You know, I started last year feeling a mixture of loneliness and elation in a medieval castle in Germany. This year I began surrounded by orgiastic sex and a girl who is much crazier about me than I am about her...
Two years ago my resolution: Just keep doing what you’re doing
Last year’s resolution: Get out and be more social
This year’s resolution: I’ll tell you one - to finally perform a set at a stand-up club.
Are you so satisfied with your life that your resolutions are similar? Why not? And what can, should you do to fix it?
It’s just after midnight on a Saturday. Despite the fact that I am sitting naked, watching (peripherally) Playboy TV and listening to of all things Led Zeppelin ... I have been more social... but it’s hunker-down time. I called Naomi this evening, a little concerned that I have been so single-minded in my pursuit of completing Tortuga Tasks... she made an analogy comparing it to exam week.
Smart girl.
I notice I am introducing her differently now... I spend more time talking-up her intellect, her physical charms need no advertising... she is such an exciting girl... smart, complex, sexy... more on her in a bit.
This will also be a relatively short journal, Stuff HAS been happening, I have to tell you about Naomi’s trip and all... but I have also been so buried in Twin work... let’s go on with that first.
The theme for this year’s Palooza is SPIES! And the idea has the Tortugas portraying different Spies... (Duh)
We decided to save money, and time this year by shooting our own videos... partially because the expense of using the production team we used last year was too great... but mostly, because we just weren’t ready back in August.
We may have bitten off more than we can chew.
The videos should look great, I hope. It’s not for lack of trying. We have also discovered a valuable new resource in Jimmy Reed... he was one of our stagehands last year. We just found out he desires to break into production of computer animation... we’re using his skills and our imagination on some of our projects this time.
Because this journal will be a little shorter than I’d like I am also going to include some 'bullet points' - some beliefs and rants I have... little recorded observations.
He gave me an awesome little pocket digital recorder... I just record all of my thoughts, ideas etc. into that - THEN take em out and write them down, but neater.
Playboy is off, now I am (not) watching a special on Martial Arts... right now they are featuring Capoeria... hah! I knew Microsoft couldn’t spell that! Adam Ant is playing in the background
All of the video is shot, as I said... some of the arrangements were tricky. I met a very pretty girl at a restaurant, turns out she was a producer for a city government TV show... I started flirting because she was pretty, when I found out what she did... I told her I wanted to use her to promote our show, and finally asked her to come be one of the ‘Bond Girls’ in our video shoots... more on that in a second... at least it was easier than last year... we had a DVD to legitimize the project, and I didn’t have to say to this woman, "would you like to be in a Porno Parody?"
I have also had my head stuck in the computer all week...got to put all the brou-ha-ha together for the website sales... we have three months to sell 1000 tickets, we can do that right? In a few conversations with Naomi, I have lamented that I need a manager. We need one. Beside all the video stuff we’re writing, shooting, acting in we’re also casting, and contracting dancers, contracting and renting theaters, promoting the show, running separate businesses, (roses and whatnot) and trying to start a few others (Moguls baby!)... But I want someone to do all of that for me, so all I HAVE to do is create and perform humour...
When I was bitchin’ about that to the girl, she said "Well that IS what I am going to school for."
Don’t tease, Naomi
The conversation has come up, she Belly dances, models, and runs our enterprises, and marketing we have a life of travel and adventure... sounds good...
She was quick to point out she was promising nothing. (So gentle readers don’t get ahead of yourselves... neither will I) I don’t really know what is gonna happen with Naomi, but that would be a lovely dream. She is amazing... I smile every time I think of her, I laugh every time I talk to her...
One of the more positive things about my life... How many shooting stars have you seen? I have seen (literally) hundreds. We pass through two major storms each year (the Perseids, and the Leonids... I think. Imagine driving late, late at night across the depths of Wisconsin... and the stars themselves dance across the sky for you. Lights from heaven streaking through the darkness as you roar down the road. This year as I left Louisiana bound for home, another shower saluted me.
It’s now a New Order song... I’m no longer paying attention to TV.
Naomi’s trip was GREAT! I’m trying not to wax too poetic, get too carried away. But I really like the girl. Even the stuff I wouldn’t normally like... I like from her. I have this aversion to being smacked on my ass... always have. She has an ass-smacking obsession... She tried, at first Not to smack my bootie when I am lying on her bed, or walking by, but apparently I have an irresistible butt! It has now gotten to the point that it is so unique to her, that I’d miss it if she stopped.
Would you understand if I said that she is 'the best kind of high maintenance'?
Lemme explain. I like Girls... I like ‘em a lot. I like it when they are girls. Naomi takes great care of herself. Pampers herself a bit. lotions, and manicured, washing her face each night. It was two weeks, (and one cat pee) later before my bed stopped smelling of her...
And I loved it!
And yet we also spent a lot of her time here just lounging about ... watching movies.
It was a great trip.
We did Universal Studios... my good friends got us passes, and in an effort to have us skip the long wait in line, Liz (the friend) who works there, convinced the person watching the line that they should let Naomi and I skip to the front... because we’d just become engaged!
The lie worked, so for the duration of one amusement park ride, I was spoken for.
Getting a little crazy there.
This may surprise you guys, what with all of my peculiarities; I’m a gentleman.
It took a little while, but Naomi is getting (sort of) used to it. She doesn’t exactly wait for me to get the door, and the pulling out the chair thing vexes her... but she’s figuring it out.
She was nice enough to make mention that I don’t always HAVE to pay for everything... and I don’t. I’m very satisfied with our financial arrangements. She has insisted on buying a couple of times... and I let her... especially after she had a very lucrative night Belly Dancing... But as I said, the fair and reasonable thing is whomever makes more should spend a little more yes?
I also firmly believe (as we discussed in our continuing conversation) that there are certain jobs that are always "the Boys job" ... and I am the boy.
The boy should always take out the trash
The boy should always carry more/most of the luggage and groceries
The boy should always kill the bugs, and explore the scary noises...
Don’t even get me started about defending the girls...
There are other things I am much more equitable about. I believe that both partners should cook... though the girl should cook a little more. I believe whoever cooks the other should do the dishes...
But there are just some jobs that are always going to be the boys... as I explained to Naomi "that’s the price I pay, for being able to pee standing up" She replied "that’s the price you pay for being able to date someone half your age"
Ouch!
God I love that girl... Yeah, I said it... we’ll get to it later.
Naomi had a full time in town, besides the bond shoot (did I mention that I think she was trying to pick up the other Bond girls? YAY!) And Universal studios... we also hit one of my favourite clubs in the country... The Castle. Ostensibly a Goth Bar... Naomi was still a Tall, Blond Goddess, but she was a tall blond Goddess in Black... How do I get so lucky?
One of our (Twins, not Naomi and I) fans bought us drinks, and wanted to take a photo... Naomi liked me in black. "You should dress like this more often."
I don’t want to give you the impression she is perfect, she IS... but I can’t let that out... she is a bit of a pain-in-the-ass musically... very specific and peculiar tastes...and no fondness for much of my music... but if that is the worst thing about her.
If someone reminds me next month I’ll write out a joke that describes how flustered I am, how astounded I am to be dating her.
But I’m getting comfortable there too. Comfortable with where we are.
Also next time, if someone reminds me I’ll tell you about a realization I have had regarding looking at other girls when I am with her.
Final Naomi note: Yeah, I said the "L word."
Don’t freak-out... I don’t know how deep it is going to go, or what will happen... I just don’t care. I’m very precise about what I say, that phrase especially... I don’t say it with an agenda, or lightly...
I love Naomi.
No we’re not a couple... I don’t really know what we are... don’t really care. I think of her all day long, one of my first and last thoughts. She calls me when she wakes, calls me when she goes to bed... we chat throughout the day... I laugh, I smile...
Gosh enough about her for awhile ...
I spent some silly-time with my niece, and John, Luz, we played laser tag... I spoke to my brother, saw him for the first time in years...
I’m gonna say this then get to bed... Blue Man Group is playing now... have NO idea what is on TV. I have been going to bed every night at around three... tired, Damn tired of website stuff.
I have spent too much money this winter... and am still fine...
Saw Ann and Jason (and their kid Katie) Gosh I love her. And I love him with her. For a tiny moment I regretted... not having failed to connect with her, but just... they seemed so happy, content...
Finally, before I give you a rant about God and Country... just this:
I have to get to a gym SOON! I haven’t been since I left Minnesota... and I am starting to get pudgy!
Hope that’s enough for now -
Some Rant:
I believe the US flag is a sacred symbol of our country
I believe burning a flag is a powerful symbol
I believe that this country is so great that we can have extreme rights
I believe this country is so strong we can have the right to burn that flag.
I believe Michael Moore has an agenda
I believe George W Bush has an agenda
I supported the war, because I believed my president, and Colin Powell
I no longer support the war, because I no longer believe, or trust my president.
The facts support Michael Moore
I support our troops... I am a veteran, are you?
I believe we must not pull our troops out until the job is done. I believe the election in January isn’t going to finish the Job in Iraq
I believe there needs to be democracy all over the world
I believe we could have handled the middle-east situation much better
I believe the whole world would have been better-off if we hadn’t rushed to war.
---I KNOW America would have been
I believe Saddam Hussein was an evil fuck, but he was a contained evil fuck!
I believe that there is no GOD
I believe it is your god-given right to pray if you want, and I will, in fact fight for your right to do so
I believe there is no GOD, but I do not know
NO ONE knows
Anyone who says they know, yes or no, Pope or Scientist is lying, (or delusional.)
I believe in eliminating all lead prayer in school, because it endorses religion.
I believe a non-denominational ‘Moment of Silence’ is completely appropriate, and free... do with it what you will
I believe that organized religion, and churches, are the biggest scam in history. They take money, and are given power, for nothing.
I believe more hatred, vile acts, and heinous crimes have been committed in the name of religion than any other thing I can think of.
I also believe more good, uplifting, and strength has come from the church than I care to think about.
If I could accomplish anything, I would abolish not only religion, but also the human need for religion. This is what Lennon suggested in Imagine... But that is like trying to get rid of the human need for air.
I believe that Christmas should not be a Federal holiday...
But I believe it is insane, silly, and useless to try and take it away from people.
I do not know what I believe as far as celebrating Christmas on Federal land... but, as an Atheist, I celebrate both Christmas, and the Ideas (and Ideals) of Jesus of Nazareth
I am anti abortion; I will never have an abortion
I AM pro choice. I don’t think abortion is always the right answer, but it definitely is sometimes. I have held the hand of girls who have had to have one.
---No it was not mine.
I believe that money cannot buy happiness, but it CAN buy pleasure. Happiness is so much more, complex, rich, precious, than pleasure.
Still... pleasure makes me happy.
