid down next to him.
July 19, 2005
Weekend at the Lake
Saturday morning I woke up and went to the bookstore to get my new copy of the latest Harry Potter Book, which I have not yet had the chance to start...So DON'T RUIN ANYTHING BIOTCHES!
Then I finished packing my bags and made my way to my Aunts house in Blaine so that we could drive up the lake. Every year my Mom's side of the family goes up to this lake in Nisswa called Upper Cullen. It is a really small and quite lake, so it really relaxing.
The drive up there was boring, as usual. My grandma was in my car with myself. We arrived at the lake around 3:00 and went to church, than back to a cocktail cruise on my Unlce's new boat.
Compared to his last boat this new one... well you can't compare them. His last boat had a 70 horse motor, this one has a 190 I believe, so it took us little to no time to zip across the lake.
After the cocktail cruise we ate dinner. Saturday was soooooo stinking hot
Sunday was a little bit cooler cause we had a nice breeze. We woke up on Sunday and had a few erands to run, then we came back to the cabin for lunch...BLT's, yumm! After Lunch my cousin's girlfriend arrived. She is really cool!
That night we went to a bar called Cammander's to meet up with some family friends, blew a lot of money on pull tabs, drank pitchers of beer, and ate a lot of pizza. Funny thing was that most of us were still hungry when we got back.
Monday morning I had to leave because I had to work at 5:15pm. So I left after breakfast. There was some drama on the way home from the lake, but I will leave that for the next entry.
There's Something About Howie Day
Last Friday night I went to the Hennepin Ave Block Party with Katie, Tony and Jenny. We went because Howie Day was playing. The block party was a good time, however it was way too hot out to be standing in a crowd of people waiting to see Howie Day.
As it got closer and closer to being time for Howie Day the people standing around us got closer and closer, and then they started pushing, trying to get closer so they could see Howie Day...
By the time Howie was one stage and playing Katie and I had beer spilt on us by an asshole who did not even apologize for it, almost been knocked over three times, and generally pissed off by people's lack of manners...All the people who bumoed into us, pushed us, spilt on us, whatever...Only a few people said sorry or excuse me.
Howie played a great show that night, I hope someone was recording it and it will be available on Archives because it was really good. I have made entries before talking about how everyone likes to yell "Bunnies" at Howie's shows, in the hope that he will play Bunnies. Howie never plays Bunnies, I think I may have hear it once, but that was it. This time was different...People stopped yelling, "Bunnies"! This time they were yelling for "She Says." I really wish people would just let him play whatever he wants to play.
Also there is something about Howie Day that is really interesting. That is the number of heterosexual men who love his music, love Howie, and aren't afraid to yell it out in the middle of a concert. When I say these "straight" boys love Howie, I mean they LOVE him...Is there something about Howie that brings out the gay in every straight man, and if so, how do I harness this power?
July 14, 2005
I'M MODELING UNDERWEAR?!?!?!?!
Yesterday I had a rehersal for the Treasured Chests Gala. It was pretty fun, I'm glad I brought my Ipod, as there was a lot of down time.
The first part of the rehersal I spent with the rest of the guys, we all were simply getting the feel for the music that was going to be used in the show, that's when I noticed something...New faces!
I think there were at least four new faces there yesterday and I asked a few of them how they came to be involved in the show. One guy said he met Summer, our model coorindator, at a bar and she asked him to be in the show. Another guy was approached by Kelly because she saw his band play the night before. And this other guy somehow had met Kit somewhere and was asked to be in the show...No auditions for these people? hmmm. I guess it's not that big of a deal because I agree with them being in the show, they are all great.
The guy who knew Kit had me a little pissed with him at the beginning of rehersal. It was for a sad reason really, but it still kind of had me upset...You see he was wearing my pants!!! No, not literaly my pants, but a pair that looked the exact same as my incredibly hot True Religion pants...I would still like to think I look better in them than he did.
I also found out where I was going to fit into the show! I will be dressed in a pair of red boxers, with a red robe, and possibly an umbrella, at the end of the show. I am sure I will have a part somewhere else in the runway aspect of the show, if not I will get to walk around the event as one of the greeters. That would be totally cool, because then I would get to mingle with everyone at the show!
July 13, 2005
Pics From The Best Day In Da Whorl!
This is Josh and myself sitting at Chino Latino
Katie and Me at the Chino Latino
Blaine and myself at the Chino
DAAAAAAMMMMNNNNN That's Sexy!
Group shot! Taken by our waitress, who was not all that and a bag of chips.
Q: What do gay horses eat? A: HAAAAAAYYYYY!!
Happy Birthday To You!!!
Speaking of gay horses!
Yesterday, Was My Birthday And I Get One Every Year!
Yesterday was the day! The celebration of my birth! The wonderous day that all human beings join hands and sing out because they are just too happy that I was born!
I bet you're wondering what we did!
Started the night out at Bonfire where I really only went to use their internet so I could send out an e-mail that was sent back to me as undelieverable mail :-( I had two Maragrita's.
After Bonfire I went to TGI Fridays off of 100 to meet with my aunt and grandmother. That was good, I had a salad a chicken and shrimp thingy and a margarita.
Went home to change into my hot hot hot clothes, and then was off like a prom dress to Katie and Tony's place. When I arrived we went immediately into the uptown area. We started the night off at The Independent where Cosmos were on special; I had two of those. While we were there Blaine joined us. Also Jessica Rabbit and Josh were able to make it up there at that point.
I thought this was really neat of him because I really don't know him at all. Anyway he was a lot of fun to go out with yesterday, so if you're reading this Blaine we will be going out for drinks again sometime.
At the Independent we also got three free beers because they were extra and tha waitress liked me a lot! I think she had a secret mad crush on me; I didn't have the heart to tell her I am gay.
This is me and Maggie Gyllenhaal. We ran into her at the Independent.
After the Independent we went over to Chino Latino, where we ran into Joe who was out with a bunch of friends, and some people I went to High School with.
At Chino I had me some tacos, a blue hawiian, and a washington apple. Good stuf...We also ran into Lindsay Lohan while we were there!!! Too bad she wasn't in the mood for pictures :-(
After Chino we sprinted over to the Gay 90's so we could get some last call drinks. I had this really good drink that Blaine bought for me...It tasted like one of those blue rasberry ice cones...yummmm. Katie also bought be two pineapple upsidedown cakes.
The 90's was closing, but we were far from ending our party, but Blaine did have to leave us because he needed to work at 8:00am. So we dropped him off at his car and then went back to katie's place were I had two beers, two shots, and a malibu coke...good times. Katie and I stayed up until 6:00am drinking and having meaningful conversations were we would both suddenly break into tears.
July 12, 2005
My Horosope According to MSN.com
Week of July 11, 2005
A huge dark cloud lifts and floats away this week, so feel free to rejoice! This Saturday, Saturn, the planet of restrictions and limitations, leaves your sign and enters Leo. Good riddance. Let Saturn bother someone else for a while! Indeed, for the last two and a half years, this transit of Saturn has been weighing you down and causing you to question your true identity and whether or not you are even worthy of love in your life. During this time you may have pushed relationships away due to a lack of self-confidence or simply because this intense introspective period has kept you from enjoying your love life to the fullest. Either way, say goodbye to Saturn this week and notice the weight that lifts off your shoulders. It is time to come out of hiding and reintroduce yourself to the world and especially to the ones you love. Relationships will flourish for you again. Once again you will have the confidence you need to sustain a healthy partnership with the one you love.
I think this means I am finally gonna get laid!
Story of My Birth
Twenty-two years ago today a miracle occured! I was born!! This might not sound like a miracle, but I am sure that my Mother was glad that it was finally time for me to come out. You see back then they would not induce labor after one week...I was three weeks late, and because of this I was a huge baby. I think I was told I was 10 or 11 lbs! Needless to say I was a C-section.
Its probably a miracle I survived as well, as there were resperatory problems after birth. From what I have been told my Mother barely got to hold me before I was rushed from Mercy Hospital, where I was born, to the University Of Minnesota.
My Dad always told me how funny it looked in the children's ward, because here was this room of babies who were the size of a pop can, and then me...all 11 lbs of me! When you think about it, it is really sad. If I had just given birth to a crack baby and saw that my little crack baby's neighboor was a giant I would be a little afraid...what if the giant decided to eat my crack baby! The children around me were probably dying really quickly... why is it that I was the one to survive and not them?
I guess the nurses in that unit really liked the fact that I was there, because they obviously did not get to see the larger babies that often. They probably had a baby that they could play with as well. I hope that they did not give me any special attention because I was so big, and probably much more healthy than those other babies.
Tonight, the 22nd anniversary of the day I was ripped out of my Mother's stomache will be celebrated by consuming beverages of the alcoholic variety. I will tell ya'll bout it later...hopefully with some pictures!
July 11, 2005
Forgot My Own Birthday!?
Oh yes, I forgot to mention; tomorrow is my 22nd birthday! I am not sure exactly what will be occuring on this magical evening...I am sure there will be drinks consumed, possibly someplace in Minneapolis.
I am supposed to go out to eat with some relatives around 5:30. We are going to the TGI Friday's off 100. Then I think I will go home for a bit, get ready for an evening of fun, frolick, and free alcohol? I think even though I will have just eaten that it would be fun to go to Chino Latino so we can have some exotic beverages and some apps.
After that perhaps another place uptown? I really like the Independent. But perhaps we will leave the uptown area to go to Jimmy's in White Bear Lake. They have an awesome happy hour pretty much every night...2 for 1's!!! You gotta love that!
Again, who knows what will happen tomorrow...
WHO WANTS TO COME ALONG??????
The Dirty Saloon
Thursday night I rented some movies.
Hide and Seek: This movie was ok, it would probably have been better had I not watched it with Dad and the girlfriend...They were both mocking the movie the entire time.
Closer: Great movie, loved it!! There were a few things I didn't understand, but I am thinking that perhaps this is the way it was supposed to be...Nobody really knows why we do the things we do.
White Noise: This movie was not bad, but I have for sure seen better movies.
Friday night I was invited to go out for some drinks with Jenny and Josh. That was a lot of fun. Originally we were going to attend the Basillica, however we all forgot that you had to pay to get in. So we went to the Rock Bottom to have some home brewed beer. The beer was great, our server was not. He was rude to us from the moment we sat down. We did leave him an alright tip, however there were some two dollar bills as well as dollar coins in there somewhere.
After Rock Bottom we went to the Saloon...Yes I ventured back into the Slut Bar of Minneapolis. I have not been there in about a year I think, it was just as I remembered it. I still had fun though because I got a little tipsy. I made the mistake of trying to take a shot of Cuervo, which did not sit well in my tummy.
I saw some things at the Saloon that I have not seen in a really long time...One was William...I was thrilled :-( Will was a friend of mine from back in High School, but Will would always "forget" to call me back when we were supposed to hang out. I think it might have been around New Years he acknowledged this and said that I must be a really good friend because no matter how many times he did that I was still willing to be his friend. Then he apologized for being so shitty and told me that he would call me soon; he never did. I have been upset about ever since...It's not the fact that he did it again, I fully expected him to do it again...Its the fact that he acknowledge that it was shitty of him to do that, and then he did it again.
Anyways when we saw him at the Saloon, his exact words to me were, "You know I FINALLY erased your number from my cellphone because I didn't think I was ever going to see you again." Like an idot I gave him my phone number again.
Other things I saw; an attractive guy! His name was Chris; here is how I opened the conversation.
"Who is that on your shirt?"
"Where?" he asked
"Right there silly," I said playfully poking his sholder where there was a picture of a man's face. "Is that Jesus or Bob Marley?" I asked.
"Oh I dunno" he said. Then I pretended to read his shirt, but it was really a lame attempt to check out his hot body up close. After awhile of that we got to talking, he told me his name was Chris and that he owned his own IT company, but knows nothing about IT...I thought that was wierd.
The last thing I saw shocked the shit out of me. I knew that on Friday nights they had boys dancing in little thong underwares, however I got the shock of my life when I noticed that some of these boys were taking the thongs off while they were in the shower! I have not seen anyone elses penis is a long time...I was experiencing a cross between being incredibly grossed out, and curious.
At the end of the night some ugly cowboy tried to get in a fight with Jenny and called her fat or something. I responded by saying, hey lets be nice now...There is no need for shit like that. He told me, "Shut up fagot!" I was like "Dude, you just came out of the Saloon! What does that make you!"
Saturday I sat around the house and watched my movies.
Sunday I sat around the house, tried to do a bit of homework, and then I went to Katie and Tony's house where we watched this show, Moving Up. It was a pretty interesting reality show. Then we ordered a pizza and watched the Bourne Identity because I have never seen it before, and I think Matt Damon is pretty cute.
July 08, 2005
Life Ain't No Fair
I have probably had some kind of entry regarding this exact topic in the past but it was brought to my attention again today.
I was bored again...go figure, so I went onto the face book and was looking at people who went to my High School. When I was finished with that I wanted to see the type of guys my age that Caryn International represents. When I was looking through the pictures I saw one that I had just seen on the facebook!
This got me to thinking that if life were fair, which it obviously is not; my parents would have paid for acting lessons long ago and my face would either be on that web site, or better, on a movie poster!
My parents certainly spent more than $4,000 on my sister so she could be a swimmer! I understand that I was never really into any sports or anything like that, but my family has known for a long time that I love to act.
I hate to sound so spoiled and self centered, but it always gets me a bit fired up when I think about all the oppertunities I could have had, had I been born first or been an only child.
If You're Flawless Then You'll Win My Love
Hey everyone!! This is Joe,
I ran into Joe yesterday as I was leaving campus for the day. We were in the computer lab of Coffman Union. Joe was doing a little job related work, and I really wish I could tell you what it was about...Joe tried to explain it to me, but it was like looking at a different language.
This is what it looked like.
gnarbsdnarbastdgabikleshitpoopcock
This is when I realized my major is pretty much a joke. It doesn't take any real talent to major in communications... Joe, on the other hand, must be a genious because he can take gnarbsdnarbastdgabikleshitpoopcock and transulate it!
What can I do??? I can recognize the Investment Model and apply it to the movie About A Boy.
On a different note Katie's blog is cool because she can tell you about her mood and what song is in her head...So here is my attempt...
My Mood :-| = Somber
In My Head: Perfect - Alanis Morissette; Jagged Little Pill - Acoustic
p.s.
The hot guy from yesterday just walked by again!!!
July 07, 2005
A Cursed City?
Worked last night, that sucked...I only made $82 and this was the only shift I have this week. I don't know why I got this weekend off, I did not ask for it, but I guess if no one is going to give me a shift I should take advantage and get drunk...know of any parties?
Man it certainly is a crazy world we live in...Look at what has gone on in London in the last week or two. They all came together to help end poverty with the Live 8 concert, then yesterday they celebrated being chosen as the site for the summer olympics in some distant year...Today however they are morning the possible loss of lives as terrorists attack them...kind of makes you think twice about bringing children into this world...
On a more upbeat note a super hot guy just walked past me!!! DAMN it's been a long long long long long long long long long long long long time!
July 05, 2005
4th of July Weekend
Friday night, I worked.. Made some good money, but it would be nice to never have to work again. That way I could fill my time up doing things I actually want to do.
Saturday I did not work. I stayed at home all day watching The 4400 on USA network...interesting show. A little later in the day my friend Lauren called me and said she was driving back into the cities today and that she wanted to go out for a drink with me.
When she got back I went to go pick her up and we headed towards dinkytown. Oddly there was nobody out drinking in Dinkytown. We parked our car and walked over to Blarney's...empty, then we walked over to the Kitty Kat Club...They wanted $5 just to get into the door, and there was nothing going on in there! So I thought I had heard that something had moved into the Varsity theater, we walked over there and there was nobody in there, but as we were walking past we heard soft moans coming over the PA system.
I looked at Laruen and asked her if I was hearing what I thought I was...yes, sure enough they were playing a porno in there!! So we decided that we should just go uptown, and crossed the street to go back to the car, when we were in the middle of the street the people acting in the Varsity theater porn must have really gotten into it, because the girl was moaning quite loudly at that point.
When we got uptown we went into Bar Abeline first for some rita's and then we went to The Independent where I had an Apple Cider and Laruen had a bad Bloody, which we switched for a Saphire Tonic.
Sunday I went to a family reunion. my Dad brought his new girlfriend Nancee. That was a interesting day. After the reunion I called Katie and we went out for a few drinks.
Monday, I surprised myself and helped my Dad and Nancee with some work around the house. I helped pull the millions and millions of weeds we had in our backyard around the pool. Then I took the winter cover and hosed that down so we could fold it up and store in it the garage for the winter. After we were finished Nancee took us all out to Chino Latino for dinner.
Going out to eat with my Dad and his girlfriend was weird because they would suddenly look at each other and do a quick peck on the lips... or they would whisper in each other's ears.