last weekend i embarked on a monumentous journey to milwalkie to see radiohead - a cronical of what went on during that trip -
8/22/03
i left my house at about 3 in the afternoon cause my friend would not be off work till 6 and i was not about to get stuck in minneapolis rush hour traffic - so i decided to leave late - well i did leave late and to my surprise i had a very long drive - usually it is only about 4 & 1/2 to 5 hours drive time - but it took me almost six hours to get up there - mainly because of two reasons: (1) the stupid dead woman driving the extra large lincoln town car that had, count them, 15 cars backed up behind her on a one lane road - there was no place to go - and out of the front 5 cars three were semis and they were not passing - in a 55mph speed limit area - we were topping off at 40mph - i wanted to kill someone - i now know the true meaning of the word road rage - but i collected my thoughts - put bright eyes in the cd player and just laid back - it finally passed after about 40 minutes - the lady actually just pulled off to the side of the road and let everyone pass her - how nice was that - (2)for the longest time i had an unmarked car following me - then passing me - then slowing down so i would pass it - and then it would pass me - and this kept up for some time - i am not sure if he was just not really paying attention or if he was trying to get me to screw up - so i finally got up there and i changed into something proper and the girls (joyce and sarah) and i went out to eat at La Bogada - yup this is my new favorite resturant - it is a tapas bar and it is amazing - i love it so much - so this time i had the cooked chicken with dijon mustard sause and the potatos with a garlic dijon sause - lots of dijon here - but it was down right delicious - if recamend this place to anyone - we eventually get back home and go to sleep with much anticipation of the next day -
8/23/03
so sarah and i get up around 8 and get ready to take our trip to milwalkie - at this point in time we are in minneapolis - so we leave town at about 9 and begin heading out to wisconsen - sarah is driving first - but we soon have to pull over so i can take the wheel of the civic because she is getting sleepy and had dozed off i guess at the wheel - which is so not good - lord knows how she goes to work everyday at 6:30 - i don't get it at all - so i drove the majority of the way there with only a few minor stops for food and hokey postcards that i got for the kids - i hope they enjoy them - i think they will - anyway - so we drove on and on - past madison and into this little dinky town - i was for sure that we were completly lost - after driving around in the town for a bit - we looked at the map that sarah had gotten and i figured out which way we were supposed to be going - due to road construction we ended up going the opposite direction we should have gone - so we drove on through a small farm county road thinking we were going to end up in some cornfeild - and why not - radiohead have done stranger things before - we finally ended up in a town about 20 minutes south of milwalkie and 10 minutes from the ampitheator - the excitement was building -
when we finally get to the concert we realize the mess that this is going to be - there are about a thousand cars and nearly four thousand aimless twenty somethings strewn all over the land - so many kids with a hopeless look on their faces - lets just say i saw more bright eyes t-shirts that day then i ever have - the opening act stephen malkamus and the jicks played as mostly everyone walked around and bought things - i watched them for the sheer pavement quality and hopes that they would play summer babe - but the didn't - oh well - when they quit playing and left the stage everyone quickly ran to their seats and got ready for what would be an amazing show - i was ready and having found a nice seat in the grass in the upper eschleon of the ampitheator where i could see everything - it got a little bit darker and was about 8:15 when an electronic beat started to pulsate through the land - it was something new - i have never heard it before - but it was used as meremly a time killer - about ten minutes later 5 figures made there way out onto the dark stage - the crowd had begun to scream - and hearing about four thousand people scream i was wondering if i was going to be able to even hear the band play - but then they started playing 2+2=5 and everything melted away - as i listened to thom and company played i looked around and noticed that most everyone was just standing there - not really moving - not even swaying - as if everyone was really in schock of the performance - it was until the break in the song when the crowd came alive and started to respond to everything - there was a sudden rush behind me of people running up to the front to get a better view - but fuck it - i staied where i was and saw everything -
set list 2+2=5
stand up, sit down
sail to the moon
backdrifts
go to sleep
where i end and you begin
we suck young blood
the gloaming
there, there
myxomatosis
paranoid android
karma police
lucky
no surprises
just
fake plastic trees
street spirt(fade out)
you and whose army?
i might be wrong
the national anthem
idioteque
everything in its right place
overall it was amazing - i really have no words that could correctly describe the concert - they went from slow textural songs like fake plastic trees right into rythmic heart attacks like idioteque - there was no rhyme or reason to the show and i think that is what made it a great - there was very little
talking - about the most said was when thom said - "this is a dirty song for dirty people" before they played myxomatosis - but they played with the audience - thom danced around a lot of the show when he wasn't singing or playing guitar - making the audience dance along in unison - during karma ploice (one of the encores, the other was everything in its right place the audience sang the whole bit of "we hope that you choke" while thom laughed - probably from the fact that across the way farm families where hearing thousands of young people joined togeather singing such a macabre phrase over and over again - but it was great - great great -
on the way back home i kept thinking that i would probably never see the band play again - they don't come around that often and who really knows what they will do next - but i was happy to have seen it - i could go on here longer - but i want to get this post published and out to you so i am ending it prematurally - oh well - i figure the two of you who read it won't mind -
so last night - because i am in such a fowl mood - chady and i went across the street to the strip club by my apt. - now before anyone passes judgement and says things like - oh my word he's straight or what kind of a place does he live in - i live in the downtown district - there are lots of bars and trendy little cafes too - it just so happens that on the corner of the street there is also a gentlemans club that has been there for some time - so why not make my first ever entrence in to the hidden realm of the strip club - so i did after some fenagling by chad to get me off my ass - you see i was just in a fight with the love of my life - and i am just not wanting to do much but get drunk a lot and bitch and moan - so anyways -
yes we went across the streat to teasers gentleman's club - first off - here i am myself gay with a large and incharge drag queen sans dress and wig - so i figure - ok - the whole bar will know were queer and it will be over before we get inside and a lap dance - but actually - we were a hit with the ladies - you see they perceive no ill wants from us - we just want to laugh and drink - and not groap them - so the strippers loved us - to the much dismay of the guys who were sitting in the bar drinking and scowling - but here is my top five special moments from my first strip experience -
TOP 5 SPECIAL MOMENTS ABOUT THE STRIP CLUB NEXT DOOR! 1. To my surprise, strippers love gay men!
2.When I got especially angry when a stripper got up on stage and she didn't even touch the poll. I mean come on. What more could you ask for in stage props! Ride that damn poll!
3.The boys who turned 21 got whipped with his own belt by the large busted stripper!The boy also did shots till he puked in the waste basket by the bar. Sure that is not so common, but it was all applauded and provoked by staff, which is quite a site considering they were all topless.
4.The man with the oxygen tank sitting at the stage. I was either waiting for him to pass out or blow up. No such luck for me.
5.When the stipper with the fat roll asked me if i wanted a lap dance and all i could do was laugh uncontrollably at her. I just wanted to scream at her "I'm a fag you dumb ass, what are you gonna do for me?!"
all in all i would say that i had an amazing night and cured my case of the saddies for a little while - unfortunatly i woke up with them again today - ugh -
so you ever have one of those friends that you can handle in small doses - one person who you love to death - but can't stand being around for too long because - oh maybe they are super opinionated or maybe they think it is funny to ritacule you in public - or maybe even just be downright bitchy - yes well i am with that person right now in my apartment and she is now leaving - oh my god - the week is over - yes! -
the main problem today is that she is going around calling me a 'whore' to everyone - which is simply not true - but why should i care if i know it is not a big deal - well - i guess i just don't see where she is getting this idea - she brought it up about a week ago on the phone - and then its just gotten out of control - she thinks that since i am living in a new town that i will instantly become a whore because there are new boys in town - but also because my friends (aka: her) aren't there to stop me - well that is a bit presumptious isn't it - thinking that she is really the one who is keeping me away from other boys - yeah - or maybe it could be my morals and values? -
so i am not back from my long week - just so everyone knows i was in minneapolis tuesday through thursday - and it was something fun - i was thinking of just glossing over the trip and saying it was just generally 'fun' - but no i have decided that i need some new content - so here goes the trip -
tuesday
so my goal was to leave town at the ripe early time of 9 am - well instead i got rip roaring drunk the night before with rebekkah clitorus and and i didn't even get up till 11 am - yup - i was mad at myself - but really what can you expect from me - not much really - well time wise that is - i am always late for something - er.....everything i guess - so i get to my parents house which was the point of departure to get my car - and i end up having lunch with my father at the local cafe and then picking some fresh vegetables for the girls and then actually leaving town around 2 pm - huh - not to bad if you ask me - only 5 hours behind schedule - shit - so i get on the road and i drove like hell - - - - driving interlude - think lots of coffee to cure the hang over and lots of bright eyes on the cd player to fix the mood - - - - so i get up to the girls house after a minor traffic problem on 169 in minneapolis - and i change my clothes immediatly so we can go out to eat - so sarah, joyce and myself all pile in the civic and go into uptown - there we stop at a wonderful little tapas bar called La Bogada - so once there the drinking commensed - there we had wonderful little catch up conversations on things like - what we all have been doing - who we all have been doing - and most importantly - what our futures are looking like - it was a great time - two hours later we three had racked up a nice little $80 dollar bill - credit cards away and we leave uptown and go back to the apartment -
wednesday
sarah and i decided to wake up kinda early - around 10 am - and then get ourselves already to go to valleyfair - which is this little minnesota theme park - its like six flags without the flags and lots of bad teased perms - but we drove anyway - and ended up having a good time - besides getting raped up the ass for paying 8 bucks for a hamburger and fries - it was a really fun day - i got completely sun burnt and so did sarah - she made me ride the power tower - which is the bungee like thing that hauls you up god knows how many stories (250ft) and then drops you down to earth - seeing as how i am afraid of heights - i was a wreck before it even got off the ground - but i made it with lots of cussing and a promise to be drunk later that night - i would have to say that i enjoyed the wild thing coaster the most - it has this amazing 60 drop - oh god it was so much fun - i rode it a good 4 times and it never got old - hell yeah - that is what i am talkin about - the most disturbing thing about the day was the fact that there were all these trashy girls there - who were havin trouble with their crotch eatin their shorts - now i know i will get in trouble for saying this i am sure - but truthfully - come on now - they were all over - and i was just disgusted so much - - - - after the evenin at the fair - sarah, joyce and i went south to see the boy who just happened to be on assignment up there - good for him and great for us - we went out to eat and had a good time in the process - more and more i realize that i am so in love with him - but it does me no good cause he does not love me - eh - what can a boy do - pay for dinner that is what - and i did - god i just wish i could get him over to my house now -
thursday
oh thursday we went shoppin at the mega center of consumerism - the mall of america - and boy was it something - this was actually my second time there - but i can never get enough of the stores - my favorite this time was a sock store called - pairs - cute - well i thought it was atleast - so i went sock shopping but didn't find anything right off hand - they had some nice argyle though - anyway - i ended up getting a really nice linen shirt from j.crew and i was even lookin at buying a new sweater - but then i realized i wouldn't be able to wear it the next day so i put it off - oh well - like i need another blue v-neck sweater - so i'll wait - and if its gone - eh - it will go to some other gay boy to take care of it - hehe - so we shopped for about 6 hours and then we drove home and went to grab the boy again - looking cute as hell in a little yellow t-shirt - this time we went to uptown and ate at chipoltes and afterwords walked to sebastians joes for ice cream - i had the raspberry chocolate chip - it was good stuff - i was actually quite impressed about what all was on that area of town - it was really cool - it was like this little bohemian place - where it was all cool to be different and no one cared what you looked like - not that i look different - i am as plain jane as the next - but i just thought it was very cool - afterwords the boy was dropped off at his house and sarah and i went back to her houes and drank some more - do you see a common thread here - drink - drink - drink - drink - yes that is correct - we are probably alcoholics -
friday
so friday brings nothing new but a day to go home and return to the working world - my mini vacation is over - that sucks and i then had to drive back 5 hours to home - even worse - but i like to drive and so i did - it is just the city traffic leaving minneapolis that i hate - and i did hate it - over and over and over again - i wish i had a cam corder cause i was screaming and cussing at everything under the sun - but best there was this little white cavaleir that kept flipping me off he would speed up and then slow down beside me - and i guess the problem was that i was not slowing down to let him infront of me - who really knows - but that was only making me more annoyed - so on the fifth time that he flipped me off i threw this old mcdonalds glass at him - i think that got him freaked out enough cause he slowed down and just stopped doing things all together - hahaha - bastard - serves him right - i'm probably lucky i didn't get shot - but oh well - so i drove home the rest of the way uneventful and got back to the apt -
all in all it was a great trip and i had a very fun time - it was a good time held by all i think - but who really knows - now actually sarah is going to come over and stay with me for about 4 days - which will be fun - i have to work every night - so who knows what she is going to do - shop - read - play in the internet - something fun i am sure - and i will hear about it when i get home and we go drinking - yeah! - god i sound like such an alcoholic anymore -
taken from the laugh riot movie - "drop dead gorgious" of course - but in all actuallity i am going up to st. paul/minneapolis for the next four days to see a dear friend of mine - sarah - she is a wonderful lass that i have known since i was in my first year of college - and it was a wonderful time - all the years actually - she has really been a wonderful person in my life - so i am going up to minneapolis to see her - and i can't wait - one day we are supposed to go to valleyfair and then the next i guess we are going to go shopping - and probablu lay out and just have fun - i need a mini vacation - and this will do we just well -
