Filed under: personal | Tags: aida chehrehgosha, job hunting, me me me me me, thirty-wonderful, writing
I’m 31 now. Actually my birthday was on Saturday, but things have been slightly out of hand lately so I’m only posting about it now. It was a really good birthday, brunch at my favorite brunch place followed by an afternoon in the park and an evening at a Korean restaurant in suburbia, surrounded by friends and the bright lights of a karaoke room. (I sang “(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden” and “Objection (Tango)” and “1 Thing” and “Come Out And Play (Keep ‘Em Separated)” and duetted on “Self Control” and “Black Velvet” and probably sang other songs, too, although right now I’m blanking on what they were.)
Filed under: magazines, people from rhode island, personal | Tags: headmaster, me me me me me
Headmaster no. 3 is out now! Featuring projects by Peter Cochrane, Alan Cumming, Chris Ironside, Matthew Lawrence [that's me!], Ivan Lozano, Gabriel Martinez, Walker Mettling, Matias Uris, Jim Verburg, and Michael Wynne. Pre-orders and subscriptions went out this week, and we’ve started shipping to all of our stores as well. We’re throwing a party in Providence on March 10th; if you’re in the area we’re expecting it to be AWESOME.
Also, now that this issue is out expect me to be blogging a little bit more. Over on the dirty Tumblr I’m roughly 3/4 of the way through counting down the 100 Hottest Men That Ever Lived, and there’s some exciting guest posts coming up in the next couple of days before I announce number one on Wednesday.
Filed under: people from rhode island, personal | Tags: brown university, IvyQ, me me me me me, panel discussions, queer
A last-minute-ish heads up: I’ve just been added to the panel Blogging Queer Culture at Brown this Friday, which also features Krista Burton of Effing Dykes and Sarah Dopp of Genderfork. Both of them are infinitely more popular than I am so this is sort of an honor.
It’s part of IvyQ, a conference now in its third year which aims to “create a pan-Ivy community of LGBTQ students and allies equipped with the skills to examine their identities, value those of others, and understand intersectionality.” There are events going on all weekend, including a keynote address by Kate Bornstein, so if you’re in the area you may want to check it out. It’s geared towards students, obviously, but I’m fairly certain that anyone who wants to can attend.
Earlier this week Pulp announced a show at Radio City Music Hall, and tickets went on sale at 10am, and when I checked at 9:59 tickets hadn’t gone on sale yet and when I tried to but two tickets at 10am they were sold out already and when I tried to get one ticket at 10:01am that was also sold out and then when I tried again at about 10:04 I got stuck in this endless loop of Ticketmaster wait time.
Argggggggggggh.
Filed under: music, personal | Tags: guilty pleasures, me me me me me, one week one band, personal
Over on One Week One Band this week people are guest-posting about their favorite album closers… The posts on Blur’s “Yuko and Hiro,” Fiona Apple’s “I Know,” and the Magnetic Fields’ “Take Ecstasy With Me” are all excellent. I wrote something, too. I was one of the few (the only?) person to choose an album-ending single and it’s one you’ve probably known forever, even if I didn’t know it myself until I was in my mid-twenties.
Actually, with the move I’ve got all my vinyl with me but none of my CDs, which is part of the reason why I didn’t end up writing about “Bar Italia” or “The Dancer” or “O Girlfriend” or “Constant Craving” or “Glory Box” or “Just Call Me Joe.” Also, I considered “Jealousy,” but I’ve already written about the Pet Shop Boys there…
Last year, in lieu of making one New Year’s resolution, I decided to resolve lots of things. Rather than One Big Change, I thought what I really needed was A Bunch Of Little Changes That Might Add Up To Something Significant. There were 38 items on the list I came up with, ranging from the very specific (eat more vegetables) to the very general (rely less on others.) Some would be very easy, like look at more art and get glasses, and some would require major work, like getting published more and being more fiscally responsible.
In general, I failed almost completely at just about every action item.
Really, I’m not.
This month was just a little much… I’m moving out of my apartment after seven and a half years, and that’s been taking up tons of my time. That, and the magazine, and my month-long photo project, and job hunting, and family stuff, and events, and stuff and things and crap and so forth.
Filed under: personal, tv | Tags: ironing board collective, me me me me me, ringer, sarah michelle gellar
The folks at Ironing Board Collective were nice enough to let me blog for them for the next eight Wednesdays, starting today. My first subject: Bridget Kelly and Siobhan Martin, the good-and-evil identical twins played by Sarah Michelle Gellar on Ringer. Which is SO GOOD, oh my God.
Filed under: gay, personal | Tags: me me me me me, models, personal, providence
It’s official… After seven years (and four roommates) in the same apartment, I’m moving at the end of November. Not far, just under two miles, but far enough that I’ll be spending a lot of time in the coming weeks cleaning out my attic. And my basement. And my garage. And my bedroom. And so forth. (I’m not a hoarder, exactly, but seven years is a long time for books and papers to accumulate.)
That said, I’m doing one last major thing before I go: You know how periodically I advertise that I’m looking for models for dirty-ish photo projects? Yeah, so I’m going to do one more run of those before I go, as a way of saying goodbye to the place and also as a way to keep my sanity and not stress over what I’m going to do with all of my belongings now that I’m not going to have an attic and basement and garage…
So, if you’re in the Providence area and feel like taking your pants off for me, drop me an e-mail (mixtapesforhookers@gmail.com) and we can talk.
[photo: Guy In My Bedroom, 2008 (?)]
Filed under: personal, tv | Tags: desperation made a fool of me, meredith vieira, who wants to be a millionaire
This morning I woke up at 6am to audition for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, because I saw a blurb in the newspaper yesterday about the show’s producers coming to Providence and, you know, why not. Also, my financial situation is incredibly dire right now, and I know a bunch of useless trivia, so I thought this might solve some problems.
A coffee stop on the way made me a few minutes late for the first seating, but I hung out towards the front of a line for a long time while reporters and photographers from local media buzzed around. The line swelled, largely with men in their fifties and sixties, by the time we were called in to take the 30-question written test. (I don’t know why, but I assumed the crowd would be mostly female.)
