Pride Begins Early
So I took on the job of planning some Pride parties with the other gay promoter in town, Craig. It's actually quite fun. Pride is all about community and unity (I just noticed that the word unity is in community, as in "communal unity," or everyone in the local to you -- the commune -- coming together in unity...nice!), and this party really represents different camps coming together to create an amazing experience for the community during Pride.
We're doing a Friday night party with Kimberly S., a Seattle favorite, a Saturday night with the return of Brian Gorr, a huge local talent with a large following and finally an afterhours party at Chapel with Rob Hall, who has attracted lots of different crowds throughout the years. This is the second year in a row I'll be going a Chapel party. Last year went well but this year will really play off the other two parties so it should be even better. The two big parties will be at Neumo's, a club that's changed drastically but that used to be Mo back in the mid-90s (get it, "New-Mo's"?) and that became AroSpace and Arena in time, both gay spaces with lots of happy memories for the boys. Craig threw a new party called Aria there a few weeks ago and we all loved what they had done with the space. Just enough like the old space to harken back to a different time and space, but just new enough to feel like a completely different place in which we can create all sorts of new memories.
Add these parties to an ever growing list of projects (let's see...there are restaurant menus to design, promotional materials for a competing Pride event at Timberline, product packaging for my friend Matt's company Body Wax, press updates for truescents, menu updates for McCormick and Schmick's...ugh, the list goes on and on) and this is one stressed out boy. It's nice to be busy but I'm hoping that July brings with it a little bit of down time. Tonight, I went to a birthday cocktail party for my new friend Ryan and his partner Anthony owns this create socially-aware media company and he says that he will always have work for me. So the idea of down time is an illusion. At the very least I'll have Africa to look forward to. Hear's to hoping Steve has enough money to go in the fall. Both of us realize it's the trip of a lifetime, and I don't want to keep putting off those sorts of experiences any longer.
Next week is my 34th birthday, and I'm feeling (and looking, incidentally) younger than ever. I'm in the best shape of my life. The only thing that I would change -- now probably not until after Pride -- is the smoking. I have total control over that but the addiction to nicotine is a mess. I'm far too stressed out right now to consider that over the next couple of weeks. I always thought I'd quit when I was 33, and I still can, but numbers like that don't seem to have much of a pull on me anymore. The biggest incentive I have to quit is so that my voice sounds better. I quit a couple of times this last month for ten day stretches and my voice sounded better and better with each passing day. I'm a fool if I don't quit soon. Well, I'm a fool anyhow but I'm really a fool if I don't drop it like a bad habit. Wait, that's exactly what it is.
More about recording my album and all the boys and goings-on later. This boy must head off to bed. Feeling very sleepy now...
We're doing a Friday night party with Kimberly S., a Seattle favorite, a Saturday night with the return of Brian Gorr, a huge local talent with a large following and finally an afterhours party at Chapel with Rob Hall, who has attracted lots of different crowds throughout the years. This is the second year in a row I'll be going a Chapel party. Last year went well but this year will really play off the other two parties so it should be even better. The two big parties will be at Neumo's, a club that's changed drastically but that used to be Mo back in the mid-90s (get it, "New-Mo's"?) and that became AroSpace and Arena in time, both gay spaces with lots of happy memories for the boys. Craig threw a new party called Aria there a few weeks ago and we all loved what they had done with the space. Just enough like the old space to harken back to a different time and space, but just new enough to feel like a completely different place in which we can create all sorts of new memories.
Add these parties to an ever growing list of projects (let's see...there are restaurant menus to design, promotional materials for a competing Pride event at Timberline, product packaging for my friend Matt's company Body Wax, press updates for truescents, menu updates for McCormick and Schmick's...ugh, the list goes on and on) and this is one stressed out boy. It's nice to be busy but I'm hoping that July brings with it a little bit of down time. Tonight, I went to a birthday cocktail party for my new friend Ryan and his partner Anthony owns this create socially-aware media company and he says that he will always have work for me. So the idea of down time is an illusion. At the very least I'll have Africa to look forward to. Hear's to hoping Steve has enough money to go in the fall. Both of us realize it's the trip of a lifetime, and I don't want to keep putting off those sorts of experiences any longer.
Next week is my 34th birthday, and I'm feeling (and looking, incidentally) younger than ever. I'm in the best shape of my life. The only thing that I would change -- now probably not until after Pride -- is the smoking. I have total control over that but the addiction to nicotine is a mess. I'm far too stressed out right now to consider that over the next couple of weeks. I always thought I'd quit when I was 33, and I still can, but numbers like that don't seem to have much of a pull on me anymore. The biggest incentive I have to quit is so that my voice sounds better. I quit a couple of times this last month for ten day stretches and my voice sounded better and better with each passing day. I'm a fool if I don't quit soon. Well, I'm a fool anyhow but I'm really a fool if I don't drop it like a bad habit. Wait, that's exactly what it is.
More about recording my album and all the boys and goings-on later. This boy must head off to bed. Feeling very sleepy now...
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